High School Engineering
One of my fun outreach programs is an engineering club at a local high school, Sheldon. We have built robots, rockets, and radios. Now students are building remote control airplanes. These are relatively cheap...
Tagged: engineering
Making Gliders- A Continuation
Back on June 10th, 2019 I created a post on making gliders with a piece of paper, 3 Post-It notes, a few pennies, a shish kabob skewer and some 3D printed or laser...
Pacific Northwest Aerospace Expo – 2019
Saturday September 28th, Portland State University hosted the first local Pacific Northwest Aerospace expo/conference. It is planned to be an annual event and is particularly interesting to us here at the University of Oregon...
RoboSub International Competition – San Diego
Arizona State University Polytechnic It was fun to check out the RoboSub competition at NIWC Pacific TRANSDEC, in San Diego this week. The event challenges students to build a submersible vehicle that can autonomously...
SCGIS & Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station
OK, so the only part of this entry that is related to me is that I worked to schedule this behind-the-scenes tour with colleagues that work at the Marine Station. It’s not much...
Making Things Fly – 3D Printed Supports for Paper Airfoils
I wanted to mention one cool project that I have been working on over the last week in conjunction with the Riverfront/Looking Glass High School here in the Eugene area. It is an engineering...
High Powered Rocketry – L1 Style
Our intrepid High Powered Level 1 Rocketeers. All passed the L1 certification and are now members of an elite group. The UO Rocketry team traveled to Brothers, Oregon for the OROC Spring Thunder public...
Sheldon Engineering
One recent partnership that has really taken off recently is our new engineering club at Sheldon High School here in Lane County, Oregon. In existence since October of 2018, we believe it is the...
Building Autonomously Navigating UAVs
It is great to see efforts pay off. Another colleague and I helped get a student building the quadcopter in this picture. The student ran with the project, finished the drone, and is now...
ARLISS Robots & Rockets
This fall members of the University of Oregon ARLISS team ( A-Rocket-Launch-for-International-Student-Satellites ) had a successful deployment of their rover from ~12,000 ft in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Eight of the 10-person...