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Tandon students can attest that they accomplish a lot over the course of a single semester. It can be hard, however, to move on from an exciting topic or favorite professor once the semester is over. What if there were a way to work on a real-world project so big and so important that it spanned almost your entire academic career?

At Tandon, students now have the chance

to find out, thanks to the VIP Program.

Students who take part collaborate on

a project for up to three years, earning

a credit each semester, and because the

projects are multidisciplinary, the teams

include those from a mix of departments.

This gives people from electrical

engineering, computer engineering,

integrated digital media, and other

departments a chance to work alongside

one another, just as they’ll be expected

to do when they collaborate on large

multidisciplinary projects out in the

work world.

Participants take on increasingly responsible

roles on the team as they progress, so new

members are mentored by faculty and grad

students. They, in turn, then mentor newer

students and ultimately step into leadership

roles as older students graduate — tracing

the trajectory they might take over the

course of their professional lives.

VIPVERTICALLY INTEGRATED PROJECTS

Applied Global Public Health Initiative (AGPHI)

Augmented LibraryUniversity libraries can be daunting, hard- to-navigate places, and the Augmented Library project is aimed at mitigating that. With the goal of implementing an augmented reality (AR) system within the Bern Dibner Library to enhance user experience – making it easier to find needed resources and encouraging serendipitous discovery -- participants in the project will work on image recognition technology, human-centered design, and more.

College Students Studying College

Culture and Organizational Resolve (COR)

Concrete Canoe Team

Designing for Creative Physical Computing

Everyday Assistive TechnologyThe students on the Everyday Assistive Technology team are collaborating with designers, educators, artists, occupational and physical therapists, and speech language pathologists across NYU. They learn to practice human-centered design and iteration to improve the accessibility, usability, and durability of assistive technologies while also managing the ethics and sensitivities involved with problem-solving for real people.

Humanities Research Lab: Studying Immigrant Cities

Hyperloop

Mixed Reality Engineering

Music Experience Design Lab

NYC Clean Fleet

NYU iGEM The NYU iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) aims to create a

genetically engineered machine in pursuit of solving local or global problems in health, environmental, agricultural or related sectors. After only one year, the NYU iGEM team received a silver medal for harnessing synthetic biology, 3D printing, and autonomous environmental controls to address issues of manufacturing compounds at-scale that can make important health and food products so expensive.

NYU Rogue Aerospace

NYU Self DriveAutonomous vehicle technologies are an exciting and rapidly growing field and the NYU Self-Drive team is on the cutting edge, having achieved top results at competition. The students of NYU Self-Drive use a suite of sensors to gather 3D information and transform it into route planning and control of a vehicle – either a full-scale golf cart, or a mini car which is easier to test on campus and in New York City.

NYU Tandon MotorsportsYou could say engineering students on the motorsports team are driven, but they might disagree. After all, they are the ones driving when it comes to designing, building and racing in a prototype single-seat, all-terrain vehicle designed to compete in events like the annual Baja SAE competition. In it to win it, the students are making the vehicle reliable, maintainable, ergonomic, and capable of handling heat, sand, rugged hills, and nature’s slings and arrows. And it must be economical to produce, and suitable for everyday recreational users. The prototype vehicle is tested to the limits, pitched for production, and each year goes to the dirt against other teams on the famed

Mexican peninsula.

RePrint BotThe RePrint Bot team utilizes the growing popularity of 3D printing to address the urgent need to recycle plastics. The team has secured a patent, and students continue to refine the system which shreds plastic bottles, melts them together, then reshapes the plastic into a filament to be fed into a 3D printing machine that is compatible with multiple types of plastic polymers.

Robotic Design TeamThe Robotic Design Team will participate in NASA’s Annual Robotic Mining Competition, which challenges university teams to envision and build a mining robot capable of navigating and excavating Mars’ rough terrain. At the hotly contested event, robots must collect as much simulated Martian soil, called regolith, as possible, within a ten-minute time frame, with entrants being judged on weight, power consumption, bandwidth usage, and autonomy, as well the team’s technical paper.

SAE Aero Design

Soft Robotics

Sounds of New York (SONYC)

Smart Cities Technology

Smart Internet of Controlled Things

The Angel Cooler

U•START

Urban LiDAR and Remote Sensing

Vertical FarmingVertical farmers grow produce in urban areas in a controlled environment, allowing for year-round growing without the environmentally costly effects of conventional farming. Students in the project aim to refine an energy efficient, minimally wasteful, scalable system, using their knowledge of automation, biology, and waste-derived energy generation, and their contributions may be helping avert a crisis of global proportions.

Wearable Technology

3D-Printed Biomedical Devices

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The VIP Projects