SC OPE SU MMIT2018–19

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4 ......Welcome

SCOPE Senior Capstone Projects

6 ......Aerodyne Research Inc. / AirInc.7 ......Amazon Robotics8 ......Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation9 ......Boeing10 ....Boston Scientific11 ....Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS12 ....Ford Motor Company13 ....GE Healthcare14 .... Iron Mountain Information

Management, LLC15 ....Microsoft Corporation16 .... Santos Family Foundation /

Volpe Center / DDot17 ....Toyota Motor North America18 ....Watts Water Technologies, Inc.

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WELCOME TO SCOPE SUMMIT! Today we join in celebration of the 60 Olin seniors who are presenting their Senior Capstone Program in Engineering (SCOPE) projects. These student teams have worked long hours, grappled with challenging problems and ultimately accomplished great things over the 2018-19 academic year.

SCOPE is the culmination of our students’ Olin experience. They have spent four years learning how to do engineering through engaging with successively larger and more complex projects, with increased ambiguity and decreased scaffolding. While they have worked on numerous teams throughout their time at Olin, SCOPE is the place they put into practice everything they have learned about collaboration and maintaining healthy team dynamics. And now they have reached the end of the year having achieved both personal learning goals and significant problem solutions. We could not make SCOPE the learning experience that it is without the sponsors who brought us 13 amazing projects. As you will see today, these projects varied widely in topic, development stage and desired outcomes. What these projects have in common is that they each address a problem of substantial interest to the sponsor, are significantly challenging, and are in technical areas and fields that match the skills and interests of our students. Projects range from early phase product conceptualization to building technology intended for near-term use on the manufacturing floor; from wide-open consideration of design principles to implementation of methods to make roadways safer for cyclists. Regardless of the area, grappling with important real-world projects in the context of a sponsor’s culture provides our students with a unique educational experience and an opportunity to apply the skills they have been building during their four years at Olin. I also want to offer a special thank you to the individuals who worked behind the scenes to make this work possible — the liaisons from each sponsor who supported and mentored the teams throughout the year and the Olin faculty advisors who mentored and coached teams.

This year is particularly special to me as it is my sixth and final SCOPE Summit as the director of SCOPE. Over the past six years, I have learned so much from my colleagues and students as I have led the program. I am proud of the work that we have done to continue to shape SCOPE as a place where we can provide an amazing learning experience for students and create fruitful relationships with sponsors. We hope you enjoy this year’s SCOPE Summit!Alisha Sarang-Sieminski

SCOPE Leadership Team: Alisha Sarang-Sieminski Director of SCOPE, Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Ruth Levine Director of Business Development

Jessica McCarthySCOPE Program Manager

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AERODYNE RESEARCH INC. / A IRINC.

Empowering At-Risk Communities by Democratizing Air Quality Data

Air pollution is the largest environmental health risk in the world, according to the World Health Organization, and very few at-risk communities have access to local air quality (AQ) data or strategies to mitigate health risks. AQ sensor system developer Aerodyne Research Inc. (ARI) and long-standing community activist organization AIRInc joined forces to sponsor the ARI/AIRInc SCOPE team to develop a software platform for real-time, local air quality data dissemination. This platform presents pollutant data in an intuitive, actionable manner with the aim of empowering community members to understand their exposure and make more-informed, AQ data-driven decisions.

To accomplish this, ARI/AIRInc-SCOPE developed a scalable network infrastructure that collects and integrates real-time distributed sensor data, starting with eight low-cost AQ sensors deployed around Boston’s Logan Airport. Key parts of this network included developing and validating comprehensive calibration models, interpolating the data to create intuitive metrics and visualizations, and ensuring this pipeline was built on an architecture flexible enough to prepare the project to scale smoothly in the future. This initial network is a limited-scale proof of concept designed both to be immediately useful to Boston residents around Logan Airport, and to lay the groundwork for larger, higher-resolution sensor networks in support of future AQ initiatives.

