Engineering students and the generator they built for their senior project
Engineering students challenged to create unique projects
(Sept. 5, 2001)--With classes back in session, some students in the College
of Engineering are wracking their brains for creative ideas for their engineering
lab projects. In fact, the classes and labs taught by Jim Frazer, professor
of engineering, are some of the more popular ones in the college.
Students taking the labs must choose a project and complete it by semester’s
end. In addition to the projects, students also study reports on production
costs, probable markets, and targeted consumers.
"I hope they get a fairly solid base in technical knowledge and solid
state electronics, and write a good report. They do about 15 each semester,"
said Frazer.
Over the years the projects have ranged from remote-piloted submarines, to
robotic vehicles and blimps, to door alarms and electronic crazy balls that
light up when they roll on the ground.
The blimp project was such a success that it will be flying once again outside
the Convocation Center at UTSA Roadrunner home basketball games. The senior
design project houses a gondola and is controlled in the air with mechanical
joysticks that the students operate. The six-foot-long blimp will bear the
UTSA insignia as the engineering students do their part to show their "Roadrunner
Spirit."
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