Harvey Mudd Presents 2022 Milestone 奖s

Five organizations are being honored by Harvey Mudd College for participating in its 诊所 Program and for investing in students and the future of science, 技术, 工程与数学.

微软, 亚马逊的名字, 斗山山猫, Georg Fischer Signet and 千年空间系统 are sponsors of the 诊所 Program, an internationally recognized hallmark of Harvey Mudd College that engages juniors and seniors in the solution of real-world, 为工业客户解决技术问题. 每年, 40多个机构, many with HMC alumni employees who support the 诊所 Program as liaisons and advisors, work with approximately 250 students to develop solutions to business challenges and push forward the industry standard in research and development or build a working prototype. The business value of the 诊所 outcomes often leads sponsors to return.

Returning 诊所 sponsors are recognized for every five projects with the Milestone 奖.

15诊所项目

微软, 电脑软件制作人, 消费电子产品, 个人电脑及相关服务, 自1990年以来一直是HMC诊所的赞助商. Its latest challenge to Harvey Mudd students involves diversifying 微软’s image recommendations in PowerPoint Designer. Using machine learning and clustering techniques, the student team recognized concrete and abstract features that images can share. Computer science alumna Sarah (Ferraro) Stein ’12, a senior software engineering manager at 微软, 今年担任联络员.

10诊所项目

The San Francisco Bay Area research and development company 亚马逊的名字 designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronic devices. Among its projects are new audio algorithms for Amazon devices. The 诊所 team developed an autonomous robotic platform to collect audio data in a household environment using accurate localization and navigation. 工程 alumnus Phil Hilmes ’98 serves as a 诊所 facilitator and is director of audio 技术 at 亚马逊的名字.

五个诊所项目

斗山山猫 is a leading global manufacturer of construction, 农业, landscaping and grounds maintenance equipment, 附件及服务. 本学年的项目, liaisons asked students to equip an autonomous Bobcat riding mower with mapping and obstacle avoidance. The 2021–2022 student 诊所 team utilized mapping algorithms from a previous Bobcat 诊所 team and optimized the mower’s route, 割草模式和避障. 工程 alumnus Scott Park ’87 is president and CEO of Doosan.

乔治·菲舍尔·西格内特， manufacturer of plastic and metal piping systems, asked this year’s 诊所 team for help designing a sensor to measure the concentration of total active ions in ultrapure water applications. The students improved the sensor’s novel algorithm and developed a real-time implementation compatible with existing conductivity sensor hardware. 物理 alumnus Colter Downing ’19, a project manager at GF, served as a liaison.

千年空间系统 创建可靠的, NASA的低成本卫星产品, National Security Space and commercial customers. To aid Millennium’s development of an optical precision timing instrument, the student team designed an opto-mechanical structure and developed repeatable assembly procedures for precision optics.

诊所项目

Under the guidance of a faculty advisor and a company liaison, students work in teams of four or five to develop solutions to unsolved problems presented by sponsoring organizations. 应用ing their learning in creative ways, HMC students then present their solutions. Companies retain all intellectual property rights that arise out of the project, and it is not uncommon for HMC students to be named on patents.

在2021-2022学年, students undertook 46 诊所 projects related to engineering, 计算机科学, 数学和物理. Several projects also have a social justice or international (Global 诊所) focus. 自1963年以来, Harvey Mudd students have tackled challenging problems in nearly 1,700 诊所 projects for more than 500 clients, 其中很多都是财富1000强公司.

Established as an innovation in engineering education in 1963, 诊所 has been expanded to other HMC academic departments and copied by institutions worldwide. The National Academy of 工程 recognized the program and three HMC faculty members—Clive L. Dym,米. 麦克·吉尔克森和J. 理查德·菲利普斯(Richard phillips)获得2012年伯纳德·M奖. Gordon Prize for Innovation in 工程 and Technology Education “for creating and disseminating innovations in undergraduate engineering design education to develop engineering leaders.”