Tag Archives: Olivet Nazarene University

A Look Back at 2013

  By AT | January 22, 2014 - 10:40 pm |
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Here is a copy of the most recent His Wheels International update. You can read of all the opportunities we had in 2013. January 2014 Letter

ONU Project Update

  By AT | November 1, 2013 - 9:17 pm |
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Today Kevin and Alice had a phone meeting with our Olivet Nazarene University engineering team. We reviewed the neuro trike project plan. Here is an update from one of the team members.

“This past week we were able to finish the Project Plan giving us a clear site of our objectives and what needs to be done now, so this will help us in moving forward hopefully quicker in the next few weeks. Brandon has been meeting every Wednesday with the Electrical Professor based on the coding aspect of the project, so that is moving along smoothly.

I have some exciting news on my end! This past weekend…I was able to attend the national SWE (Society of Women Engineers) conference in Maryland where I attended a mini-session on neurotechnology. The woman presenting this, …from Honeywell, explained some useful information pertaining to our project, and I got the honor of talking to her later and explaining what we are doing with His Wheels. She seemed impressed and thoroughly exciting for us and gave me two contacts who specialize in this subject and would be willing to answer any of our questions. This to me was a huge blessing and I am exciting to see how our project continues to unravel!”

Olivet Nazarene University’s Sr. Student Report

  By AT | October 24, 2013 - 7:49 pm |
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Here is the problem statement that four senior engineering students at Olivet Nazarene University (ONU) will work to solve over the next school year.

His Wheels has worked endlessly to improve its current trike model to be as user-friendly, cost-efficient, durable, and safe as possible. Though the hand-pedaled model serves a plethora of disabled people internationally, it still falls short in being able to mobilize quadriplegic or fully paralyzed clients. Due to a significant lack of funding, prior research regarding this topic has been primitive. Our group has thus been tasked with researching and developing a prototype and working model of an EEG technology which will power a visually evoked trike. The working trike should be able to mobilize fully paralyzed passengers based upon neurological, or electrochemical, cues. (more…)

Olivet—Engineer Meet

  By AT | September 15, 2013 - 12:51 am |
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by Ife Alade
(Journalism Intern from Roosevelt University)

On Friday, Sept. 13, His Wheels Int’l took a road trip to Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais for a visit with the Engineering Department, and a meeting with its students.

Upon their arrival at the Reed Hall of Science Founder Alice Teisan and His wheels engineer, Kevin, were welcomed by Engineering Professors Ken Johnson and Mario Sanders. (more…)

Awesome Day at ONU

  By AT | September 13, 2013 - 9:11 pm |
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Today Kevin, Alice and our new journalism intern from Roosevelt University traveled to Olivet Nazarene University for a 9:30 meeting with four senior engineering students who will do a neuro-engineering project utilizing our trike. (more…)

A Rejection Opportunity

  By AT | August 21, 2013 - 8:40 pm |
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Yesterday Alice went to the post office to send out a bulk mailing. Well such an excursion is always a daunting experience. Yesterday was no exception. I had 171 letters to mail. But guess what, one needs 200 pieces of mail to send out a bulk mailing. The words “Go home and get 29 more piece of mail and then come back” came from the post office clerk. (more…)

Cutie is Off to Another University

  By AT | August 16, 2013 - 10:58 pm | ,
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Cutie is the nickname we’ve given our compact trike. Today Kevin, Alice and Cutie went for a meeting at Olivet Nazarene University (ONU) in Bourbannais, IL. We met with two Mechanical Engineering Faculty members about having 3 senior engineering students use the trike for a senior project.The idea is to look at neuro-engineering and how a quadriplegic could maneuver a trike by EEG brain wave activities.

We dropped Cutie off and here is Cutie’s new home and new roommates

It’s possible that Cutie will outsmart any of us at HWI before the year is over if the trike hangs out with this team. We are excited to see the road Cutie takes at ONU. Kevin and Alice will return the 2nd week of September to meet with students and to answer any questions they might have at the time.

God is up to something and we at HWI are along for the ride.