This light, compact Walker was designed and built by Roop Mudhar, Vera Isaak, Sun Jung Chung, and Beatrice Hodel to suit the needs of a specific client, but the design has commercial potential.
The walker can be used as a chair, the wheels can be locked, and it collapses nicely for storage. The workmanship is particularly good, and the walker feels very solid.
AeroBar - Ben Deeley, Tim Knapp, Brock Leong, and Isaac Saban designed this set of handlebars with ergo- nomics and aerodynamics in mind. They made the molds as well as the prototypes, and the workmanship is really superb.
Automatic
Garment Feeder
This workstation allows a worker to easily load clothing into a larger
machine used to press and fold them.
It is both pneumatically and solenoid actuated, and it is an elegantly simple design. It was designed and built for industry by Natalie Medak, Paolo Mazza, Rabih Hikmat, Lynne Branchflower, and Adel Antabli, with supervision by Prof. May. The Some electrical work remains to be completed, but the team will install the machine for the client this spring.
Pulse Detonation Engine - Melissa Giannangelo and Vincent Tanguay designed and built everything they need for research on this novel 'jet' engine, including the test fixture, instrumentation, and a data acquisition system. They will conduct tests on it this summer.
Optical Fiber Spooling Machine- This device winds delicate optical fiber from a large spool to a smaller one, without damaging it, and with
accurate control over length. It wraps the fibers helically on the new spool for a very professional look. This machine was designed and built for an industrial client by Jason Morrow, Daniel Kuchar, Robert Kerr, and Robin McDougall, with electronic design by EE student Yi Wang. Professor Don May, supervisor, is at left in the photo. We are proud to say this machine will be commercially available sometime soon.
The solar tracker is a simple, mechanically powered device that moves a lens to keep a spot of sunlight focused on the same point all day long. Here, the heat from the sunlight is stored in a cannister of molten salt
In the evening, the cannister could be used to cook or provide heat. With further simplification, this device may be able to reduce demand for firewood in under- developed parts of the world, easing pollution and deforestation. The system was designed and built by Matthew Sachs, Derek Lim Soo, Martin Tryawskyj, and Andy Woo, shown above with Prof. Don May, supervisor.
Upper Body Exerciser - Melissa Brown, Yoon Joon Lee, Ben Vadnais, and Andrew Weldon designed and built an adjustable platform for this exercise machine, so it can be easily
used by people in wheelchairs. They managed to arrange for donated components, and delivered the project well ahead of schedule. The machine works very well, and is now in regular use at the Lucie Bruneau Rehab Center in Montreal.
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