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LSU Mechanical Engineering Students Showcase Final Projects May 1
Projects include wind turbines, hang gliders and a lunar rappelling rover, among others

04/29/2009 04:55 PM

BATON ROUGE – LSU mechanical engineering students are showing off their hard-earned knowledge and skills during a final project exhibition on Friday, May 1, from 1 – 5 p.m. in the Patrick F. Taylor Building’s Engineering Courtyard. Media are welcome to attend.

Projects scheduled to be presented include:

Formula SAE-2009
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT)-2009
Flexible Fuel Gas Micro-Turbine
Lunar Rappelling Rover
Mini Baja-2009
High Lift Aircraft for SAE Aero Design
Thermocouple Analysis for Cryogenics
LSU Hurricane Tower-Storm 2.0
Hurricane Missile Cannon & Chamber
Shell Eco-Marathon-2009
Portable Tire Washer/Shredder
Large Area, Temperature-Controlled Multiple Unit Die (LAMUD)
LSU Flugtag
Manually Controlled Continuously Variable Transmission (MCCVT)

All these industrial or research projects have been supervised by LSU College of Engineering faculty advisors in consultation with industry partners or sponsors. These student projects are completed in groups of two to 10 students, and on average, participants have spent more than 1,000 hours per project to generate original design ideas, fabrications, testing and validations.

For more information about the event, visit http://www.eng.lsu.edu/news_events/viewnews.php?id=364 or contact Mimi LaValle at 225-578-5706 or mlavall@lsu.edu.

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Ashley Berthelot
LSU Media Relations
225-578-3870

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