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MechSE Current Use Giving Opportunities
MechSE Alumni Educational (Annual) Fund (332370)
The MechSE Alumni Educational (Annual) Fund provides flexible, unrestricted support to the department. Contributions to the fund are used to provide scholarships and fellowships to our students, to maintain and improve our state-of-the-art undergraduate instructional and research laboratories, to support our departmental seminar series, to support various student groups and activities, to help recruit the very best faculty and staff, and to support many other departmental programs and needs.
MechSE Senior Design Project (ME 470) Fund (332460)
The MechSE Senior Design Project (ME 470) Fund supports our capstone senior design course. In ME 470, students work in teams under the supervision of MechSE professors to tackle real design problems from manufacturers and service industries. Students gain a variety of benefits from this open-ended problem-solving experience, which requires them to synthesize and apply the knowledge they have gained through their engineering courses, to work within time and budget constraints, and to present their progress and results through regular oral and written communications with company members.
SAE Formula Car Fund (333806)
Students who participate in the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) team design, build, and race a mini formula race car each year. The competition between schools is intense and the cars are the best machines that can be built within the rules of the competition. The competitions are remarkable events. The competitors display a high level of sportsmanship, not unlike intercollegiate athletics. Students who compete in these events remember the experience for a lifetime. The competitions provide a training ground for students interested in product development. The rules of the yearly competition enforce a development cycle very similar to that encountered in many industries. The corporate sponsors of Formula SAE are involved for this very reason. The activity also teaches students valuable lessons about project management, design within economic constraints, scheduling, teamwork, salesmanship, research skills, manufacturing methods, and interpersonal relations.
MechSE Outstanding Scholars (Scholarships) Fund (342490)
The MechSE Outstanding Scholars (Scholarships) Fund is a current use fund which is used to provide scholarship support to deserving MechSE undergraduate students. Contributions to the fund are used to provide MechSE Outstanding Scholars scholarship awards to students, and also to supplement scholarship funding from named scholarship awards.
MechSE Graduate Fellowships Fund (342491)
The MechSE Graduate Fellowhsips fund is a current use fund which is used to provide fellowships to deserving MechSE graduate students. Contributions to the fund are used to provide MechSE Outstanding and Excellence Fellowships and also to supplement fellowship funding from named fellowship awards.