This year's Undergraduate Expo -- "Create the Future: Explorations in Excellence" -- is documented in a series of sites: the Expo Report, Enterprise Awards, and Enterprise team/poster photos.

Congratulations to this year's winners, and to all Enterprise Teams, for their outstanding work this year.

Undergrad Expo 2007 Enterprise Winners

1st - Consumer Product Manufacturing
2nd - International Business Ventures
3rd - Challenge X

Annual Enterprise Award

Website of the Year: STC/Arts
Product/Service of the Year: Blue Marble Security
Multi-Disciplinary Team of the Year: Blue Marble Security
Most Improved Team of the Year: Husky Game Development
Management Team of the Year: Wireless Communication Enterprise

The Enterprise Program's Student Advisory Board (ESAB) is once again sponsoring annual Enterprise Team awards in the following categories:

Multi-Disciplinary Enterprise Team of the Year Award
(nomination form)
Enterprise Product/Service of the Year Award
(nomination form)
Enterprise Management Team of the Year Award
(nomination form)
Enterprise Website of the Year Award
(nomination form)
Most Improved Enterprise Team of the Year Award
(nomination form)

Teams are encouraged to nominate peer enterprise teams (or to self-nominate) for any/all award categories as appropriate. Completed nomination forms are to be submitted to Mary Raber on or before April 16th, 2007.

For more info:
Mary Raber
Director, Enterprise Program
Michigan Tech University
College of Engineering
(906) 487-2005
mraber@mtu.edu

The registration website is now open for Undergrad Expo 2007. Please forward this message to your enterprise teams and ask that they complete the online registration form by March 30th:
http://www.expo.mtu.edu/

This year's Expo is scheduled for Thursday, April 19th in the MUB ballroom. Enterprise teams are expected to have a poster display and to give an oral presentation. Both poster displays and presentations will be reviewed by a panel of judges.

Please contact me, or the Expo Coordinator Elizabeth Van Dam (evandam@mtu.edu), if you have any questions regarding this year's Expo.

This years' Enterprise Recruiting Fair is March 6th, 10am-3pm in the MUB ballroom.

This is a great opportunity for MTU students to meet representatives from Enterprise Teams, see what they work on, ask about team and project opportunities, and explore possibilities for current and future participation.

For questions or more info:

Mary Raber
Director, Enterprise Program
(906) 487-2005
mraber@mtu.edu

Via the MTU Enterprise SmartZone and CenTILE:

Securing Funding for High-Tech Businesses
Thursday February 15, 2007, 1 - 2 p.m.

Effectively Using Business Contracts and Licenses
Tuesday February 27, 2007, 10 - 11 a.m.

Capital Funding Sources
Tuesday March 6, 2007, 11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Technology Market Research
Wednesday April 4, 2007, 1 - 2 p.m.

Download info flyer here.

Michigan Tech Enterprise students can earn up to $10,000 by enjoying their upcoming summers in Houghton while earning a meaningful job title and valuable real-world business experience prior to graduation through this prestigious program that is only available through MTEC SmartZone in Houghton!

SmartTrac(SM) representatives will be coming to talk to Enterprise teams during their meetings over the next few weeks. Please visit www.mtecsmarttrac.com which describes the program and has an electronic application that students will use to apply. A special SmartTrac(SM) information meeting will also be held on Wednesday, December 6th @ 6pm in the MUB Red Metal Room 105A to provide more details.

For more information, please call Jon Leinonen, Program Manager, directly at (906) 487-7004 or email him at jleinonen@mtecsz.com.

From The Daily Mining Gazette: The United States Department of Defense will soon have a presence on Michigan Tech University's campus and it will look very much like student Robert Frankovich.

Under the new Student Training and Academic recruitment (STAR) program, a Tech student -- Frankovich for the first run -- will be hired as a temporary employee of the Department of Defense. The job includes marketing and promoting DOD career opportunities on campus. Read the rest of the article.

Considering getting your MBA at MTU to supplement your engineering degree with a solid foundation in business? Then plan to attend the information session about the MBA program. The session will:

Describe the MBA program, designed to be completed in one year
Discuss how to prepare for it while an undergraduate
Present admissions requirements and the application process
Answer your questions about the program and process

When: November 13, 2006, 5-6 pm
Where: Dow 641

If you are unable to attend the information session but are interested in finding out more about the MBA program, contact Sonia Goltz, Director, Business Graduate Program at smgoltz@mtu.edu or 487-3075.

From a recent National Science Foundation report: Aqua Terra Tech Enterprise's new project is aimed at creating water security in the small Nicaraguan town of Boaco. The rural community of 34,000 -- located in a country that for much of its recent past was embroiled in conflict with U.S.-backed warlords and still bears the economic scars -- relies on water from a polluted river and a single well. Combined, these two sources are only able to supply about one-third of the community water supply, so residents have running water only a few hours per day, a couple of days per week.

The School of Business & Economics and CenTILE Presents Managing for Growth by Dale Elliott. Mr. Elliott, Sr. VP of American Standard and President of Global Bath and Kitchen, and former Chairman, President & CEO of Snap-On Inc., has a 25 year history in product development, management and marketing.

Mineral and Materials Bldg., Room U113
Thursday, September 28
11:00 a.m. - noon

*Dale F. Elliott M00167489 BS '79 business administration

*American Standard Companies Inc. (NYSE:ASD) today announced the appointments of *Dale Elliott *as president of its global Bath and Kitchen business and Donald Devine as president of the Americas region. In addition, Richard Ward, vice president and general manager of Bath and Kitchen Asia, was named as president of the region. They join John Rietveldt in Europe, whose appointment was announced in May, as leaders of American Standard's $2.4 billion global Bath and Kitchen business. *All three regional leaders will report to Elliott.

*"We have put in place a strong leadership team to continue our progress in rebuilding and advancing the profitability of our global Bath and Kitchen business," said Fred Poses, chairman and chief executive officer of American Standard Companies. "Dale, Don and John bring us strong experience from other companies where they helped to drive both growth and productivity in globally competitive environments. Richard continues to do an excellent job in Asia. Together they comprise a leadership team with the expertise, energy and vision to return our Bath and Kitchen business to its historic levels of profitability and beyond."

