A group of BYU students will be competing in the first ever “University Rover Challenge” this weekend in Southern Utah.
The “University Rover Challenge,” hosted by the Mars Society, is a competition among various universities testing prototypes of Mars rovers. Each team has worked hard to create a suitable prototype. These rovers are designed to serve as a support for future expeditions to the planet Mars.
June 1st, 2007
BYU Engineers Enter Competition to Design Mars Rover Brigham Young University
March 15th, 2004
BYU physicists quiet fans in computers, office equipment Brigham Young University
On his way out of the office one day, Brigham Young University physics professor Scott Sommerfeldt shut down his desktop computer, printer and other equipment and “couldn’t believe how quiet” the room had become. Sommerfeldt set about to find a way to drown out the whinny noise from built-in fans that cool computers and other electronic devices. He came up with an idea for a cheap noise-control unit that’s built around its own fan.