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2013 PROJECTS DAY

Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence:

1963-2013

Tuesday, May 7th 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

301 Platt Boulevard Claremont, CA 91711

Acknowledgments:

To all Harvey Mudd College Faculty & Staff involved in the

preparation of Projects Day

Projects Day is dedicated to Jack Alford and Mack Gilkeson

for their foresight and wisdom in the creation of the

Harvey Mudd College Clinic Program

43rd Annual Projects Day

The Computer Science, Engineering, Global, Mathematics, and Physics Clinics of Harvey Mudd College are pleased to present the work of our students.

Geoff Kuenning, Director Computer Science Clinic

Erik Spjut, Director Engineering Clinic

Qimin Yang, Associate Director

Engineering Clinic

Lisette dePillis, Director Global Clinic

Susan Martonosi, Director

Mathematics Clinic

Richard Haskell, Director Physics Clinic

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Shell Exploration and Production Inc. Optimizing Drilling Rate with Machine Learning Liaisons: Xianping (Sean) Wu Advisor: Rachel Levy Students: Kyle Chakos, Sam Gray, Xanda Schofield (PM), John Wentworth Shell E&P spends millions of dollars every day on offshore drilling operations. To monitor this process, a substantial amount of drilling data is collected and transmitted to an onshore operations center in real time. The team worked to find a method to analyze the aggregated data to determine for similar rigs when drilling is not proceeding at an optimal rate. The algorithm implemented identifies these subopti-mal conditions and then proposes changes of drilling parameters to optimize drilling speed. Southern California Gas Company Manual Meter Reading Cost Minimization Liaisons: Brad Davis, Rick Jefferson, Ron Johnson, Gary Mgeryan, Hugo Rimbert Advisor: Lisette DePillis Students: Ben Gross, Katarina Hoeger (PM), Kevin Varela-O'Hara, Tim Yee Southern California Gas (SCG) Company is convert-ing manually read meters to automated meters, obvi-ating the need for employees to visit and read gas meters in person. As clusters of meters throughout Southern California become automated over time, the number of remaining manually read meters will diminish until all meters have become automat-ed. Our team is developing a tool that uses the loca-tions of the remaining manually read meters to gen-erate new cost-minimizing meter reading routes.

Harvey Mudd College PROJECTS DAY

May 7, 2013

Program 10:30 a.m Registration and Poster Viewing Platt Campus Center 1:00 p.m. General Session Galileo/McAlister Welcome - Maria Klawe, President Remarks - Jeffrey Groves, Dean of Faculty Milestone Awards - Jeffrey Groves, Dean of Faculty Recipients: DIRECTV, Inc. Los Alamos National Laboratory The Aerospace Corporation 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Project Presentations See Schedule 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Break Hixon Court 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Project Presentations See Schedule 5:15 - 6:00 p.m. Poster Reception Platt Campus Center Guests, Faculty, and Students

Oregon Biomedical Engineering Institute (OBEI) with Kogakuin University, Japan Decontamination of Radioactive Isotopes from Skin Liaisons: Kenton Gregory, M.D; Teresa Pineda’06, Jian Guo, Ph.D., Lisa Lucchesi, M.S. Advisors: Elizabeth Orwin, Masanori Shiomi (KU), Sebastian Brooke (KU) Students: Braden Neufeld (TL-S), J Emery (TL-F), Brianna Posadas, Jaclyn Olmos-Silverman, Maya Johnson, Meghan Jimenez (S), Naohito Banzai (KU), Ryosuke Yokosawa (KU), Yusuke Watabe (KU) As the use of nuclear technology continues to ad-vance and expand around the world, the risk of acci-dental exposure to radioactive isotopes grows for civilian and military workers alike. The goal of this project was to create a portable device to quickly and effectively decontaminate skin that has been exposed to ionizing radiation. Working jointly with Kogakuin University in Tokyo, the team designed several pro-totypes and developed a method for evaluating their effectiveness in removing contaminants from skin. MATHEMATICS CLINIC E. & J. Gallo Winery Livingston Cooperage Problem Liaisons: Joseph Allen, Deepak Tirumalasetty Advisor: Susan Martonosi Students: Eric Autry, Corinne McElwain, Stephanie Porter, Elizabeth Schofield (PM) E. & J. Gallo Winery has requested a program to evaluate the size, type, and quantity of new tanks required to accommodate increased volume and variety of wine production at their Livingston winery facility. Our team focused on modeling the allocation of storage tanks to a full harvest of different wine types, with a target solve time of only a few minutes. Our program recommends new tanks to purchase based on the projected harvest, costs of varying tanks, and quality constraints.

