For the past three years, STEMMER IMAGING has worked with Farnborough Sixth Form College to provide an opportunity for students to participate in six-month machine vision projects while still in school. This year, the project continues, with design and development of an automated food inspection system.
The Engineering Education Scheme in England & Scotland is administered by EDT (The Engineering and Development Trust), the largest provider of science, technology, engineering and mathematics enrichment activities for UK youth. The project links teams of Year 12 or S5/S6 students and their teachers with local companies to work on real, scientific, engineering and technological problems, according to STEMMER. While the machine vision projects involve a great deal of technical content, students also learn a strong business element, with the classes investigating what was already on the market and learning about the costs of developing a product and the impact they have on profitability.
"Each team of students has come up with their own project ideas," said Dr. Jon Vickers, Technical Manager at STEMMER IMAGING UK and technical coordinator of the project. "These are discussed in detail before the project is finalized and each team member is then assigned specific responsibilities, with one student taking the role of project manager. At the end of the project, the students produce a detailed report (in excess of 50 pages) which is independently assessed alongside other projects from the region."
Here is a look at each of the projects developed since 2012:
2012-2013: Football tracking project
The first vision project took place in 2012-2013, and its goal was to develop a system for tracking a football’s trajectory during a penalty kick and to identify ways to implement the technique into a smartphone and tablet app. The project was inspired by the English Premier League’s intention to adopt the use of ‘goal line technology’ in season 2013-14.
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