Fluid Power Challenge Winners

This video highlights the winning team in the 2009 National Fluid Power Association Fluid Power Challenge held at the University of Minnesota and hosted by the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power.

During the Fluid Power Challenge, middle school students learn about fluid power technology (hydraulics and pneumatics) and gain hands-on experience while building a fluid power mechanism with real world applicability. The program is designed to introduce the students, and their teachers, to the world of engineering and fluid power careers.

Students design and build fluid power mechanisms that pick up an object from one platform, rotate it and place it on another platform. In addition to the number of pick-and-place cycles a team's machine completes, a review of each teams design approach, teamwork and portfolio are used in the final evaluation.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• fluid
• power
• hydraulic
• pneumatic
• mechanical
• engineering
• education
• K-12