Design Day Photo Gallery Spring 2017
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The Design Day panel of judges ready to go. | ||
Team Amazon. Jie Wan, Jason Liu, Tess Huelskamp, Ian Whalen, Ankit Luthra. | Team Auto-Owners. Seth Schmitz, Josh Christ, Alex Besinger, Yunfei Peng. | Team GE. Lucas Reynolds, Henok Alemayehu, Lama Aboubakr, Joshua Schwallier, Matt Sopata. |
Team GM. Rob Cobau, Brendan Carlson, Phyllis Jin, Vince Cogswell. | Team Humana. Ayush Agrawal, Yaqeen Almahdi, Lisa Doan, Mike Hanlon. | Team Meijer. Mike Mei, Matt Bender, Nancy Krutty, Mark Mangliers. |
Team Michigan State University. James Dodge, Tom Beaver, Cathy Dinsmoor, Jimmy Mkude, Charlie Ward. | Team Microsoft. David Saksa, Lefan Zhang, Anh Nguyen, Nick Bunton, Ramon Niebla. | Team Mozilla. Avalon Long, Ian Ferguson, Manotej Meka, Zack Herrick. |
Team MSUFCU. Ethan Boyd, Steven Jorgensen, Qiuning Ren, Kieran Hall, Will Rudnick. | Team Rook. Roy Barnes, Chiyu Song, Mark Velez, Will McGee, Matthew Hammerly. | Team Spectrum Health. Katie Foss, Hao Chen, Matt Hannan, Matt Lamb. |
Team TechSmith. Yang He, Ryan Cornillie, Alex Crimin, Zeke Zandbergen. | Team TWO MEN AND A TRUCK. Kai Wang, Jordan Ng, Travis Nichols, Connor McDermott, Curtis Notarantonio. | Team Union Pacific. Matthew Schleusener, Jon Wild, Kangjie Mi, Nick Summers. |
Team Urban Science. Hang Zhang, Anthony Orr, Yoseph Radding, Zach Heick. | Team Whirlpool. Ryan Feldman, Domenic Belcastro, Mike Babiarz, Yuqi Xiao, Nico Vergara. | Team Yello. Cody Helmling, Claury Mejia Rodriguez, Derek Li, Mike Lukowski. |
It's showtime for Team Amazon's award winning project video, “ACRA: Amazon Customer Review Analyzer ”. | Proud Dad shares this great day with Tess Huelskamp of Team Amazon. | After watching their project video,Team Amazon fields questions about the use of natural language processing in their award winning project “ACRA: Amazon Customer Review Analyzer ”. |
"What are the judges thinking?" wonder the members of Team Auto-Owners as they all watch their project video. | Team Auto-Owners fields questions from the Design Day judges about the use of CakePHP in their “Location-Based Services Mobile App”. | Mom and dad traveled from Saint Johns to celebrate Design Day with son Alex Besinger of Team Auto-Owners. |
Lama Aboubakr of Team GE explains GE's cloud-based Predix platform to a Design Day visitor. | ||
Team GM proudly presents “GM Transportation Experience App”. | A Design Day guest learns about Team GM's “GM Transportation Experience App” from team member Rob Cobau. | |
Team Humana's corporate project sponsors watch their team's project video. Could one of them be a future Design Day judge? Maybe. But, which one? | Yaqeen Almahdi explains the use of the Django framework in their Team Humana project “Humana Kids”. | MSU capstone students from other programs learn about Team Humana's“Humana Kids” from Yaqeen Almahdi and Mike Hanlon. |
The project video about “MyMeijer: Crowdsource Shopping ” plays while Team Meijer watches and wonders what the judge's questions will be. | Nancy Krutty of Team Meijer records the day with her proud mom and dad. | Meijer project sponsors from Grand Rapids support their student Team Meijer throughout the semester and on Design Day. |
Members of Team Michigan State University view the video of their award winning project “CATAlyst: Mapping CATA Buses in Real-Time” with the Design Day judges. | Charlie Ward clarifies the bus location interpolation algorithm used by Team Michigan State University's award winning project “CATAlyst: Mapping CATA Buses in Real-Time”. | Cathy Dinsmore explains to a Design Day visitor how students can add their class schedule to Team Michigan State University's “CATAlyst: Mapping CATA Buses in Real-Time”. |
Team Microsoft's project video about their “Intune Company Portal Helper Bot” begins to roll for the Design Day judges. | Visiting high school student and future Spartan engineer learns about Team Microsoft's “Intune Company Portal Helper Bot” from team member Nick Bunton. | Ramon Niebla of Team Microsoft describes how their “Intune Company Portal Helper Bot” prioritzes search results based on user feedback. |
Team Mozilla acknowledges the help of Firefox fox in their video about their project “Improvements to Firefox's about:preferences”. | A judge's question about the dynamic construction of the new preferences search feature is answered by Team Mozilla's Manotej Meka. | Corporate project sponsor and CSE alumnus Jared Wein of Mozilla celebrates with Team Mozilla. |
