The 2023 TPEG ALUMNI Community Theme Park Design Competition is in the books and the top teams have been announced. On this week’s episode of the Coaster101 Podcast, we welcome the champions of the 2023...
THE Ohio State University’s Theme Park Engineering Group (TPEG) began hosting their own conference for students interested in the themed entertainment and attractions industry in 2019. Students in Themed Entertainment (SITE) has since grown, hosting...
After a one year hiatus, the TPEG Alumni Community Design Competition will return in 2023. When the COVID-19 global pandemic hit in early 2020, hundreds of college students with lifelong dreams of working in the...
Most of you who read our website are “coaster enthusiasts,” but in case you happen to be a member of the “GP” who stumbles upon us by mistake, you may need a crash course in...
Matt Schmotzer of Print My Ride Detroit is the designer behind some of the best roller coaster models you’ve ever seen, or maybe even built yourself. Matt’s first project that caught our eye was his...
This Saturday, April 17, 2021, Iowa State University’s Theme Park Engineering Group is set to debut the only Hands-on Engineering Competition in the Attractions Industry. Ride Engineering Competition Commissioner, Charlie Wickham (whom you might remember...
Over the years, we’ve seen some incredible student projects that just seem to keep getting better and better. From Kate Kujawa’s wheel material experiments, to Team 31’s Infinity Gardens, to Carnegie Mellon’s Student Built Dark...
Earlier we talked with Eric Roberts about his awesome working model roller coaster. In that interview, he mentioned he creates his own Halloween dark ride with automated vehicles. We just had to learn more and...
Designing and building something that has never been constructed before? That’s what the team at Entech Innovative Engineering has done for 25 years on a startlingly wide range of unique projects in the themed entertainment...
I had the pleasure of appearing on HuffPost Live’s “Tell Me How” segment today where I talked with future roller coaster designer Hayden about his passion for roller coaster design and engineering. He’s off to...
First, I want to apologize for not getting any good pictures of the ride or the park. One of my cameras broke the night before. I took a few shots with my video camera but...
When we wanted to know more about roller coaster design, we decided to go straight to one of the most well known and respected businesses in the industry. Fortunately, we were able to speak with Andreas Wild, Managing...
