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After returning to West Point I built equipment suitable for studying mixtures between about 15 and K, and at pressures up to 10, atm. I did a lot of that work at West Point before retiring from the Army in I then joined the faculty of chemical engineering at Cornell University and continued my research.
My studies in the ME Department at the U. The department is diverse in faculty research, which was especially appealing to me, as my work crosses multiple disciplinary boundaries.
I have found the department welcoming, supportive, and a fun place to work! I have great faculty mentors and I am continually impressed by the passion, creativity, and critical thinking of students.
At most places I interviewed, I would have been the first and only woman faculty member, whereas when I joined ME in January of , I was one of five women faculty Maria, Ellen, Diann, and Ann Marie , which was great. I remember during my first semester at UMich, Prof. Yoram Koren asked me for a 2-sentence biosketch to include in his ERC proposal. When the ERC-RMS started in the fall of , I was invited to write a short proposal on research topics in control for reconfigurable manufacturing systems.
Being part of the center was a wonderful experience for a junior faculty member. Many of my graduate students worked in the ERC over the years, and the topics I was exposed to early in the center changed the trajectory of my research career. I continue to do research in the area of control for reconfigurable manufacturing, with strong industry collaborations, and have enjoyed bringing Prof.
Kira Barton into the group to continue the spirit of academic-industry research partnerships. I always took that to mean I was not working hard enough. Now, after seven years in the ME Department at the University of Michigan, I have finally come to understand the gift of loving what you do; the excitement of tackling a problem, moving past the most recent failure, solving the latest challenge, or celebrating a new success ceases to feel like work.
I attribute this discovery to the amazing students and wonderful faculty and staff that I have had the privilege to work with at U-M ME. I cannot wait to see what exciting challenges and new discoveries the next years will bring! The department has fast-tracked my career by providing me access to some of the best students and facilities in the world. Combine a long-standing reputation of academic excellence with a very warm and supportive climate and you get U-M ME at I am a farm boy that grew up on a duck ranch on Eastern Long Island in New York State who had to repeat the 4 th grade and missed out on a wrestling scholarship because of injuries.
Plan B was to attend a community college in a technical field because I was a good math and science student in high school. With focus redirected toward academics, I ended up 2 nd in my class at the community college and that opened the door to U of M. I learned early on that working hard in your studies made the difference and I was never afraid of hard work whether on the duck ranch, in sports or in the classroom. Within ME, I truly loved design, the mechanics of materials and all lab work.
All my ME professors were great teachers including fluids, thermo and heat transfer, my least favorite courses. After U of M, Prof. Winer ended up being my mentor, coach, advisor and a friend to this day. In other words, he taught me more than fluids. Juvinall that left a lasting impression. He was a great teacher and the subject matter was right in my sweet spot.
My ME design training led to my first job in high energy physics at Brookhaven National Labs and my ME training provided a great foundation for my grad studies at UMass and opened the doors to my year career at GE Global Research in laser technology. It was this foundation that led to my election to the National Academy of Engineering and being selected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Happy th Anniversary! In high school, I had absolutely no idea what I was interested in.
You should be an engineer! This did not line up with my image of myself at all. I had never tinkered or taken anything apart to see how it works or designed and built anything.
How could I possibly be ready to be a mechanical engineer? I joined them and immediately was welcomed into helping design an exoskeleton. I never expected to get anywhere close to that so soon.
And I began learning CAD and got experience machining. I loved it. I had mixed feelings until I started seeing what he was trying to show us. He did demos in class sometimes of just breaking materials to show us how they break and why it is that way. Then, I started seeing mechanics everywhere.
I could look at anything and understand parts of why it existed the way it did. Now as a sophomore starting to learn how to weld while learning about the mechanical behavior of materials in class is just about perfect. For as long as I can remember, I have always loved understanding how things work, taking stuff apart, and putting them back together. From the age of 3, I was building structures of blocks taller than me. This passion for creating was complemented by my favorite subjects of science and math, propelling me toward mechanical engineering.
When visiting Michigan, I was immediately attracted to the machine shops of both the ME building and the Wilson Center. I knew right away that I wanted to be a part of the incredible program, utilize the extensive engineering facilities, and play a role in one of the cutting-edge student teams. My freshmen year I joined a small project team of only about 10 people where I quickly took up a role on the mechanical sub-team gaining skills not only in designing in CAD but manufacturing those parts on machinery like the water jet, mill, lathe, and welding.
With time I worked my way up to be the SPARK team captain and together we built an all-electric motorcycle that set 2 world records. I will always be proud to be a Michigan Wolverine and thankful to have been a part of the mechanical engineering department for all the incredible opportunities that it has allowed me. Choosing ME has been one of the best decisions for me.
