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Show Student Wins Award An award of $100 has been presented pre-sented to mechanical engineering major, Bob Immergluck, for his winning entry in a design contest sponsored by Western Gear Corporation Corpor-ation and the Department of Mechanical Me-chanical Engineering. Tuesday during a seminar on mechanical me-chanical engineering. According to contest director, Professor Donald J. Mayhew, the event will be repeated next spring with a larger cash award going to the winner. Working on a problem provided by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Immergluck designed a hovercraft powered only by balloons. bal-loons. The contestants were permitted to use any platform shape they desired de-sired in building a ground effect machine, but the unit couldn't weigh more than 10 grams. The entries were judged by a score based on the of the weight times the number of seconds in flight. Immergluck's craft had a 11.4. Second place winner in the contest con-test was Steven Rumel, a sophomore sopho-more majoring in electrical engineering. engi-neering. The winners were announced |
