E-week

E-week Recap
For part of Engineers Week at Binghamton University, engineering organizations host events for kids. These events expose kids to some of the ideas in engineering. Additionally, these events give them a hands on activity to practice certain concepts of engineering. For E-Week BBE host the Wind Power Cars event. We attempted to demonstrate the Evolutionary Design Process. Given a limited amount of material the kids were asked to create a vehicle that used wind for power. Their initial designs were then tested in front of the group. The testing phase allowed the kids to see which designs were the most successful. The teams then modified their original design based on the observations from the testing phase. The new designs were tested a second time, and were found to be more successful than the original design.