In full transparency, the following is a press release submitted to SOURCE media.
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SPRINGFIELD – Benjamin Colledge, working toward a BSE in Mechanical Engineering, is among more than 100 students who presented their Product Development and Innovation projects at the Product Innovation Showcase held in Rivers Memorial Hall on the University campus.
The Product Innovation Showcase is the culmination of a co-curricular course where entrepreneurial teams of Engineering and Business students collaborate for an entire semester to turn new product ideas into marketable products. Engineering students develop a functional prototype while Business students develop the preliminary marketing strategy and business plan for the product. A few of the product concepts will be submitted for patents and have the potential to get commercialized.
The event format is a competition where VIP investors are given $1 million GBD (Golden Bear Dollars) – Western New England University currency – to invest in the product innovations that demonstrated the most commercial viability. Investors were encouraged to consider the following factors; the quality of the prototype, the product’s usefulness and benefits, the target market strategy, an explanation of the financial questions for production costs and revenue projections, and the professionalism of team members at the Showcase.
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Colledge’s project is entitled Camper Cleaner. Camper Cleaner is an all-in-one, hands-free solution for cleaning your RV/Camper in minutes. With the press of a button, watch the system clean all debris off the slide-out of the RV/Camper with ease and minimal effort.
“While I was impressed by our business and engineering students’ ideas that resulted in the development of prototypes within a single semester, I am excited not only by their creativity but also their demonstrated ability to adapt to current and future needs of the marketplace,” said University President Robert E. Johnson. “This is the essence of a Western New England education that prepares its students for the future of work.”
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Western New England University (WNE) is a private, nationally ranked, comprehensive institution with a focus on preparing work-ready and world-ready graduates. Founded in 1919 in Springfield, Massachusetts as a division of Northeastern College, WNE’s 215-acre suburban campus serves more than 3,700 students, including over 2,500 full-time undergraduates. More than 47,000 alumni have earned degrees through its 90+ undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs at Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, and Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and School of Law.
Students come from 39 U.S. states and territories and 23 countries. Of 45,104 living alumni, 30% remain within the region, residing in the four Western Massachusetts counties and northern Connecticut.
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