Boiler Bytes: Students get engineering thrills in roller-coaster design course

4,304 views · Published 30 March 2010 · 2:59 · Indexed 13 October 2026

Channel: Purdue University · 2010 · Science & Technology

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Students taking a new roller-coaster design course at Purdue University have discovered that fun, real-world applications make solving difficult engineering problems more interesting.
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/academics/2009/091203RhoadsRollerCoaster.html

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