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Would you like to join Oticon’s Engineers on an educational study trip to New York and examine the sound levels in the urban environment, visit exciting technical museums, and attend presentations about the development of advanced hearing solutions? Participate in the competition and win a trip to New York along with other talented engineering students and some of the brilliant engineers from Oticon.
In order to find the most skilled and enthusiastic participants for the trip to New York, Oticon holds a nationwide competition in the spring of 2016 where your engineering skills will be put to the test. Here you will get the opportunity to show what you are capable of within the fields of either electronics-, mechanical- or software development.
This means that you, along with a team of the country’s best students from the different engineering schools and universities in Denmark, have the opportunity to join the Oticon Audio Explorers team on a four-day trip to New York at the end of August 2016.
In New York, the Audio Explorers team will be equipped with a GPS and a small Sound Activity Meter (SAM). While we move around in the urban space and visit places of professional interest, the SAM will automatically collect sound data from the surroundings.
We are going to have a packed schedule and among other things, we will visit a number of interesting technical museums and sites. In order to make sure that the professional outcome will be as rich as possible, and to give good examples of the research and development taking place at Oticon, there will be daily presentations about sound and technique given by both external profiles and people from Oticon.
Every night we are going to collect the data output from our SAMs in order to create a complete sound image of the places we have visited during the day. The purpose with the data is that we together create a sound based travel guide to New York.
In order to participate you must be an engineering student with a primary study focus on either electronics, mechanics or software.
You sign up as a group (2-4 people) within one of the three main areas and afterwards you have two weeks to come up with a solution to a problem taken directly from our R&D department. You yourselves choose the format in which you will hand in your final product, so whether you prefer PowerPoint, 1-pager, poster, report, mockup or video presentation you are free to pick the format that suits you best. In other words, feel free to use your imagination.