Marquette University Opus College of Engineering P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, Wis. 53201-1881
marquette university OPus COLLEGE of
Engineering
414.288.6720 marquette.edu/engineering
Working together to solve today’s global challenges.
marquette university Opus COLLEGE of
Engineering Building a workforce of professional engineers for the 21st century — men and women who will provide world leadership in a new era of engineering. D e g r e e p r og r a m s a n d M a j o r s Biomedical engineering Biocomputing Bioelectronics Biomechanics Civil engineering Civil engineering Environmental engineering Computer engineering Construction engineering and management Electrical engineering Mechanical engineering
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Why Marquette? Midsized. World-renowned. Challenging. Innovative. Exciting. Metropolitan. Welcoming. There are a lot of ways to describe Marquette. But the four words below — the heart of Marquette’s mission — are the most important.
You’ll graduate with a well-rounded education, whether you plan to design medical devices or build skyscrapers.
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Our undergraduates can participate in engineering research, joining faculty in advancing the field. That’s not available to undergraduates at all universities.
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You’ll be busy. We have 22 engineeringrelated student organizations and more than 270 others.
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Our residence halls offer specialty living options, including floors for engineers.
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You’ll have fun when you’re not studying. Our 16 men’s and women’s Division I teams play in the prestigious Big East Conference. Go Marquette!
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Want to play? We have more than 45 club and intramural teams. So get your game on.
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ur urban campus puts you minutes O from a great lakefront, unique shops and restaurants, and major league sports. Having Marquette on your resume looks really good. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks us among its top 100 universities.
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Excellence Our students and faculty strive to do and be more. And it pays off: Our students exceed the national average when it comes to career placement and getting into graduate school, and our alumni go on to become Fortune 500 leaders, Pulitzer Prize winners, inventors, community leaders and more. Faith We’re a Catholic, Jesuit university, but we welcome and attract people of all faiths. We offer several ways to explore and enrich your spirituality. Almost half of our students participate in faith-based activities. Whatever your faith, it’s part of the conversation. Leadership Marquette students learn to challenge the status quo as ethical leaders. They also get plenty of leadership practice on campus, and more than half of graduating seniors report holding a leadership position in student groups. Service You’ll contribute to our community. More than 80 percent of our students participate in service before leaving Marquette, and the university was named for the ninth time to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Go forth and set the world on fire. St. Ignatius of Loyola 02
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why marquette Engineering? We’re on a mission. The mission of Marquette’s Opus College of Engineering is to prepare students for successful careers based on strong ethical and moral foundations, advance the state of the art in engineering, serve the professional and technical communities, and contribute to our global society.
Today’s engineers for tomorrow’s challenges. Today’s engineers can’t be just trained. They have to be creative thinkers, problem-solvers, communicators, designers and innovators.
Start on day one. The College of Engineering is a direct-entry program. There’s no pre-engineering here. Undecided about an engineering discipline? No problem. Explore our majors during your freshman year, and then decide which one you want to pursue. Don’t delay. Graduate in four years. We guarantee the availability of required courses. Or you can get your bachelor’s and master’s degrees in our five-year program. Learn from the best. Our courses are taught by regular faculty who do real research. Learn in the best. Engineering Hall opened its doors in fall 2011. The 115,000-square-foot facility is an educational instrument tuned to the needs of the 21st century. (Turn the page to learn more.) Be urban. We’re in the heart of the city, which means you’ll learn about the real world in real time. Go beyond the classroom. Our renowned co-op program allows you to get professional experience working for a real company — and get paid — while you’re still in school. Career potential. Ninety-six percent of engineering graduates are employed or enrolled in graduate school within one year of graduation.
Engineering Hall’s walk-out green roof allows students to see the firsthand effects of solar panels and water retention storage.
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The college’s Water Quality Center brings together researchers, government entities, foundations and industry partners to solve problems related to lake, river and ground water quality.
Financial aid and scholarships. Approximately 90 percent of Marquette students receive some sort of financial aid, including scholarships, grants, loans and on-campus jobs. To learn more, visit marquette.edu/explore/financialaid. 05
a living laboratory As a Marquette engineer, you’ll spend much of your time in Engineering Hall, where engineering is on display and all is revealed by the interior and exterior glass walls.
Lower level. Energy. A series of labs gives students and faculty the tools they need to explore energy solutions for a world seeking to reduce its carbon footprint. Areas of focus include smart power systems, thermal fluids, thermodynamics and shock physics.
An array of 130 sensors takes a constant pulse of the building’s systems, measuring water usage, temperatures, energy consumption and vibration. All of this data is available to students via a touch-screen monitor on the first floor.
