Wesley Williams

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Easily design, customize and 3D print your own toys to play with.

Source: Design, customize and 3D print for play! | Autodesk 123D

A nice free app from Autodesk that can introduce kids to 3D printing.

The Mission Critical Operations consortium has posted some digital study resources for students entering their MCO coursework.

http://study.ncmco.us/

It includes modules in the areas of automation, safety, hacking, and infrastructure.

The MCO team is happy to welcome Cole Beatty and Greg Gimmon as undergraduate research assistants.  They are both electrical engineering technology students and will be assisting with the finishing touches and documentation on the electromechanical setups we are developing for remote laboratory exercises.

Source: 2015 Fall Projects | Senior Design Program | UNC Charlotte

Dr. Williams is mentoring a group of five undergraduates in a senior design project focused on integrating a magnetic gear into the drive train of a wind turbine.  The students, who come from the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology, will spend two semesters defining the problem, developing conceptual and detailed design, producing engineering documentation, building, and testing their design.  Offshore energy generation is seen as an attractive application for magnetic gears, where there non-contact transmission of torque can provide inherent overload protection and eliminate some wear mechanisms.

Pushkar Sathe has joined the Magnetic Gearing Research Group as a graduate research assistant. He pursuing his Master’s degree in Applied Energy and Electromechanical Systems”. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pune in Electrical Engineering, where he worked with permanent magnet motors.

Formlabs’ new resin can be turned into cyan chains strong enough to hoist cinder blocks.

Source: Nifty New Resin Solves a Major Problem With 3-D Printing | WIRED