Enterprise Program at Michigan Tech

🤔 Ever wonder what the Green Campus Enterprise does?

🎉 Green Campus Enterprise is an open-to-all enterprise with all teams engaging in multidisciplinary, hands-on, project-based learning.

🌱 Their sub-teams range from focusing on sustainable farming systems, on-campus improvements through bioretention and composting, greater community projects like working with transportation services, improving the Ford Center, and installing solar panels at the Houghton Water Treatment Plant.

☁️ Their most widely known project is the annual Greenhouse Gas emissions survey, which they encourage the entire campus to complete to provide Michigan Tech with data on our campus's yearly emissions from both on- and off-campus activities.

For more information, check out Green Campus’s website: https://greencampus.enterprise.mtu.edu/

🧑‍🎓 The Humane Interface Design Enterprise (HIDE) is a student-run Enterprise Team focused on software development and usability research.

🧑‍💼 Their primary goal is to give members a head start in their careers by immersing them in a collaborative environment where they can gain real-world work experience.

🎉 Past members have gone on to work at Google, Handshake, and Target. HIDE offers members the opportunity to work on unique projects and is open to all majors.

Here are some of their most current projects:

🌀 Whirlpool Project
They are working to improve the sustainability of Whirlpool Corporation's appliances using human factors techniques and methodologies.

🧪 Chem Store
A web application that keeps track of the inventory of chemicals on campus. Users can search for chemicals, log transfers, request chemicals, and more!

📋 CS Dept Scheduling App
A scheduling application for the CS Department that will keep track of class data (such as credits, prerequisites, and scheduling conflicts), as well as faculty data (such as teaching history).

📃 YooPapers
An app for assisting in due process serving court papers. The primary users will be the administrators entering locations, and the individuals following GPS directions to the entered locations to serve the papers.

🔫 Gardner Rifle Club
Recreate an outdated application used by the Gardner Rifle Club for scoring,scheduling, and membership tracking using a modern framework.

🌍 Michigan H**p Atlas
A mobile web application for recording real-time field observations of herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles) for Michigan H**p Atlas. This program will directly feed into the online database for a variety of users including citizen scientists, researchers, academics, agencies and nonprofits.

🎰 Machine Shop Check-in System
A web application that will allow students to check in and out of the machine shop, as well as reserve equipment and tools.

🤼 Wrestling Club
A website serving as a hub for the wrestling club. It will educate about the club and its history, keep track of events, provide a space for sponsors and fundraising, and hold a media gallery.

▶️ Learn more about HIDE: https://hide.cs.mtu.edu/

⏱️ As we move into finals week, we would like to wish everyone the best of luck with all of your final exams! 🤗

🧠💪 We believe in each and every one of you, and we know you can achieve anything you set your mind to! 💡

💛 Don't forget to eat, drink some water, go for a walk, take a break, and check on your friends and teammates! 🖤

🎓 Andrew Dohm ‘Spring 27

🖥️ Computer Engineering, Minor in Cyber Security

📍 Edwardsburg, MI

✨ Blue Marble President

⚡ “The biggest thing you need here is the willingness to learn new things, the passion and drive to contribute to projects, and the collaborative spirit to work with others on a team.”

🤝 9AM Answer emails - In his role as President of Blue Marble, he oversees six different Vice Presidents, as well as the seven projects currently running, and he creates the itinerary for the E-board meeting.

💻 11AM Intro to Cryptography - With his goal of making the world a safer place on the internet, it is important for him to learn the basics of Cryptography.

🍔 12PM Lunch

💡 1PM Design fundamentals - Andrew works with a small team in class to develop a solution for snow accumulation on roofs in Houghton, and he makes sure that the team is ahead on their deliverables and contributing to the final project design.

🔌 2PM Intro to algorithms - As a Computer Engineer, he takes both Computer Science and Electrical Engineering courses. This class expands his knowledge of the CS world and how he can apply different algorithms to many different situations.

