Grace Haller is a first-year master’s student in ME. Here, she blogs about her transition from undergrad to grad school through the University’s Sequential Undergraduate/Graduate Studies (SUGS) program.
The ME Undergraduate Machine Shop team has received the University of Michigan’s Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award for their work to improve accessibility in the shop, which also yielded a new framework for evaluating industry standard equipment setups.
Madelyn Hoffhines is a U-M sophomore who recently declared her major in mechanical engineering. Here, she blogs about her journey to the department, why she chose mechanical engineering, and how she came to find community among her peers.
Cherian’s lecture, “Scalable Digital Fabrication of Assistive Devices in Resource Constrained Ecosystems,” explored today’s manufacturing challenges and how flexible processes can help to address the needs of low-income and rural communities across the world.
Don Wirkner, ME’s Instructional Lab Services Manager, has received an honorable mention for this award in recognition of his team’s work to identify and address accessibility problems with industry standard equipment setups.
Ellzey’s lecture, titled “Humanitarian Engineering: Educating Bold, Responsible, and Innovative Leaders,” focused on humanitarian engineering, the application of engineering solutions to low-income or marginalized communities, a growing field in the US and worldwide.
We gathered the top tips for undergraduates from a recent event where current students discussed their challenges with recent alumni.
ME PhD candidate, Lucy Spicher, spent the past summer in Southern India with the Global Health Design Initiative. Putting her ME knowledge to work, Lucy conducted a clinical needs assessment at a healthcare center for physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Saima Jamal has spent the past eight months in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and in Washington, D.C., exploring the multidisciplinary work open to a mechanical engineer in the space industry.
Living in Michigan, especially Ann Arbor, residents get the best of all worlds with a convergence of cultures, entertainment, nature, and access to easily travel and explore anywhere you want.