The campus will remain closed until 12 noon Thursday, 02/13/25. Students should log into Canvas for specific class information from their instructors. Please contact event organizers for information on specific activities. Normal operations will resume at 12pm on Thursday.

Events

Research Day

The annual Research Day and Presidential Colloquium promotes the scholarly engagement of faculty and students in order to support the highest quality educational experience for Lawrence Tech students and to celebrate and promote a culture of research at Lawrence Tech.

BRINK: Building Research Infrastructure, Networks, and Knowledge

The BRINK project is designed to help research professionals from Michigan-based colleges and universities develop techniques to facilitate conversations and strategic change over the next year via in-person and virtual workshops, increasing research capacity across Michigan.

» Upcoming Events

» Past Lectures

April 15, 2025
Design x Technology: Daedra Christoper
April 15, 2025
Jane Heffernan, Professor and Research Chair, York University
The Mathematics of Infection and Immunity
April 10, 2025
Dan Champoux
Revolutionizing Light Vehicle Safety: Al, sensors, and the Future of Micro-Mobility with GEKOT Robotics
S321
April 1, 2025
Design x Technology: Alexis Kim
March 28, 2025
Design x Technology: Christian Unverzagt
March 20, 2025
Design x Technology: Bonny Slater

» Competition Teams

Do you like to compete? At Lawrence Tech, you can design, build, and test off-road vehicles, scale-model bridges, radio-controlled aircraft, and more, in competition with other students from around the world. Dare to compete, dare to learn, and, most importantly, dare to have fun.

Student competitions take on challenges that push students to apply classroom theories to real-world applications, gaining valuable experience and expanding their investigative spirit.

OrganizationFaculty AdvisorContact Info
The AEI Student Design Competition was established specifically for the architectural engineering programs to highlight and showcase the value of collaboration, competition, and peer review, all of which are important in the development of designs in the professional world.

Faculty Advisor: Keith Kowalkowski

Katelyn Collins

Students work to design energy-efficient HVAC systems and winners are recognized at the Annual ASHRAE Winter Meeting.

Faculty Advisor: Keith Kowalkowski

Katelyn Collins

Baja SAE is an SAE-sponsored collegiate design competition in which teams design, build, test, and race a single-seat off-road vehicle.

Tyler Adams

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) hosts university teams from across the nation to construct a concrete canoe that floats, is navigable, and can compete in races in a lake.
Students design and fabricate a five-person capacity metal frame cage toboggan with brakes, a steering mechanism and running ski surfaces entirely made of concrete.
Students develop a fully-electric-only, high-performance racing vehicle within the Formula SAE® competition.

Tim Drotar

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.

Choongbae Park

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.

Andrew Gerhart

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) hosts university teams from across the nation to challenge student teams to develop a scale-model steel bridge

Katelyn Collins

Keith Kowalkowski

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Research Institutes

Lawrence Tech’s research institutes are collaborations between industry partners and our accomplished faculty, who are using their knowledge and research efforts to make strides in their disciplines.

R18

Research, Design, Build, Race

Students tackle real-world design and engineering challenges by researching, designing, building, and testing their vehicles and aircraft, as well as raising funds and creating marketing presentations.

» 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.