Mt. SAC students win Grand Prize at WESTEC competition
The Mt. San Antonio College Engineering Design Technology Team won the overall grand prize as well as the first-place award for community colleges at the WESTEC Student Manufacturing Challenge competition held March 30 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the Manufacturing Challenge is a creative engineering competition in which students choose and design their own manufacturing project. Approximately a dozen California universities and colleges competed.
The Mt. SAC team's design is called "Tuk-Air," which uses pneumatics to lift heavy equipment, pallets, or even cars. It is a compact alternative for a forklift that can be used in tight spaces.
Mt. SAC's Jacob Tucker (Hacienda Heights) also won the William B. Johnson Leadership in Manufacturing award, which carries with it a $500 prize for leadership abilities in the manufacturing field.
The Manufacturing Challenge was part of the 2009 WESTEC Exposition that featured 500 exhibitors from manufacturing technology and nearly 1,000 companies displaying more than 6 million pounds of machinery.
Sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the Manufacturing Challenge is a creative engineering competition in which students choose and design their own manufacturing project. Approximately a dozen California universities and colleges competed.
The Mt. SAC team's design is called "Tuk-Air," which uses pneumatics to lift heavy equipment, pallets, or even cars. It is a compact alternative for a forklift that can be used in tight spaces.
Mt. SAC's Jacob Tucker (Hacienda Heights) also won the William B. Johnson Leadership in Manufacturing award, which carries with it a $500 prize for leadership abilities in the manufacturing field.
The Manufacturing Challenge was part of the 2009 WESTEC Exposition that featured 500 exhibitors from manufacturing technology and nearly 1,000 companies displaying more than 6 million pounds of machinery.
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