ME Students Win International Design Competition

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November 4, 2008

The mechanical engineering department's design program continued to set a standard for excellence as they won the International Student Design Competition of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition held November 2 in Boston.

Competing against teams from Carnegie-Mellon, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Colorado State University and others, the MSU team wiped the competition clean with their window cleaning robot, Winboni. The team of Emily Duszynski, Kyle Koepf, Jonathan Luckhardt, and Joshua Thomet designed and built an autonomous robot that attaches itself to a window with a suction fan, moves across the window with powered wheels, and scrubs the window clean with felt pads.

MSU Mechanical Engineering Design Teams have now won this event twice in the past 12 years, making MSU the first two-time champion.

Grad student Andrew Siefert coached the team, and Professor Clark Radcliffe served as their mechatronics consultant.

For more information contact: Professor Craig Somerton (somerton@egr.msu.edu)