Name:Tom Henighan
Major:Engineering Physics
Year:2nd
What I Do on the Team:
Last year was my first year on the team and I just did odd jobs. Cutting pipes, fishmouthing stuff, all the oddities that need to go on the car. This year I was more involved in the design phase. I did a number of calculations to assist us in choosing our gearing ratio for the car. I found things like acceleration as a function of gear reduction, how steep of a hill the car could climb, etc. I take a lot of physics courses, so I was pretty familiar with things like that. During the fabrication phase, I fish-mouthed and cut pipes for a great deal of the chassis. Getting those pipes to fit right is important for the structural integrity of the chassis. Now that the chassis is finished, I'm back to doing odd jobs.
I am not in mechanical like a lot of the rest of the team, but I'd like to think that I can still pull my weight. I love doing things with my hands, grinding metal and whatnot. That's the real reason I joined this team. That and I just love driving off-road.
