SCOPE

AI-Powered Pedestrian Crosswalk Safety System – Phase 2

Underwater (Under Saline) Endoluminal Surgery

New Glenn Avionics Battery Cell Pick-and-Place with Serial Number and Location Recording

This SCOPE team will design and build an automated pick-and-place apparatus for battery cell assembly. This project sits at the intersection of mechanical design, electrical engineering, and software development—requiring the team to integrate robotic actuation, barcode/data matrix scanning, precision placement, and database management into a cohesive, automated workflow. 

Passive Attenuation for Spool Energy

This SCOPE team will partner with ANCORE to explore a challenging and highly applied mechanical engineering problem at the intersection of dynamics, motion control, and product innovation. 

STORY: 2025–26 SCOPE Program Kicks Off with Boston Scientific, New Balance, and More

As the fall semester gets underway at Olin, so does the College’s largest culminating experience for graduating students—SCOPE, or Senior Capstone Program in Engineering.

Low-Cost Robotics Detection, Classification, and Tracking

Amazon Robotics engaged SCOPE students in exploring the space of classifying living and non-living beings, locating them, and understanding the vectors they’re heading using commercial-grade and consumer-grade sensing systems.

Automated Thermal Interface Material Applicator

The Blue Origin SCOPE team designed and fabricated an automated thermal interface material (TIM) application machine for use in a production environment.

Reducing Physician Strain with Duodenoscope Tip Rotation

This year’s Boston Scientific SCOPE team designed and fabricated a mechanism to provide enhanced access of tools and visualization at the tip of a duodenoscope without causing unintended scope movement.

Enhancing Early Literacy-Building Apps with Improved Audio Understanding

This year’s SCOPE team, like the 2024-2025 team joined a large interdisciplinary research team and contributed key components to proof-of-concept instructional games for K-3rd grade students developing reading skills.

Push Test- Continued Automation

As part of New Balance’s continual work to improve associates' work experience while maintaining high-quality standards, the SCOPE students built upon the 2025 SCOPE team's work to develop a highly-automated solution, creating tooling that reduces the manual tests and improves the consistency of the quality check.

Crosswalk Safety Automation

This team explored opportunities to automatically identify the presence of pedestrians and activate safety measures to improve pedestrian safety.

Fiber Sheet Drying System

This year's SCOPE team developed a method and device to dry thin, delicate sheets of fibers in a way that is time and energy efficient, user friendly, and scalable.

Identifying Manufacturing Variations in Computerized Stitching

Our team worked with New Balance to investigate certain manufacturing processes for New Balance shoes at their Lawrence, MA factory.  

Push Test Automation

Our team worked to automate a physically taxing process by designing tooling that reduces the manual strain on thumbs and improves the consistency of the quality check.

Redesign of the Child Care Search Tool for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The SCOPE team worked with the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care through a user-oriented collaborative design process to improve on the current family user experience finding child care with a redesign of the Child Care Search tool, making it faster and easier for families to find the resources they need.

Installing the Future of Wind

Accelerate Wind is developing rooftop wind turbines that can harness the increased wind speeds that occur at the edges of buildings. Our team supported the installation process by creating infrastructure to characterize and evaluate mounting structures for varied building types, and for characterizing the electrical system.