Engineer Week Science Experiments

Chemical Engineering

                Physical Chemistry – Conduct a nucleation reaction

                Organic Chemistry – Dissolve polystyrene in acetone

Beckett with safety goggles ready for the experiments.             Addie putting in a mento ready for the big explosion.

It is off!~

Civil Engineering

                Simulate the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse

Beckett's demonstration

Electrical Engineering

                Optics - build an electronic circuit to show how a resister and LED are wired to emit lights

                Acoustics - build a circuit to play music with a whistle chip

Geology

                Simulate the destructive force of a volcano

 

Mechanical Engineering

                Build a Rube Goldberg device

Purdue Rube Goldberg

Meteorology

                Simulate the destructive force of a tornado