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Mechanical Engineering -- Engineering Mechanics
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI USA 49931-1295
Phone: 906.487.2551 Fax: 906.487.2822

  

 

 
           
 
 
Research Thrusts
 
Engineering Education Innovation
 As the world continues to change with globalization and technological advances so must engineering education p...
Advanced Power System
 In the face of an impending energy crisis, the Advanced Power Systems research center is exploring alternative...
Space Systems
 The Space Systems Research group is creating innovative electric propulsion systems to make space travel more ...
Mechanics of Multi-scale Materials
 The Mechanics of Multi-scale Materials research group uncovers the relationships of structures across the full...
Multi-scale Sensors and Systems
 The Multi-scale Sensors and Systems Research Group specializes in the design, fabrication, integration, and te...
Sustainable Manufacturing and Design
 Many of the campus research efforts on sustainability are coordinated by the Sustainable Futures Institute (SF...
 
   
Engineering Education Innovation
 
As the world continues to change with globalization and technological advances so must engineering education programs. The Engineering Education Innovation research group seeks to understand and improve the total educational experience in order to prepare engineering students for the demands of a changing workplace.

Areas of focus include analyzing student motivation and gain insight into their emotional state as a means to assess the effectiveness of current educational practices. In the process the group is required to shift their methodology from familiar, numerical experiments to more nuanced measurement often employed by social scientists. With their finding the research group will develop curriculum improvement design to increase students' global competency and lifelong learning skills to better prepare graduates for academic and professional work.
 
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