{"id":1001,"date":"2017-02-09T01:07:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T01:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2017-02-09T01:07:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T01:07:14","slug":"business-and-engineering-students-create-gadgets-and-gizmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/2017\/02\/09\/business-and-engineering-students-create-gadgets-and-gizmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Business and engineering students create gadgets and gizmos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kedi Yan (electrical & computer engineering) and Nick Wong (computer science) work on their self-playing guitar.\u00a0More photos in the OSU EECS Flickr album<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cGadgets and Gizmos\u201d was the theme for the first HWeekend of 2017 on January 20-22, jointly sponsored by the College of Business and the College of Engineering.<\/p>\n

In just one weekend, forty-seven students from business and engineering designed, built, and pitched their idea for a marketable product including temperature based alarm clock, a computer controlled potato launcher, a 3-D printed longboard fender, and a self-playing guitar.<\/p>\n

It was the seventh iteration of the popular event that provides students from different disciplines an opportunity to work together in teams. Students came from a variety majors including business, bioengineering, civil engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, environmental engineering, and mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis event is really cool, because I get to do things that I normally don\u2019t get to do in my major,\u201d said Alec Westbrook, a chemical engineering student who worked on the 3D printed longboard fender project. \u201cI mean, how often can a guy that is mixing chemicals all day work with his hands and create something new?\u201d<\/p>\n

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The potato launch team tests out their device.\u00a0More photos in the OSU EECS Flickr album<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This event allowed students to make use of the new Buxton Hall Makerspace<\/a> and Mastery Challenge lounge<\/a>, which gave students access to 3-D printing, soldering irons, a drill press, laser cutting, and UV ink logo printing.<\/p>\n

Mentors for this HWeekend included six industry members from Intel<\/a> and two from Microsemi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople here are really excited about the things they are making,\u201d said Aayush Pathak, a silicon architecture engineer from Intel who attended HWeekend as a mentor. \u201cAnd to be a part of it and share what I have seen in my school and life \u2014 it\u2019s a proud feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Staff from both the College of Business and the College of Engineering also helped mentor students through the creation and marketing of their projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an incredibly valuable partnership between business and engineering,\u201d said Dale McCauley, the makerspace manager for the College of Business. \u201cThe students are getting the chance to build relationships that ordinarily wouldn\u2019t form. If you get business students to understand how engineers think and vice versa, I think that is valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of the weekend, the students received group awards for their dedication and hard work. The Executors award goes to the team that produces the best engineering execution of their idea to create the most polished final product, the Helping Hand is for the team that contributes the most to other teams, and the InnovationX Pitch awards go to two teams who had the best business pitches for selling their prototypes.<\/p>\n

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The temperature-based alarm clock team works out their design.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Award winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

Executor: Temperature Based Alarm Clock team. The team included members Noah Hoffman, Taylor Johnston, Alexia Patterson, and Abdurrahman Elmaghbub.<\/p>\n

Helping Hands: Checkpoint team. The team included members Andrey Kornilovich and Graham Barber<\/p>\n

InnovationX Pitch: Checkpoint team and Temperature Based Alarm Clock team.<\/p>\n

Story by Taylor Mrzena<\/p>\n