Michigan Tech's Enterprise Program gives teams of students the opportunity to participate in real-world settings to solve engineering, design, and communication problems in partnership with industry sponsors. The Program prepares students for the challenges that await them after their college careers, and gives new perspectives to sponsors, businesses, and organizations who participate as partners.
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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This year's Annual Enterprise Communications Conference, part of ENT2962 -- "Making Enterprise Work Visible" -- is being held Sunday, March 2nd, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., in and around 135 Fisher.
Enterprise teams, advisors, and the campus community are all invited to attend! The day's program draft follows, below.
(More)The Enterprise Recruitment Fair is fast approaching!: Wednesday, February 27. If your enterprise team is interested in participating (as they all should be, email Dan at dpkracht@mtu.edu.
From the Daily Mining Gazette, By Dan Schneider, DMG Writer
HOUGHTON -- A layer of packed snow covered M-26 from Ripley to Lake Linden.
M-203 running along Lake Superior and the Portage Lake Shipping Canal down into Hancock was mostly white.
"We haven't seen dry pavement since we left Houghton," Todd Cimermancic said.
Behind the wheel of a 2005 Chevrolet Equinox he and a team of Michigan Technological University students have modified into a gas/electric hybrid, Cimermancic wasn't criticizing local plow crews. He was just pointing out the reality of the conditions their vehicle--they call it the "Huskynox"--needs to perform in.
From MTU's Tech Today -- by Mark Blehm, student writer
The Michigan Tech Pavement Enterprise recently won the Heavy Civil Division at the Associated School of Construction Region III student competition, held in suburban Chicago. The win qualifies the team to compete in the national championship, to be held in Las Vegas in March.
According to Kris Mattila, the team's advisor, the competition required teams to develop and present a mock bid proposal for a construction project. The team from Michigan Tech defeated the University of Cincinnati, a nine-time defending regional champion and defending national champion.
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