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Department of Mechanical Robotics and Industrial Engineering

Mechanical, industrial, and robotics engineers inspire others through their ingenuity, technical know-how, and keen analytical skill.

They’ve created some of the world’s greatest inventions while also solving very tough technical problems. If you aspire to change the world through great engineering, think about majoring in one of the degrees offered in the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical, Robotics, and Industrial Engineering.

Whether you choose mechanical, robotics, or industrial engineering, you’ll experience Lawrence Tech’s signature theory and practice education through state-of-the-art engineering labs, internship and co-op opportunities with nearby world-class engineering firms, student chapters of professional engineering societies, Blue Devil Motorsports competitions, and more.

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Civil + Architectural Engineering Student Opportunities

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WE, Engineers, Architects and Scientists of Arab heritage by ancestry or affinity, residing in the United States of America and Canada, recognize the need for constructive technical interaction among various professional disciplines, and desire to enhance our professional development are hereby pleased to announce the formation of the Arab American Engineers and Architects Association.

What is SAE Supermileage?bdm-logo

Engineering students design and build a fuel-efficient vehicle that will achieve the highest possible miles per gallon in competition while also achieving other tests: roll bar stress, braking, maneuverability, egress, and visibility.

Students design and build the vehicle from aerodynamic, mechanical, and functional standpoints with the use of innovative materials, tools, and technology.

Students compete against around 30 teams in an international competition.

Tasked to generate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities.

Students must function as a team to conceptualize, design, build, test, promote, and race within the limits of race rules.

» More about the LTU SAE Supermileage team

 

Benefits of SAE Supermileage

Apply classroom concepts to real-world problems. Statics, dynamics, materials, electronics: it all has a place in SAE Supermileage.

Collaboration builds a better product. We work together to design a car, solve problems, and represent our university on an international stage.

Explore entrepreneurship through a business-focused vehicle design. Pitch sponsors, network with industry, and develop timelines.

supermileage-car-2019

 

The Supermileage team uses the lab to build a fuel efficient vehicle. This competition combines structural design, powertrain efficiency, and aerodynamics.

What is SAE Aero Design?

The SAE Aero Design competition gives students a real world design challenge that compress a typical aircraft development program into one calendar year

This competition requires participants to go through the systems engineering process by breaking down the entire design requirements of a flyable airplane into their specific needs and then to propose, design, fabricate, build and then test an airplane that meets those requirements.

» More about the LTU SAE Aero Design team

 

The benefits of SAE Aero Design are:

It gives students the opportunity to collaboratively work together on focused task of creating an airplane that meets specific performance goals.

It exposes participants to the many aspects of conceptual design, manufacturing, system integration/test, and through performance demonstration of their aircraft at competition.

The competitions give teams the chance to demonstrate and prove both their creativity and engineering skills in comparison to teams from other universities around the world.

At Lawrence Tech engineering students can use their work on SAE Aero Design to fulfill their senior capstone design project requirements.

 

This team competes in the regular class against teams from around the world, they design, build, test, and fly a heavy-lift radio-controlled aircraft with a set of constraints.

The Entrepreneurial Engineering Design Studio champions eWeek by facilitating engineering-related activities. The final activity is a design challenge that pits LTU engineering students against Eaton engineers.

What is eWeek?

eWeek was founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951.

Typically held the third week in February.

Aims to increase the understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers.

 

What is the LTU vs Eaton eWeek Design Challenge?

LTU engineering student teams  compete against Eaton engineering teams.

The teams develop a design idea for a “Problem Statement.”

Teams pitch their idea to competition judges.

Feedback is used to develop a prototype.

Participants and guests vote for their two favorite prototypes.

The team having the prototype with the most votes wins the competition.

 

What are the benefits of the eWeek Design Challenge?

Engineering students work on teams that ideate, pitch an idea, and build a prototype that solves a design problem.

Students interact with professional engineers.

