2023

2023

Based on pitches of ideas for interdisciplinary projects by supervisors from various departments, the following projects were chosen by students:
- Description: Bricks are one of the most commonly used materials in constructions with a production of more than 5 billion annually. As a base, bricks consist of clay, which is a limited resource. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate whether clay can be replaced with other materials to extend the production of bricks. For example, old wind turbine blades.
- Facilitators: Hicham Johra (BUILD), Rasmus Lund Jensen (BUILD), Martin Bonderup Østergaard (BIO), Yuanzheng Yue (BIO), Johnny Jakobsen (MP), Lars Rosgaard (MP).
- Areas: Build/BIO/Mechanics.
- Description:
(Three in one: Robots in Chemistry labs, Robotic rock grasping and computer vision on the Moon and Mars, Autonomous space rover navigation on the Moon and Mars):
1. Robots in chemistry labs:
a. ROB7 (7. semester) (Simon Bøgh)
b. CHEM/BIO1 (Mads Koustrup Jørgensen+Casper Steinmann)
2. Robotic rock grasping and computer vision on the Moon and Mars:
a. ROB3 (3. semester) (Simon)
b. ROB9 (9. semester) internship v. ESA (Simon)
3. Autonomous space rover navigation on the Moon and Mars:
a. ROB5 (5. semester) (Simon)
b. ROB9 (9. semester) (Simon)
c. VT3 (9. semester) (Simon) AAU SPACE robotics.
- Facilitators: Mads Pagh Nielsen (ENERGY), Mads Koustrup Jørgensen (BIO), Casper Steinman (BIO), Simon Bøgh (MP), and others.
- Areas: Energy/BIO/Mechanics.
- Description: Development of a tower and a floating foundation for a vertical-axis wind turbine. Blades, Structure, Foundation, Battery & Control.
- Facilitators: Tamas Kerekes (ENERGY), Dario Parigi (BUILD), Lars Bo Ibsen (BUILD), Lars Rosgaard (MP), Jens Andreasen (MP).
- Areas: Energy/Build/Mechanics. 2nd semester or other semesters.
- Description: Electric car project (existing lead engineering project). Planning to develop Generation 3 (automatic control). Future vision: Aiming to develop a self-driving car to navigate around the campus.
- Facilitators: Johnny Jakobsen (MP), Carsten Bojesen (ENERGY), Erik Schaltz (ENERGY).
- Areas: Mechanics/Energy. 2nd semester or other semesters.
- Description: Catamaran with accompanying docking station collects plastic in the port environment of Esbjerg Harbor.
- Facilitators: Mads Valentin Bram (ENERGY), Anders Schmidt Kristensen (ENERGY), Matthias Mandø (MP).
- Areas: Energy/Mechanics.
- Description: The project involves testing bioactive extracts to identify potential new biobased medications. We would like to test a series of isolated fractions of an extract against influenza A and arthritis, so we need to purchase chemicals for this purpose (5610 kr for influenza analysis and 2x 1632 kr for arthritis analyses). We already have clear indicators that we will be successful with these two analyses, which is why they have been chosen. The results of the project will be published in an article.
- Facilitators: Mette Hedegaard (ENERGY), Malthe Fredsgaard (ENERGY), Reinhard Wimmer (BIO).
- Areas: Biotechnology (4th semester, Esbjerg), Energy Engineering (8th or 10th semester, Aalborg).
