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)
- Most Community Involvement of the Year Award
(nomination form)
- Best Faculty Advisor 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 9th, 2008.
For more info:
Mary Raber
Director, Enterprise Program
Michigan Tech University
College of Engineering
(906) 487-2005
mraber@mtu.edu
Michigan Tech's Integrated Microsystems Enterprise has been tapped by Marquette firm V.I.O. Inc. to field-test the POV.1, a small, wearable video camera tailored for the military.
The ultimate goal is to develop a completely wireless transmission system, so what a soldier sees and hears on the battlefield can be viewed and recorded at a remote command post. The project is funded by the Army Research Lab.
The digital POV.1 (for "point of view") is an offspring of V.I.O.'s earlier Adventure Cam analog video camera systems, long favorites of cyclists, snowboarders and other sporting enthusiasts. Users strap the cameras to helmets, handlebars or about anything else, record the action, and then play back movies on their computers or other video equipment.
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From Michigan Tech's News/Media:
March 27, 2008: General Motors needed more electrical and computer engineers. Michigan Technological University's newly established Automotive Computing Enterprise (ACE) needed a test vehicle. It was a match made in heaven.
The General Motors Foundation donated a fully loaded 2007 Chevy Suburban with a navigation system, touch screen, passenger DVD player and rear camera. Michigan Tech Enterprise Coordinator Rick Berkey calls it "the perfect sandbox for ACE."
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