The Journal-News (Hillsboro, Ill., Sept. 28) -- Illinois student Alexis Wernsing hopes to have a voice amplifier that will attach to her wheelchair and that she can operate herself. She is working with Illinois industrial design professor Deana McDonagh and Skot Wiedmann, a graduate of the School of Art and Design and a technician in electrical and computer engineering, who will design and build a voice amplifier called AmpliMy.