Bryn Mawr Engineers & Makers

10/24/2017

Happy October everyone!~
Our summer experience series continues this week with a post featuring our Vice President, Nadine Adnane who spent this summer on campus developing apps for the Microsoft HoloLens as part of the Virtual and Augmented Reality internship with Pearson Education.
“This summer I had the pleasure of working with the Microsoft HoloLens as part of Pearson’s “Education Initiative”, a program intended to explore the HoloLens’ potential as an educational tool. I spent the beginning of the internship brushing up on my Unity 3D skills and learning to configure the HoloLens for development. I also spent some time researching other virtual and augmented reality software and tools that could be used to enhance the classroom experience at Bryn Mawr.
One of my favorite parts of the internship was when my teammate and I had the opportunity to compete and present at HoloHack Philly 2017. Not only was HoloHack a lot of fun, but it also opened my eyes to the possibilities of virtual and augmented reality technology. It was also very exciting to present our research and progress at Bryn Mawr’s Digital Scholarship and Research event to students and faculty from other universities.
By the end of the internship, we had designed and created a fully functional augmented reality museum app entitled “HoloMuseum” which allows users to view and learn about sculptures of female figures from Greek mythology. We spent the end of the internship making final touches to the app and compiling resources to help future interns continue our work.
I was also honored to learn that our work has inspired a HoloLens Praxis course which will be offered during the Spring semester this year at Bryn Mawr. If you are interested working with the Hololens or mixed reality in general, be sure to check it out!"
If you'd like to hear more about the experiences of previous HoloLens interns and get a glimpse of HoloMuseum, check out this video:

Pearson Education and Bryn Mawr College have partnered together to explore potential academic applications for the Microsoft HoloLens, an augmented reality d...

09/25/2017

The third post of the our summer experience series features our president, Linghan Mei, who conducted research in the biology department on campus through the Summer Science Research program.

"Over the summer, I spent 10 weeks working in the Brodfuehrer laboratory studying leech swimming pattern. I worked on a project which aimed at understanding the role of cell 208 in the central pattern generator of the leech central nervous system(CNS). I gained experience doing an interesting complex of procedures that involves both molecular biology and electrophysiology.

The photo below shows the standard set-up for a leech CNS dissection, a painstaking yet fascinating procedure that allows us to do electrophysiological experiments(such as injecting currents in to a chosen neuron, locally applying drug onto a neuron, etc.)in order to study how the leech nerve cells respond to changes in different external factors.

This project deepened my interest in neuroscience and made me realize the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach in scientific inquiry.
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09/18/2017

The summer internship series continues...
This week, Leslie Goloh, our secretary and a junior computer science major, talks about her internship with the Educational Technology Services department in Bryn Mawr College.

"This past summer, I worked with the Educational Technology Services (ETS) division of LITS here in Bryn Mawr. Most of my work was centered on creating self-help materials (video tutorials and tech documentations) on BIONIC and the updated version of Moodle, for faculty and students. I also worked with other ETS staff to develop the Digital Competencies Initiative. This initiative is aimed at helping us (Bryn Mawr Students) develop, identify, and articulate our digital capabilities. In this regard, my task was to research and compile various resources to aid students on their quest to becoming digitally competent, as well as to provide ideas and feedback on the structure of the initiative.

I really enjoyed the flexibility of the hours as well as the atmosphere and community of people I worked with. While I learned a host of things from this internship, the biggest takeaway was that the little things matter and eventually add up to become big strengths and therefore, should not be taken for granted."

09/15/2017

Starting this week, we will be featuring members on their summer internships. To kick off the first week, our project manager Justine, who is a sophomore major in Physics, talks about her experience working for a national lab in New Mexico.

"Over the summer, I did R&D (research and development) in the Accelerator Division at Los Alamos National Lab. I worked with particle physics to design the geometry of an electron gun and did mechanical engineering for the support system and connection points of the accelerator. I did a lot of on-the-job learning, since particle physics is not a branch of physics often covered in low-level physics classes, but I enjoyed getting a chance to learn about a whole new branch of physics."

05/18/2017

"BMC Engineers end of year celebration. It's been a great four years, guys! Great work!" - Lindsey Marinello

Speaking of looking fabulous... :D

05/18/2017

Meet the officers who helped organize our first Engineering Faire! We had VR, rocket model launching, oobleck, drones, and other booths as a demo of all the work we have done this semester.

04/01/2017

Nikki Gildea​ organized our wearable electronics workshop today. We had students bringing in their own items to sew on with provided electronics kits. Students not only learned the basics of circuitry but also made their own LED patterns to take home with.

03/25/2017

This Saturday, we hosted our first 3D Printing workshop at campus center. Grace Newman-Lapinski, class of 2019, cities major, is the instructor of the workshop. Students came and learned about how to do 3D designing with Autodesk123D Design. Their designs will be printed out and exhibited in our engineering fair later this semester.

02/22/2017

Over the course of winter break, Educational Technology Services was able to build upon its collective knowledge of the HoloLens through a winter internship. ETS worked with four student interns to understand the process of developing for the HoloLens.

At this presentation, the winter interns (Kara Breeden '18, Jocelyn Dunkley '20, Hyunjung Kim '19, and Linghan Mei '19 ) will present on their experience and will highlight the process of understanding the HoloLens and brainstorming and developing HoloMusic.

Date: February 22, 2017
Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location: Thomas 224

For more details see link below:
http://brynmawr.libcal.com/event/3169513

Through a collaboration with Pearson, Educational Technology Services has been exploring uses for mixed/augmented reality using the Microsoft HoloLens. Over the cours...

02/22/2017

Workshops during 2016 - 2017

02/22/2017

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