{"id":13244,"date":"2017-01-18T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2017-01-18T12:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T20:14:26","slug":"new-camosun-student-club-explores-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/01\/18\/new-camosun-student-club-explores-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"New Camosun student club explores engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun College is home to a brand new student club this year\u2014the Society of Extraordinary Engineering Machines. The group is composed of student engineers who decided they should create a student club where they can mingle and come up with fun ideas related to their interests.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are two engineering programs at Camosun\u2014the Engineering Bridge and the Engineering Transfer,\u201d says club leader and first-year University Transfer student Derek Smith. \u201cThe Engineering Bridge is almost completely at the Interurban campus, so we have just a small group of us, and it\u2019s kind of hard to talk to other people when nearly all the people you associate with and the people in all of your classes are engineers in the transfer program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith has worked on a variety of personal projects in the past, including building cars. However, the group\u2019s goal isn\u2019t to build a vehicle; rather, it\u2019s something ripped straight from the pages of a history book.<\/p>\n

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Society of Extraordinary Engineering Machines club leader Derek Smith (photo by Jill Westby\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBasically what we have been doing is kind of developing plans for different models of trebuchets [a medieval siege engine, similar to a catapult]. We\u2019re throwing golf balls and water balloons,\u201d says Smith. \u201cThe golf balls are for our competition, so we can see whose trebuchet is the best, and the water balloons are just for fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith says that the group is definitely open to having more members.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have 15 signed up on our group list right now, but I can submit more\u2014that wouldn\u2019t be a problem\u2014and we\u2019re totally willing to take on more people,\u201d he says. \u201cThis club is still relatively new, so we have a lot of room for new membership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camosun student Struan Eamer is also a first-year University Transfer student; Eamer came up with the original idea to create the group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my first official year of engineering, but it has always interested me,\u201d says Eamer. \u201cI\u2019ve always enjoyed the designing and building aspects of it. Even when I was a kid I enjoyed tinkering, and I\u2019d try taking things apart and then reassembling them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eamer welcomes newcomers to the group, saying that it\u2019s not necessarily a club just for engineering students.<\/p>\n

\u201cDerek has a history of modifying cars, and I\u2019ve got a couple motorcycles and cars that I\u2019ve fixed up,\u201d says Eamer. \u201cI\u2019ve built catapults and slingshots, but I\u2019ve never built a trebuchet before, although I guess that\u2019s kind of the fun part, figuring it all out. The group isn\u2019t exclusively for engineering students; if anyone else is interested, it would be awesome to get more people involved for next term.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camosun College is home to a brand new student club this year\u2014the Society of Extraordinary Engineering Machines. The group is composed of student engineers who decided they should create a student club where they can mingle and come up with fun ideas related to their interests. \u201cThere are two engineering programs at Camosun\u2014the Engineering Bridge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-january-18-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13247,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions\/13247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}