{"id":650032,"date":"2025-04-30T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=650032"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:23:29","slug":"rochester-engineers-serve-community-design-capstone-projects-650032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/rochester-engineers-serve-community-design-capstone-projects-650032\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester engineers serve the community through design capstone projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seniors and master\u2019s students provide businesses and nonprofits solutions to real-world problems.<\/h2>\n

The Sri Vidya Temple Society had a problem. In the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, the leadership of the Hindu temple in Rush, New York, removed carpeting at their community gathering space and installed tile flooring to allow for more frequent deep cleaning and make the space more inviting. But the change had unintended consequences.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sound started bouncing everywhere,\u201d says Veena Ganeshan, a senior instructor of biomedical engineering<\/a> at the University of Rochester<\/a> and coordinator of public outreach for the Sri Vidya Temple. \u201cIt became less of a meditative atmosphere and much more of a chaotic atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a moment of what Ganeshan calls \u201cdivine intervention,\u201d she met colleagues in the audio and music engineering<\/a> (AME) program and discovered the temple\u2019s acoustic issues are exactly the types of challenges AME students are equipped to tackle. She approached her colleagues to see if they had students willing to help.<\/p>\n

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