More than 200 engineering students will present their solutions to real-world engineering problems in the fall 2005 Learning Factory Project Showcase from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, in the HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall, University Park. The event is free to the public.
The showcase includes senior capstone design projects from mechanical, industrial and electrical engineering. The projects are sponsored by companies seeking solutions to some of their toughest engineering challenges. This semester's project sponsors include BAE Systems, Boeing, C/G Electrodes, Chainsaw Rendezvous, CNH America, the Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Ingersoll-Rand, Sikorsky Aircraft, United Parcel Service and U.S. Security Associates.
In addition to the senior capstone projects, the event includes first-year design projects, entrepreneurship program projects and projects by the Engineers for a Sustainable World Program. Finalists from each of the sections of the first-year engineering design course will be on hand to demonstrate their projects. This semester's project, sponsored by BAE Systems, tasked the students with developing a mobile surveillance system that detects the presence of intruders along a border.
Engineering entrepreneurship teams will display their product designs and prototypes, as well as their business and marketing plans and brochures. Each team must be prepared to deliver a five-minute "elevator" pitch to a panel of judges to sell their concepts. Students in the Engineers for a Sustainable World Program will show off solutions to real-world problems experienced by people living in developing countries.