Second Annual ME Capstone Cardboard Boat Race!

Date: 

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Check out the video of the race HERE!

On October 7th, 2016, UCSB hosted its second annual ME Capstone Cardboard Boat Race. The Boat Race ran for all students enrolled in Capstone for the ME, EE, CE, and CS Departments. The event is meant to be a team building exercise that gets students teams primed for Capstone Projects. The students were given sample materials just days before the event, and they have the week to draw up a design on paper, but they have only 40 minutes to build their craft on Goleta Beach. Similar to real-world product design, there is a cost for premium materials, and there is an optimization function for their design to reach the highest score. As such, teams were awarded points for ridiculous costumes, creative designs, and distance travelled, and they were docked points for duct tape used. 

May thanks to our ENGR195 TA, Megan Chang, who put together this wonderful video for us.

News Type: 

Undergraduate