Autodesk Names Winners of Inventor Student Design Contest

From Cadalyst:

Grand-prize winners also recognized as Autodesk's Inventor of the Month for June. Autodesk announced the winners of its Inventor Student Design Contest, which was launched in January 2007 through the company's Student Engineering and Design Community. Post-secondary students from around the world submitted designs created using Autodesk Inventor. The grand prize for the student contest, as well as Autodesk's June Inventor of the Month title, went to a team of students from the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland. The team, led by student Michael Piersa, designed "Wheelchair for the 21st Century," which employs a gyroscope mounted underneath the seat. This gyroscope allows the wheelchair to maintain a vertical position without using its auxiliary wheels. "We wanted to completely rethink traditional wheelchair design and create a new level of functionality," said Piersa. "With Inventor, we were able to fully explore our ideas and focus on the specific problems we were trying to solve rather than spending time solely on the 3D geometry required to build the design."