Undergraduate/High School Students
 
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Senior
Design Project: Litter Bot (Top Row L to R) Christian Zamudio, Edwyn Arrezola, (Bottom Row L to R) Juan Estrada, Parin Pandit Aug 2024 - May 2025 All ECE Seniors 1) Report 2) GitHub 3) YouTube |
 
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Senior
Design Project: ChocBot: Retrofitting Extruder for Chocolate Design (Top Row L to R) Ibrahim_Ahad, J. J. Sebastian, (Middle Row L to R) Jamye Brothers, Neil Rasmussen, (Bottom Row) Qasim Rizvi, Aug 2024 - May 2025 All ME Seniors 1) Report 2) Video |
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Undergraduate Research: Evaluating Efficient Object Detection Models for Real-Time Robotic Applications Ahmed Shahab (CS senior), Jan 2025 - May 2025 1) Poster 2) GitHub Code |
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Undergraduate Research: Hiwonder Mentorpi A1 Ackerman Chassis Automomous Vehicle (focus on SLAM) Mubashir Farooqi (ME senior), Jan 2025 - Apr 2025 1) Report 2) GitHub Instructions |
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Undergraduate Research: Data Driven Ergonomic Design of a Passive Spinal
Exoskeleton Aaron Griffith (ME senior), Aug 2024 - Dec 2024 Report |
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Summer internship: Car navigation using Aruco Markers (UIC GPIP program) |
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Summer internship: Robot Data Visualization (UIC GPIP program) Adam_Trojak (CS sophomore), June 2024 - Aug 2024 1) Visualization Demo 2) Github files |
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Summer internship: Webpage Design (UIC GPIP program) Trenton Coleman (CS sophomore), June 2024 - Aug 2024 1) Online courses landing page 2) Mechatronics Project Page |
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Summer internship: Reinforcement Learning on Flappy Bird Game (UIC GPIP program) Shane Kilmas (CS sophomore), June 2024 - Aug 2024 Flappy Bird Code |
 
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Senior
Design Project: Robot Arm Teleoperation (Top Row L to R) Elena Esparza, Edward Gonzalez, (Middle Row L to R) Taiga Larkin, Sultan Muhammad, (Bottom Row) Paul Peretz, Aug 2023 - May 2024 All ME Seniors 1) Report 2) Poster |
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Design Project: An end-effector for a humanoid robot (Top Row L to R) Jeremy Ovalle, Andres Jimenez,Nick Casale, (Bottom Row L to R) Matt Rothenbaum, Praveen Ghimire , Aug 2023 - May 2024 All ME Seniors Report |
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Undergraduate research: Joystick-based control of a small-size humanoid robot Saul Ortiz (ME senior), Jan. 2024 - May 2024 YouTube Video |
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Summer internship: MuJoCo User Interface programming (UIC GPIP program) Conrad Domagala (CS sophomore), June 2023 - Aug 2023 1) Robot GUI Instructions 2) Github files |
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Summer internship: MuJoCo User Interface programming (UIC GPIP program) Daniel Barajas (CS sophomore), June 2023 - Aug 2023 MuJoCo UI Projectile Game (C files) |
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Summer internship: Cable Management System for Quadruped Robots (UIC GPIP program) Amer Almhtachem (ME sophomore), June 2023 - Aug 2023 Cable Management CAD files |
 
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Senior
Design Project: Hopping Luxo Jr. Lamp (Top Row L to R) Ahmed Al Khuridah, Danielle Lee, (Middle Row L to R) Gabriel Barba, Kali Giancana, (Bottom Row) Sebastian Kowal Aug 2022 - May 2023 All ME Seniors 1) Report 2) Video |
 
