Ready, Set, Go! Engineering Athletics

Currently, EYE is working on the final preparations for the December 6th “Engineering Athletics” Saturday Program as the date quickly approaches.  We are finalizing student and teacher volunteers as well as getting excited for the program.  We are also in the later stages of planning the December 13th “All about Engineering” program with Ballard School in South Glens Falls.  We are working with Shen to continue planning their “All about Engineering” event in January.  We have been developing our Sponsor a Young Engineer program,...

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Nitinol Group is Still Doing Their Homework

Over the course of our last several classes, we have continued to reach out to Nitinol professionals seeking any useful advice they may have. We also researched other types of shape memory alloys, including Flexinol. These different SMAs (Shape Memory Alloys) are composed of various metal mixtures.  One model of heat engine we are looking into consists of two different sized gears and a chain made partly of Nitinol that connects them. The linear deformation of the Nitinol causes the gears to spin. This is known as the VT1 engine. Another...

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