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Names: Samantha Music & Kerri Killen
Degree: Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering
University: Stevens Institute of Technology
Grad year: 2012
Employer: Versor Inc.
Industry: Medical Devices
Title: Co-Founders / COO CFO
Compensation: Zero so far!

Versor Inc. is the brainchild of Samantha Music and Kerri. Killen. The company and product stemmed from a senior year design project at Stevens Institute of Technology. During the project Samantha and Kerri invented a medical device to measure the range of motion in spinal patients. The company's goal now is to manufacture the device to clinical standards and distribute it to physicians. How cool is that?

The senior year design project was a challenge to invent a way to measure range of motion without x-rays.

Samantha and Kerri came up with a series of sensors they call the Versor.

The Versor provides pre and post-operative measurements of spinal movement for diagnosis.

The user straps on the device and does a series of range-of-motion exercises. The device provides angular output over 3 dimensions.

The spine is a tricky series of joints because it moves not only forward, backwards, and laterally, but also rotationally. Most people who bend forward, for example, don't bend straight forward. They twist or rotate.

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 Engineering students at Northwestern University are getting a leg up on the competition. They're learning to swing dance in a for-credit class called Whole Body Thinking.

Joe Holtgreive (HOHLT'-greev), an assistant dean at the McCormick School of Engineering, started the class to help future engineers break outside their comfort zone.

Holtgreive says the course, led by Northwestern University Professor of Dance Billy Siegenfeld (SEE'-gen-feld), is teaching students known for left-brain thinking to use more of the right side of their brains.

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