Juniors in a fluids mechanics course taught by Mechanical Engineering Professor Jim Chen turned the recreational field at 11th Street and Montgomery Avenue into Cape Canaveral last week, launching uncooked eggs aboard water and compressed air-powered rockets they designed and built from two-liter plastic soda bottles.

Temple's week-long celebration of National Engineers Week concluded with a public demonstration of student and faculty research projects at Amtrak's 30th Street Station. Nearly a dozen students, faculty and staff from the College of Engineering took part in the demo, which was arranged by Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Eengineering Joseph Picone.

Nine Temple engineering students who spent the past year designing and building two experiments that were launched June 23 aboard the two-stage solid booster rocket Terrier Orion II were part of RockSat, a NASA and Colorado Space Grant Consortium program that prepares students to design payloads for space flight.

Twenty-seven Delaware Valley high school students got hands-on experience in basic concepts of electrical engineering at Temple this summer in a five-week introductory electrical engineering course taught by electrical and computer engineering Associate Professor John Helferty.