Tractor building (team)
Read MoreAlex Nytko, senior in biological systems engineering, discusses a computer display — which shows performance in terms of torque, RPM, force and other measurements — with fellow members of the Helwig Farms K-State Quarter-Scale Tractor Team and with Ryan Zecha (far left), industry advisor for the team. Team members pictured in the back row: Grant Friesen (from left), sophomore in biological systems engineering; Evan Ridder, sophomore in biological systems engineering; and Jace Shirley, sophomore in agricultural technology management. The group met in the basement of Seaton Hall on Thursday, March 8, 2018. (Tiffany Roney | Collegian Media Group)
Curtis Doughramaji (from left), senior in biological systems engineering; E.J. Swihart, senior in biological systems engineering; and Ryan Zecha, industry advisor for the Helwig Farms K-State Quarter-Scale Tractor Team, work on the prototype drive train of the tractor they are building in the basement of Seaton Hall on Thursday, March 8, 2018. Their tractor will compete during the second weekend in June in Peoria, Illinois. (Tiffany Roney | Collegian Media Group)
Members of the Helwig Farms K-State Quarter-Scale Tractor Team work on the prototype drive train of the tractor they are building in the basement of Seaton Hall on Thursday, March 8, 2018. Their tractor will compete during the second weekend in June in Peoria, Illinois. (Tiffany Roney | Collegian Media Group)
Curtis Doughramaji (left), senior in biological systems engineering, talks with E.J. Swihart (center), senior in biological systems engineering, about the prototype drive train of the tractor they are building in the basement of Seaton Hall on Thursday, March 8, 2018. Their tractor will compete during the second weekend in June in Peoria, Illinois. (Tiffany Roney | Collegian Media Group)
Curtis Doughramaji, senior in biological systems engineering, talks with Ryan Zecha (far left), industry advisor for the Helwig Farms K-State Quarter-Scale Tractor Team, and E.J. Swihart (center), senior in biological systems engineering, about the prototype drive train of the tractor they are building in the basement of Seaton Hall on Thursday, March 8, 2018. (Tiffany Roney | Collegian Media Group)
Ryan Zecha (far left), industry advisor for the Helwig Farms K-State Quarter-Scale Tractor Team, discusses the tractor’s prototype drive train with E.J. Swihart (center), senior in biological systems engineering, and Curtis Doughramaji, senior in biological systems engineering. Also pictured: Evan Ridder, sophomore in biological systems engineering, and Jace Shirley, sophomore in agriculture technology management (partly hidden). Their tractor will compete during the second weekend in June in Peoria, Illinois. (Tiffany Roney | Collegian Media Group)
E.J. Swihart, senior in biological systems engineering, discusses the prototype drive train of the tractor that Swihart, Grant Friesen, sophomore in biological systems engineering, and other members of the Helwig Farms K-State Quarter-Scale Tractor Team, are building in the basement of Seaton Hall on Thursday, March 8, 2018. (Tiffany Roney | Collegian Media Group)
Curtis Doughramaji (left), senior in biological systems engineering, and E.J. Swihart, senior in biological systems engineering, Helwig Farms K-State Quarter-Scale Tractor Team, test the prototype drive train of the tractor they are building in the basement of Seaton Hall on Thursday, March 8, 2018. Also shown: the computer screen displays the tractor’s performance in terms of torque, RPM, force and other measurements. (Tiffany Roney | Collegian Media Group)
Curtis Doughramaji (left), senior in biological systems engineering, and E.J. Swihart, senior in biological systems engineering, Helwig Farms K-State Quarter-Scale Tractor Team, test the prototype drive train of the tractor they are building in the basement of Seaton Hall on Thursday, March 8, 2018. Also shown: the computer screen displays the tractor’s performance in terms of torque, RPM, force and other measurements. (Tiffany Roney | Collegian Media Group)
Corbin Baldwin (from left), freshman in biological systems engineering, listens as Alex Nytko, senior in biological systems engineering; E.J. Swihart, senior in biological systems engineering; and Curtis Doughramaji, senior in biological systems engineering, test the prototype drive train of the tractor they are building in the basement of Seaton Hall on Thursday, March 8, 2018. The students are members of the Helwig Farms K-State Quarter-Scale Tractor Team. Their tractor will compete during the second weekend in June in Peoria, Illinois. (Tiffany Roney | Collegian Media Group)
Jace Shirley (from left), sophomore in agricultural technology management; Alex Nytko, senior in biological systems engineering; E.J. Swihart, senior in biological systems engineering; and Curtis Doughramaji, senior in biological systems engineering, who are members of the Helwig Farms K-State Quarter-Scale Tractor Team, test the prototype drive train of the tractor they are building in the basement of Seaton Hall on Thursday, March 8, 2018. The contest will be held the second weekend in June in Peoria, Illinois. (Tiffany Roney | Collegian Media Group)
E.J. Swihart (center), senior in biological systems engineering, talks with Ryan Zecha (far left), industry advisor for the Helwig Farms K-State Quarter-Scale Tractor Team, as they work with Alex Nytko (far left), senior in biological systems engineering, and Curtis Doughramaji, senior in biological systems engineering, to test the prototype drive train of the tractor they are building in the basement of Seaton Hall on Thursday, March 8, 2018. The contest will be held the second weekend in June in Peoria, Illinois. (Tiffany Roney | Collegian Media Group)