AMAZON ROBOTICS

Amazon Robotics: Container Storage System Amazon Robotics is a subsidiary company of Amazon that specializes in manufacturing leading technology for future fulfillment centers. When Amazon orders are placed, minimizing delivery time to customers is critical. Due to rapid growth, Amazon is planning to expand by creating new fulfillment centers all across the U.S. and is also seeking to find more efficient ways to deliver products to customers. Amazon Robotics is looking to increase the throughput of fulfillment centers by augmenting their existing capabilities with robotic assistive systems. Our SCOPE team has developed a robotic system that extends the work of prior SCOPE teams to explore new possibilities in fulfillment centers.

Team MembersJared BriskmanLauren GullandSamuel MyersTaylor ShenemanKaterina Soltan

Faculty AdvisorScott Hersey

Team MembersSu Min JangCedric KimArpan RauNicole ShubertKevin Zhang

Faculty AdvisorSamantha Michalka

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BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION

Pit to Roadside Fecal Sludge Conveyance Approximately 4.5 billion people across the world lack access to safely managed sanitation. In communities without institutionally managed sewage and sanitation systems, pit latrines are the standard solution. However, these latrines are difficult to properly maintain and empty; often informally emptied by manual scavengers, these pits are frequently a source of environmental contamination and disease in the communities that utilize them. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is working to provide safe, affordable fecal sludge management to populations in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, through a variety of projects including the reinvented toilet. Gates-SCOPE focused on the area of fecal sludge conveyance, developing a flexible, low-cost mechanism to transport sludge from pit-side emptying units to roadside portable processing units.

BOEING

Improving the Wire Harness Assembly Process With the increasing complexity of modern aircraft, the quantity and complexity of wiring within airplanes has increased dramatically. On current production lines, individual wires are manually combined into wire harnesses and then installed in airplanes during assembly. Given the increased wiring complexity and goals to increase airplane production, Boeing is seeking new and innovative solutions to meet these challenges. Our project aimed to develop new technologies to aid manufacturing workers in improving speed and accuracy in order to streamline the aircraft wire harness assembly process. The team presented Boeing with functional prototypes to be tested on the manufacturing floor, with hopes for implementation within the year.

Team MembersMicaela ChiangMary KeenanClaire KincaidSteven MeyerGwyneth Phelps

Faculty AdvisorScott Hersey

Team MembersSara BallantyneAudrey LewisCarl MoserAlexander Scott

Faculty AdvisorAlisha Sarang-Sieminski

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BOSTON SCIENTIF IC

Designing Next-Generation Disposable Endoscopes

Endoscopy is a medical procedure in which surgical tools are threaded into a patient’s gastrointestinal tract using an endoscope to reach the site of interest, allowing for diagnostic and therapeutic minimally invasive surgeries. Endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP) is a specialized form of endoscopy dealing with procedures in the pancreatic and biliary ducts, and it uses a specialized endoscope known as a duodenoscope. Boston Scientific is a leader in the medical device industry, and currently makes the disposable tools that are inserted down the working channels of endoscopes to perform procedures. Recently, Boston Scientific has made strides toward addressing potential issues of cross contamination by designing a disposable duodenoscope. While this is an important first step, Boston Scientific asked the SCOPE team to help the company design the future generation of disposable duodenoscopes. Through a process involving research and a user-centered design approach, the team explored current ERCP practices to identify areas of opportunity and developed a proposal and early prototype for a next-generation single-use duodenoscope.

DASSAULT SYSTEMES SOLID W ORKS

Digital Construction Computer-aided design (CAD) applications are software tools that assist in 3D mechanical design. These tools have powerful features to allow for creation of complex designs by skilled users. Because they are designed to afford experts both precision and flexibility, CAD controls can present a steep learning curve to beginners who are just starting to incorporate CAD into their workflow. In contrast, physical construction — e.g., building with cardboard boxes — feels highly intuitive and can be experienced as a form of play. Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS challenged our team to prototype some way of simulating the ease of physical construction through the computer screen, allowing users to virtually prototype at the speed of thought. The team created a novel approach to CAD manipulation that leverages a user’s cell phone to create intuitive and natural CAD interactions.

