Revved Up for RC Car Showdown

Westmont’s junior engineering students are revved up to battle it out in a three-part competition that includes racing around cones and distance jumping off a ramp on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 1:15 p.m. in front of Kerrwood Hall. Students use the 500-piece remote-control (RC) car they’ve made as part of their Machine Design class.

This is the fifth annual competition, which counts as 5% of the students’ total grade. They’ve spent the last 10 weeks working in teams to assemble the parts to create their race cars

“Each element they’ve studied in class will come to life in the RC car,” says Dan Jensen, Allder professor and director of Westmont’s engineering program. “They’ve applied the knowledge they gained in class, gotten their hands dirty, and performed real engineering work.”

Earlier this year, Westmont’s engineering program earned full ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accreditation retroactive to October 2022 following an extensive three-year process that involved reviewing facilities, faculty, students and funding.