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Grand Valley State University Applied Computing Institute The Applied Computing Institute (ACI) at Grand Valley State University gives both undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to work closely with major employers on real-world projects. Each undergraduate senior project is sponsored by a sponsoring company. For 15 weeks, seniors work closely with the company under faculty supervision to go through an entire product development process. In 2020, computer science students at ACI conducted a joint project with engineers at Whirlpool aimed at improving the company’s smart appliance technologies. Whirlpool tasked the students with designing Graduate students involved with ACI work on higher-end and more complex projects. A sponsoring company will create a statement of work to solve a problem or develop a process. Graduate students are paid a stipend and work on the project as they complete their graduate degree. a mobile app allowing Whirlpool employees to contribute data to enhance the user experience of Whirlpool’s Smart Countertop Oven. Specifically, the app was designed to allow Whirlpool employees the ability Students Partnering with Whirlpool
to contribute data by annotating photos of food. The data was then used to train and improve image recognition algorithms to automatically recognize food when placed on the countertop oven.
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