Visualization. Put on 3D glasses for an immersive experience in Marquette’s Visualization Lab, where an image is simultaneously projected onto three walls, the floor and ceiling. You can virtually step inside a beating heart to simulate the effects of a specific course of treatment, and that’s just one example. If you can see it, you can experience it here.
The building is a teaching tool where faculty and students work together to find solutions to today’s challenges: clean water, reusable energy, safe roads, healthy bodies and more.
Floor one. State of the art. Students have access to cutting-edge technical resources, including advanced computer technology and the Jaskolski Discovery Learning Laboratory. This hands-on space is where students turn ideas into prototypes.
Labs are right next to classrooms, putting you in the middle of the action, and projects can be driven by market research and prototyped within weeks.
Floor two. Sensors and nanoscale devices. Sensors are crucial to the design and maintenance of all engineering systems — everything from the check engine light in a car to blood sugar monitors to potential new uses as early warning devices to protect against terrorist threats.
Engineering outreach Marquette’s outreach programs are designed to encourage K–12 students to pursue an education in science, technology, engineering or math, as well as stimulate critical thinking for problem-solving. It’s an amazing learning experience — I’ve learned how vital outreach education is for our younger generations. 06
Rebecca Genualdi Construction engineering and management
Floor three. Human performance and health care. Laboratories devoted to areas such as medical imaging, bioinstrumentation and embedded system designs allow teams of investigators from multiple disciplines to study form and function of the human body using state-of-the art technologies and design diagnostic, therapeutic and assistive technologies. Floor four. Water and water quality. Water is an enormous worldwide challenge in the 21st century. Home of the college’s Center for Water Quality, it’s here that solutions involving water engineering, allocation of scarce water resources and other issues vital to sustaining life are explored. Robotics. Combining elements of computer engineering and mechanical engineering, professors and students are exploring how to improve prosthetic devices and design humanoid robots to improve human health.
The college’s state-of-the art 3D Visualization Lab allows students to virtually step inside a patient’s artery, test new highway design and stand in a surgery room. It’s a multiuse space for teaching, research and industry partners. 07
Putting it together We’re training a new generation of innovative problem-solvers and entrepreneurs at the forefront of modern engineering.
To solve today’s complex problems, engineers need more than scientific concepts and skills. That’s why Marquette emphasizes the big picture, understanding complex problems from a broader perspective. Your experience here will help you synthesize information from many fields to find optimal solutions. And Marquette supports you in your unique needs and goals. Put it all together and see where you can go.
Where do our grads go? 3M Accenture n ARCO Design/Build n Boston Scientific n Briggs & Stratton n CH2M HILL n Cisco Systems n Direct Supply n Epic n Fresenius Kabi/Fenwal n Gauthier Biomedical n GE Healthcare n Harley-Davidson n HNTB n Hospira n HUSCO International n Jacobs Engineering n Joy Global n Kohler Co. n Lockheed Martin n M.A. Mortenson n Michael Best & Friedrich n Microsoft n Milwaukee Electric Tool n Motorola Solutions n R.A. Smith National n Rockwell Automation n Sargent and Lundy n Siemens n Titan Spine n The Walsh Group n We Energies n Wisconsin Department of Transportation n Zablocki VA Medical Center n And many more n n
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University Core of Common Studies You’ll spend much of your time at Marquette studying engineering and applying those principles to real-world projects, but you’ll also complete the 36-credit University Core of Common Studies. This core curriculum is based on our Jesuit tradition of educating well-rounded individuals, and it consists of nine knowledge areas: rhetoric; mathematical reasoning; theology; human nature and ethics; science and nature; individual and social behavior; literature and performing arts; diverse cultures; and histories of cultures and societies. Visit marquette.edu/core for more information. Round out your major with a minor Many students extend their engineering expertise by minoring in another engineering discipline. Others minor in areas such as biological sciences, business administration, chemistry, mathematics, physics or foreign languages. We also offer a 22-credit minor in engineering ethics and values. Learn about the impact of Catholic, Jesuit values on engineering practice, recognize current ethical issues within the field and strengthen your moral resolve to act courageously on these issues once you enter the profession. Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network Marquette is partnering with the KEEN Program, a collaboration of U.S. engineering universities driven to instill an entrepreneurial mindset in undergraduate engineering students. Geared to better prepare students to identify new technology-based business opportunities that create value for a global society, the KEEN Program is on the cutting edge of engineering education innovation. The Opus College of Engineering provides opportunities for students to solve real-world problems and enables students to apply the hard skills they learn in the classroom from their freshman to senior years.
