Robot Challenge – Compete with your friends to see who is the first person able to manipulate blocks using a robot.  A short explanation of the basic components of a robot and how to operate it using a teaching pendent is provided.  ET 227

 

Web Page Design – Have you ever created a web page of your own?  A brief explanation of how to design a web page is provided along with an opportunity to create one on the computer.  ET 216

 

How’s That Made? – Come and watch the machining of parts on an industrial Computer Numerically Controlled mill and lathe.  An explanation of g-code programming and design for manufacture is provided.  ET 120

 

Electronic Communication Demonstration – Come and learn about the design of horn antennas used in microwave technology and the design and implementation of a modified time domain reflectometer.  ET 204

 

Industrial Robot Demonstration – Come and observe a real industrial robot in action.  ET 226

 

What is intermodal transportation and how does it affect me? - Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute.  A description of intermodal transportation will be given and trivia for students to test their freight knowledge.   Break area outside EA 102

 

 

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Pavements that Leak - Watch concrete taking a shower to show how a new invention - porous concrete - lets rain soak into the ground instead of running off the surface of parking lots, causing flooding and polluting our rivers and lakes.
Location:  ES 104 (3 min)

Earthquake Engineering - Presentation that includes a brief history of earthquake damage and then present methods used in earthquake engineering to prevent such damage. For example: we show how to take the recordings of a seismograph and turn that into ground motion so as to determine the way in which a structure will react. ALSO: shake table and a liquifaction demonstration.
Location: ES 111 (3-5 min)
Our drinking water: Its Origin - Our drinking water originates 500 ft beneath the ground from a vast ocean of sand! See how we extract the water using wells that act like straws, pulling the water to the surface.
Location: Fluids Lab ES 113; (5 min.)
Geotechnical Engineering Research: "It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it." Students will see a demonstration of how geofoam technology can be applied to a variety of situations, including the prevention of landslides and subsurface drainage. Also, the use of recycled foam from waste products such as coffee cups and foam packaging materials to help reduce landfill waste will be discussed.
Location: ES 109  (10 min)

Breaking Boards - “What or when is the moment of inertia?” – Basic characteristics of structural mechanics are demonstrated by loading wooden specimens at different locations along a test beam.
Location:  ES 109 (5 min)

"What can we learn from a Big Bang? – The science of material testing and the study of the strength of engineering materials and their mechanical behavior under load.
Location:  ES 109 (5 min)

ASCE
Location:  Break area outside EA 102