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COMPLETED PROJECTS
This project was from our first year in the engineering program when we were experimenting with 3-D CAD modeling programs. The assignment was to create a 3-D model of a toy car. The PDF has 3 pages, all displaying different views and parts. These were modeled off of a toy car we had in the classroom, so we had to take exact measurements in order to accurately model them.
This was a big project in the second year of our engineering program. We were tasked with making a bridge as cheap as possible while still meeting safety and environmental standards. We used a program called West Point Bridge Design and had to create a debrief at the end of the project, which is linked here. I really enjoyed this project because we got to play around more with practical design as the program simulated the testing environment.
This was the final project for the first semester of our junior year. We had to use circuit boards and wires to program a display to show our birthdays at different binary counts. It was very difficult and utilized knowledge from the whole semester, from binary code to integrated circuits. This was my circuit board at the end of the project. There was no room for error!
This was a significant project during the second year of the engineering program. Our teacher always had her students compete in an annual Rube Goldberg machine competition. Unfortunately, it was not happening that year, so we split into groups and held our own competition with the rules from the original. In groups of 2-4, we all worked for 2 weeks to plan and execute a show-stopping Rube Goldberg machine. At the end of the project, we all made a video of ours to show the class. Although we did not get to compete in the annual competition, we orchestrated our own and had fun doing it.
This was our Ethics in Engineering assignment. This was one of the bigger assignments that we had during quarantine last year. Every student in the class was assigned an engineering disaster that had an ethical dilemma. The student was to research the disaster and ethical dilemma, then record a presentation on what they learned. My disaster was the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. My video was too large to upload directly into the site, so it is linked to the icon above.
Jack Zemke
Capstone
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