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Out of the Classroom and into the world
Engineers Without Borders
Co-op Program
We educate socially and globally responsible engineers. So it’s no surprise that many students are active in the Marquette chapter of Engineers Without Borders. This national organization helps people in underserved areas and countries improve their standard of living. Our students started two bridge projects in Guatemala after recently completing a microturbine project, which generates electricity for an entire village. Past EWB projects included students traveling to Honduras and the Dominican Republic. Find out more at marquette.edu/ewb.
Want to practice what you’re learning and get paid for it? Engineering students who participate in the Co-operative Education Program alternate between academic semesters and periods of full-time employment in industry. Students develop technically and professionally under the guidance of experienced engineering mentors.
E-Lead
Marquette graduates can do anything. Devin Turner Mechanical engineering major NASA Kennedy Space Center
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Leaders guide change. Engineers solve problems. The Jesuit tradition calls us to serve others. Starting sophomore year, engineering students have the opportunity to apply to be part of Engineers in the Lead, or E-Lead, a three-year program that focuses on developing peoplefocused leaders with the technical skills required to drive innovation — all in the context of Marquette’s Jesuit tradition. Through a combination of leadership courses and engineering experiences, students explore the program’s themes of Leading Oneself, Leading With Others, and Leading Technology and Innovation as they shadow industry leaders, take part in a co-op, internship, research project or major service initiative and participate in national leadership institutes. Students who complete the program earn academic credit and will have a concentration in engineering leadership noted on their transcript. Find out more at marquette.edu/ engineering/e-lead.
Co-op employment is competitive and available for all engineering majors. Employed co-op students earn a competitive salary, offsetting the cost of tuition and living expenses. Students who complete the program earn enough academic credit to fulfill an engineering technical elective for their program degree requirements. Co-op students clarify their career goals, increase their performance and engagement in the classroom, form their professional network, and open doors to secure full-time employment. They also develop the maturity, poise, communication skills and confidence needed to thrive in a business environment. Co-op companies include: ARCO Design/Build Brady Corp. n Briggs & Stratton n CH2M HILL n Extreme Engineering Solutions n Fresenius Kabi/Fenwal n Gauthier Biomedical n GE Healthcare n GRAEF n Greenheck Fan Corp. n Harley-Davidson n HUSCO International n Joy Global n Master Lock Co.
McShane Construction Co. Medela n Medtronic Inc. n Milwaukee Electric Tool n The Opus Group n Plexus Corp. n Rockwell Automation n Siemens n STRATTEC Security Corp. n Titan Spine n Trek Bicycle Corp. n UTC Aerospace Systems n We Energies n Zimmer Inc.
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student projects Student organizations are a great forum for discussing ideas from your classes and projects, networking, and meeting engineering alumni.
RoboCup: A team of 16 engineering students joined forces in the Humanoid Engineering and Intelligent Robotics Lab to build and program Marquette’s first automated robot for the RoboCup, the world’s largest robotics event. As the only U.S. representative, team MU-L8 competed against more than 4,000 engineers from 45 countries, learning lessons that will help the team create robots that address global problems such as childhood obesity and low literacy levels. Costly corrosion: The pressure-reducing devices of Sentry Equipment, a local manufacturer of sampling equipment, were susceptible to magnetite build-up. So the company challenged a group of senior mechanical engineering students to create a magnetic filter that would remove the magnetite from sampling lines. After months of hard work, the students produced a filter constructed from stainless steel that used rare earth magnets. Problem solved.
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Today, soccer. Tomorrow, addressing human health issues such as childhood obesity levels. Those are the goals of the Humanoid Engineering and Intelligent Robotics Lab. Participants took their robots to compete in an international soccer competition.
Harbinger of hope: Eleven-year-old Kailyn was born with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, a disorder characterized by stiffness and muscle weakness, and has limited use of her arms. A team of six biomedical engineering students was determined to develop an assistive feeding device to help her do something we all take for granted: using silverware. The process included research, mock-ups, prototypes and numerous whiteboard sessions and included collaboration with students from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Now, thanks to the device she nicknamed Justin Bieber, Kailyn is enjoying everything from yogurt to pizza, one spoonful at a time. Get involved: Whatever your talents and interests, Marquette has more than 270 student clubs, groups and organizations for you to join. Engineering may be your major, but we encourage you to get involved in activities of every kind across campus.
