UB Design Winning Awards

As a part of the curriculum UB’s design program, professors assign projects to students that can be entered into competitions. The students are then encouraged and sometimes required to submit their projects to the judges. This year, there have been two such competitions that some of UB talented design students have entered. The Automotive Safety Competition, hosted by the Greater New York Auto Dealers Association and presented at the New York International Auto Show, challenges designers to come up with new ideas on how to increase the safety of traveling by car, bus or anything else on four or more wheels.
Another contest that includes UB participants is the International Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition which asks designers to come up with new and useful ways to use aluminum extrusions.
These two competitions had winners from UB. The prizes included not only money for the participants themselves, but also money for the school represented. Coming in third place was Valerie DiClerico, Scott Marrone, Orlando Nunez, and Trevor Smith for their teamwork effort at the aluminum extrusion competition. They were placed for their design of a bracket that will cut down on the amount of work and precision needed to cut wooden beams to assemble any sloped roof, be it a house, or a shed, etc… Previously, wood would have to be miter cut (cut at specific angles) and joined together to form a sloped roof.
Junior Orlando Nunez, came in second place with his “High Visibility Tread Wear Indicator,” UB’s name was heard yet once more. His design takes the existing car tire, and revamps its manufacturing process. During production, a red band is inserted in the middle of the rubber of the tire. When the tread wears too low in a certain spot, this band becomes visible indicating the need to stop being cheap and to spring for some new tires. Within two weeks, Orlando has held a place in both competitions.
Ryan Wilson, currently a senior at UB won first place for his design entitled “Nature’s Eye.” This so called “eye” consists of something that looks a lot like a cube-shaped streetlight that is suspended into the middle of an intersection with mirrors on each side. This device will help to allow blind intersections to be navigated much easier and to cut down on a number of traffic accidents. With this win Wilson is keeping a tradition going for himself. He won fourtth place last year for the same competition with his design named “Emergency Telecommunication” (ETC) which would link ambulances and emergency vehicles with hospitals via intercoms and cameras, so the hospital staff can see the patient and think of a plan of action before patient even arrives at the ER.
UB Design has been winning awards for years and just keeps getting better. It has excellent faculty, amazing facilities, and award winning students. Just another way UB students prove that hard work and determination pays off.