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ME-EM Teams win First and Second Place and two Honorable mentions in Michigan Tech Annual Undergraduate Expo See all the results at 2008 Undergrad Expo Report |
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Professor Mohan Rao has been named a Fulbright Scholar |
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Michigan Tech ME Team wins Regional Student Design Competition
A ME Senior Design Team (Team 20) won the Regional Student Design Competition at the Student Professional Development Conference held in Columbia, Missouri on March 28-30, 2008. |
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X-tra Amazing: Challenge X Team Preps for Its Final Test:
It's April in Hurontown, where a blizzard has dropped about a foot of snow. Todd Cimermancic steers the big Chevy Equinox into a side street hidden under a graying quagmire of slush. The SUV wallows ever so slightly before regaining hard traction on bare asphaltRead the Tech Today article May 6, 2008
More: Challenge X team members took the "Huskynox" hybrid vehicle on a 2,500-mile tour of the Midwest over winter break.
Hybrid Cruisin' from the Daily Mining Gazette (PDF)
See more articles, powerpoint presentation about the Challenge X "Huskynox" |
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Michigan Tech Moved up in Rankings
U. S. News & World Report rankings for the top 165 doctoral granting universities in the USA ranked Michigan Tech Mechanical Engineering program as tied at 48th, up from 54th last year.
The Undergraduate Program is ranked 22nd nationally among the top doctoral-granting Mechanical Engineering Departments in the U.S. by the 2008 U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Colleges |
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Car Site Names Tech Among Nation's Top Auto Engineering Schools
Those motor heads at Edmunds.com, who know whereof they speak, have picked the best automotive engineering programs in the nation. Topping the list are Michigan Tech and two pretty-good downstate schools, the University of Michigan and Michigan State. More Details |
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From Bikes to Baghdad: Enterprise Team Works with Marquette Firm on Video for the Battlefield: Read more |
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Michigan Tech Society of Automotive Engineers SAE Student Chapter is the nation's largest student chapter in membership at 170 (second place has 154). The SAE Student Chapter President is Sarah Schneider and the faculty advisor is Dr. Jason R. Blough. Read more |
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MEEM
Annual Report 2007
Our annual report has feature articles about faculty, staff
and students, and of course, statistics on awards, rankings,
degrees, enrollment, research contracts/grants, publications,
and other information about the success of our faculty, staff
and students. Download
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2008 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge
at Michigan Tech ME-EM Page Photos & Videos and Latest News
2008 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge March 10-15, 2008 at the Keweenaw Research Center -- Website |
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Dr. Jeffrey S. Allen has received an NSF CAREER Award, a multi-year grant valued at over $400,000. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a NSF-wide activity that offers the NSF's most prestigious awards for new faculty members. The Award states that "The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century." |
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William W. Predebon, Ph.D. - Elected ASME Fellow
William Predebon, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering–Engineering Mechanics, has been elected a fellow of ASME |
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U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow Visits Michigan Tech,
Tours Mechanical Engineering Labs, ME-EM Hockey Social and opens the Winter Carnival Hockey Game |
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The 2008 Winter Baja Competition was Saturday, February 16th in Lake Linden, Michigan
2008 Winter Baja Competition photos and video in Lake Linden, Michigan
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X-tra Amazing: Challenge X Team Preps for Its Final Test:
It's April in Hurontown, where a blizzard has dropped about a foot of snow. Todd Cimermancic steers the big Chevy Equinox into a side street hidden under a graying quagmire of slush. The SUV wallows ever so slightly before regaining hard traction on bare asphaltRead the Tech Today article May 6, 2008
More: Challenge X team members took the "Huskynox" hybrid vehicle on a 2,500-mile tour of the Midwest over winter break.
