Charles Guan

Using Scooters and Go-Karts to Disrupt Engineering Education

Using Scooters and Go-Karts to Disrupt Engineering Education

By Eric Weinhoffer

Eric Weinhoffer

Eric is a Mechanical Engineer with interests in machining, mass manufacturing, product design and kinetic art. While not building things, he enjoys skiing, cycling, and juggling.

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Charles Guan has an “undying desire to create that which should not be created”, like his treaded skateboard (called LandBearShark). For the last two years, he has been sharing his fabrication knowledge with MIT engineering students as an instructor in a disruptive course that he created, which requires that they build and race a custom electric vehicle.

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