Professor Art Shoukas serves as a referee at the annual Foam Core Engineering Competition, in which teams of biomedical engineering freshmen compete to see who can design the best low-tech devices to maneuver a ping-pong ball around a course. The teams had two minutes each to navigate twice around a large square without touching the ball with their hands and without allowing it to touch the ground. Matthew Lalli can be seen here packing a punch with a device that enabled an extra-long reach to send a ball to one of his teammates. The event was held Oct. 16 in conjunction with fall Open House, enabling future students and their parents to watch the fun. Shoukas, a professor of biomedical engineering, shared the refereeing duties with Robert Allen, a senior lecturer in the program.

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