The voice is mechanical and flat, and anyone offering such banal commentary and sounding so bored would surely bomb in a job interview. But in this case, the observations are impressive. They’re made by what looks like a two-foot-tall stack of hors d’oeuvre trays on wheels, careening around the floor and proclaiming its discoveries as its “eye,” an attached camera, falls on them.
After reading the article, the junior zoology major at the University of Florida created a student organization – Generational Relief in Prosthetics – that 3D-prints hands and other assistive devices with the support of the UF Libraries.
A team of Michigan State University engineering students has developed an app that will benefit the visually impaired. It’s called Intelligent Real World Text Recognition and is one of hundreds of undergraduate student projects that will be on display at this Friday’s College of Engineering Design Day.
For their last class of the fall, students in FSAD 4660 Textiles, Apparel and Innovation unveiled their apparel and product ideas designed to help seniors prevent falls and minimize their harm, stay warm and alert on winter streets, and achieve greater mobility and independence.
3D Printing is a relatively new technology, but find out how an innovative UT-Austin student is expanding access to this revolutionary technology to the whole campus community as part of the 2015 Texas Student Research Showdown.
Such bolts from the blue (or black) of space rarely wreak such havoc. But less severe irritants—interrupted radio transmissions, disrupted GPS devices, even rusting of pipelines—can result when electric currents course through the magnetic field, says Joshua Semeter, who’d like to know more about this phenomenon (largely because the magnetic field may be an essential ingredient for life on Earth).
A team of Michigan State University engineering students who are assisting in the building of a rainwater containment system at a school in Tanzania has received a $25,000 grant to support the work.
Muturi called on students in Ann Saterbak’s Introduction to Engineering Design course to help her design and build a physical therapy apparatus. This summer she will take the apparatus to Ghana and instruct center staff on its use and maintenance.
In 2012, Swahili lecturer Mahiri Mwita approached Princeton University’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) with the idea of starting a project in the Kuria District of Kenya where he grew up. Three years later, a team of Princeton engineering students has helped design and build an award-winning rainwater catchment system there to provide clean, reliable water, and the group plans to build another system this summer.
“You can plan a road that looks perfectly fine on paper,” Martz says. Once actual people start using the road, though, the game changes. Drivers can be unpredictable. “Someone goes and does something, and you say, ‘I didn’t see that coming.’”