{"427551":{"#nid":"427551","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Intro AE class student sets a record","body":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003EAchieving the lowest possible weight for his \u0022Moon Lander,\u0022\u0026nbsp;first-year AE\u0026nbsp;student Adam Green has earned some serious bragging rights in the \u0022\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETruss Me!\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0022\u0026nbsp;community.\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA team of ambitious first-year areospace engineering students has beat Prof. Julian Rimoli at his own game.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdam Green, Hayden Mah, and Ebrahim Yavari - all students in Dr. Eric Johnson\u0027s Introduction to Aerospace Engineering class -- managed to pull off a near perfect score in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETruss Me!\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, an educational app that Rimoli developed last year to teach up-and-coming engineers about truss behavior. Later, one of the young engineers bested that, submitting a perfect design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I was really impressed with how well they understood the concepts,\u0022 said Rimoli, a guest lecturer who spoke to the class about structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And the nicest thing is, really: their design was better than my best design. In fact, it holds the record: it\u0027s better than any design I\u0027ve seen so far.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0027s no mean feat.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince its 2013 debut on iTunes,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETruss Me!\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003Ehas developed a world-wide following among engineering students, educators, and game afficianados of all ages. Last May, it was officially incorporated into the engineering curriculum at the prestigious ETH Zurich, where Rimoli presided over its inaugural competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring their class period on Feb. 12, the first-year Georgia Tech engineering students earned a score of 87, which was very impressive. But, an hour later, Adam Green pulled off a 97. A few minutes after that, a 100.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll told, Rimoli has used the app to instruct more than 1,000 college-level students - at Tech and elsewhere.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022But none of those students did as well as Adam,\u0022 Rimoli said. \u0022His design was a stand-out.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing a graphical interface to simulate the real thing,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETruss Me!\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;tasks players to design a \u0022moon lander\u0022 that is super light but which will not bend or break upon impact. Every change the students make in the design must take into account the specific landing gear and payload constraints of the vehicle.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A team of ambitious first-year areospace engineering students has beat Prof. Julian Rimoli at his own game."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-22 10:59:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:15","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"136411","name":"Adam Green"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"136431","name":"Ebrahim Yavari"},{"id":"136421","name":"Hayden Mah"},{"id":"130061","name":"Julian Rimoli"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}