The Student Innovation Center also includes
the Dan and Carol Rivard Product Realization
Center, where mechanical engineering students can bring their designs to reality.
 Daniel
('59 BSME) and Carol Rivard Product Realization
Center "Michigan Tech has long been recognized as producing
graduates with hands-on experience. We appreciate
the opportunity to support the university's long-standing,
continuous efforts to provide this experience to students
through this facility. The best ideas shine brightest when transformed
into things that can be used to everyone's benefit.
Our parents, Harold and Eleanor Kennedy
and Louis and Margaret Rivard, inspired us to appreciate the
satisfaction that comes with doing and making things for ourselves
and others. Carol's father, Harold, also helped educate many
students in Tech's early days as an instructor in the old
Shops building."
About Dan Rivard |
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| Here members of a student design team machine their design
in one of several Product Realization Center labs; this one
is the Metals Lab. |
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Michigan Tech has industrial partnership programs where students
may participate in designing, machining and testing new high-performance
engine parts for the automotive industry. |
If your'e going to be an engineer, it is good to know all
phases of designing, modeling and fabricating a new product,
and Michigan Tech offers the hands-on opportunities in the
Student Innovation Center. |
| The Product
Realization Center includes the Richard and Jean Randolph
Non-Metals Lab and the Metals Lab where mechanical
engineering students can fabricate the new products they have
designed. |
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| Left above, a student using Non-Metals Center in the Product Realization
Center labs, this is the Randolph Non-Metals
Center. |
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| Senior design teams also have to produce their own promotional
presentations for their new innovation or product. |
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