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Ethics Bowl Team [Center for Ethics in Public Life]

Participation in the Center for Ethics in Public Life (CEPL) Ethics Bowl team will provide an opportunity for University of Michigan students to learn, discuss, and analyze ethical issues in an enjoyable, yet challenging, environment. [Flier]

UM Debate Team *

The University of Michigan Intercollegiate Debating Team was one of the nation's first intercollegiate forensics teams, founded in 1890. From that time until today the Debating Team has excelled in teaching critical thinking skills and persuasive communication techniques.

Michigan Sailing Team *

The Michigan Sailing Team is a competitive club sport that competes inter-collegiately, in the Midwest Collegiate Sailing Association (MCSA), a region of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA). While only a club sport at Michigan, the team competes throughout the Midwest and on both coasts against other club teams and varsity programs.

Student Team Projects — College of Engineering *

Not all learning at the College of Engineering takes place in the classroom. Much of it occurs in group activities -- in student clubs, in student chapters of professional societies, in co-operative internships and in special team projects. These venues are ideal for learning about practical applications of engineering skills, time management, interpersonal skills and leadership. Because group activity is now an essential learning experience, Michigan Engineering fosters a number of team projects.
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Wilson Student Team Project Center
Aero Design/M-Fly *

M-Fly is a Society of Automotive Engineers Aero Design team, dedicated to promoting opportunities for students to practice applying their knowledge to projects outside the classroom. The Aero Design® Competition challenges engineering students to conceive, design, fabricate, and test a radio controlled aircraft that can take off and land while carrying the maximum cargo. This gives students the opportunity to apply the knowledge learned in the classroom on a practical problem.

Autonomous Surface Vehicle *

The objective of the Autonomous Surface Vehicle Competition is to build a water-surface vehicle capable of navigating, avoiding obstacles, and performing other mission-critical tasks without any human interaction. Meeting this objective requires expertise from multiple fields for tasks such as sensor integration, control system design, hull design, and funding management.

Baja Racing *

Off-road racing is a punishing test for automotive products. So the Society of Automotive Engineers, through its student chapters, conducts the Baja Racing program, challenging participants to design and build vehicles that can take on rough terrain, climbing, accelerating, and maneuvering, and endure more punishment, than a highway could provide. With support from a number of sponsors, Michigan Engineering's Baja team is a regular competitor, building off-road vehicles that demonstrate a superior level of mechanical design, safety and endurance, and the ability to take on rugged landscape. Yet another part of the competition requires the team to present a polished engineering sales presentation.

BLUElab (Better Living Using Engineering Laboratory) *

BLUElab at the University of Michigan is a student run organization that works to find sustainable solutions to development problems at home and abroad. We recognize that engineering students have a great deal to offer in the development of appropriate technology and we work to harness this expertise and apply it to real world problems.

ChallengeX *

ChallengeX is a student organization jointly divided between the Dearborn campus and Ann Arbor campus with the set task of re-engineering a 2005 Equinox to help improve fuel efficiency and emissions. The University of Michigan is the only team in the competition developing a series hydraulic hybrid powertrain.

Chemical Car *

The Chemical Car Team is a student project team working on developing a small car (30 x 40 cm) powered by a chemical reaction. The car is to travel a certain distance and carry 1~500 ml of water which will be disclosed during the competition. By fuel manipulation, each team tries to send their car closest to the finish line. Current conception of the car is powered by a fuel cell which will be fed hydrogen gas.

Concrete Canoe *

Throughout each semester, the Michigan Concrete Canoe team works together to design, fabricate and race a canoe made from concrete. The team then races its canoe in various sprint and slalom events as part of an annual collegiate competition. A team's success depends not only on its performance in the race but on the fabrication and presentation of the canoe. The American Society of Civil Engineers' student chapter oversees this project, which promotes the design of new concrete mixtures and encourages the involvement of undergraduates in advanced research, project management and intercollegiate competition.

Experimental Aircraft *

The purpose of this group is to educate students at the University through the construction of manned, powered aircraft and to create an opportunity for students to gain real-world experience in the aircraft design process. Our goal is to research, design, and construct a manned aircraft using composite materials similar to work done in the aerospace industry.

