To showcase IME’s four undergraduate programs, the IME department held its second annual IME Night. IME students and professors provided lots of pizza in an informal setting to discuss and answer questions about industrial and entrepreneurial engineering (IEE), manufacturing engineering technology (MFT), engineering management technology (UEM), and engineering graphics and design technology (EGR).
Ilgin Acar (right), IE Ph.D. student, reviews chair research with Case Bonebrake, who came to IME Night to explore options and who won the
door prize, a WMU chair.
Slobodan Urdarevik, IME faculty, coordinated the event. Activities included games, lab tours, research displays, and networking opportunities with faculty, students, and representatives of two area companies Enhancing the fun was a variety of pizza, soda, and treats.
Torrey Cook (left), associate human resource manager for General Foods’ Post Cereal, talks to Wes Moon, an undecided CEAS student. Post is a major
contributor to WMU and CEAS.
Torrey Cook, an associate human resource manager for General Foods’ Post Cereals, and Anton Lorentz III, a technology team leader from Parker Hannifin Corp., the Parker Aerospace Group, The Hydraulics System Division, discussed what engineers do in the workplace. Cook also answered questions of presently enrolled IME students about resumes and life after graduation.
As Trent Kenworthy (left), an IME teaching assistant majoring in IE,
looks on, IME professor Dr. Tarun Gupta (second from left) explains a
robot to two undecided students who attended IME Night. The robot
was designed and built by a team of area high school students for the
2008 FIRST regional competition next month.
IME students and faculty set up tables to showcase IME programs, products, and organizations and to answer questions. Ongoing chair research being done by IME’s Human Performance Institute was displayed so that participants could examine a chair used to produce computerized images of the pressure points a person exerts when he or she sits. Furthermore, some Parkview Campus engineering labs were open for guided tours and demonstrations
IME faculty Dr. Tarun Gupta (left) and Slobodan Urdarevik, discuss
IME programs with Kevin Megee (right), an undecided CEAS engineering student. Urdarevik coordinated IME Night.
Urdarevik credited the IME professors, staff, and students for the event’s success. Special thanks were offered to Troy Place, who emailed over 160 invitations, Fred Sitkins, who invited the corporate representatives, and the IME office staff: Klaz Welch, Mary Fosburg, Marji VanHoorelbeke, and John Jacobs for their efforts in procuring food and preparing publicity materials. “Many contributed to this event,” Urdarevik said.
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