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2024-25 CSUN's Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build and test a customizable and affordable light-weight below-the-elbow prosthetic arm with more degrees of freedom, higher grip-strength, tactile feedback system, and a user-friendly foot-controller.

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2024-25 CSUN's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build, and test an enhanced bio-inspired bird-like non-flapping unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

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2023-24 CSUN's Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build and test a customizable and affordable light-weight below-the-elbow prosthetic arm with more degrees of freedom, higher grip-strength, tactile feedback system, and a user-friendly foot-controller.

Achievements (as of 3/30/2024):
(1) "Crowd Favorite Poster Award" at the 36th Annual CSU Biotechnology Conference (Santa Clara, CA, Jan. 11-13, 2024). Poster title: “Foot Controller and Haptic Feedback Systems for Below-the-Elbow Prosthetic Arms”.

2023-24 CSUN's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build, and test a bio-inspired bird-like non-flapping unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Achievements (as of 3/30/2024):
(1) First place at the AIAA regional student research conference and competition (Santa Clara University, March 23-24, 2024). Technical paper entitled "Design of a non-flapping seagull-inspired composite morphing drone", To be published in AIAA ARC.

2022-23 CSUN's Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build and test a customizable and affordable light-weight below-the-elbow prosthetic arm with more degrees of freedom, higher grip-strength, tactile feedback system, and a user-friendly foot-controller.

Achievements:
(1) Second place (Award certificates and $200) at the 10-minute presentation competition of CSUN's 27th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). Presentation title: Infinity-2: A lightweight below-the-elbow prosthetic arm with enhanced grip functionality, haptic feedback system, and a foot controller.

(2) Oral presentation and project display at CSUN’s 2023 College of Engineering and Computer Science Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).

2022-23 CSUN's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build, and test a bio-inspired bird-like non-flapping unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Achievements:
(1) Honorable mention at the AIAA regional student research conference and competition (UC Davis, March 25-26, 2023). Technical paper entitled "MataGull: A lightweight bio-inspired non-flapping bird-like morphing drone", published in AIAA ARC. DOI: 10.2514/6.2023-72218.

(2) First place (Award certificates and $300) at the 10-minute presentation competition of CSUN's 27th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). Presentation title: MataGull, a bio-inspired lightweight non-flapping bird-like morphing drone.

(3) Mechanical Engineering Project Display Winner at CSUN’s 2023 College of Engineering and Computer Science Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).

(4) Paper publication: Bishay, P. L.; Brody, M.; Podell, D.; Corte Garcia, F.; Munoz, E.; Minassian, E.; Bradley, K. (2023): 3D-Printed Bio-Inspired Mechanisms for Bird-like Morphing Drones Applied Sciences, Vol. 13(21), 11814, DOI: 10.3390/app132111814.

2021-22 CSUN's Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build, and test a customizable and affordable light-weight below-the-elbow prosthetic arm with more degrees of freedom, higher grip-strength, tactile feedback system and user-friendly foot-controller.

Achievements:
(1) First place (Award certificates and $200) at the 10-minute presentation competition of CSUN's 26th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). Presentation title: 3D Printed Below-the-Elbow Prosthetic Arm with Foot Control, Wrist Actuation, and Haptic Feedback Systems.

(2) Only representative of CSUN’s College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at the 2022 CSU Statewide Student Research Competition.

(3) Oral presentation and project display at CSUN’s 2022 College of Engineering and Computer Science Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).

(4) Provisional Patent application: "FOOT CONTROLLER FOR PROSTHETIC ARMS, THEIR METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND USE" (Application Number: 63/462,989, Date: 04/29/2023, Inventors: Peter L. Bishay and Jack Wilgus).

(5) Paper publication: Bishay, P. L.; Wilgus, J.; Chen, R.; Valenzuela, D.; Medina, V.; Tan, C.; Ittner, T.; Caldera, M.; Rubalcava, C.; Safarian, S.; Alfaro, G.F.; Gonzalez-Martinez, A.; Gosparini, M.; Fuentes-Perez, J.; Lima, A.; Villalobos, J.; Solis A. (2023): Controlling a Below-the-Elbow Prosthetic Arm Using the Infinity Foot Controller Prosthesis, Vol. 5(4), 1206-1231, DOI: 10.3390/prosthesis5040084.

2021-22 CSUN's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build and test an energy-efficient small-sized wind turbine with seamless morphing turbine blades.

