Fourth year engineering students show off their inventions at the Capstone design fair
Posted Mar 30, 2016 6:26 pm.
Last Updated Mar 31, 2016 9:56 am.
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The annual Capstone Design Fair took place Wednesday at the Olympic oval on the University of Calgary campus.
About a hundred different exhibits represent the work of fourth year engineering students who worked in teams of final projects ranging plans from the Green Line LRT to a robot that comforts kids who have to get a needle.
Ron Hugo, associate dean, teaching and learning at the Schulich School School of Engineering said the projects are sponsored and judged by industry experts.
“This particular fair is the opportunity for them to showcase to their sponsor but also to the broader engineering community what they’ve been doing, it also gives them a chance to get feedback from industry judges, many are alumni that come back year after year to support the event.” Hugo said.
Hugo said along with design and technical aspects these students have learned, they also develop important skills through this process.
“Communication, teamwork, conflict resolution, they all look happy (today) but I’m sure there were times that they weren’t so happy, and so all of those are what we would call the professional skills that they will really really need when they leave here.” Hugo said.
The Capstone design fair moved to the Olympic oval this year to accommodate the growth of the program and to allow more people the chance to get a sneak peek of the inventions of tomorrow.
