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Atlanta, GA | Posted: April 27, 2016
Rebecca Keane
Director of Communications
404.894.1720
rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu
Summary Sentence:
Five seniors from the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy showcased projects at Georgia Tech’s Spring 2016 Capstone Design Expo on April 26.
Full Summary:
Five seniors from the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy showcased projects at Georgia Tech’s Spring 2016 Capstone Design Expo on April 26.
Public Policy Seniors Lauren Renaud, Namrata Kolla, and Jessica Richardson Present Their Project at the 2016 Capstone Design ExpoFive seniors from the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy showcased projects at Georgia Tech’s Spring 2016 Capstone Design Expo on April 26.
Namrata Kolla, Lauren Renaud, and Jessica Richardson presented Assessing the Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Intimate Partner Violence Prevention, a study examining how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has affected the uptake of preventive services for intimate partner violence among non-elderly adult women in the United States.
Laura Margaret Burbach and Jared Moro presented Effective Communication of CDC’s Report to Congress on the Management of TBI in Children. Burbach and Moro designed a dissemination strategy to help the Centers for Disease Control communicate a report on the management of traumatic brain injuries in children to a wide audience of stakeholders.
The Capstone Design Expo, held at McCamish Pavilion, is a showcase of Georgia Tech’s graduating seniors as they present their innovations designed and built during the Capstone Design course offered to undergraduate students. Students work in teams to design, build, and test prototypes with real world applications, and at the end of each semester they showcase their efforts at the Capstone Design Expo.
The Spring 2016 expo was the largest expo yet, with approximately 1063 students in 236 teams from the Schools of Aerospace Engineering, Architecture, Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial Design, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, and Public Policy.
