OTHER PROJECTS

SHEILA

  • Two person project
  • Materials: Cardboard, blue tape, hot glue, Velcro strips
  • Goal: Create a female figure out of cardboard (prop for play a fellow classmate wrote)
  • Limbs needed to be able to be "ripped" off and put back together
 

TRUSS ANALYSIS

  • Group project
  • Materials: balsa wood, wood glue, sand paper
  • Goal: design a bridge within specified dimensions (height and length) that would withstand a load up to a fixed safety factor
  • Analyzed bridge structure using online software
  • Cut pieces and assembled bridge
  • Tested bridge by loading it with sand-filled water bottles into a bucket