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Out and About: Product Design & Innovation Students Show Prototypes of Gifts Five teams of students in the interdisciplinary Product Design and Innovation (PDI) program, answering the challenge to design gifts for Rensselaer alumni and students, presented their completed prototypes — a cube with a clock and picture frames that revolves on a center pin; slim wallets with an etched RPI seal for credit cards and student IDs; a floating, etched image of the world; a tension-relieving squeeze ball emblazoned with "Why Not Change the World;" a desktop paper stand; a paperweight with Rensselaer machined along the perimeter and a 3-D representation of campus within the globe. The student designers, all freshmen, developed concepts and then followed through with a finished prototype manufactured in the School of Engineering's Advanced Manufacturing Lab (AML). Two of the student-designed gifts will be chosen for a manufacturing run of 600 reproductions each next semester by engineering students in the AML. The teams presented their prototypes to an end-of-semester review by faculty, fellow students, and outside design experts.
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