Crystal Liu

Growing issues with the costs of lab equipment, space, and coordinating the use of existing equipment at universities have limited students’ opportunities to interact with real machines and thereby learn and understand engineering practice. Our design addresses these issues by providing students with a transparent kit from which they can assemble a fully functional universal mechanical tester, allowing them to perform tensile, bending, and compression tests on materials and parts as part of their coursework or for design teams and personal projects. Moreover, we believe the UMTK supports curriculum integration; we envision it enabling students to bridge the gaps between courses in materials science, solid mechanics, product design, and even mechatronics and coding. Ultimately, the UMTK will equip students with the hands-on experience necessary to solve the challenging real-world problems they will encounter as professional engineers.

A robot that navigates through a Maze and grabs a block to drops it off at certain location. A MAZING robot!

Clek Liing Infant Seat is the first infant seat Clek developed with best-in-class safety features.

A power supply - or a cat

Automated KD maker cuts open the box, cuts open cheese package, boils water to cook macaroni, strains water, mixes cheese and macaroni and serves you a meal!

Skittle Launcher brings skittles right to your mouth. It tracks your head and launches Skittles into your mouth the moment you open it.

Skittle Launcher uses a trained a neural network to detect if you mouth is open and does computer vision on a Nvidia Jetson TX2 to detect the location of your mouth. A feeder system then drop skittles into a shooter wheel which launches it into your mouth.

The Solar Power Portable Charger is a product created by Pionovasion (A clean energy start-up) for users going camping or field trip, who might face an electricity shortage for their electronic devices, even with the aid of a normal portable charger.

The Hydraulic Arm was a project done in a group of 3 in a first year design course. We modeled the entire design and built this arm, won the 3rd place in the competition for picking up different items among all the groups in this course.