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Michigan Tech’s 2007 Winter Baja Competition

Winter Baja at Michigan Tech, February 20, 2010: Michigan Tech’s 2010 Winter Baja Competition will be held on Saturday February 20, 2010 at Lake Linden Community Park in Lake Linden MI. The event is an informal, but competitive Mini-Baja race held on a motocross-style track made out of snow!
• See Photos and video of the February 14, 2009 Blizzard Baja.
• Playlist of Video from Engineering Michigan Channel on Youtube


2008 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge

2010 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge at Michigan Tech (KRC)
The ME-EM Department, along with the Keweenaw Research Center, will again be hosting the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge on March 15-20, 2010. For
more information on sponsorship of this event, please contact the department.
• 2010 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge at Michigan Tech (KRC)
• 19 Teams Up For UP's Clean Snowmobile Challenge from Great Lakes Innnovation and Technology Report
• Clean Engines Ready - Daily Mining Gazette
• 2009 Clean Snowmobile Challenge at Michigan Tech ME-EM Page


Dr. Terry Woychowski Dr. Terry Woychowski, a 1978 Mechanical Engineering graduate of Michigan Technological University, is vice president, global vehicle program management, General Motors Corp. He addressed the College of Engineering First Year Student Assembly, Mon., August 31 at the Rozsa Center at Michigan Tech. The title of his talk:
• "Engineering - How Will You Change the World?"

Dr. Woychowski presented a seminar at ME-EM in October 2009:
• "Leadership — Changing the World Through Influence" --- -- New Video

Entrepreneurship: What It Is, What It Takes, What It Returns by John Drake

Entrepreneurship: What It Is, What It Takes, What It Returns by John Drake from Engineering Michigan on Vimeo.
John Drake, a Michigan Tech Mechanical Engineering 1964 alumnus and founder of Drake Manufacturing Services which makes precision industrial machinery for worldwide markets:
His presentation: "Entrepreneurship: What It Is, What It Takes, What It Returns"; John Drake attributes his success in large part to "the training and rigor of a Michigan Tech education with its insistence on understanding."


Team 25
Pulling their way for others
The team of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics seniors at Michigan Tech developed a Human-Powered Off-Road Wheelchair prototype that was created through the mechanical engineering senior capstone course. The 8-speed vehicle is easy to maneuver by pulling back on the handlebars and can reach speeds up to 4 mph, roughly equal to a slow jog, although the speeds are “user dependent.”

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ME-EM Senior Design Day December 2009
Fetauring two teams who developed electric-powered and human-powered off-road wheelchairs, two teams that worked with General Dynamics Land Systems to improve stealth aspects of military vehicles, and several other interesting projects

 




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About Mechanical Engineering @ Michigan Tech:

  • The Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Tech is proud to have been selected as the THE FIRST MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM in the Peace Corps Masters International Program.

  • Mechanical Engineering is the Top In-Demand Major according to the Yahoo Hot Jobs, and based on the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) in the Spring 2008 Salary Survey. Mechanical engineering grads received a healthy 5.3 percent increase over 2007, boosting their average offer to $57,009. More about Engineering Jobs

  • Our Graduate Program is ranked 48th nationally among doctoral granting Mechanical Engineering Departments in the U.S. by the 2010 U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Graduate Schools

  • NSF ranked the ME-EM Department 22nd in Research Expenditures in FY2007 with $11.512 Million among all Mechanical Engineering Departments in the U.S.

  • Our Undergraduate Program is ranked 22nd nationally among doctoral-granting Mechanical Engineering Departments in the U.S. by the 2008 U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Colleges

  • Our Undergraduate Program is currently 3rd in the U.S. in BSME degrees awarded. We have been in the top 8 in this category for the past 26 consecutive years.

  • The Keweenaw Research Center and the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering at Michigan Tech will host the 2010 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge (CSC) during March 15-20, 2010 and has hosted it for the last 7 years.
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