InstaMed Communications, LLC Estimating Health Care Prices Using Historical Data Liaisons: Brian Bentow ’05, Chris Seib ’00 Advisor: Talithia Williams Students: Matt Hin (PM-S),Peter Loftus (PM-F), Leverett Morgan, Lisbeth Santana The 2012-2013 InstaMed Clinic Project seeks to implement and evaluate algorithms that use past healthcare claims in order to provide prompt cost estimates of medical services for doctors and pa-tients. The team approaches the project using a sim-ple statistical, heuristic approach as well as more advanced machine learning archetypes of decision trees and neural networks. The team also intends to provide InstaMed with a platform suitable to evalu-ate the accuracy, precision, and versatility of algo-rithms. Jane Street Capital Analyzing the Effects of Market Legislation on Market Behavior Liaison: Andy Niedermaier ’04 Advisor: Weiqing Gu Students: Devin Bowers (PM), Matt Johnson, Jeehyun Kim, Matt Toal Recent events have prompted the Securities and Exchange Commission to institute new regulations to prevent extreme market behavior. These regulations take effect for short periods of time when individual securities rapidly change in price. However, the impact of these regulations on market behavior has not yet been extensively studied. Our project is to apply quantitative techniques on high-frequency market data to determine the impact of these rules on securities.

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“(F)” Fall Semester “(S)” Spring Semester

“(KU)” Kogakuin University

“(F)” Fall Semester “(S)” Spring Semes-

“(TL)” Indicates Team Leader “(PM)” Indicates Project Manager

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) A Tunable Resonant Microwave Cavity for the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment Liaisons: Gianpaolo Carosi ’00 Advisors: Richard Haskell, Katherine Candler Students: Jean-Claude de Sugny (S), Lorcan McGonigle (F), Tyler Ochiai, Jesse Streitz, Rebecca Streitz, Will Villagomez (TL) The LLNL Clinic Team has simulated, designed, built, and tested a large-volume, high-frequency resonant microwave cavity to be used in the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX). Multiple con-ductive tuning posts within the cavity are used to manipulate the characteristic modes of the system, allowing the cavity to potentially detect axions, a possible candidate for dark matter, by tuning the cavity resonant frequency. Sandia National Laboratories Measuring Nanoparticle Permittivity in Colloidal Suspension Liaison: Dr. Todd Monson Advisors: Adrian Hightower, Richard Haskell Students: John Eom (TL-F), Michael Loy (TL-S), Eric Anderson, Christopher Gage, Daniel Contreras (F), Frances Su (S), Mitul Verma (S) The Sandia National Laboratories Clinic Team at Harvey Mudd College has characterized the per-mittivity of barium titanate particles in colloidal suspension as a function of primary particle size, synthesis method, and surfactant choice using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. To accomplish this goal, the team has built a sample holder to contain the suspension, developed a procedure to extract nanoparticle permittivity from the suspension permittivity, and integrated both of these deliverables into a testing procedure.

Trivec Avant Corporation, a COBHAM Company Developing a Compact, Planar, Ultra-Wideband Antenna Liaisons: David Macy, John Fenick Advisor: John Molinder Students: Trevor Apple (TL-S), Matt Goodwin (TL-F), Parker Martin, Diana Mar (S), Douglas Hu (F), Brett Mills (F) Most antennas with wideband range and high directionality are three dimensional in shape, with spiral and bicone antenna geometries as notably useful and common examples. A three dimension-al shape makes antennas non-ideal for aerospace applications. Trivec Avant asked the Clinic team to develop a planar, ultra-wideband antenna (225MHz-2000MHz) with return loss below -5dB and directivity at azimuth above -6dBi across the entire frequency band. GLOBAL CLINIC Intel Corporation with Technion University, Israel Semi-Automated C++ Code Transformations Liaisons: Dr. Ajit Dingankar, Andrey Ayupov, Bob Condon, Thomas Nagler Advisors: Ben Wiedermann, Dr. Ayal Zaks (Technion) Students: Jessi Peck (PM), Jeff Hemphill Gary Lent (POM) Gal Dalal (Technion), Nir Greshler (Technion), Gal Greshler (Technion) Intel Corp. designs specialized hardware modules to repeatedly execute data processing algorithms. These algorithms are initially written and tested in C++. Experts then develop descriptions of hard-ware modules using SystemC (a C++ library for describing and simulating hardware) using the algorithms as reference. The transformation from general C++ to SystemC is slow and repetitive, so we designed a tool that automates parts of the process.

Schedule of Presentations

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COMPUTER SCIENCE CLINIC Amazon in OC X X X B-B105 Podium: Making Mobile Apps More Social Amazon.com X X X Pryne Automated Candidate Sourcing Apatite to Zircon, Inc. X X X J-B132 Automatic Fission Track Identification and Analysis in Apatite Crystals EMC Isilon Storage X X X Edwards Optimizing SSD Performance for OneFS Workloads Laserfiche X X X B-B105 Mobile Document Image Processing Proofpoint, Inc. X X X Edwards An Open-Source System for Malware Detection QUALCOMM X X X O-B143 Augmented Reality Interior Decorator Quantcast X X X O-B143 GPU Data Compression and Analysis Library Sandia National Laboratories X X X B-B115 Development of an Advanced Finite Element Implementation for Atomistic-to-Continuum Modeling VMware, Inc. X X X J-B132 A User Interface for VMware’s Vprobes Software Walt Disney Animation Studios X X X B-B115 Interactive Documentation Collaboration System ENGINEERING CLINIC The Aerospace Corporation X X X P2383 Low Power Radar for Debris and Object Detection on a Picosat BAE Systems X X X P2358 Adapting Brain Based Prosthetic Control for Everyday Use Barling Bay, LLC X X X P-B144 Infrared Asset-Tracking System CareFusion X X X P1264 Vacuum Augmented Pump for Infusion at Reduced Expense DIRECTV, Inc. X X X P2383 Designing an Ethernet Testing Device and Android Application