Dale Elliott most recently served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Snap-on Tools Corporation, a worldwide leader in professional tools, diagnostics and equipment with $2.4 billion in annual sales and 11,500 employees.

In this role, Dale led a turnaround driven by a combination of sales growth, productivity improvements and enhanced operational effectiveness. At the same time Dale and his team increased new product sales and strengthened Snap-on Tools' flagship brand in a globally competitive environment.

Prior to this, Elliott was president of the company's diagnostics and industrial businesses with overall responsibility for the power tools group; industrial tool sales; the information and diagnostics units; shop equipment and service operations; and related product development centers. He joined Snap-on in 1995 as president of the industrial business.

Before Snap-on, Elliott spent 11 years with Emerson Electric primarily in senior marketing and general management positions, first with the Dremel division and later the S-B Power Tool business, then a joint venture between the Skil division of Emerson and Robert Bosch GmbH. He started his professional career in a family tool-and-die business associated with automotive original equipment manufacturers.

He holds an M.B.A. from *Michigan Technological* University and a B.S. from Michigan State University.

American Standard is a $10.3 billion global manufacturer with market-leading positions in three businesses: air conditioning systems and services, sold under the Trane(R) and American Standard(R) brands for commercial, institutional and residential buildings; bath and kitchen products, sold under brands such as American Standard(R) and Ideal Standard(R); and vehicle control systems, including electronic braking and air suspension systems, sold under the WABCO(R) name to the world's leading manufacturers of heavy-duty trucks, buses, SUVs and luxury cars. The company employs approximately 61,000 people and has manufacturing operations in 28 countries. American Standard is included in the S&P 500.

We have hired a new Machinist to work evenings and Saturdays. The shop will be open in the evenings beginning Sept. 26th. Shop training will begin after the 26th.

The short term shop schedule will be:

Sept 5th thru Sept. 8th 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (closed for lunch 12:00- 12:30)
Sept. 11th thru Sept. 15th 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Sept. 18th thru Sept. 22nd 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Beginning Sept 25th the shop hours will be:

Monday 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday - Friday 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m.
Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (closed for lunch 12:00- 12:30)

Do not forget to check-in

1) Sign the logbook- Complete all sections as required, be specific as to what machine you will be operating. Always include account number
2) Wear your name tag
3) Have shop staff initial logbook before you begin work.
4) Inform shop staff before switching to a new piece of equipment.
5) Do not forget to log out

8 Persons maximum in the machine shop

4 Persons maximum in welding area (1 operator per bench during use of power
Equipment)

The CNC equipment will require meeting with Ed Sauvola in advance of evening, or Saturday use.

Plan to utilize the daytime shop hours as much as possible do. As Evenings and Saturdays become overcrowded

Ed Sauvola - Facilities Coordinator (906) 370-9028
esauvola@mtu.edu

DEADLINE: September 11, 2006

ELIGIBILITY: This scholarship is available to any eligible senior student who is participating in the Enterprise Program as part of their undergraduate degree program at Michigan Technological University. The scholarship is intended for those students who have completed all of the required project course work, but would like to participate in the program for an additional semester. Students should enroll in ENG4961 (Project Work VII).

Download application form, criteria, and instructions here.

The Aerospace Enterprise provides a hands-on educational experience to Michigan Technological University undergraduate students within the aerospace field. Students have a chance to contribute to this student led, self-sustaining venture while acquiring practical experience in a company atmosphere. Aerospace has approximately sixty members and has branched off into two major projects, with the goal of taking on a diverse portfolio of work in the future.

The Team's mission objective is to design and fly a MTU student-built spacecraft and an autonomous glider. Learn more about the Aerospace Enterprise's history, projects, and sponsorship opportunities on the Aerospace Enterprise website and follow updates via the Team's RSS feed.

The MTU IEEE Student Chapter awarded Michael Moore, advisor for the Husky Games and STC Arts Teams a 2006-06 Service Award: "IEEE members were asked to chose professors/lecturers who had made the biggest difference in their academic careers here at Tech. Those teachers who inspired our intellect, commanded our respect and above all made us feel good about learning our challenging discipline of Electrical and Computer Engineering."

ENT4952 -- Computer-Mediated Communication in Global & Entrepreneurial Contexts, focuses on the increasingly global nature of technical, entrepreneurial, and professional communication that provides opportunities to navigate issues of distance, time, culture, language, and multiple perspectives associated with digital communication and virtual teams.

One face-to-face and one online section of ENT4952 will have several objectives, including reviewing research in technology-mediated communication in entrepreneurial contexts and exploring a range of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools. Students will be encouraged -- and challenged -- to develop creative and professional applications using podcasts, blogs, vlogs, wikis and other emerging technologies in their work, especially those that align well with their Enterprise Team and professional goals.

http://director.hu.mtu.edu/michael/courses/ent4952/

A new workshop added for fall 2006:

ENT3990, Section R02 - Personal Brand Management
Instructor - Hajj Flemings
CRN 83870

Class dates - 09/23/06-09/24/06 and 10/21/06-10/22/06.

See Curriculum & Courses for more excellent fall offerings.

The Aqua Terra Tech Enterprise's newest project is aimed at creating water security in the small Nicaraguan town of Boaco.

View the team's Nicaragua photography slide show, by Brian Parmeter, MTU Photo Services.

Michigan Tech Lode story on Aqua Terra's project.

On March 18th, 70 Enterprise Team members and guests participated in the 3rd Annual Enterprise Communications Conference, where teams presented on the professional, technical, engineering, and entrepreneurial communication practices they encounter and produce in the The Enterprise Program.

The theme of this year's Enterprise Communication Conference is based on Lucy Suchman's article in Communications of the ACM, "Making Work Visible," where she argues that, "The way in which people work is not always apparent. Too often, assumptions are made as to how tasks are performed rather than unearthing the underlying work practices. By making the work visible, designers create a more intimate view of the workplace landscape."

The Enterprise Communications Conference is a challenge and an opportunity for Enterprise Team members -- both new members and veterans -- to explore and to discuss those "underlying work practices."