All participants enjoy an afternoon of creativity and fun.

 

The Entrepreneurial Engineering Design Studio champions eWeek by facilitating engineering-related activities.

What is Formula SAE®?

Formula SAE® is a series of both dynamic (driving) and static (non-driving) competitions focusing on student-built, high-performance, open-wheel, formula-style vehicles.

It is an international competition that challenges teams of university undergraduate and graduate students to conceive, design, fabricate, develop, and compete with small, formula-style vehicles.

» More about the LTU Formula SAE team

 

The benefits of Formula SAE® are:

The Lawrence Tech Formula SAE® vehicle team is university supported, but gives students the opportunity each year to collaboratively organize, manage, and complete the entire design process from beginning to end for the creation of a high-performance formula vehicle.

Students are given the opportunity to learn about all of the critical engineering aspects of what goes into producing a rapid-accelerating, nimble, high-speed race car.

The competitions give teams the chance to demonstrate and prove both their creativity and engineering skills in comparison to teams from other universities around the world.

Student have the full opportunity to service, support and drive their vehicle at competition.

At Lawrence Tech engineering students can use their work on Formula SAE® to fulfill their senior capstone design project requirements.

 

Formula SAE websites

www.fsae.com

www.sae.org

www.fsaeonline.com

 

Formula SAE® is a series of both dynamic (driving) and static (non-driving) competitions focusing on student-built, high-performance, open-wheel, formula-style vehicles.

What is Formula SAE® Electric?

Formula SAE® Electric is a newer international collegiate competition that reflects the changing landscape of future automotive design towards the electrification of automobile drivetrains.

It gives student the task of developing a fully-electric-only, high-performance racing vehicle within the Formula SAE® competition.

University teams are tasked with the conceptualization, design, fabrication, assembly and testing a vehicle powered solely by electrical motors and compete in static and dynamic events such as design, presentation, cost, acceleration, skidpad, autocross, endurance, and efficiency that are standard components of the longer-established Formula SAE® competition.

» More about the LTU Formula Electric team

 

The benefits of Formula SAE® Electric are:

The Lawrence Tech Formula SAE® vehicle team is university supported, but gives students the opportunity each year to collaboratively organize, manage, and complete the entire design process from beginning to end for the creation of a high-performance all-electric racing vehicle.

Students are given the opportunity to learn about all of the critical engineering aspects of what goes into a producing a rapid-accelerating, nimble, high-speed electric race car.

The competitions give teams the chance to demonstrate and prove both their creativity and engineering skills in comparison to teams from other universities around the world.

Student have the full opportunity to service, support and drive their vehicle at competition.

At Lawrence Tech engineering students can use their work on Formula SAE® Electric to fulfill their senior capstone design project requirements.

 

Students design, fabricate, assemble, test, and race a formula racing style hybrid vehicle in a competition against other student engineering teams from around the world.

What is Baja SAE?

Engineering students design and build an off-road vehicle that will survive rough terrain in a variety of tests: acceleration, suspension, maneuverability and endurance.

Students compete against 99 other teams in an international competition.

Teams compete to have their design accepted for manufacture by a fictional firm.

Tasked to generate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities.

Students must function as a team to conceptualize, design, build, test, promote, and race with the limits of race rules.

» More about the LTU Baja team

 

Benefits of Baja SAE

Apply classroom concepts to real-world problems. Statics, dynamics, kinematics, electronics: it all has a place in Baja SAE.

Collaboration builds a better product. We work together to design a car, solve problems, and represent our university on an international stage.

Explore entrepreneurship through a business-focused vehicle design. Pitch sponsors, network with industry, develop timelines, and sell your product!

 

The Baja SAE Laboratory is the center of LTU’s Baja SAE vehicle design and fabrication project. Students use the lab to build a single-seat offroad vehicle within stringent safety rules.

Our mission is to stimulate women to achieve their full potential in careers as engineers and leaders. We aim to expand the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving quality of life and to demonstrate the value of diversity.