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Building Codes: B = Beckman Edwards = Galileo-Edwards J = Jacobs McAlister = Galileo-McAlister P = Parsons Pryne = Galileo-Pryne O = Olin Sprague = Learning Studio Classroom-Sprague Learning Center Note: The “B” AFTER the hyphen in room numbers indicates “Basement Level.” “(POM)” Pomona

College

Texas Instruments Immersive 3D Audio Game Development Kit Liaison: Sourabh Ravindran, Ph.D. Advisor: Josef Spjut Students: Allison Card (TL-F), Kacyn Fujii (TL-S), Hannah Kastein, Paula Ning, Stephanie Fawaz (S), Matt Tambara (F) The goal of the Texas Instruments (TI) Clinic project was to design an open-source game devel-opment kit (GDK) comprised of the hardware platform and software framework required to cre-ate a portable immersive gaming experience. The system uses TI hardware and 3D audio algorithms to enable development of novel gameplay on a mobile platform. To showcase the capabilities of the GDK, the team developed an immersive An-droid demonstration. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Sunlight Concentrator from Repurposed DVD and Blu-Ray Discs Liaisons: Vicky Colf ’95, Patrick Harman, Lewis Ostrover, Kim Vu Advisor: Adrian Hightower Students: Crystal Bong, Samantha Ipser, Kim Kilday, Liya Temin, Lisa Lam, Sun Hwi Bang Through initiatives such as Warner Bros.’ Disc-to-Digital program, consumers are converting their Blu-ray and DVD discs to cloud-based me-dia. Warner Bros. would like to give these physi-cal discs a “second life” for another beneficial application. Our project includes evaluating the disc properties and determining their potential for solar concentration applications. The team, using this analysis, will design and develop a water purification system.

Zodiac Aerospace –Zodiac Water & Waste Systems Characterization and Evaluation of Template Assisted Crystallization Scale Prevention Systems Liaisons: Razmik Boodaghians, Christina Ortolan Advisor: Mary Cardenas Students: Liana Boraas (TL-F), Abby Korth (TL-S), Say Young Cook, Julie Zhang, Alex Flake (S), Por Katanyutanon (S), Emily Ross (F) The purpose of this project was to characterize template assisted crystallization media and to evaluate the effectiveness of the media in the pre-vention of scale deposits, specifically on heating appliances found in aircraft galleys. The character-ization was accomplished using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and the effectiveness was evaluated through a variety of batch and continu-ous process tests conducted in a test rig designed to simulate aircraft galley conditions. ENGINEERING/PHYSICS CLINIC Aerosol Dynamics, Inc. A Portable, Tippable Airborne Particle Counter Liaisons: Dr. Steve Spielman ’86, Dr. Susanne Hering Advisors: Nancy Lape, Tom Donnelly Students: Brad Perfect (TL-S), Bennett Naden (TL-F), Jake Leonardis, Tracey Luke, Brianna Thielen Aerosol Dynamics has patented a novel process called diffusive mixing that could be used to grow water droplets around airborne nanoscale particles and improve the efficiency of aerosol counters. The Clinic team’s project is to develop computa-tional models to simulate diffusive mixing, and then design and build a prototype aerosol counter which implements the diffusive mixing technique.

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Eaton Aerospace, LLC X X X McAlister Aircraft Nose Wheel Steering Control System Intel Corporation X X X P1275 Division by Fused Multiply Adds Intel Corporation X X X P-B181 Interactive Projected Display System Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) X X X McAlister Monitoring and Management Strategy for Liquid Cooling of LANL’s Data Center Northrop Grumman Corporation X X X P2358 Correcting a Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)-Based Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for Temperature Variations Parco, Inc. X X X P1287C Mechanical Part Handling and Sorting for Video Inspection Shell Exploration and Production, Inc. X X X P1277 Implementation of Safety Systems to Eliminate Personnel Injuries at Drilling and Completion Sites Skyline Eco-Adventures X X X P1287C Speed Limiting or Adjustable Braking Trolley SpectraSensors X X X P1264 Digital Driver and Front End for Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy SternoCandleLamp X X X P-B146 Waste Reduction and Green Solutions for Chafing Fuel Products Technip USA X X X P1277 Cold Flow Model of a Fluidized Bed Reactor Teledyne Controls X X X P-B181 ARINC Standard 830: Air-Ground Information Exchange Texas Instruments X X X P1275 Immersive 3D Audio Game Development Kit Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. X X X P1285 Sunlight Concentrator from Repurposed DVD and Blu-Ray Discs Zodiac Aerospace - Zodiac Water & Waste Systems X X X P-B144 Characterization and Evaluation of Template Assisted Crystallization Scale Prevention Systems ENGINEERING/PHYSICS CLINIC Aerosol Dynamics, Inc. X X X P-B183 A Portable, Tippable Airborne Particle Counter Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory X X X Pryne A Tunable Resonant Microwave Cavity for the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment Sandia National Laboratories X X X P-B183 Measuring Nanoparticle Permittivity in Colloidal Suspension

