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Campus.News for the Week of May 16, 2005 *
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* Out and About: Mechanical Engineering Students Create Segway-Type Device

As part of their Mechatronic System Design class project, eight Rensselaer mechanical engineering students borrowed the Segway personal transport device of Troy Mayor Harry Tutunjian in order to build a similar device. The students demonstrated their final product and returned the Segway to the Mayor during his recent visit to campus. According to Kevin Craig, class teacher and professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, the Segway offers an excellent example of a device using mechatronics, the integration through design of mechanical engineering, electronics, computers, and controls.

Class participants were: Sean Clark, Samuel Cole, Mathieu Digeser, Alison Haefele, Matthew Herd, Michael Kokko, Charles Scaringello, and John Wason.
Segway-Type
Photos by Jill Evans

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