Achievements:
(1) Presentation at the 2022 AIAA regional student research conference and competition (UC Merced). The team’s 11-page technical paper is entitled “SCAMORSA-1: a camber-morphing wind turbine blade with sliding composite skin.”

(2) First place (Award certificates and $200) at the poster competition of CSUN's 26th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). Poster title: Design of a Camber Morphing Wind Turbine Blade for Load Alleviation and Improved Aerodynamic Efficiency.

(3) Oral presentation and project display at CSUN’s 2022 College of Engineering and Computer Science Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).

2020-21 CSUN's Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build and test a customizable affordable light-weight below-the-elbow prosthetic arm with better functionality, controllability and power consumption.

Achievements:
(1) Participation in the 10-minute and 3-minute oral presentation competitions of CSUN's 25th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium).

(2) Oral Presentation at CSUN’s 2020 College of Engineering and Computer Science Virtual Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).

2020-21 CSUN's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build and test a fully morphing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with camber-morphing wings and tail stabilizers.

Achievements:
(1) Publication of a research paper in Aerospace journal, entitled: Design and Analysis of MataMorph-3: A Fully Morphing UAV with Camber-Morphing Wings and Tail Stabilizers.

(2) Second place (Award certificates and $300) at the AIAA regional student conference & research competition. The team's 11-page technical paper is entitled "Design and Analysis of MataMorph-3: An Experimental Fully Morphing UAV with Camber-Morphing Wings and Tail Stabilizers.

(3) Second place (Award certificates and $100) at the 10-minute presentation competition of CSUN's 25th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). Presentation title: Matamorph-3: An unmanned aerial vehicle with camber-morphing wings and tail stabilizers.

(4) Only representative of CSUN’s College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at the 2021 CSU Statewide Student Research Competition.

(5) Oral Presentation at CSUN’s 2021 College of Engineering and Computer Science Virtual Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).

2019-20 CSUN's Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build and test a customizable affordable light-weight below-the-elbow prosthetic arm with better functionality, controllability and power consumption.

Achievements:
(1) Participation in the 10-minute and 3-minute oral presentation competitions of CSUN's 24th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium).

(2) Oral Presentation at CSUN’s 2020 College of Engineering and Computer Science Virtual Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).

2019-20 CSUN's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build and fly a fully-morphing UAV with twist-morphing wings and camber morphing stabilizers.

Achievements:
(1) First place (Award certificates and $500) at the AIAA regional student research competition. The competition included 13 teams from University of Southern California (USC), Arizona State University (ASU), University of Washington (UW), Portland State University (PSU), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and University of Alaska, Fairbanks. After CSUN, a team from UW got 2nd place and a team from USC got third place. AIAA Announces 2020 Regional Student Conference Winners. A team representative presented the paper at the AIAA 2021 SciTech Forum, and team's 11-page technical paper was published in the SciTech proceedings.

(2) Publication of a research paper, entitled: MataMorph 2: A new experimental UAV with twist-morphing wings and camber-morphing tail stabilizers, in the 2021 AIAA SciTech proceedings.

(3) First place (Award certificates and $200) at the 10-minute presentation competition of CSUN's 24th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). Presentation title: MataMorph 2: A new experimental UAV with twist-morphing wing and camber-morphing tail stabilizer.

(4) First place (Award certificates and $200) at the 3-minute presentation competition of CSUN's 24th annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). Presentation title: Can we fly an airplane with wings that change their shape inflight?

(5) Oral Presentation at CSUN’s 2020 College of Engineering and Computer Science Virtual Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).

2018-19 CSUN's Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build and test a customizable affordable light-weight below-the-elbow prosthetic arm with better functionality, controllability and power consumption.

Achievements:
(1) Publication of a research paper, entitled: Design of a lightweight shape memory alloy stroke-amplification and locking system in a transradial prosthetic arm, in the 2021 ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) proceedings.

(2) Mechanical Engineering Oral Presentation Winner ($500) at CSUN’s 2019 College of Engineering and Computer Science Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).

(3) First place (Award certificates and $200) at the 10-minute presentation competition of CSUN's 23rd annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). Presentation title: Development of a New Lightweight Low-Cost SMA-Based Transradial Prosthetic Arm.

(4) Third place ($5,000) at the third CSUN Bull Ring competition.

