A group of senior mechanical engineering majors at Marshall University leveraged the advanced technology and expertise of the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) to transform its concept for a single-passenger vehicle into a working prototype.
Marshall’s Weisberg Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, a division of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, requires that soon-to-graduate seniors demonstrate their engineering acumen by designing, engineering and manufacturing functional prototypes with real-world applications.
For their senior capstone project, Austin Adams of Hurricane; Mason Fairchild of South Point, Ohio; Kierra Kammer of Hurricane; Stephen Queen of Cross Lanes; and Treston Withrow of Huntington designed, built and tested a monowheel, a single person motorized vehicle in which the driver sits stationary inside a large wheel that rotates around him/her.
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