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Olin Expo Fall 2017

December 18, 2017 Welcome to Olin Expo Fall 2017! We thank you for joining us for this special celebration of our students’ work. We have scheduled posters, interactive presentations, and demonstrations over the course of the day, as well as artistic and musical performances. Please enjoy refreshments in the Academic Center and lunch is available for purchase in our dining hall in the Campus Center, as your time permits. Thank you for being part of Olin Expo! As you take part in our Expo celebration, we would love for you to share your Expo experiences with us. Please fill out a SHARE card before you leave today. The cards can be found at the registration desk. Musical Performances 12–1 PM The Wired Ensemble Page 3 Academic Center 3rd floor music performance area 1–2 PM Celebrating Music at Olin Page 3 Academic Center 3rd floor music performance area 2:30–3 PM Olin Conductorless Orchestra Page 3 Milas Hall mezzanine Posters, Interactive Presentations, Demonstrations, and Performances 10–11 AM Competition and Project Teams Pages 4–7 Academic Center 128, Large Project Building, and Outside Classroom Presentation Academic Center 326 Hallway Posters and Presentations Academic Center 1st, 3rd, and 4th floor hallways 11 AM–12 PM Competition Team Pages 8–10 Academic Center 128 Classroom Presentations Academic Center 318, 326, and 417 Hallway Posters and Presentations Academic Center 1st, 3rd, and 4th floor hallways 1–2 PM Classroom Presentation Pages 11–13 Academic Center 326 Hallway Posters and Presentations Academic Center 1st and 3rd floor hallways

Musical Performances

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12–12:50 PM

The Wired Ensemble

Location Student Composers ProgramMusic performance area AC 3rd floor

Cusai Alfred-Igbokwe, Naomi Chiu, Kyle Emmi, Junwon Lee, Mika Notermann, Braden Oh, Vienna Scheyer, Madi Wyatt, Jonathan Zerez, Luis Zuniga

Molten by Cusai Alfred-IgbokweFinally Free by Naomi Chiu 5 Minutes to Gate by Kyle Emmi Dream by Junwon Lee The Plunge by Mika Notermann The Octopus by Braden Oh Waltz by Vienna Scheyer Hurricane by Madi Wyatt Cogs by Jonathan Zerez Smoothly, Surely, Calmly by Luis Zuniga

1–2 PM

Celebrating Music at Olin

Location Performers Program Music performance area AC 3rd floor

Emma Westerhoff, Anne Ku (1 PM)

Duet mit zwei obligaten Augengläsern, Allegro (Eyeglasses Duo) by Ludwig Van Beethoven The Eyeglasses Duo is a quaint duet written for viola and cello. Beethoven wrote this piece around 1796 for his cellist friend Baron Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovecz. Beethoven would often tease Zmeskall for his short-sightedness in his letters, so many explain the title of this work for this reason.

Aiden Carley-Clopton (1:10 PM)

Telemann's FantasiePerforming Telemann's Fantasie in B minor on violin for my passionate pursuit.

William Lu, Franton Lin, Michael Costello, Katie Butler, Kim Winter, Linnea Laux, Colvin Chapman, Gretchen Rice, Toby Shapinsky, Tommy Weir, Braden Oh (1:30 PM)

PowerChords PerformanceSporting their characteristic “flowerchords” since 2007, PowerChords is the oldest a cappella group at Olin College of Engineering. Despite their wide range of interests, they have found unity in all styles of a cappella through powerful arrangement style and electric enthusiasm during performances. Come see what we've prepared this fall!!

2:30–3 PM

Olin Conductorless Orchestra

Location Musicians Program Milas Hall 2nd floor mezzanine

Diego Alvarez (trombone), Serena Chen (violin), Kyle Emmi (trumpet), Marie-Caroline Finke (percussion), Kathryn Hite (bass flute and flute), Anne Ku (violin), Joseph Lee (timpani), Kerry McConnaughay (French horn), Eric Miller (alto flute), Paul Nadan (trombone), Emma Pan (viola), Kian Raissian (cello), Shreya Rangarajan (violin), Margaret Rosner (viola), Jeremy Ryan (flute), Suraj Shroff (bass clarinet), Jonah Spicher (piano), Joe Sutker (bass trombone), Emma Westerhoff (cello), Rachel Won (cello), Brandon Zhang (violin), Lydia Zuehsow (violin)

Program to include works by Mozart, Schumann, and Gold.

