{"id":36288,"date":"2015-04-17T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T17:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=36288"},"modified":"2015-04-17T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T17:53:40","slug":"engineering-students-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/engineering-students-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering students to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Spirited NAU engineering students used their smarts along with a few paperclips, plastic bags, paper plates, rubber bands and popsicle sticks to rescue a flurry of dogs that had fallen into wells.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">More than 200 first-year students in EGR 186: Intro to Engineering gathered at the Health and Learning Center last week to \u201cEngineer a Rescue,\u201d bringing stuffed dogs to safety from the trashcan well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The goal of the First Year Engineering Event, sponsored by W.L. Gore and Associates, was to design a system to safely rescue the trapped dog while protecting it and the rescue workers from reasonable harm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The teams were provided with a kit of materials including paperclips, plastic bags, paper plates, rubber bands and Gore ePTFE fiber that they could use to construct a rescue device. Once complete, they pitched their device to professional engineers, conducted a few practice runs and completed a timed demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the top teams developed\u00a0devices that could complete the challenge in just 4 to 5 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The event also gave the young engineers the opportunity to network with professionals from W.L. Gore and Associates, who gave out prizes to teams for most innovative\/creative design, best utilization of the ePTFE fiber provided in the kit and best optional essay about the power of small teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis event is a great opportunity for students to network with practicing engineers and hear how the knowledge and skills of engineering design, communication, teamwork and professionalism are used in their professional careers on a daily basis,\u201d said <strong>David Richter<\/strong>, mechanical engineering lecturer and coordinator for EGR 186. He added that those are the four pillars of NAU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/CEFNS\/Engineering\/D4P\/\">Design4Practice<\/a> program, a four-class sequence in the College of Engineering, Forestry and Natural Sciences culminating in the senior capstone experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/engineering-students-to-the-rescue\/\">Spirited NAU engineering students used their smarts along with a few paperclips, plastic bags, paper plates, rubber bands and popsicle sticks to rescue a flurry of dogs that had fallen into wells. More than 200 first-year students in EGR 186: Intro to Engineering gathered at the Health and Learning Center last week to \u201cEngineer a&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":36290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}