Browsing Undergraduate Theses by Title
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Exploring assistive technology solutions and universal design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)Creating devices that take those with limited physical abilities into account can make everyday tasks easier for everyone to perform. During this project, a user with restricted fine finger dexterity was considered in the ... -
Exploring crystallographic compatibility in polycrystalline Cu-based shape-memory alloys
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Shape-memory alloys (SMAs) are a class of materials that can recover from apparent permanent strain (on the order of 5%) due to a solid-to-solid phase transformation. It has been recently suggested that SMAs satisfying a ... -
Exploring issues for a cartilage degradation model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The primary goal of this work was to establish a model system wherein a controlled level of damage is induced to a sample of normal cartilage, such that damage and repair can be observed by the dGEMRIC method of MR imaging. ... -
Exploring mechanisms for harvesting of farmed seaweed
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)In this thesis, I explore different harvesting mechanisms for farmed seaweed off of a line. The seaweed market is large and growing globally, and currently relies heavily on manual labor and coastal waters for the farming ... -
Exploring methods to enable responsible alcohol consumption in social environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)With the recent rise in alcohol related incidents and deaths in the United States we have seen new technologies and tools to try to reduce the number of these occurrences. Apps such as Uber are only a click away from being ... -
Exploring property driven design fabrication through materials testing and software development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Since its introduction in the late 1980s, layered manufacturing has become an increasingly efficient and common means to delivering functional and visually representative prototypes in relatively short amounts of time from ... -
Exploring strengthening mechanisms for Class C and Class F fly ash in load bearing floor tile applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Approximately 62.8 trillion kJ are consumed annually worldwide in the manufacturing process of traditional clay tiles. With this in mind, the goal of this project was to develop an eco-friendly alternative to clay tiles ... -
Exploring the Effect of Irradiation Time on the Damping of Surface Acoustic Waves
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-09)Finding relationships between material structure and properties is a key discipline of materials science. Many methods have been used to examine material properties, including transient grating spectroscopy (TGS). These ... -
Exploring the improvement of HTGR economics with heat storage for variable electricity output at base-load operations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Nuclear power plants operate most efficiently at a constant power output. This creates problems for nuclear power plants operating in electricity markets with large amounts of non-dispatchable energy generation, where the ... -
Exploring the material properties of small scale folded structures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)make robotics more readily available to the average person. Although designs for a number of successful printable robots have already been produced, there has been little formal exploration into the materials properties ... -
Exploring the microbe-mediated soil H² sink : a lab-based study of the physiology and related H² consumption of isolates from the Harvard Forest LTER
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Atmospheric hydrogen (H²) is a secondary greenhouse gas that attenuates the removal of methane (CH⁴) from the atmosphere. The largest and least understood term in the H² biogeochemical cycle, microbe-mediated soil uptake, ... -
Exploring the possibility of low temperature glazing in faience from the Djoser Step Pyramid through compositional analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Egyptian faience, a glazed, non-clay based ceramic material, is found throughout Egypt in a time range pre-dating the Predynastic Period (5500 - 3100 BCE) and extending well beyond the Roman Period (30 BCE - 641 CE). One ... -
Exploring the silicification of microbes and understanding their role in the fossil record
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Filamentous cyanobacteria that built macroscopic tufted mats in Proterozoic peritidal environments were fossilized by silicification, but the environmental and biological factors that shaped these structures and enabled ... -
Exploring the timescale limitations of RoboClam : a biologically inspired burrowing robot
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The Atlantic razor clam (Ensis directus) burrows into soil by contracting its valves in a pattern that fluidizes the particles around it. In this way, it uses an order of magnitude less energy to dig to its burrowing depth ... -
Exploring the use of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to develop systems architectures in naval ship design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The U.S. Navy designs and operates the most technologically advanced ships in the world. These ships incorporate the latest in weapons technology, phased array antennas, composite structures, signature reduction, survivability, ... -
Explosive energy yield analysis of World Trade Center crash
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)An estimation of the energy yielded from the explosion created by the crash of United Flight 175 into the World Trade Center was conducted to rule out the possibility of other explosive elements (i.e. a bomb) on board. The ... -
Exportable development of the 2.007 control system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)2.007: Design and Manufacturing I is a mechanical engineering class at MIT that teaches the fundamentals of engineering design in the context of a robotics competition. The control system for the students' robots has evolved ... -
Expression and localization of object invariants
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Extending the Sloan E-commerce Project with intelligent user interactions
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An extensible, intelligent system for applying software development knowledge
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