The Ohio State Theme Park Engineering Group is back with SITE OSU – their student-led conference for the themed entertainment and amusement industry. This two-day event is designed for all you university students out there who dream of a career...
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The TPEG Alumni Community Theme Park Design Competition 2020
When the COVID-19 global pandemic hit earlier this year, hundreds of college students with lifelong dreams of working in the themed entertainment industry saw summer jobs and hard earned internships evaporate before their eyes. Luckily, a group of Ohio State...
Continue reading...Highlights of Students in Themed Entertainment 2020
The second annual Students in Themed Entertainment (or SITE) was held on the campus of The Ohio State University this past weekend. College students from twenty-four universities and over twenty industry professionals came together to connect and share their passion...
Continue reading...How CMU’s TPEG Brought The Old Mill Dark Ride to Life: Part II
Earlier this year, we talked to Roly Garcia of the Carnie Mellon Theme Park Engineering Group about their plan to design, build, and operate their own dark ride for school’s annual Spring Carnival. Now that the festival is in the...
Continue reading...How Entech Innovative Engineering Can Build Just About Anything
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 industry. We recently caught up...
Continue reading...Creating The Old Mill, Carnegie Mellon’s Student Built Dark Ride
While attending SITE OSU last month, we connected with students in themed entertainment from all over the country and learned about the incredible projects they’re working on. Maybe the most ambitious project we heard about was The Old Mill. Led...
Continue reading...An Interview With Penn State Blue, 2015 Cornell TPEC Champions
Recently, several members of the Coaster101.com team had the opportunity to judge the Cornell University Theme Park Engineering Group’s inaugural Theme Park Entrepreneurship Competition (TPEC). 17 teams from Universities across the country were tasked with taking the land formerly occupied...
Continue reading...Ryerson Design Competition Recap: Day Two
The inaugural Ryerson Invitational T.H.R.I.L.L. Design Competition was held at Ryerson University in Toronto from October 31st to November 1st. The contest pitted teams from Drexel, Waterloo, Guelph, Cornell, and Ryerson universities against each other in three unique challenges designed to...
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