Projects
Atmospheric Electric Power
Type: Earth, Sky and Sea
The task is to design and build several rotating machines that are powered by thunderstorms underway around the earth.
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Baseball Cannon
Type: Directed Energy
The task is to design and build a transportable compressed-air cannon that will launch a baseball far enough to be a homerun over the center fence at Coors Field (415 feet).
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Bench-top Railgun
Type: Directed Energy
The task is to design, build, and test a bench-top-scale electromagnetic railgun.
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Copper Vapor Laser
Type: Lasers and Optics
The task is to design, build and test a copper-chloride (CuCl) and/or copper-bromide (CuBr) laser.
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Digital X-Ray Photography
Type: Applied Physics
The task is to design and build an x-ray machine capable of imaging low-density inanimate objects.
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Electromagnetic Can Crusher
Type: Propulsion and Levitation
The task is to design and build a device that crushes aluminum soda cans using intense pulsed magnetic fields.
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Electromagnetic Disk Launcher
Type: Propulsion and Levitation
The task is to design, build and test a device that launches scrap aluminum hard-drive platters high in the air using pulsed magnetic fields.
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Gas Turbine Engine
Type: Propulsion and Levitation
The task is to design, build and test a propane-fired turbine jet engine manufactured from an automotive turbocharger.
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Grand Challenge - Lieberman's Light Bulb
Type: Propulsion and Levitation
In this Grand Challenge, the Team is to design, build and display a version of Jeff Lieberman’s floating Light Bulb art.
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Grand Challenge - Two Person Hovercraft
Type: Propulsion and Levitation
The task is to build a pair of single-person racing hovercraft, sell them, and use the money to build an advanced two-person hovercraft.
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High Power CO2 Laser
Type: Lasers and Optics
The task is to design, build and test a continuously operating high-power CO2 laser with an output power of 50 watts.
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Huge Van de Graaf Generator
Type: Applied Physics
The task is to design, build and test a really big Van de Graaff generator. The voltage goal for the machine is 750,000 volts.
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Liquid Fuel Rocket Engine
Type: Propulsion and Levitation
The task is to design, build, and test a liquid-fueled rocket engine.
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Lockwood-Hiller Valveless Pulsejet Engine
Type: Applied Acoustics
The task is to design, build and test a Lockwood-Hiller style valveless pulsejet engine. The engine will be powered by propane and ignited by a timed electric spark. The optimized engine will become the propulsion package on a student-build vehicle (go-kart), as a separate follow-on project.
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Magnetic Levitation
Type: Propulsion and Levitation
The task is to design and build an electromagnetic device similar to Elihu Thomson’s Jumping Ring experiment.
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Nitrogen-pumped Dye Laser
Type: Lasers and Optics
The task is to design, build and test a table-top nitrogen (N2) laser operating at 120 pps in air with some nitrogen enrichment.
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Plasma Jets and Living Tissue
Type: Biomechanics
The task is to design, build and experiment with an atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ).
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Powered Rope Ascender
Type: Propulsion and Levitation
The task is to design and build your own version of the amazing ATLAS rope ascender capable of hoisting a 250 pound payload at a rate of 10 feet/sec.
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Rubens' Tube
Type: Applied Acoustics
The task is to design and build a Rubens’ Tube, similar to the one demonstrated by Heinrich Rubens in 1904.
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Single-bubble Sonoluminencence
Type: Applied Acoustics
The task is to design, build and test two sonoluminescence chambers and demonstrate a glowing bubble in each containing different liquids and gasses
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Solar Powered Stirling Engine
Type: Power Conversion
The task is to design and build an alpha-style Stirling engine powered by the sun.
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Supersonic Ping-pong Ball
Type: Directed Energy
The task is to design and build a compressed-air/vacuum cannon that accelerates a Ping-Pong ball to velocities beyond Mach 1.0.
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Vortex Cannon
Type: Directed Energy
The task is to design and build a full-scale vortex cannon powered by a stoichiometric mixture of acetylene and air.
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Wireless Power
Type: Power Conversion
The task is to design and build a pair of self-resonant coils that transmits power to a 60-watt light bulb over a distance of several meters.
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