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Lisa Ercolano<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In laboratories, design spaces, living rooms, bedrooms, and basements, students at Johns Hopkins have been working around the clock to tweak and refine their engineering creations. These projects include a new material that would make solar cells more efficient, a device that would enable earlier detection of recurrent brain tumors, and a freeze-dried bacterial powder that accelerates the process of aging cheeses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These projects, more than 100 in all, will be presented virtually to faculty mentors, industry sponsors, fellow students, alumni, and other guests tomorrow at the Whiting School of Engineering’s Design Day<\/a>\u2014an annual rite of passage that showcases students’ ability to apply knowledge accumulated in classrooms and labs to real-world challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Design Day is the Whiting School’s celebration of our undergraduate students’ innovation, energy, and creativity. The whole day is dedicated to showing what is possible when the brightest young minds put their intelligence, knowledge, and optimism to work,” said Ed Schlesinger<\/a>, dean of the Whiting School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the day-long virtual event, student teams from all nine engineering school departments, as well as the Center for Leadership Education<\/a>, will present talks, posters, and demonstrations live via Zoom or in prerecorded videos. The Design Day webpage provides a schedule for the day, as well as a catalogue of projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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