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The gears are turning, and the ideas are in motion. It’s time for the Design Expo at Michigan Tech, coming up this Thursday.
The expo is held in the Memorial Union Building Ballroom and showcases undergraduate engineering projects.
Tech Today reports that this year’s expo at Michigan Tech features a wide array of student design projects with dozens of teams and more than 600 students competing.
Many come out of the University’s unique Enterprise program, in which teams of students solve real-world problems for corporate or industry sponsors.
Katelynn Bauer is a chemical engineering student at Michigan Tech who leads a team in the Consumer Product Manufacturing Enterprise. In their work, Bauer and her fellow student researchers have streamlined a charcoal kiln process.
Another project that will be on display is the Velovations Enterprise’s wheelchair-friendly exercise machine. The project is a collaboration with the RENEW-U research in the Kinesiology and Integrated Physiology Department. And the Alternative Energy Enterprise team has built a tabletop model to showcase energy usage — and solar savings — in an average home.
The event is open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
