Happy Quadmania Weekend, everyone!

Due to the possibility of rain, the fireworks scheduled for this evening have been postponed until tomorrow night. We will be ending our QM Festival tomorrow evening (Saturday, April 23) with a performance by The White Panda at 9pm with fireworks directly following!

You'll want to stick around tomorrow night to end Student Events Board: Quadmania Festival with a BANG!

Asante’s bicycle, a custom bicycle with hand and foot pedals designed and built by ME capstone students, received the Project of the Year award for 2015 from V-LINC.  V-LINC is a non-profit that develops “Special Solutions for Special Needs”.  Asante is a 4-year-old little person with hydrocephalus who wanted a bicycle so he could ride with his brothers.  The capstone project team, consisting of Jacob Alvarez, Michael Roberts, Kevin Johnson, and David Nguyen, worked with Cristian Bell (Technical Director, UMBC Theater Department) to build the bicycle to Asante’s specifications.  You can see a video of Asante on his bicycle here.

Team PITCH (Preventing Injury, Trauma, and Cracks to the Head) presented their business plan to the judges at the Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition (CBIC) held at UMBC on April 20.  PITCH is developing an innovative device to be worn by baseball players (initially intended for pitchers) to protect them from batted balls.  The capstone project is the brainchild of Stefan Wroblewski, Andrew Wallace, Baruch Weiner, Jezron Basbas, and Michael Torres, currently students in ENME444 Mechanical Engineering Systems Design, and uses specially selected materials to make a very thin protective device that can be worn inside or outside a standard baseball cap.

All of the CBIC results can be found here.

You can find out more about the CBIC here.

Students and faculty from the UMBC Mechanical Engineering Department, American Society of Mechanical Engineers chapter, Center for Women in Technology, and Retriever Robotics manned the UMBC booth at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC on April 16-17.  With a combination of interactive displays and hands-on activities focusing on sustainable design, robotics, and engineering principles, the booth was inundated by crowds from open to close each day.  The students also fielded many questions about degree programs from prospective students.  Special thanks to Ms. Jamie Gurganus and Dr. Carlos Romero-Talamas for their hard work before and during the festival.

You can find out more about the festival here.

Home care clinicians, executives, administrators, and information technology professionals are invited to participate in meaningful discussions about how health information technology can be used to achieve better levels of engagement with various stakeholders in the delivery of patient-centered home care.

No registration fee is required to attend this event

Space is limited. RSVP today via email! (gkoru@umbc.edu)