{"id":679,"date":"2018-05-02T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T11:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/?p=679"},"modified":"2018-05-02T12:29:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T11:29:06","slug":"mechanical-engineering-dragster-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/2018\/05\/02\/mechanical-engineering-dragster-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical engineering dragster challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In teams of six, our first-year Mechanical Engineering students designed, built and raced a spring-propelled dragster. The dragster must be powered from a standing start over a timed 10-metre course.<\/p>\n<p>There are up to 100 points on offer with 20 marks for each successful run (max 60) plus additional marks as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Less than 5 seconds - 8<br \/>\nLess than 4.5 seconds - 16<br \/>\nLess than 4 seconds - 24<br \/>\nLess than 3.5 seconds - 32<br \/>\nLess than 3.0 seconds - 36<br \/>\nLess than 2.8 seconds - 40<\/p>\n<p>With a winning time of 2.51 seconds, congratulations to Integrated Mechanical &amp; Electrical Engineering students Dominic, Sophie, Amy, Ben, George and Jonathan!<\/p>\n<h2>Watch highlights from the competition<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mechanical engineering dragster challenge\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/266711543?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/266711543\">Watch the video on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In teams of six, our first-year Mechanical Engineering students designed, built and raced a spring-propelled dragster. The dragster must be powered from a standing start over a timed 10-metre course. There are up to 100 points on offer with 20...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,7,35],"tags":[224,225,23,119,176],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-department-of-mechanical-engineering","category-student-projects","category-undergraduate","tag-dragster","tag-dragster-challenge","tag-imee","tag-mech-project","tag-mechanical"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2018\/05\/dragster-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/engdes-student-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}