Supporting IIB projects in problem solving and design
Examples of previously funded projects (2019-2020 Academic Year)
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
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Supporting Key Stage Two (KS2) Teachers to Deliver Integrated STEM in Primary Schools
by Courtney Collins
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Detection of Voids Beneath Railway Sleepers
by James Crossley
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Capacitive Soft Skin for Shape Estimation
by Chon Hei 'Hearst' Lam
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Gaussian Process Inference Modelling of Dynamic Robot Control for Expressive Piano Playing
by Cheryn Ng
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Can Bamboo Replace Willow in Cricket Bats?
by Ben Tinkler-Davies
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Examples of previously funded projects (2018-19 Academic Year)
Surgical Microdrilling for Arthritis Treatment
by Anya Davidson
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Additional (Cambridge University access only): Outreach activity slides (PDF) (PPTX)
Pre-stressed Stone Staircases: Do They Explode?
by Rachel Attwood
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Tensile Test Instrument for Soft Biological Tissues
by Hannah Streat
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Affective Buildings
by Olufolajimi Babasola
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Additional (Cambridge University access only): Outreach activity handout (PDF)
Self-Balancing Bicycle
by Philip Salmony
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Additional (Cambridge University access only): Outreach activity handout (PDF)
Distributed Sensing in Soft Robotics
by Neil Kraewinkels
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Design and Evaluation of an RF System for Performing Trilateration of a Rocket
by Matt Coates
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Additional (Cambridge University access only): Outreach activity handout (PDF)
Examples of previously funded projects (2017-18 Academic Year)
Automatic Parking System for Wirelessly Charged Electric Vehicles
by Aleksandr Bogomil
Reports: Project summary and Outreach activity combined (17MB-pdf, 1MB-pdf)
Control and instrumentation for transplant organ circulation machine
by Amy Hall
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Robot Picking Challenge
by Michael Cheah
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity - joint with Ed Bray
Robot Picking Challenge
by Kieran Gilday
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics
by Joshua de Gromoboy Dabrowick
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Supertall Timber
by Will Hurrell
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Tactile based robotic control for the examination of a soft object
by Ed Bray
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity - joint with Michael Cheah
Ed Bray and Michael Cheah joint Outreach activity
Examples of previously funded projects (2016-17 Academic Year)
Design of a 3rd year undergraduate teaching project based around a recumbent trike
by Giorgio Sterlini
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
ENIGMA: Resurrection of the Bomba Kryptologiczna
by Michael Truby
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
"My Honeycomb Rings"
by Alasdair Unwin
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Products, Materials, Manufacturing and Design - hands-on teaching resources
by Madeleine Steer and Alex Horne
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Seismic Testing of Unreinforced Masonry Vaults
by Callum Fleming
Reports: (1) Combined project summary and outreach activity report
Timber Skyscraper - A Proposal for the City of London
by Daniel Blower
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Examples of previously funded projects (Prior to 2016-17 Academic Year)
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RLR20, 6 July 2019