Automotive engineering students (clockwise from lower left) Saiful Islam, Adebobola Ariyo, Rupei Bu and Abhishek Jain pose with the electric vehicle they helped to design and build.
Graduating students in mechanical, automotive and materials; civil and environmental engineering presented their capstone design projects Friday.
Learning by practice is always the best, says civil engineering professor Amr ElRagaby.
That’s what makes a contest to design and build a bridge from popsicle sticks a valuable experience for his students.
“They can understand the principles, but when the have a chance to apply the theories, they learn something they will never forget,” he said Wednesday, as members of his class in Finite Element for Analysis and Design tested the load-bearing capacity of their structures.
