Adela Wee

Bridging the technological gap since 1998.

A roboticist from Olin College (BS, Dec '14) and WPI (MS, Dec '16), my projects have pushed me to learn about everything from soldering to sailing. I'm never short of cool projects to work on, and I wouldn't have it any other way. 

Projects  after  olin (2015- Present)

2017-Present

Systems Engineering at Carnegie Robotics: Nilfisk A50
Building a solar filter/setup for imaging the solar eclipse
Argo AI: Building Transportation of the Future with Self-driving Cars
Restoring a 1974 MGB 

2015-16

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Pursuing a MS in RoboE (Expected Graduation Dec 2016)
Robot Dynamics: Building a sensor glove to help with hand rehabilitation
Robot Controls: Designing a controller for a body-mounted video stabilizer
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Systems Engineering: Specifying a robotic recovery system for ocean plane crashes (like MH 370)
Entrepreneurship 500:
​Kid Play: A kid-friendly airport travel concept
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RBE Capstone: Designing levels of autonomy for airport snow removal
An Independent Study in Ethics: The role it plays in engineering and academia
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My eight-week trip to southeast Asia, which included 2 weeks in Vietnam and 1 week in Myanmar.
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Inspiring kids to pursue STEM
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My work at Ocean Alliance as their Chief Technologist

Projects during my time at olin (2010-2014)

Senior Year 2013-14

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Computational Robotics (CompRobo) Fall 2014
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Jazz Theory at Wellesley
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Research at Olin Summer 2014: Warehouse Robots and Tuna-Inspired Vehicles
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SCOPE (Senior Capstone Project in Engineering): Team AGCO-- building robots for precision agriculture
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Design for Manufacture
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Controls: Characterizing a Voith-Schneider Propeller
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Playing tetris with a robot and treadmill
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Sculpture I: Building a foundation of techniques and skills for forming three-dimensional art with clay, plaster, and bronze.
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Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) Summer 2013 Internship at SSC Pacific in San Diego with Bart Everett

Junior year 2012-13

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The development of RoboSail, an affordable (<$500) college and high school autonomous sailing challenge
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Swarmbots: Building an arduino-based robot on a budget that could be controlled via Facebook/Twitter
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Passionate Pursuit in Making Food from Scratch
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Collecting whale breath (snot) with a quadcopter = SnotBot
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Mechanical Design: Designing a vehicle to rescue a 150 lb, 6ft long robotic tuna from the bottom of Boston harbor
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Archaeology at Brandeis: A semester-long excavation of the Samuel Harrington House located in Waltham, MA
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Summer Internship at C-2 Innovations, Inc with Arnie Mangolds

Sophomore YEAR 2011-12

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An Omni-Directional Surface Vehicle
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1st Year of SailBot
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Semester Away at USC
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WALL-E: The start of my research in social robotics

Freshman YEAR 2010-11

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Real World Measurements (RWM): 2 first-year teams, 100,000+ feet, real-world data.
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Materials Science: The science of everyday objects
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Design Nature: Create mechanisms and toys based off of observations from nature
For details on projects before college click here. You'll be directed to my old site.