Conference Session

Mechanical/Manufacturing ET Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Drigel, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Planincludes courses in English composition, fine arts, humanities, social science, cultures, naturalscience, and mathematics. Miami students who won the national BUV competition were fromthe second graduating class from the new BS Mechanical program.The process followed by this team of three Mechanical Engineering Technology students is theculmination and integration of their Engineering Technology and Miami Plan education into aproject management and a senior design sequence which ultimately resulted in the design andconstruction of a transportation vehicle. This vehicle, called a Basic Utility Vehicle (BUV), wasdesigned and constructed to meet the performance specifications of the Institute of AffordableTransportation (IAT), www.drivebuv.org , a