There will be a retirement celebration for Madhukar Vable (ME-EM) from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday (Oct. 21, 2016) in the Portage Room of the Bonfire Steakhouse Grill & Pub (formerly the Sheldon Grill) on the 7th floor of the Magnuson Hotel .
Vable will be retiring after 32 years of dedicated service to the Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Department.
Join us in celebrating his achievements. Hors d’oeuvres will be served and a cash bar will be available.
By ME-EM.
Gordon Parker (MEEM) is the principal investigator on a research and development project that has received a $157,460 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research. Rush Robinett (MEEM) and Eddy Trinklien (MEEM) are Co-PIs on the three-year project titled, “Increasing Ship Power System Capability through Energy Control.”
Eighty-three of the nation’s brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 22nd annual US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium. Nina Mahmoudian (ME-EM) is one of them.
She will join other engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines; Mahmoudian focuses on robotics with a specialty in marine robotics. The participants, from industry, academia and government, were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations.
Ossama Abdelkhalik was a featured guest Friday on the Michigan Radio talk show Stateside. He discussed the Muslim population of the UP in Conversations that Matter in Michigan. You can hear the interview at the Stateside page of the website, MichiganRadio.org.
Ossama Abdelkhalik (ME-EM/AIM), is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $25,000 research and development contract from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Mark Vaughn (ME-EM) is co-PI on the project, “Making small Wave Energy Converters Cost-Effective for Underwater Microgrids Through a 10-Fold Improvement in Year-Round Productivity.”
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 4, 2016.
Alumni toured the Keweenaw Waterway and learned about exciting research happening in the ME-EM department. A portion of the ticket sales were donated to the department scholarship fund.
Tech Century, an online news site published by the Engineering Society of Detroit, ran a story about Michigan Tech’s first Women in Automotive Engineering program. Funded by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. the program brought talented high school girls to Tech this summer to learn about careers in automotive engineering. It was part of the University’s Summer Youth Programs. Read the story here.
PACE, Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education, held the 2016 PACE Global Annual Forum:
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:
A total of 8 teams participated in the competition. Each team consisted of 5 or 6 institutions.
Gizmag, recently renamed New Atlas, published a story about the seven best ways to protect your airspace from drones. Associate Professor Mo Rastgaar’s (ME-EM) drone catcher was number two on the list.
Research by Brad King (MEEM) and PhD candidate Kurt Terhune (MEEM) has been featured in news outlets around the world including Digital Trends, Microscopy and Analysis, Space Daily, Science Daily, Wireless Design Mag,NanoWerk, e Science News, phys.org and AZO Nano.
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.”