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SpectraSensors, Inc. Digital Driver and Front End for Turnable Diode Laser Spectroscopy Liaisons: Mathias Schrempel, Keith Helbley, Bill Boyle Advisor: Qimin Yang Students: Johnathan Chai (TL-S), Max Korbel (TL-F), Katie Vinnedge, Alexandre Asselin, Joshua Vasquez (S), Tyler Robinson (F) The SpectraSensors Clinic team is working to develop an embedded system for a gas analyzer product line. The analyzers use tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy to detect gases, including moisture, hydrogen sulfide, and carbon dioxide particles, at the scale of parts per million. The success of this project will enable SpectraSensors to replace their existing analog electronic systems with more reliable digital components. SternoCandleLamp Waste Reduction and Green Solutions for Chafing Fuel Products Liaisons: Mike Pacharis, Joe Lepe, Shane Peck Advisors: Kash Gokli, Erik Spjut Students: Martha Cuenca (TL-S), Carlo Vaccari (TL-F), Alyssa Siegman, Mia Cooledge (S), Kevin Lau (S), Angela Medina (S), Anthony Chung (F), Victoria Feudo (F) SternoCandleLamp is the nation’s #1 chafing fuel supplier. Their liquid chafing fuel cans are self-contained standalone fuel sources designed to keep food at safe temperatures in chafing dishes. These cans are usually discarded after one use and not recycled. Additionally, the cost of the can consti-tutes a large portion of the product’s overall pro-duction cost. To address these issues, the team designed a means to reduce chafing fuel can waste without compromising current product perfor-mance, while also minimizing lifecycle cost.

Technip USA Cold Flow Model of a Fluidized Bed Reactor Liaison: Kevin Mills, PE Advisor: Mary Cardenas Students: Matthew Kweon (TL-S), Ilona Phipps-Morgan (TL-F), Sydney Hanson, Monica Hwang, Edward Ruan, Alexandra Wright (S) Fluidized bed reactors convert carbonaceous solids to syngas, with minimal environmental impacts. The Technip Clinic team designed, built, and test-ed a nominal 1/6th6th-scale cold flow physical model of a fluidized bed reactor and a filter sys-tem. The team took measurements measured of air flow and system static pressures within the system to determine the effects of changing the air flow rate with a variety of solid particles. Technip will use this information to verify and tune their com-putational model of a reactor. Teledyne Controls ARINC Standard 830: Air-Ground Information Exchange Liaisons: Wolfram Sonnenberg, Claire Robinson ’11 Advisor: Karl Wang Students: Garrett Menghini (TL-S), Will Ferenc (TL-F), Kenny Huang, Michelle Liu, Austin Chen (S), Emily Cheng (S), Carolina Reyes (F) The Aeronautical Radio, Inc. (ARINC) Standard 830, also known as Air-Ground Information Ex-change (AGIE), defines an internet-protocol-based framework for exchanging data between aircraft and ground. AGIE standardizes interfaces across vendors and airlines to create a more efficient aircraft communication network. The Teledyne Controls Clinic team has implemented and tested a proof-of-concept design to validate, and recom-mend amendments to, the AGIE standard.



Trivec Avant Corporation, a COBHAM Company X X X P1285 Developing a Compact, Planar, Ultra-Wideband Antenna GLOBAL CLINIC Intel Corporation with Technion University (Israel) X X X Sprague Semi-Automated C++ Code Transformations Oregon Biomedical Engineering Institute (OBEI) with Kogakuin University (Japan) X X X Sprague Decontamination of Radioactive Isotopes from Skin MATHEMATICS CLINIC E. & J. Gallo Winery X X X B-B126 Livingston Cooperage Problem InstaMed Communications, LLC X X X J-B134 Estimating Health Care Prices Using Historical Data Jane Street Capital X X X B-B126 Analyzing the Effects of Market Legislation on Market Behavior Shell Exploration and Production Inc. X X X J-B134 Optimizing Drilling Rate with Machine Learning Southern California Gas Company X X X B-B134 Manual Meter Reading Cost Minimization

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Computer Science Amazon.com Amazon in OC Apatite to Zircon, Inc. EMC Isilon Storage Laserfiche Proofpoint, Inc. QUALCOMM Quantcast Sandia National Laboratories VMware, Inc. Walt Disney Animation Studios Engineering The Aerospace Corporation BAE Systems Barling Bay, LLC CareFusion DIRECTV, Inc. Eaton Aerospace, LLC Intel Corporation (2) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Northrop Grumman Corporation Parco, Inc. Shell Exploration and Production, Inc. Skyline Eco-Adventures SpectraSensors SternoCandleLamp Technip USA Teledyne Controls Texas Instruments Warner Bros. Zodiac Aerospace/Monogram Systems