Hybrid Cruisin' from the Daily Mining Gazette (PDF)
See more articles, powerpoint presentation about the Challenge X "Huskynox" |
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MEEM Senior Design Team Takes National Award
A mechanical engineering-engineering mechanics Senior Design team has earned best-in-the-nation honors for bringing automation to a tedious, labor-intensive machining process. |
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MEEM on the Cutting Edge of Saw Safety
MEEM Adopts Industrial-Strength Safety Progam |
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Senior Design Day December 2007
Senior Banquet
with Michael Hofman as Keynote Speaker
and Order of the Engineer Program
MEEM
Senior Design Team Slide Show |
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John H. Johnson Ph.D. - Elected ASME Fellow 2007
Dr. John H. Johnson is recognized for his outstanding contributions over the past 40 years for his research, teaching, and scholarly activities in academe and industry. |
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Gordon G. Parker Named First John and Cathi Drake Endowed Professor in Mechanical Engineering |
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Princeton Review Ranks Michigan Tech Among Top U.S. Universities
Michigan Tech Hits Top Tier in US News Undergraduate Ranking
Mechanical, Environmental Engineering Make Top 25 in US News Undergrad Rankings |
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Tiny Tractor Beam Could Keep Satellites in Formation
Brad King and Gordon Parker have developed a tractor beam. Now, they’re looking for ways to use it. |
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Amitabh Narain Ph.D. - Named ASME Fellow 2006
Dr. A. Narain, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has a career that spans twenty-three years. |
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Assistant Professor Jason R. Blough has received the BlueRibbon Coalition Inc. 2006 Scientist of the Year Award "in appreciation of his successful efforts to promote and protect responsible recreational use of public lands." More about Blue Ribbon Scientist
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Friedrich, Van Karsen Named MEEM Associate Chairs |
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Biographies of Five New Faculty at ME-EM for Fall 2007 |
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Youth Programs celebrated 35 years of introducing youth to science, engineering, technology and Michigan Tech with an ice cream social. The ME-EM Department is honored with a special plaque for supporting Women in Engineering, Explorations in Engineering and Summer Youth Program since the beginning. |
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Summer Youth Program at ME-EM 2007
Women in Engineering: Making motorboat
Explorations in Engineering: Remote Control Lego Cars |
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Michigan Tech Aero Design Team soared to first place in Society of Automotive Engineers’ Aero Design East Contest held May 4-6 in Ft. Worth, Texas They won a third-place finish in the SAE Aero Design West, held in March in Van Nuys, Calif.
Michigan Tech Aero Design Team Photo Page
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The Michigan Tech Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Formula Car team finished 48th out of 106 at the SAE International Formula Car competition held in Romeo, Michigan. in May 2007. |
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Donors Give $6 Million to Endow Chairs, Professorship
Richard and Bonnie Robbins, of Seattle, have created the Robbins Chairs of Sustainability, including a Chair in Sustainable Manufacturing and Design, a Chair in Sustainable Use of Materials, and a Chair in Sustainable Management of the Environment. |
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Senior Design Day April 2007
Senior Banquet
with Geoffrey R. Weller as Keynote Speaker
and Order of the Engineer Program
MEEM
Senior Design Team Slide Show |
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MEEM Student Team Honored for Fire Extinguisher Innovations
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Photo of award |
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2007
SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge will be March 19-24, 2007
MEEM
Snowmobile Contest Page and
2007 Snowmobile Movies
2007 Opening Day Photos Page
Richard Schaum, SAE International President Visits ME-EM
2007 Awards Banquet |
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Dr. William Predebon presented the M.L. King Award
Betty Chavis presented William Predebon, chair of the Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics Department, with the 2007 Martin Luther King Award, awarded by the Michigan Tech Black Students Association. |
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Michigan
Tech’s 2007 Winter Baja Competition in Lake
Linden, Michigan
Michigan
Tech Baja Website
Look back at 2006 Photos & Movies Page |
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Dr. Jason R. Blough earns SAE International’s Ralph R. Teetor
Educational Award
Dr. Jason R. Blough has earned the 2007 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. He will receive the award in Detroit in April 2007. The award recognizes excellence in engineering education, student mentoring, and research. |
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PACE - Partners for the Advancement
of Collaborative Engineering Education
Sponsored a contest at Michigan Tech MEEM in Dec 2006: See the contest in CAD Methods - Motion Simulation |
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MEEM Senior Design Team wins First place in the International category at the Second International Student Capstone Design Fair |
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Korey
Kiepert '97 designs roller coasters
Korey
Kiepert is a design engineer with The Gravity
Group that specializes in the creation of roller
coasters. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
'97and Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering '99 for studying
fatigue effects of composite materials. See more details and
photos of Roller
coaster design engineer Korey Kiepert. |
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DaimlerChrysler
Engineers Present Jeep Seminar
Michigan Tech alumni now employed as engineers with DaimlerChrysler
visited ME-EM in October to meet students and
faculty, visit labs, and contact prospective employees and research
professors. |
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Three of the
General Motors corporation's chief vehicle engineers graduated
from Michigan Tech. All of them are mechanical engineers.
Terry Woychowski '78 leads the largest vehicle platform-GM full-size
trucks. Doug Parks '84 is the chief engineer for small cars,
including Saturns and the Chevy Cobalt. Dave Hill '65 has perhaps
the sexiest job of them all-the chief engineer for the Corvette.
See
the Michigan Tech Magazine story |
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MEEM
Annual Report 2005
Our annual report has feature articles about faculty, staff
and students, and of course, statistics on awards, rankings,
degrees, enrollment, research contracts/grants, publications,
and other information about the success of our faculty, staff
and students. Download
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Professor
L. Brad King earns SAE International’s Ralph R. Teetor
Educational Award
Professor King is one of four faculty members nationwide who
have been selected to receive SAE International’s Ralph
R. Teetor Educational Award. The award, established by the Society
of Automotive Engineers in 1965, recognizes outstanding engineering
educators and offers them the opportunity to meet and exchange
views with practicing engineers in their fields. |
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