Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Please join us for PCEC’s Engineering Alumni and Corporate Partners Preview on Thursday, August 3rd from 5:30 – 8:00 PM at the Shape Corp. Innovation Design Center. Senior engineering students' projects will be on display for early viewing.

After a 3-year hiatus, we are back with a fully-in person event. Complimentary beer, wine, and appetizers will be provided. It will be a wonderful opportunity to connect with our graduating seniors, industry peers, and the PCEC Engineering alumni network.

We also invite you to our Engineering Design Conference on Friday, August 4. At the conference, we will display our students’ accomplishments during our Co-Op Employer Forum & Awards Presentation and an Industry-Sponsored Senior Project Showcase.

Both in-person events will be a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing. We look forward to seeing you next week!

If you have questions or comments, follow this link to Connect with the Dean.

- Dean Paul Plotkowsi 

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The collegiate engineering design competition is hosted annually by the Society of Automotive Engineers. In addition to building and refining an open-wheel race car, business, and engineering students collaborate on design and marketing presentations. 

Nicholas Baine, associate professor of electrical engineering and the team's faculty advisor, said the Laker Racing team hosted 22 students and faculty members from a university in Brazil that regularly competes at MIS. 

Baine said faculty from the Brazilian team, from Centro Federal de Educacao Tecnologica de Minas Gerais, reached out via an SAE forum to look for help with a staging area before bringing their car to MIS

Before leaving for the Brooklyn Speedway, Baine said the teams from GVSU and Brazil practiced their marketing, cost analysis, and design presentations together while sharing food, fellowship, and ideas.

The Laker team finished the competition in the middle of the pack, Baine said, adding they were hampered by problems with the car's starter during the endurance test.

Next year will mark the 10th year Laker Racing has competed in Formula SAE. The student organization is run like a nonprofit organization, Baine said. Students connect with businesses for sponsorships and create business plans to promote the car.

Two industrial 3D printers were installed in the Shape Corp. Innovation Design Center, giving Grand Valley students opportunities to learn additive manufacturing (AM) and collaborate with area industrial partners to design and build parts or prototypes.

The new equipment also gives Grand Valley's applied Medical Device Institute (aMDI) a second location. A unit of the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing, aMDI has space in the Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences. Money to purchase the 3D printers and related equipment came from the $1 million in federal appropriations Grand Valley received last year to expand aMDI's capacity to better serve clients.

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Significant technological advances through a mobile app by the GVSU Art Gallery will expand both people's access to viewing art and their perspective when interacting with artwork.

Art Gallery officials plan an open-source release this summer of the framework of the mobile app, Art at GVSU, which was first developed more than 10 years ago and is continually refined with campus partners, in particular students, said Nathan Kemler, director of GVSU Galleries and Collections.

In addition, a new augmented reality mobile app feature set to be released in September allows users to deepen their understanding of a piece of art through digital enhancements, Kemler said. He said this project helped inspire, and helps support, the Grand Path initiative announced in April by President Philomena V. Mantella.

The fruition of these projects furthers the Art Gallery's commitment to making art available to all through open access to collections and innovative experiences for interacting with art, Kemler said.The open-source release of the mobile app framework will allow organizations ranging from museums to higher education institutions to avail themselves of technology that is often prohibitively expensive and time consuming to develop, Kemler said.

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