Underwater sensors are vital for researchers to gather data in marine science. The military also uses acoustic sensors for underwater communication and defense. There is a wide range of uses for ocean sensors but one thing they all have in common is that they don’t last long. Majority of them use batteries and can only last a few weeks before recharge. The ocean is a harsh environment, so recharging is laborious and inconvenient. Our team will deploy a solar panel underwater and harvest energy from the sun, taking advantage of the natural cooling properties of the ocean.

The Nitinol Actuated Autonomous Rover (NAAR) team is committed to developing a novel mode of locomotion utilizing nitinol linear actuators and anisotropic treads, enabling a Martian rover to be powered solely by Mars’ thermal gradient of the day cycle. Nitinol is a revolutionary shape memory alloy that can be freely deformed and returns to its original shape when the activation temperature is reached.

Type 1 Diabetes is a chronic illness in which the body cannot regulate its own blood sugar. Those affected usually wear a device called a continuous glucose monitor (CGM). A CGM is a device that constantly measures the blood sugar of the person wearing it. Laxmi Therapeutic Devices is developing a new type of CGM that is unique because it is painless and affordable, but it needs to be reliable, accurate and repeatable in its measurements. Glucal is an instrument developed to validate the new CGM so that it can be brought to human clinical trials and then to the market.

Particulate matter, or PM, are particles 100x smaller than a grain of sand. They are small
enough to stay suspended in the air, harmfully entering our airways and bloodstream. The
World Health Organization says that 7 million premature deaths worldwide are attributed to PM
pollution. When we drive on the road, our tires kick up and resuspend PM such as brake dust,
tire wear, and asphalt particles, contributing to smog and poisoning our airways.
We are Team Caeli, and our goal is to prove that an on-car device which captures resuspended

The Bio-Inspired Fluid Flow Lab at UCSB, led by Dr. Emilie Dressaire, studies the
interactions between flowing fluid and deformable structures. The group is actively
investigating how arrays of cilia, or microhairs, deform and interact under different flow
conditions due to their passive filtration capabilities. The current image processing
techniques limit the drag force analysis to a single cilium, presenting a need for a
measurement system that can record the drag forces on multiple cilia. Our team is