Roller coasters are not only great fun to ride, they’re also fascinating pieces of engineering. Building your own full-size coaster is sadly beyond most people’s means, so the average enthusiast will ...

The College of Engineering at Cal State Long Beach has its own model roller coaster, designed by a former student, that can provide real-life demonstrations of the laws of physics while its toy trains ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WJW) — When Jared Holladay was in middle school and stood in line for his favorite roller coasters, he didn’t just watch the ride. He watched how the ride worked, from the chains that ...

With nothing but paper, tape, and a marble as a test vehicle, engineering students at Tyler ISD’s Career and Technology Center put their designs to the test, building roller coasters filled with loops ...

3D printing allows someone to, as the name suggests, print something 3D. This extraordinary type of printing has been used in several fields to create toys, puzzles and even things with practical uses ...

Riverton Parke students in Jo Dee Biddle’s Advanced Placement calculus class is working on building scale model roller coasters for their first semester project, and they’re doing it in a competitive ...