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What’s a Midwesterner’s pipe dream? How about sitting in the living room recliner while clearing your driveway with a remote-control snowblower?

It’s not a pipe dream for four South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State University mechanical engineering majors who will demonstrate their invention at the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering’s Engineering Expo April 22. 

This is one of about 40 projects that will be on display at the Expo, which is an opportunity for seniors to showcase their capstone efforts. Other examples are a telemedicine app for veterinarians remotely monitoring an à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã and a drone that will inspect shafts in the Sanford Underground Research Facility.

The Expo runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Raven Precision Agriculture Center on the SDSU campus.

In addition to the SDSU seniors, there will be three groups of high school students checking out the exhibits. Sioux Falls O’Gorman has a group of 65 students touring from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Harrisburg is bringing 100 students for an early afternoon tour. Another 15 students will come from Britton-Hecla.

Another group of 100 high school juniors who have expressed an interest in engineering education will take in the Expo as part of their college tour. One group will start the expo tour at 10:30 a.m. while the other group will tour at 1 p.m.

The SDSU students have spent their senior year working on the projects. Fall semester is primarily dedicated to research and design with the spring semester dedicated to building and testing.

The student projects are solving real-world problems for industry partners, community organizations and SDSU departments. Sponsors engaged with the student groups as they worked to solve an issue or problem and create a solution. 

For more information, contact Jenny Bickett, event coordinator/program assistant II for the college, at 605-688-6792 or jennifer.bickett@sdstate.edu or Todd Letcher, associate professor in mechanical engineering, at 605-688-5311 or todd.letcher@sdstate.edu.