Engineering Fundamentals 151
For the EF 151 final project this spring, teams needed to a build a device to play EF Shuffledisk. To play the game, devices needed to shoot a puck at a series of different targets, which were chosen on testing day. Teams had ranges of potential targets and had to use a computer program to determine their final launching conditions.

Engineering Fundamentals 152
EF 152 student teams designed final projects based on infrastructure development in a rural village: a bridge built of naturally occurring materials, a solar powered water heater, a wind powered water pump, and an Arduino based farming control system. Designs were subject to a performance test and results and analyses were presented in a scientific poster session and technical paper.

Engineering Fundamentals 230
This semester's EF 230 students implemented their programming skills into two hands-on team projects. Teams designed a “game” using an Arduino microcontroller and 3D printed components, and teams programmed Roomba Robots with onboard Raspberry Pi's and cameras to perform various challenges, such as following a line and interpreting image colors.

Engage welcomes Michael Allen!
We'd like to welcome Michael Allen to the EF Staff. Michael joined us Fall semester as our new Academic Support Specialist. Michael coordinates our freshman laboratories and manages our EF workshop. He has transformed our woodshop into a maker's paradise. Stop by and see it in the basement of Perkins Hall!

2015-2016 Graduate Teaching Assistants
We had an outstanding group of graduate teaching assistants this year. Congratulations to Stefy Stand for winning the EF Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA) Award! The award honors outstanding achievement and excellence in teaching.

The ICS is a student managed “makerspace” supported by the College of Engineering and hosted by the Engineering Fundamentals Division in Perkins Hall. The mission of the ICS is to provide resources to engineering students in the form of technology, tools, and knowledge in order to help them materialize their ideas. In the ICS students can turn their ideas into reality by using the provided equipment and material and collaborating with staff and other students. The ICS can help with activities such as CAD modeling, 3D printing, basic electronics, robots, Arduinos, Raspberry Pi's, and woodworking. ICS capabilities include more than twenty-five 3D printers, a desktop CNC mill and lathe, two laser cutters/engravers, a computer controlled sewing machine, hand tools, electronic tools, and CAD/CAM software. The ICS offers workshops to get engineering students acquainted with the software and equipment.

The 2015-2016 school year was very exciting in the Engage/RISER LLC. This year, approximately 189 students lived in the Engage/RISER LLC in Morrill Hall. Our advisory board, consisting of student RA's, EF faculty, and staff, as well as representatives from UTK Housing planned a number of great events for students to participate in. Over two semesters, we hosted ten study parties in the dorm to help students get prepared for the upcoming EF exams. There was lots of studying, great questions, and approximately 150 pizzas consumed at these study parties throughout the year!

In the fall semester, we took forty students on a tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility. The LLC students had great questions for the scientists and engineers they interacted with on the tour. In the spring semester, several LLC students had the chance to visit MABEline, one of the only synthetic cadavers in the world used to teach engineering students about the human body. It wasn't all business! EF staff and faculty had fun playing in a video game tournament with students in Morrill Hall.