The 105 chapters of NSBE have a primary goal of increasing the number and quality of minority students in the areas of engineering, management, architecture and business.

Tutorial services and a company lecture series are offered.

» Competition Teams

OrganizationFaculty AdvisorContact Info
What is Baja SAE?

Engineering students design and build an off-road vehicle that will survive rough terrain in a variety of tests: acceleration, suspension, maneuverability and endurance.

Students compete against 99 other teams in an international competition.

Teams compete to have their design accepted for manufacture by a fictional firm.

Tasked to generate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities.

Students must function as a team to conceptualize, design, build, test, promote, and race with the limits of race rules.

» More about the LTU Baja team

 

Benefits of Baja SAE

Apply classroom concepts to real-world problems. Statics, dynamics, kinematics, electronics: it all has a place in Baja SAE.

Collaboration builds a better product. We work together to design a car, solve problems, and represent our university on an international stage.

Explore entrepreneurship through a business-focused vehicle design. Pitch sponsors, network with industry, develop timelines, and sell your product!

 

The Baja SAE Laboratory is the center of LTU’s Baja SAE vehicle design and fabrication project. Students use the lab to build a single-seat offroad vehicle within stringent safety rules.

vfernande@ltu.edu

What is Formula SAE® Electric?

Formula SAE® Electric is a newer international collegiate competition that reflects the changing landscape of future automotive design towards the electrification of automobile drivetrains.

It gives student the task of developing a fully-electric-only, high-performance racing vehicle within the Formula SAE® competition.

University teams are tasked with the conceptualization, design, fabrication, assembly and testing a vehicle powered solely by electrical motors and compete in static and dynamic events such as design, presentation, cost, acceleration, skidpad, autocross, endurance, and efficiency that are standard components of the longer-established Formula SAE® competition.

» More about the LTU Formula Electric team

 

The benefits of Formula SAE® Electric are:

The Lawrence Tech Formula SAE® vehicle team is university supported, but gives students the opportunity each year to collaboratively organize, manage, and complete the entire design process from beginning to end for the creation of a high-performance all-electric racing vehicle.

Students are given the opportunity to learn about all of the critical engineering aspects of what goes into a producing a rapid-accelerating, nimble, high-speed electric race car.

The competitions give teams the chance to demonstrate and prove both their creativity and engineering skills in comparison to teams from other universities around the world.

Student have the full opportunity to service, support and drive their vehicle at competition.

At Lawrence Tech engineering students can use their work on Formula SAE® Electric to fulfill their senior capstone design project requirements.

 

Students design, fabricate, assemble, test, and race a formula racing style hybrid vehicle in a competition against other student engineering teams from around the world.

hvejdanin@ltu.edu@ltu.edu

What is Formula SAE®?

Formula SAE® is a series of both dynamic (driving) and static (non-driving) competitions focusing on student-built, high-performance, open-wheel, formula-style vehicles.

It is an international competition that challenges teams of university undergraduate and graduate students to conceive, design, fabricate, develop, and compete with small, formula-style vehicles.

» More about the LTU Formula SAE team

 

The benefits of Formula SAE® are:

The Lawrence Tech Formula SAE® vehicle team is university supported, but gives students the opportunity each year to collaboratively organize, manage, and complete the entire design process from beginning to end for the creation of a high-performance formula vehicle.

Students are given the opportunity to learn about all of the critical engineering aspects of what goes into producing a rapid-accelerating, nimble, high-speed race car.

The competitions give teams the chance to demonstrate and prove both their creativity and engineering skills in comparison to teams from other universities around the world.

Student have the full opportunity to service, support and drive their vehicle at competition.

At Lawrence Tech engineering students can use their work on Formula SAE® to fulfill their senior capstone design project requirements.