Engineering/Physics Aerosol Dynamics Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Sandia National Laboratories Trivec Avant Corporation, a COBHAM Company Global Clinic Intel Corporation in Collaboration with Technion University, Israel Oregon Biomedical Engineering Institute (OBEI) in Collaboration with Kogakuin University (KU), Japan Mathematics E. & J. Gallo Winery InstaMed Communications Jane Street Capital Shell Exploration and Production Inc. Southern California Gas Company

Northrop Grumman Corporation Correcting a Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)-Based Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for Temperature Variations Liaisons: Sam Dimashkie, Eugene Elbert, Steven M. Kim, Chandrakant Patel, MS EE, Ragini Saxena, Ph. D Advisor: Katherine Candler Students: Karen Beaty, Kevin Kim (TL-F), Tiffany Liu (TL-S), James McConnaughey (F), Maggie Thompson (F), Chanel Chang (S), Brett Manning (S) Northrop Grumman is investigating the possibility of using commercially available microelectrome-chanical systems (MEMS) based inertial measure-ment units (IMUs). However, the performance of these MEMS devices degrades in thermally dy-namic environments. The Northrop Grumman Clinic Team aims to develop, test, and compare two methods to address the thermal sensitivity of inertial sensors. One method actively controls the temperature of the IMU; the other applies a ther-mal compensation algorithm to the raw output data of the sensors. Parco, Inc. Mechanical Part Handling and Sorting for Video Inspection Liaisons: Cameron Field-Eaton, Benjamin Howard ’06, Ron Tsan Advisor: Lori Bassman Students: Hannah Groshong (TL-S), J Brill (TL-F), Richard Hsieh, Grant Ukropina, Emma Bodell (S), Stephen Pinto (S), Ginah Han (F), Samuel Yim (F) The Parco Clinic Team has worked to re-engineer the O-ring separation unit of Parco’s video inspec-tion machine. The goal has been to optimize the process of guiding O-rings from a part hopper into a single file line, thus improving overall part throughput of the system. After prototyping sever-al design alternatives during the fall semester, the team selected and pursued a final design in the spring and has integrated it into Parco’s video inspection machine.

Shell Exploration and Production, Inc. Implementation of Safety Systems to Eliminate Personnel Injuries at Drilling and Completion Sites Liaisons: Jose Mota ’95, Lake Johnson Advisor: Peter Gough Students: Kenny Buyco (TL-S), Logan Kroloff (TL-F), Jonathan Schwartz, Brady Sutton, Emma Frederick (F), Kate Kryder (S), Jennifer Phuong The HMC Shell Oil Clinic Team used RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology to develop a safety system to eliminate personnel injuries on drilling and completion sites due to moving vehicles. An RFID-based safety system was purchased from a commercial vendor, was tested and characterized by the team, and a proto-type of a working system was developed to fit the specific needs of Shell Oil. Skyline Eco-Adventures, LLC Speed Limiting or Adjustable Braking Trolley Liaison: Mike Teske Advisor: Lori Bassman Students: Diana Chen (TL-S), Michelle DeRienzo (TL-F), James Best (S), Brian Cheney (S), Kate Spiesman (S), Neil Pearson (F), Katie Shepherd (F), Kyle Siegel (F) The team designed, fabricated, and tested a speed-limiting trolley for use on Skyline Eco-Adventures’ ziplines. The trolley relies on fluid drag from an adjustable rotary damper to reduce riders’ speeds to within a consistent range for a variety of ziplines. The trolley system is effective for various rider weights and weather conditions and requires minimal adjustment by the operator.

2012/2013 Clinic Sponsors



Eaton Corporation, LLC Aircraft Nose Wheel Steering Control System Liaisons: Galen Chui ’05, Mark Abrams, Olavo Jordao Advisor: Ziyad Duron Students: Nash Witkin (TL-S), David Marangoni-Simonsen (TL-Fall), Chet Corcos, Kevin Leyden, Lauren Nishizaki (S), Ray Hurwitz (F) Aircraft nose wheel steering systems are currently developed for each set of aircraft hardware using a tuning process that can take months due to the precision required by federal regulations. Eaton is interested in developing a methodology for design-ing and tuning of nonlinear control algorithms that is modular across all aircraft platforms with a simplified tuning process. The team will present their algorithm recommendation, based on analysis and testing results baselined against the current algorithm, and a method to expedite algorithm development. Intel Corporation Division by Fused Multiply Adds Liaison: Dr. Warren Ferguson Advisor: Josef Spjut Students: Dylan Stow (TL), Carl Pearson, Jeffrey Steele (F), Dong-hyeon Park (S) Gurchetan Singh (S), Adam Parower (F), Shreyasha Paudel (F) Floating point division is a common arithmetic operation in scientific and high-performance com-puting. This high-performance work is targeted by Intel’s Many Integrated Core architecture: many small x86 cores on a single chip. It is our goal to design a division algorithm for this architecture. To keep the cores small and efficient, the algo-rithm must run in a constant number of cycles and take advantage of existing floating-point hardware modules; specifically addition and multiplication.

