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LineVision Satellite Communications Development Team

Olin’s SCOPE team implemented commercial low bandwidth satellite connectivity compatibility into the LUX system, LineVision’s patented contactless LiDAR scanning service; doing so allows LineVIsion to expand coverage to include remote areas with insufficient cellular coverage. This new system will ultimately improve the capacity, resiliency, and safety of the grid.

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Faculty Advisor: Lynn Andrea Stein

Sustainable Investing: Developing a Novel ESG Tool for the Next Generation of Investors

Our SCOPE team developed OVBI (Olin Value Based Investing), an experimental accessible and user-friendly values-based investing tool that could serve as a comprehensive method for evaluating and grading different companies based on their genuine practices.

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Faculty Advisor: Sarah Bloomer

Identifying Potential New Materials for Endoluminal Vacuum Therapy

Boston Scientific, a leader in the medical device industry, tasked the 2023-2024 BSC SCOPE team with the challenge of identifying potential alternative materials to make EVT more effective and minimize the judgement calculations needed for doctors to customize sponges to patients.

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Faculty Advisor: Lawrence Neeley

Blue Origin: PCB Rework Station

In this project, our team worked closely with Blue Origin’s research and development lab to understand the standards and difficulties of PCBA rework and designed a workstation to revolutionize this process. This station is self-contained and significantly reduces lead times, allowing Blue Origin to complete all rework in-house.

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Faculty Advisor: Alessandra Ferzoco

Compact High-Voltage Power Supply for Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Avalanche Energy is working on new electrostatic confinement technology to make a bench top nuclear fusion generator. Our project was to investigate the feasibility of compact high voltage power supplies that can operate in the range of hundreds of kilovolts and interface with their preexisting system.

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Faculty Advisor: Lawrence Neeley

Amazon Object Manipulation Taxonomy

This year’s SCOPE team created an extensible object taxonomy framework and implemented an integrated active perception system to predict the performance of various object gripping strategies. This system can be used to enable a more diverse range of robot picking form factors and increase accuracy in warehouse operations at Amazon.

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Faculty Advisor: Sarah Bloomer

Circularity and Repairability of Bose Products

The 2022-23 Bose SCOPE team worked with Bose to infuse sustainability and product circularity across its global business operations.

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Faculty Advisor: Lynn Andrea Stein

Improving Cancer Diagnostic Accuracy During ERCP Procedures

Boston Scientific has tasked the 2022-2023 BSC SCOPE team with the challenge of improving the current state of their cytology brush and to create a more accurate and efficient tool for physicians.

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Faculty Advisor: Lawrence Neeley

Brandeis Rosbash Lab FlyBox Redesign

The 2022-23 Brandeis SCOPE team overhauled the original Roshbash Lab FlyBox's hardware, assembly, and software, creating a robust and polished tool to track the behavior of genetically modified fruit flies over multiday periods.

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Faculty Advisor: Lawrence Neeley

Dassault Systemes Customer Adoption Experience

The 2022-23 Dassault SCOPE team researched user journeys and created prototypes to reduce the complexity and provide a more seamless onboarding and discoverability experience for current and future customers of 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

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Faculty Advisor: Lynn Andrea Stein

Coin-Test: Open-Source Risk Evaluation for Cryptocurrency Investments

The 2022-23 FCAT SCOPE team developed Coin-Test, a publicly available, open-source Python library that provides a novel approach to evaluating cryptocurrency trading strategies.

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Faculty Advisor: Sarah Bloomer

Digitizing Ford: Building a Future Community

The 2022-23 Ford SCOPE team focused on women in motorsports, with an emphasis on connecting with and building a future community among aspiring women in racing through digital channels.

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Faculty Advisor: Alessandra Ferzoco

Improving CT Scanner Alignment During Installation

The 2022-23 GE Healthcare SCOPE team worked to improve CT image quality by creating a tool or process that will allow CT scanner installation technicians to achieve increased alignment precision.

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Faculty Advisor: Alessandra Ferzoco

Developing a Compact Fluid Management Module for Aerospace Electrolyzers

The 2022-23 SCOPE team collaborated with Giner Labs to improve the weight and volume of their proprietary electrolyzer oxygen generation system to lower costs and take up less valuable cargo room while maintaining a high degree of safety and reliability.

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Faculty Advisor: Lynn Andrea Stein

Pfizer Clinical Trial Assistant

The 2022-23 Pfizer SCOPE team built a prototype that augments the information search capabilities of Pfizer clinical research colleagues when responding to IP handling queries from clinical trial sites, thereby minimizing wait times for patients.

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Faculty Advisor: Lynn Andrea Stein

National High-Injury Network Analysis Tool (NHAT)

Partnering with the Santos Family Foundation and the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, the team created a free national tool that allows communities to generate interactive HIN maps and understand the relationship between safety, equity, and other contextual factors.