A potentially disasterous date night is averted thanks to Team MSUFCU's “Banking with Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri”. | Team MSUFCU's Kieran Hall describes the architeture of their PHP API used by their “Banking with Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri”. | Is this a proud more or what? Just ask son Will Rudnick of Team MSUFCU. Mom travelled all the way from Chicago for Design Day. |
Team Rook nervously watches as the video about their project “Force Platform Ingestion Tool (PIT)” begins to roll for the Design Day judges. | Team Rook's Matthew Hammerly demonstrates the use of their “Force Platform Ingestion Tool (PIT)”dashboard to Design Day visitors. | Mark Velez of Team Rook explains how their “Force Platform Ingestion Tool (PIT)” warns about computer security threats by identifying anomolies in network traffic. |
The four members of Team Spectrum Health listen intently to a Design Day judge's question about their “Resident Physician Tracking”. | Spectrum Health project sponsors from Grand Rapids are proud to mark the day with Team Spectrum Health. | Professor Dean Knudsen of North Dakota State University learns about Team Spectrum Health's “Resident Physician Tracking” from team member Katie Foss. |
Complex physics concepts are much easier to teach using Team TechSmith's award winning“Teacher’s Virtual Toolbelt”. | Team TechSmith's Ryan Cornillie answers Design Day judge E.J. Dyksen's question about the challenges with latency in streaming. | A Design Day visitor tries out Team TechSmith's “Teacher’s Virtual Toolbelt” using the HoloLens. |
Team TWO MEN AND A TRUCK prepare to field the first question from the Design Day judges about their game “Mobile Mini Movers Who Care”. | MSU Trustee Melanie Foster gets driving instructions for Team TWO MEN AND A TRUCK's game “Mobile Mini Movers Who Care” from Travis Nichols. | Jordan Ng coaches an MSU student trying to avoid running red lights and move boxes to the goal using their game “Mobile Mini Movers Who Care”. |
Corporate project sponsors from Union Pacific congratulate their student Team Union Pacific on their award winning system “Learning New Train Routes”. | Train engineers and conductors can learn new routes using Team Union Pacific's award winning system “Learning New Train Routes”. | Team Union Pacific's Nick Summers explains how the image recognition works in their award winning system “Learning New Train Routes”. |
The Design Day judges form a few final questions while watching Team Urban Science's project video. | Team Urban Science elucidates how recommendations are made in their “Real-Time Ad Campaign Management” system. | A future Spartan is very proud of her daddy, Anthony Orr of Team Urban Science. |
Team Whirlpool's video illustrates how Whirlpool can monitor their trade partner's commercial laundry equipment using their new “Commercial Laundry Dashboard”. | Nico Vergara of Team Whirlpool fields a question about the use of Cordova Iconic in their “Commercial Laundry Dashboard”. | Team Whirlpool appreciates the support of their Whirlpool corporate project sponsors from Benton Harbor, Michigan. |
Project video number 18 spins up for the Design Day judges showcasing Team Yello's “YelloVision: Career Fair Augmented Reality App”. | Team Yello responds to a Design Day judge's question about company logo recognition in their “YelloVision: Career Fair Augmented Reality App”. | Mike Lukowski of Team Yello demonstrates their “YelloVision: Career Fair Augmented Reality App” for Design Day guests. |
Design Day Awards Ceremony keynote speaker Scott Wadsworth of Microsoft visits with Team Microsoft. | Design Day judge E.J. Dyksen of Michigan State University test drives Team TechSmith\s “Teacher’s Virtual Toolbelt” using the HoloLens. | |
Design Day judge Mark Welscott of Spectrum Health visits with Team Spectrum Health. | MSU Professor Rich Enbody and Design Day Chief Justice talks with Team Michigan State University. | |
Team Techsnith wins the Auto-Owners Exposition Award presented by Scott Lake. | Team Union Pacific is presented with the MSU Federal Credit Union Praxis Award by Liam Petraska. | Wendy Hamilton presents Team Amazon with the TechSmith Screencast Award. |
Team Michigan State University wins the Urban Science Sigma Award presented by Elizabeth Klee and Luke Mercier. |