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.