10–11 AM

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Topic Location Name(s) of student(s) Title and description

Competition Team: electric vehicles AC128

Suraj Shroff, Noah Rivkin, Gordon Haag, Alexander Hoppe, Lacie Fradet, Rachel Won, Kevin Crispie, Corey Cochran-Lepiz, Aurora Bunten, Yichen Jiang, Peter Seger, Sreekanth Sajjala, Lucky Jordan, Byron Wasti, Jonathan Zerez, Andrew Schnurr, Anil Patel, Josh Deng

Olin Electric MotorsportsOlin Electric Motorsports designs and fabricates electric race cars for the Formula SAE Electric competition. Come check out our progress on our newest vehicle, Mk. 3!

Robotics/ Mechatronics AC326

Adam Novotny, Alex Core, Evan New-Schmidt, Ian Paul, Jared Briskman

BoardbotWe have created a robot, known as a Boardbot, that can be mounted and draw on a whiteboard.

Robotics/ Mechatronics Large Project Building (behind AC)

Gretchen Rice, Aubrey Dority, Diego Alvarez, Paul Nadan, MJ McMillen

SquidRobot squid that can swim around autonomously. This squid is a work of art.

Robotics/ Mechatronics Outside (weather permitting)

Paul Nadan, Nathan Lepore Single-Rotor DroneTired of quadcopters? Come and see a drone capable of controlled flight using a single motor.

Arts, Humanities and Social Science 1st floor

Hannah Twigg-Smith Life of a LogoSee the process of ideating and developing a logo.

Design 1st floor

Lauren Gulland, Ryan Gulland (MIT '18)

Coordinate: an Oliner's experience in an MIT product design capstoneI studied "abroad" at MIT this semester, and infiltrated their famous Product Engineering Processes class. Throughout this term I was working on a team of 18 students to create Coordinate, a system of 3 devices aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of Search and Rescue missions. We presented a 7 minute pitch of our full alpha prototype of Coordinate to the MIT community on December 11th, so I thought it was only fitting to bring it to the Olin community for Expo! Stop by to check out the product or chat about my semester at MIT. :)

Design 1st floor

Abigail Fry, Adrian Botran, Cameron Wierzbanowski, Junwon Lee

Bwok Flock's Chicken Inspired GameOur presentation is an interactive chicken-inspired game, where players get to mimic chicken's vision and balancing behavior and go across an obstacle course while carrying "chicken eggs." Everyone is welcome to play this wonderful game!

Design 1st floor

Aaron Greiner, Anisha Nakagawa, Annabel Consilvio, Anne McCormack, Jayce Chow, Max Mendelsohn, Michael Costello, Nora Mohamed

ADE Community Development: Shifting Rhythms Shifting Rhythms is a mobile education space that introduces technology, entrepreneurship, and arts experiences to youth ages 12-18 in rural Mississippi. We believe that by exercising creative expression, self-efficacy, and an entrepreneurial mindset, youth will learn and develop the skills and confidence to create and seize opportunities for themselves within and beyond their communities.

Electrical Engineering 1st floor

Coleman Ellis, Paige Pfenninger Python Microcontroller PCBWe laid out and assembled a MicroPython based microcontroller on a PCB.

Electrical/ Mechanical/ Software Engineering 1st floor

Kerry McConnaughay, Lacie Fradet, Missoury Lytle, Annie Kroo, Matthew Brucker

Jukebox Heroes: Jechanical Mukebox After hours slaving away in the PoE room, we finished our Mechanical Jukebox complete with a xylophone, marbles launched from chutes, twinkling tunes, and classic jukebox aesthetic.

10–11 AM

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Interdisciplinary Adaptive Blind Sailing Project 1st floor

Yichen Jiang, Onur Talu, Rowan Sharman

Olin Project for Blind Sailboat Racing Olin has been working with the Boston blind sailing community for four years to provide sailors with the ability to sail in a regatta by themselves. We successfully created a working system this summer. A major part of this project was the creation of a partnership between Olin College, Community Boating, Inc. of Boston and the Boston Blind Sailing Community.