Team MembersAndrew HolmesLiv KelleyTalia TandlerRegina WalkerJingyi Xu

Faculty AdvisorAlisha Sarang-Sieminski

Team MembersSerena ChenMargaret CrawfordHaozheng DuDaniel Wolf

Faculty AdvisorLynn Andrea Stein

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FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Guiding Principles for Customer Profiles

The automobile has defined mobility and the freedom to travel great distances to new places for the past century. While this has led to unprecedented ease of movement, the infrastructure to support automobiles is rapidly deteriorating, and many major urban areas are facing overwhelming congestion. Cars can still play a role in the transportation of the next century, but they will need to become a spoke in the wheel of mobility technologies and connected ecosystems. Ford is preparing for this future by reimagining itself as a mobility company, capable of tailoring to the needs of every customer in the moment across hardware, software and services.

The Olin SCOPE team worked with Ford to develop a better understanding of the customer profile ecosystem to enable the company to provide the user-centered, systems-level design approach to mobility needed to be successful in the next century. To do this, our team reviewed literature, conducted research into other customer experience ecosystems, and collaborated with users to understand principles of trust in the context of mobility that are most important to them.

GE HEALTHCARE

Power Quality and Environmental Monitor GE Healthcare provides the global medical community with a wide array of quality diagnostic imaging systems that operate on electrical power. In this project, GE Healthcare sought an accurate, cost-effective electrical power quality and environmental measurement system. Our power quality environmental monitor (PQEM) SCOPE team developed a device to monitor an imaging system’s input power, provide real-time assessment of power quality according to industry standards, and provide event logging and long-term data storage. The PQEM also senses and records the environment in which an imaging product operates and communicates over a wireless local area network. The team delivered a functional prototype as well as design documentation for an intuitive, easy-to-use, robust power quality environmental monitor.

Team MembersMax DietrichChloe GrubbSungwu ParkIsaac Vandor

Faculty AdvisorLynn Andrea Stein

Team MembersColeman EllisPaige PfenningerLauren PudvanMarch Saper

Faculty AdvisorSamantha Michalka

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IRON MOUNTAIN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, LLC

Automation of Document Preparation for High-Speed Scanning

Iron Mountain provides secure document storage and enterprise records management services to many of the world’s largest companies. Iron Mountain Digital Solutions also provides large-scale scanning services, giving companies digital access to information that would otherwise be locked away in paper documents. Unfortunately, before high-speed scanning can take place, the documents need to be prepared by removing staples and fixing tears, a process that is currently slow, manual and expensive. Our SCOPE team assessed the current document preparation process, proposed a targeted robotic automation to streamline the process and developed a robotic prototype to demonstrate the viability of our solution.

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Making Smart Cities Inclusive

Smart Cities incorporate information and communication technologies to improve the quality of government services and citizen welfare. A critical component to the success of Smart Cities is inclusivity, meaning that they provide affordable, accessible and equal opportunities while avoiding marginalization, discrimination and exclusion. Our team worked with Microsoft and local stakeholders to make Smart Cities like Boston more inclusive. Previewing travel can be a key tool in anticipating navigation, yet there are few tools that enable this for persons with blindness or visual impairments. Microsoft’s Cognitive Services enables the conversion of large amounts of information, such as StreetSide images, into a more accessible format. We built a prototype software solution that enables our users to virtually explore Boston, get a sense of the local landscape and prepare themselves for their journey.

