Major: Aeronautical Engineering Technology
I love this stuff. I love working with my hands and being elbow deep in solvent, cleaning parts. It was what I was meant to do. The easiest explanation is I work on them and pilots fly them. I plan on being an airplane mechanic; I keep them running. They work you up the chain from your first year to getting an Airframe and Powerplant certification.
Major: Engineering Technology
Major: Manufacturing Engineering Technology
Sigma Alpha Lambda leadership organization
Golden Key international academic honor society
Philosophy Club
Tarkington Hall staff
Wiley Hall community
Major: Mechanical Engineering Technology
Intramural sports
Tau Alpha Pi honor society, engineering technology honor society
Henry Zhang鈥檚 Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory (MDL) is home to the state鈥檚 largest self-built 3-D printer. In fact, it was used to create many of its own pieces.
A 3-D printer is one of the necessities for additive manufacturing. It gives manufacturers the flexibility to produce parts with complicated features and with a lot less expense than casting a part. It is also a convenient way to make a prototype, directly converting a CAD 3-D-modeled design. It has many applications in future manufacturing industry.
Overcoming classroom barriers. Salting wintry roads with less waste. Powering a lawn mower with water.
Senior design students tackled these projects in ECET 49700 (Project Design and Development, Phase II), which is offered each semester as a capstone course for electrical engineering technology majors.
Five students were honored during the public display of the projects May 4:
In the last year, the has experienced a chaotic mix of meetings, simulations and computations. Team leader Haley Moore wouldn鈥檛 have it any other way.
鈥淚 love the chaos. I love not knowing what鈥檚 going to happen day to day. I love the unknown,鈥 Moore said. The mechanical engineering technology graduate student from Hanover, Ind., thrives on the problem-solving aspect of the competition.
