Engineering Design Stuff

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What are you doing?! Get back to work!

To be fair, this photo of Doug is from about... oh... 1998? Maaaybe 1999? It was taken while we were working on a pop can-carrying contraption for one of the engineering design competitions. Our design performed spectacularly, of course. (Spectacularly bad...)

And more from that year's design competition!!

There's that contraption! Its main axle bent during a trial run accident involving height, 9.81 m/s^2, and f=ma. Silly Newton. Can we blame it all on him?

(left-to-right) Warren and Lysander are taking a break. We were up pretty late working on that project...

This is Sumit, who, incidentally, was my lab partner for most of the EE labs. The design competition was broken into two segments: the major project (the pop can carrier thingy) which we had a week to work on, and a day with several other smaller projects that we had to cobble solutions together for. It was fun - though our first year was probably our best showing. We built a bridge out of massive amounts of spaghetti and glue. There wasn't much design behind it - just make it big and (hopefully) strong. We actually came in second place!

(left-to-right) Doug, Warren, and Matthew discuss colouring options for our designs on the main day of the design competition. Incidentally, I seem to remember seeing some people with suspicious green highlighter marks on them by the end of the day.

What the crap?! Warren! Give me back my camera!

And, just to show that we actually did some work in engineering (LOTS of it), I present: Thundercast - the real, working, portable MP3 player! This was our final year (2001) design project. When you hear of people living in the engineering building for a while, they are probably working on their final project. Yup, 2 weeks of bliss or something were spent pretty much living in the 2C64 lab of the U of S Engineering building, testing and troubleshooting our project. But it finally worked!!!