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2005
Winter Mini Baja
This is an informal, but competitive Mini-Baja race held on
a motocross-style track made out of snow! It was held February
19, 2005 at Lake Linden, Michigan at the Public Park: View
some Pictures |
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Clean
Snowmobile Challenge
Teams from universities across North America's snow belt have
signed up to compete at Michigan Tech in this year's SAE Clean
Snowmobile Challenge, See News
story from Michigan Tech
Look at
the links page to the 2005
Web Site |
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ME-EM
Senior Design Day Spring Semester 2005
Photos
of Senior Design Teams
Photos
of Enterprise Teams (From Expo 2005) |
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Senior
Banquet and Order of Engineer Induction
Spring 2005
Photos
and more |
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Graduation
and Senior Design December 2004
Dr. Kathryn Clark, Addresses December 2004
ME-EM Graduates at Senior Recognition Banquet and Order of
the Engineer Ceremony.
At left,
Dr. Clark joins the Order of the Engineer
Photos
and more |
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MEEM
Annual Report 2004
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
the PDF File 3.9 Mb
Need Adobe Acrobat Reader? See below |
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Norsk
Hydro-NTNU-MTU Executive Coordination Meeting and Tours of ME-EM
at Michigan Tech
Norsk Hydro a.s.a, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU) and Michigan Tech signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) establishing a program to further technological, educational
and scientific cooperation in areas of mutual interest. More
Photos and information |
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Visitors
from Korea toured the ME-EM Senior Design Display. At left,
Dr. Eun Tae Chung, Dr. Jung Il Song, Dr. Peck Cho MEEM MTU,
and Dr. Dae Sun Hong |
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Employee
Excellence
Mike LaCourt, our ME-EM Engineer/Scientist was one
of three university professional staff employees to be honored
for the Michigan Tech Employee Excellence Award for 2004, shown
at left accepting his nomination at the Awards luncheon. |
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M.E. Student is 2003 Homecoming Queen for Michigan
Tech
Ms. Tenasia Hatch earned a scholarship from
the Automotive Women's Alliance and chose Michigan Tech to
pursue a degree in mechanical engineering. Read her
student profile here. |
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Saturn
President Visits Tech
Annette
K. Clayton, president of Saturn Corporation, visited
Michigan Tech with several General Motors Corp. engineering
staff who also met with students. She presented a seminar
to students and faculty, followed by a dialog of questions
and answers. Student teams also made presentations. See
the Photo Gallery |
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Open
House 2004
Several hundred prospective students and their families visited
Michigan Tech for Fall Open House.
Photo
Page |
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Michigan
Tech finished its final FutureTruck in the money, coming
in fourth in a field of 15 schools hand-picked for the prestigious
national engineering competition. Story
from Michigan Tech News and
Detail of Results |
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The
General Motors Foundation has donated $10,000
to support Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative
Engineering Education (PACE). The money will fund the
new "Computer Laboratory for Demanufacturing,"
in which students will be able to virtually disassemble a wide
range of products such as automotive modules, washing machines,
and cellular phones using e-Factory software. Story |
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Peck
Cho to receive the 2003 Distinguished Service Award
Peck
Cho, Michigan Tech's unofficial ambassador to Korea,
has been selected to receive the 2003 Distinguished Service
Award.Since 1996, Cho has created a virtual highway between
Michigan Tech and his native South Korea. Thanks to his efforts,
hundreds of students have come here for study and research,
from graduate students to high schoolers enrolling in Summer
Youth.
Click
for complete story |
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Clean
Snowmobile Challenge 2004
Teams from universities across North America's snow belt have
signed up to compete at Michigan Tech in this year's SAE Clean
Snowmobile Challenge, See results
and photos at the Look at 2004
Web Site |
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Graduate Programs Moving Up
ME-EM Graduate Program Surpasses Strategic Plan Goal; Four
MTU Grad Programs Ranked by US News and World report in 2004.
News
story |
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Graduation
and Senior Design 2004
Diana Brehob, '78 BSME, Addresses 2004 ME-EM
Graduates at Senior Recognition Banquet and Order of the Engineer
Ceremony.
ME-EM
Senior Banquet images
About
Keynote Speaker Diana Brehob
Senior Design Projects
and Enterprise Teams at Expo 2004 |
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PACE
Design Contest
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. Web
Page |
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Michigan Tech has again finished among the
top teams in FutureTruck, taking third place and $4,000 in the
annual competition that challenges college students to build
a better SUV.