Selected 2006 Conference Presentations & Workshops

Aerospace Enterprise:
"Practices for passing on knowledge: Avoiding the yearly brain-drain"

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Pavement Design Construction Management #1:
"Video Conference: Bringing Ice Cream to you from Montana"

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Clean Snowmobile Enterprise:
"Internal Communication: Good Team Communications practices"

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Challenge X Enterprise:
"Webpage Design: A FrontPage Guide for Beginners"

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Pavement Design Construction Management #2:
"Project Scheduling: Time and Resource Management"

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Guest Speaker
Lt. Col Terrence Sunnarborg
Lt. Col Sunnarborg has experience as a B-2 Bomber Pilot
and is involved with Air Force ROTC here at MTU. He will
be speaking on the importance of teamwork and communication
within a organization,based on his experiences in
his military career.

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Pavement Design Construction Management #3:
"Motivation within the Enterprise: How to Get the Most out of Team Members"

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Mini Baja Enterprise:
"Communications Strategies for Acquiring and Sustaining Sponsorships"

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SAE Enterprise:
"Proper Document Format: Presenting yourself as a Professional"

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Invited ENG3962 Team:
"IDEO: A Study in Product Improvement"

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Pavement Design Construction Management #4:
"Engineer's Salaries: Geographic Location"

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Innovative Casting Enterprise:
"Concise Communications Practices: Ensuring your Emails are Effective"

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Cross-Team Presentation:
"Bright Idea: How to Find One and Where to go With It"

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ItOxygen Enterprise:
"Making Work Visible: Creating Presentations for a Diverse
Audience"

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Wireless Communication Enterprise:
"Effective Technical Communication: A Guide to Writing Standards for Scientists and Engineers"

Designed for and by Enterprise Team members:
http://www.enterprise.mtu.edu/forms/ip_handbook.pdf

The Enterprise Program's Student Advisory Board has collaborated with Mary Raber -- Enterprise Program Director -- and the Program's Governing Board to establish this year's annual Enterprise Team awards:

Multi-Disciplinary Enterprise Team of the Year Award
(nomination form PDF)
Enterprise Product/Service of the Year Award
(nomination form PDF)
Enterprise Management Team of the Year Award
(nomination form PDF)
Enterprise Website of the Year Award
(nomination form PDF)
Most Improved Enterprise Team of the Year Award
(nomination form PDF)

Teams are encouraged to self-nominate for any/all award categories. Completed nomination forms are to be submitted to Mary Raber on or before April 11th, 2006.

Beginning in the fall 2006, Enterprise courses and workshops appear with ENT designations, a change from ENG. According to Mary Raber, Director of the Enterprise Program, this was done to "facilitate participation of non-engineering majors, and to emphasize the unique, multi-disciplinary, nature of the program.

Junior Mike Haka (Junior, Electrical Engineering), a member of the Husky Game Development Enterprise team, was awarded a prestigious Student Scholarship from the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). Haka joins other winners from Columbia University, San Francisco State University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Ulster (Northern Ireland), Lviv Polytechnic National University (Ukraine), Yale University and other schools in being invited to the 2006 Game Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., in March. The scholarship covers expenses related to the conference, which includes attendance at invitation-only events and workshops.

Enterprise Recruiting Fair
Wednesday March 15, 2006
12 to 5pm
Ballroom A, Memorial Union Building
Refreshments will be served and door prizes will be awarded

The School of Business and Economics presents: "Entrepreneurship in Corporate America" by James Lenz to be held in the Dow Bldg, Rm 641 on Thursday, February 23 from 2:00-3:00 pm. Mr. Lenz has a 25 year history in technology/product development working for Boeing, Honeywell, John Deere and the University of Minnesota.

The School of Business and Economics presents: "Project Management in a Virtual Business World" by Michele Blau to be held in Fisher, Rm 139 on Monday, February 20 from 3:00-4:00 pm. Ms. Blau is a graduate of MTU in Electrical Engineering and Operations Management and is the Manager of the Global Technology Center - IBM Global Services, Schaumburg, IL and she does work from her home in the Keweenaw.

The School of Business & Economics presents: "Supply Chain Management" by John R. Bashaw to be held in Rekhi Hall, Rm G009 on Monday, February 20 from 2:00-3:00 pm. Mr. Bashaw is a graduate of Lake Linden- Hubbell High School, Gogebic Community College and Lakeland College, Sheboygan, WI. He is currently the Director-Customer Service for Kohler Company, Kohler, WI. Kohler Company is the market leader in plumbing products.

This Wednesday -- 7:00 p.m. -- The MUB Red Metal Room. Dan Jones will be on campus to speak on "Intellectual Property Basics and Careers in Intellectual Property Law."

Speaker: Daniel Jones, Esq. of Michael Best and Friedrich, LLP, Milwaukee Wisconsin
Place: MUB - Red Metal Room (105)
Time: 7:00 pm, Wednesday Feb 1,2006

Any questions contact Susanna Peters SPeters@mtu.edu

Scholarship Description

The Enterprise Program at Michigan Technological University is pleased to offer the Carnahan Enterprise Scholarship funded by Dr. Robert D. Carnahan, class of 1953. The program will award up to two $500 merit-based scholarships for an undergraduate student in Business and Economics and two $500 merit-based scholarships for an undergraduate student in Scientific and Technical Communications (STC).

It is envisioned that one of the key responsibilities of the Business and Economics major will be to assist in the preparation of their Enterprise team's business/strategic plan. Key responsibilities of the STC major would include public relations and reporting for their enterprise team. This scholarship is available to any eligible sophomore or junior level student who is participating on an Enterprise team as part of their undergraduate degree program at Michigan Technological University. The recipient must have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.50. The scholarship is renewable for up to two years for students pursuing an Enterprise Concentration and up to three years for students pursuing an Enterprise Minor, contingent upon maintaining a cumulative 2.50 GPA and continued availability of scholarship funds.

