James Dyson Foundation Bursary Historical Project Collection

Final Projects 2023-2024

A Study of the Possible Instabilities in the Cores of Tornadoes

By Callum Harries
Reports:   (1) Project Summary   (2) Outreach Activity

Exploring the Mechanics Lab

By Gemma Jacobson
Reports:   (1) Outreach Activity

Cryoprinting Hydrogels

By Nivedita Chandra Bose
Reports:   (1) Project Summary   (2) Outreach Activity   (3) Outreach PowerPoint

Evaluating the Safety of Post-Surgical Dietary Advice

By Shrey Saha
Reports:   (1) Project Summary

Alleviating Mechanism for Unsteady Load in Tidal Turbines

By Stephen Sun
Reports:   (1) Project Summary   (2) Outreach Activity

Final Projects 2022-2023

How do Tornadoes Work? An Introduction to Experimental Fluid Dynamics

by Aiden Jones
Reports:   (1) Project Summary   (2) Outreach Activity

Design of a Bidirectional Power Charger to serve for Smart Crowd-Based Grid Stabilisation

by Eeshta Suresh
Reports:   (1) Project Summary   (2) Outreach Activity

A Biologically-Enabled and Inspired Self-Healing Cementitious Composite

by Emilie Pauwels
Reports:  (1) Project Summary  (2) Outreach Activity  (3) Presentation

The Acoustic Diagnosis of Middle Ear Problems

by Jessye Tu
Reports:   (1) Project Summary   (2) Outreach Activity

Hydrogel BioPrinting

by Noah Gordon
Reports:   (1) Project Summary   (2) Outreach Activity   (3) Presentation

Visual Artificial Intelligence in Soft Robot Control

by Richard Marques Monterio
Reports:   (1) Project Summary   (2) Outreach Activity

Mystery of the Spinning Bottle Cap

by Sam Stephenson
Reports:   (1) Project Summary   (2) Outreach Activity

Final Projects 2021-2022

Trying to Understand Antimicrobial Resistance

by Ali Ahmed
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

Plastic-Sand Bricks

by Egle Augustaityte
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

Rammed Earth Beams

by Eoghan Butler
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

Self-Shaping Wooden Structures

by Sam Dixon
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

Pixel-Less Displays

by Oliver Gustafsson
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

Flexible Electro-Osmotic Systems for Healthcare

by Emma Sun
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

Design and Control of a Multi-modal Soft Gripper

by Shogo Washio
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

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
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

Solar Updraft Towers for Greenhouse Gas Removal

by Jamie Clarkson
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

Portable / Disposable System to Measure Liver Optical Backscatter

by Robert Hudson
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Proposed outreach activity

Conformal Geometric Algebra for Robot Kinematics

by Zach Lambert
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

Investigating Computer Vision-Based Approaches in Lie Detection

by Ara Mambreyan
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

Development of a Miniature Water CPC (Condensation Particle Counter)

by Julie Pongetti
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

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
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

Final projects 2018-2019

Surgical Microdrilling for Arthritis Treatment

by Anya Davidson
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

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

Self-Balancing Bicycle

by Philip Salmony
Reports: (1) Project summary   (2) Outreach activity

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

Final Project 2017-2018

Automatic Parking System for Wirelessly Charged Electric Vehicles

by Aleksandr Bogomil
Reports: Project summary and Outreach activity combined (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

• Outreach activity report
• Handout
• Brief Slides