Interdisciplinary expo showcases student projects

This is the interdisciplinary exposition. What we have here are student-run project teams that are part of two courses. One is the interdisciplinary capstone and the other is the interdisciplinary projects course. There's so much sense of accomplishment here and pride and really authentic knowing your stuff. These students know their stuff. They've been working on it a semester or two semesters or three semesters or four semesters and they they know it and they're ready to share it and they want to have difficult questions and I think that that is a sense of real accomplishment. We are smart and we're creating new ways to interact with smart homes either through augmented reality by simply looking at a device and controlling it or through a modular switch box. This is an assistive curling device to help a veteran with upper and lower body mobility issues launch a curling stone. We're the human powered submarine team at Virginia Tech and this is our half-scale testbed platform. Our project is auto delivery making a multi-system drone that's able to quiet honestly inside that one mile by quarter miles facility. We work with the Naval Service Warfare Center and we're specifically working with our high-powered microwave level effects testing team. We are Solarcar at Virginia Tech. We are a team dedicated to design, build, and race a solar-powered vehicle. If you give students a lot of autonomy and you give them a project that's open-ended, then they have to encounter uncertainty. This is an experience that they can bring to their interviews, to their internships, and say I had to work with a team of people very different than me and I had to work with clients and I had to learn about client expectations and just the ability to navigate uncertainty and complexity.