TCNJ Design Challenge

On November 19, 6 of my CAD II Engineering students attended TCNJ for a Junior/Senior Design Challenge.  They competed against 16 other schools and placed 2nd by popular vote and 1st by TCNJ Judges!  

Their design challenge was to design and build an arcade game that must be mechanical and physically interactive, using common class materials, Scratch programming software and a Makey Makey controller. 

Our team designed an Asteroids game where they built an actual joystick that controlled the game they programed in the Scratch program... quite impressive!! 

Powered Flight - Tech Design & Innovation Class

Students learned about principles of aerodynamics, airfoils and flight. Then they designed an airfoil, cut it from foam and assembled the remaining plane.  The planes were then tested and problem solved in order to achieve take-off, maintain flight and then successfully land.  Thanks to Steve Richards for hooking me up with this project!

Building Towers in Tech Design & Innovation Class

Students learned about engineering principles of which they applied to building a tower that must withstand as much compressive strength as possible, while being as light as possible.  After using an efficiency formula, our winning group found that their tower held 3,290 lbs at an efficiency ratio of 567.24 lbs per oz.!!  Thanks to Steve Richards for hooking me up with this project.

Congratulations Class of 2019!!!

John Fiorini - Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech

Alicia DeMarchi - Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University

Emily Perna - Architecture at Univ. of Texas at Austin

David Kim - Mechanical Engineering at Rutgers

Rohan Harish - Electrical and Computer Engineering at NJIT

David Eweka - Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech

Andy Kim - Mechanical Engineering at Cooper Union

Lexi Soulias - Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh

Max Kevelson - Mechanical Engineering at Lafayette

Joe Campione - Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech

Anthony Lin - Biomedical Engineering at Northeastern University

Cameron Yeager - Materials Science & Engineering at Arizona State

Mo Rivadeneyra - Mechanical Engineering at NJIT

Scott Layton - Architecture at the University of Cincinnati

Ryan Lindrud - Civil Engineering at Manhattan College

Katie Kisker - Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University

Meredith Regner - Human Systems Engineering & Health Care Innovations at Arizona

Evan Shimoun - Computer Engineering at Michigan
Karthik Iyer - Biomedical Engineering at Pittsburgh 

Technology and Engineering Club

Chris Richardson and Marijn deBie designed and built a remote controlled glider...that works!

TSA - Technology Student Association 2019

A team of students participated in the 2019 state conference at TCNJ in April.  Students competed in Software design and Animatronics.

Robotics II - Space Elevator

An incredible challenge of making a robot to climb a strap to the ceiling and then return back to the floor after a touch sensor is activated to reverse the motors.

Robotics I - Electronics and Arduino

Students are wiring circuits with electronic bread boards and creating programmable robots with Arduino kits.

Robotics I - Cross the Gap Challenge

Students were challenged to create a robot that could cross the longest gap possible.  The best robot crossed a 15" gap!!!

Harley Field Trip 2019

Engineering and Robotics students took an extensive tour inside the York, PA Vehicle Operations Plant, where they saw first hand, motorcycles being built using a plethora of technology, robotics and engineering methods learned in class.