PACE Engineering Design Competition
PACE - Partners for the Advancement
of Collaborative Engineering Education - is a university and industry
partnership to support strategically-selected academic institutions worldwide,
to develop the automotive product life cycle management team of the future.
PACE partners include GM, EDS, and Sun, with contributing companies such
as HP, Altair Engineering and MSC Software. PACE has already provided
over $10M in CAD/CAM/CAE hardware and software to the ME-EM department.
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First Place Team
Special Recognition 2nd Place Team
On December 8th, PACE hosted a design competition in the MEEM 4403 Computer-Aided
Design Methods class. Judges came from GM and EDS. John Baker, an MTU alum
now at EDS, flew in from Cypress, California for the competition. The competition
was comprised of two separate events: an individual competition, based on
the best work submitted by each student from the entire semester, and a
team competition, based on the final lab assignment, collaborative design
and simulation of a mechanism. Winners received a choice of gifts and a
commendation certificate.
List of winners:
Individual -
1st Kenneth Wheeler
2nd James Jasitfer
Team - 1st place
- Team #8: Greg Ives, Joe Littlefield and Casey Carr
Special Recognition to Zhiru Shi
Judges:
Sharon Hill - GM
Kevin Parkila - GM
John Nielson - EDS
John Baker - EDS
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