SCOPE
Sponsor: Amazon Robotics
Faculty Advisor: Amon Millner
Amazon Robotics
Amazon Robotics is engaging 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.
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Sponsor: Boston Scientific
Faculty Advisor: Jessica Townsend
Endoscope Tip Rotation
This year’s Boston Scientific SCOPE team will design and fabricate a mechanism to provide enhanced access of tools and visualization at the tip of a duodenoscope without causing unintended scope movement.Â
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Sponsor: Boston University Wheelock Institute for the Science of Education
Faculty Advisor: Amon Millner
Enhancing Early Literacy-Building Apps with Improved Audio Understanding
This year’s SCOPE team, like the 2024-2025 team will join a large interdisciplinary research team and contribute key components to proof-of-concept instructional games for K-3rd grade students developing reading skills.
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Sponsor: New Balance
Faculty Advisor: Amon Millner
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 will build from last year's SCOPE team to develop a highly-automated solution, creating tooling that reduces the manual tests and improves the consistency of the quality check.
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Sponsor: Santos Family Foundation/Volpe National Transportation Center
Faculty Advisor: Scott Hersey
Crosswalk Safety Automation
This team will be exploring opportunities to automatically identify the presence of pedestrians and activate safety measures to improve pedestrian safety.
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Sponsor: Tender Food
Faculty Advisor: Scott Hersey
Fiber Sheet Drying System
This year's SCOPE team is working to develop a method and system to dry thin, delicate sheets of fibers in a way that is both time and energy efficient. By researching different methods and prototyping and testing systems, we hope to implement the findings from this project in our pilot line to increase our product throughput and usability.
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Sponsor: Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Bloomer
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.
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Sponsor: Accelerate Wind
Faculty Advisor: Alessandra Ferzoco
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.
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Sponsor: Santos Family Foundation/Volpe National Transportation Center
Faculty Advisor: Lawrence Neeley
Data Illuminators: Scalable Data Collection for Nighttime Crosswalk Lighting
Our SCOPE team aimed to provide a streamlined, efficient data collection method and analysis process to inform decisions of street lighting and pedestrian-vehicle safety teams for 2-3 municipalities in Massachusetts and beyond.
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Sponsor: Pfizer
Faculty Advisor: Jessica Townsend
Clinical Supply Process Optimization Tool
This year’s SCOPE team worked to create an AI-driven tool that identified opportunities to accelerate the delivery of life-changing treatments and enable data-informed rapid decision making, while limiting clinical supply process risks.
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