Mechanical Engineering Content

‘Face to Face’: A Picture Worth a Thousand Legos

Jose Antonio Vadi — May 28, 2024 - 1:00pm

When Marc Corfmat was growing up, his sister had a bedroom wall covered in Polaroid photos while he and his brother were both obsessed with Legos. Corfmat merged those interests this year with his ��ϲʿ��ͼ studies in mechanical engineering to create something available all around the nation.

In the latest episode of Face to Face, Chancellor Gary S. May and Cormfat discuss the graduate student’s latest design: a functioning Polaroid camera built out of Lego bricks.

Entomologists, Engineers Work Together to Weigh a Bee

Andy Fell — July 06, 2016 - 4:48pm

How to weigh an individual bee is the problem that brought together insect specialists at UC Davis and two teams of ��ϲʿ��ͼ engineering students this year. By understanding everything they can about a bumblebee colony, researchers hope to understand how California’s native bumblebees respond to changes in the environment and the availability of flowers, and how we can protect these insects that are so vital to both agriculture and wild plants.