Math and science are a scream for the 12 students in the course “Roller Coasters: Theory, Design, and Properties,” at Bates College, in Lewiston, Me. The students study roller-coaster design to learn ...

Students taking a new roller-coaster design course at Purdue University have discovered that fun, real-world applications make solving difficult engineering problems more interesting. "What we found ...

One of the first “roller-coaster” rides in the U.S. was actually a short coal railway in Pennsylvania that hauled coal downhill between mines and used mules to bring the empty cars back up the hill.

When the weekly hang is in the William Pennington Engineering Building and the conversation is about gravitational force and laws of motion, then the friend group is the Roller Coaster Club. “I wanted ...