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DiscoverE Day exhibits:
C12 – Raytheon Aerospace Experience
Make and launch rockets and parachutes. Learn from missile systems engineers and the student teams that work with them.
C13 – Tau Beta Pi ASU Chapter
Build small scale bridges, manipulate material properties and build paper airplanes with members of this national honor society.
C14 – Robot Challenge
Can you design and build a robot that can lift a cup filled with binder clips off the ground and onto a table using everyday objects? Come put your skills to the test!
C16 – Cell phones to gaming to computers
Computing is part of everyday life. Find out about computer science, computer systems and industrial engineering from faculty, staff and students in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering.
C17 – SAE@ASU Car Show
Society of Automotive Engineers members design and build vehicles—from Formula race cars to airplanes—then compete in national competitions. Meet members of the teams, see their cars and hear their stories.
C18 – Material Advantage
Have you ever seen metals that can bend and reshape? Or wondered what the inside of an MRI machine looks like? Ask materials science engineers about the materials used to make aircraft or how different metal balls bounce.
C19 – The AISES Challenge: Triangle vs. Square
Which shape do you think is stronger, a square or a triangle? Find out by building a tower using only spaghetti and marshmallows. Work with members of the student chapter of American Indian Science and Engineering Society, a national, nonprofit organization that nurtures the building of community by bridging science and technology with traditional Native values.
C20 – Pop-ups!
Learn simple mechanics using everyday items, such as door hinges and folding chairs. Then apply the same concepts to creating pop-up books.
C21 – The INFORMS Challenge: Estimating M&Ms
Estimate the number of M&Ms in a jar. Play games and learn industrial engineering and probability concepts with members of the student chapter of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science.
C22 – The ASCE challenge: Envisioning concrete
See mini-models of a concrete canoe, a steel bridge and learn about building bridges, roads, dams and more. Learn about the contributions of concrete and steel to society from members of the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
C23 – QESST
Be part of the solar energy revolution and work alongside the scientists and engineers of ASU’s Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies Engineering Resource Center. Explore the science behind solar energy while building circuits to power small motors.
C31 – Trebuchets – Medieval Weapons of Mass Destruction
Meet Sheila, the 15-foot trebuchet with an 8-foot throwing arm built by engineering students. Use Sheila for inspiration as you build your own mini-trebuchet.
C32 – Middle Ages: The Original STEM Initiative
Build a castle or try writing with a quill. Engineering is an old profession—see how engineering projects have changed to meet peoples’ needs over time, from weapons like a trebuchet to construction materials.
C35 – Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
Meet the team working with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, a NASA instrument on board a spacecraft. Its primary mission is to gather important new data to help us answer questions about the Earth’s moon.
C36 – The EPICS Challenge: Clean Water
Build a water filter to clean up “polluted” water with a team that is building a water play area for the House of Refuge on ASU’s Polytechnic campus. Meet college students making a difference in the world before they graduate. Engineering Projects in Community Service is an award-winning social entrepreneurship program, through which teams design, build and deploy systems to solve engineering-based problems for not-for-profit organizations.
C38 – The SASE Challenge: Boat Building
Build a boat from plastic wrap that can hold 25 washers for 10 seconds without sinking. Work with members of the student chapter of the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, whose mission is to prepare Asian heritage scientists and engineers for success in the global business world, celebrate diversity on campuses and in the workplace, and provide opportunities for members to make contributions to their local communities.
E1 – Daedalus Astronautics
Build your own rocket than can hit a distant target. Learn about the science, research and sheer fun of building rockets. Meet the members of an award-winning, student-run organization that has successfully designed, manufactured and launched rockets.
E2 – Air Devils
Take a ride on a flight simulator, build a paper airplane for a contest and watch the Air Devils fly quadcopters and airplanes. Meet the team of students preparing for the next American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Design/Build/Fly Competition. They’ll show you how they design and manufacture an unmanned, radio-controlled aircraft with laser cutting, composite materials and thermo molding.
E3 – Xavier College Preparatory
Connect common items, like bananas, to a MaKey MaKey using alligator clips. Replace a computer keyboard or a game controller with almost anything!
E4 – Tappy Nerd: Game on Android and PC
Tappy Nerd is based on the famous game concept Flappy Bird. In this game, you are a red bird that solves math problems to find the right path to fly (by tapping) through a series of pipes. Happy tapping!
