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Caption: Engineering Open House Guide - 2010
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11 EOH 2010 During the summer, the rainy season floods the village’s current bridge, preventing schoolchildren from going to school and villagers from commuting and selling their goods in the major markets. We are here to change that. Location: Main Hall Rube Goldberg Machine Electric Mountain Board ECE Come check out the electric mountain board that combines lithium iron phosphate batteries, brushless motors, regenerative braking, microcontrollers, and wireless control. It will be the lightest, greenest, and coolest way to get around campus. Location: 169 The Rube Goldberg Society has built a machine to dispense hand sanitizer. A Rube Goldberg machine contains many small steps that accomplish a big task. Examples of this include dominoes, mouse traps, and magnets, all working together to dispense hand sanitizer. The machine is themed afFloat Your Boat ter Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, conNOBE taining all kinds of gizmos from the movie. Students are given a specific amount of Location: 106B3 fake money to purchase different items such as balloons, cardboard, string, and Student Sustainability Committee tape to make a small boat. There will be SSC two ways to show off their boats, in a speed The SSC is responsible for allocating two competition as well as a weight competi- student fees: the $5.00 Sustainable Camtion. The exhibit will be fun and challenge pus Environment fee and the $2.00 Cleaner kids creativity to come up with the best Energy Technologies fee, towards sustaindesigned boat. able campus projects. The committee will Location: 106B8 be displaying example projects that have Ferrofluid Cymatics Theta Tau A demonstration of Ferrofluids in a new and interactive way. Using music as input, we will manipulate the sound waves generated to drive an electromagnet to make the ferrofluid “dance” to the music. Location: 151 Frozen Treats! Illinois Biodiesel Initiative Engineers Without Borders UIUC The Illinois Biodiesel Initiative is a project focused primarily on lowering the emissions of the university and promoting education of renewable fuel sources. Our team is striving to ensure that the Illinois Biodiesel Initiative becomes a model for university and community biodiesel production. Our goal, to create a campus biodiesel processor to convert used cooking oil from the dining halls into a usable fuel for the campus, was conceived in the spring of 2006. At the present time, 300 gallon batches are reacted weekly and then integrated into the campus diesel supply, located at the Garage and Car Pool facility. Location: 106B1 Illinois Space Society been funded in the past. Location: Moved to Material Science & En- Assorted Liquid Nitrogen dipped treats. Location: 170 gineering Building ECE Tired of lugging your dorm room key around with you when you run down to lunch or over to ARC? What would it take Acoustic Fax Machine to convert your lock to accept key pad or ECE I-Card entry? A UIUC freshman decides to What would it take to build a fax machine tackle the problem with a limited budget using little more than your sound card? and obtains spectacular results! A non-engineer applies the Engineering Location: 245 Design Algorithm to the problem. After weighing several tradeoffs, not only a scanLaser Property - Protection Fence ner, but a full-blown (acoustic) wireless fax IEEE machine is constructed! A low- cost property-protection device Location: 245 provides a laser beam perimeter that when broken by an intruder, it will sound an alert Bluewater Ampworks Marble Sorters or an intrusion deterrent. It consists of a laECE Danville High School ser beam generator, optical detector, conUsing RoboPro and Fishertechnicks, stu- A demonstration and discussion of vacu- troller and front surface mirrors to reflect dents in Principles of Engineering, a Proj- um tube guitar amplifiers the beam around the perimeter. ect Lead the Way class, have designed and Location: 241 Location: 163 built their own device to sort a group of 2 different colored marbles into separate Depth Camera Left 4 Dead Kill Counter bins. IEEE ECE Location: 106B6 Exhibit will demonstrate some of the new The Kill Counter allows you to keep track applications in image and video process- of your score while you fight off hordes ing utilizing a camera that captures the of Zombies in the popular PC game Left National Society of Black Engineers 4 Dead. Your kills are displayed on 7-Segdepth of a scene. NSBE is going green! At our exhibit, see ment displays which is controlled by a mihands-on examples of alternative energy. Location: 169 crocontroller. Location: 103A Everitt Laboratory Keyless Dorm Entry NSBE
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