Maha's Portfolio

Designed for classes Mechanical Engineering 102B (Mechatronics Design) and Mechanical Engineering 135 (Design of Microprocessor-Based Mechanical Systems), MAR-P is a small scale prototype of a robot that could one day help with the clean-up of plastic debris in the ocean. An acronym for Marine Autonomous Remover, Plastic Edition, MAR-P was built during the Spring 2010 [...]

In a partnership with Campus Refuse and Recycling, the Graduate Assembly Environmental Sustainability Committee, and the Physical Plant Campus Services (PP-CS), the Recycling Bin Redesign project began at UC Berkeley in Spring of 2009. The goal of this project is increase the number of recycling bins on campus while also increasing the number of students [...]

In Fall of 2009, Staples, Inc., the world’s largest office supply company, in a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability launched the inaugural Staples Global EcoEasy Challenge. Three other female Mechanical Engineering students at UC Berkeley and myself (Cynthia Bayley, Griselda Cardona, and Sarah Stern) entered the competition under the [...]

Since Spring 2009, I have been part of a team currently designing and fabricating furniture for the Harrison House Homeless Shelter located in the East Bay of California. Our team has been charged with creating furniture for a single-family disabled room that meets sustainability and strict budget requirements. Our team, Archi-Texture, has worked closely with [...]

As a final project for Engineering 28, Basic Engineering Design Graphics at the University of California, Berkeley, our mission was to design and build a prototype of a simple device that will quickly accelerate forward as far as possible, then reverse direction and go backwards as far as possible without passing the point of orgin [...]

During Spring semester of my freshman year (2008), I joined a group of 3 other students to design a more sustainable product in the realm of Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs). Over the course of 4 weeks, we came up with uCharge, a green surge protector that would eliminate phantom charge by cutting off power to [...]