Mechanical Engineering Design Day Set for May 2
The Department of Mechanical
Engineering-Engineering Mechanics is holding its first Senior Design Day
on Thursday, May 2, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Student Innovation Center.
Everyone is invited.
All mechanical engineering
students at Michigan Tech work on a design project during their senior
year. The projects give students a chance to collaborate in teams and
address the types of engineering challenges they are likely to face later
in their careers.
Twenty-eight groups will be
exhibiting on Thursday: 24 senior design teams plus the four Enterprise
teams working on the Mini-Baja, Formula, Clean Snowmobile and FutureTruck
competitions.
During Senior Design Day, the
teams will have posters and prototypes on display in the Student Innovation
Center, located on the second floor of the ME-EM. The vehicles will be
on view outside.
Of the senior design teams
completing their projects this spring, half are working on industry projects
ranging from developing new safety equipment to designing an environmental
test chamber.
Others are participating in
SAE and ASME national design competitions; among them, students are working
on building a human powered vehicle and a mini-cargo plane. And two teams
have produced devices to benefit local children with disabilities.
For more information, contact
Gail Sanchez at 487-2551, glsanche@mtu.edu.
