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University of Illinois Team Places 2nd in National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest! See here for more! The University of Illinois Rube Goldberg Team was started during Fall 2008 to contest in collegiate Rube Goldberg Machine contests. Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist best known for his series of popular drawings depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. Rube Goldberg Machine Contests serve as a way of challenging traditional solutions to problems and are great ways to spur innovative creativity in engineers and imaginative thinkers. Interested in joining? Contact one of our officers and we'd be happy to get you involved! (see below) |
2010 Challenge: Dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer in someone's hand. 2009 Challenge: Replace an incandescent light bulb with a more energy efficient light emitting design. Our 2009 Machine's theme was based off of the board game Clue and named "The Scene of the Crime". It included each of the different rooms of the Clue Mansion and included nearly all of the characters - each of which was "killed" with a different weapon from the game. In the end, Professor Plum was revealed to be the murderer and was jailed! You can see a video of The Scene of the Crime on our Videos page. See the Official Rube Goldberg site for official rules and regulations. The site link can be found on the Links page. |
2009-2010 Officers: President Jimmy Kryger Email: jkryger2@illinois.edu Vice President Evan Schrock Email: schrock3@illinois.edu Treasurer Matt Abtahi Email: abtahi1@illinois.edu Engineering Council Representative Doug Tanaka Email: tanaka3@illinois.edu Publicity/Social Rep Mike Altergott Email: altergo1@illinois.edu Webmaster Connor Simmons Email: simmons6@illinois.edu |