Miami University’s newly formed Engineers Without Borders chapter completed its first trip to Rwanda this past July.  Engineers Without Borders is a non-profit humanitarian organization, which conducts sustainable engineering projects in underdeveloped locales around the world.        
During the month of July two members, Sumeta Sachdeva and Zack Liston traveled to Rwanda with members from our mentoring [...]

The “SpeedGeeking” session took place during the Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSE) Alumni Conference in 2011. Ten groups of students were around the room presenting their capstone projects in 5-minute intervals to the conference participants. It was a great and fun way for alumni to hear about multiple projects quickly. For example, one of [...]

Miami University Hamilton nursing and psychology students took time from their busy schedules to bring health education to the Pre-K through third grade students at Wildwood Elementary School. They brought poster boards and provided a variety of hands-on activities. Some of the health areas covered was the importance of regular exercise, bike safety, and the [...]

The Corn Maze project is the result of a School of Engineering and Applied Science electrical and computer engineering Introduction to Global Positioning Systems class.  Under the direction of Dr. Jade Morton, professor of electrical and computer engineering, student teams in the class competed for the winning corn maze design for the Miami University Bicentennial [...]

Miami University’s student section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is proud to be a part of a community service project that designed and built a Remote Control Easel. After hearing about the struggles that Miami graduate student Matt Addison (Seven Mile, OH) faced, the students of ASME quickly decided to help.
 
Matt [...]

Mechanical engineering student and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) member, Natalie Carne (Dayton, OH) spent one of her summers in Tanzania, a country in East Africa. Together with other engineering students from all over the United States, Natalie helped the local Tanzanian people take care of biomedical equipment at their hospitals.

Before starting work at [...]

Each summer, future leaders and captains of industry are invited to the Oxford Campus of Miami University to participate in the annual MultiCultural Leadership Program (MLP). These specially selected college-bound high school students represent the very finest in terms of academic achievement and future leadership potential. At the MLP they have an opportunity to network [...]