See
News Story here
or Link to Michigan Tech
Future Truck web page |
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Kristina
Owen wins Gold Medal
Kristina Owen, ME-EM student and a member of Michigan Tech's
women's Nordic skiing team, took home the Gold medal at the
women's open junior 10-kilometer race.
Read
Details here |
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Winter
Carnival 2004:
Congratulations to the ME-EM Faculty and Staff for taking 4th
place
on our first ever all nighter statue.
There were 6 statues entered in our
category. Photos of some of the crew at work to left and larger
photo here and
also here |
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ME
Student is Named All-American
Joseph Berger of the Michigan Tech football
team has been named to the 2003 Daktronics All-America Second
Team. He has a 3.73 cumulative grade point average in mechanical
engineering. See the Michigan
Tech Athletics story here. |
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MTU
Professor Named Top ASME Advisor
Professor
Ghatu Subhash has been selected to receive
the 2003 Student Section Advisor Award from the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers.
News
Story |
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Senior
Recognition Banquet and Order of the Engineer Ceremony
David
J. Brule, Sr., CEO Boss Motorsports, presented the keynote
address to the 50 mid-year graduates of Mechanical Engineering
- Engineering Mechanics department.
Web Page |
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GM
Gives $175K to Support MTU Programs
The General
Motors Foundation has donated $175,000 this year to support
a variety of programs at Michigan Tech.
News
Story from Tech Topics |
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2003
Senior Design Day and Order of the Engineer Senior Banquet
Photos
of some of the many senior design teams
Order of the Engineer Ceremony, Guest Speaker Samuel
T. Wineman
See
the slide show here |
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Michigan
Tech's SAE Student Chapter earned the First Place Award
for the 2003 SAE Detroit Section Student Exhibit Competition
at the 2003 SAE Congress at Cobo Hall in Detroit, March 3-6,
2003. Our Student Chapter has
earned First Place for the second year in a row. This three
day event is the largest gathering of engineers in the world.
Ours was one of three FutureTrucks on display this year.
Photo at left was from 2002; Click it for larger image. |
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Michigan Tech's Clean Snowmobile team finished second
overall in the 2003 challenge and earned the SAE best design
award
or Link
to 2003 ME-EM SAE Snowmobile Awards Banquet Photo page |
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Dr.
Bill Predebon gave a tour of the ME-EM to Dr.
and Mrs. Jack Thompson. They were her to attend the
2003 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge Contest
that was held at Michigan Tech's Keweenaw Research Center.
Tour
page |
| Terry
Woychowski about to begin his seminar at 112 ME-EM
Click for more images
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Engineering Trucks in the New Millennia:
Terry
J. Woychowski (BSME '78) was named chief engineer
of General Motors full-size trucks. He spoke to an overflow
seminar audience about the challenges that major manufacturers
face in designing and building trucks.
See
more images |
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An
overflow crowd attended a seminar by Dr.
Sergey Tverdokhlebov of the Russian Academy of
Sciences Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMASH).
His topic was: Overview: Russia in Space — Past, Present
and Future.
Click
for News Story of event Visit
ME-EM Graduate Seminar Series Web Pages |
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Mechanical engineering professor Lawrence W. Evers has
developed a new, inexpensive fuel-injection system that could
make small engines run cleaner and more efficiently. To
the Story. |
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Seminar
Series
The ME-EM hosts the MEEM6000 Graduate Seminar Series, a series
of guest speakers. More
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Dr.
Tammy Haut Donahue has been awarded the 2002 Allen G.
Marr Prize in the Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and
Engineering in recognition of her Distinguished Dissertation
in Biomedical Engineering at the university of California,
Davis. More
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Howard
Zollinger takes first place, Michigan Tech alumnus and
adjunct professor (ME-EM), has received first place in the
Material Handling Institute's technical paper competition.
More
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Senior
Banquet and Order of the Engineer Ceremony
2002
Photos |
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The
following ME-EM faculty have been honored by Michigan Tech:
- Carl
Anderson,
2000
Distinguished Service Award
- John
Sutherland,
2000
Research Award
- Gordon
Parker,
2001
Teaching Award
and with
the 1999 NSF Career Award:
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Associate
Professor Michele Miller (left). One of her research projects
focuses on machining brittle materials. More
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Microsize
Tools Subject of
Research Center
Michigan Tech is collaborating in an unprecedented engineering
partnership nvolving the University of Michigan, Michigan State,
and twenty corporations.
More
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A
senior esign team advised by Professor Ghatu Subhash
(ME-EM) took second place at the "Baseball Frenzy" American Society of Mechanical Engineers
regional student competition. |
