Projects and Academic Accomplishments
Creating a flying machine I have always had a longing to fly and a love for working with my hands. The ambitious challenge of combining these two became my ultimate senior project. The story of Charles Lindbergh For this project we created podcasts examining a topic in our society. The podcasts include extensive research, personal stories, and interviews from experts on the topic. |
Observing biodiversity in different Ecosystems By deploying Autonomous Reef Monitoring Systems (A.R.M.S.) we researched the biodiversity of the San Diego bay boat channel and La Jolla reef. Several months after deploying the artificial reefs, we brought them up for analyzation. |
The Up-cycle Project The Fall Semester of the Berggren/Holder team was built around The Upcycle, a semester-long collaboration between Engineering and Humanities classes. The broad goals of this project include recognizing and confronting our environmentally adverse consumption & production cultures that are entrenched in practices of planned obsolescence, materialism and disposability. During the course of this project, our team worked to develop an understanding of the waste that our personal & consumer habits produce, explore principles & approaches of engineering that lead to more purposeful and sustainable building, and consider the benefits inherent in designing and building with upcycled, or repurposed, materials that would otherwise persist solely as waste. |