WPI’s High Power Rocketry Club leads students through a fun hands-on egg drop activity as well as an introductory discussion on momentum in rocketry!
Simulate the 3D food printing process through a simple activity, and compare your results to a real 3D food printer!
Liquid is the material state whose shape depends on the container; on the other hand, solid material has a specific shape that resists the external force-induced deformation. Most of the time, we can tell if the material is liquid or solid by examining its response to external force. However, can you think of a material that can be both liquid and solid at the same time depending on how you interact with the material? In this hands-on activity, we will guide you to make a material that is between liquid and solid. When you gently and slowly poke the material, it is fluid like water but when you poke it hard and fast, it is elastic like a solid material. This material is categorized as a non-Newtonian fluid. In this activity, you will learn how non-Newtonian fluid behaves differently from conventional Newtonian fluid.
Follow along as Jessica builds a wearable exoskeleton hand from straws, string and paper! The hand will be a model of the bones and tendons in your phalanges and will move as you pull on the strings!
Turning on the faucet, you receive water for washing your hands or taking a shower. How convenient! Modern technology allows for transporting water to your home from a reservoir far away from your home through pipes. Do you know how water is transported through pipe? Do you know how the geometries of the pipes affect the efficiency of water transport? In this activity, you will learn about the principle of pipe flow through a water gun activity. We will guide you to build a water gun with different gun lengths and experience the effect of gun lengths (or more specifically, pipe lengths) on shooting the water to the target.
Participants will be creating a recreation of a vascular stent using aluminum foil. They will use a balloon on the end of a straw to simulate the balloon angioplasty and catheter procedure used to help fix clogged arteries. The cardboard tube will act as their tissue model that they can test different stent designs with.
In this challenge from Design Squad, design a structure that can survive an earthquake- then put it to the test!
WPI Engineering Ambassadors want to spark your interest in electricity. Two of our electrical and computer engineering students teach you all about electrical circuits and the devices that are powered by them. Try being an electrical engineer yourself as you design your own flashlight.
Most materials are either a solid, liquid or gas but what happens if it is none of these or more than one of these? You likely are dealing with a viscoelastic material. Learn about the properties of viscoelastic materials and how engineers use these special polymers in the medical field. Become a chemical engineer yourself as you create and analyze your own viscoelastic polymer also known as silly putty!
Learn about rocketry from early age China and Greece to the modern astronauts we know today. Explore the physics behind rockets. Follow along as the Engineering Ambassadors take you through time as technology changed to improve rocketry. Then we invite you to make your own straw-rocket as you investigate the effect that weight has on rocket flight!
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