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Trike to Taylor University Today

  By AT | December 5, 2013 - 10:00 pm |
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Today Kevin, our engineer traveled to Taylor University for a University Trike Consortium introductory meeting. Alice was present via Skype due to health issues. Thanks to Dr. C. Brainer, our host, he set up three meetings for HWI. First there was lunch with 4 engineering professors and 3 Wandering Wheels team members. The engineers stayed about 45 min. longer than planned and had many great brainstorming ideas. Next was the Enactus business club faculty member and then on to meet with the short term mission trip coordinator. What an amazing day. Please pray for God’s direction as the faculty continue to contemplate and pray about possibilities with HWI.

Thanksgiving Tool Delivery

  By AT | November 28, 2013 - 3:59 am |
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Tonight Alice was at Wheaton E. Free’s Thanksgiving Eve. Service. One of our ministry friends mentioned that her family was going to Spring Arbor, MI for Thanksgiving, leaving early in the AM. We at HWI are thankful that these friends will deliver  two sets of bike tools to Spring Arbor University (SAU). From there they will go to a ministry in Hyderabad, India that is partnering with SAU and HWI on a few project. The bicycle service arm of HWI has ended but the international bicycle impact of HWI continues and sending tools is one of those ways.

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…)

Anderson University Report

  By AT | October 24, 2013 - 7:17 pm |
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On Tuesday October 15th after leaving Anderson University (AU) and before Alice and Kevin arrived back to Wheaton, IL,four hours later, there was a thank you email waiting for us from the professor who invited HWI to come. “Thank you very much for the informative and enjoyable meeting today.  (more…)

Three State Trike Tour!

  By AT | October 24, 2013 - 7:10 pm |
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Last week Kevin, our engineer and Alice went on a three College/University tour. On Monday, Oct. 14th we met with Spring Arbor University (SAU) Faculty in Michigan. We were joined by a business school professor from Immanuel University’s (Hyderabad, India) new master’s in business program.

Then on Oct. 15th we traveled on to Anderson University (AU) located in Anderson, Indiana. (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…)