Engineering Memory of the Month

Ready, set, splash

Back in March 1968, about 20 seniors and graduate students in Professor Robert McKim's Philosophy of Design Engineering class spent a wet and wild afternoon in a Foster City lagoon. The students, who had designed and built crafts to walk on water, were now racing them with decidedly mixed results. The San Francisco Chronicle captured the action on film.

Gary Anderson, now an alumnus but a student in the class at the time, saved the news clippings and sent scans of them to the school.

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