Fancy Dinner Party
In a special collaboration project between Engineering Design, HRT, and Culinary Arts, team members got a chance to practice their skills in another real-world situation. Those in Engineering Design got a firsthand experience practicing meeting other engineers and possible employers, while those in HRT and Culinary Arts had a chance to practice their skills cooking and serving the meal. The whole dinner went smoothly and the...
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Ready, Set, GO!!
This article comes to you from the view of one of the team members. For the past few weeks, team members in Engineering Design have been studying motion as a part of the On Your Marks project. We were split into groups of 3 and 4 to work for a company called ProZone Sports. During the first two weeks of this project, each group member was assigned an athlete that swam, ran, or cycled. Given a chart of the athlete’s times...
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Road to Mandeville 2011
To start the year off, the Engineering Design Class was handed a simple project. Each group of team members were given the question of how long would it take Bubba to walk across the causeway end to end. Bubbas car had broken down on the on ramp of the bridge and was worried about not being able to see his Grandma. The groups were instructed to calculate the length of the bridge, research the speed of the average human, and...
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Balsa Bridge Design Chall...
The team members kicked off this semester by studying truss bridges. They first competed in a mini-challenge to make the strongest bridge out of spaghetti and fettuccine noodles. We examined the failures in the pasta bridges and then moved on to crafting truss-style bridges out of manila file folders (see picture). All of this led up to the launch of the Balsa Bridge Design Challenge. In the challenge, the team members each...
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