Chet Udell Directs the Openly Published Environmental Sensing (OPEnS) Lab. Directly mentoring over 200 undergraduate students over 5 years in sponsored research across Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Biological and Ecological Engineering, and Humanitarian Engineering. We’re a moon-shot idea factory that collaborates with scientists asking challenging questions about climate change, agriculture, ecology, geology, oceans, the atmosphere, forests, and soils, that go beyond the limits of our current technology. Together, we push invention of new sensor technologies that enable new critical observations that advance our understanding of our world and ourselves within it.

 Using open-source Arduino-programmable devices, 3D printers, and a few machines, our undergraduates prove that with a few key machines and the right support, we can accomplish world-class innovative work.