Client Projects

FSN Pirates

The aim of this project is to investigate, incorporate, develop, and implement new broadcast technologies to enhance the experience of watching Pittsburgh Pirate baseball telecasts. The team has become acquainted to the existing capabilities of sports broadcasting in the Pittsburgh region through the Fox Sports facilities. The team will investigate the existing panoply of proven, novel, unique, and experimental technologies existing throughout sports internationally and will apply them to baseball telecasts.

The six man team represents four countries and seven languages, as well as backgrounds in Art, Computer Science, English Literature, Medical Engineering, and Sociology. This interdisciplinary team has 15 weeks during Spring 2009 to deliver ground breaking ideas and deliverables to the broadcasting industry.

Pittsburgh Technology Center Branding

This project is part of the curriculum of Lighting Design 1 at Carnegie Mellon. The purpose of the project is to brand the Pittsburgh Technology Center with simple to maintain, efficient light that will make the location an icon opposing Pittsburgh's "South Side" neighborhood. Michael's role in the project is designer and project manager. This project is under Cindy Limuaro, a Professor of Lighting Design at Carnegie Mellon University. The final ideas and still renderings can be found here. The videos are located below.

Bad Libs Karaoke for Attack Theatre's "Dirty Ball"

ETC Projects...

Each project course brings together interdisciplinary student teams that must produce working artifacts; in the tradition of Carnegie Mellon, this emphasis is on making real things that work.

A key aspect of the program is to ensure that students have an opportunity to work with a large, diverse set of collaborators with different skills and sensibilities.

A typical project covers an entire semester and is built around four or five students, a faculty supervisor and a client representative.