Math and Physics 1st floor

Margo Crawford, Paul Krusell, Louise Nielsen

Catalan NumbersThe Catalan numbers are a series of numbers that are found to be the solution for many seemingly unrelated systems. We show how three of these systems map to three equivalent expressions and how those systems map to each other. Come talk to us about some cool math!

Daniel Connolly, Bogdan Vitoc Recalculating Voyager 2's TrajectoryThis was our final project for our modeling and simulations class. We used the law of universal gravitation and simulation techniques to recalculate Voyager 2's trajectory using nothing but the position and velocity of our solar system's planets at the time of Voyager's launch.

Robotics/ Mechatronics 1st floor

Kathryn Hite, Mary Martin FunRobo NINJA BoatAs the course assistants for the Fundamentals of Robotics course we modified an existing RoboLab boat to fit the needs of the class.

Benjamin Ziemann, Samantha Eppinger, Prava Dhulipalla, Ava Lakmazaheri, William Derksen

Autonomous Robotic GripperFor our final project for Principles of Engineering Fall 2017 we researched, designed, and fabricated a working robotic gripper that changes grip strength based on what it is holding.

Kyle Combes, Celina Bekins, Rebecca Jordan, Eric Elder Jacobson, Katie Thai-Tang, Anna Griffin, Ever Gonzales, Zack Davenport

Olin Aquatic Robotic SystemsOARS is half-way through Year 1 of a five-year plan to design and build a sailboat capable of autonomously crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Student life (study away, passionate pursuit, etc.) 1st floor

Emma Price Wheel Thrown CeramicsI have been doing pottery for two years now and I'd like to think my work has improved. Come see if you agree!

Hunter Normandeau, Steven Meyer, Jared Briskman, Alex Scott, Juan Carlos del Rio, Andrew Holmes

24 Hours of LeMons - Budget Endurance Racing Auto racing is expensive. 24 Hours of LeMons sets out to change that. With all participants driving cars costing under $500 (before safety equipment). A group of enterprising Olin students set out to build their own car and race it.


Kelly Brennan Pottery Gallery and ContextI invite you come see the pottery that I made this semester. Also, come learn about how pottery helped empower women in the early 20th century and why handmade pottery is a current trend in restaurants!

Charlie Owen Effective Altruism - How to Be Good at Doing Good At Olin, one of our core values is to Do Something, but how do you know if what you're doing is actually making an impact? Effective Altruism looks to quantify this problem and provide some critical insights into being a better engineer, society member, and all around human.

Bioengineering or Biology 3rd floor

Nicole Schubert, Regina Walker DUCKDUCKDUCKDUCKGOOSEDUCKThis is a final project for our Neurotech class. We used a Muse (simplified EKG) to see if we could tell when a subject saw a goose or a duck in a stylized version of everyone's favorite childhood game, Duck, Duck, Goose.

Computing 3rd floor

Sreekanth Sajjala Wheelspin in F1It's my modsim project which aims to find out at what speed an f1 car can put down all its torque modeling its downforce and torque curves.

10–11 AM

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Electrical Engineering 3rd floor

Tommy Weir, Libby Tawes It's LitWe made a flame sensor that would use both light and temperature to indicate if there was a flame present.

Lauren Pudvan, March Saper, Kimberly Winter

funRobo NINJA BoatThis is our final project for the class Introduction to Analog and Digital Communications. We are transmitting data while utilizing Hamming code to error proof.

Jordan Van Duyne, Brenna Manning, Annie Ku

Wireless Communication of Compressed Images We will be implementing a digital communication system using the USRP. Our goal is to communicate images that have been compressed using Huffman coding over the peripheral.

Environmental Engineering 3rd floor

Cesar Santana Boston's Water Treatment SystemThis presentation will take a look at the existing water treatment system that delivers drinking water to communities in Boston and the surrounding area. It will also look at how emerging technologies may improve the current system's resilience and ability to remove emerging contaminants.

Robotics/ Mechatronics 3rd floor

Claire Kincaid Capitalizing on ConferencesMaximizing your personal impact at conferences and networking events.

Emily Kohler, Connor Novak, Christina Segar, Jonah Spear, Jacob Regenstein

Robotic FishA robotic fish built in the Fundamentals of Robotics class.

Student life (study away, passionate pursuit, etc.) 3rd floor

Emily Lepert Exploration of macaronsCome sample some of the macarons I've been learning how to make through my passionate pursuit! I'll tell you about the techniques I've learned and generally tell you cool things.

