Trine Team Excels In Cast In Steel Competition
June 12, 2024 at 4:53 p.m.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. – It broke into a door and split a two-by-four, allowing a team of Trine University mechanical engineers to break into the top rankings of a national competition.
The Trine senior design team placed third for "best design and process" at the Cast in Steel competition, held April 22 at the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
For the 2024 version, teams were tasked with using modern metalcasting tools to design and produce a functioning Halligan bar, used by firefighters to, among other things, gain access to building spaces and vehicles.
The competition, sponsored by the Steel Founders' Society of America and now in its sixth year, is inspired by the History Channel series "Forged in Fire." That show challenges smiths to forge bladed weapons.
Two of the "Forged in Fire" judges, Ben Abbott and David Baker, served as judges for the Cast in Steel competition.
At the competition, each bar was tested in areas such as prying, punching, twisting and striking.
The Trine team was made up of Grant Whitham, of La Fontaine; Josiah Guerra, Warsaw; Brennen McNeil, Camden, Mich.; Dane Robertson, Louisville, Ky.; Hayden Smith, Noblesville; Reed Ellis, Alexandria, Ind.; and Jonathan Stockwell, Dowagiac, Mich.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. – It broke into a door and split a two-by-four, allowing a team of Trine University mechanical engineers to break into the top rankings of a national competition.
The Trine senior design team placed third for "best design and process" at the Cast in Steel competition, held April 22 at the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
For the 2024 version, teams were tasked with using modern metalcasting tools to design and produce a functioning Halligan bar, used by firefighters to, among other things, gain access to building spaces and vehicles.
The competition, sponsored by the Steel Founders' Society of America and now in its sixth year, is inspired by the History Channel series "Forged in Fire." That show challenges smiths to forge bladed weapons.
Two of the "Forged in Fire" judges, Ben Abbott and David Baker, served as judges for the Cast in Steel competition.
At the competition, each bar was tested in areas such as prying, punching, twisting and striking.
The Trine team was made up of Grant Whitham, of La Fontaine; Josiah Guerra, Warsaw; Brennen McNeil, Camden, Mich.; Dane Robertson, Louisville, Ky.; Hayden Smith, Noblesville; Reed Ellis, Alexandria, Ind.; and Jonathan Stockwell, Dowagiac, Mich.