Team MembersYoonyoung ChoJeremiah GarciaEric MillerWillem ThorbeckeLydia Zuehsow

Faculty AdvisorScott Hersey

Team MembersSarah BardenMatthew Beaudouin-LafonKaitlyn KeilAndrew PanRachel Yang

Faculty AdvisorLynn Andrea Stein

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SANTOS FAMILY FOUNDATION / VOLPE CENTER / DDOT

LISA: Level of Intersection Stress Analysis

Washington, D.C., has been a national leader in the adoption of innovative bicycle facilities. However, with much of the low-hanging fruit already plucked (i.e., bicycle facilities already in place), the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) needs a mechanism to prioritize investments to improve bicyclist safety and accessibility. With the support of the Santos Family Foundation, project LISA built a software tool to enable cities like Washington, D.C. to prioritize future infrastructure investments, taking into account key characteristics of road segments and intersections. The tool builds a model of the city’s infrastructure based on currently available data and can be updated with new information as additional data sources become available or new facilities are constructed. LISA will help DDOT corroborate existing perceptions about the availability of bicycle facilities and identify gaps in the overall bicycle network. In addition, LISA will be used as a proof-of-concept for other jurisdictions as they look to develop their own bicycle network maps. The team’s work has been shared with other Departments of Transportation at a Peer Exchange meeting and will be submitted to the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board annual meeting.

TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA

Exploring New Directions in Personal Mobility Currently, one in five people in the United States is living with a disability, and in the coming years, the number of people with ambulatory disabilities is projected to increase dramatically. Toyota Motor North America seeks to provide quality-of-life improvements for people with disabilities. The Olin SCOPE team worked closely with power wheelchair users to begin to understand their varying priorities and needs. Many users highly value their personal autonomy, yet the wheelchairs themselves hinder the users’ ability to navigate. After investigating various sensing and control technologies, the team was able to expand the perception capabilities of the person operating the chair, and the user’s ability to navigate was greatly improved. Through collaborative design with users, the team developed a set of user priorities and technical principles for enhancing situational awareness for power wheelchair users.

Team MembersUma DesaiDuncan HallAnne KuLeon Jun Wei LamNathaniel Yee

Faculty AdvisorLynn Andrea Stein

Team MembersDaniel DoughertyAlexander HoppeErica LeeMaxmilian WeiEmily Yeh

Faculty AdvisorSamantha Michalka

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WATTS WATER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Plumbing Sensor Network for Legionella Risk Factor Control Legionnaires’ disease is a serious and often lethal form of pneumonia that is particularly prevalent in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. The disease is caused by Legionella bacteria, an opportunistic waterborne pathogen that finds its ideal habitat in warm and humid environments. Legionella thrives in specific temperature ranges, is resistant to most common biocides and disinfectants, and can often be found in plumbing systems. Legionella can be effectively managed by ensuring that the water temperature stays within a tightly controlled range. Unfortunately, this can be difficult to achieve in practice, since many plumbing systems contain sections of pipe where water cannot circulate — known as dead legs. These dead legs are usually created unintentionally when buildings are expanded or renovated. Once in place, dead legs are not easily identified and can become prime breeding grounds for Legionella. This project developed and tested a system that allows hospital facilities managers to identify dead legs and other high-risk areas for Legionella growth in real time. This will enable building managers to make data-based, informed decisions about how to best mitigate the risk of Legionella in the plumbing system.

Team MembersEmily KohlerJoseph LeeArianca OlsonKimberly Winter

Faculty AdvisorScott Hersey

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Schedule of Events 9:30 am – 10:00 am Continental Breakfast and Registration Milas Hall Lobby and Gallery

10:00 am – 10:15 am Welcome from Olin Leadership Norden Auditorium, Milas Hall

10:15 am – 11:15 am Rocket Talks by SCOPE Teams Teams will present in alphabetical order Norden Auditorium, Milas Hall

11:15 am – 11:30 am Break

11:30 am – 12:20 pm Rocket Talks by SCOPE Teams Teams will present in alphabetical order Norden Auditorium, Milas Hall

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Campus Center

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Poster Session Tent in the Oval Rain location: Campus Center, 2nd floor

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Concurrent Reception Tent in the Oval Rain location: Campus Center, 2nd floor