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Egg Drop Challenge

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ME-314: Concurrent engineering project

L'étudiant apprend à appliquer les compétences acquises en travaillant dans une équipe responsable d'une portion d'un projet plus vaste. ...

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This lecture presents a mechanical engineering project where the instructor and their colleagues designed a protective device for an egg dropped from a building's top floor. Inspired by nature, they studied the rotation and braking of maple seeds to optimize their prototype, facing challenges in theory-practice adaptation, 3D printing, physics modeling, and flight analysis.

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