Day: August 15, 2016

PACE 2016 Global Annual Forum

PACE, Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education, held the 2016 PACE Global Annual Forum:

Global Mobility Challenges and Solutions

July 25 – July 29, 2016
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio USA

Michigan Tech attended the forum as part of team-6 “Konnect,” which presented their project:

Reconfigurable Shared use Mobility System

in collaboration with other institutions:

  • PES Institute of Technology India
  • Wuhan University of Technology China
  • M S Ramaiah University of Applied science India
  • SJCE Mysore India

A total of 8 teams participated in the competition. Each team consisted of 5 or 6 institutions.

PACE 2016
System designed by Michigan Tech and other universities. Model built at Michigan Tech.

Tiny Rocket Engine In the News

Tiny Space RocketResearch by Brad King (MEEM) and PhD candidate Kurt Terhune (MEEM) has been featured in news outlets around the world including Digital TrendsMicroscopy and Analysis, Space Daily, Science Daily, Wireless Design Mag,NanoWerk, e Science News, phys.org and AZO Nano.

From Tech Today.

Watch a Tiny Space Rocket Work

“Space isn’t the empty vacuum of nothingness many of us assume,” says Kurt Terhune, a mechanical engineering graduate student and the lead author on a new study published in Nanotechnology this week. “Space actually has a small amount of atmosphere that causes drag, solar winds that push satellites off course and space debris that present a constant hazard.”

Read more at Michigan Tech News, by Allison Mills.