MTU Design Expo Unveils Student Innovations

An unparalleled occasion for unparalleled occasions: just one of Michigan Tech’s most essential
and innovative activities is going digital. You’re invited to Design Expo 2020.

What do a intelligent pet doorway, a lunar trencher and a transportable higher-pace surgical drill
for underserved populations have in frequent? They’re among the hundreds of lifetime-enhancing
undergraduate pupil jobs on display screen at Michigan Technological University’s 20th
once-a-year — and initial digital — Design Expo 2020 on Thursday, April 16.

Huskies aren’t allowing the problem to stem the unfold of COVID-19 stop them
from celebrating an essential milestone for actual-earth, discovery-dependent finding out at
Michigan Tech. With problem comes chance: the chance to show agility
and new considering, to pull collectively as a local community and to comprehend and sustain a aim
on learners and the vivid upcoming they will make.  

Nothing at all Can End MTU Husky Innovation

“For twenty years, Design Expo has centered the spotlight on thousands of pupil teams
as they embrace layout problems and force by adversity to produce answers
and talk results. It should arrive as no surprise at all that when COVID-19 disrupted
our well-founded programs for a classic ballroom occasion, we observed inspiration
in our learners,” reported Rick Berkey, director of Michigan Tech’s award-successful Company
Method. 

Rather of accumulating on campus this yr, a panel of judges will critique films of crew jobs, answers and results. Judges contain distinguished
corporate associates, alumni, local community customers and Michigan Tech school and
personnel. As in past years, teams have a opportunity to gain dollars awards together with well-deserved
recognition.  

Design Expo has always been open up to the public. “Now that it will be held on line,
I’m glad it will be a great deal more available for many others to share,” reported Janet Callahan,
dean of the School of Engineering. “This yr readers to Design Expo can vote on their favourite jobs, too, by means of
text concept.” 

“We invite all existing and upcoming learners, families of learners, alumni, K-12 lecturers
and their learners — everyone and all people — to make sure you join us, and unfold the word!”Dean Janet Callahan, School of Engineering

MTU Huskies Find out By Doing 

Design Expo showcase represents the perform of more than one,000 learners from the University’s
Senior Design and Company systems. At Michigan Tech, the Senior Design application is more like a initial position than
a very last course, the place teams of very dedicated senior-level learners tackle sensible,
open up-finished layout problems. In Company, interdisciplinary teams of initial-yr
by graduate-level learners from more than thirty majors perform in a business enterprise-like setting
to invent solutions, provide providers and pioneer answers.

A Significant Day for Marketplace Sponsors, Far too

Design Expo is supported by sector and College sponsorship. For the ninth consecutive
yr, ITC Holdings is directing associate of Design Expo. Supporting partners contain
Kohler, Nexteer Automotive and OHM Advisors. Collaborating partners contain Code Blue,
FCA, Kimberly-Clark, Michigan Tech’s Husky Innovate, Nucor and Plexus. 

In all, more than one hundred crew venture and application supporters made a strategic expense in Michigan Tech’s instructional mission. 

Michigan Technological College is a public investigate university, house to more than
seven,000 learners from 54 nations. Started in 1885, the College presents more than
120 undergraduate and graduate diploma systems in science and engineering, engineering,
forestry, business enterprise and economics, well being professions, humanities, mathematics, and
social sciences. Our campus in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway
and is just a several miles from Lake Remarkable.