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Senior
Design Project: Manipulator mounting system (Top Row L to R) Alejandro Gonzales, Alvin Le, (Middle Row L to R) Liam Doherty, Man Pham, (Bottom Row) Sean Burns, Aug 2022 - May 2023 All ME Seniors 1) Report 2) CAD Files 3) Makerspace Fabrication Instructions |
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Undergraduate research: April tag-based drone following (partly supported by NSF REU) Aleena Albert (ME senior), Aug. 2022 - May 2022 1) YouTube Video 2) Code on Github |
| Summer internship: Redesign of Robotics and Motion Lab website (UIC GPIP) Emily Phan (CS sophomore), June 2022 - Aug 2022 Website |
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Summer internship: Visualization for robotic controller development (UIC GPIP program) Calvin Bitakis (ME junior), June 2022 - Aug 2022 MATLAB app for visualization |
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Senior
Design Project: Computer vision-based obstacle avoidance system for a quadruped robot (Top Row L to R) Emily Hernandez, Alex Domagala (Bottom Row L to R) Pranay Singh, Jon Perthel, Aug 2021 - May 2022 All ECE Seniors 1) Report 2) Presentation 3) Video 4) Github |
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Senior
Design Project: Sawfly Larvae inspired swarm robots (Top Row L to R) Eric Najera, Kyle Kendra, (Bottom Row L to R) Joe Downie, Yuki Nojima, Aug 2021 - May 2022 All ME Seniors 1) Report 2) Presentation 3) Video |
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Design Project: An actuator inspired by the chameleon's tongue (Top Row L to R) Baneza Hernandez, Mohammad Ibrahim Raffay, (Bottom Row L to R) Gregory Dachowski, Zach Williams, Aug 2021 - May 2022 All ME Seniors 1) Report 2) Presentation 3) Video |
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Undergraduate research: Tic-Tac-Toe playing robot (NSF-REU) Jonathan Garcia (ME senior), May 2021 - May 2022 YouTube Video |
| Summer internship: Website design for robotics courses (UIC GPIP program) Mohamed Hassan (CS sophomore), June 2021 - Aug 2021 1) Legged robotics (link) 2) Robotics (link) |
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Summer internship: Data mining of human walking data (UIC GPIP program) Nguyen Hoa Pham (CS senior), June 2021 - Aug 2021 Project presentation |
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Summer internship: Trajectory generation (UIC GPIP program) Tanmay Mittal (ME sophomore), June 2021 - Aug 2021 Project presentation |
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Summer internship: Visualization of UAV-UGV routes, Army Research Lab project (UIC GPIP program) Michael Hernandez (ME sophomore), June 2021 - Aug 2021 Project presentation |
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Design Project: Inchworm that can move straight and turn
Alex Lewandowski, Daniel Kulach, Omer A. Durrani, Matt A. Halverson, and Mikayla A. Sirovatka, Aug 2020 - May 2021 All ME Seniors 1) Project Report 2) Project Presentation 3) Project Summary 4) Video |
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Design Project: Automated Wet Wipe Sampling System Mikhail W. Clayton, Amer Khalil, Sebastian C. Mihulet, Umar M. Siddiqui, and Sulieman Sarmad, Aug 2020 - May 2021 All ME Seniors 1) Project Report 2) Project Presentation 3) Video |
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Design Project: Spider Web Catapult John Gerig, Tom Bates, Manuel Avitia, Gunnar Waldvogel, Tesfay Legesse, and Justin Washington, Aug 2020 - May 2021 All ME Seniors 1) Project Report 2) Project Presentation 3) Project Poster 4) Video |
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Independent
Project: Low Cost Security System for a UIC lab using motioneyeos
open-source security software and raspberry pi single-board computers Anthony Dudlo (ME Senior), Jan 2020 - May 2020 Project Report |
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Design Project: Quadrupedal robot Liridona Ashiku, Maha Mohammad, Nick Pippin, and Erik Silva, Aug 2019 - May 2020 All ME Seniors Project Report | |
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Design Project: Bipedal robot Alex Bandurin, John Lajka, and Felipe Cabrera, Aug 2019 - May 2020 All ME Seniors Project Report |
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Senior
Design Project: Paramotor Flight Control Development Platform (Top Row L to R) Kyle Kinsey, Mathew Pantoja, (Bottom Row L to R) Ramon Vazquez, and Tarunjeet Singh, Jan 2019 - Dec 2019 All ME Seniors 1) Project Report 2) Video |
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Senior
Design Project: Lil Bro: An inexpensive open-source quadrupedal robot (Top Row L to R) Steven Farra, Emiliano Rodriguez (Bottom Row L to R) Mario Navarro, and John Carroll, Aug 2018 - May 2019 All ME Seniors 1) Project Report 2) Construction details on GitHub 3) Video |
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Senior
Design Project: Sky Transportation Attachment System (Top Row L to R) Daniel Jiwani, Chad Parker (Bottom Row L to R) Cristian Morales, and William Hinojosa, Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 All ME Seniors 1) Project Report 2) Video |
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1) Summer Project: Rowdy wear: a
gadget to help you make quick decisions Video May 2016 - Aug 2016, As an ME Sophomore 2) Independent Project: Simplest walker simulation using direct collocation MATLAB code Aug 2018 - Dec 2018, As an ME Senior Panchajanya Karasani |
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Independent
Projects: (1) Auto sunglass Victor Guzman (High School Student), June - Aug 2018 1) Project Report 2) Video (2) RoboCar June - July 2019 1) RoboCarTutorials 2) Video RC controlled cars available in hobby stores provide a nice sturdy chassis and powerful motors. However, they are limited to RC control. What if we remove the existing electronics and controllers in an RC car and replace them with Arduino and our own sensors? This project explores the idea. The resulting car equipped with multiple line sensors and a controller is quite fast as seen in the video. |
