Telling time is a fairly simple task for sighted people. However, it poses considerable constraints on the blind and deaf blind people and communities. While there are time telling devices available in the market, those designs and implementations are inaccurate and exclusive. Tactile watches allow the user to open the cover of the watch and feel the hour and minutes hand with the corresponding dots raised to indicate the number. This gives the user a general idea of the time. Speaking time telling devices operate by announcing the time when the user presses a button to indicate their need to tell the time. Such devices can go unheard in loud areas and can be problematic and noisy in a quiet classroom/work environment. Additionally, such devices serve no purpose for the deaf blind people as they cannot hear. This objective of this project is to develop an inexpensive, user-friendly, digital braille time telling device which will resolve all the inaccuracy and problems existing models pose. This proposal will explore further the details of the working principle, design and implementation of such a device.
Saneela Rabbani is a senior in Mechatronics Engineering at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology. She is the secretary of the Society of Women Engineers, Vaughn Chapter and secretary of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Club. She is a Tutor and Laboratory Technician at Vaughn College. She discovered her passion for teaching at an early age and aspires to obtain her graduate degrees in the field of Engineering and teach on a collegiate level.
I am a senior in the Mechatronics Engineering program at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology. I am currently a Tutor at Vaughn College and was secretary of the college’s robotics club for 3 years. My primary engineering interests are aerospace and robotics, with the goal of seeing how they can learn from and contribute to each other to help society advance.
Dr. Shouling He is a professor of Engineering and Technology at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, where she teaches the courses in Mechatronics Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Her research interests include PLCs, Robotics, Automation and Engineering Education.
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Dr. Amir Elzawawy is an assistant professor at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology. Dr. Elzawawy teaches courses in mechanical and mechatronic engineering and engineering technology programs. His research background is in the area of experimental
Dr. Hossein Rahemi is a professor and department chair of Engineering and Technology at Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology. He is the author of two books, Vaughn College Journal of Engineering and Technology (VCJET), numerous conference papers in
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