They have taught me so much about how to be an effective and collaborative engineer. I want to give a shout out to Mike Umbriac for being an awesome lecturer and making ME and two of my favorite and most useful courses.
Being a part of the ME department has been one of the best parts of my Michigan experience, and I know it will continue to be an important part of my journey when I leave. Nearing my five years here, I can say that it has been an absolute pleasure to be a part of ME and Michigan, for many different reasons. Research-wise, the ME department offers many advantages to grad students in terms of collaboration opportunities and overall research impact.
For my PhD project, I have been working on optical diagnostics in internal combustion engines under the supervision of my co-advisors: Prof. Volker Sick, a physical chemist, and Dr. Michael C. Gross, an electrical engineer.
I love working on my project and collaborating with my advisors and labmates, because my project is highly multidisciplinary in nature, and I have the chance to interact with many experts from diverse professional and personal backgrounds.
I learn a lot from them about many topics that are considered nontraditional for a mechanical engineer, such as optics, image processing, plasma science, and quantum mechanics, and I apply this exotic-at-first-glance set of knowledge to solve a real-life problem in internal combustion engines, which is traditionally a mechanical engineering application. Through this project, I have collaborated with international automotive companies, such as Bosch and BorgWarner, and observed how my unorthodox diagnostic tools can guide the design and analysis of real production engines.
After my first couple of years in the department, having gone through my own adaptation period to a new department, a new city, and a new country, I wanted to be more actively involved in helping out other graduate students to ease their transition to their new environment. I have organized events and activities in which senior grad students can guide and mentor new grad students over a broad range of topics in terms of PhD candidacy exam preparations, adjusting to grad school or a new culture.
Similarly, I have helped organize events for undergraduate students to inform them about grad school. These activities definitely helped me understand and connect with the local community better, and I am glad that I could be a part of it and have a positive impact on it. The ME department helped me become a more proficient researcher, a more involved member of the community, and overall a happier person.
I went through my senior year of high school almost certain of what I wanted my undergraduate major to be. When I got to UM and took my first course related to it, I was surprisingly unhappy.
I had been so excited to design a medical diagnostic test—design was one of those things that always sounded intriguing but felt unattainable in high school.
I got through the project. Something was missing. The tangible end result, the ability to prove that I understood the concepts with something real. So I opened my mind to different majors and found ME. ME has been a wonderful community for me the last two semesters. Everyone shares the same desire to not only learn, but to apply what we learn to create.
ME has shaped my life by introducing me to the intersection of knowledge and innovation, something I had searched for and was unable to find in other engineering majors. The variety of career interests within mechanical engineering has also opened my mind to the basic relationships between what feel like very different things.
One was a giant chicken maybe 5ft tall, and it pecked the ground. I was hooked, of course. Any eight year old gets excited about the concept of funny robots. I came to the University of Michigan and flopped around majors in LSA, but I was drawn back to the topics that made sense and were not based on opinions. I decided to transfer to engineering and to my joy, I got in last summer.
Going to the University of Michigan has always been a dream of mine. I come from a low-income family so this merely stayed a dream when I was growing up. When I was twelve I had to get my first job to contribute financially to my family, causing me to miss out on a lot of great opportunities as a kid.
Then when I turned 18 I was finally able to get a job at Chrysler, giving me great experience in chemical management and metallurgy. From there I moved to General Motors where I developed a procedure for testing heat-treated crankshafts in their 4 cylinder engine.
Even though these companies are unique and gave me different experiences, the one thing that was always in the back of my mind was my lack of education. This made me feel that the doors to greater opportunities were never going to present themselves to me. Because of this feeling, I started to focus on my education and was able to enroll in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Since then, many of those doors that were once closed have been opened up to me. Because of the help from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, I am now in a position to pursue any future I want, and what once was a dream has now become a reality.
I began my life at the University of Michigan as a transfer student in I transferred with the hope of pursuing a degree in Materials Science and Engineering. The transition to this university was not an easy one and made me realize that MSE was not a field I was passionate about. I spent the following two semesters trying to figure out what major and college I wanted to switch to. While taking ME with Professor Thouless I was able to learn a lot about the foundations of mechanical engineering with an amazing group of students.
After that semester I had concluded that the ME staff, students, and classes are one of the strongest and tightest departments I had come across and I wanted to be a part of it. All the classes in ME helped me shape my mind and narrow down my main interest to design and manufacturing, specifically the process involved in the launching of products.
Mechanical Engineering at U of M has helped me acquire an amazing education with multiple levels of experience as well as unforgettable friends. I had no intention of major in engineering until I took a physics class my junior year of high school. I clearly remember the one lab that caught my interest which involved firing a metal ball into a bucket that we placed wherever our calculations told us.