(5) Poster presentation at the 9th annual Rocky Mountain American Society of Biomechanics (RMASB) regional meeting (April 5-6, 2019, Estes Park, CO).

(6) First place at the poster presentation competition at CSUN's California Renewable Energy and Storage Technology (CREST) conference (November 10, 2018). Poster title: "Efficient power systems in shape-memory alloy (SMA) actuated prostheses"

2018-19 CSUN's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project

Project goal: To design, build and fly a fully-morphing UAV with span-morphing wings and camber morphing stabilizers.
Achievements:
(1) Second place (Award certificates and $300) at the AIAA regional student conference and competition, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. 11-page technical paper title: Matamorph 1: A new experimental UAV with span-morphing wing and camber-morphing tail.

(2) First place (Award certificates and $200) at the 10-minute presentation competition of CSUN's 23rd annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium), College of Engineering and Computer Science session. Presentation title: Matamorph 1: A New Experimental UAV with Span-Morphing Wing and Camber-Morphing Tail.

(3) First place (Award certificates and $200) at the 3-minute presentation competition of CSUN's 23rd annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). Presentation title: Wind Tunnel Testing of Two New Morphing Wing Designs.

2017-18 CSUN's Smart Prosthetics Senior Design Project

Achievements:
(1) Grand Prize Winner ($1000), Mechanical Engineering Oral Presentation Winner ($500) and Project Display Winner ($500) at CSUN’s 2018 College of Engineering and Computer Science Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS).

(2) First place (Award certificates and $200) at the 10-minute presentation competition of CSUN's 22nd annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium), College of Engineering and Computer Science session. Presentation title: Development of a New, Innovative, Smart Prosthetic Hand.

(3) Poster presentation at the 8th annual Rocky Mountain American Society of Biomechanics (RMASB) regional meeting (April 13-14, 2018, Estes Park, CO).

(4) Poster presentation at the 14th annual Northwest American Society of Biomechanics (NWASB) regional symposium (May 4-5, 2018, Bellingham, WA).

(5) Publication of a research paper in Engineering Research Express journal, entitled: Development of a biomimetic transradial prosthetic arm with shape memory alloy muscle wires.

2017-18 CSUN's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project

Achievements:
(1) Second place (Award certificates and $300) at the AIAA regional student conference and competition, UC Merced. 11-page technical paper title: Design and Manufacturing of an SMA-based Seamless Camber Morphing UAV Tail Section.

(2) Publication of research paper at Smart Materials and Structures (SMS) journal, entitled: Development of an SMA-based camber morphing UAV tail core design.

Teams:
Team 1: design of a twist-morphing wing with morphing winglet in a continuous integrated design based on shape memory alloy (SMA) wires.
Team 2: design of a seamless camber morphing UAV tail (horizontal and vertical stabilizers with their control surfaces: rudder and elevators) using sliding skin and shape memory alloy (SMA) wires.

2016-17 CSUN's Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project

Achievements:
(1) All five teams presented their research and designs at the AIAA regional student conference at San Jose State University (SJSU). The "Span Morphing" team's paper entitled “Design and Manufacturing of a New Span Morphing Wing” won the 3rd place (Award certificates and $125) in the competition after USC and University of Arizona.

(2) All five teams presented their research and designs at CSUN's 21st annual research and creative works symposium (CSUNposium). The "Morphing Winglets" team presentation, entitled "Integrated Morphing Winglet Design with Shape Memory Alloy Driven Actuation", won the first place (Award certificates and $200) in the College of Engineering and Computer Science session of the symposium, while the "Twist Morphing" team presentation, entitled "Development of a twist morphing wing design using an SMA based smart soft composite", won the second place (Award certificates and $100).

(3) Smart Morphing Wing Senior Design Project competed at CSUN's Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS): Oral Presentation competition, and Project Display competition.

(4) Journal Publication: Bishay, P. L.; Burg, E.; Akinwunmi, A.; Phan, R.; Sepulveda, K. (2019): Development of a new span-morphing wing core design. designs, vol. 3, no. 1, art. 12..

2015-16 CSUN's Earth-Independent 1G Space Station Senior Design Project: (SEARCH) Station for Exploratory Analysis and Research Center for Humanity

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- SEARCH Senior Design Project Showcase (SDPS) Presentation

- SEARCH AIAA Regional Student Conference Presentation

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