Engineering Students At This College Brilliantly Designed Tape For Your Burrito So It Won’t Fall Apart When You Eat It
Students of Whiting School of Engineering poured countless hours into designs made especially for Engineering Design Day, an annual event at the college.
Each team spent time developing, testing and perfecting their design for this annual event held on May 3rd.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering launched this capstone idea almost 38 years ago and currently has over 400 students representing 9 different engineering departments.
“Design Day is an exciting landmark in our students’ journeys from studying engineering in the classroom and laboratory to becoming practicing engineers heading out to make a lasting and positive impact on our world,” said Ed Schlesinger, dean of the Whiting School.
Each team presented their design with posters, prototypes, and demonstrations.
While the countless hours and work put in to develop the perfect capstone, one of the project sneak peeks listed on their site stood out to us the most!
Engineering students cleverly designed tape for your burrito so it won’t fall apart as you eat it.
Taco Tuesday should be listed as messy Monday. Eating any type of burrito, taco or wrap can be extremely messy and annoying as most of the delicious ingredients find a way to fall out. However, we may no longer have to stress about this annoying scenario!
The students behind this project, which consisted of chemical and biomolecular engineers, were inspired by their own experiences with messy lunches, which led to the invention of the Tastee Tape!
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Tastee Tape is an edible adhesive full of food-grade fibrous scaffold and an organic adhesive that ensures all of the delicious ingredients inside your wrap are securely tucked tightly during cooking and consumption!
Now you can feast away without a worry as your burrito stays compact while your lap stays clean.
“First, we learned about the science around tape and different adhesives. Then, we worked to find edible counterparts,” explained Tyler Guarino, who teamed up with fellow engineering seniors Marie Eric, Rachel Nie, and Erin Walsh on the project.
The team has decided to play it safe, as this intelligent group of students decided to withhold their secret ingredients to this magic burrito tape as the next step in the process is getting Tastee Tape patented.
Stating that they tried this prototype on too many burritos to count, we believe this team nailed their capstone and are fully confident this product will be on the market before we know it.
Tyler says it best, “Tastee Tape allows you to put full faith in your tortilla and enjoy your meal, mess-free.”
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