Open house Aug. 19, 2000
One open-house visitor got a front-row seat in the Baja Car, a rugged off-road vehicle built and raced by engineering students.
	To learn more about how the heart works, biomedical engineering students study a transparent model they can thread a catheter through.
Using a few simple household ingredients, kids learned to make polymer ËslimeÓ at one of the universityÁs most popular exhibits.
Engineering EXPO, April 19-21, 2001
	Fourth-grade students from Northside Elementary School, Middleton, watched as college students poured 1,500-degree aluminum into a mold in the engineering foundry.
On the vast indoor football field at the universityÁs McClain Center, kindergarten through fifth-grade students nestled raw eggs into padded containers theyÁd made from recycled materials, then hurled them over a volleyball net, hoping theyÁd be the closest to a target with the egg still intact.
Future Fair, winter 2000
	At the Future Fair, one exhibit showed visitors how to use virtual reality in engineering design.

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