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Seymour & Esther Padnos College of Engineering & Computing Newsletter
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|  | Dr. Paul Plotkowski, Dean
Padnos College of Engineering
and Computing |
| Dean's Message:
As this is our first newsletter of the year, I of course want to wish everyone a happy new year. Looking back on 2016, many impressive things happened in the Padnos College. These included student, faculty, and staff achievements, celebrating 30 years of cooperative engineering education, K-12 and community efforts, and formally launching the applied Medical Device Institute (aMDI). Check out our past newsletters. This newsletter again features a wide range of exciting projects and accomplishments across all our disciplines within the Padnos College community. I invite you to learn about these activities and, where appropriate, connect and get involved. As we start the new year there are again plans for a very full slate of activities. One of the first of these is “Roger That! A Celebration of Space Exploration in Honor of Roger B Chaffee.” GVSU is co-sponsoring this February 10th and 11th event with the Grand Rapids Public Museum. To learn more about this event, please visit https://www.gvsu.edu/rogerthat/. I would love to hear from you! If you have questions or comments, feel free to follow this link to Connect with the Dean
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| Engineering Students Help Design Halloween Costumes for Mary Free Bed Patients
A Grand Valley engineering professor and a group of his students helped design Halloween costumes for Mary Free Bed patients. Professor John Farris and four students helped create and construct costumes for children who use Power Mobility Devices during a costume workshop October 21, from 1-5 p.m. at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital in downtown Grand Rapids. Continue reading or watch the video on Fox 17.
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|  | University Innovation Fellows gather at the d.school during the Silicon Valley Meetup in March 2016. Photo by Ryan Phillips. |
| Four GVSU Students Named University Innovation Fellows
Benjamin Parsell, Allison Rogutich, Joseph VanderBroek, and Nikhil Watsa have completed training to join the University Innovation Fellows, a global program that empowers student leaders to increase campus engagement with innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity and design thinking. The University Innovation Fellows program is run by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school). Continue reading
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| Partnership Will Bring Upgrades to Grand Haven Musical Fountain
An ongoing partnership between the City of Grand Haven and GVSU will bring several potential updates in 2017 to the city's well-known musical fountain.
Six engineering students will complete their senior project by designing and building a new water feature for the fountain. The water formations have not been updated since the fountain was installed in 1963. Continue reading
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| Applied Medical Device Institute Launches Female Catheter
The Applied Medical Device Institute (aMDI), lead by Brent Nowak, allows GVSU faculty to pursue scholarly work and GVSU students the opportunity to work on real-world projects for the health care industry. The group anticipates the release of an external catheter for female patients later this year.
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|  | Jake Boudreau (left), Anush Yepremyan (middle), and Adam Popour (right) meet together to discuss the design of the diabetes watch they created. |
| Lakers Create Blood Sugar Monitoring Device
A group of GVSU alums and graduate students have teamed up to create a new invention to help those with diabetes identify when they're having a low blood sugar episode. The Brio Band is a prototype development created by HC&T Solutions, a medical and health product research company. It was founded in 2015 by Adam Popour, Jake Boudreau, Anush Yepremyan and Alissa Smith, all of whom have graduated from or are currently working on an advanced degree at GVSU.
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| Playing with Fire
A group of students at Grand Valley spent the summer fighting flames — that they created. Justin Mitchell, pictured, is one of three students majoring in Occupational Safety and Health Management who work at Grand Valley's Facilities Services office. They group developed a fire safety training program and performed safety inspections on the more than 3,000 fire extinguishers located in the buildings throughout the university. The students trained staff members and other students on fire safety and protocol. A special fire extinguisher simulation unit was used to recreated real-life scenarios, giving new meaning to the phrase "trial by fire."
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|  | Engineering students gather around a display at Grand Valley State University’s annual Engineering and Design Conference at its Padnos College of Engineering and Computing. |
| New Engineers Need Soft Skills
For today’s engineering graduates, technical expertise remains paramount, but companies are asking more of their young workers, especially when it comes to so-called soft skills and the basics of business. That’s the view of employers and educators who say young engineers must possess technical expertise in their field, but also be well versed in a variety of other skillsets ranging from communication to business acumen.
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| School of Computing: Students with Diverse Interests
Computer scientists and software developers spend the bulk of their time solving other peoples’ problems in code. The discipline often attracts people who are curious and interested in diving into a variety of different domains as new projects come their way. The discipline, though called a science also has an artistic side to it. There is in fact a branch of artificial intelligence referred to as computational aesthetics. Programmers often take great pride in devising elegant algorithms that solve complex problems in a simple beautiful way. Given this, we often find students in our computing programs at GVSU that have significant artistic abilities and/or diverse interests that go well beyond writing code. Current students Kaye Suarez, Ron Patrick and Adam Terwilliger are excellent examples of students with very diverse talents and interests.
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|  | GVL / Courtesy - NASA imagery Roger Chaffee (right), pictured, joins Commander Virgil “Gus” Grissom (left) and Senior Pilot Ed White (center). Photo Credit: NASA |
| Apollo 1 Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee to be Honored at Symposium
Grand Valley State University is partnering with the Grand Rapids Public Museum to honor the astronauts tragically killed in the Apollo 1 incident in 1967. Events are scheduled Friday, Feb. 10 and Saturday, Feb. 11 at the L. V. Eberhard Center as part of a 50thanniversary symposium titled “Roger That! A Celebration of Space Exploration in Honor of Roger B. Chaffee.”
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| ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dr. Tim Born, Professional Science Master's Program Coordinator, elected to the 2017 National Professional Science Master's Association (NPSMA) Board of Directors Computer Information Systems graduate students Roland Heusser and Camila Penaloza honored for Outstanding Final Project. Read moreMSE graduate student Ravi Bhatta's thesis, "Comparison of Load Carrying Capacity of Three and Four Lobed Polygonal Shaft and Hub Connection for Constant Grinding Diameter," nominated for the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Distinguished Thesis Award in the Physical Science and Engineering category.
Product Design and Manufacturing student, Jordan Vanderham, along with team mates Jared Seifert and Tony Franco, Industrial Design students from Kendall College of Art and Design, win People’s Choice Award at Winter 2016 Project Day for their Cold Endurance Mask design. The Cold Endurance Mask for Industrial workers, winter athletes, and medical symptom relief allows the wearer to breathe warm comfortable air in the coldest of environments. Commercialization of the mask is planned for winter of 2017.
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