Yuzhong Huang Passionate Pursuit: SushiI will make sushi and present my work at Expo.

Arts, Humanities and Social Science 4th floor

Matthew Beaudouin-Lafon Cardistry Inside and OutWhat's Cardistry? Is there anything more to it than showing off playing card manipulation skills? Why would anyone be excited about Cardistry after doing it for seven years? What does it have to do Design Thinking and Music? Are you intrigued yet?

Computing 4th floor

David Abrahams, Shane Kelly, Bill Wong

Video Game Artificial IntelligenceWe programmed a bot that plays a capture the flag style video game. Come play against it! It's like a normal AI, but it's a ball of paint.

Mary Keenan, Rachel Yang PantSuit UpAn interactive and voice-based interview prep tool that simulates a realistic mock-interview experience and provides immediate, personalized feedback, built at a hackathon.

Design 4th floor

Lauren Anfenson, Allison Busa, Daniel Connolly, Sreekanth Sajjala

Bear Salmon Play ExperienceWe have created a play experience for fourth grade students based upon the interactions of bears and salmon as salmon try to swim upstream.

Zack Davenport, Aidan McLaughlin

SmartStepThis was a project that arose from the LeadingAge Hackfest over the summer where intergenerational teams competed to develop products related to aging. SmartStep is a smart shoe with embedded sensors that allows users to be alerted of obstacles and hazards in real time.

Electrical Engineering 4th floor

Amy Phung, Everardo Gonzalez Nerf Gun Proximity SensorUsing an ultrasonic sensor, we used the time delay between the transmitted and received signal to measure the distance away an object is and display this distance with LEDs, letting the user know whether their target is in range of the gun.


Kyle Emmi, Braden Oh AM Laser Text TransmitterTransmission of sentences over a sizable distance using lasers. What more could you ask for?

10–11 AM

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Mechanical Engineering 4th floor

Evan Cusato The Mysteries of FlightFor thousands of years, the idea of soaring through the air has captivated some of humanity's most gifted and creative minds. I have spent this semester answering these quesitons for myself and experiencing the world of flight firsthand. Come by; let's talk about airplanes.

Principles of Engineering 4th floor

Anika Payano, Ilya Besancon, Liz Leadley, Miranda Lao, Sophia Nielsen

Hi5 Sound CrystalInteractive and reactive jukebox with flashing LEDs and marble run.

Robotics/ Mechatronics 4th floor

Nathaniel Yee, Eric Miller, Paul Nadan, Erika Lu, Adam Selker, Bogdan Vitoc, Maximilian Schommer, Mark Goldwater

Aero Autonomous Drones (IARC)We design and program fully autonomous flying vehicles for the International Aerial Robotics Competition.

Lydia Zuehsow Autonomous Realtime Inflight Evasion System It makes it possible for small quadcopters to perform high level autonomous flight that they normally wouldn't be capable of.

Kevin Zhang, Hannah Kolano, Cassandra Overney, Khang Vu, Enmo Ren, Emma Pan

Edwin and Draco Part 2Edwin the Dinosaur and Draco the Dragon are back, and this time with even more fun and interesting games! So many games, that we're splitting it up into two! Part 1 (10-11 AM) will host Connect 4 and Set, and Part 2 (11 AM-12 PM) will host Sudoku, Simon the Button Memory Game, and Fishing for Tools. So many games, much fun.

11 AM–12 PM

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Competition Team: off-road vehicles AC128

Steven Meyer, Manik Singh Sethi, JC del Rio, Gwyn Phelps, Andrew Holmes, Ashley Swanson, Elena Meyerson, Leon Santen

Olin BajaOlin Baja is Olin's oldest project team - we design and build off-road cars and race against 100 schools from around the world each year all while learning and teaching skills in mechanical design, systems integration, and leadership. We're in the middle of a major redesign year, come see our progress!

Arts, Humanities and Social Science AC318

Nur Shlapobersky 11/8/16, 9-12pmOlin teaches us that reflection is a vital component of learning. In this installation, I present a reflection on the last Election, through images of Oliners captured that night, and their stories recorded one year later.

