{"id":10812,"date":"2019-05-06T16:28:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/designcenter\/?p=10812"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:30:32","slug":"hopkins-engineering-talent-on-display-at-annual-design-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/designcenter\/2019\/05\/06\/hopkins-engineering-talent-on-display-at-annual-design-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopkins engineering talent on display at annual Design Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Catherine Graham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In laboratories and design spaces across Johns Hopkins University&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/\">Whiting School of Engineering<\/a>, students are racing against the clock to put finishing touches on design projects as varied as a self-sterilizing water bottle, a system that uses drones to autonomously track and manage warehouse inventory, and a computer vision-based system that tracks workflow in an operating room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These projects\u2014more than 150 in all\u2014will be presented to industry sponsors and mentors, faculty members, clinicians, alumni, and fellow students at Tuesday&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/designday.jhu.edu\/\">Design Day<\/a>, an annual event that showcases students&#8217; abilities to translate theoretical knowledge into practical and creative solutions to real-world problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concept of a &#8220;design day&#8221; began 35 years ago in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/me.jhu.edu\/\">Department of Mechanical Engineering<\/a>&nbsp;but has now grown to include all nine Hopkins Engineering departments, as well as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/cle\/\">Center for Leadership Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Design Day is a celebration of our undergraduate and graduate students&#8217; innovation, creativity, and energy,&#8221; said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/faculty\/schlesinger-t-e-ed\/\">Ed Schlesinger<\/a>, dean of the Whiting School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For one of the projects, faculty from the Johns Hopkins&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/anesthesiology.hopkinsmedicine.org\/\">Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine<\/a>&nbsp;asked mechanical engineering students to devise a solution to a serious problem they see too often in the emergency room: riding lawnmower-related injuries to children. Common reasons these life-changing injuries occur is because a running child slips under a mower, a parent reverses the mower and doesn&#8217;t see a child, or a child falls off the mower when riding on a parent&#8217;s lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;While we knew the main causes of these injuries, our biggest challenge was that we don&#8217;t know exactly how these injuries happen in real time,&#8221; said Garrett Ung, a senior mechanical engineering major. &#8220;Recordings of these accidents as they happen obviously aren&#8217;t available, so we had to go based on our research and consider different scenarios.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working with Ung on the project are seniors Natalie Myers, Rafael de la Tijera Obert, Tommy Liang, and junior Aloysius Teng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In the beginning, we probably threw 30 ideas at the problem, just to find one that even had a shot at preventing lawnmower injuries. 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