Intel Corporation Interactive Projected Display System Liaison: Muntaquim Chowdhury, Abhay Dharmadhikari Advisor: Karl Wang Students: Katie Hauser (TL-S), Ayyappa Vemulkar (TL-F), Lauren Lieu, Christine Rhee, David Derry (S), Courtney Keeler (S), Rohaine Hsu (F), Soh Myoung Koo (F) The Intel Touch Display Team has designed and built a human-computer interface system that allows users to interact with projected displays and other surfaces through mouse emulation and ges-ture tracking. The system is portable, user-friendly, and flexible for use in a variety of appli-cations. This wireless alternative computer control promotes information sharing in an intuitive way for many environments. Los Alamos National Laboratory Monitoring and Management Strategy for Liquid Cooling of LANL’s Data Center Liaison: Josip Loncaric Advisor: Erik Spjut Students: Leslie Forrester (TL-S), Moriah Gelder (TL-F), James Anderson, Andrew Hilger, Samantha Kobus (F), Tuan Nguyen (S) The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Clinic team designed a strategy to minimize water usage of the laboratory’s server cooling system while limiting maintenance costs due to scaling and corrosion. During the Fall semester, the team evaluated five design options that reduce water use in the cooling system. The Spring semester goals included detailed investigation of the most promis-ing options identified during the Fall and design of a pilot plant to test proposed filters and control strategies.

CLINIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Industry Members: Paul Anderson, The Aerospace Corporation Michael Bell, Beckman Coulter, Inc. Rick Bente ’04, Unilife Joseph Betser, The Aerospace Corporation Daniel A. Borton ’90, Amgen Inc. Bob Butterfield, CareFusion Carl Carrera Jr. ’75/76, The Boeing Company Frances Ferris ’80, The Boeing Company David Lesyna, Optivus Proton Thereapy, Inc. John Livingston, Tandem Diabetes Care Roy Park ’02, Raytheon Company Craig Snow, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems College Members: Maria Klawe, President Dan Macaluso, Vice President, College Advancement Jeffrey Groves, Vice President, Dean of the Faculty Andrew Dorantes, VP for Admin & Fin/Treas. Scott Martin, Asst VP for Business Affairs & Asst Treas. Barry Olsan, Director, Corporate Relations Geoff Kuenning, Director, Computer Science Clinic Erik Spjut, Director, Engineering Clinic Qimin Yang, Associate Director, Engineering Clinic Lisette dePillis, Director, Global Clinic Susan Martonosi, Director, Mathematics Clinic Richard Haskell, Director, Physics Clinic

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BAE Systems Adapting Brain Based Prosthetic Control for Everday Use Liaisons: Dr. Geoffrey Meltzner ’95, Dr. Troy Lau Advisor: Chris Clark Students: Andrew Loeb (TL-S), Kate Crawford (TL-F), Kyle Carbon Chris Lauinger, Josh Edelman (S), Madeline Goldkamp (F) Brain Machine Interfaces (BMI) have the potential to radically alter how humans interact with mod-ern technology. Unfortunately, the large majority of BMIs are only effective under ideal, laboratory conditions. Using a commercial neuroheadset, the goal of this project is to reliably detect and identi-fy these signals between different test subjects under ideal and non-ideal conditions for the even-tual control of a prosthetic limb. Barling Bay, LLC Infrared Asset-Tracking System Liaisons: Michael Joost ’72, David Gissentanna Advisor: Peter Gough Students: Brett Burley (TL), Michael Bowerman, Alexandre Paul (EX), Kerry Chin, Nicole Yu, Li Yip Koh (F), Brent Stapleton (F) Asset-tracking is the process of tracking items for inventory management. Common forms of asset-tracking include radio frequency identification (RFID) and barcode scanners. The Barling Bay Clinic team is designing and evaluating a system similar to RFID that implements infrared rather than radio signals for communication. The system can be easily installed with receivers communi-cating through a building’s existing powerline, accessible through any wall outlet, and is more affordable than other similar solutions.

CareFusion Vacuum Augmented Pump for Infusion at Reduced Expense Liaison: Bob Butterfield Advisor: Elizabeth Orwin Students: Thomas Carey (TL-S), Divina Allan (TL-F), Aaron Atzil, J Emery (S), Katherine Anderson (S), Jason Bluhm, Alice Zhang (S), Michelle Seguin (F) To reduce tubing deformation due to repeated compression by a peristaltic IV pump, the team first characterized the behavior of several PVC IV tubings of various durometers and dimensions under atmospheric and multiple vacuum condi-tions. Using the results of this analysis, the team designed a peristaltic pump with an integrated vacuum chamber that reduced tube deformation by applying a negative pressure to the exterior of the tubing. DIRECTV, Inc. Designing an Ethernet Testing Device and Android Application Liaison: Johnny Shum Advisor: Ruye Wang Students: Thomas Specte (EX-TL),Max Friefeld, Stephen Cefali, Sean Velazquez(S), Cierra Owens (S), Sami Mourad (F), Vyas Savanur (F) The project consists in creating a handheld device capable of troubleshooting any router to assist DIRECTV technicians in installing products in the customer's house. That device transmits the test results over Bluetooth to an Android phone run-ning an application that the team will design. In addition, the team will evaluate whether a wireless device can be used to reliably approximate the wireless capabilities of another wireless device which has more antennas.

