Engineering in the Forest

By Wake Forest University

February 14^th, 2025

The Wake Forest University Engineering Department strives to be a leader in undergraduate education through a dynamic curriculum that emphasizes innovation, design, interdisciplinary exposure, collaboration and hands-on, experiential learning.

Engineering Week at Wake Downtown will be held February 17-22, and features several events, activities and opportunities designed to provide a look inside the program.

This engaging week includes, but is certainly not limited to, the following events:

Monday, February 17 thru Friday, February 21

A T-shirt contest will be held in the main lobby of Wake Downtown where attendees will pick from a selection of student-created designs and use the automatic heat presses to apply their chosen design. The student whose design is printed the most will be declared the winner.

Saturday, February 22, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Hosted in Wake Downtown Studio 0901 and the lower courtyard, the inaugural Bed and a Book charity event will take place. In partnership with The Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character, engineering students will build beds that will be delivered to community children in need.

Beds designed by engineering students will be 'raced' in a charity event scheduled this April. The Formula Wake Group will collaborate with Richard Childress Racing to lead this project.

Also, on Saturday, February 22, Kaleidium will be hosting Engineering Day, when engineering faculty and students will present a variety of fun, interactive events and activities designed to engage our extended community with a glimpse of what makes our engineering program unique.

For a look behind the scenes of Wake Forest Engineering, we invite you to browse the following photo gallery.

Wake Forest students explore differential building during an Automotive Engineering class in lab space at Wake Downtown.

Professor Melissa Kenny works with students to code a bowling game during her Intro to Programming for Engineers class.

Students head to the field to deploy measuring sensors in Reynolda Gardens’ Lake Katharine as part of Professor Kyle Luthy’s Engineering and Experimentation class.

Students in Professor Tricia Clayton’s Materials and Mechanics class work together to build a dynamic transportation device.

Students hit the lab in teams as part of Professor Hussein Abdeltawab’s Control Systems and Instrumentations class in Wake Downtown.

In Professor Kyana Young’s Materials and Mechanics class, students conduct experiments to test the strength of 3D-printed beams.

Teams collaborate on projects for Capstone Deign II.

As part of a Materials and Mechanics class project, students are charged with building durable recreational games using cardboard and at least one functional 3D-printed part.