If you were on campus last Friday, you might have noticed seniors walking around campus, sporting their best professional attire. If you were curious about why these dressed up seniors were walking into Walker, Canavan, and other campus buildings, and if you went to investigate for yourself, you would have seen hundreds of students regaling each other with their scientific discoveries. Some seniors nervous, twiddling their thumbs and pacing by their poster board, waiting for someone to come up and ask questions. Others were excited to share what they have learned. Many were just eager to graduate.
Last Friday was the annual Innovation Expo — a day-long showcase for student design, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Filled with events to celebrate student research, most of the day is dedicated to the exposition of senior design projects.
In Canavan, a variety of engineering disciplines were represented. Some of the projects included TrachAlert, a project described by the team as “a portable dual-sensor system that directly monitors the airway of the tracheostomy tube to prevent potentially fatal drops in blood oxygen levels that, with traditional methods, are detected too late”; E-Fishin-Sea, a project with a mission to use hybrid technology to transition the U.S. Marine Industry to sustainable energy sources; and Senior Design Marketplace, a project to help future seniors “make informed decisions about what projects they want to work on, and to begin work during the first week of the semester.”
Walker Gym housed the senior design projects of Computer Science and the College of Arts and Letters. The CAL students had projects that focused on the process of songwriting, analyzing the rhetorical patterns of Donald Trump and Barack Obama, attitudes about Mental Health in Urban Communities, and exploring sedative music.
LifeSkills Software — one of the Computer Science senior design projects — had a goal to “bring technology into special needs classrooms to help students transition into real-world jobs and independent living.” Another Computer Science senior design project, Monacle, created a web-based application “with a primary focus around consumer retail inventory forecasting.”
On west patio of Babbio, Business students stood under a large tent to showcase their senior design project. One team named UBS investigated “the use cases in blockchain technology in the financial industry.” Academy Bus Company reviewed and analyzed the demographics of Academy Bus Company’s GoBus service.
Griffith Building held some senior design projects, like the Solar Splash Competition, Last Stage Drone Delivery, Castle Point Rocketry, Vacuum-Evaporation Water Purification System, among others.
After several hours of showcasing their works, the large poster boards were taken down, and some of the senior design groups made their way to what is informally known as the Elevator Pitch Competition.
Now, until next year, when the next set of seniors spend a year creating their senior design project to showcase to the Stevens community.
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