Scholarship Info: http://www.enterprise.mtu.edu/forms/carnahan2006.pdf
Scholarship Application: http://www.enterprise.mtu.edu/forms/carnahan2006_app.pdf

Submission Requirements

To request an MTU Enterprise scholarship application form, please contact Mary Raber, Industry Project Coordinator,
at mraber@mtu.edu. The MTU Enterprise scholarship application deadline for Spring 2006 semester is January 20, 2006. Interested students must submit a scholarship application form and a written essay describing their planned involvement in the Enterprise Program. Scholarship applications should be submitted to the following:

Mary Raber
Industry Project Coordinator
College of Engineering
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931
Attn: MTU Carnahan Enterprise Scholarship

The Enterprise Program is pleased to offer a new Enterprise Professional Development module which can be applied toward the Enterprise Minor or Concentration:

ENG3990, Section 01 - Personal Brand Management (CRN 14083)
Instructor - Hajj E. Flemings, Personal Brand Management Strategist
Day/Time - Class is tentatively scheduled to meet on January 21st and 22nd (9am-1pm), and February 25th and 26th (9am-1pm) with two additional podcasts.

Course Description -
This course is designed for those who are ready to distinguish themselves in the class room, in the workplace, and in life. It teaches the principles of personal brand management that athletes, entertainers, successful companies, and successful business leaders have employed for years. Course work involves a dynamic, challenging, modern learning atmosphere utilizing podcast, personal application exercises, partner exercises and group activities. It is intended to develop the entrepreneurial spirit while cultivating integrity-based leadership skills and enabling students to distinguish and package their skills and abilities in a professional manner. The brand YU life philosophy focuses on planning, time-management, interpersonal skills, communication and mission statement development.

Instructor Bio -
Hajj E. Fleming is a dynamic, energetic speaker that connects with his audience to inspire and challenge them to reach their hidden potential. Hajj, a former collegiate basketball player, accomplished his lifelong dream of designing footwear with his design of the equator cross-trainer sneaker for Mavada Footwear. He graduated from Michigan Technological University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and later attained his MBA from Lawrence Technological University.

Hajj works at Ford Motor Company as a Quality Engineer. With a wealth of experience in product development and account management through New Balance, DaimlerChrysler and Ford, Hajj has translated his experiences into greater business opportunities and has started two companies - Broken Chains Design Group, Inc. and Brand YU Life. Hajj currently travels as a motivational speaker and conducts seminars and workshops, speaking to organizations on personal brand management, leadership and success. His passion is to enable people, businesses, and brands to create their signature.

Preliminary syllabus: http://www.enterprise.mtu.edu/files/eng_3990.pdf

Program Director Mary Raber and the Aqua Terra Tech Enterprise participated in the YES! Expo 2005, where over 16,000 Michigan students attend exhibits, demonstrations, and learn about opportunities in science and engineering education -- including the Enterprise Program.

From Auto Week, 7/21/05: "When we asked a student from Michigan Technological University if anyone from his school could solve Toyota's problem with the hybrid Prius-some have been reported to stop running without warning at 65 mph-the confidence of youth bubbled over. 'I would hope everyone in this room could solve it for them.'" Read the rest of the article.

Michigan Tech, the Aqua Terra Tech Enterprise, and the Enterprise Program played host this week to three groups of Michigan high school students and teachers. Designed to explore possibilities for starting Apprentice Enterprises back in their schools, the week's activities included discussions, hands-on hydrology experiments, geophysics, data analysis, field trips, and excercises in professional and engineering communication and teamwork.

Two Enterprise Team members were recipients of the the first MTU/Carnahan Enterprise Scholarships:

Janese Roberson (Integrated Microsystems Enterprise) and Nicole Roth (Clean Snowmobile Challenge Enterprise), each received the $500.00 merit-based scholarships, which are provided by Dr. Robert D. Carnahan, class of 1953, and a consistent supporter of the Enterprise Program.

More scholarship info:

The program will award up to two $500 merit-based scholarships for an undergraduate degree in Business and Economics and two $500 merit-based scholarships for an undergraduate degree in Scientific and Technical Communications (STC). It is envisioned that one of the key responsibilities of the Business and Economics major will be to assist in the preparation of their Enterprise team’s business/strategic plan. Key responsibilities of the STC major would include public relations and reporting for their Enterprise team.

This scholarship is available to any eligible sophomore or junior level student who is participating on an Enterprise team as part of their undergraduate degree program at Michigan Technological University. The recipient must have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.50. The scholarship is renewable for up to two years for students pursuing an Enterprise Concentration and up to three years for students pursuing an Enterprise Minor, contingent upon maintaining a cumulative 2.50 GPA and continued availability of scholarship funds.

Chris Kimojino (top, second from right) a Team Leader on the Alternative Fuels Enterprise, and Laura Merkel (bottom right), challengeX Enterprise, walked the walk during this year's Michigan Tech Commencement.

Chris was a recipient of a General Motors Sullivan Fellowship Award last fall, and Laura was inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi last spring.

More commencement photos via Dennis Walikainen's commencement blog.

In addition to this year's EXPO awards for posters and presentations, The Enterprise Program awarded the following Teams special recognition:

Product of the Year Award
Wireless Communication Enterprise

Management Team of the Year Award:
Tie between Wireless Communication Enterprise and Consumer Product Manufacturing

Best Website Award:
IT Oxygen

Most Improved Team of the Year
Tie between Innovative Castings Enterprise and Blue Marble Security

Multi-Disciplinary Team of the Year Award
Service & Leadership Enterprise

On Thursday April 14th, Enterprise Teams participated in this year's MTU Undergraduate EXPO, where prizes were awarded for most outstanding posters/presentations in each category. Visit the EXPO site for a report:

1st Place Award Enterprise Poster Presentation
Alternative Fuels Group (AFG) Enterprise

2rd Place Award Enterprise Poster Presentation
Aqua Terra Tech Enterprise

3nd Place Award Enterprise Poster Presentation
Aerospace Enterprise

The Enterprise Program's Student Advisory Board has collaborated with Mary Raber, Industrial Project Coordinator, and The Program's Governing Board to establish annual Enterprise Team awards:

Multi-Disciplinary Enterprise Team of the Year Award
(nomination form in MSWord)
Enterprise Product/Service of the Year Award
(nomination form)
Enterprise Management Team of the Year Award
(nomination form)
Enterprise Website of the Year Award
(nomination form)
Most Improved Enterprise Team of the Year Award
(nomination form)

Teams are encouraged to self-nominate for any/all award categories as appropriate. Completed nomination forms are to be submitted to Mary Raber on or before April 1st, 2005.

