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UMass Boston’s Robotics and Engineering UMass Boston’s Robotics and Engineering Club recently came out on top in NASA’s MUREP Innovation Tech Transfer Idea Competition, winning $15,000 and mentorship from NASA experts. The competition challenges students to take one of NASA’s many intellectual properties and expand it or improve upon it to create a product or service for everyday use, developing a marketable device and business plan. Team LazerSense Solutions, UMass Boston’s team of seven students, utilized a laser diode sensor array to create a nextgeneration smoke, carbon monoxide, and air quality sensor. The device was multipurpose, used for smart, in-depth air quality monitoring to improve smoke detection—and even identified precursors to fire.
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