IDPro Fall 2024 Showcase

We're having an Interdisciplinary Project Showcase. And it's an opportunity for all our teams and all our projects to showcase their work. And display their prototypes, and we invite external folks here to talk to the students and, you know, they describe their projects and their accomplishments, their progress they made this semester. I think it definitely supports the professional development to get these experiences early on. It supports their leadership, their teamwork, their communication because they're interacting with teams. Working together to solve open ended, you know, design challenges. We're representing our prototype. We've been working on it for three semesters now. We have the third revision of our hub, which now has a touchscreen and a speaker system. Which just allows for more user interaction with our smart home system. This stuff is the most pure form of practical work that I've done in college so far. A lot of theory is what you get from the classes, and you get a lot of the more hands on stuff coming from projects like this and other projects on campus as well. We have different ways of thinking and different disciplines, different areas of expertise. And it's important to value not only what we're taught in our own majors in our own fields, but also value other perspectives and be curious about other perspectives. Because that can really lead to innovation, creativity, and solving really big problems. "So, increasing the amount of microphones that we're going to be using in the system." I never really thought that I'd be able to contribute to, you know, engineering expos, to be able to have the opportunity to talk to really professional people and connect with them in ways that not everybody gets the chance to in college. And then I come onto ID Pro, I start working on the Phased Array Microphonics team, and I mean, my whole life has changed since then. I'm just really excited and proud, you know. We took this idea and we brought it to life and really made it into technology that will someday make a difference in a lot of different people's lives. I think that having that sort of background and that confidence really gives me the ability to look at this expo and say, I'm ready. It's a lot of it's just making connections and setting up the infrastructure for these types of opportunities and experiences to happen and to kind of see it come into fruition and actually see the students get bought into their projects and really commit a lot of time and energy. It's very rewarding.