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Listed below are some of our current projects. Meet with us to learn how to develop your idea
from concept to market by actually doing it ! Or help us create an innovation lab at GMU !

Organization Projects:

- designing and establishing an innovation lab at GMU

- developing workstations for each step in concept-to-market procedures

- planning a series of concept-to-market workshops

Student Projects:

- finalizing design for PC input device

- developing technology to assist the visually impaired

- designing and building self-reconfigurable robotic modules

Community Projects:

- evaluating and enhancing technology for the visually impaired

- developing manufacturing and marketing proposals

- evaluating and designing assistive technology

- improving and enhancing consumer products

- analysis, design, and proposal for prototype for commercial product

Help make SCI a leading center for innovations. Students, staff and faculty
from all departments are welcome and encouraged to get involved !

Demos:

LED Sequence on Model Car

A remote controlled car was modified to simulate the effect of the glowing lights on the automated vehicle on the Knight Rider TV show. The model was configured with a series of LED’s blinking in sequence. To achieve the “glowing effect”, subsequent LED’s are set to half power.
This is an example of concept to reality. If you have an idea that might be worth pursuing, consider the possibilities of making it happen at the Students Center for Innovations.

Portable Training Device

Inventions do not always require extensive research, development and resources. Quite often a relatively low cost device that can be quickly built can become a very useful resource to the area of its application. For example, a device was created to be used in training personnel.

The need was for a portable device that will sound an alert at random intervals. The device would then display a message alerting the person of a situation, emergency, or other event requiring immediate action. The person would then have to carry out a series of commands pertaining to that event.

This is another example of concept to reality. The Students Center for Innovations is all about ideas and inventions, and more importantly, all about bringing those concepts into reality. The sophistication and quantity of practical, innovative and marketable designs will be a direct measurement of how effective we are as an organization. This measure will be used to continually guide and refine the Students Center for Innovations to lead us into breaking new grounds in science and technology.