Germanna engineering students best Yale, Drexel in Philadelphia competition

Germanna Community College engineering students took  a first place for a multi-rotor copter design at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Student Competition and Conference at Drexel University in Philadelphia Saturday.

Germanna's winning multi-rotor copter in a night shot at the Fredericksburg Area Campus in Spotsylvania.

"GCC students Reuben Strangelove, Andy Fabian, Zach Yee and Ethan Fiore created the winning copter design.

Over 180 students from 20 institutions competed. Germanna was the only community college to participate and bested  Drexel, Yale, the University of Massachusetts - Lowell, Rochester Institute of Technology, Temple and other universities.

Winning Germanna engineering design team members Reuben Strangelove, Andy Fabian, Zach Yee and Ethan Fiore.

"We are very excited to share that we won first place in the Student Design Competition for our multi-rotor copter," said Germanna Engineering Prof. Davyda Hammond  "This award is the most prestigious given at the competition." 

Germanna earned a slot in the final competition to be held in November at the 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in Montreal.

Two Germanna students, Charles DeLorenzo and Jade Thompson, also took second and third places in the Engineering Website Competition.

 Student Design:

Reuben Strangelove

Andy Fabian

Zach Yee

Ethan Fiore

Website Design:

Charles DeLorenzo (2nd)

Jade Thompson (3rd)

Oral:

Reuben Strangelove

Title: Color Learning System for the Visually Impaired

Poster:

Sarah Kaufman

Title: Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystal Structure Determination through Monochromatic Visible Light Crystallography Diffraction Patterns