StrideSmart team wins first place for device design in Purdue’s Spark Challenge
A team of Weldon School senior design students won first place at Purdue’s Spark Challenge in December 2016. The team presented their project, “StrideSmart,” a smart assistive cane attachment for the geriatric population to help monitor patient walking patterns and potentially prevent falls for users. The device would notify users of irregular walking patterns in real-time through a companion smartphone application.
Purdue’s Spark Challenge is a campus-wide, corporate-sponsored design competition, hosted by the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in partnership with the ECE Student Society and General Motors.
Students in any discipline can present any project that incorporates a microcontroller. The event gives students an opportunity to collaborate on developing various projects and demonstrate their technical skills.
Photo: StrideSmart team members: Raj Patel, Chloe Beach, Anjali Malik, and Alex Baker.