An informal but competitive Baja race held on a motocross-style track made out of snow! It was held February 19, 2005 at Lake Linden, Michigan at the Public Park

There were two events: 2 Endurance Races (90 minutes each) and the Big Air Competition. See the Mini Baja Team Website for more information.

Enterprise Teams can now register online for the Expo; registration deadline is March 18th.
http://www.doe.mtu.edu/expo/index.htm.

For Teams' planning purposes, you'll find a copy of the judging forms here.

This article is from the Bechtel Globe, a monthly newspaper that is delivered in hardcopy to every Bechtel employee world wide.

January 2005
Program Trains and Recruits Top Students
San Francisco

College and university campuses have long been a source of new employees for Bechtel, mostly via job fairs and on-campus interviews. At Michigan Technology University (MTU) in Houghton, Michigan, Bechtel is one of the sponsors of MTU's Enterprise Program, which pairs industry partners with engineering students to build students' business, technical, and communication skills, while they study and work on multifunctional teams.

As part of the program, Bechtel identifies a real-world engineering topic or problem for a student team to address, and designates company mentors from Bechtel Construction Operations, Incorporated (BCOI) to help steer the student team.

"This year, Bechtel challenged its team to develop a method to detect energized coaxial cable in the telecommunications industry," says Randy Denelsbeck, chief construction engineer in Bechtels Telecommunications GBU. "The industry currently has no way to detect energized coaxial cables in mid-stream, so an energized line can be interrupted by mistake, or worse, a worker could get burned. The detection method this team is developing could solve potential safety and operational issues."

Bechtel also provides materials and access to testing and processing facilities not available on campus. Mentors visit the MTU campus as needed to evaluate student reports and presentations and advise on program planning.

The student team's final report, due in April, will include all technical research, field testing, full data analysis (using Six Sigma tools), and a prototype of the tools, equipment, and testing devices developed to provide a solution to the problem.

"Bechtel's sponsorship of the Enterprise Program is an indication of our commitment to enhance engineering education and helps us recruit top graduates," says Denelsbeck.

"Our 2003 senior design projects produced two candidates that Telecoms hired for field engineering jobs," Denelsbeck adds. They are Chad Collar and Kevin Saso, field coordinators on the AT&T Wireless project in Dallas and in Chicago, respectively.

"On-campus programs like this one provide Bechtel a way to see how students -- potential employees -- put their skills to work addressing the demands of business, including managing cost, schedule, and customer expectations," says Denelsbeck. "The MTU program has produced high-performing candidates with a desire to work for Bechtel because they've experienced firsthand what its like inside the company."

Scholarship Description
The Enterprise Program at Michigan Technological University is pleased to offer the Carnahan Enterprise Scholarship funded by Dr. Robert D. Carnahan, class of 1953. The program will award up to two $500 merit-based scholarships for an undergraduate degree in Business and Economics and two $500 merit-based scholarships for an undergraduate degree in Scientific and Technical Communications (STC).

This scholarship is available to any eligible sophomore or junior level student who is participating on an Enterprise team as part of their undergraduate degree program at Michigan Technological University. The recipient must have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.50. The scholarship is renewable for up to two years for students pursuing an Enterprise Concentration and up to three years for students pursuing an Enterprise Minor, contingent upon maintaining a cumulative 2.50 GPA and continued availability of scholarship funds.

Submission Requirements
The MTU Enterprise scholarship application form is available in both PDF and MSWord formats:
scholarship.doc
scholarship.pdf

You can also request an MTU Enterprise scholarship application form from Mary Raber, Industry Project Coordinator, at mraber@mtu.edu.

The MTU Enterprise scholarship application deadline for Spring 2005 semester is February 11, 2005. Interested students must submit a scholarship application form and a written essay describing their planned involvement in the Enterprise Program. Scholarship applications should be submitted to the following:

Mary Raber
Industry Project Coordinator
College of Engineering
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931
Attn: MTU Carnahan Enterprise Scholarship

About Michigan Technological University
Michigan Tech was founded in 1885 in the aftermath of the first mining boom in the U.S. – the clamor for Michigan’s copper preceding the California Gold Rush by several years. At its outset, the college trained mining and metallurgical engineers. Today, the University offers associate, bachelor, master, or doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences, forestry, business, communication, and technology. Michigan Tech offers undergraduates an education that emphasizes study across disciplines, team learning, and research.

Our graduate students receive intensive, advanced instruction and the opportunity to pursue research in a wide range of academic programs. Overall, our institution has gained world-wide attention for innovative education, our faculty strive to be mentors, our academic programs stress learning hand-in-hand with application, and our students learn to inquire and discover knowledge.

The Enterprise Program at Michigan Tech has become a nationally recognized educational program providing its students an opportunity to experience team learning across disciplines. One of the program’s major efforts is to promote a learning atmosphere where faculty serve as mentors and coaches; that is, they move from simply imparting knowledge to helping students discover knowledge. The program offers a learning experience that includes hands-on application of technical knowledge combined with key concepts such as sustainability, ethics, safety, business processes, innovation, creativity, and communication. In the Enterprise Program, inquiry and innovation are the norm, learning and application go hand-in-hand, and students and faculty work in a team environment on problems of significance to industry.

Blue Marble Security continues to grow with the addition of a new partnership with Columbia Forest Products of Newport, VT. This project,
which will run for a year, involves mitigating the waste produced in hardwood veneer manufacturing processes. It is Blue Marble's second sponsored project, joining a Rockwell Collins sponsored team which is investigating the propagation of digital television signals.

Blue Marble also has several internally funded projects, including projects involving renewable energy, personal security, unmanned underwater vehicles, SONAR, robotics, and firefighter safety. The enterprise is also currently applying for an EPA grant to fund their renewable energy project.

The Robotic Systems Enterprise (RSE) competition division, in partnership
with General Motors and Daimler Chrysler kick off this year's version of the FIRST Robotics competition.

