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Creating a Tool for Better Heart Bypass
How do you extract a vein from a patient's leg without creating a long and uncomfortable convalescence?
And If Rockets Had Wings…
What goes up like a rocket, changes into a plane, then glides under controlled flight? For Christopher Wilkins ’05, Erik Palitsch ’05, Samuel Lee ’05, James Rollo ’05, and a team of Rensselaer students, it’s their senior capstone project. It’s called a morphing rocket—a rocket that changes inflight to an aircraft with wings and control surfaces to facilitate directed flight.
Students Help Seniors Stay on the Move
When the Albany Guardian Society (AGS), a senior advocacy group, wanted creative solutions to facilitate independent senior living, it chose to partner with Rensselaer and the O. T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory (MDL).
Undergraduate Ideas & Partners Who Profit From Them
For the last five years, partners from outside Rensselaer — Fortune 500s, foundations, entrepreneurs—have brought their design problems to the O. T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory (MDL). The undergraduates who grapple with these problems benefit greatly from the experience.
Well Beyond the Proverbial Box: Reframing a Difficult Wind Turbine Problem
“Undergraduate students simply do not study aerodynamics at the level needed to fully understand the operation of wind turbines,” said Bill Gressick, the lead research specialist at Rensselaer’s Center for Automation Technologies and Systems. “The team members thoroughly impressed me with their ability to overcome all obstacles.”
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