Ghostbuster, The Static Electricity Detector
The New Frontiers of Engineering Award is an initiative promoted by the Portuguese Association of Engineers (Central Region) which aims to stimulate the interest of students in elementary and secondary education about STEM themes and in the engineering profession. Ghostbuster, The Static Electricity Detector, was a work developed by students of the 10th year of Colégio da Imaculada Conceição school and candidate for the prize in 2016. Consisting of the development of a prototype designed with the objective of being able to respond to some civil engineering requests (locating electric cables embedded in walls) and civil protection (locate buried people due to disasters), based on the detection of static electricity.
Poster with abstract and conclusions.