James Dyson Foundation Bursary Historical Projects Collection

Different tiny objects arranged in size order on a beach

Final Projects 2024-2025

Flywheel Energy Storage Using Superconducting Bearings

by Ed Pearson

> Project Summary      > Outreach Activity

Internet of the Equine

by Elena Merican

> Project Summary      > Outreach Activity

Designing a Continuous Glucose Monitoring Sensor Insertion Device for Neonatal Care

by Jessica Collins

> Project Summary     > Presentation

Saving the Great London Plane of Ely

by Jonah Barretto

> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity

Experimental Study of the Boundary Layer Beneath a Tornado-Like Vortex

by Lev Davies

> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity       > Presentation

Hybrid Carbon Fibre Composites for Automotive Applications

by Vincent Yung

> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity       > Presentation

Fighting Brain Cancer with Electricity: Exploring Tumor Treating Field

by Yuqing Xue

> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity

 

 

 

Brown Horse with a GPS tracker strapped to its back

Final Projects 2023-2024

A Study of the Possible Instabilities in the Cores of Tornadoes

By Callum Harries
> Project Summary      > Outreach Activity

Exploring the Mechanics Lab

By Gemma Jacobson
> Outreach Activity

Cryoprinting Hydrogels

By Nivedita Chandra Bose
> Project Summary      > Outreach Activity      > Outreach Presentation

Evaluating the Safety of Post-Surgical Dietary Advice

By Shrey Saha
> Project Summary

Alleviating Mechanism for Unsteady Load in Tidal Turbines

By Stephen Sun
> Project Summary      > Outreach Activity

 

 

 

tiny tornadoes of smoke underwater

Final Projects 2022-2023

How do Tornadoes Work? An Introduction to Experimental Fluid Dynamics

by Aiden Jones
> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity

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

by Eeshta Suresh
> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity

A Biologically-Enabled and Inspired Self-Healing Cementitious Composite

by Emilie Pauwels
> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity     > Presentation

The Acoustic Diagnosis of Middle Ear Problems

by Jessye Tu
> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity

Hydrogel BioPrinting

by Noah Gordon
> Project Summary    > Outreach Activity      > Presentation

Visual Artificial Intelligence in Soft Robot Control

by Richard Marques Monterio
> Project Summary      > Outreach Activity

Mystery of the Spinning Bottle Cap

by Sam Stephenson
> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity

 

 

 

HDPE Bricks of different types in alternating layer pattern

Final Projects 2021-2022

Trying to Understand Antimicrobial Resistance

by Ali Ahmed
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

 

Plastic-Sand Bricks

by Egle Augustaityte
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

Rammed Earth Beams

by Eoghan Butler
> Project summary   > Outreach activity

Self-Shaping Wooden Structures

by Sam Dixon
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

Pixel-Less Displays

by Oliver Gustafsson
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

Flexible Electro-Osmotic Systems for Healthcare

by Emma Sun
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

Design and Control of a Multi-modal Soft Gripper

by Shogo Washio
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

 

 

 

Soft white robot with hydraulic lines connecting to it

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
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

Solar Updraft Towers for Greenhouse Gas Removal

by Jamie Clarkson
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

Portable / Disposable System to Measure Liver Optical Backscatter

by Robert Hudson
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

Conformal Geometric Algebra for Robot Kinematics

by Zach Lambert
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

Investigating Computer Vision-Based Approaches in Lie Detection

by Ara Mambreyan
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

Development of a Miniature Water CPC (Condensation Particle Counter)

by Julie Pongetti
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

 

 

 

Air following over a wing in a wind tunnel with flow lines drawn on

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
> Project summary    > Proposed outreach activity

Supporting Key Stage Two (KS2) Teachers to Deliver Integrated STEM in Primary Schools

by Courtney Collins
> Project Summary   > Outreach Activity

Detection of Voids Beneath Railway Sleepers

by James Crossley
> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity

Capacitive Soft Skin for Shape Estimation

by Chon Hei 'Hearst' Lam
> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity

Gaussian Process Inference Modelling of Dynamic Robot Control for Expressive Piano Playing

by Cheryn Ng
> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity

Can Bamboo Replace Willow in Cricket Bats?

by Ben Tinkler-Davies
> Project Summary     > Outreach Activity

 

 

 

A visual simulation of a self balancing bicycle

Final projects 2018-2019

Surgical Microdrilling for Arthritis Treatment

by Anya Davidson
> Project summary    > Outreach activity    > Outreach Slides

Pre-stressed Stone Staircases: Do They Explode?

by Rachel Attwood
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

Tensile Test Instrument for Soft Biological Tissues

by Hannah Streat
> Project summary   > Outreach activity

Affective Buildings

by Olufolajimi Babasola
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

Self-Balancing Bicycle

by Philip Salmony
> Project summary    > Outreach activity     > Outreach Handout

Distributed Sensing in Soft Robotics

by Neil Kraewinkels
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

Design and Evaluation of an RF System for Performing Trilateration of a Rocket

by Matt Coates
> Project summary    > Outreach activity

 

 

 

Robot over conveyer belt sorting vegtables

Final Project 2017-2018

Automatic Parking System for Wirelessly Charged Electric Vehicles

by Aleksandr Bogomil
> Project Summary & Outreach Activity

Control and instrumentation for transplant organ circulation machine

by Amy Hall
> Project summary    > Outreach Activity   

Robot Picking Challenge

by Michael Cheah
> Project summary    > Outreach Activity - joint with Ed Bray      > Outreach Handout

Robot Picking Challenge

by Kieran Gilday
> Project Summary    > Outreach Activity

Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics

by Joshua de Gromoboy Dabrowick
> Project Summary    > Outreach Activity

Supertall Timber

by Will Hurrell
> Project summary    > Outreach Activity

Tactile based robotic control for the examination of a soft object

by Ed Bray

> Project Summary    > Outreach Activity - joint with Michael Cheah

 

 

 

gas expansion experiment

Final Projects 2016-2017

Design of a 3rd year undergraduate teaching project based around a recumbent trike

by Giorgio Sterlini
> Project Summary    > Outreach Activity

ENIGMA: Resurrection of the Bomba Kryptologiczna

by Michael Truby
> Project Summary    > Outreach Activity

"My Honeycomb Rings"

by Alasdair Unwin
> Project Summary    > Outreach Activity

Products, Materials, Manufacturing and Design - hands-on teaching resources

by Madeleine Steer and Alex Horne
> Project Summary    > Outreach Activity

Seismic Testing of Unreinforced Masonry Vaults

by Callum Fleming
> Project Summary & Outreach Activity

Timber Skyscraper - A Proposal for the City of London

by Daniel Blower
> Project Summary    > Outreach activity