Associate Professor William Endres (ME-EM) and Co-PIs Associate Professor Chuck Van Karsen (ME-EM) and Senior Researcher Robert DeJonge (ME-EM) have received $45,980 from the US Department of Defense, Air Force Research Lab for “ME-EM Senior Design Team 57–Jackhammer Test Rig.”
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
ASME.org, a website published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, has posted an article about Michigan Tech’s efforts to raise endowed scholarship funds for women students and another article citing Associate Professor Fernando Ponta (ME-EM) discussing his work on innovative new wind turbine technologies. See Raising Money for Financial Aid and Small Wind Turbine Fulfill Their Promises.
This Fall Semester the new class of engineering students assembled in the Rozsa Center Performance Hall to hear a speech by Michigan Tech alumnus David House on September 4th, first day of classes. He shared his engineering experiences from a 47 year career.
Graduate student Brennan Tymrak (ME-EM) has received $17,625 from the NSF for the first increment of a potential $126,000 project, “NSF Graduate Research Fellowship–Technologies for Developing Countries.”
The Mobile Lab Coalition, an international coalition of traveling, laboratory-based STEM education programs, featured Michigan Tech’s hybrid electric vehicles mobile lab in the organization’s newsletter. See Mobile Lab.
Michigan Tech is again hosting seven middle and high school teachers from Michigan and Wisconsin in a six-week Research Experience for Teachers (RET), a program funded by the National Science Foundation, which ends this week.
The teachers presented posters on their research experiences, as well as the development of classroom/laboratory units, Friday, Aug. 17, in Memorial Union Alumni Lounge B.
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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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The Michigan Tech Mobile Lab is on the road to southeast Michigan today through Tuesday, Aug. 14.
Lab director Jeremy Worm led a team of graduate and undergraduate students and members of the Michigan Tech Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers. They will meet with engineers and training coordinators from two companies, Mahle Powertrain and Detroit, to showcase the Mobile Lab’s offering of hands-on short courses.
As well, the lab will provide fun-filled STEM activities for inner city youth at the Parental Boot Camp being organized by Heroes Alliance of Detroit.
When you think of environmentally friendly sports, auto racing probably doesn’t spring immediately to mind. But the Green Racing Initiative aims to change that.
“Our directive is to bring green technologies to the motor sports industry,” says research scientist Jeremy Worm, who leads Michigan Tech’s involvement in the initiative.