Student life (study away, passionate pursuit, etc.) AC326

Sophia Nielsen, Lucky Jordan, Kim Winter, Duncan Hall, Ruby Spring

West Coast SwingDrop by to see our moves.

Student life (study away, passionate pursuit, etc.) AC417

Mackenzie Frackleton, Bill Wong, Cecilia Diehl, Keenan Zucker, Bryan Werth, Nathan Lepore, Nina Tchirkova, Alison Palmer, Luis Zuniga

Olin Performance Improv Und MagikOlin's premiere (and only) improvisational comedy troupe! We specialize in long form improv and will be giving a short show.


Apurva Raman Passionate Pursuit: Pan PastelsThis project was an exploration of the medium of pan pastels focusing on color and application techniques.

Bioengineering or Biology 1st floor

Cassandra Overney, Liv Kelley Community Comparison of the Metabolic Abilities of Saltwater and Freshwater Bacterial Communities Presenting the research we did on cellulose digesting and nitrogen fixing freshwater and saltwater bacterial communities.

Design 1st floor

Katie Thai-Tang, Emma Pan, Eamon O'Brien, Khang Vu

Unicorns of the SeaBecome a unicorn of the sea in our immersive narwhal-inspired play experience. Be sure to bring your inner fourth grader, because there will be dress-up, surprises, and competitive teamwork.


Justin Kunimune, Audrey Lewis TrebuchetAn automatically targeting table-sized trebuchet constructed and programmed for our Dynamics final project.

Principles of Engineering 1st floor

Christian Jimenez, Camille Xue, Nathaniel Tan, Alex Li

Kinetic Cloud3D Visual weather indicator that create shapes and patterns to represent the current weather.

Robotics/ Mechatronics 1st floor

Christina Segar, Sophie Schaffer, Siena Okuno, Miranda McMillan, Margo Crawford

Daedalus: Articulated WingsWe made wings for our POE project. They move when you move and look cool.

Eamon O'Brien, Jamie O'Brien,Julian Stone, Wax Wei, Everardo Gonzalez, Luis Zuniga

Olin Combat Robotics BattleThe Olin battle bots will be fighting for the first time this semester! Come see untested, homemade robots try to break each other.


Sean Foley A couple of carvingsI worked on my carving skills over the semester, and have a couple pieces.

11 AM–12 PM

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Sustainability 1st floor

Kevin Zhang, Ariana Olson, Kai Loewenstein, March Saper, Eric Jacobsen, Katie Thai-Tang

AquaponicsWe've been working on improving and perfecting our library shelf system, which is more robust and functional this time around. We'll be around to talk and show off our plants from our usual mobile system, but definitely go to the library lower level to check out our most recent work!

Andrew Lidington Analyzing the Environmental Impact and Life Cycle Costs of Commercial Condensers at the Olin Dining Hall This project includes a Life Cycle Analysis to determine the environmental benefit and a Life Cycle Cost Analysis to determine the financial implications of replacement options for Olin Dining Hall's condensing units.

Aerospace Engineering 3rd floor

Cedric Kim, Sara Ballantyne, Kevin Guo, Alex Frye, Alex Scott

Olin Design Build FlyDesign Build Fly is a competition for optimizations of fixed winged aircrafts. This will be our first year preparing and competing in the competition.

Arts, Humanities and Social Science 3rd floor

Micah Reid Digital Portraiture: MS Paint EditionArt doesn't need expensive supplies! All pieces done exclusively with a Dell trackpad in MS Paint.


Joe Sutker, Gabe Butterick, Rocco DiVerdi

Mind controlled robotDrive a robot using just eye movements.

Design 3rd floor

Shyheim Russell, Brandon Zhang, Melissa Anthony, Everardo Gonzalez, Siddharth Garimella

The Pit (Deep Scary Voice)The snakes are predators; however, they are your ally in this game. This play experience puts you in a cave where you need to save your friends but avoid stepping on the snakes in the cave.

Gaby Clarke, Christine Dimke, Mimi Kome, Aidan McLaughlin, Caz Nichols, Cesar Santana

ADE Air QualityADE Air Quality pursues individual, community, and program-driven ways to improve indoor air quality in Boston neighborhoods through the reduction of Ultrafine Particle (UFP) concentration.

