Lectra awards design faculty & graduate students at ITAA Conference

23 Dec '09

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The "Lectra Innovation Award for Teaching" was given to Linda Gardner and Allison Young of Alabama A&M University for their work entitled "A Digital Fashion Design Competition." Gardner and Young created a digital fashion design competition to provide a way in which student designs are honored and showcased. The students' designs were posted on the internet and participants interacted by selecting winning designs. "Students related very well to this activity because they frequently use the internet as a common means of communication. This was also a recruitment activity because it gave much needed visibility to the Apparel, Merchandising, and Design studies across campus," according to Linda Gardner and Allison Young.

Lectra also awarded the "Lectra Innovation Award for Faculty Research," which was given to Adriana Petrova of Oklahoma State University for her work entitled "Use of Body Scan Technology to Capture the Space Enclosed by a Garment: Case Study of Segmented Arm Body Armor". The purpose of the study was to explore the possibility of using body scanning technology to effectively capture the inner space enclosed in a piece of body armor. The study revealed that body scanning technology can be successfully used to measure the thickness profile of body armor, accurately providing a visual and numerical description of the enclosed body armor, if it is rigid enough to retain its shape during the scan.

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