Rochester engineers serve the community through design capstone projects
Seniors and master’s students provide businesses and nonprofits solutions to real-world problems.

The Sri Vidya Temple Society had a headache to deal with. In the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, the leadership of the Hindu temple in Rush, New York, removed carpeting at their community gathering space and installed tile flooring to allow for more frequent deep cleaning and make the space more inviting. But the change had unintended consequences.

“The sound started bouncing everywhere,” says Veena Ganeshan, a member of the Sri Vidya Temple Society and senior instructor and senior laboratory engineer in the University of Rochester’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. “It became less of a meditative atmosphere and much more of a chaotic atmosphere.”

In a moment of what Ganeshan calls “divine intervention,” she met colleagues in the audio music and engineering (AME) program and discovered the temple’s acoustic issues are exactly the types of challenges AME students are equipped to tackle. She approached her colleagues to see if they had students willing to help.

Read more: https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/rochester-engineers-serve-community-design-capstone-projects-650032/

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