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Engineering Design

speed boat

Fun with Speedboats

April 5, 2018 | By Tom Shaw

Student teams learn how engineers have competed in a race for speed and then design their own speedboat out of...

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London Eye

Build a Big Wheel

April 5, 2018 | By Tom Shaw

Students learn how big wheels have been designed throughout history, and then work in teams to develop a design for...

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snail shell biomimicry

Biomimicry in Engineering

April 5, 2018 | By Tom Shaw

Students explore how engineers have incorporated systems, materials, and methods from nature into man-made products, materials, and methods found in...

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