When "The Tonight Show" starring Jimmy Fallon asks for assistance with a science segment, you take advantage of the situation.
Mark French, associate professor of mechanical engineering technology, was contacted by the show last week after a staffer discovered his supersonic pingpong gun online.
Ph.D. students Jim Stratton and Craig Zehrung, who assisted with the project initially, quickly built a second pingpong gun especially for the show in less than a week.
Watch the pingpong segment on YouTube.