NASHVILLE, Tenn. ñ Vanderbilt engineering seniors will display their innovations Tuesday, April 26, during the School of Engineering‘s Senior Design Day.
More than 50 projects will be displayed and demonstrated ñ ranging from a “smart” treadmill for wheelchair users to new football equipment to protect the neck ñ from 3-5 p.m. at Vanderbilt‘s Featheringill Hall Atrium. The design projects were selected by teams of seniors and sponsored by a variety of Middle Tennessee companies and agencies. The seniors met with their sponsoring companies to select a problem of interest to the company and worked throughout the year to design solutions.
Senior Design Day, which showcases the solutions and prototypes the seniors built, is open to the public.
Other projects include:
* “Smart Dust” wireless networking in tracking blood supply
* Planning for image-guided robotic surgery
* A “smart” scanning probe for gas plasma surgery
* A concrete canoe
* A reactive guidance module for an MK66 rocket
* An MRI mouthpiece
WHAT: Senior Design Day
WHERE: Featheringill Hall. A map is available at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/map/map.cgi?mode=1&bldg=jacobs.html
WHEN: Tuesday, April 26, 3-5 p.m.
Media contacts: Vivian Cooper-Capps, (615) 322-276 Vivian.f.cooper-capps@vanderbilt.edu
David F. Salisbury, (615) 343-6803 David.salisbury@vanderbilt.edu