The MED provides a series of professional seminars for its undergraduates throughout each academic year. Topics ranging from ethics, consulting engineering, and the design of special machinery are discussed. Senior Design Project All Mechanical Engineering seniors undertake a comprehensive, yearlong design experience under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Students work in teams to design a mechanical devise or system to satisfy specified objectives. A design prototype is built and tested and the effort culminates in a final technical report.
Students learn to function as an effective group member within a realistic, job like environment.
There is strong emphasis on management of time and resources, ethics, and communication skills. A wide range of topics may be considered for the senior project. These can be suggested by the ME faculty, local industry, or the participating students. The competition is held annually. Air Cooling of Electronics Students designed, built, and tested a model of a circuit board on which individual components were cooled by high velocity air jets.