This project will produce design correlations for heat transfer and pressure drop for additively manufactured channels. Over the course of the project, the team members will design and build an experiment to measure the internal convective heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop for additively manufactured specimens. The team will then process the data resulting from their test plan. Finally, the team will derive design correlations for use by gas turbine designers. This program will involve elements of product design, experimental methods, instrumentation, manufacturing, and data analysis.

Design, build, and validate an automated cable maintenance system that cleans, winds, and optionally tests electrical cables used in proving grounds operations. The system shall safely remove contaminants without damaging cables or connectors, accommodate a range of cable sizes and lengths, automate cable handling and winding, and improve efficiency by reducing technician labor, turnaround time, and cable replacement costs.

Integrate the TG331 Honeywell Aerospace turbogen concept into the bed of a Tesla Cybertruck. This will be done to determine feasibility and technical challenges of the project which will be used for technical demonstration and marketing. Five subsystems will be required for the integration:
1) Engine mounting system
2) Inlet and Exhaust system
3) Fuel system tank and lines
4) Electrical systems - turbogen starting, vehicle battery charging, integration and mounting of PCUs, and user interface box
5) Integration and mounting of Thermal Management System (TMS)

This challenging and engaging project is to develop and test a novel and complete stand-alone bioreactor system to study the variables that affect both the growth and quality of both muscle and cartilage tissues. This will be done under different stress mechanisms including compressive forces, tensile forces, electro-stimulation and growth medium make-up. It will be able to utilize state-of-the-art bio-printed scaffolds as necessary for this study and will be designed to be capable of developing cartilage with a bone attach layer, a transition layer (the osteochondral interface) and the cartilage cushion layer.
Incorporated into the design is the capability to study muscle growth and repair relative to tensile forces and electro-stimulation from both animal cadavers as well as study the formation and growth from primary cells relative to these two stress variables.

The goal of this project is to iterate upon the existing F2 platform to design and prototype a liquid version of the device. This requires solving complex optomechanical and electrical engineering challenges surrounding excitation and emission geometry, component selection.
Specifically, the team will evaluate the tradeoffs between a compact, handheld form factor and a benchtop system while optimizing the spectrometer's internal components for liquid sample analysis.

The goal of this project is to design, build, and validate a variable-conjugate optical illumination system for characterizing cameras and imaging systems.
The proposed system will generate a controlled optical target, such as a point source, slit, resolution chart, or other test pattern, and create an apparent object distance that can be varied over a defined range. For example, the system may simulate an object located approximately 100 mm from a camera at an intermediate finite distance, or an object infinitely far away.

A wavefront sensor, such as an OptiQuiver wavefront sensor from Quartus, will measure the radius of curvature and quality of the output wavefront. This measurement will provide closed-loop feedback to the optical system. A user may enter a desired conjugate distance, and the system will adjust the optical configuration until the measured wavefront curvature corresponds to the requested object distance.
The completed system may be used to evaluate camera focus position, depth of field, spatial frequency response, modulation transfer function, and other imaging performance characteristics.

***This project is conducting remote interviews. Please see remote interview sheet on BrightSpace (D2L) to schedule a time to speak to the sponsor.***

As AI frameworks continue to evolve at a rapid pace, next generation of CPO (Co-Packaged Optics) architectures are necessary to meet the increased demand for bandwidth and energy efficient data transmission. Glass Core Substrates can enable large scale integration of multiple chiplets in a package due to its tunable modulus, dimensional stability and a Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) that is closer to that of silicon. It can also enable an integrated photonic-electronic platform as electrical wiring, and optical waveguides can co-exist in the same glass substrate. Formation of sharp, defect free and precisely located waveguides is a must for enabling such a platform. While significant strides are being made to form these glass waveguides, metrologies to accurately characterize are pre-mature or lacking.

Develop models to provide realistic visualization of an aircraft landing from the pilot's perspective. Stage 1 includes static renderings, Stage 2 will generate a series of models, when assembled will create a video simulation of an aircraft landing and the resulting illumination of the runway.

Factors that greatly affect the quality of simulation include a detailed 3d model of the aircraft cockpit and all of it's physical geometry and optical properties, color, reflectance, scattering properties. In addition to the cockpit, the landing zone will also need detailed properties including exact size and markings for a major airport runway/s

A team of engineering students will work together to develop a magnetic field sensor for high-energy physics experiments at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Typically, our experiments involve charging large capacitors up to tens of kilovolts and releasing currents on the scale of 1-1000 kiloamps, which produce large magnetic fields in the 1-10 Tesla range as fast pulse events (microsecond timescales).

Optical:
The goal of this project is to develop an optical magnetic field sensor that uses the Faraday effect to detect magnetic fields inside a vacuum volume. Students will review optical materials and select a crystal with the appropriate dimensions and material properties (Verdet constant) to build the sensor. Students must also develop polarimetry hardware to determine the rotation angle of light exiting the sensor.

Electrical:
For performance testing, the team will need to expose the probe to known magnetic fields either by using either pulsed high-current circuits (preferred) or by using strong permanent magnets. A deliverable of this project will be reporting the sensitivity of the sensor, measured in rotations/Tesla of magnetic field.

Mechanical:
Since this probe needs to be vacuum-compatible, great care will be required in the interfacing and sealing around the probe. Students will need to learn about basic vacuum science, sealing techniques, material outgassing, bake-out processes, and leakage rates. A deliverable will be testing the probe seal on a vacuum chamber down to a pressure of 1e-6 torr. If this is not achievable within the project timeline, then best-effort calculations will suffice.

General:
Students will be expected to develop CAD models of the probe, analog polarimetry hardware, and analytical models for post-processing the datasets. Tools such as SolidWorks, ANSYS products, Code V, LTspice, and VacTran may be helpful. When possible, use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) items from vendors to simplify the development process. Develop a bill of materials and material cost estimate associated with the probe, as well as fabrication/assembly documentation detailing how the probe was created.

This probe has the potential to be used on LLNL pulsed power experiments, and we very much look forward to seeing what this team can do.

Develop a High Resolution Optical sensor that can be synchronized with a Millimeter Wave Radar sensor and use GEO- registration, along with drone/aircraft INS data to successfully map a large parking lot and grass area. Optics must be able to withstand rapid variations in lighting conditions and bloom resistant. Project will require Engineering in the areas of Optical, Electrical, mechanical and software/computer science. All materials and sensors are to be "off the shelf" or provided by Honeywell Aerospace for prototyping. Software development should be advanced enough to differentiate objects (using MMWR) against non-elevated surfaces and have them super-imposed over the optical video image. Symbolism and reference/grid objects may be used. One requirement is a quick recovery time of camera imaging when exposed to high light following a darker exposure, reducing the "bloom blindness" to <2 secs and allowing radar data to continue syncd imaging.