ME Undergraduate Machine Shop Expanded Accessibility
Detail photo of Joseph Angel, an undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering, working on a project in the ME Undergraduate Machine Shop in the George G. Brown Laboratories building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, on Tuesday afternoon, January 30, 2024.
The ME Labs Team, which consists of Lab Manager Don Wirkner, Engineering Technician Mike Klein, and Design Instruction Engineer Kemal Duran, have received the University of Michigan’s Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award for their work to expand accessibility in the ME Undergraduate Machine Shop. The team fabricated solutions to bring controls for industry standard equipment setups into reach for a wider array of body types and expanded aisleways to allow for greater ease of movement, particularly for those who use assistive mobility devices.
The ME Undergraduate Machine Shop is critical to the department’s educational programs. The shop provides creative, fabrication, and hands-on learning environments for students in ME design courses. Making use of mills, lathes, a water jet cutter, and other machines to transform raw materials into machine parts and intricate mechanisms, students build robot machine players (RMPs) in ME250, motor-driven mechanisms in ME350, and any number of other devices in the department's senior capstone design course, ME450.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
ME Undergraduate Machine Shop Expanded Accessibility
Detail photo of Joseph Angel, an undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering, working on a project in the ME Undergraduate Machine Shop in the George G. Brown Laboratories building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, on Tuesday afternoon, January 30, 2024.
The ME Labs Team, which consists of Lab Manager Don Wirkner, Engineering Technician Mike Klein, and Design Instruction Engineer Kemal Duran, have received the University of Michigan’s Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award for their work to expand accessibility in the ME Undergraduate Machine Shop. The team fabricated solutions to bring controls for industry standard equipment setups into reach for a wider array of body types and expanded aisleways to allow for greater ease of movement, particularly for those who use assistive mobility devices.
The ME Undergraduate Machine Shop is critical to the department’s educational programs. The shop provides creative, fabrication, and hands-on learning environments for students in ME design courses. Making use of mills, lathes, a water jet cutter, and other machines to transform raw materials into machine parts and intricate mechanisms, students build robot machine players (RMPs) in ME250, motor-driven mechanisms in ME350, and any number of other devices in the department's senior capstone design course, ME450.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing