Alice Sheppard, a celebrated disabilities dancer and choreographer recently demonstrated the connection between physics and engineering, and dance as she performed on a prototype ramp designed and built by students at Olin College of Engineering. The idea for the ramp came from Sheppard, but the planning, modeling, and manufacturing all took place at the college. Sheppard plans to take the prototype plan to set designers who can build a finished product that she can travel with for her performances. Read more.
