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Show 3 MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2001 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Committee Launches New Diversity Lunch Program EMILY FULLER Chronicle News Writer The University of Utah diversity committee has begun a "Rainbow Bag Lunch" series for students and staff to listen to speakers on diversity issues. The lunches will take place every third Friday of the month from noon to i p.m. in the J. Willard Marriott Library. Friday's lunch speaker, Dr. Karen for Dace, associate and commuof diversity professor nication, spoke about the great victories the U has made in diversity. "Folks are always impressed and amazed when they come to this vice-preside- -- i mm r - rT , m Students Show Engineering Projects Stuffed cougars flew over the hardwood floor, backed by screams of delight. Raw eggs replaced hockey pucks. Robots title. And years of education culvied for a minated in engineering capstone projects. Mechanical curiosities and their clamor invaded the A. Ray Olpin University Union Friday with the mechanical engineering department's annual Design Day. During the event, students showed off their work. "Design Day helps people understand what mechanical engineers do," said Robert Roemer, chairman of the mechanical engineering department. Roemer and other faculty supervised the events throughout the day. "I'll be the one with a worried look on my face. We have kids shooting catapults," Roemer said refer100 junior-hig- h the day's first activity. ring to The young teenagers assembled catapults provided by the department and weighted them with liter bottles of soda. They tweaked the design to send a small BYU stuffed cougar flying as far across the ballroom as possible. Nearby, U seniors presented their projects, which embodied three semesters of work and years of education. Robo-Apthe Aluminum Primate Octathlete, stood near the entrance. A group of students collaborated to design and build the device, also known as a walking machine. Sharply punctuated hissing accompanied careful steps over a wooden "trip wire." The walking machine will perform similar tasks next month in Mexico, as part of an international competition. Last summer, the group's brainstorming produced three potential blueprints for the machine. Ultimately, the desire to experiment with a unique design won out. "We had an insect with tons of little legs, and we had a sumo-wrestli- e, Robo-Ape- 's slider modeled after last year's winner," said Jason Starling, a senior in mechanical engineering and a group member. "The one we actually choose was modeled after an ape's walk, you know how they put their knuckles down and pull their bodies forward." Although she feels good about the final product, Starling's teammate Kristen Bradshaw, also a senior in mechanical engineering, sees room for improvement. "I wish we had had more time, definitely," she said. computer controls may not be finished in time for the competition. If so, the team may have to manually feed the machine its instructions. However, even if her group is unable to put the finishing Bradshaw hopes other students will touches on Robo-Apinherit the machine and improve it. "We've got a mcchatronics team this year that wants to do this project next year for their senior design project," she class who prosaid referring to students in the junior-levduced the robots also performing as part of Design Day. Others also felt the time constraints. The black wheelchair sitting on Susan Thomas' and Tyson Skelton's table was not quite ready for use. Designed for a recreation center for the disabled, the wheelchair still needed custom padding and special tires among other things, Thomas and Skelton said. The wheelchair took three semesters to reach this point. "The first semester, we gathered customer needs," Thomas said. This involved visiting the course and interviewing potential users. The project fit their pursuits well. 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At its new home in Research Park, the program's 115 students will have more functional space, I 208 South 1300 East Salt Lake City, UT 's e, U's Public Health Program to Move Location The diversity office was in charge of MLK Week, and Dace feels it is one of the best in the country. "Officials from the A. Ray Olpin j Olfcr To New said. in Battling robots were featured in Friday's display organized by the U's mechanical engineering department. WYNNE PARRY Chronicle News Writer nt campus," Dace said. She spoke of the reaction of Martin Luther King Jr. Week keynote speaker Morris Dees, the founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who worked closely with King before his death. "He said, 'i can't believe how much you're doing around here for Martin Luther King Week; we're not doing this in Alabama,'" Dace V |