Materials Science and Chemistry 3rd floor

Mica Chiang, Jeremy Garcia, Sung Park, Daniel Daugherty

Is the Moscow Mule Safe?We'll be presenting how the leeching capabilities of different copper alloy micro structures are affected by varying pH solutions to prove whether it is safe to drink a Moscow mule from the traditional copper mug.

Principles of Engineering 3rd floor

Ana Krishnan, Louise Nielsen, Meaghen Sausville, Remy Boudousquie, Vivien Chen

EfflorescenceCome walk under our magical archway and see the flowers bloom as you walk by. If you move back and forth, the flowers will follow you.

Onur Talu, Henry Rachootin, Rowan Sharman, Tobias Shapinsky, Jonathan Jacobs

BounceA stewart platform that bounces a ping pong ball.


Margaret Rosner, Sam Eppinger Passive Dynamic WalkerDemonstration of our final QEA Project

Gretchen Rice, Elena Meyerson, Emma Westerhoff, Colvin Chapman, Samantha Young

OffBeat by GEECSA robotic drummer that is able to play on a drum set. He can play along to a song using beat detection.


Anusha Datar SDR Passionate PursuitGenerally, transmitting radio signals through devices like raspberry pi requires purchasing external hardware. For my passionate pursuit, I worked to try to abstract this into software and control a remote controlled car.

11 AM–12 PM

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Arts, Humanities and Social Science 4th floor

Duncan Hall Harmonic Structure of Beethoven's Return to Life Inspired by a miraculous return to health after an intestinal disease in the winter of 1824-1825, Beethoven wrote his 15th string quartet in an unusual form built around the third movement, the "Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the Deity". The movement's structure exemplifies (and sometimes breaks to great effect!) the rules of tonal harmony that I have studied this semester.

Community Building 4th floor

Raquel Dunoff Community FridayWhat is Community Friday? I'm a part of the Olin community, how can I participate?

Computing 4th floor

Nate Sampo, Jeremy Ryan, Will Derksen, Daniel Alhadeff

MaGMANew club formed to participate in game jams - hackathon style events focused on game creation.

Design 4th floor

Suraj Shroff Togo - Ozzi Token HoldersCome play with these beautifully crafted holders for our dining hall to-go boxes and learn about the design process behind them.


David Freeman Music ModifierWe're gonna come out of this project with some sort of something that pulls out specific frequencies of the music (or sounds) we input! Created in conjunction with Josh Deng.

Cameron Wierzbanowski, Kyle Bertram

Galvanic Skin Response Sensor (lie detector) Our final ISIM project is a Galvanic Skin Response Sensor, aka a lie detector. It measures the sudden differences in skin resistance due to change in heart rate, sweatiness, etc., also known as lying.

Bogdan Vitoc, William Fairman, Alex Bahner

LED ZeppelinTransmit sound data over the visible light spectrum, yet at a frequency undetectable to the human eye. Rece0ive the data with a device that outputs the sound data over a standard 3.5mm auxiliary audio cable.

Math and Physics 4th floor

Kyle Combes Self-Balancing See-Saw Coffee Table Because normal coffee tables are old hat, we decided to turn a see-saw into a coffee table, with a counterbalance control system to keep it level.

Robotics/ Mechatronics 4th floor

Kevin Zhang, Khang Vu, Sherrie Shen, Nick Sherman, Mark Goldwater, Jon Yee, Ben Ziemann, Hyeji Bang, Yichen Jiang, Lydia Zuehsow, Max Wei, Jamie Cho

Edwin and Draco Part 2Edwin the Dinosaur and Draco the Dragon are back, and this time with even more fun and interesting games! So many games, that we're splitting it up into two! Part 1 [10-11 AM) will host Connect 4 and Set, and Part 2 [11 AM-12 PM) will host Sudoku, Simon the Button Memory Game, and Fishing for Tools. So many games, much fun.

Kian Raissian, Nick Sherman, Yichen Jang, Christopher Aring, Raymundo Camacho

PianomaticPianomatic is a device that acts like a player-piano attachment to any piano, essentially transforming any keyboard into a self playing piano. Simply input a MIDI file and watch Pianomatic create player piano sheet music that can be read by the device.

Amy Phung, Connor Novak, Kawin Nikomborirak, Nathan Estill

Design and Coordination of Autonomous Air and Ground Vehicle Systems for Supply Distribution Design and implementation of a self-contained network of robotic vehicles designed to autonomously navigate to rendezvous points, transfer payloads, and travel significant distances while maintaining safe operating conditions.