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Sandia National Laboratories Development of an Advanced Finite Element Implementation for Atomistic-to-Continuum Modeling Liaisons: Jeremy Templeton, Ph.D., Jonathan Zimmerman, Ph.D., Reese Jones, Ph.D. Advisor: Robert Keller Students: Jordan Librande (PM), Jacob Bandes-Storch, Jay Jonsson, Michael Morton The Atomistic-to-Continuum software package (AtC), developed by Sandia National Laboratories, couples the modeling techniques of Molecular Dynamics and Finite Element Analysis in order to simulate a wide variety of complex nanoscale systems. Our goal was to increase the parallel performance of AtC, thereby making larger simu-lations more computationally feasible in multi-core environments. To this end, we designed and implemented parallel matrix multiplication algo-rithms and distributed Finite Element data and calculations across processors more intelligently. VMware, Inc. A User Interface for VMware’s VProbes Software Liaisons: Ricardo Gonzalez, Radu Rugina, Avi Shai Advisor: Christopher A. Stone Students: Amelia Nybakke, Max Kukartsev (PM-S), Milo Toor, Sarah Johnson (PM-F) VMware, Inc. is a leading developer of virtual machine technology. In order to diagnose software running within the virtual setting, VMware pro-vides a script-based instrumentation technology called VProbes. However, this technology has a steep learning curve and requires the user to be familiar with the underlying system of VMware’s software. In our Clinic project we made VProbes accessible to non-programmers by exposing some of its common functionality via a web-based user interface.

Walt Disney Animation Studios Interactive Documentation Collaboration System Liaisons: Dan Candela, Chuck Tappan, Lawrence Chai ’88/89 Advisor: Robert Keller Students: Beryl Egerter, Julius Elinson (PM), Jessica Hester, August Toman-Yih Artists and developers at Walt Disney Animation Studios work with rapidly evolving internal soft-ware and complex commercial packages. Staying current with new features, best practices, and stu-dio-specific workflows can be challenging. Users frequently have questions about software capabili-ties or discover aspects that would be useful to their colleagues. However, there formerly was no effective means of making inquiries or sharing such information. We have developed CPlane, a program that will enable users to create and share this documentation easily. ENGINEERING CLINIC The Aerospace Corporation Low Power Radar for Debris and Object Detection on a Picosat Liaisons: Samuel S. Osofsky ’85, Andrew Y. Chin ’07 Advisor: Ruye Wang Students: Steven Hang (TL-S), Alec Storrie-Lombardi (TL-F), Kevin Samrick (F), Tyler Smelt, Sarah Lichtman, Sarah Sedky (S) The Aerospace Clinic team commits to design, build, and demonstrate a low-power, compact object detection radar system for integration in a Picosat cube satellite. The scope of the project covers all aspects of radar design, including radio frequency analysis and hardware design, digital hardware design, and signal processing algo-rithms. The final deliverable is a prototype of the system that satisfies the design constraints of size, power, and minimum range.



Laserfiche Mobile Document Image Processing Liaisons: Kurt Rapelje, Ryan Wong, Ed Heaney ’04 Advisor: Z Sweedyk Students: Jason Yu (PM), Jordan Ezzell, Nick Kinkade, Ben Normoyle Laserfiche provides content management solutions that include software to digitize and process docu-ments. One capability of Laserfiche's software is to process images of documents taken with a smartphone camera so they look as if they were scanned. Our goal is to improve the algorithm in this process so that background artifacts and bor-der noise are removed and document text is straightened. Proofpoint, Inc. An Open-Source System for Malware Detection Liaison: Dan Drew Advisor: Geoff Kuenning Students: My Diem Ho (PM), Josiah Gaskin, Alex Eng, Lawrence Thibodeaux Proofpoint, Inc. offers Security-as-a-Service to companies of medium to large size and is dedicat-ed to protecting sensitive information from outside threats such as malware. They asked our Clinic team to develop a system to detect attacks carried in innocent-seeming files. We constructed a sys-tem from existing open-source components that can detect suspicious Microsoft Office and Rich Text Format documents by analyzing files statical-ly. The system examines the files for malformed content and structure, and flags suspicious materi-al for more detailed analysis by a sandboxing system.

