Author: Raksha Ravimohan

We are honored to be featured on the Ultimaker Blog as a collaborative space to empower student innovation! Full article : The NYU Tandon School of Engineering is more than just a resource for students who want to learn about the technology of today and tomorrow. Bustling with additive manufacturing tools like Ultimaker 3D printers, CNC machines, laser cutters, and imaging equipment, NYU Tandon was designed to inspire and prepare students to be motivated and…

This week, we conducted the Intro to Raspberry pi workshop, the last workshop of the semester! Being one of the most popular topics and featuring a useful platform for creating simple devices, the raspberry pi workshop managed to invoke great participation. The students were very excited to learn about the board even during the end of the semester! The speaker Christian Moscardi, has extensive hardware prototyping and hacking experience, most recently placing semifinalist at NYC BigApps…

How great would it be if you wrote a program that finds the jobs that you want from all over the internet? Last week, we had Karan Rajpal from Moat to give a workshop on creating a chatbot. The participants learnt to write the code to process natural language using python libraries. Karan gave a good introduction of Chatbots and NLP (Natural Language Processing) techniques with up-to-date examples. The session was very informative and we were…

For the last workshop in the Ideation series, we invited Tejas Bhalerao, an interaction designer at Mastercard to conduct a workshop on UX prototyping tools. It was an honor for us to have Tejas teach the basics of prototyping and the “why” behind all the design decisions. The participants learnt a lot about different tools, how to choose them and what kind of prototype can be created with it. Tejas did an amazing job of…

Team WingingIt Bested Groups from Around the World in a Quest to Design a Low-Power Consumption Remote-Controlled Passenger Aircraft The SAE Aero team’s aircraft from the Tandon School of Engineering placed tenth internationally and third nationally among nearly 40 teams in the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aero Design West Competition. Every year, around 70 teams from around the world gather in Van Nuys, California, for a chance to fly the model aircraft they built during that…