Senior Design Team Takes Second at "Baseball Frenzy" Competition
A senior design team advised
by Professor Ghatu Subhash (ME-EM) took second place at the "Baseball
Frenzy" American Society of Mechanical Engineers regional student
competition held recently in Evansville, Ind. Ten teams were called upon
to design and fabricate an automated baseball throwing machine, which
lobbed 24 balls at three different targets, all within two minutes. All this and the following
caveat: "Once the system is activated, no external contact or interaction
of any kind is allowed." "I am proud to say that
one of our two teams secured a second place and, most of all, the appreciation
of the crowd and the judges for the elegant design," Subhash said.
"They had some bad luck, but they did well overall against some good
schools." "It was completely a student
effort and they deserve all the credit." Last year, MTU's senior design
teams took first and third place in the ASME competition, designing and
building a fishing pole for use by quadriplegics using "sip and puff"
technology. Members of the second-place
team are ME-EM students Andrew Barnard, Ben Grisso, Steve Honkala, Mike
Klimek and Ben Wolak.