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lpha Omega Epsilon, A an engineering sorority founded at Marquette American Society of Civil Engineers merican Society of A Mechanical Engineers Biomedical Engineering Society uilders Coalition of Marquette B University: student chapter of Associated General Contractors of America hi Epsilon, the civil engineering C honor society
ta Kappa Nu, an honor society E for electrical engineers Green Builders Club I nstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Institute of Engineers arquette University M Spacecraft Engineering
igma Phi Delta, S an engineering fraternity Society of Automotive Engineers Society of Women Engineers au Beta Pi, an engineering T honor society riangle Fraternity, a fraternity T for engineers, architects and scientists
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Biomedical engineers combine engineering, biology and medicine to improve human health. They design things like surgical implants, lasers that perform corrective eye surgery, implantable defibrillators, and artificial organs and tissues. Choose from three majors: biocomputing to study computer engineering and life sciences; bioelectronics to study electric circuits and biomedical instrumentation design; and biomechanics to study materials and thermodynamics. In your senior year capstone course, you and your classmates will be members of a design team commissioned to solve real biomedical problems. You also can complete two degrees in five years through Marquette’s combined bachelor’s and master’s degree program or join the 15 percent of our graduates who enter medical school after graduation. Real-world experience Marquette biomedical engineers work closely with researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and faculty mentors guide students in contributing to research projects in these labs. Learn about biomedical research and regulatory issues at the Food and Drug Administration through internships at our Washington, D.C.based Les Aspin Center for Government. To learn more, visit marquette.edu/aspin.
It’s an engineer’s dream come true to see all of the fascinating research projects taking place at Marquette. I had the opportunity to spend a summer helping Dr. Jeffrey Berry with his ongoing work in the area of speech motor control. He needed a biocomputing student to help make his speech synthesizer software operate on a real-time basis. The goal was to give individuals with speech disorders a secondary means of vocal communication and a tool to help them regain some of their speech. It felt good to contribute so directly to a research project that might change people’s lives.
Cassandra North Biocomputer engineering
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My co-op experience with Marquette’s Office of the Architect gave me the chance to help with the construction of Engineering Hall. I attended subcontractor meetings with project managers and was tasked with writing field reports to ensure the project was on track. The building itself presents tremendous opportunities to students. From the sensors under the foundations and on the structural steel to the interactive display that allows people to track energy savings, Engineering Hall allows for an opportunity to connect with Marquette on an entirely different level. Patrick Barnhouse Civil and environmental engineering
infrastructure of civilization: highway systems, airports, water treatment systems, waste treatment systems, buildings, bridges and cities themselves. They design and construct a built environment that is sensitive to the natural environment, is considerate of fiscal and human resources, and is resistant to damage from natural and man-made hazards. They design systems and processes to provide clean drinking water for all and lead efforts to ensure that our precious surface and subsurface sources of freshwater remain for generations to follow. Students in the civil engineering program can pursue a degree in civil engineering or environmental engineering. Students typically specialize in one of four areas: construction engineering and management; environmental engineering; structural engineering and structural mechanics; and transportation engineering and materials. Real-world experience Students can work in the Engineering Materials and Structures Testing Laboratory, which allows faculty, students and industry partners to understand how structural engineering systems and materials perform through large-scale physical testing. Students can work in the Water Quality Center that focuses on the physical, chemical and biological analyses of water, wastewater, soil and sludge.
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Civil engineering
Civil engineers design and build the
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Computer engineers must be on the cutting edge of trends because hardware and software systems change all the time. Computer software engineering is one of the occupations projected to grow the fastest in the next decade, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. So you’ll be in demand. And you can customize your major by studying software engineering, computer system design or knowledge-based systems. Real-world experience
“My co-op experience at Rockwell Automation is one of the most valuable experiences I have ever had. It has cemented my decision of selecting computer engineering as my major and given me insight into how to work in a multigenerational, corporate environment. I have been able to work every day with engineers who understand what it means to get hands-on engineering experience. My co-op is about my preparation for my future career, and I am lucky that I am able to work with people who understand that aspect of my education. Theresa Le Computer engineering Opus Scholar 18
Marquette’s GasDay lab is many things: an educational laboratory, an operating business and a center for research. The GasDay lab produces GasDay, a software product licensed by Marquette to natural gas utility companies nationwide. This application is used to forecast natural gas demand across a utility’s operating area. Utilities consider it essential to be able to generate an accurate forecast of their demand, whether it’s for today, tomorrow, next month or the coldest day of the winter. Each day, GasDay forecasts about 20 percent of the nation’s natural gas demand at more than 30 natural gas utilities. GasDay is created by Marquette students working under the supervision of Dr. Ronald Brown, who created the project in the early 1990s. The lab is staffed by 33 undergraduate and graduate students studying engineering, mathematics and business.
