This video explains supply chains and their management. It also talks about game theory and its application in supply chains.
Want to learn more about physics from the comfort of your own home? All you need is a ruler and your thinking cap! Watch Professor Kafle demonstrate this interesting phenomenon that seems like magic but is actually just physics. All you need to participate is a ruler with a smooth surface.
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!
In this challenge from Design Squad, build a dance pad that lets you use your feet to sound a buzzer or flash a light!
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.
In this activity, we will demonstrate the essence of mixing through an activity of blending a couple of colored dough balls. You will learn how blending these balls can be accomplished by simply following the fundamental actions of mixing processes: repeated stretching and folding.
This exhibit highlights the creation of a short film starring Gompei the Goat, Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s mascot, exploring campus during the time of the covid-19 pandemic. Specifically, this video gives life to the “Proud Goat” bronze statue overlooking the WPI Quadrangle and imagines him reminiscing on the pre-pandemic times of campus bustling with activity. Being unaware of the covid-19 pandemic due to the lack of a respiratory system, statue-Gompei is wandering campus with curiosity as to where everyone went.
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.
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