Projects
Student Design Competition • Human Powered Vehicle
Land Sail Competition
ASME offers a wide array of different projects, builds, and other fun, skill-building, workshops.
Projects
Many projects & activities are available including:
Student Design Competition
The ASME Student Design Competition provides a platform for ASME Student Members to present their solutions to a range of design problems - from everyday household tasks to groundbreaking space exploration. Each team is required to design, construct and operate a prototype meeting the requirements of an annually determined problem statement.
Student Design Competitions will be held at ASME’s global E-Fests (Engineering Festivals). E-Fests are a three-day, two-night regional event built around design, advanced manufacturing and robotics technologies. They enable engineering students to expand their knowledge, test and showcase new skills and inspire innovation.
Student Design Competitions will be held at ASME’s global E-Fests (Engineering Festivals). E-Fests are a three-day, two-night regional event built around design, advanced manufacturing and robotics technologies. They enable engineering students to expand their knowledge, test and showcase new skills and inspire innovation.
2020 SDC Competition
This year’s challenge requires teams to build a compact engineering system capable of manufacturing a tower made exclusively from standard-sized sheets of paper. The validation of your design will include testing for manufacturing speed, height of tower, and ability to support a load. The testing will occur at each of the ASME EFest Student Design Competitions taking place in 2020.
2019 - 2020 SDC Rules PDF link
2019 - 2020 SDC Rules PDF link
Previous SDC Competitions
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Human Powered Vehicles (HPV)
In underdeveloped or inaccessible parts of the world, human powered vehicles are the only available form of transport. ASME's international Human Powered Vehicle challenge provides the opportunity to demonstrate sound engineering design of developing sustainable and practical transportation.
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ASME's HPV competition focuses on designing recumbent bicycles. These machines are capable of speeds up to 70 MPH with no more drive than the rider's legs. To achieve this feat, sophisticated engineering concepts and intricate gearing mechanisms are used in combination with an aerodynamic fairing. The best designs usually consist of two- or three-wheeled "bicycle" design made possible through large corporate-sponsorships from companies like Lockheed Martin and Catrike. They are on display in the Engineering Atrium so go check them out!
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HPVC 2014
In the April of 2014, UCF hosted HPVC East. ASME members volunteered and started working an hour before sunrise to make the event a success. They moved tens of thousands of pounds of hay and cones during setup and take down. They were rewarded with free t-shirts and food, but most of all with the opportunity to see UCF's team take the gold, not just one, but in four out of the five subcategories. They got second place in the design evaluation behind five-time champions Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Previous Design Reports
Below you can find previous design reports from several years of HPV's.
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Land Sail Competition
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Land sailing is the act of moving across land with a wheeled vehicle powered only by wind and function very much like a sailboat!
We will be constructing compact sized land sails with fully automatic steering! Joining this project is a great opportunity to practice and use tools such as Solidworks, soldering, gyroscopes, various programming methods, and working with the Innovations lab mentor, Don Harper. Additionally, learn about project collaboration and working as a team with various engineering disciplines. An example of manually operated land sails |
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