1–2 PM

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Integrated Mechanical/ Electrical Systems AC326

Lucky Jordan, Nathan Lepore, Sean Szymanski, Alex Chapman, Anil Patel

OdysseusOdysseus is a 3-axis CNC mill/lathe combination which allows users to create unique features. It can be manually zeroed, generate parametric surfaces and convert .stl files to physical parts.


Erika A. Serna The PillThe presentation will center around the paper assigned for the HisTech AHS class in where I researched the creation of the pill. It provides the information that norethisterone was synthesized in Mexico.

Lilia Chan 3D Design - Wellesley CourseProjects in spatial awareness, patterns in 2D becoming 3D, making plaster molds, designing a foam core bridge, and making wax scuptures for bronze casting.

Computing 1st floor

Siddharth Garimella, Anusha Datar, Mark Goldwater

NewsBlind: Data-driven Fake News Classification The presence of intentionally misleading and inaccurate news on the internet can lead to some very tangible societal problems, and draws both an unjustified and polarizing distinction between “real” and “fake” news. With a successful detection rate of over 80%, we’ve created a web application that uses machine learning to tackle the problem of fake news by informing readers with soft metrics for any article of choice.

Design 1st floor

Diego Alvarez, Zack Davenport, Connor Novak, Kyle Combes

BOCS: A Puzzle ExperienceThe BOCS awaits. Can you solve the puzzles?

Sara Ballantyne, Min Jang, Jack Rokous, Coltin Urro, Cynthia Yong

Emotiv - Emotion Visualizer for College Mental HealthOver the course of this past semester in Integrated Product Design, our small team of engineers, entrepreneurs, and industrial designers from Olin, Babson, and MassArt worked with college students and college campuses to develop a new IoT product, Emotiv. Emotiv gives students the ability to engage with mental health awareness on their home campus at a large scale through the use of emotion visualization. As both a physical system and an application, Emotiv gives students the tools necessary to become aware of their own mental state and to begin the larger conversation about mental health needed to enact campus-wide change.

Amy Phung Time Flies-a Hopping Alarm ClockWith a hardboard, springs, dowels, fishing line, and rubber tubing, I created a hopper with a wind-up trigger that adjusts the release time, just like an alarm clock!

Electrical Engineering 1st floor

Lisa Hachmann, Anisha Nakagawa, Paige Pfenninger

Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM)We are creating OFDM, which is used in modern wireless communications. It will be demonstrated on USB radios.

Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, & Software) 1st floor

Kristen Behrakis, Emily Lepert, Hannah Kolano, Athmika Senthilkumar

Tusic: A Page-Turner for MusiciansFor our final project in Principles of Engineering, we developed a hands-free page-turner for musicians. We combined elements of Electrical, Mechanical, and Software engineering to listen to music, detect beats, and reliably turn pages of sheet music in a binder.


Aurora Bunten, Meaghen Sausville

Chladni PlateWhen salt is placed on top of a vibrating plate, patterns form based on the frequency of the vibrations. As the frequency changes, the patterns in the salt naturally change with it.

Lydia Hodges, Chase Joyner That's Gonna Sting(ray)Based on a true news story, we wanted to model how angle of attack affected a manta ray's trajectory when it jumps out of the water. In turn, we wanted to check these trajectories against a person standing in a speed boat, to see what angles of attack would be lethal.

1–2 PM

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Vicky McDermott, Vivien Chen Webcam Heart Rate MonitorWe have used the fourier transform to help us understand how a webcam can monitor a person's heart rate for our linearity 2 final project. We created our own fast fourier transform functions and plugged them into an existing program that calculates a person's heart rate using a computer webcam.

Mechanical Engineering 1st floor

Harrison Young Underactuated Aquatic LocomotionI am designing bio-inspired propulsion systems. For this semester I designed a shape-memory-allow actuated ribbon fin.

Mechanical, Electrical & Software Integration 1st floor

SeungIn Lyu, Antonio Perez Manny: A Motion-Tracking CopycatManny The Man is a miniature-sized robotic system that tracks and mimics an individual's movements. It senses motion via an X-Box Kinect, processes the data on an UpBoard computer, then actuates Servo motors to mimic movement.


