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Design Fair visitors who wanted to drive cars had two options to choose from. Frederik Willumsen Haug, Quinlyn Long and Dennis Kim built Lightning McMuscles, a literal muscle car which uses wires connected to muscle sensors on the arm. When muscles flex, the car accelerates. Marko Kart, by Tessa Shahbo, Matt Filipowski, Smriti Somasundaram and Alex Klein Wassink, used a specially designed glove, which sent different movement instructions to the car based on which fingers were pressed together.

Im personally doing a subtrack in electrical engineering within bioengineering, so I was interested in learning more about electrical engineering in general, Long said. There are a lot of intersections of engineering, so its really helpful to learn more. It was really cool to see multiple classes and knowledge bases come together.

Students in "ESE161: Applied Environmental Toxicology" presented videos about the elimination of toxic chemicals in Harvard's building products. Check out some of there videos here.

While ES50 dominated the West Atrium, the East Atrium belonged to fourth-year students and their capstone projects. All engineering students on an S.B. track must complete a year-long research project, and a handful of A.B. students chose to do one as well. The Design Fair was their chance to celebrate the culmination of months of research, share their experiments with friends and family, and in some cases get recognized with a Deans Award for Outstanding Engineering Projects later that afternoon.

Downstairs in the lowest level atrium, robots clashed in Turf Wars, the final project for ES51: Computer-Aided Design. Turf Wars teams are tasked with building small robots capable of performing specific tasks, then face off in a series of head-to-head matchups in which the team that scores the most points wins.

This semesters turf wars challenged teams to build robots that could grab tennis balls or hockey pucks, drive up a ramp, then drop them through a miniature basketball hoop. Driven by second-year Jack Anderson, Rohans Robo Warrior used a claw grabber to pick up hockey pucks, worth twice as many points as tennis balls, and drop them through hoop after hoop en route to the championship. After winning, Anderson celebrated with teammates Abdullah Shahid Sial, Michael Maines and Taylor Folk.

We wanted to just keep it simple. The less things that are moving, the less things that can break, said Anderson. I love project-based courses. Engineering can sometimes feel a little monotonous, like youre just looking at pages all day. Its nice to have a real product that you build.

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An engineer for every interest - Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences