This week, Bilge Soran gave a presentation of her work at the International Conference on Computer Vision in Chile. Congratulations for sharing your work on generating notifications for missing actions in a given activity at such a premier conference.
Media
How to Create a Makerspace – Campus Technology
Campus Technology, an online information source for higher education, features an interview with our own Dr. Steele about how to create a Makerspace. Find out what a Makerspace is, why they are created, and what kind of space is important. Here is a quote of Dr. Steele’s pulled from the article by Leila Meyer. Click HERE to read the article in full.
Having an outlet where you can work with teams, find people with different backgrounds and use this space to turn ideas into reality is really powerful for the students, as both an educational space to complement their courses and a space where they can really dive deep and figure out what their passions are and what they want to create for the world.”
Make it Universal
AccessEngineering and Dr. Steele’s recent work on creating guidelines for making makerspaces accessible was featured in the School Library Journal. It is a great resource, featuring different DIY and makerspace movements that support individuals with disabilities around the US. In particular, check out some of the
great work on how toys can be easily hacked for individuals with disabilities from John Schimmel and Holly Cohen, cofounders of DIYAbility, .
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Lab Featured in the College of Engineering Video
During the summer we had film crews observing our lab and the labs of fellow engineers across our campus. Take a look at the finished video, HERE, promoting the College of Engineering. Go Dawgs!
Gaurav Mukherjee is featured in the CSNE blog
Gaurav helped name the “Engage and Enable” blog for the Center For Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE). Follow this link to read the blog post by Mary Guiden and learn about how our lab is involved with the incredible CSNE community.