Capstone Projects
The bioengineering program culminates in an intensive interdisciplinary design project. Students complete this part of their education in several ways:
- as an individual senior thesis within a research group (BME195 3 times + BME 123T),
- as a group design project within BME 123A-B,
- as a group design project in CMPE/EE129A-B-C, or
- as part of the iGEM synthetic biology competition (BME180 + BME 188A/B).
The senior thesis typically includes one to two years of laboratory work; bioengineering undergraduates seek out research laboratories in their sophomore and junior years. The six month 123A-B projects can be faculty- or student-initiated, and may include students from all engineering disciplines.
The capstone project reports are submitted as part of the senior portfolio required for graduation.
| Student | Project Name |
|---|---|
| Gerald Cherf | The Design of a Molecule That Blocks Klenow Fragment’s DNA Polymerase Function |
| Adam Rogers | Cancer Biomarker Sensing through Antibody Immobilization and Current Detection in Nanopipettes |
| Melissa Eberle | Design and Optimization of Fluorophore-Tagged Oligonucleotides for FRET Detection in Optofluidic ARROW Waveguides |
| Chuck Chan | Nanopore Device Redesign |
| Samantha Downey | Eliminating Adhesion of Biomolecules in Optofluidic Waveguides |
| John Havener | LEX: Lower Limb Exoskeleton |
| Raj Maitra | iRAGE: Independent DNA Recovery from an Agarose Gel after Electrophoresis |
| Student | Project Name |
|---|---|
| Bertram Linderkamp | Robo4 Monoclonal Antibody Creation for HSC Identification |
| Sahil Nayak | iRAGE: Independent DNA Recovery from an Agarose Gel after Electrophoresis |
| Chirag Sharma | Reverse Electrodialysis Project Report |
| Jeff Ta | Fully Automated Cross Platform Sample Preparation for Next Generation Sequencing |
| Ziah Dean | Microscopy Techniques Using Fluorescence Imaging |
| Hytham Rashid | Blocking Oligomer Design Update |
| Chris Robles | Metal Based Genomic DNA Fragmentation to Prepare Libraries for Next Generation Sequencing |
| Matthew Hopper | Effect of Voltage on Nucleotide Position in a Nanopore |
| Serban Ciotlos | Structural Stability Analyses of Archaeal Small RNAs |
| Carla De Los Santos | Annotation and analysis of newly discovered mycobacteriophage genomes |
| Alexandra Eastes | Reverse Electrodialysis |
| Jessica Borja | Electronic circuits with biological applications |
| Brad Boone | Autonomous Mobile Porter System |
| Asis Lopez | Wireless Electromyography Amplfiier for Lower Limb Exoskeleton |
| Aaron Lau | The Clean Oceans Device |
| Evan Von Lackum | Robotic Arm for Dynamic Registration |
| Derek Chang | Electronic Circuits with Applications to Bioengineering |
| Laci Hampton | Semi-automated Emulsion Breaking and Bead Washing for Next-Generation Sequencing |