Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 3 No. 2 Summer 2018 | Page 9

The AutoDrive team cracked open a pinata
May 22 to find out where next years' compe-
tition would take place. The three-year event
moves each year. This year's third-place finish
for the team came in Yuma, Arizona. Next year
the team will travel to Michigan where they
will take part in the phase 2 challenges.
https://youtu.be/1OlS6L38oZY
Read more about their 2018 finish on Page 18.
See more 2018 senior design student videos on
the ME YouTube page.
Then-PhD student Rodrigo Sarlo, adjusts cables linked to the central data acquisition
system in Goodwin Hall. The network architecture was supported by hardware
donations from companies like Oregano Systems.
Making buildings smarter
There’s still much work to be done before our
buildings are smart enough to talk to us. But from a
lab located in the most accelerometer-instrumented
building in the world, Rodrigo Sarlo is doing his part
to get us there.
3D printer for O'Brien lab
Dustin Frohnapfel, left, a doctoral student and Dylan Dawson, a masters
student, both in the lab of Walter O'Brien, the J. Bernard Jones Professor of
Mechanical Engineering, get a look at the new $16,000 3D printer delivered
to their lab May 14. The printer will allow sizes up to 18x18x24" and help
the researchers create larger versions of their StreamVane aircraft engine
airflow testing device in house. Virginia Tech College of Engineering
Sarlo, (recently a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical en-
gineering), was recently awarded a research fellow-
ship from the American Society for Nondestructive
Testing. His work on the intelligent infrastructure
project is now underway.
Read the whole story at VTNews
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