Engineering students will have a chance to show off their solutions to real-world engineering problems from 1 to 3 p.m. tomorrow during the Learning Factory Project Showcase at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel.

The program, sponsored each semester, provides students in electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering the opportunity to explain projects they completed for classes.

Seniors involved had the opportunity to develop solutions to problems posed by 12 companies who came to campus earlier this semester looking for new ideas to engineering problems. The 31 senior capstone design projects focus on solutions to these problems, some of which included creating an automated wheelchair computer for disabled people, designing a demonstration facility for helicopter flight simulator and designing a demonstration grain bin simulator.

Some freshmen will also be presenting projects. Students in the first-year design and graphics course ED&G 100 (Introduction to Engineering Design) were given the problem of designing access for disabled people at Hazleton Campus; finalists for each section of this course will present their solutions at the showcase.

"The goal is to give students a chance to show off their work for the semester," said John Lamancusa, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Learning Factory.