After I pulled the string to release the projectile, I knew I wanted my future education to include hands-on experimentation. After being in the program for only a year, I have learned how to use the mill, lathe, and waterjet. I have built a robot and working prototype of an underwater vehicle. Every year ME students must annually take a course that involves designing and manufacturing which is exactly what I wanted to do coming into the university. These classes not only allow hands-on experience but also teamwork experience since each project must be completed in small teams.
Working on these teams, I have made great friends who I see and study with almost daily. Learning how to design and work with others, the ME department has already led me to achieve an internship working at the automotive supplier Adient which I will begin May The program may seem intense, but what I have learned so far and the friends I have made have been a million times worth it. After applying to over 15 universities and visiting several over spring break it was clear that the University of Michigan was the one.
It was obvious after the campus tour when my parents bought me a Michigan sweatshirt and a huge block M to put on my fridge. Little did I know that would become the best decision of my life.
Here I gained life-long friends and a support system that would help me throughout my college career. It was humbling to be in the same room as people who already had so much engineering background when I had none. Many of the students I met knew exactly what they wanted to major in, whether it was Computer Science or Industrial Operations, while I had no clue. I decided to choose Mechanical Engineering after learning that it was the broadest type of engineering and one that would give me access to a wide range of career paths.
During my senior year, I had the privilege of working on a multidisciplinary design team to build a dust generation and measurement machine for Amway to help determine the dust concentrations of their various food powders. Here, I was able to work with Chemical Engineers, a statistician, and fellow Mechanical Engineers to solve this problem.
In addition to applying the skills I learned from ME, ME and Fluid Dynamics, I was able to gain new crucial team skills such as communicating with team members who do not possess the same background knowledge as me. My absolute favorite experience at the University of Michigan was my senior design project where my team and I designed a hand rehabilitation device for low-income communities. This project required the team to think outside the box to create an innovative design that allowed for mass production.
Working on projects such as these allowed me to explore the different paths that mechanical engineering allows for. I found that I was able to apply my knowledge to whatever problems I was presented with, regardless of whether or not I had prior knowledge of the subject. Regardless of what I choose to do in the future, I am certain that I can apply what I learned at the U of M and excel.
At that moment, I had based this decision on several things: the incredible professors and GSIs I had already been fortunate to interact with, the hands-on experience I received as part of my Engineering team and Supermileage, the wonderful friends I had made, and my synchronized skating team, UMSST.
Being a do-er has always been a core value to me. Think a product you bought could better serve you if it was altered in some way: fix it. Being empowered to use math and science to improve the world is a powerful thing, and that power was bestowed in part by Michigan Engineering.
I have always known I wanted to be an engineer. The only difficulty came in selecting what type. To me, the appeal of engineering was how it is a refined form of problem-solving. MechE, in particular, was broad enough that it gave me all the tools I needed to succeed in my life after graduation. Like many aspiring engineers, I always had a passion for building and tinkering, whether it was building toys, woodworking, or fixing cars.
My interested in engineering grew when I realized what I was learning actually had an impact on these activities, such as using tight triangle theory to help build staircase railings.
Now in my second year on the team, I am getting to experience how the concepts I am learning in class such as stress concentrations, torsional moments, and heat transfer apply to building a racecar.
This hands-on experience to reinforce the coursework is what I love about the ME department here. I was also excited to learn that this experience is not reserved only for project teams but incorporated deeply into the curriculum through the X50 series of classes. With every day I spend I can see the progress I am making and can feel myself becoming better prepared for a career that suits my unique interests. I have the stereotypical ME story.
The time now is PM. Paul Jr Designs builds a Camaro. User Name. Remember Me? Mark Forums Read. Page 1 of Last ». Thread Tools. Find More Posts by bigredbusa. American Choppers Anyone see the previews for next weeks show? Find More Posts by Kevinshawnm. I mean, if you are unsure about the spelling, how hard is it to go look at the back of your car before you type up the local ad?
That being said, I still laugh everytime I see it. I saw it spelled "Camrio" once, probably just typo but it could have been a Chevy-Toyota hybrid. It may have something to do with the type of people who have Camaros to sell to begin with. The one that irks me is when they talk about the car's bumbers. Until he lost his license for too many speeding tickets anyway Ignorance and apathy are running rampant with todays youth. Is that the same as Gino U? Matt Not even, if I see a miata advertised a miyatay I would wonder what kind of person is selling the car.
Even unintelligent folks know what kind of car they are looking to buy. Not even, if I see a miata advertised a miyatay I would wonder what kind of person is selling the car. It was a joke I don't mind how they spell the name as long as it has good breaks and the excellerator peddle works. Just for your information, the plural of "Camaro" does not have an apostrophe.
Darned glass houses That said, if someone was so uninterested in their car that they couldn't spell it correctly, I would have to wonder if they were interested in it enough to have had the basic maintenance done.
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