Fall 2014 - Spaghetti Bridge Final Testing

Undergraduate students in the Statics course offered at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) are required to build a spaghetti bridge as a final project. In this video, the students conduct the final test of their spaghetti bridge designs. A special thanks to teaching assistants Shafin Haque and Luis Varela.

Students must design a spaghetti bridge as a final project

00:30 - Bridges are weighed and measured

00:43 - The bridge must withstand a 2.5 lbf weight for 5 minutes

01:16 - All twenty bridge designs were unique

01:32 - Now lets break some bridges!!!

10:42 - Next Semester the load will be increased to 5 lbf

Now lets break some bridges!!!