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In Review

Engineering

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BRIDGE BUILDER: Amy Thompson ’08 prepares her team’s entry in the “Paper River Chasm,” part of the final project for Introduction to Mechanical Engineering last fall. David Quesnel, professor of mechanical engineering, revised the class to give freshman students the opportunity to work with high-end mechanical engineering tools throughout the course. The goal of the project was to create a structure that could span an 8.5-inch gap while teammates stepped onto a seesaw-like platform that brought their weight down on the midpoint of the bridge (Photo by Richard Baker).