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Independent
Projects: (1) DIY: Robobug, a vibration motor actuated robot Tutorial and a detailed step-by-step video. (2) Tutorials: 3D scanning using Artec EVA A one-page file and an accompanying video. A jpg file that shows a 3D printed produced by the scan is here. Sierra Baumbusch (ME Senior), May 2018 - Dec 2018 |
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Undergraduate
Research: Darwin humanoid dancing to UTSA and other songs Emiliano Rodriguez (ME Senior), May 2018 - Aug 2018 Video |
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Independent
Project: Tic-Tac-Toe Robot Drishya Dahal (ME Junior), Aug 2017 - May 2018 Video |
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Senior
Design Project: Inchworm Robot (Top Row L to R) Anthony Abundis, Michael Aguirre (Bottom Row L to R) Justin Castillo, and Flavio Moreira, Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 All ME Seniors 1) Project Report 2) Video |
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Independent
Project: Pumping a swing -- simulation and experiments
(L to R) Joseph Galloway and Gerardo (Aaron) Rios, Sep 2017 - Dec 2017 (ME Juniors) 1) Project report 2) Video |
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Independent
Project: 3D printing of rolling cylinders for demonstration of energy
principles Nour K. El-Ghori (High School Student), June - Aug 2017 1) Project Report 2) CAD files 3) Video |
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Independent Project: Trashbot - a trash collecting robot (L to R) Drishya Dahal and Joseph Galloway, Jan 2017 - May 2017 (ME Sophomores) 1) Project Report 2) Video |
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Independent Study: Drop Off Detection Sensor for Blind Persons Kyle Lamoureux (ME Senior), Jan 2017 - May 2017 Project Report |
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Senior Design Project: Multi-link Robotic Manipulator (Top Row L to R) Sergio Molina, Paul Alabi, (Bottom Row L to R) Omar Castro, and Jonathan Sacketl, Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 All ME Seniors Project Report |
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Senior Design Project: The Roadrunner Robot 2: The Rimless Wheeled Robot (Top Row L to R) Aspen Meineke, Bianca Dumlao, (Bottom Row L to R) Noel Cantu, and James Crisler, Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 All ME Seniors Project Report |
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Independent Project: 1) Hopping tutorial 2) Walking simulation and optimization. Chelsea Moussouni (ME Senior), May 2016 - Dec 2016 |
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Senior Design Project: Pneumatic shoes for jumping height augmentation (Top Row L to R) Ivelisse Negroni, Noah Trent (Bottom Row L to R) Cesar Sifuentes, and Michael Turasz, Aug 2015 - May 16 All ME Seniors 1) Project Report 2) Video |
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Independent Study Project: Balancing a ball on a beam (L to R) Andy Plascencia, Tyler Rowe, and Geoffrey Chiou (not pictured), Jan 2016 - May 2016 (ME Seniors) 1) Project Report 2) Files for 3D printing 3) Arduino code |
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Independent Study Project: Animatronics Face -- RomoBot (L to R) Geoffrey Toombs and James Schopfer (ME Seniors), Jan 2016 - May 2016 Entry to the Spring 2016, Center for Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (CITE) $100 K Business Competition at UTSA. Finalist in the Instructables Robotic Contest 2016 (only 19 finalists out of 222 entries) Link | Cached 1) Project Report 2) Video |
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Independent Project:
Vibration-based robots for the Children's museum, San Antonio. Christopher von Brecht (ME Senior), Aug 2015 - Dec 2015 1) Write-up. 2) Files for 3D printing 3) Video |
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Senior Design Project: Development of a Robotic Leg (Top Row L to R) Raquel De La Garza, Christian Trevino, (Bottom Row L to R) Robert Brothers, Eric Sanchez, Aug 2014 - May 15 All ME Seniors 2nd place among all ME Senior Design Projects for Spring 2015 semester. 1) Project Report 2) Video |
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Senior
Design Project: Design and Construction of Rimless Wheeled robot
(Top Row L to R) Rico Jovanni Ulep, Kyle Seay, (Bottom Row L to R) Ezra Ameperosa, and Scott Miller, Aug 2014 - May 15 All ME Seniors 3rd place among all ME Senior Design Projects for Spring 2015 semester 1) Project Report 2) Video |
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Senior Design Project: Mobile Automated Directory: UTSA guide robot (Top Row L to R) Cory Royal, Curtis Odle, (Bottom Row) William Morris, Aug 2014 - May 15 All EE Seniors 1) Project Report 2) Video |
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Senior Design
Project: Smart Humanoid Used for Silencing Humans (in the
library): SHUSHBot
(Top L to R) Javier Gonzalez (McNair Scholar), Roberto Mexquitic (McNair Scholar) (Bottom Row L to R) Stacy Alexander, and Thilo Janssen, Aug 2014 - May 15 All EE Seniors 1) Project Report 2) Video |
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1. Independent
Project: Simple
pendulum physics for SA Children's Museum Video UTSA newsarticle Link | Cached Jan 2015 - February 2015 2. Honors Thesis: Passive Dynamic Toys Video BS Thesis: Modern Day Advanced Manufacturing of Antique Toy Walkers, Thesis | Paper Aug 2014 - July 2015 3. Paper walker for the Inventors Workshop at the Children's Museum Video COE Innovations Magazine back cover Cached Christian Trevino (ME Senior/ME MS), Aug 2015 - Nov 2015 |
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Independent Project: T-maze for
neural experiments on mice. (for Prof.
Alfonso Apicella, Dept of Biology, UTSA) Gerardo Ramos (ME Junior), Jan 2015 - May 2015 |
