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Revealing Mechanical Engineering in Non-Traditional Spaces: Salons and Barber Shops - Team 2

Company: PSU REID Lab 2

Major(s):
Primary: ME
Secondary: IE

Non-Disclosure Agreement: NO

Intellectual Property: NO

The objective of this project is to design a learning discovery space and modules accessible to K-12 audiences inspired by elements in salon spaces/barber shops. There is a need to rebrand mechanical engineering (ME) so that people from all walks of life can see the many ways ME can make a difference in our world, especially in non-traditional spaces. Teams in this project will have creative freedom to design a learning discovery environment using elements common in salons and barber shops to help K-12 audiences generate excitement about mechanical engineering as a potential field of study in the future.

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Our mission is to help bring the real-world into the classroom by providing engineering students with practical hands-on experience through industry-sponsored and client-based capstone design projects. Since its inception, the Learning Factory has completed more than 1,800 projects for more than 500 different sponsors, and nearly 9,000 engineering students at Penn State University Park participated in such a project.