RHIT to host Rose Show & highlight student’s projects

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — This year’s Rose Show will have 115 projects on display and the community is invited to attend.

According to a release from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the Rose Show will be free and held from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1 in the feildhouse area of the Sports and Recreation Center.

The Rose Show is described as “the college’s version of the World’s Fair” and will showcase innovative RHIT student projects that focus on addressing the needs of the featured clients, companies, and organizations at this year’s event.

This year’s projects will center around artificial intelligence, cloud computing, generative AI, gaming, robotics, and software programming.

The release notes that the event initially made its debut in 1928 with more than 6,700 people attending in 1932.

Between first-year students all the way to seniors, all academic departments will be displayed and represented at the event. There will be judges and awards at the end.

A few of the projects that will be displayed at the Rose Show are as follows:

• A Physical Therapy Car Simulator Device for Union Health:
  • Students have developed a new car simulator to supplement the rehabilitation process for patients recovering from a stroke, hip replacement surgery, or similar health conditions that restrict their access to transportation. This new device will replace an outdated, earlier version developed several years earlier by Rose-Hulman students. The project has been supported by a Union Health Foundation grant.
• NASA Psyche Asteroid Devices:
  • Two student teams are helping Arizona State University and NASA scientists prepare to explore the Psyche asteroid, currently orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. One team has designed an automated sealing system for collecting samples from the asteroid, maintaining the integrity of the samples. Another team examined the future manufacturing of tools and equipment of the asteroid’s naturally metallic surface to better comprehend the composition of the asteroid.
• Hospital At Home:
  • An application has been created, with the aid of MedM’s SDK technology, to allow patients to take measurements at home and send their vital health measurements automatically through Bluetooth devices to physicians at a hospital or health care facility – therefore reducing medical visits and providing daily monitoring of patient care. This project’s client is Jimmy McKanna of Union Health.
• Drip Irrigation System For Terre Haute’s reTHink Sustainability Organization:
  • A prototype has been developed for a drip irrigation system that harvests rainwater for plants and helps volunteers at three community gardens
• Local, National & International Civil Engineering Projects:
  • Civil and environmental engineering teams have designed athletic facility expansions for Terre Haute’s Miss Softball America and Riley Recreation League organizations; developed solutions for the Niagara Falls Water Board and San Francisco Pier 96 Seawall replacement; and studied site development for a project in Ghana.
• Devices & Services to Help Health Care Patients in Developing Countries:
  • Electrical and computer engineering and mechanical engineering teams created an open-source 3D printable syringe pump for delivering anesthesia and a reusable electrosurgical handpiece – for use by doctors in healthcare facilities in developing countries. Mathematics research projects have studied the effects of healthcare spending on economic growth and New York real estate prices, and predicted the next pitch type in the at-bat of a Major League Baseball game.

Some of the projects at the Rose Show have been completed for clients throughout the community including Milwaukee Tool, Rural Health Innovation Collaborative, Naval Surface Warfare Center-Crane, Ind., and Kalogon.

Projects were also part of various competition teams such as the Battery Workforce Challenge and CubeSat, Grand Prix Engineering, and Human Powered Vehicle teams.

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