October 2010 issue:
- They're off and running . . .
- Construction time lapse video
- Discovery learning in action
- Meyer receives national scholarship
- Demerdash, Ionel and Yaz receive grant
- Biomedical engineering students intern at FDA
- Recruiting female engineers
- New outreach program for young women
- Wisconsin Energy Research Consortium formed
- Co-op students need your help
- Engineering workshops part of Marquette’s Discovery Day
- New graphics textbook
- Watch your mailbox
- Help spread the news
They're off and running . . .
August 30 signaled the start of classes and another academic year. The weather was perfect during campus move-in making for a smooth transition into residence halls, fall is arriving on campus and already students have a month of classes under their belts.
On a recent Saturday the college hosted the “2010 Engineering Freshman Get-Together”, an opportunity for the freshman students, faculty and staff to meet and get to know each other in a social setting. Students were greeted by OPUS Dean Bob Bishop; inspired by words of wisdom from guest speaker Mr. Rich Meeusen, CEO and President of Badger Meter; fed by a delicious Texas-style barbeque; and finally entertained by their fellow-classmates in an impromptu talent show.
Some quick facts about the engineering 2010 freshman class: Students hail from 23 states and Puerto Rico, Italy, India, China, Malaysia, and Taiwan. Aproximately 80% of the students come from Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin, while Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Oregon and Washington are also represented.
Total engineering enrollment, graduate and undergraduate students, fall 2010 is 1,376.
balancing a chair on his chin
Construction time lapse video
A time lapse video of the Discovery Learning Complex construction was introduced on the college website in late August. Take a look at what’s happened in the last 60 days. The video is updated frequently so be sure to check out our progress.
Discovery learning in action
The National Science Foundation recently approved a supplementary grant to support research experience for two undergraduate students.
In association with the NSF I/UCRC for Water Equipment and Policy Research grant received earlier this year, the students will help with the project titled “Grey Water Assessment” to document grey water recycling and reuse technologies and policy. Students will assist with a literature review and a survey of municipalities regarding grey water regulations and policy. Grey water reuse is an important technology as we move towards the Cities of the Future (COTF) concept that is being developed by the United Nations, The Water Environment Federation and other groups. Next‐generation COTF designs come from a different engineering model: conserve, use, treat, store and reuse to produce restorative water hydrology, reduce energy consumption and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This project will assess the current state of grey water management including: a characterization of grey water, current regulations and current technologies used as well as technology gaps.
Faculty members Dr. Dan Zitomer, professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental engineering, and Dr. Michael Switzenbaum, professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental engineering and executive associate dean, head this project.
Meyer receives national scholarship
Naval ROTC Midshipman Donna Jo (DJ) Meyer received a Medal of Honor Scholarship from the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation in partnership with the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Educational Foundation. Only one student nationally from each ROTC branch — U.S Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps — receives the scholarship each year.
Meyer, a senior in the College of Engineering, was selected for her demonstrated leadership performance, exemplifying the spirit of courage, selflessness and service, and pursuit of academic and military excellence. She received the award from Medal of Honor recipient retired Sgt. Allen Lynch, USA; and retired Lt. Gen. Nick Kehoe, USAF, in a private campus ceremony.
retired Sgt. Allen Lynch, USA
Demerdash, Ionel and Yaz receive grant
The National Science Foundation awarded at $425,000 grant for the project "GOALI: Intelligent Systems for Health Condition Prognostics in AC Permanent Magnet and Induction Machine Drives for Highly Efficient and Renewable Energy Utilization and Generation," to electrical and computer engineering faculty members Nabeel A. Demerdash, Dan M. Ionel and Edwin E. Yaz.
This research project is a collaborative effort between Marquette University College of Engineering and A.O. Smith Corporation.
The main benefit of this research is the development of fault prognostics and mitigation technologies for high efficiency AC machine-drives that A.O. Smith, which is one of the largest electric machine manufacturers in North America, is particularly well positioned to introduce new technologies into the market through the original equipment manufacturers that it serves. The liaison between university and industry will be enhanced by including reciprocal long-term working visits and internships of faculty, students and engineers. The research results will be integrated into the undergraduate curricula and disseminated to the wider engineering community. Under-represented groups will be targeted for participation.
Biomedical engineering students intern at FDA
Each year since 1996 biomedical engineering students have ventured to Washington, D.C., where they live, attend class and work for the United States Food and Drug Administration. This past summer eight students took advantage of this unique opportunity to learn about national and international policies while also working in research labs at the FDA. The students contributed to projects involving cardiovascular stent durability, drug patch adhesive strength, Computed Tomography (CT) image quality, assessment of biomarkers for breast cancer, spinal research and high performance computing.
Marquette University’s Les Aspin Center for Government offers students permanent housing and academic facilities on Capitol Hill and is nationally recognized as an education and public service program. Elizabeth Asma, a junior majoring in biomechanics, sums up her experience by stating, “The hands-on experience of working in an FDA research lab is something I could never learn in a classroom. Working at the FDA gave me confidence in my engineering degree as well as independence and professionalism, skills which I am now using in my co-op this semester. The chance to live in the heart of DC was incredible!”
Recruiting female engineers for an amazing outreach opportunity
The Engineering Outreach Program has been awarded an Innovation Generation grant from the Motorola Foundation to promote STEM education. Marquette Engineering is partnering with the Milwaukee YMCA mentoring programs to introduce middle and high school girls to engineering. Our program is called iHeels (Introducing Hands-on Engineering Experiences with Ladies of STEM) and we can use your help!
