Innovation is in the air at Stevens Senior Design Day, April 24

The ingenuity of seniors at Stevens Institute of Technology will be on display during Senior Design Day, April 24.

More than 60 projects, many featuring leading-edge, interactive technologies, will be viewable from 12 noon to 2 p.m. on the second floor of the Wesley J. Howe Center, one block east of 8th Street and Castle Point Terrace in Hoboken. Press are welcome. For details concerning directions and parking, please be in touch with the News Service contact listed at the top of this news release.

As part of their degree fulfillment, teams of students will demonstrate projects they have jointly engineered, often involving elaborate mechanical and electronic devices. In many cases the development process has been under way for well over a year. A number of the teams have acquired industry sponsorship, to assist with development; and in some cases, the students have won commitments from those sponsors to adapt their projects for real-world industrial applications.

Among the displays from Mechanical Engineering:

The Stevens Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) team has produced a high-tech racing car using computer-aided design techniques, with an emphasis on high-power-to-weight ratio and all systems designed to optimize performance. The team has accepted the challenge of representing Stevens this May at the 2002 Society of Automotive Engineers FSAE Competition in Pontiac, Mich., a prestigious event within the industry. "We hope to bring back the gold for Stevens," says Keith Silverman, a mechanical engineering senior and member of the FSAE team. The team's advisor is Professor Jan Nasalewicz.

A multidisciplinary project, among teams from the departments of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, is the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, a deceptively simple prototype submarine using a variety of new technologies. The vehicle is required to navigate its surroundings and accomplish set tasks with no offboard guidance. The team will enter their design in the 2002 Competition of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). Their faculty advisors are Professors Siva Thangam and Ed Blicharz.

From the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering:

The Multiple Robot Network is an attempt to use a wireless protocol to design a system that will monitor and track robots within a specified, confined area. The robots will be monitored using transponders, a transceiver, and a central computer that will process information about the movement and course of the robots. Professor Uf Tureli is the project advisor.

Taking advantage of the unique qualities of fingerprints, the RapidScan is a wireless PDA scanner identification tool for immediate recognition of individuals. It allows users such as law enforcement agents and medical staff to efficiently scan a person's palm for prints from any location and quickly identify his records through wireless transmission from a central database. Advisors are Professors Yu-Dong Yao and Harry Heffes.

And these are just four of the many new student technology designs that will be on display at Stevens, April 24.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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