2016 Design Challenges

A document containing a brief description of the TEK8 program and the instructor guides and the student guides for all of the 2016 design challenges is available here.

2016 Design Challenges Available

Title	Description	Engineering Area
Balloon Batteries	Developing a battery casing that can withstand deformation from internal pressure.	Electrical Engineering
Building a Filter	Filtering out various size contaminants	Environmental Engineering
Bulletproof Vests	Combining materials to resist penetration	Chemical Engineering
Chemical Looping	Extracting oxygen from the air efficiently	Chemical Engineering
Clumping Nanoparticles	Getting nanoparticles to stick together	Environmental Engineering
Cold Welding	Welding materials without heat damaging the materials	Welding Engineering
Diaper Polymer	Materials used to make diapers absorbent	Materials Science and Engineering
DNA Origami Carrying Chemotherapy	Using DNA to wrap around a particle	Biomedical Engineering
Filtering Dirty Water	Filtering out various size and type contaminants	Environmental Engineering
How Does a Battery Work?	Transporting electrons to a higher energy level	Electrical Engineering
Magnetic Force Microscopes	Sensing magnetic materials	Biomedical Engineering
Micelles Cancer Fighting	Keeping medicine away from water	Biomedical Engineering
Microgrids and the Power Grid	Improving the power grid	Electrical Engineering
Plastics, Polymers & People	Combining materials in different ways to make different products	Materials Science and Engineering
Purifying DNA Origami	Separating DNA strands by size	Biomedical Engineering
Semiconductor Defects	Keeping electrons from becoming trapped	Materials Science and Engineering
Titanium Microstructure	Balancing titanium phases to optimize the microstructure	Materials Science and Engineering