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Engineering Mentorships

1-on-1 learning and original research projects customized around students' interests

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Problem-solvers, creatives, and tinkerers are natural fits for an engineering mentorship. Detail-oriented students can work on their skills designing, testing and building machines, structures or processes using math and science. Students’ projects may research, invent or refine processes across a wide range of fields including medicine, the built environment, transport, electronics, and much more. Completing a mentorship in engineering develops students’ problem solving, computer science, data modeling, and leadership skills. 


Engineering

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Computational modeling and design
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Paper exploring the accuracy of scoring functions of rigid-body docked computational models of heterodimers, together with proposed design for a novel scoring function
Computational modeling and design
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Designed and built the body of a Formula 1-inspired remote control car applying academic theories on aerodynamics using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations as well as the use of advanced CAD in applied engineering design
Computational modeling and design
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Full mechanical design of a robot hand capable of playing a violin, including design ideation, modeling using computer aided design (CAD) software, and prototyping and creation of needed materials
Computational modeling and design
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Academic paper analyzing the aerodynamics of Formula One car rear wings, exploring how engineers apply physics principles to maximize performance and proposing modifications to optimize a rear wing based on computational modeling performed during the mentorship
Academic Papers
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Paper outlining how explainability methods can help prune neural networks to make AI more efficient
Computational modeling and design
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Designed and prototyped a working robotic hand with improved grip, mobility, and strength
Computational modeling and design
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A fail-safe mechanism for automated flight created using fault-injection method
Business Plans and proposals
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Design brief for a shopping basket to assist wheelchair-bound grocery shoppers navigate narrow grocery stores
Computational modeling and design
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A completed CAD model, finished prototype and report for an electric vehicle designed by the student
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Foldable solar cell that was designed using mathematical principles of symplectic geometry through origami
Computational modeling and design
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Prototype for a new football helmet to better prevent concussions designed with a neuroscientist at a top research university
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An innovative intermittent renewable energy grid for Caribbean islands impacted by climate change that relies on solar and wind power and can withstand a Category 5 hurricane

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