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Computer engineers design, manufacture and program computers to solve problems for society and industry. Computers and microprocessors are found in most modern consumer appliances and in huge multinational telecommunications networks. Computer engineers build the hardware and software systems that run the Internet and the global marketplace.
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A highlight of my engineering experience was the
Construction engineering and Management
opportunity to participate in the Co-op Program. I worked with
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the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewarage District, interacting closely with a residential engineer who happened to be a Marquette alumnus. I attended progress meetings, inspected projects and assisted with engineering estimates. I also worked with local and national contracting companies and made connections that will help me throughout my career. It was the perfect supplement to my classroom education.
Construction engineers plan, design and help build everything from skyscrapers to power plants. They love to use their problemsolving and practical business management skills, as well as understanding of the law, to plan and manage major construction engineering projects.
Christina Szews Construction engineering and management
Construction engineers are similar to civil engineers. In other words, the people who do these jobs are good at many of the same things. Civil engineers design structures, and construction engineers take it one step further and use math, science and engineering to convert those plans into realities. Construction engineers are versatile and do a lot of behind-the-scenes work to ensure that all aspects of a project are on track. It’s up to the construction engineer to keep workers safe, meet the client’s budget and schedule, and maintain the quality requirements of the project. To do all of that, they need excellent oral and written communication skills. Real-world experience Classroom and lab activities expose students to real construction projects and companies throughout southeast Wisconsin. Learning to read plans, visiting projects to learn management practices and interacting with construction professionals on their daily activities is a critical part of the educational process for construction engineers.
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I chose Marquette because I was able to start in classes relating to my major right away and work directly with department professors. One of the college’s research programs, GasDay, allowed me to get real experience with customers before ever leaving the classroom. I processed customer data, tested their in-house development application and contributed
electrical engineering
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internship with a local company that will evolve into a full-time job as soon as I graduate.
Electrical engineers work on the
Matt Plank Electrical engineering
generation, transmission and distribution of electricity and how we use it. Think about the gadgets you plug into on a daily basis. How many of them are powered by electricity? Electrical engineering includes everything from large-scale power distribution to wireless communication to bleeding-edge nanoelectronic devices. Within the electrical engineering program, you can take courses in electric energy systems, industrial sensors and controls, computer hardware, telecommunication, and even nanoelectronic device formation. And with our specially tailored, five-year dualdegree program, you can combine this major with a major in computer engineering and have room for a minor in another area, such as philosophy, business, physics or math. Real-world experience Marquette electrical engineering students can work on the Dr. Dolittle Project in the Speech and Signal Processing Lab, where Dr. Mike Johnson studies animal communication. This is your chance to learn how elephants, tigers, rhinoceroses, whales and chickens talk to each other. Out of that understanding will come better ideas for creating animal habitats and species survival programs and better technologies for monitoring animals in their natural habitats. “Making a difference, our mantra on campus, shouldn’t be confined to a difference for humans — but what we can do for all of God’s creatures,” Johnson says.
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design and direct the manufacture, distribution and operation of things ranging from medical devices to kitchen appliances to robots. They work on energy conversion, environmental control, materials processing and handling, and transportation. This diverse field of engineering offers loads of interdisciplinary studies and professional options. You can specialize in energy systems, manufacturing systems or mechanical systems and work in our computer-aided design, stress analysis, engine, flexible manufacturing/robotics, materials and ergonomics laboratories. Our students design and build solar-powered boats and mini-Formula and Baja cars that race against collegiate and corporate competitors around the world.
A Marquette engineering education doesn’t stop inside
Real-world experience
the classroom. I’ve conducted research in India, studied abroad
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in Italy and attended conferences. I’ve learned that today’s
Dr. Mark Nagurka on mechatronics, the
engineers must be able to cross disciplines — and I worked with
integration of physical systems, electronics,
electrical, mechanical and biomedical engineers on a major design project. I’ve mentored children, volunteered at Habitat for Humanity, worked for the university’s service learning office and served as president of the National Society of Black Engineers. All of these experiences were made possible by Marquette. Marquette develops its students into leaders. Warren Raglund Mechanical engineering
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controls and computers during the engineering design process. Nagurka says mechatronics is key to the future because the world’s problems are multidisciplinary. Solving them requires engineers who can work with counterparts in all fields. “We incorporate sensors, actuators, control systems and microprocessors into mechanical systems — not as an afterthought or an add-on — but as part of the design,” he says.
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Mechanical engineers conceive, plan,
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