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Laboween 2023

Laboween is a yearly open house event hosted by the Mechanical Engineering department. It is an event created to help educate and demonstrate to the local community, and especially our students, the research being conducted throughout the year by our many labs! Our goal is to inspire others to join STEM, and participate in our progressive research.

We do cool science tricks and give out treats! 2023 marks the first year where we will include a scavenger hunt for skeletons within the labs.

This event is open to the public. Feel free to bring family, friends and associates to see what kind of things engineers do!

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If you are interested in participating in future research, feel free to reach out to any of the labs below!
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Participating Labs

Each year, many of our labs participate and do different demonstrations. Find out more about this year's participants!

  • Location: 165 CB
    Every 20 minutes: demo showing how lasers are used to measure vibration and demo showing how a vibration measurement on a window can be used to spy on a conversation.

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  • Location: B107 EB

    Every 20 minutes: put on a wearable nanocomposite sensor for measuring your joint biomechanics, and learn about musculoskeletal biomechanics and medical device design

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  • Location: B107A EB

    Every 20 minutes: use a motion capture system, watch your bones move, and see a skeleton playing a video game -- all as an introduction to our research on how people control their movements.

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  • Location: 154 CB

    Continuous demos and an escape room: We provide advice, support and equipment needed for your research, class and personal projects.

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  • Location: 152A CB

    Participate in the torture of gummy bears and gummy worms on "the rack", where visitors can see the force/deformation curves of tortured gummy creatures. Bwaaa ha ha ha!

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  • Location: 107 EB (Hardware Proving Grounds)

    Stop by and learn about 3D printing tools and research on campus. See what you can build with a 3D printing pen, 3d print chocolate, look at the world in infrared, and try other hands-on activities, and see high speed X-ray images of 3D printing.

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  • Location: B125 EB

    Every 10-15 minutes: Watch focused ultrasound or FUS being used to create a water fountain, to generate a spooky fog, and to cook candy.

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  • Location: 304 EB

    Demo every 10-15 minutes; Interactive video game allowing users to design their own materials

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  • Location: 188 CB

    See a real jet engine and learn how it works and find out how researchers construct fluid dynamic simulations of flow through a jet engine.

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  • Location: 117 EB

    Continuous: drop by to see awesome equipment available for your class and personal projects. Some small hands on projects are available to do.

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  • Location: 145 CTB

    Smart Factory Demonstrations and Augmented reality robots will be made available to everyone who visits to take home with them...

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  • Location: 160 CTB

    Every five minutes we will produce a refill friction stir spot weld and provide them as a souvenir!

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  • Location: 112 EB & 230 EB

    Every 20 minutes: demonstrations of applying origami design to solve a variety of engineering problems in diverse fields.

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  • Location: 140 EB

    Continuous: inflatable soft robots moving around; see and interact with other robot manipulators.

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  • Location: 150 CB

    Every 20 minutes: hands on participation and current research information.

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  • Location: 146 EB

    Every 20 minutes: Flying quadrotors and whirlybirds as well as videos and conversation about unmanned flight control.

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  • Location: B134 EB

    Every 20 minutes: demonstrations of optical equipment with eye-safe lasers and spectrometers. Participants can make glow-in the dark spider webs

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  • Location: 340/342 EB

    Visuals and mini presentations on research in electric aircraft and wind turbine design.

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  • Location: 155 CTB

    Watch 3D printing in action, learn about BYU's metal and large format printers, and create your own Halloween decorations with a 3D pen

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  • Location: 350 EB

    Make a mini pumpkin catapult, and find out more about how to participate in the labs!

  • Location: 122 & 230 EB

    Explore new methods that can be used to develop new and better products. Come participate in a design challenge.

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  • Location: 150 CB

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