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Students compete for Engineers Week
More than 40 teams of three students each participated in the first annual engineering competition held during National Engineers Week in February.
Each team was challenged to create a device enabling a dropped table tennis ball to touch down after at least 120 seconds. Flow Deck Wins, the team consisting of juniors Brent Biseda, Matt Rooney, and Arthur Zhang, won first place in the “Just-In-Time” event and was awarded a cash prize of $300.
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The competition was sponsored by the Rice Global Engineering and Construction Forum, the Fluor Corporation, and the American Society of Civil Engineers in recognition of Engineers Week.
Biseda (chemical and biomolecular engineering), Rooney (bioengineering) and Zhang (mathematics and economics) earned a score of 1,585. Their device kept the ball from landing for 138 seconds and used only 42 of the 60 items provided. The team constructed their solution in less than one hour and also captured the $100 team award for the most artistic solution.
Second place was won by The Kinky Nuggets: Michael Bartrip and Peter Hurley (both mechanical engineering) and Tyler Visco (civil and environmental engineering), all freshmen.
The most creative solution award was won by The Russians are Coming!: Jay Cliffe (computer science), a senior, and Patrick Neary (mathematics and physics) and James Podolski (chemical and biomolecular engineering), a junior.
The most innovative solution went to Shenanigans: Rahul Agrawal and Eastman Landry (both sophomores in mechanical engineering), and Ian Sergo (chemical and biomolesulcar engineering), a senior.
“We left it mostly to the judges to interpret the most innovative, most creative and most artistic choices,” said Ahmad Durrani, professor of civil and environmental engineering and founder of the Global Forum. “Essentially, innovative meant unusual, unique and practical; creative meant an out-of-the-box concept, which might not necessarily be fully developed or doable to construct; and artistic implied well-constructed and esthetically pleasing.”
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