 

Formula SAE websites

www.fsae.com

www.sae.org

www.fsaeonline.com

 

Formula SAE® is a series of both dynamic (driving) and static (non-driving) competitions focusing on student-built, high-performance, open-wheel, formula-style vehicles.

cpark@ltu.edu

The Entrepreneurial Engineering Design Studio champions eWeek by facilitating engineering-related activities. The final activity is a design challenge that pits LTU engineering students against Eaton engineers.

What is eWeek?

eWeek was founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951.

Typically held the third week in February.

Aims to increase the understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers.

 

What is the LTU vs Eaton eWeek Design Challenge?

LTU engineering student teams  compete against Eaton engineering teams.

The teams develop a design idea for a “Problem Statement.”

Teams pitch their idea to competition judges.

Feedback is used to develop a prototype.

Participants and guests vote for their two favorite prototypes.

The team having the prototype with the most votes wins the competition.

 

What are the benefits of the eWeek Design Challenge?

Engineering students work on teams that ideate, pitch an idea, and build a prototype that solves a design problem.

Students interact with professional engineers.

All participants enjoy an afternoon of creativity and fun.

 

The Entrepreneurial Engineering Design Studio champions eWeek by facilitating engineering-related activities.

What is SAE Aero Design?

The SAE Aero Design competition gives students a real world design challenge that compress a typical aircraft development program into one calendar year

This competition requires participants to go through the systems engineering process by breaking down the entire design requirements of a flyable airplane into their specific needs and then to propose, design, fabricate, build and then test an airplane that meets those requirements.

» More about the LTU SAE Aero Design team

 

The benefits of SAE Aero Design are:

It gives students the opportunity to collaboratively work together on focused task of creating an airplane that meets specific performance goals.

It exposes participants to the many aspects of conceptual design, manufacturing, system integration/test, and through performance demonstration of their aircraft at competition.

The competitions give teams the chance to demonstrate and prove both their creativity and engineering skills in comparison to teams from other universities around the world.

At Lawrence Tech engineering students can use their work on SAE Aero Design to fulfill their senior capstone design project requirements.

 

This team competes in the regular class against teams from around the world, they design, build, test, and fly a heavy-lift radio-controlled aircraft with a set of constraints.

What is SAE Supermileage?bdm-logo

Engineering students design and build a fuel-efficient vehicle that will achieve the highest possible miles per gallon in competition while also achieving other tests: roll bar stress, braking, maneuverability, egress, and visibility.

Students design and build the vehicle from aerodynamic, mechanical, and functional standpoints with the use of innovative materials, tools, and technology.

Students compete against around 30 teams in an international competition.

Tasked to generate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities.

Students must function as a team to conceptualize, design, build, test, promote, and race within the limits of race rules.

» More about the LTU SAE Supermileage team

 

Benefits of SAE Supermileage

Apply classroom concepts to real-world problems. Statics, dynamics, materials, electronics: it all has a place in SAE Supermileage.

Collaboration builds a better product. We work together to design a car, solve problems, and represent our university on an international stage.

Explore entrepreneurship through a business-focused vehicle design. Pitch sponsors, network with industry, and develop timelines.

supermileage-car-2019

 

The Supermileage team uses the lab to build a fuel efficient vehicle. This competition combines structural design, powertrain efficiency, and aerodynamics.

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College of Engineering Departments

Biomedical Engineering

This growing field is dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of the people through developing and perfecting medical technologies and devices.

Engineering Technology

Engineering technologists work alongside heads of science and engineering, engaging in research and product development, as well as the preparation and construction of prototypes for newly designed equipment.

Electrical + Computer Engineering

Electrical and computer engineers combine science, mathematics, and engineering to create the phones, cars, tablets, and thousands of other products we use every day.


Civil + Architectural Engineering​

Learn to design sustainable, healthy, and structurally resilient buildings and civil infrastructures.

Mechanical Robotics + Industrial Engineering

Mechanical engineers design, develop, research, and test all types of machines and mechanical systems.

» Document Viewer

Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.