📄 3:15PM Meet with Dr. Archer - This includes looking at the progress of the team, initiatives for renovations in their lab, tracking the allocation of resources, and making sure everything is accounted for. They also talk about a larger component of Enterprise, with a focus on getting students involved. This requires planning numerous events, such as info sessions, Enterprise Day, and Design Expo, all with the goal of recruiting new members.

🎮 4PM Microcontrollers Lab - Andrew is working on soldering and designing a game on a breadboard as a part of his final project, as well as building an LCD to connect into the microcontroller, and creating schematics of how everything should function once hooked up.

💼 6PM Runs the E-board meeting - Being on the E-board is about shaping the organization into what you would like future students to experience. The biggest question for any executive board is how to improve our organization and bring in new members? This meeting involves Dr. Archer (Blue Marble’s advisor) and the six other e-board members. Andrew checks in with them about the team’s objectives and what they would like to see for the future of Blue Marble.

🙋 7PM Company meeting, Andrew presents to the group, congratulates individual accomplishments, conveys information between the company and Blue Marble, and they help each other through problems that either side may have.

💥 8PM Working on homework and/or enterprise project - In partnership with Westwind AI, Andrew is developing a sensor package that can detect unexploded ordinances in Ukraine. He works on building what is called a Software Defined Radio (SDR) that uses Python to tell a computer to emit specific frequencies that attenuate down into the ground and show areas that have a more reflectivity. He also contributes to testing in the lab using these same sensors to find inert medium counterparts.

Last spring, Blue Marble had the task of working on a digitized training manual for the U.S. Navy. This was a long-standing project before Andrew joined Blue Marble, and once he joined and got a team going, they not only turned this vision into a reality, but Andrew and his team also were able to ship it to Virginia to be put into use. This was a unique project because instead of just creating a prototype, their product went directly to use.

Andrew lives for the ability to learn, both inside and outside of the classroom. Enterprise gives students a chance to apply their knowledge and learn new skills. Students learn project management, different design tools, and many other skills that will take them far in their future careers. The biggest thing you need in Enterprise is the willingness to learn new things, the passion and drive to contribute to projects, and the collaborative spirit to work with others on a team. The name of the game is to collaborate to reach the best possible solution. Blue Marble has a good spread of not only electrical and cybersecurity students, but students from all majors who have different outlooks and contributions to the project.

Andrew's advice to incoming freshmen is to get involved, find something that you'd like to do, and just go do it. New students might see joining something as a huge barrier to cross, but it is really not. Enterprise is about getting students to learn and grow, and Enterprise is a great way for students to apply their theoretical knowledge from class. Once you are involved, really get behind the passion and the mission of your team, and it will make the work much more enjoyable. When you look back at your project, you will be proud of what you did as a result of wanting to learn and grow.

▶️ Learn more about the Blue Marble Enterprise: https://bms.enterprise.mtu.edu/

👀 Looking to get involved in an Enterprise Team that has projects from all aspects of engineering?

🎉 Consumer Product Manufacturing may be the team for you!

💡 The focus of Consumer Product Manufacturing (CPM) is to have students work in teams to design, develop, and manufacture consumer products. This enterprise provides hands-on experience for all majors, helping students develop real-world skills while working with companies.

🔽 Here is some of their work:

🦿 AAA (Authentic, Accessible, and Affordable) Prosthetics: The development of a mechanically simple foot and ankle prosthesis

🦾 MARC (Mobile, Affordable, Responsive, and Comfortable) The development of a controllable forearm and hand prosthesis

☁️ Biogas: Anaerobic digestion of dining hall food waste for methane production

💥 CDH (Combustible Dust Hazards): Study on the potential hazard of dust explosions in water-based adhesives

⛽ Clean Diesel: Converting university waste into biodiesel

💧 DTE Energy: Model and simulate the thermal behavior of DTE’s existing cooling pond system

Learn more about the Consumer Product Manufacturing Enterprise: https://www.cpmenterprise.org/