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Piecing it Together

Simon Williamson brought Legos into his classroom this past semester in an effort to teach students how to expertly use 3D-design software. The result is the beautiful, photorealistic models seen here. Williamson’s project requires each student to select a roughly 100-piece Lego set and recreate each piece inside...

Wentworth Alumni and Industrial Design Students Embrace EPIC Project

Mike Johnson, BELM ’05, and Rob Kodadek, BELM ’05, have worked on the Saturday Night Live set, Super Bowl XLIX, and Cirque du Soleil’s “Michael Jackson ONE.” But more recently, they created a lighting module that inspired a world of creativity in Wentworth’s junior industrial design studio. The pair own The Black Tank, a company that creates...

Ocean Explorer

USING MILLING, 3-D printing, and other manufacturing technology, a team of 14 Wentworth students designed and assembled a submersible ROV (remotely operated vehicle) to locate and identify aircraft wreckage on the ocean floor. Roughly the size of a small suitcase, the sub has 16 waterproof connections, a team-designed, printed sensor board that powers the ROV’s...

‘Virtual’ Exhibit, Real Collaboration

STUDENTS AND FACULTY representing a range of disciplines recently worked with artist Sharon Ma to build a hybrid exhibit for the Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons that incorporated physical, digital, and photographic elements. “Virtual Fractality: Iterations, Dimensions, and Enhanced Reality” showcased fractals—geometric objects whose dimension is not...

Kind of Blue

With an intricately cut wood design and glowing, cool blue strip, Cody Smith, BIND ’16, created a sleek, modern lamp that quickly became a show-stopping piece when it went on display over the summer at the Midway Artist Studios in Boston. Achieving the design required working with a dyed...

Off to the Races

Wentworth professors Simon Williamson, Peter Rourke, Sam Montague, and Steve Chomyszak recently had an interesting challenge for their students: Create a race car. Happily for everyone involved, the cars they had in mind were to measure less than one foot and weigh under a pound. The professors were the driving force behind the...

Flapping His Wings

When Scott Houtchens, BSEN ’16, got the assignment to create a simple gear assembly for his 3D printing class, inspiration struck. “Our design goal was to create something that contained interlocking pieces and moved,” he says. “I decided to take a creative route.” Houtchens’ creativity came to him in the form of a...