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Rolls-Royce Olympus Engine Garners Best Kickoff Exhibit during EOH 2015

3/20/2015

Jet engines, flight and orbit simulators, rockets and frozen marshmallows all were part of AE's 2015 EOH.

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Rolls-Royce Olympus Engine Exhibit
Rolls-Royce Olympus Engine Exhibit

Congratulations to the Illini Aerospace Outreach student group on winning Best Kickoff of Engineering Open House 2015 with the Rolls-Royce Olympus Engine Exhibit!

 

Representatives from Rolls-Royce were on hand during EOH March 13 and 14 to answer questions about the engine that the company had dedicated to Aerospace Engineering at Illinois last fall. The engine, on display in the basement of Talbot Laboratory on the Urbana campus, had been used on the supersonic Concorde airliner.

Two other AE Registered Student Organizations, Illinois Space Society (ISS) and Illinois Robotics in Space (IRIS), won second and third place, respectively, in the EOH Presentation of Society category.

Members of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics student group ready rockets to race.
Members of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics student group ready rockets to race.

ISS showcased several endeavors, including multiple rockets and a theoretical design for a Mars base. IRIS exhibited the robot its members built for the NASA Robotics Mining Competition, as well as an interactive Microsoft Kinect demonstration.

 

AE student organizations offered a wide range of exhibits, including flight and orbit simulators, controls, a wind tunnel experiment to teach visitors about aerodynamics, an activity for visitors to build paper helicopters to hover over a fan, and marshmallows frozen in liquid nitrogen.

See more photos from EOH 2015.
 

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This story was published March 20, 2015.