Overview

E80: Experimental Engineering, is one of the key classes in the Engineering curriculum at Mudd. It is a sophomore-level, lab-based course that covers a variety of engineering disciplines. The final project for this course is an open-ended, experimental project in which students are asked to use what they have learned to design an experiment, take data, and analyze some aspect of rocket flight. My team decided to go above and beyond the standard project and make a supersonic rocket.

A full write-up of the project (including links to all of our reports and proposals) can be found over on Sean’s site.

Misc. Photos

[https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Jfms0twG8EeEJjdFVWbUdiMWc/edit?usp=drive_web](https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Jfms0twG8EeEJjdFVWbUdiMWc/edit?usp=drive_web)

Reinforcing our vulcanized cellulose tubes with fiberglass.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Jfms0twG8EMjQ3MzRWRHNRY1E/edit?usp=drive_web

Machining one of the bulkheads.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Jfms0twG8EUGVvN1NMZGhrTWs/edit?usp=drive_web

Fiberglass dust is nasty. I’d really rather not have it in my lungs or eyes.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Jfms0twG8ET1YzS3NSR2NRVlE/edit?usp=drive_web

Chirlinger: “Is this how we put it together?” Me: “Nah”

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Jfms0twG8EdVV2clVGOUJCZTQ/edit?usp=drive_web

I think this way is much more practical.

(C) Allison Mis

Prepping charges.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Jfms0twG8ES1dSX2J2eFhKS1U/edit?usp=drive_web

When no one is sleeping, mistakes happen.

Here, I’m filing down some components to make everything fit together.

(C) Allison Mis

Sean and I waiting for our launch.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Jfms0twG8ERDdocDRCVHpqams/edit?usp=drive_web

Odysseus taking off.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Jfms0twG8ELVV2YkNZRXRGWG8/edit?usp=drive_web

We lost it… again. And didn’t find it… oops.