January 17, 2025
Art and engineering forge partnership for practical learning in Art Department foundry
Mechanical engineering students gained practical experience casting screwdriver handles this fall in the Art Department’s foundry in a collaboration between the two departments.
For one week in October, the foundry was the classroom for ME 311 — Manufacturing: Metals and Automation, where more than 200 students worked on creating the handles they had designed. Read more…
October 10, 2022
Seeing is Believing: Direct Observation of Metal Movement during Friction Stir Welding
Prof. Frank Pfefferkorn received an outstanding reception for his research group’s presentation “Predictive modeling of void formation and material flow with novel correlations between process forces and void morphology” at the International Symposium on Friction Stir Welding and Processing, held in Lüneburg, Germany on September 28-30, 2022. Read more…
On Friday, April 22nd, a mechanical engineering senior design team and graduate students traveled with Prof. Frank Pfefferkorn to the Fives Gidding & Lewis factory location in Fond du Lac, WI. Read more…