Desktop Stress Demonstration Device

The goal of this MQP was to design a tabletop demonstration device to be used to aid students in understanding combined bending and torsional stresses. The device is a cantilever beam capable of being twisted as well as bent. The geometry of the beam was selected to balance easily measured amplitudes of strain with longevity of the device. We included the addition of strain gauges on the critical section of the main shaft of the beam to allow theoretical values of stress to be compared to measured values of stress

Multi Channel Audio Environment

This project is dedicated to creating an interactive and immersive three-dimensional surround sound interface. Different from most 5.1 or 7.1 systems, this immersive environment combines sound wave mechanics with a 40 point source system to localize a sound in a user controlled 3D environment. An interactive and real-time system like this can be used to experiment with psychoacoustics, and to simulate complex environments where many sounds are coming from many different places