This competition has RSE members working with local high school students to design and build a remote controlled/semi-autonomous robot to complete in a game which is changed each year. This year's game was unveiled on January 8th, and the teams have six weeks before their machine has to be shipped to it's first competition. The competition is an unparalleled opportunity for MTU students to hone their skills in planning, design, fabrication, mentoring, budgeting, and much more.

The team plans to travel to two regional competitions this year, in Lower Michigan and Chicago, and maybe to the National event in Atlanta, GA. Check out usfirst.org for more information about this year's game.

A new Service and Leadership Enterprise is being organized to add a service-learning component to Michigan Tech's educational experience. Michigan Tech students will use their ingenuity, education, and technical capabilities to solve problems of human or societal need. The first project will design a low cost, energy efficient dwelling on the Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation in South Dakota, using regionally-available building materials and with alternative energy generation capabilities. We are looking for students who wish to earn some course credit, conduct technical research, and do good all at the same time.

The work during Spring Semester is to define specific projects for the enterprise, with a site visit over Spring Break. Project work will commence in Fall, 2005. Travel expenses for the site visit will be paid by the enterprise sponsor.

If this is something that you would like to be involved with, contact Dr. Leonard Bohmann 7-2861 ljbohman@mtu.edu or Ms. Norma Boersma 7-2681 norma@mtu.edu for more information.

Our newest Team is the Scientific & Technical Communication Arts Enterprise, which begins operations in the Spring 2005. The Team is based in MTU's Department of Humanities, with initial planning and leadership coming from the department's STC student chapter. The Team's areas of expertise include writing, documentation, media development, organizational communication, and design research, theory, and production. The Team will establish regional, national, and international clients and industry partners.

Recent STC/A graduates are applying their expertise in organizations such as IBM, Ford, Unisys, Land's End, the Discovery Channel, and major film studios.

For more information:
Professor Ann Brady, Department of Humanities: mabrady@mtu.edu
Michael Moore, STC Arts Enterprise Advisor: mmoore@mtu.edu

Christopher Kimojino, a Junior in Chemical Engineering and member of the Alternative Fuels Group Enterprise, has been awarded a $10,000 General Motors Sullivan Fellowship. The GM Sullivan Fellowship Program is a partnership between General Motors and the United Negro College Fund in honor of the late Reverend Dr. Leon H. Sullivan. The purpose of this fellowship is to support universal human rights by promoting equal opportunity, fair competition, and sustainable development; respecting voluntary freedom of association; and protecting human health and the environment. Read the Tech Topics story and Chris's report on the Sullivan Principles (PDF).

The Enterprise Program is seeking a new logo that we can use in our print and WWW publications. We'd like to invite MTU students, staff, and faculty to submit possible logo designs.

Themes to consider:

* Design
* Entrepreneurship
* Communication
* Problem solving
* Multidisciplinary teamwork & collaboration
* Professional development

A small logo obviously can't express all of those themes, so we will choose the entry that we think is the best fit for our communications. Our primary audiences include industry partners, government agencies, and MTU staff, students, and faculty.

Size: approximately 200 x 200 pixels
Colors: need not be MTU colors, but the logo may occasionally appear side-by-side with MTU colors, so they shouldn't clash
Questions?: Contact Mary Raber, Enterprise Program Project Coordinator:
mraber@mtu.edu
487-2005
712 Minerals & Materials
File format: TIFF
Deadline: December 15th 2004; submitted on CD-ROM to Mary Raber

Logo design winner will receive $100 in cash and your work will be seen and appreciated widely.

Details for spring Professional Development Courses are now being updated on the Curriculum & Courses page. Some courses are still listed as "By Arrangement"; be sure to check back for updates.

NVH will begin operation in the spring 2005 and is directed toward education, training, and entrepreneurship in the areas of noise and vibrations. The emphasis is on learning modern concepts, experimental and numerical tools needed to solve practical problems from industries. Initial funding for the program has been obtained from Volvo Construction Equipment Company, Korea, to address various issues with noise and vibration. The goal is to expand the program to include projects from other industries including automotive, appliance, machine tool and aerospace. Read the Program's Brochure (PDF).

The Enterprise Program is pleased to announce four new Enterprise Teams beginning in the fall, 2004:

• Entrepreneurial Enterprise
  
• Husky Game Development Enterprise
  
• International Business Ventures Engineering Enterprise
  
• Nanotechnology Enterprise

Entrepreneurial Enterprise

The Entrepreneurial Enterprise will be a company run by MTU students with faculty and staff as mentors. Students in their sophomore through senior years from all disciplines will work in the Entrepreneurial Enterprise to identify promising applications of specific technologies, research the market potential for those applications, perform developmental work to enhance those technologies for particular applications, and develop plans for commercialization. The technologies used will include both “on the shelf” technologies owned by MTU, and technologies developed by the students themselves. Teams of students with different blends of skills and problem-solving approaches will be formed. Learning objectives include developing the ability to think creatively, to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary group, to perform a search for assessing the distinctive features of a technology, to identify possible commercial applications of a technology, and to formulate a plan for marketing a technology. Hands-on work modifying products and developing prototypes will be involved. Over time, it is hoped that the Entrepreneurial Enterprise will spawn several new technology based businesses in Michigan.

Principal advisors include Dr. Paul A. Nelson, Associate Professor of Economics and Engineering Management, and Dr. Edward Lumsdaine, Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Other faculty and staff are available, as needed, for guidance and instruction. Contact: Dr. Paul A. Nelson pnelson@mtu.edu

Husky Game Development

ITOxygen, MTU's Information Technology Enterprise, has spun off its first separate entity -- a Video Game Development Enterprise to begin full operations in the Fall 2004. The Division operated during the Spring semester as a student-led Research Unit, during which time they explored the feasibility of a Gaming Enterprise and focused on potential industry sponsors, game-design research, and professional development and career opportunities. Husky Game Development has four long-term goals:

• To identify and to establish a professional relationship with a video game industry sponsor
• To design, build, and market a video game
• To prepare students for internships, co-ops, and careers in the gaming industry
• To develop a sustainable Video Game Enterprise Team

"Husky Games" will draw on MTU's already-existing teaching, learning, and research strengths since game-design concepts require cross-disciplinary efforts and collaboration: the Team will be seeking the participation of students, faculty, and staff from Education, Psychology, Fine Arts, Humanities, Computer Science, Anthropology, and any number of Engineering disciplines.
Contact:Students interested in joining the Gaming Division in the fall should contact Nathan Paul, Husky Games Director for Development, or Michael Moore, Team Advisor.

