Category: Personal

Spring Spectacular, ASME

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July 26th, 2011 Permalink

Yes, finally the followup to the single image posted before, Water balloon bursting.

For Spring Spectacular, student engineering societies from the Cockrell School of Engineering hosted a public outreach fair for Austin-area children.

ASME’s booth had kids build a structure to protect a water balloon from bursting after a drop.

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As usual, hit the thumbnails for larger versions.

Real Ale 15th Anniversary

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July 15th, 2011 Permalink

Real Ale had its 15th anniversary open house. Fun times. Got a Fireman’s #4 pint glass. Thanks to Brittany, I’m trying to embrace the bottom half of the frame, on the way to bottom third of the frame.

Real Ale storage tank at brewery

Candles for Miranda’s birthday

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July 14th, 2011 Permalink

Harrison lights candles for Miranda’s birthday. Yes, a whole box of 24 on a cupcake. Not easy.

Harrison lights candles for Miranda's birthday.

For Spring Spectacular, student engineering societies from the Cockrell School of Engineering hosted a public outreach fair for Austin-area children.

ASME’s booth had kids build a structure to protect a water balloon from bursting after a drop.

Not all designs protected the balloon sufficiently:

E-Week 2011

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April 24th, 2011 Permalink

As part of National Engineers Week, the Student Engineering Council at the University of Texas at Austin hosts its own E-Week competitions.

It’s a week of craziness. There were two major service/outreach days: Engineering Day at the Museum and Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. Each of the student societies competed in and hosted competitions, including capture the flag, Rock Band, talent show, lip-syncing contest, and a canned food drive/building contest.

Throughout the whole week, student societies also scrambled to complete scavenger hunt items like “Make an origami zoo (at least 20 different animals)” and “Make UT clocktower out of legos.”

The student chapter of ASME at UT competed, and won its sixth consecutive year. See the official writeup, Engineers Week — 18th — 25th February, 2011.

Most creative picture with the “Clock Knot” involving only a society’s members. Originally I wanted to do a flash composite, but this was deemed to be too time- and labor-intensive. So instead, we used the geography to our advantage. Inspired by “I Should’Ve Had a V8″ by Ryan Brenizer.

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All of one’s society officers with Alec (bonus for another organization’s officers picture)

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