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Student Tradeshow

Mechanical engineering professor Paul Wright, far right, admires the work of students Anargyros Panayotopoulos and Warren Chow, team members on the prototype Airport PAL, a flight tracking and notification system. This was one of many prototypes on display at last November’s ME tradeshow, sponsored by Intel and Ford Motor Company. Provided with high-tech sensors as their baseline technology, graduate students were challenged to design an inconspicuous wearable product as their class assignment for Wright’s High-Tech Product Design and Rapid Manufacturing class. Other projects included a tracking device to help parents find a lost child in a crowded mall; wearable sensors that relay athletes’ vital signs back to the coach and warn of heat exhaustion; and a motorcycle helmet equipped with a wireless communication system.

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