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Engineering Department
BK Students Win Engineering Design National Championship
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2008-2009
BK SECOND IN THE NATION IN ENGINEERING DESIGN CHALLENGE NATIONAL FINALS...
The BK Engineering Design Class traveled to Washington , DC on February 25-27 to compete as one of the five national finalists in the National Engineering Design Challenge sponsored by the Junior Engineering Technical Society. Watch this video below, and read the full story below for more information...
March 2, 2009
The BK Engineering Design Class traveled to Washington , DC on February 25-27 to compete as one of the five national finalists in the National Engineering Design Challenge sponsored by the Junior Engineering Technical Society. The challenge is to research, design, and build a working prototype device to help people with severe disabilities succeed in the workplace. Teams submitted drawings and photos of their designs in a report detailing how they reached their design solution. 250 teams registered for the Challenge. BK was selected as one of the 28 semifinalists from a field of 100 designs submitted from across the country. The design team submitted a six minute video describing the prototype design in additional detail, and was selected as one of the five finalist invited to Washington to compete at the National level.
BK was awarded second place and a $1500 prize for the Most Outstanding Engineering Design. In addition, the team received two additional wards. The first for The Most Innovative Use of Technology sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and second for The Best Application of Rehabilitation Engineering Design Principles sponsored by the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America.
BK’s device, named the Syringe Holder and Guidance System (SHAGS), is designed to help Marla Sheelan, a local nurse, to continue to practice her profession. Marla has essential tremor, causing her hands to shake such that drawing and measuring medicine from a vial into a syringe can be difficult and dangerous. SHAGS greatly reduces this problem and accommodates all the commonly used syringes, needles, and vials.
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