Congratulations to our Summer Semester WIL students!
2023, March
Congratulations to the talented students who completed the Summer Semester (2022-23) Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Internship Program through the BMW Group + QUT Design Academy. After a very competitive Semester 2, 2022 application process for our internships we deciced to offer a one-off summer semester internship to James Boughen, Jake Day and Kilian Frunz.
James Boughen completed our ‘Future BMW Motorrad Experiences’ project, and while it was quite a broad project brief he has done an exceptional job in narrowing down his research and design brief to focus on one aspect of rider safety. His design uses sensors and emerging tech to alert and communicate to the rider about potential hazards in their blind spots and surroundings - aiming to save crashes and avoid dangerous scenarios.
Jake also completed our ‘Future BMW Motorrad Experiences’ project. Jake's final concept is called Advanced Side View Assist, which aims to increase rider safety through environmental awareness. This responds to his research which identified a key need to increase vision for motorbike riders when on the road. Through a series of sensors and feedback points to a motorbike rider, Jake’s design alerts the rider of vehicle locations in their proximity, allowing riders to take precautionary actions and remove themselves from danger. Jake’s design takes inspiration from current Motorrad products, but has a new and improved TFT interface on the bike. It also presents the information (including alerts of nearby vehicles) in a way that means the rider doesn’t have to move their head and take their vision off the road ahead as much.
Kilian elected to complete the ‘idealworks iw.hub Robot 10yr Future Vision Design’ project. He took a different approach to what we have seen previously with this project brief. Kilian’s design, the ‘iw.family’ is a new application of the existing iw.hub robot technology. He has applied it to a shopping centre context with the aim of using autonomous technology to enhance the shopping experience for customers and staff. His design includes a customer facing ‘concierge’ robot, for personalised shopping experiences, plus a ‘stock’ robot for stock retrieval and management. These variations are built upon a base module which allows for further iterations and use cases.
James Boughen, Jake Day and Kilian Frunz all impressed us this semester with their work ethic, quality of work, professional attitudes and resilience. Best wishes to all on their future work endeavours.