E7 – Arizona Science Lab
Use electricity, magnetism, electric motors and pendulums to explore physics, math and chemistry.
E8 – The ACI Challenge: Concrete Pitchforks
Make your own concrete pitchfork and learn what concrete is made of and how it is mixed. Work with members of the student chapter of the American Concrete Institute.
E9 – NPL <A DiscoverE Day Sponsor>
Learn about the safe installation of pipe, wire and information systems with representatives of NPL. NPL installs and replaces more than 10 million feet of pipe, wire and information systems annually for electricity, cable television, fiber optics and telecommunications.
E11 – The WICS Challenge: Tower of Hanoi
Learn about algorithms and demonstrate logical thinking to solve the Tower of Hanoi, a fun puzzle involving pegs and discs. Can you beat the computer? Find out with the members of the student organization, Women in Computer Science.
E13 – The SWE Challenge: The Paper Table
Build a 12-inch-high table that will support a textbook using objects such as pipe cleaner, plastic cups and paper towel rolls. Work with members of the student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers to be fast and creative.
E22 – Puzzle solvers
Have you ever had a puzzle you couldn’t solve? Learn how to break down instructions into a step-by-step list (an algorithm) and never get stuck again.
E23 – The BES Challenge: 3-D printing
See how biomedical engineers use computers to create and modify designs, and then make real prototypes using a 3-D printer and plastic. Meet members of the student chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
E24 – Video Games
Like to play computer games? Come play 2-D and 3-D games developed by students in ASU’s gaming certificate program.
E25 – Look Through Walls
Learn how sustainable engineers “see through walls” to detect the energy efficiency of a building. Hold an infrared thermography (IRT) camera and see for yourself what a building looks like if you could observe thermal (heat) radiation given off by objects and people within the space.
E26 – Sun Devil Robotics
Test your skills by guiding a LEGO robot through a maze and check out other remote control robots.
S/1–S/8 events run every half hour starting at 9:15 a.m.
S1/S2 – Light Up The Dark
Can you light up a room without using electricity or fire? Harness solar energy with a water bottle to light up a dark room by designing a solar bottle bulb. Explore how a real-world solution was used to light up a dark room by focusing sunlight through water.
S3/S4 – Rubber Band Cars
Design and test a car that goes really far, really fast. Ah, your car is powered by a rubber band, and your car can only have two wheels. Can you meet this challenge?
S5/S6 – Kinetic Sculpture
Make a sculpture at least 6 inches tall with at least two parts that move in the wind. That’s what makes it kinetic—it moves. But watch out, wind can also knock it over. So, make sure the tower is sturdy enough to stand up in the wind.
S7/S8 – Straw Rockets
Make a straw rocket that will fly high. Then change it’s shape. Get the rocket to fly farther with each design change.
T1 – The EWB Challenge: Running Water
Learn how water flows through pipes and special networks in a miniature hydraulics laboratory. Not everyone around the globe has access to clean water. Hear about solutions and current projects from members of the student chapter of Engineers Without Borders.
T2 – ASU NASA Space Grant Robotics
Drive a demo robot and complete a simple task. See the NASA Space Grant Robotics club’s competition robot.
T4 – GETS Team
Watch a remote-control quadcopter fly. Play an interactive game that uses a thermal array to find temperature differences in a set of objects. Learn about the process and development of real-time computational and embedded systems with members of the GETS Team.
T5 – Bioengineering
See prototyping technologies used to develop medical devices that enhance global health. Meet people from the Bioengineering Design and Global Health Technology Center.
T6 – The SDSL Challenge: Marshmallow Satellites
Build your own satellite with toothpicks and marshmallows. Put your brains to the test with satellite-inspired trivia and see student projects from the Sun Devil Satellite Laboratory.
T7 – Design Paper Cams and Followers
The core of many automata, both traditional and the paper variety, is the cam. The cam is a flexible way of driving a mechanism. Make your own paper cams and followers to create a mechanism! You will explore how to make paper automata, which are mechanical models powered by human input—usually in the form of a crank. Your input through the crank will lead to a range of movements from simple back and forth actions to multiple types of movement at once.
