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 Smart
Inventions:
Mechanical engineering seniors Janine Pierce, top right, and
Genevieve Gaspar, bottom, demonstrate their "decappitator,"a
test tube decapper for use in medical labs, at the Inventors’
Open House last December, as mechanical engineering professor
Liwei Lin, looks on, left. (Not pictured are team members Mike
Miklos and Ed Chan.) The event showcased student projects from
Lin's Mechanical Engineering Design course. Student teams created
"smart"mechanical engineering products using computer-aided
design (CAD) software and embedded microprocessors, in the process
becoming familiar with product development, going from paper-and-pencil
sketches to final products in one semester. Other inventions included
a portable biochemical sensor and vaccine injector, robotic fish
for underwater exploration, an autonomous golf trolley, and a
mapping robot.
Peg Skorpinski photo
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