Entries by Prof. McCarthy
Instruments for Natural Philosophy
This site has photographs of a large number of devices used to teach physics. It is fascinating. Select the link: http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/index.html
Mentoring program for collegiate competition teams
Mentor program for collegiate competition projects Introduction: SAE is a leader in demonstrating the importance of major engineering competition projects to engineering education. Colleges around the world have adopted this model and included FSAE and similar competitions as part of their educational program. Despite budget limitations, universities are increasingly moving to major competition projects to […]
Machines on Wikipedia
I have spent quite a bit of time revising articles on machines in Wikipedia. I hope my contributions are an improvement. When I started there was a lot of controversy over the definition of Machine, which forced me to introduce Machine (mechanical) and Mechanical system. This has changed and there is movement to move the […]
Photos from Thursday, 2011 FSAE California
Select this link to access the SAE SoCal section facebook page with photos of activities on Thursday of the 2011 FSAE California.
Photo of Competitors at 2011 EI2
This is a group photo of the competitors at our recent 2011 Energy Invitational at the Streets of Willow Springs prepared by Lee-Huang Chen. A higher resolution image can be downloaded at the link: Energy Invitational Photo
Photos: 2011 UCI Energy Invitational
Lee-Huang Chen and Corey Sandler have posted photos from our 2011 UCI Energy Invitational. Select this link to Le-Huang Chen’s photo page. Select this link to Corey Sandler’s Flickr account.
UCI Seniors prepare Delta for the Energy Invitational
The UCI Delta racecar has a CNG 450cc engine combined with a short-distance electric drive.
3rd Year MEs and 4th Year EEs team up to run at EI2
Third year Mechanical Engineering majors joined a team of Electrical Engineering majors from UCI to prepare an all electric vectored drive system for the UCI Energy Invitational. The drive systems for Gamma is shown here. The vectored drive system consists of 15hp DC motors connected one to each of the rear drive wheels and controlled […]
1st and 2nd Year UCI Students to run in EI2
First and second year Engineering students at UCI have prepared a car for entry in the 2011 Energy Invitational. Here is a photo of their car. It is powered by a 12hp Briggs and Stratton engine through a CVT and chain drive.