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A Student Award Joint
meeting with Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the New Haven Section
of ASME was held on Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at the Dolan School
of Business. Dr. Richard G. Weber, Associate Dean of the School
of Engineering and Fairfield County Section of ASME, Chairman presided
at the meeting. Mr. Mahadea Patel, Vice President of ASME Region I,
addressed those attending and spoke of ASME National and Region activities. |
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Mahadra Patel, Vice President
of ASME Region I addresses
the students and members |
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| Dr. Richard
Weber, ASME Section Chair, congratulates Rubin Alicea on
his academic achievement. |
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Darryl Pereira receive the ASME certificate
from Dr. Weber. Top Inset |
John Pezzulo receives
the ASME Certificate from Dr. Weber. Bottom Inset |
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Pictured is a drawing of
the Human Powered Vehicle Design |
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Bobby Moisiadis describes
the Human Powered Vehicle Capstone Project. |
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| The slide and video presentation spelled
out the design objectives and how the ASME requirements for a HPV
are complied with. The transfer of energy from human power to the
wheels was the principle challenge. Mr. Moisiadis described in detail
the structure and rationale for choosing the vehicle configuration,
the skeleton of which is pictured below. Each competing team completes
an in-depth report, and presents a summary of the vehicle design and
testing for judging by experienced engineers. Teams compete to demonstrate
the capability of their HPV entry through sprint and endurance events.
Designs may include one or more entries in three vehicle classes—single
rider, multiperson and utility vehicles. Competition awards include
cash prizes for best overall scores in each of the three vehicle classes.
Prizes may be awarded to both student teams and the Mechanical Engineering
Department they represent. Fairfiled U Students participates in the
single rider event. (See th article covering the ASME competition.)
Team member, Kimberly Bushinsky is shown below at the controls of
the completed HPV. |
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Kimberly Bushinsky
gets the feel of the completed HPV
during preliminary trials at Fairfield university. |
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