Engineering at Dordt College

Friday I mentioned the senior project I’m advising this year. (See “A Clock Tower for Dordt?” below.) Last year I advised a project by Alex Haas and Chad Talsma on a brushless DC motor. That project won a “Merit Award” from the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation. (The 2006 awards are not yet posted on their web pages as I write this, but eventually they will be posted.) This project was sponsored by Groschopp here in Sioux Center.

Another project, the Flat Stacker, done by Dave Kielstra, Andrew Kroeze, Greg Mac Leod and Jon Vander Vliet, and advised by Professor Dressler won a Bronze Award in the same contest. This project was sponsored by Sakuma Brothers in Washington State. You can read an overview of these projects here.

Update (added 5/1/2007):
The Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation Awards for 2006 are now posted on the web.
The Flat Stacker project is mentioned on the cover page and on page 5 (as paginated by the Adobe Reader) or page 32 (as printed on the page). The Brushless DC Motor project is mentioned on page 6 (Adobe Reader) or page 33 (printed), second column, third project down.