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OKR_240SX · 07-31-2008, 02:17 AM

What kind of projects has everyone had in their engineering classes?? To maybe give some ideas or helpful thoughts to improve someones project.

I'm not far in my degree yet, but have had my first engineering class. And in it we had to build a Diet Coke + Mentos powered vehicle. Me and my team basically built a water rocket. We trapped the pressure given off from the reaction to feed into a 2 liter bottle filled with a little less/around 1/3 full of water. From a dead stop (with no fins or cone to control the bottle in the air - due to deadlines) it went 94 feet on the 2nd try. We had a leak on the 1st and it only went like 40. And we came in 2nd out of around 20 teams. (it was 4 classes competing with 4 to 6 teams each)

07-31-2008, 02:17 AM	#11
OKR_240SX Zilvia Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Oklahoma Age: 36 Posts: 189 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	What kind of projects has everyone had in their engineering classes?? To maybe give some ideas or helpful thoughts to improve someones project. I'm not far in my degree yet, but have had my first engineering class. And in it we had to build a Diet Coke + Mentos powered vehicle. Me and my team basically built a water rocket. We trapped the pressure given off from the reaction to feed into a 2 liter bottle filled with a little less/around 1/3 full of water. From a dead stop (with no fins or cone to control the bottle in the air - due to deadlines) it went 94 feet on the 2nd try. We had a leak on the 1st and it only went like 40. And we came in 2nd out of around 20 teams. (it was 4 classes competing with 4 to 6 teams each)