The College of Engineering
held its fourth annual Community Night at Utah State University on
Thursday.
Boy Scouts, high schoolers
and college students were among the attendees who gathered in the Taggart
Student Center Ballroom to participate in various engineering demonstrations.
The event was intended to
help illustrate the influence of engineering.
“Throughout our world people
do not realize how great engineering impacts our lives,” said Steven Houston, a
Utah State University senior who co-managed the event. “We need to get the word
out. People do not understand what engineering does for our everyday world.”
Engineers have a crucial
role in developing “anything that moves” Houston said.
The expo presented a few
demonstrations that caught attendees by surprise.
“I was really amazed and did
not understand what engineering was all about,” said Dylan Cramer, a current
USU student. “My field of study was sociology, but now I am thinking about
engineering. I liked the unmanned vehicle display and the spider silk made from
goats’ milk.”
Utah State has been at the
forefront of genetic engineering experiments that have produced the basic
biological materials needed to make silk out of the proteins in the milk of
goats.
Other demonstrations
included rockets, concrete canoes and the Personal Vacuum Assisted Climber,
which won a national competition hosted by the Air Force Academy in 2012.
According to Houston, the
Air Force was so impressed by the Aggie’s wall-climber that it invested $100,00
toward improving the project.
Nikki VanLith, Janessa Knowles, Claire Hubbard, LeAnn
Fox, Alex Taylor and Logan Jones contributed to this report.
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