Jon Shimon, UB's technical theatre mentor, teaches a class called Problems in Tech Theatre. This class introduces and teaches students about technical direction through projects and tests.
This project laid the groundwork for Luigi's role as technical director for ZODIAQUE 50 and for Fabulation.
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Through this project, Luigi was able to tie his Engineering and Theatre education together by performing finite element analysis on a dead-hung electric to determine the safety factor for every component of this rigging scenario. He wrote code in MATLAB using the material properties of the batton to predict the forces, moments, and deflections at any point along the batton.