Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lars Cederqvist; Jed Lyons

varying thenumber of unplugged holes and the height of the water column, a number of experiments can bepreformed. After lab, the students are presented with the appropriate theory and use MS Excel tocompare the theoretical and experimental results.“Save the Pumpkins” is a freshman team design project performed around Halloween. Each teamdesigns and builds an enclosure or apparatus to protect a pumpkin from damage when droppedfrom the 3rd story of the engineering building. The designs are evaluated (sometimes destructively)during a class period. The project grade is based primarily on the contents and appearance of a Page 6.515.1final

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Cardenas; Patrick Little

the shopping cart used to transport various equipment from the storage area by the Joslyn Senior Center to the fields in Larkin Park. The new cart should be able to carry rakes, hoses, field liners and chalking material, bases, the pitching maching, and an electric generator. Beckman Laser Institute. BLI would like to develop a simple transilluminator system for the nasal sinuses. Transillumination is a very old technique where a light source is place in the mouth, and the room lights are shut off. If one has fluid in the sinuses, the face will be dark. If one has air, the face will light up like a pumpkin. It is based on the higher transmission of the red and Near-IR wavelengths. The design team can replace the light source