Recap · Brady Innovation Lab · Fall 2024
Predict liquid volume from one image.
- 60 students from MSOE and UWM
- Liquid Boogaloo won
Innovation Labs playbook · MSOE News, Dec 2024
Innovation Labs
Bring a problem. Meet the teams that work on it.
Student teams spend four to eight weeks on a problem your company brings. Your engineer holds one office hour a week.
In a company account, you describe the problem and your dates, and the chapter's officers accept or ask questions; you follow it there.
The terms
What You Bring
A problem your team wants explored, data or a sandbox the students may use, and an engineer for one office hour a week. The default prize pool is $5,000, given to the chapter through the Foundation.
Innovation Labs playbook
What Comes Back
Every team's final submission and a recap within 30 days. Each team's code stays in the event's private repositories.
The Terms
We don't ask students to sign NDAs for these projects. A required signature lowers participation, and if a project needs one because of what's at stake in the output, a student event is probably the wrong place for it.
A gift never buys access to students.
How a Lab runs
From the first meeting to the recap.
Officers explain the Lab timeline · MSOE AI Club · Sep 2024 First meeting
We scope the problem with you before any student sees your brief. We don't ask students to sign NDAs for these projects.
Brady Lab kickoff · MSOE AI Club · Oct 2024 Kickoff
Kickoff. You present the problem to the room.
Hackathon · MSOE AI Club · Nov 2024 Four to eight weeks
Teams of six to nine build, with your engineer's office hour each week.
Innovation Labs finals · MSOE AI Club · Dec 7, 2024 Showcase
Teams present their work to three judges.
Liquid Boogaloo, the Brady Lab winners · Dec 2024 Afterwards
Every team's final submission and a recap within 30 days. Each team's code stays in the event's private repositories.
Source: Innovation Labs playbook. This is how Labs run today.
After you say yes
Your part of the event, on one private page.
The officers send a private link, and it opens without an account. Add your materials, name who's coming and offer to cover a need. The officers see each change.
The sponsor workspace, rebuilt with sample data. Names and links are masked.
Step 1 of 5
The officers send the link. It opens without an account or a password.
A brief, a dataset or slides, as a file or a link.
Mentors, judges or engineers. The officers see this roster.
The row flips to “Offered · pending” until the officers accept.
Teams, checkpoints and materials land on the same page.
Ask the Officers for an Invitation
Four Labs since fall 2024.
- Brady60 MSOE and UWM students worked on predicting liquid volume from a single photo.See the Recap
- Juno10 student teams worked on Juno's fintech problems.See the Recap
- Xorbix21 teams from five schools worked on Xorbix's problems in manufacturing, health and insurance.See the Recap
- Persistent Systems17 teams worked on Persistent's problems in financial services and healthcare, with Databricks, for $10,000 in prizes.See the Recap
- Fall 2026Oct 8 – Nov 5, with teams from MSOE and UWM.See the Lab
Xorbix
21 teams from five schools worked on Xorbix's problems in manufacturing, health and insurance.
MSOE AI Club event page
Persistent Systems
17 teams worked on Persistent's problems in financial services and healthcare, with Databricks, for $10,000 in prizes.
MSOE AI Club event records
Sources: Innovation Labs playbook; MSOE News, Dec 2024; MSOE AI Club event records.
The next Lab
Fall 2026
Oct 8 – Nov 5, with teams from MSOE and UWM.
Showcase in 17 days
- KickoffOct 8
- ShowcaseNov 5
Brett Storoe PresidentAndrew Needham Vice PresidentAva Latoria Treasurer
Your note goes to the officers who run MSOE AI Club's Labs.
Bring a problem to the next Lab.
Tell the officers what you'd like explored. The first meeting settles the scope.
Bring a ProblemIn a company account, you describe the problem and your dates, and the chapter's officers accept or ask questions; you follow it there.