Collection

2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Russell L. Rhoton, Baker College

Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A Comparison of Succeeding Mission-Critical Mechanical Engineering Design/Fabrication Projects.The project, aimed at drawing crowds of local people to our combination Charity event andEngineering Open house late in October, became known as “The Halloween Pumpkin Flingingfor Charity at Baker College School of Engineering”.The first attempt was successful both from a financial standpoint ($350 raised) and perhaps moreimportantly, showed creditable data indicating that student groups, when faced with a problembeyond or outside their skillsets, naturally (with minimal steering) followed a plan of their ownthat turned out to be basically indistinguishable from that of Bloom’s