A student project for AHSE1500: Foundations of Business and Entrepreneurship (taught in Spring 2006) featuring an Olin College themed tradable card game. It consists of cards of students, professors, locations, and events.
This record contains the Final Report for the project and scanned images of all the cards in the game.
Microdrop microfluidics is an emerging technology for high throughput screening and processing of biological systems ranging from directed evolution to protein crystallization. Our team has implemented merging, interrogation, and sorting of droplets for the NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Brandeis. To do so, we developed a series of microfluidic chips and a test stand capable of actuating sorting in real time based on fluorescence levels, enabling Brandeis to pursue new directions of research.
The Rockwell Automation SCOPE team worked to provide an out-of-box quality control sensor for automation applications. Quality control sensors need to provide fast inspection capabilities for factories to ensure continuous quality of products. The team also looked into business opportunities for the sensor in line with Rockwell Automation’s industrial customer base. The team optimized the current sensor and made improvements. They also explored market segments where the sensor could make a significant impact on a factory’s quality control and automation processes.
Vision Robotics Corporation (VRC) is realizing a solution to the labor shortages that the fresh fruit market faces currently and will continue to face as immigration laws in the United States become more stringent. VRC is developing a two-robot system that will harvest fresh tree fruit. The first robot, the Scout, identifies and locates all fruit on a given tree. The second robot then uses that information to actually harvest fruit. The SCOPE team developed an actual picking device, or end effector, that can function as part of the fresh fruit harvesting robot. The VRC SCOPE team conducted field testing with a prototype and evaluated its strengths and weaknesses. Based on this evaluation, the team redesigned the mechanism used to remove the fruit from the tree. The team delivered a working prototype to VRC.