Field Emission Get-Away-Special Investigation (FEGI) *

The Field Emission Get-Away-Special Investigation is a student project to design, build, and test a self contained Space Shuttle experiment testing Field Emitter Array (FEA) technology as a means of electron emission for spacecraft charge control.

Formula Car *

This project assembles a team that must design, build and race a small formula car that's high-performance, low-cost and easy to maintain. In an annual race conducted by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), judges rate the cars on their safety, cost, design and presentation, as well as their performance in a series of events including acceleration, skidpad, autocross and endurance. The SAE formula-car competition is the largest engineering student competition in the world, attracting teams from 140 universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Korea, Japan and Venezuela.

Human Powered Helicopter *

Human-Powered Helicopter Team was created in 1991 to design, build, and fly the world's first human-powered helicopter. The manager of each of the team's task groups together with the team's project manager, technical manager, and advisor-make up the management committee, which coordinates the various elements of the team. A program written by the computer group, which calculated the power required to meet various parameters, confirmed that the project is feasible. Because the team is made up entirely of full-time students, turnover is high from semester to semester. The team is always in need of creative, hard-working people.

Human Powered Submarine *

The principal objective for this team is to make innovative use of materials, hydrodynamic design, buoyancy, propulsion and underwater life-support in the design of a human-powered submarine -- these are technologies and problems that have intrigued and puzzled engineers for more than 200 years. The secondary objective is to increase public awareness of underwater technology. The highlight of the team's work is the biannual International Submarine Races (ISR), held in an indoor tank -- one of the world's largest -- at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The competition dates to 1989 and, today, attracts competitors from around the world.

Michigan Aeronautical Science Association *

The Michigan Aeronautical Science Association is a student organization created specifically to design and fabricate rockets. MASA focuses in projects involving new hybrid propulsion technologies and composite structures. These projects culminate in rocket launches, which have been conducted since 2004. MASA's rockets are technologically demonstrative and more than able to launch payloads such as GPS telemetry devices, cameras and Cansat satellite simulators.

Michigan Mars Rover Project *

The Mars Rover program is an ongoing research project in which a student team designs, builds and tests prototypes of manned rovers for use in a human mission to Mars. A Michigan Engineering team designed and built one of the world's first prototypes, called "Everest," basing it on an Army FMTV cargo truck. If a crew of four were to reach the Martian surface, Everest would be able to carry them up to 1000 kilometers. The team has tested Everest at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah and at a Michigan rock quarry.

Solar Bubbles *

The University of Michigan Solar Bubbles UAV Team provides the hands-on experience of designing, building and testing unmanned-aerial vehicles to students at the University of Michigan. The team allows an opportunity for the practical development of leadership, teamwork and technical skills outside of the classroom for dedicated and intelligent students.

Solar Car *

Solar Car Team of the University of Michigan is firmly grounded in the traditions of hard work, dedication, and teamwork. Founded in the spring of 1989, the team has grown to include over 150 students from nearly every sector of the University, with the backing of more than 200 corporate and individual sponsors. Team members must be registered students at the University, willing to learn, and willing to spend at least five hours per week on the project.

Solar Electric Boat *

Solar Electric Boat Team designs, constructs, and races a boat that can be up to six meters in length and powered by solar-charged batteries, in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Solar/Electric Boat Regatta in August. The regatta's two events are an endurance race, in which the solar arrays are attached and the object is to keep the boat running as long as possible; and a 200-meter sprint, in which the solar arrays are not attached and the object is to complete the course as fast as possible. The sprint is the U-M team's focus.

Steel Bridge *

Yet another highly visible undertaking, the Steel Bridge project assembles a team from the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). This team designs and builds a working scale model of a steel highway bridge. The completed structure must sustain a vertical load of 2,500 pounds and a lateral load of 50 pounds. Judges rate each entry on speed of construction, weight, efficiency and aesthetics.

Student Space System Fabrication Lab (S3FL) *

The Student Space System Fabrication Lab (S3FL) at the University of Michigan College of Engineering is dedicated to providing practical hands-on interdisciplinary experience for students through the design and development of exciting aerospace projects as part of their overall academic preparation.

Pit Crew Challenge *

The Pit Crew Challenge is an event used to promote team building. In this case a NASCAR pit is simulated in the Assembly Area of the Wilson Center while teams participate in changing a tire.