Students taking a new roller-coaster design course at Purdue University have discovered that fun, real-world applications make solving difficult engineering problems more interesting. "What we found ...

Part of the appeal of riding a roller coaster simulator over the real thing is that you can experience track designs that are physically impossible in the real world. ROCO, a new coaster simulator, ...

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 ...

When the weekly hang is in the William Pennington Engineering Building and the conversation is about gravitational force and laws of motion, then the friend group is the Roller Coaster Club. “I wanted ...

Math and science are a scream for the 12 students in the course “Roller Coasters: Theory, Design, and Properties,” at Bates College, in Lewiston, Me. The students study roller-coaster design to learn ...

A madcap uncle made his young nephew’s dream come true by building a roller coaster in his back yard based on the 11-year-old’s drawings. Leigh Downing, 47, and his son Charlie, 20, used the sketches ...