International Business Ventures Engineering Enterprise

This enterprise will develop a international partnership with universities from other countries. An initial partnership with the University of Toronto is proposed. Students of the partnership will have the opportunity to collaborate across national boundaries and develop skills in virtual teaming. Topics of study for this team would include:

• Product Conceptualization – Development of innovative products and technologies.

• Business Plan Development – Patent investigations, market research, financial analysis, venture capital development, self-employment topics, legal aspects of business/engineering and business start-up.

• Product Development - Concurrent product, process, and material design to identify optimal business solution for cost, quality, manufacturability, packaging and marketability concerns
  

Potential disciplines involved will likely include electrical, mechanical and materials engineering, business, computer science and technical communications. Faculty advisors will include Dr. Robert Warrington, Dean of Engineering and Dr. Pat Joyce, Professor, Business Adminstration.
Contact: Dr. Robert Warrington

Nanotechnology Enterprise

Nano-scale materials are the basic building blocks of nano-technology. As in previous developing technologies, the availability of high quality materials with properties specific to product design may be the limiting factor for the rate of progress in nano-technology. The Enterprise would address this problem using three basic components - Marketing Research and Product Development, Manufacturing and Process Development, and Analytical Services and Quality Control. Faculty advisor for this enterprise is Dr. Steven Hackney, Professor, Material Science and Engineering.
Contact: Dr. Steven Hackney hackney@mtu.edu

By BRAD SALMEN
Gazette Writer
HOUGHTON — Building and preparing a satellite is a time-consuming, detail-oriented task, as members of Michigan Tech University’s Aerospace Enterprise team can tell you. Since January 2003, the team has been preparing a small satellite for NASA designed to help model the earth’s climate. Tech is competing with nine other schools to build the best probe, with launch on a NASA space shuttle scheduled for 2006 or 2007.

The project involves painstaking attention to minute detail to insure everything works as planned. And part of that attention to detail involves determining just how the nanosatellite will react in the zero-gravity of the earth’s orbit.

Team members spent the “whole summer holed up in the lab” preparing for just such an experiment, said team member Tom Haas, a mechanical engineering student from downstate Grand Rapids.

“The experience of creating every aspect of a real experiment — from writing a proposal and raising the money, to soldering circuit boards, to integrating subsystems, to formulating a rigid procedure to conduct it — is something I do not think I could have gotten anywhere else as an undergraduate,” Haas said. “Although it would have been nice to see enough of the sun to do more than squint and sneeze.”

There aren’t many options available for simulating zero-gravity. So it came as an important opportunity, as well as a rare pleasure, for the students chosen to experience weightlessness aboard a NASA jet.

On July 27 and 28, a modified KC-135 airplane took off from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, with two Tech team members aboard each day. Known as the Weightless Wonder, the aircraft climbed to 36,000 feet before going into a steep dive.

For 30 seconds, until the plane leveled out at 22,000 feet, the five lucky team members chosen to participate experienced complete weightlessness.
Jeff Carpenter, also a mechanical engineering student from Grand Rapids, described the climb as having a large electromagnet on the floor of the plane that pulled him down to over two times the earth’s gravity. Then, as the plane began its dive, it was as if the electromagnet was simply turned off.

“Flying in zero-gravity was a unique experience that cannot be duplicated by anything on earth,” Carpenter said. “One of my most vivid memories was taking my sunglasses off my head and watching them literally float in front of my face after letting go. It is incredible.”

— For a complete version of this story, please see the print edition of The Daily Mining Gazette.

"A lot of the work we do is in bad weather," John Gierke says proudly of his Aqua Terra Tech team.

Out in the woods, often in snow or pounding rain, the students test water wells and perform geophysical surveys to figure out what's going on under their feet. Their goal is to characterize unseen groundwater resources and predict how the water might be affected by human activity and natural climatic variability. Read the Tech Topics story.

Welcome back!
We're looking forward to another exciting Enterprise year, and we hope you are, too. While preparing for your courses, note that some fall Enterprise courses have "location TBA," in which case you should contact the Instructor for more info. The university's Fall 2004 Schedule of Classes lives here.

Tentative Course Schedule for Fall 2004 Enterprise Courses
(Check back frequently as we are adding Fall course schedule info as soon as we get it)

ENG2961 - Teaming in the Enterprise

R01 & L01 - Enroll by Team affiliation: Pavement Design, Materials and Construction, Planning and Development, Aerospace, Blue Marble, and Consumer Product Manufacturing

83120/83862 R01/L01 T 1605-1755 MEEM 302 Mary
Raber

R02 & L02 - Enroll by Team affiliation: Future Truck, Robotics, ITOxygen, Aqua Terra Tech, and Alternative Fuels Group
83121/82863 R02/L02 T 1605-1755 MEEM 403
Michael Moore

R03 & L03 - Enroll by Team affiliation: Formula SAE Car, Automotive Systems, Clean Snowmobile Team, Mini Baja
83122/82864 R03/L03 R 1605-1755 MEEM 302 Mary Raber

R04 & L04 - Enroll by Team affiliation: Wireless Communication, PrISM, Integrated Microsystems and Innovative Castings
83123/82865 R04/L04 R 1605-1755 MEEM 403 Michael Moore

ENG3401 - Economic Decision Analysis I
83859 0A MWF 1205-1255 12 U115 Mark Roberts

ENG3403 - Economic Decision Analysis II
83861 0A MWF 1205-1255 12 U115 Mark Roberts

ENG3954 - Enterprise Market Principles
81752 R01 T 1405-1455 MEEM 407 Alan Brokaw

ENG3955 - Concept Design-Problem Solving
81753 R01 M 1705-1855 Location TBA Ed Lumsdaine
** Class will meet bi-weekly

