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CETA Students Win Top Honor in Competition
Posted 4/27/2005
Students from the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (CETA) won first place at the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) New England section student paper competition, held earlier this month at Fairfield University.
“Development of a Chin Support System for a CP Patient Using a Head-Powered Wheelchair,“ a paper by Meghan Hegarty, Elizabeth DiBona, Lina Rincon, and Darrah Speiser, received first place. Hegarty, a senior majoring in biomedical engineering, presented the paper.
Tanuj Oruganti, a graduate student in electrical engineering, received honorable mention for his paper “LabView Distance Laboratory VIP Switch Project.”
The competition had 15 contestants from universities throughout the Northeast. Also attending the two-day conference were Leo Smith, associate professor of mechanical engineering; Assistant Dean Hisham Alnajjar, and Associate Dean Devdas Shetty.
This ASEE event followed on the heels of the successful American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Regional Student Conference at Western New England College, where students Tom Barry and Aaron Beal won for their project, “Safety Enhancement of Wheelchair Design,” which was sponsored by the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York. Barry and Beal will represent the university in the ASME national finals in Florida in November 2005.
“Development of a Chin Support System for a CP Patient Using a Head-Powered Wheelchair,“ a paper by Meghan Hegarty, Elizabeth DiBona, Lina Rincon, and Darrah Speiser, received first place. Hegarty, a senior majoring in biomedical engineering, presented the paper.
Tanuj Oruganti, a graduate student in electrical engineering, received honorable mention for his paper “LabView Distance Laboratory VIP Switch Project.”
The competition had 15 contestants from universities throughout the Northeast. Also attending the two-day conference were Leo Smith, associate professor of mechanical engineering; Assistant Dean Hisham Alnajjar, and Associate Dean Devdas Shetty.
This ASEE event followed on the heels of the successful American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Regional Student Conference at Western New England College, where students Tom Barry and Aaron Beal won for their project, “Safety Enhancement of Wheelchair Design,” which was sponsored by the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York. Barry and Beal will represent the university in the ASME national finals in Florida in November 2005.
