Video Gallery
Get a live action look at the Dartmouth experience—engineering style! Below is a sampling of videos from various sources. Each provides a unique window into the world of engineering at Dartmouth ... (Got movies? Let us know! Thayer.School.Communications@dartmouth.edu)
Overview
Dartmouth Video
See and hear highlights of life at Dartmouth.
(3.5 minutes; produced by Dartmouth Admissions)
theU - Dartmouth: "Academics"
Students discuss the quality of Dartmouth's different academic departments, accessibility of professors/TAs, and level of workload.
(2.5 minutes; an original production from theU)
Student Projects
Yeti Robot testing
First day of testing for "The Yeti"—an autonomous robot designed and built by Bachelor of Engineering students for their culminating project. The students worked with professor Laura Ray and Steve Arcone at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory under a grant from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop a robot for detecting snow-covered crevasses in Antarctica.
See the Yeti's project blog.
(1.5 minutes; student produced)
Robotic "Squirrel"
... that can pick and deposit nuts. Designed and built by students for a Machine Engineering class.
(5.5 minutes; student produced)
Nordic Exchange
A humorous introduction to a student-designed device for developing strength in cross-country ski double poling. More about Nordic Exchange
(2 minutes; student produced)
Ping Pong Rollercoaster
Conceptual model of a new theme park ride for a Design Thinking class. In order of appearance: Drop, car garage, skywalk, escalator, tunnel,
belt, slingshot, credit launcher, window shopping, funnel, plinko shirt, pants, two Bloomingdales bags.
(30 seconds; student produced)
Sailboat Testing
In lieu of formal project presentations, students use radio controllers to test their creations from a Computer-Aided Mechanical Engineering Design class. Instead of attending a series of lectures, students in this class go straight to the shop for hands-on training in the process of designing and manufacturing a product.
(3.5 minutes; student produced)
The Big Green Bus
Get an inside look at The Big Green Bus: A bus converted by Dartmouth students to run on waste vegetable oil. Each summer it travels around the country raising awareness about alternative energy issues.
- Episode 1: Genesis of the Bus (4.5 minutes)
- Episode 2: Bonnaroo or Bus(t) (13.5 minutes)
- Episode 3: "Still Shifts Good" (12 minutes)
- Episode 4: California Greasing (15 minutes)
- Episode 5: "It's a Dry heat" (16.5 minutes)
- Episode 6: (re)New Orleans (7.5 minutes)
- Episode 7: "Scattered, Smothered, and Covered" (10.5 minutes)
- Episode 8: The Road Home (18 minutes)
Dartmouth Formula Racing (DFR) and Formula Hybrid
Formula Hybrid
The Formula Hybrid racecar is designed and built by students. Dartmouth initiated and hosted the first ever Formula Hybrid competition.
(1 minute; produced by Thayer School)
See 10-minute version
2006 Formula Hybrid
"el-Myra" gets ready to roll.
(1.5 minutes; student produced)
DFR 2006 Candi
"Candi" completion & testing. DFR website
(1.5 minutes; student produced)
DFR 2005 Vicki
2005 marketing presentation from Formula SAE.
(1 minute; student produced)
Gyrobike
Gyrobike
See what four student inventors came up with in their Introduction to Engineering class. (See also www.thegyrobike.com)
(3.5 minutes; student produced)
Four-year-old learning to ride with Gyrobike
Gyrobike put to the test.
(3 minutes; student produced)
Faculty Research
Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability winner
Video profile of Professor Lee Lynd—expert in cellulosic biomass processing technology.
(5 minutes; produced by MIT)
Cool Robot Testing: Mascoma Driving
Testing of a mobile scientific platform for the harsh conditions of the Antarctic plateau. The finished product is designed to navigate over 1000 km autonomously, using the abundant solar energy of the Antarctic summer. Cool Robot website
(30 seconds; student produced)
An Untethered, Globally Controllable MEMS Micro-robot
The world's smallest robot: a steerable, electrostatic, untethered, MEMS micro-robot (60 µm by 250 µm by 10 µm). Micro-Robots website
(1.5 minutes; student & faculty produced)
Ice Engineering
Demonstrations of the ice-control technology invented by Dartmouth Engineering Professor Victor Petrenko and his research team: aerofoil de-icing, panel de-icing, power line de-icing, and windshield de-icing. Petrenko's super-efficient pulse electro-thermal de-icing (PETD) has demonstrated immediate effectiveness and saves up to 99% of electricity compared to conventional heaters.
Lectures and Symposia
Lee Lynd at Nobel Conference
"Biofuels: Technology, Challenges and Their Role in a Sustainable World"
This lecture was part of the 2007 Nobel Conference, Heating Up: The Energy Debate. World-renowned energy and resource experts gathered to consider the problems of global warming and declining oil reserves, and to examine new and advancing technologies including hydrogen, solar and wind power, biofuels, and advanced nuclear power.
Energy Symposium
The Fall 2007 Dartmouth Energy Symposium: Energy—A Defining Challenge of Our Time, featuring speakers Lisa Margonelli, author of "Oil on the Brain," Jason Grumet, Director of the National Commission on Energy Policy, and Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives at Google. Panel discussions addressed energy and environment, energy and science/technology, energy and policy/government, and energy and business.
Jones Seminars
Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society with a weekly public lecture on a wide range of topics.
Nanomaterials Symposium
Scroll down the page to find links to the three segments of the symposium featuring:
- Maria Kempe: "Molecularly Imprinted Polymers"
- Ebo De Muinck: "Molecular imaging of new blood vessels with targeted nanoparticles"
- Robert J. Linhardt: "Cellulose composites prepared using room temperature ionic liquids"
- Mansoor M. Amiji: "Nanotechnology for Cancer-Specific Drug and Gene Delivery"
- David Warheit: "Health effects related to nanoparticle exposures - How do we assess the hazards?"
(The introductions do not have sound, but the lectures do.)
Alumni
Innovate or Die—Aquaduct: Mobile Filtration Vehicle
A pedal-powered vehicle that transports, filters, and stores water for the developing world: WINNER of Google's Innovate or Die contest.
(2 minutes)
"This project felt like ES21, but in the real world!"
—Brian Mason, IDEO Mechanical Engineer, Thayer alum