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I was recently asked by Dr. Diane Peters to join a panel discussion at Kettering University. Our topic was how industry and academia collaborate effectively.
The Panel covered a wide range of automotive, power generation, materials, physics and other topics. Dr. Peters dove into how students can deliver value to companies with their capstone projects and theses. We also discussed some of the needs of industry where academic research makes more sense than trying to staff a company’s own research and development team for a single project. Calibrated Success bridges these gaps regularly by filling in for companies that may not have the specific engineering resource needed to measure or test something. We have also worked with Kettering University to bring their engine dynamometer lab online for students and created lab tests that can be repeated as part of their curriculum.
As an added bonus, I was able to sit in on a lecture from Dr. