At the E-Week Build-A-Thon this past Wednesday, teams competed in three teamwork and competitive design challenges that are easy to learn, but hard to master, and had a great time doing it. These design challenges were Balloon Towers hosted by NSBE, Space Sculptures hosted by ASME, Lifting Prosthesis hosted by MESS. Teams of up to […]

This Monday, evening engineers descended on the Pit in Spencer Lab for some spooktacular fun! In the spirit of the collegiate Pumpkin Chunkin hosted the Friday prior, teams of participants fashioned their own siege machines to hurl small mellocreme pumpkins across the room.Teams were given supplies such as dowels, spoons, wheels, and rubber bands combined […]



Some say build it and they will come, we engineers know you only need to buy the supplies and plenty of food to attract a crowd. As evidence, more than 80 people showed up at the E-Week Build-A-Thon 2017 to build their own creations, or simply to watch others do the same. Either way, everyone […]

This Friday (2/19/2016) MESS will be hosting the Build-A-Thon challenge in the Pit (Spencer 134) starting a 4:00 PM. Come for the food, stay for the joy of building stuff! Author’s Note: This post originally posted at http://sites.udel.edu/asme/2016/02/16/mess-build-a-thon/  

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Mechanical Engineering Student Squad Pizza & Legos Night! Though the pizza ran out fast, there were still plenty of Legos to tinker with to you heart’s content. Author’s Note: This post originally published at http://sites.udel.edu/asme/2015/10/05/mess-pizza-legos-pictures/