AMET student teams work on Rube Goldberg and other projects

2016 AMET Rube Goldberg team

Members of Purdue's Association of Mechanical and Electrical Technologists (AMET) are working on a machine which automates the application of an adhesive bandage in 20 or more steps. They're designing unnecessary complexity into a mechanical process for completing a usually simple task to compete in the 2017 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, to be held February 18 at the Purdue Armory.

AMET members are involved in projects related to Grand Prix, aerospace, robotics and others in addition to Rube Goldberg. It was a high altitude balloon launch which first introduced current club president AJ Hocker, a junior in transdisciplinary studies in technology, to the group. The launch of a third design for their balloon was successful but it didn't land where they intended. "(We) were running around, trying to find it," Hocker said. "We went to the corn field and were like, ‘Wait a second, it’s turning around. But no, this isn’t right’... and everybody was just having fun and enjoying the spectacle.”

Read the full article in the Purdue Exponent.

Read the event announcement from Purdue News Service.