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Article: PURDUE SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS WINS RUBE FOR FOURTH YEAR IN A ROW

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February 23, 2008
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Purdue University issued the following news release:

The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers scored its fourth consecutive first-place finish Saturday (Feb. 23) in the 26th annual regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest by making a hamburger in the most inefficient way possible.

The team accomplished the task in 101 steps. For the third year in a row, they also won the People's Choice Award, voted on by the approximately 1,500 audience members.

The competition, sponsored by Phi Chapter of Theta Tau fraternity, rewards machines that most effectively combine creativity with inefficiency and complexity.

"We've been building our machine since September or October and have spent about ...

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