During six weekends this fall groups of 25 students will come to Marquette to be exposed to and explore engineering. We would like women engineers from various industries to join us to “share your story.” The commitment would be no more than a 15-minute presentation on either a Friday evening during a pizza dinner or a Saturday afternoon during a sandwich lunch. We want to give the girls a glimpse of possible career paths within engineering and give them a chance to ask questions about your journey to where you are today. Tell your female engineering friends about our program – even if they were not fortunate enough to have received their degree from Marquette
If you are interested in volunteering for this fantastic outreach opportunity, please contact Molly Baker, Eng ’07, at molly.baker@marquette.edu or 414-288-3517. Our first session is just around the corner on October 8 and 9.
Molly Baker has returned to Marquette to join the Engineering Outreach team! Following her graduation in 2007, Molly worked for Caterpillar as a Logistics and Supply Chain Engineer with the Global Paving division in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. This past spring she returned to campus to begin classes toward her Masters of Business Administration.
New outreach program for young women
The Engineering Outreach Program will offer “Puppy CAD”, a program that was developed to increase the participation of young women in STEM, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. October 29 and 30.
This new course will motivate young women ages 12-16 to become creative problem solvers through hands-on activity. “Puppy CAD” Computer-aided design integrates art and technology into the engineering design process. Participants will learn how to create 3-D models using ProENGINEER software. Students will personalize their projects by learning display and animation techniques. The final product will be a movie of their own creation! Cost for this program is $120. Register online.
Please email with any further questions engineering@mu.edu or call 414-288-6720.Wisconsin Energy Research Consortium formed
Wisconsin’s largest academic energy research organizations have merged to form a single statewide organization, headquartered in Milwaukee, with a mission of making Wisconsin a nationally recognized center of expertise to advance energy, power and control technologies.
The Wisconsin Energy Research Consortium (WERC) recently held their first annual research symposium at Marquette. The consortium brings together the state’s four largest engineering schools –Marquette University, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM), University of Wisconsin–Madison and Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) – with eight industry partners, including American Transmission Company (ATC), DRS Technologies, Eaton, Johnson Controls Inc., Kohler, Rockwell Automation, We Energies and LEM USA.
WERC will be the framework for stimulating basic energy research discovery from funded projects while its sister organization, the Madison-based Center for Renewable Energy Systems (CRES), will be the structure that applies the research to sponsored product development.
“Ultimately the goal of WERC is to develop state-of-the-art technology that will lead to new products and processes that foster the economic growth of Wisconsin companies, stimulate the formation of new companies and prepare residents to work in this expanding and changing field,” says John Bobrowich, executive director and founder of WERC, who also heads up CRES. “Our vision is that Wisconsin will become the Silicon Valley for energy, power and control technologies.”
Learn more about WERC.Co-op students need your help
The College of Engineering Co-operative Education Program was one of the nation's first and is one of its most renowned. Established in 1919, the Co-op Program integrates classroom work with practical industrial experience. Students combine semesters of school with semesters of employment for at least three alternating work terms once they have completed their sophomore year.
We need your help in our on-going efforts to provide engineering job opportunities for our students. If you are aware of any full-time, Co-op, part-time and/or summer internship job openings, please contact Sue Michaelson, Assistant Dean and Director of the Engineering Co-op Program at susan.michaelson@marquette.edu or (414)-288-7134.
Engineering workshops part of Marquette’s Discovery Day
Prospective students and their parents came to campus in early September to spend an afternoon learning about a Marquette education at the annual Discovery Day events.
Engineering students were invited to come to campus early in the day to participate in an engineering workshop designed to give them the opportunity to feel like a college engineering student – without the homework. They could choose from seven different workshops. In the Experience Engineering workshop students engaged in real problems and developed real solutions through hands-on activities. In the construction engineering workshop they built and then destroyed a balsa wood bridge. The environmental engineering workshop gave students an understanding of issues effecting our environment and how engineers work to improve our air, water, land and resources. The mechanical engineering department demonstrated electro-mechanical systems, including magnetic levitation and built a DC motor. Other prospective mechanical engineering students spent time using arc welding equipment to develop an appreciation of engineering fundamentals and how they affect the manufacture of products such as automobiles. The electrical engineering department introduced students to iRobot’s Vacuuming Robot, this workshop focused on motors and communications. In the biomedical engineering workshop participants were introduced to biomechanics, bioelectronics and biocomputing, three of the major disciplines within biomedical engineering.
Approximately 150, a record number, of students and their families participated in the workshops. The engineering lecture hall was filled beyond capacity, with families overflowing into the hallway during a presentation on Marquette engineering by Dr. Jon Jensen, associate dean for enrollment management. Prospective students from eight different states, as far away as New Jersey and Missouri, attended the workshops.
New graphics textbook
Drs. Hyunjae Park, Anthony Bowman and Kyuil Kim recently published Engineering Graphics, Design and Modeling with UGS NX 7.5., a new edition of their graphics textbook originally published in 2009.
Students enrolled in the freshman Engineering Discovery course study engineering graphics using engineering CAD (Computer-Aided Design) software UGS NX 7.5. This new version of the CAD software was released in early 2010. In the new edition of the textbook, Park and his co-authors augmented the textbook contents and included full-color graphics to assist students in learning the complicated graphics modeling procedures.
Contact Dr. Park for more information.
Watch your mailbox
The 2010 issue of the Marquette Engineer magazine will be in your mailbox in November. Look forward to reading an article on Dean Bob Bishop, learn about the new Discovery Learning Complex and more.
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