ENG3956 - Industrial Health and Safety
81754 R01 T 1605-1655 MEEM 405 John Sandelle

>ENG3957 - Product/Process Development I
82376 R01 R 1505-1555 EERC 216 Marv McKimpson

ENG3958 - Ethics in Eng Design and Implementation
82700 R01 Weekend of Oct 2 [tentative]
Linda Phillips

ENG3969 - Project Phases of Design and Implementation
83817 R01 Weekend of Sept 18 [tentative]
Linda Phillips

ENG3972 - Electronic Circuit Des and Fab
83818 L01 MWF 1505-1655 [Instructor Approval
Required] Mike Chase

ENG3973 - Geohydrologic Techniques
83816 L01 T 0805-0855 Location TBA John Gierke
** 8-10 a.m. as a 2-hr lab

ENG3974 - Fuel Cell Fundamentals (also CM3974)
83815 0A M 1605-1655 ChemSci 104A Jason Keith

ENG4952 - Complex Communication Practices
82701 R01 W 1505-1555 for Informational Meetings. Location TBA.
Michael Moore
Weekend of October 23rd [tentative]

ENG4954 - Global Competition
82702 R01 M 1705-1825 Location TBA Terry Monson

Integrated Microsystems Enterprise has developed a new plug-and-play TRIcorder device that might someday do anything from track local weather to measure the gas mileage on your car. Read more.

2004 Undergraduate Expo
Report, Awards and Photos

Enterprise Awards:
1st : Integrated Microsystems Enterprise
2nd: Automotive Systems Enterprise
3rd: Alternative Fuels Group Enterprise

Report, Awards and Photos
Expo 2004 Enterprise Teams Gallery

Tech-guided team earns "Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology" award.
News Story

Tech wins Second in 2004 Clean Snowmobile Challenge; Tech also earns "quietest" and "best performance" awards.
MTU News Story
Results Web Site
Awards Photos

The Aerospace Enterprise has received a NASA award to fly four students and one professional journalist on the NASA Zero-gravity simulator airplane this spring in Houston. The students will go through two days of orientation at the astronaut training facility, then will get two flight days aboard the plane for our experiment.

Enterprise Program Teams were well represented at this year's Undergraduate Expo, an opportunity for students to present their research, design and independent study projects. Enterprise Poster Presentation winners:

• Consumer Product Manufacturing (1st Place Award)
  
• Clean Snowmobile Team (2nd Place Award)
  
• Wireless Communication Enterprise (3rd Place Award)
  

http://www.doe.mtu.edu/expo2003/report.html

Aerospace Enterprise Team and Calumet High School students will build their own satellite, thanks to a $125,000 grant from NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

The FIRST Robotics Competition is an international competition that brings together experts and young people to solve an engineering design problem.
http://www.admin.mtu.edu/urel/news/media_relations/96/

The April 2003 issue of Prism Magazine, the journal of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), features an article about Michigan Tech's Enterprise Program: "Blazing an Entrepreneurial Trail": "Engineering students who graduate from Michigan Tech's Enterprise Program have a choice. They can work for someone else or they can start their own companies."
http://www.prism-magazine.org/april03/trail.cfm

The Society of Automotive Engineers' newest collegiate design competition. A dozen teams of student engineers and their snow machines from across the U.S. and Canada converged on MTU March 19-22 with the goal of reducing emissions and noise while maintaining or improving snowmobile performance.
http://www.doe.mtu.edu/news/Snowmo_2003_movies.htm

A $90,000 grant from Visteon Corporation of Dearborn, Michigan: will support a number of efforts in mechanical and electrical engineering, including support for student organizations and the Enterprise Program:
http://www.admin.mtu.edu/urel/news/media_relations/47/

MTU is pleased to announce the addition of several more industry partners to the Enterprise Program:
DaimlerChrysler Corporation will partner with the PrISM Team
Delphi Automotive Corporation will partner with the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge Team

These companies have joined the ranks of our other distinguished Enterprise Partners - Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, Cleveland Cliffs, EPA and the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, General Electric and Kimberly-Clark Corporation.

Our thanks to these industry partners for their generous commitment toward support of the Enterprise Program. Additional information on these Enterprise Partners and their teams will be posted soon.

EXPO 2002: Second Annual MTU Undergraduate Expo: Winning Posters and Presentations by MTU's Enterprise, Senior Design and Undergraduate Research teams. Watch the Slide Show of Winners in Undergrad Expo 2002

The Thompson Scholars Program has been created with the help of a generous gift from Bob and Ellen Thompson. Support from Mr. Thompson will allow for the creation of three new Enterprise Teams whose focus will be on design, materials, and construction aspects of the road pavement industry. For more information, see the press release: ENGLER PRAISES THOMPSONS' $3.6 MILLION GIFT TO MICHIGAN TECH

DENSO North America Foundation partners with the Advanced Motor Sports Enterprise and Future Truck "It's exciting to get a major automotive supplier involved in sponsoring us," Associate Professor John Beard (ME-EM). Southfield-based DENSO North America Foundation is providing Michigan Tech's FutureTruck team with a $35,000 grant to build a better SUV. Read the News story.

EXPO 2001: Results of the FIRST Annual Undergraduate Expo are in!
The College of Engineering and Office for Educational Opportunity hosted the first annual Undergraduate Expo, giving students involved in Enterprise, Senior Design and Undergraduate Research an opportunity to display/present the results of the project work completed during the 2000-01 academic year. The event was a tremendous success with 10 Enterprises, 14 Senior Design and 9 Undergraduate Research project teams displaying their work in a poster and presentation session held on April 18th in the Memorial Union Ballroom.
Enterprise Teams were judged on the quality and content of their presentations and poster displays and the results of the competition were as follows:

• First Place and winner of $300 cash prize went to the Future Truck Enterprise
  
• Second Place and winner of $150 cash award went to the Clean Snowmobile Challenge Enterprise.
  
• Third Place and winner of $100 cash award went to the Pavement Design, Construction and Materials Enterprise.
  

Congratulations to these and all teams who participated in this year's expo. The high quality of work displayed by all Enterprises exemplifies the type of hard work and dedication we've come to expect from this talented group of students.