Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 2 No. 4 Winter 2017 | Page 11

A QL+ senior
design team was
recently featured
on WSET13 news.
Click to watch the
segment.
Senior design students from left: Jeff Flanagan, Bryan Furr, Colin Jones, Kristine Baisa, Riley Allison,
Tim Jennings, and Ben Schultz
At Cal Poly, QL+ currently sponsors about 10 projects
and students there have started a QL+ club that attacks
challenges and allows students who aren’t seniors to
participate in challenges. With the introduction of QL+ to
the mechanical engineering senior design portfolio, a club
is already starting to form at Virginia Tech.
“I find this generation of engineers to be very empathet-
ic; they want to give back and they want to do something
with meaning. Being able to interact on a weekly basis with
the veterans really helps the students understand what life
is like for their customer and what a difference the project
makes in their life.”
As QL+ continues to grow challengers are reaching out to
the program with more ideas and Glenn said the organiza-
tion realized an east coast hub was going to be needed.
“Being from Lexington, I’ve been familiar with Virginia
Tech for years and I’ve always known it as one of the pre-
mier engineering schools in the country,” Glenn said. “At
the CIA I hired many Virginia Tech grads and worked with
many Virginia Tech Co-ops, and those men and women
always did very well in the unique engineering operating
environment in the CIA. In my mind, Virginia Tech is the
place on the east coast where we need to have an anchor
school. My dream is to make it as big as, if not larger, than
Cal Poly. The potential is absolutely here.”
MOMENTUM
Veteran Tammy Landeen of Maine is working
with a senior design team to develop a
device that will allow her to change her
wheelchair tires without leaving her chair.
WINTER'17

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