There is a vast array of design challenges and competitions for both engineering students and professionals. All of these contests are meant to recognize and reward engineering innovations to solve ...

NASA has selected 72 student teams to begin an engineering design challenge to build human-powered rovers that will compete next April at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, near ...

The students participated in the Engineering Design Challenge, in which they were tasked with creating “Rube Goldberg” styled machines. A Rube Goldberg machine, named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is ...

The Apollo space missions of the 1960s, which took humans to the moon for the first time, relied on brute-force propulsion more than technological sophistication. The onboard Apollo Guidance Computer ...

Forget video games. Forget sports. Ditto for movies. Instead, two middle school students have been spending their time tackling some of the same challenges NASA engineers face when designing ...

Members of UW’s Crater Cowboys team in NASA’s 2024 Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams engineering design challenge are, from left: Maria Allen, of Parker, Colo.; Hanna Detmer, of ...

Do you have coffee filters, masking tape, and some bendy straws handy? Grab those and a few more supplies from your kitchen and you’re ready to start thinking like an engineer. Usage conditions ...

Engineering Projects Expo is here! We invite you to spend some time getting to know this year's Mechanical Engineering Senior Design projects and teams. Engineering Projects Expo celebrates the hard ...

Students from Alabama A&M University near Huntsville, Alabama, pilot their vehicle through the obstacle course at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center during NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge event ...