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 idea, but Wentworth students from various disciplines (industrial design, interior design, mechanical engineering and technology), put the project in gear, creating aluminum chassis in the industrial design labs on campus, before printing the plastic pieces—body, wheels, and other parts—in the Manufacturing Lab using 3D printers.
“It is really rewarding to see something designed in 2D turn into something physical with rapid prototyping,” said Angela Bergeron, BIND ’17, who worked on one of the cars.
Michael Suazo, BIND ’17, noted the importance of working as an interdisciplinary team. “It was a great experience,” he said. “We saw how all the design and manufacturing work came together [and] gave us a taste of how projects like this might take place outside of school.”
-GREG ABAZORIUS
