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Students at work during the IMechE Design Challenge
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Congratulations to first year Mechanical Engineering students for their performance in the IMechE Design Challenge Greater London Region Final 2022.
Imperial Team A (comprised of Juan Bustos Lopez, Aarya Banthia, Ernest Ng and Steven Furlong) won the presentation award, while Team B (Kenton Wong, Dilys Yeung, Zara Sharpe-Dai, Minjae Kim, Wai Tham, Tyler Stewart) finished third overall.
The Design Challenge run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers gives first and second year undergraduates a taste of ‘real world’ engineering, challenging them to design, create, present and run a device to a strict technical specification.
The 2022 project was to build a line launcher. Teams were tasked to produce a small-scale indoor device, to fire a squash ball attached to a line, at a horizontal target, from various distances. Find out more about the competition from the IMechE website
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Nadia Barbu
Department of Mechanical Engineering