Look around.
Opportunities to improve or invent exist everywhere — atop a house, in the shop, at a hospital, in the lab — and often are born of necessity.
Such is the case with many of the student projects you see here.
"Someone ought to build something like that," said mechanical engineering student Tom Johnson about his pneumatic shingle stripper, a creation that stemmed from his back-breaking day on the roof.
Responding to a need, others devised such solutions as a safer suture needle, a bike helmet lighting system, or a fishing pole for quadriplegics.
This exhibit showcases just a few of the inventions and ideas UW-Madison undergraduate students have displayed at the annual
Innovation Day
competition sponsored by the College of Engineering.
All entrants are eligible to compete for awards in the
Schoofs Prize for Creativity
and those who build prototypes are considered for the
Tong Prototype Prize.
Though their solutions vary wildly, these student inventors share a creative, entrepreneurial spirit and the drive to make their world a better place in which to live.
View "Student Innovation" virtually here, or check it out on campus in the Engineering Hall(way) Gallery, near Room 1712 Engineering Hall.
Photos by Bob Rashid
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