Collaboration between industry and education is the focus of the third annual,

Advancing the STEM Agenda Conference

co-sponsored by the ASQ Education Division and Grand Valley State University’s Seymour and Esther Padnos College of Engineering and Computing.

Our team from GVSU included Dr. Barakat (ASME District B leader)and Dr. Reffeor (Design Competition Chief Judge).  The students’ side of the team included 10 student members of the ASME who participated with 2 teams in the Design Competition, One technical poster, One Website, Three technical rapid abstracts, One Design Expo and One Oral presentation.  Here are the scores:

1.       Dan Mcgrail won first place in the Old Guard Technical Web Page Competition.

2.       Jacob Hall won first place in the Student Design EXPO and third place in the Old Guard Oral Presentation Competition.

3.       GVSU student team (Steven Quirk, Matthew Freundl, Taddeus Tjapkes and Caitlyn Hurley) won one of the two top places in the district design competition, where in addition to the prize, they qualify to represent district B in the upcoming internationals in San Diego CA, Nov. 2013.  Just to provide a context, there were 16 teams in the district competition this year.

4.       Dr. Wendy Reffeor and Dr. Nael Barakat also represented our school very well as the Design Competition Chief Judge and the ASME District B Leader respectively.

Over all, GVSU placed high in 4 out 6 competitions (more than any other school in the district).

Click HERE to see photo's and video of the competition.

Additional photos from the trip can be seen HERE.

GVSU Engineering Project can save lives.

Full story at Grand Rapids business Journal.