2008 Woodie Awards
Senior Design Day
Regina Pynn
Issue date: 4/27/07 Section: Campus Life
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The annual Senior Design day took place on Wednesday, April 25 in Canavan Arena. 62 groups of seniors set up presentations showing the result of two semesters worth of work.
Several of the projects were recurring features in Senior Design. There are several annual engineering competitions that Stevens sends projects too, including the Formula SAE Competition car and the AISC-ASCE Bridge competition. These yearly groups represent areas where students usually have interest.
Pat Lombardi, who participated in the AISC-ASCE Bridge competition, said "It's one of the products where you finish with something tangible. Some of these groups only got to experience the design phase, while we saw both the design and construction."
Another Senior Design project that had a wider scope than just the Stevens community was a group made up of members from the Steven's chapter of Engineers Without Borders. For their project, they designed a method to bring electricity to a small village in the Dominican Republic.
"EWB rocks! I think it's most useful because of what we're doing. We're changing the lives of 300ish people," an enthusiastic Nick Strand said.
Associate Dean of the School of Engineering Keith Sheppard, who was taking in the variety of projects, said "I'm very impressed. We used to do this in the Howe center lobby…it was only posters and now there's a tremendous increase in the quality. It's starting to look like a trade show." Dean Sheppard said that in the future he hoped to bring more people from industry to the event and suggested holding professional conferences on the same say as the Senior Design exposition.
Some groups are not waiting for industry to find them. One group that made an automatic archery scoring device said that they planned to show their prototype to archery ranges in the tri-state area. They credited E421 with showing them how marketable their concept was and with giving them the tools to pursue it. The students did say that they wished they could receive more funding, as it would have allowed them to make a fully working model instead of the limited prototype they had on display.
Dr. Maureen Weatherall, Vice President for University Enrollment and Administration was also at the exposition. "Earlier in the week we had Freshman Tea and now we see what Stevens students accomplish by the time they're seniors."
Several of the projects were recurring features in Senior Design. There are several annual engineering competitions that Stevens sends projects too, including the Formula SAE Competition car and the AISC-ASCE Bridge competition. These yearly groups represent areas where students usually have interest.
Pat Lombardi, who participated in the AISC-ASCE Bridge competition, said "It's one of the products where you finish with something tangible. Some of these groups only got to experience the design phase, while we saw both the design and construction."
Another Senior Design project that had a wider scope than just the Stevens community was a group made up of members from the Steven's chapter of Engineers Without Borders. For their project, they designed a method to bring electricity to a small village in the Dominican Republic.
"EWB rocks! I think it's most useful because of what we're doing. We're changing the lives of 300ish people," an enthusiastic Nick Strand said.
Associate Dean of the School of Engineering Keith Sheppard, who was taking in the variety of projects, said "I'm very impressed. We used to do this in the Howe center lobby…it was only posters and now there's a tremendous increase in the quality. It's starting to look like a trade show." Dean Sheppard said that in the future he hoped to bring more people from industry to the event and suggested holding professional conferences on the same say as the Senior Design exposition.
Some groups are not waiting for industry to find them. One group that made an automatic archery scoring device said that they planned to show their prototype to archery ranges in the tri-state area. They credited E421 with showing them how marketable their concept was and with giving them the tools to pursue it. The students did say that they wished they could receive more funding, as it would have allowed them to make a fully working model instead of the limited prototype they had on display.
Dr. Maureen Weatherall, Vice President for University Enrollment and Administration was also at the exposition. "Earlier in the week we had Freshman Tea and now we see what Stevens students accomplish by the time they're seniors."