The Center for Michigan’s “Bridge,” a web publication of Michigan news, published a feature article about Hajj Flemings, a mechanical engineering alumnus of Michigan Tech. See the link for the article.
Michigan Tech’s involvement with the Achilles Freedom Team of Wounded Veterans began when Linda Stouffer called Terry Woychowski on behalf of the General Motors Military Discount Program and asked for advice.
Michigan Tech ME-EM Video of Hand Crank Cycle Team
After 18 years of service to Michigan Tech, Donna Michalek left in 2010 to fulfill her dream of leading an engineering program. Tragically, she died in April after less than two years as chair of the Department of Engineering at the University of Mount Union.
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Two teams of undergraduate engineering students at Michigan Technological University have developed two low-cost, workable prostheses—one a knee, one a foot—and brought them to India, the first step in an effort to make them available to that nation’s many poor.
The ME-EM Department at Michigan Tech has an alumnus that is one of the top executives in each of the three major US car industries. They are Dr. Terry Woychowsk, Vice President, Global Vehicle Program Management at General Motors, new Governor appointee to the Michigan Tech Board of Control, ME&EM Academy member, and College of Engineering External Advisory Committee member. Dan Kapp, Director, Powertrain Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford, just voted for induction into the ME&EM Academy, College of Engineering External Advisory Committee chair, and former MEEM External Advisory Board member. Steve Williams, Vice President, Vehicle Architecture and Advanced Engineering at Chrysler.
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Academy of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics has been updated.
Presidential Council of Alumnae of the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics: New Kiosk display in the Lobby of the R.L. Smith ME-EM Building and a new web version to view
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• View pictures from the boat cruise
The Department of Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics hosted a boat cruise during the Michigan Tech Annual Alumni Reunion aboard the Ranger III cruising down the Portage Canal on Thursday, August 4th. Alumni boarded the Ranger III at the National Park Service dock. Click on picture at left for a larger image.
Certain problems can seem overwhelming—so large they often feel as though any personal effort would make no difference at all. But that’s not true, says Terry Woychowski, vice president, global vehicle program management at General Motors. We may not be able to solve the entire problem, but we can do something.
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The 11th Annual ME-EM Alumni Winter Carnival Hockey Social was on Saturday, February 12, 2011 during the Michigan Tech Winter Carnival Hockey game in the MacInnes Presidential Skybox of the Student Development Complex (SDC).
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