Manufacturing

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Leather Part Counter

The SCOPE team will aim to find a practical engineering solution to better track the leather cutting operations that fits seamlessly into the manufacturing process and drives efficiency and quality results for the value stream’s operations.

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Faculty Advisor: Jessica Townsend

Automated Thermal Interface Material Applicator

The Blue Origin SCOPE team designed and fabricated an automated thermal interface material (TIM) application machine for use in a production environment.

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Faculty Advisor: Amon Millner

Push Test- Continued Automation

As part of New Balance’s continual work to improve associates' work experience while maintaining high-quality standards, the SCOPE students built upon the 2025 SCOPE team's work to develop a highly-automated solution, creating tooling that reduces the manual tests and improves the consistency of the quality check.

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Faculty Advisor: Scott Hersey

Fiber Sheet Drying System

This year's SCOPE team developed a method and device to dry thin, delicate sheets of fibers in a way that is time and energy efficient, user friendly, and scalable.

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Faculty Advisor: Lawrence Neeley

Identifying Manufacturing Variations in Computerized Stitching

Our team worked with New Balance to investigate certain manufacturing processes for New Balance shoes at their Lawrence, MA factory.

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Faculty Advisor: Lawrence Neeley

Push Test Automation

Our team worked to automate a physically taxing process by designing tooling that reduces the manual strain on thumbs and improves the consistency of the quality check.

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Faculty Advisor: Sarah Bloomer

Circularity and Repairability of Bose Products

The 2022-23 Bose SCOPE team worked with Bose to infuse sustainability and product circularity across its global business operations.

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Faculty Advisor: Lawrence Neeley

Brandeis Rosbash Lab FlyBox Redesign

The 2022-23 Brandeis SCOPE team overhauled the original Roshbash Lab FlyBox's hardware, assembly, and software, creating a robust and polished tool to track the behavior of genetically modified fruit flies over multiday periods.

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