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Show Mills wins engineering design contest taught by Dr. Don R. Brown, assistant assis-tant professor of mechanical engineering. engi-neering. He began the program three years ago to acquaint students with the kind of challenges they'll face as professional engineers. "This is an excellent learning experience for engineering students," said Brown, an innovative in-novative and popular professor. In 1991, Brown's students designed and built automated abacuses. The year before, the competition featured a miniaturized hockey meet. The contest forces students to attempt at-tempt to solve engineering design and construction problems under the constrains of time, Brown said. Students are limited only by their imaginations in what they can create in order to win. Students are not graded on the basis of how well they do in the contest. I don't grade that way because luck can sometimes play a major role in the outcome of these kinds of events. Instead I grade on how well the students learn the design process," said Brown. A University of Utah mechanical engineering senior hit 14 free throws in just one minute of play last week, an impressive effort that took place not to the cheers of thousands in the spacious Jon M. Huntsman Center, but in a crowded classroom in the Merrill Engineering Engineer-ing Building. ; Gerald Mills, son of Calvin and Ruth Mills, 2095 Elaine Drive, Bountiful, more than doubled the scoring output of his nearest competitor com-petitor in a Department of Mechanical Engineering design contest that featured remote-controlled remote-controlled robots shooting hoops. Mills is a graduate of Bountiful High School. His winning device consisted of a ! tray placed under a basket on a min iature basketball court. Balls launched laun-ched by the device landed in the tray and were funnelled back toward the firing mechanism. As a result, a single ball was fired, caught, and retrieved numerous times. The contest was a wrap-up to -Mechanical Engineering 383, a required re-quired four-hour credit course |