I just arrived in D.C. a couple of hours ago! The weather is fantastic (mid 70s) and I cannot wait to begin my project tomorrow! I spent the majority of my night eating a mouth watering calzone from a famous D.C. Italian-American restaurant with my host discussing the projects I will be involved in at MPR Engineering Corporation. And apparently it's straight to work for me tomorrow! But before I describe the outrageous task I've been given, I should briefly describe how MPR runs.
Serious inventors contact MPR to build a test model for their inventions. Most of the models built at MPR cost upwards of two million dollars! After a test model is made, MPR tests the product for the inventor before helping them launch the product on the market. Recently, a famous New Orleans Saints football player approached MPR with an invention for preventing concussions on the football field. He proposed using the padding from a toddler's car seat and incorporating it into football helmets.
However, before the product can go live, it has to be rigorously tested in a real-life setting. Well, almost real life...Tomorrow I'll be working with cadavers in a professional MPR lab! Using an accelerometer (a device that measures the acceleration of a falling object) we will measure the acceleration of cadavers as they fall head first wearing the model helmets that the football player designed. We will test the maximum acceleration of the cadavers before the helmet cracks to test the durability of the product. Oh jeez, it's going to be one twisted Tuesday!
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