James Dyson Foundation Bursary Historical Projects Collection
Final Projects 2023-2024
A Study of the Possible Instabilities in the Cores of Tornadoes
By Callum Harries
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Exploring the Mechanics Lab
By Gemma Jacobson
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Cryoprinting Hydrogels
By Nivedita Chandra Bose
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Evaluating the Safety of Post-Surgical Dietary Advice
By Shrey Saha
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Alleviating Mechanism for Unsteady Load in Tidal Turbines
By Stephen Sun
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Final Projects 2022-2023
How do Tornadoes Work? An Introduction to Experimental Fluid Dynamics
by Aiden Jones
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Design of a Bidirectional Power Charger to serve for Smart Crowd-Based Grid Stabilisation
by Eeshta Suresh
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A Biologically-Enabled and Inspired Self-Healing Cementitious Composite
by Emilie Pauwels
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The Acoustic Diagnosis of Middle Ear Problems
by Jessye Tu
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Hydrogel BioPrinting
by Noah Gordon
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Visual Artificial Intelligence in Soft Robot Control
by Richard Marques Monterio
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Mystery of the Spinning Bottle Cap
by Sam Stephenson
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Final Projects 2021-2022
Trying to Understand Antimicrobial Resistance
by Ali Ahmed
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Plastic-Sand Bricks
by Egle Augustaityte
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Rammed Earth Beams
by Eoghan Butler
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Self-Shaping Wooden Structures
by Sam Dixon
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Pixel-Less Displays
by Oliver Gustafsson
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Flexible Electro-Osmotic Systems for Healthcare
by Emma Sun
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Design and Control of a Multi-modal Soft Gripper
by Shogo Washio
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Final Projects 2020-2021
Note that due to COVID-19 restrictions, the outreach activities in this year took place online, rather than in-person as in a normal year.
Natural and Carbon Fibre Composites for Automotive Applications
by Kate Bassil
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Solar Updraft Towers for Greenhouse Gas Removal
by Jamie Clarkson
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Portable / Disposable System to Measure Liver Optical Backscatter
by Robert Hudson
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Conformal Geometric Algebra for Robot Kinematics
by Zach Lambert
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Investigating Computer Vision-Based Approaches in Lie Detection
by Ara Mambreyan
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Development of a Miniature Water CPC (Condensation Particle Counter)
by Julie Pongetti
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Final Projects 2019-2020
Note that due to COVID-19, the planned outreach activities could not take place in this academic year, but the proposed outreach activities are presented below, alongside the case-study reports of the project work which happened during the course of the academic year.
Thermoacoustic Cooling
by Ziyang 'Schoen' Cao
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Supporting Key Stage Two (KS2) Teachers to Deliver Integrated STEM in Primary Schools
by Courtney Collins
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Detection of Voids Beneath Railway Sleepers
by James Crossley
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Capacitive Soft Skin for Shape Estimation
by Chon Hei 'Hearst' Lam
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Gaussian Process Inference Modelling of Dynamic Robot Control for Expressive Piano Playing
by Cheryn Ng
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Can Bamboo Replace Willow in Cricket Bats?
by Ben Tinkler-Davies
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Final projects 2018-2019
Surgical Microdrilling for Arthritis Treatment
by Anya Davidson
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Pre-stressed Stone Staircases: Do They Explode?
by Rachel Attwood
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Tensile Test Instrument for Soft Biological Tissues
by Hannah Streat
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Affective Buildings
by Olufolajimi Babasola
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Self-Balancing Bicycle
by Philip Salmony
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Distributed Sensing in Soft Robotics
by Neil Kraewinkels
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Design and Evaluation of an RF System for Performing Trilateration of a Rocket
by Matt Coates
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Final Project 2017-2018
Automatic Parking System for Wirelessly Charged Electric Vehicles
by Aleksandr Bogomil
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Control and instrumentation for transplant organ circulation machine
by Amy Hall
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Robot Picking Challenge
by Michael Cheah
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Robot Picking Challenge
by Kieran Gilday
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Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics
by Joshua de Gromoboy Dabrowick
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Supertall Timber
by Will Hurrell
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Tactile based robotic control for the examination of a soft object
by Ed Bray
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Final Projects 2016-2017
Design of a 3rd year undergraduate teaching project based around a recumbent trike
by Giorgio Sterlini
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ENIGMA: Resurrection of the Bomba Kryptologiczna
by Michael Truby
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"My Honeycomb Rings"
by Alasdair Unwin
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Products, Materials, Manufacturing and Design - hands-on teaching resources
by Madeleine Steer and Alex Horne
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Seismic Testing of Unreinforced Masonry Vaults
by Callum Fleming
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Timber Skyscraper - A Proposal for the City of London
by Daniel Blower
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