Dmitry Klishch, a second-year Mechanical Engineering Technology student had a great idea – watch this video to find out what it was…..https://youtu.be/0gP5cqg4-dw
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On April 4th, for the third year in a row, Algonquin College students and Carleton University students teamed up to design and produce a crash test dummy being used in bicycle / automobile collisions.
Students from the Mechanical Technician – Toolmaking program started work on this project two years’ ago when they machined all the parts for the crash test dummy and then enhanced the dummy last year. This year students from the three-year Mechanical Engineering Technology program worked on some additional improvements to the dummy as well as the track on which the bicycle is propelled in the test with Faculty from both the Mechanical Technician-Toolmaking and Mechanical Engineering Technology programs.
“This year’s test went better than anyone involved on the project would have imagined. As late as the day before the official launch on Friday, both the dummy and the track were not cooperating (as is often the case with these types of projects) and there was talk that perhaps the media should be called off but they worked really hard fixing the problems and the crash test went off extremely well. I had two teams of students that were working on the project: the Biomechanics team was involved with making improvements to the dummy and the other, the Simulation/Emulation team, worked on simulating the crash conditions. The Biomechanics team re-designed many of the dummy’s body parts to better simulate the movement of an actual person’s joints which resulted in more accurate test data from the sensor’s implanted in those areas of the dummy. The Simulation/Emulation team helped design the track that drove the bicycle toward the crash and ultimately launched the dummy. They were solely responsible for designing the braking system on the track.” Stated Mechanical Engineering Technology professor Sandra Brancatelli.
The Members of the two Algonquin College teams are:
Biomechanics: Jason Pell, Micheal Hii and Andrei Potapov
Simulation/Emulation: Kitiphong Norasith, Scott Hall, Neil Fevrier and Ali Khalladi
Sandra went on to say, “I am very proud of what both of these teams have achieved. We joined Carleton University on this project in September well after it had begun and yet not only did these students quickly become fully contributing members of the team, in many cases they took on leadership roles. This has been an excellent learning experience for our students and we are looking forward to continuing this collaboration with Carleton University next year.”
Read more and view video of the test in an article published in the Ottawa Sun here.
On Friday, March 28th the IEEE Eastern Ontario Oral Paper Competition was held at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. Among the competitors at the competition Mechanical Engineering Technology student Dmitry Klishch placed fourth overall with a score of 92%. Dmitry presented on his Exo-Supportive Device for Individuals with Restricted Mobility. The winner of the competition finished with 95% the second and third place winners finished with 94% and 93% respectively. The
spokesperson for the judges commented that the competition was very tight and if percentages were being given then it might be 4% between to first place and
the fifth place.
Rank,
%, Team, Presenters, Presentation Title
1, 95%, Queens, Al Amin, Syed Rubab, Tasnia Islam, Controlling a Speech Synthesizer through Gesture Recognition
2, 94%, RMC, Raymond Bailey, James Bayes, Tracking Moving Targets from a Moving Platform Using Model Predictive Coding
3, 93%, Carleton, Greg Kiar, Wade Skinner, Central Nervous System Augmentation
4, 92%, Algonquin, Dmitry Klishch, Exo-Supportive Device for Individuals with Restricted Mobility
5, 91%, Ottawa, Graham Brown, Spatial Characterization of Attosecond Light Pulses
Congratulations to all that competed.
The Mechanical Engineering Technology Club is geared towards competitions, design, entrepreneurship and professional networking and has been put together by students in the three-year Mechanical Engineering Technology program.
The first contest that is being put together by the club is a competition to see who can come up with the design for the most accurate and simple trebuchet. The competition will be held April 1, 2014 in the College’s gymnasium at 9:00am. Please don’t hesitate to contact Graham Falt or Sam Kelsey if you are interested in finding out more information.
The club is also looking for more members from any of the Engineering Technician or Technology programs at the College.
If you are interested in joining this club or finding out more information about the competition please contact Graham Falt (falt0003@algonquinlive.com) or Sam Kelsey (kels0023@algonquinlive.com).
Second-year Mechanical Engineering Technology student Dmitry Klishch has won the very prestigious 2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Student Poster Competition held October 20th-23rd in San Jose, California. Dmitry’s project included several design concepts he is developing to be included in his Exo Support Leg design. “Currently, because of the huge interest and
impact caused by the project at an early stage of its development, it leads to the creation of a new fully independent supportive device for people with movement restrictions. The very first prototype was powered by a specially designed pneumatic system. However, in the future work, the pneumatic circuit will be replaced by a hydraulic circuit, electric motors or combined system.” stated Dmitry. “The GHTC 2013 was a great experience. It was a lesson that I will remember for a long time, because it made me think – Wow, this new invention is something that people really need! And that there is a world wide application for the final product. This victory is something that just added a valuable sense into the work I have done.”
The GHTC is a voice amplifier and a forum for hot technological, social, and philosophical debates on the world’s urgent human necessities. The annual conference brings together communities and individuals – engineering, science, technology, industry, academe, government agencies, NGOs, charities, funders – interested in applying technology to develop effective solutions for the challenges facing the world’s underserved. The mission of the GHTC is to foster an exchange of information, networking, and cooperation in the humanitarian, focus attention of businesses on emerging
market opportunities and related technology enablers, impact in positive and meaningful ways lives of disadvantaged billions of people around the world and promote science, engineering and technology as key to development of solutions for disadvantaged communities and attract young people to these professional fields
Congratulation to Dmitry for winning this award and proving yet again that Algonquin College’s students can compete amongst the world’s best.
“Steps to Success”
IEEE Student Professional Awareness Conference (SPAC) is a formal dinner event that aims to bridge the gap between students and their career goals. SPAC offers students and employers a unique opportunity to network with each other in a professional environment along with professionals and academics representing the field of Engineering.
Interested in finding our what our Mechanical Engineering Technology students have been working on this past semester? Please find our latest newsletter here.