No Contact Tool Spring 2021

Thank you to all those who participated in the Spring 2021 Covid-19 Solution Design Competition!

The winners are:

• 1st Place – $300 – Joseph Hall
• 2nd Place – $200 – Mikayla Crowley and Rebecca Janes
• 3rd Place – $100 – Axel S. Toro & Jose Batlle

In depth details about each of the project submission can be found below.

Joseph Hall (Phd Candidate, jkhall@bu.edu)

Majid Almuhaideb (2024, majidmuh@bu.edu)

Axel S. Toro & Jose Batlle (2024, axelt@bu.edu)

Charles McGinn (2023, mcginnc@bu.edu)

Mikayla Crowley  & Rebecca Janes (2023, mikayla2@bu.edu)

Xie Ziwen (2022, xiezw@bu.edu)

COVID Solution Design Competition

Are you tired of the discomforts of COVID? Constant hand washing, sanitizing, mask wearing, etc…

What about trying to solve one of your COVID-induced pet peeves?

Competition Criteria:

• Creativity
• Design
• Usefulness
• Documentation
• Build quality.

Prizes for the Competition:

• 1st Prize – $300
• 2nd Prize – $200
• 3rd Prize – $100

The competition is open-ended; you can build any COVID-related tool. Here are ideas you can modify or come up with your own! Let’s see something cool and creative!

1. An artifact that allows no contact to open doors – a CAD drawing that would illustrate this very simplistically would be: This allows users to hold this comfortably and can open doors that require either to be pulled or pushed.
2. Mask Sanitizer: Washing masks in the laundry can take too long and can ruin the mask. What are other solutions to cleaning and sanitizing reusable masks?
3. A More Comfortable Mask: Masks often are difficult to breathe in, exercise in, fall off easily, fog up glasses, and can be uncomfortable when worn for long periods of time especially on the ears and nose. Can you redesign your mask to fix one or more of these issues?
4. Social Distant Jacket: Using sewable electronics, LEDS, and a motion detector, could you make a jacket that reacts if people get within 6 feet of you?
5. Gripper:

Competition Guidelines:

• Documentation (No more than 4 pages of text + figures in your main body of the report. This page limit excludes the appendices.)
  • Introduction on your idea – What does your project accomplish?
  • Methodology – Describe your design and/or manufacturing process
  • Results – present the final project
  • Future work – If you can access a manufacturing environment, how would you manufacture your tool?
  • CAD assembly + parts drawing
  • Appendix
• Video Submission of product: Make a brief video showcasing your device.
• Pictures showcasing device: If you would like to, you could even show pictures of your process too.
• Has to improve life during the pandemic in some way

Sign up before March 25, 2021

Submissions due April 12, 2021 at 10 pm

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