QUALCOMM Incorporated Augmented Reality Interior Decorator Liaisons: Parixit Aghera, Vito Bica Advisor: Colleen Lewis Students: Jessica Stringham (PM-S), Sam Konowitch (PM-F), Ari Schumer, Zewei Wang Vuforia™ is a software platform developed by Qualcomm® which enables developers to inte-grate image recognition-based augmented reality (AR) in their mobile applications. Our task was to design and implement an application that demon-strates the features of Vuforia and potential uses of AR. We developed an Android application that enables users to choose furniture from a physical catalog using Vuforia's cloud target image recog-nition, place and manipulate a 3D model in their environment using AR, and take and share photos of their arrangement with the user's social net-work. Quantcast Corporation GPU Data Compression and Analysis Library Liaisons: Michael Kamprath, Silvius Rus, Esteban Molina-Estolano ’06, Chauncey Brooks Advisor: Ran Libeskind-Hadas Students: Scott Breyfogle, Andrew Carter, Dietrich Langenbach (PM-F), Jack Ma (PM-S) Quantcast Corporation is interested in using GPUs to reduce workload on their CPUs by migrating computationally intensive tasks to the GPU. They have identified operations such as data compres-sion and string search, which require significant CPU time on their system, as possible targets for this migration. The team designed and implement-ed a versatile GPU library that can execute these operations both on the CPU, and on the GPU using both CUDA and OpenCL frameworks. The team implemented and benchmarked six compression algorithms and a string search algorithm using the framework.



COMPUTER SCIENCE CLINIC Amazon in OC Podium: Making Mobile Apps More Social Liaisons: Will Goo ’01, Bernie Perez Advisor: Z Sweedyk Students: Erin Coughlan (PM), Meredith Murphy, Haakon Saxberg, Michael Stock-Matthews Amazon in OC would like to improve the custom-er experience with mobile apps on the Kindle Fire and other Android devices by adding in-app com-menting. The HMC Clinic team has developed an API that allows mobile app developers to easily integrate with social networks. Customers can now read comments left by their friends while running the app―at a line in a book, a scene in a movie, or a level in a game―as well as leave their own comments. Amazon.com Automated Candidate Sourcing Liaisons: Charles Swan, Sabreen Lakhani ’11, Colin Bodell Advisor: Melissa O'Neill Students: Zachary Purdy (PM), Rai Feren, Joseph Dearden, Josh Oratz Amazon.com needs to hire talented software engi-neers to maintain and develop their online soft-ware services. The industry-standard processes for finding candidates miss many strong developers and are time-consuming for Amazon’s recruiters. The goal of this project is to create a tool that improves the efficiency and breadth of Amazon’s candidate search by intelligently mining online resources.

Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Automatic Fission Track Identification and Analysis in Apatite Crystals Liaison: Ray Donelick Advisor: Christopher Stone Students: Mary Rachel Stimson (PM), Eli Omernick, Colin Bundschu, Peter Andrien Apatite to Zircon, Inc. is a geological services firm that provides services analyzing grains of apatite crystals from rocks. Previously, apatite grain anal-ysis had been completed by hand. Our team re-searched and improved upon existing automation techniques by using a number of image-processing and machine-learning algorithms. These automa-tion techniques will make it easier for Apatite to Zircon, Inc. to analyze apatite grains and to edu-cate new geologists. EMC Isilon Storage Optimizing SSD Performance for OneFS Workloads Liaisons: Steve Hubbell ’95, Ben Melhuish ’94 Advisor: Geoff Kuenning Students: David Ersek, Brad Jensen (PM-S), Stephen Levine (PM-F), Matthew Prince Isilon recently began offering storage nodes that incorporate solid-state disks (SSDs). Although SSDs differ significantly from hard drives, they employ a flash translation layer that allows them to be treated as hard drives. However, SSDs still have very different optimal access patterns. We developed methods for optimizing writes to SSDs in Isilon’s OneFS file system.

Key to Poster Session Layout 1. The Aerospace Corporation 2. Aerosol Dynamics 3. Amazon in OC 4. Amazon.com 5. Apatite to Zircon, Inc. 6. BAE Systems 7. Barling Bay, LLC 8. CareFusion 9. DIRECTV, Inc. 10. E. & J. Gallo Winery 11. EMC Isilon Storage 12. Eaton Aerospace, LLC 13. InstaMed Communications 14. Intel Corporation (w/ Technion University) 15. Intel Corporation (FMA) 16. Intel Corporation (Touch Display) 17. Jane Street Capital 18. Laserfiche 19. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) 20. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) 21. Northrop Grumman Corporation 22. Oregon Biomedical Engineering Institute (OBEI) (w/ Kogakuin University) 23. Parco, Inc. 24. Proofpoint, Inc. 25. QUALCOMM 26. Quantcast 27. Sandia National Laboratories (CS) 28. Sandia National Laboratories (ENG) 29. Shell Exploration and Production, Inc. (ENG) 30. Shell Exploration and Production, Inc. (MATH) 31. Skyline Eco-Adventures 32. Southern California Gas Company 33. SpectraSensors 34. SternoCandleLamp 35. Technip USA 36. Teledyne Controls 37. Texas Instruments 38. Trivec Avant/COBHAM 39. VMware, Inc. 40. Walt Disney Animation Studios 41. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 42. Zodiac Aerospace/Monogram Systems



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