To complicate matters, each team’s analysis had to accurately predict the minimum amount of material needed to protect the egg.Įgg Drop Day draws a crowd to the south courtyard of MacQuigg Laboratory. “The device must take advantage of mechanical deformation mechanisms to protect the egg,” say Flores, rather than simply slowing its descent by using a parachute or other method. Nine teams of students in Flores’ Spring Quarter 2011 Introduction to Mechanical Behavior of Materials class each designed, analyzed, constructed and tested a device that protects a raw egg from breaking after it’s dropped from a window on the sixth floor of Ohio State’s MacQuigg Laboratory onto a three-foot-wide bulls eye positioned about 60 feet below on the lab’s brick courtyard. In fact, this is the fifth year in a row that students enrolled in her MSE 361 class have conducted an egg drop experiment. The fifth annual Egg Drop Day experiment was witnessed by students, staff and faculty on the south courtyard of MacQuigg Laboratory.Īn agriculture class would seem a more likely candidate for a project involving chicken eggs than a materials science course, but don’t tell that to MSE associate professor Kathy Flores.
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