1. Schools Program
What is Engineering?
A Hands-on Approach

2. Schools Program

5. Naked Egg drop
Build a container using the materials provided that will safely “catch” an egg after it is dropped from an initial height of 2 meters. Use only the materials provided. The container must pass freely through a 14” hoop (no side of the container should be longer than 10 inches…)

6. You have 20 minutes…
Help!!!!

7. Why have “projects?”
MESA activities emulate engineering problems in that they:
*Are hands-on…
*Are open-ended…
*Connect to the real-world…
*Are academic…

8. Protecting people is part of the real world…

9. …but also involve academics… [edit] Final equations
                            
compression/extension along the length of the beam
                  
bending deflection due to forces transverse to the beam
                                   
composite compressive/tensile stress due to compression/tension force + moment
                              
shear stress in the beam
         
trivial outcome of linearity assumption, included for completeness

10. Testing Containers…

11. Schools Program
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