09/13/2024
Mathieu Davis is the recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award, which is presented to an alumnus/alumna who has contributed substantially to their field in their early career years.
Mathieu Davis is the recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award, which is presented to an alumnus/alumna who has contributed substantially to their field in their early career years.
Ken Kohrs is the recipient of the 2024 Department Merit Award, which was established to honor alumni who personify the College’s tradition of excellence and who have achieved significant accomplishments in their professional lives.
Digital engineering for autonomous vehicles will be the main focus of the center’s next five years.
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.