Every day, vehicles leaving Marborg’s downtown Santa Barbara facility track out around 80pounds of hazardous dirt and dust particulate onto the beautiful city streets. The company must spend over $150,000 to minimize this detrimental trackout, and our project aims to design amore viable solution to this problem. Wheely Clean is a tire-washing system designed to remove accumulated dirt from tire treads as vehicles exit the facility, reducing the amount of particulates leaving the facility.

Dozens of whales are entangled in fishing gear each year which often lead to serious injuries or deaths. Because the number of entanglements has increased in recent years, agencies have implemented policies aimed at protecting the whales but altering fishing regulations. Therefore, to protect both the livelihood of the fishermen and the lives of the whales, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tasked our team with designing an engineering solution.