Walk, Weld, and Win: 2017 Design Expo

Michigan Tech 'Latest News'

From die casting vents to human gait analysis to transcatheter stents, the winning teams at this year's Design Expo show how cutting edge tech is brought into daily life.The event, co-hosted by the Pavlis Honors College and College of Engineering at Michigan Technological University, brings together student teams, often interdisciplinary, spanning many science fields. They compete in two categories:  Senior Design features sponsored research from upper level students; the Enterprise Program highlights projects from students of all levels.
Enterprise
Black & Veatch sponsors the Building a World of Difference student design awards. This year the Consumer Product Manufacturing took first place while tied for second are the Wireless Communication Enterprise and Formula SAE International Enterprise—the latter won the Ann Arbor SPARK Design Expo image contest with a student welding the car chassis—and the Aerospace Enterprise took third place.
Representing some of the most interdisciplinary projects that students can participate in, these Enterprise teams work on everything from a collaborative Society of Women Engineers and Caterpillar bowl optimization to building a sustainable racing vehicle for the Shell Eco-marathon to improving data collection in electric vehicles to preparing a nanosatellite to launch next year with NASA.






The Aerospace Enterprise is working on a nanosatellite set to launch with NASA in 2018.


Senior Design
 The top Senior Design teams are: a biomedical engineering team working on "Enhanced Measurement and Analysis of Gait Disturbances" (First Place); a materials science team improving " High Pressure Die Casting Vent Optimization" (Second Place); and another biomedical engineering team for their project "Customizing Transcatheter Nitinol Stents for Treatment of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome in Infants " (Third Place). As industry-sponsored projects, the students learn what it's like to sit down with clients, troubleshoot designs and meet company standards. The stent team also won second place in the Ann Arbor SPARK Design Expo image contest.






This is a proposed design ...

Read More