Jessie Potter, Cassandra Overney, Amy Phung, Kyle Bertram, Cali Wierzbanowski

BakingThis has been one of our main hobbies outside clubs and classes. It was also one of our passionate pursuits. Together, our group has spent much time baking for other students’ birthdays, and just to destress and enjoy some time together while learning culinary skills.

Sustainability 1st floor

Sabrina Tamames, Samantha Hoang

POE Smart FeederThe overall objective of this project is to provide birds with food, regulated shelter, and predatory defense through a standalone sustainably-powered bird-feeder that updates human users on environmental conditions, bird visits, and system efficiency.


Becca Gettys CAR-T Cells: Harnessing the Immune System Against CancerCome learn about innovative immunological approaches to previously difficult to treat cancer!

Computing 3rd floor

Aiden Carley-Clopton, Christopher Lather, Noah D'Souza

Tea SteepingWe used Python to find when milk should be added during the tea steeping process, in order to maximize temperature and strength. We modeled adding milk before, during and after steeping tea.

Andrew Deaver Comparison of Methods for Named Entity RecognitionNamed entity recognition (NER) is a field of artificial intelligence that is focused on teaching computers to identify important parts of a sentence. For our independent study, a partner, Katie Hite, and I tested different techniques to teach a computer to carry out this task.

Will Manidis PathwaysAI: Building Mobile Apps to help Individuals living with Parkinson's Disease For two years, I have been working with Parkinson's Patients to build mobile apps that improve their quality of life using machine learning and unique interfaces. It's our goal to shift the focus of Parkinson's treatment from pharmaceutic to lifestyle choices.

Izzy Harrison, Emily Kohler, Andrew Deaver, Daniel Bishop

User Experience Design: Connecting Composters For the user experience design course here at Olin we created an interactive mockup of our idea for an app that connects composters to people who have extra food waste. We iterated based on user tests and learned a lot about how to make a slick interface.

Computer Engineering 3rd floor

Wilson Tang GPU: Design Considerations for Medical Imaging Medical Imaging such as CT scans have special types of data and techniques used to create images of your body. How can Graphical Processing Units or GPUs be specially designed/optimized for these sort of image applications.

1–2 PM

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Design 3rd floor

Brett Atkinson, Cecilia Diehl, Alix McCabe, Rebecca Patterson, Brennan VandenHoek

Collaborative Design of Autonomous Vehicles for Aging AdultsA cloud technology based interdisciplinary collaboration between a globally distributed team of engineers and designers, focused on developing a new automotive space for Aging Adults.

Matthew Beaudouin-Lafon, Jong Woo Nam, Apurva Raman, Viktoria Wastring

User Experience Design for a Medication Reminder AppWe designed an app to help the user remember to take their medication based off of the idea that people remember to do things based off of routines rather than arbitrary times.

Math and Physics 3rd floor

Anna Buchele Magnetic Fields and GeometryFor my Electricity and Magnetism project, I created visualizations of the magnetic fields of solenoids in unusual geometries.

Mechanical Engineering 3rd floor

Anya Jensen, Bogdan Vitoc, Libby Tawes

Giraffe PeriscopeThis project was created for our Design Nature class’ animal-inspired Play Project. Through our periscope, you can experience the world like a giraffe.


Liz Leadley Knitting Passionate PursuitA progression of knitted pieces as I learned more about the craft, including a bit of crochet and the seven mismatching armwarmer collection.

Hadleigh Nunes Explorations in paper art: Passionate Pursuit A passionate pursuit experimenting with paper's different uses in making art.

Mimi Kome Dolls, Quilts, and Reflections on My Work Come by to touch/hug some textile art and hear stories. Join me in reflecting on the significance of the materials, form, and life of the things we make: to ourselves as makers and to the people who experience our work.

Emma Freedman Embroidering a MasterThis semester I embroidered a copy of an animal from a master painting, incorporating blending and shading with threads. Although the piece is small, it's taken weeks of careful, mostly tiny stitches.


Sophia Nielsen, Brandon Zhang, Sabrina Pereira, Ever Gonzalez, Alli Busa, Nicole Schubert

SatyrNoxFurry robots for a natural human robot interaction. Come and see our synthespian (synthetic actor) performance space. It's like walking into Dr. Seuss's world.

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