03 JUNE 2015AEC press release
Student winners of the 2015 Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition announced
Edited by : AL CIRCLE
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The ET Foundation, the educational and technology research organization founded by the Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC), has recognized 10 students for their outstanding entries in the 2015 Aluminum Extrusion Student Design Competition. Nearly 60 entries were received from schools and universities across North America.
The ET Foundation awarded $8,500 in scholarships to recognize the winning designs—featuring extruded aluminum components—developed by students studying industrial design, engineering and other related fields. The competition was sponsored exclusively by Bonnell Aluminum, headquartered in Newnan, Georgia.
The designs were judged by aluminum extrusion industry professionals, including David Asher, Process Optimization Manager at Bonnell Aluminum in Newnan, Georgia; Todd Boyer, Director of Sales and Marketing at Mid-States Aluminum Corp. in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; and Dr. Joseph Benedyk, Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering Research Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois and Editor for Light Metal Age magazine.
A team of students from the senior course, Engineering Design – Product Realization, in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Alabama – Huntsville, won First Place with a $3,000 scholarship award for their “Mobile Experiment Display Station”. The students included Sydney Steele, John Helms, Joshua Piner, Brandon Ferguson, Austin Avery, and Thomas Brian McCoy, all seniors majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Anh Hoang, a junior majoring in Aerospace Engineering.
The team was tasked with the design, modeling, analysis, fabrication and testing plans of a mobile experiment cart to be delivered to a Huntsville, Alabama children’s science center. “The cart was fabricated using 80/20® extruded aluminum in order to achieve a lightweight and high-strength final product,” wrote the students in their entry submission. The team of students, focusing on a number of different areas from Finite Element Analysis (FEA), research, design, cost analysis, and fabrication, researched various materials and determined early in the design process that extruded aluminum was the optimal material. The use of extruded aluminum was critical in order to design a safe, light weight and high strength product,” explained their faculty advisor and instructor, Christina Carmen, Ph.D.
The ET Foundation awarded $8,500 in scholarships to recognize the winning designs—featuring extruded aluminum components—developed by students studying industrial design, engineering and other related fields. The competition was sponsored exclusively by Bonnell Aluminum, headquartered in Newnan, Georgia.
The designs were judged by aluminum extrusion industry professionals, including David Asher, Process Optimization Manager at Bonnell Aluminum in Newnan, Georgia; Todd Boyer, Director of Sales and Marketing at Mid-States Aluminum Corp. in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; and Dr. Joseph Benedyk, Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering Research Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois and Editor for Light Metal Age magazine.
A team of students from the senior course, Engineering Design – Product Realization, in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Alabama – Huntsville, won First Place with a $3,000 scholarship award for their “Mobile Experiment Display Station”. The students included Sydney Steele, John Helms, Joshua Piner, Brandon Ferguson, Austin Avery, and Thomas Brian McCoy, all seniors majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Anh Hoang, a junior majoring in Aerospace Engineering.
The team was tasked with the design, modeling, analysis, fabrication and testing plans of a mobile experiment cart to be delivered to a Huntsville, Alabama children’s science center. “The cart was fabricated using 80/20® extruded aluminum in order to achieve a lightweight and high-strength final product,” wrote the students in their entry submission. The team of students, focusing on a number of different areas from Finite Element Analysis (FEA), research, design, cost analysis, and fabrication, researched various materials and determined early in the design process that extruded aluminum was the optimal material. The use of extruded aluminum was critical in order to design a safe, light weight and high strength product,” explained their faculty advisor and instructor, Christina Carmen, Ph.D.
The ET Foundation will be inviting entries from both students and professionals for the 2016 International Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition. Judging will take place in time to display winning entries at the aluminum extrusion industry’s most respected educational event the Eleventh International Aluminum Extrusion Technology Seminar-ET ’16, scheduled for May 2-6, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Look for the Call for Entries for the 2016 Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition to be available in fall 2015.
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