CoE kicks off week with Egg Drop
Ashley Peskoe
Issue date: 2/22/08 Section: News
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This year, the competition was revamped for the first time in its history.
Daniel Lofaro, a senior majoring in electrical engineering, submitted his idea for the new egg drop competition to Dean of the College of Engineering Selçuk Güçeri along with a set of rules. He was then selected to help create the new competition, according to Lofaro.
"[I] changed it to something that required a bit more engineering because it required the egg to survive an impact as well as land in a certain target area," Lofaro said.
In the past, the competition required teams to create a transportation device that would protect a Grade A egg after it was propelled down a 100-foot steel cable into a wooden barricade in the Great Court in the Main Building.
The newly created competition requires the Grade A egg to survive a 28-foot free fall and steer itself onto targets below, all without breaking the egg, according to the CoE.
The winner of the competition was Norman Jones, who won with 105.58 points. This is Jones' third year winning first place; in the first two years, Jones used the same design and was planning on using it again this year until he heard of the competition's changes.
"I had all my design. I was going to do the same thing, but then when I heard they changed the rules I had to change it up," he said.
Jones found this year to be more competitive than previous years. According to Jones, there were at least 20 more teams this year than in 2007.
"They did a great job. So many people came out," he said.
The Myers Mafia, an all-freshman team, took second place with 75.05 points. The team included members Juxhin Jupi, Alicia Morgano, Greg Montesano and Dmytro Kyryliouk.
"Since we are freshmen we might as well try to win first place or nothing so we came out with different designs," Jupi said.
The team chose a light design, made up of Styrofoam and paper plates.
"It was a really good experience … we had to beat a lot of tough competition here," Morgano said. "We are going to get first next year."
In third place, closely behind The Myers Mafia, was the team Saltwater Phish, with 72.46 points.
This team included students Bryant Nelson and Barry Kline.
Chris McManus, a freshman majoring in mechanical engineering, volunteered at the Egg Drop competition.
"I think it's a good opportunity for engineers to get together plan out ideas and win some money. It's a good way to start off engineering week," McManus said.
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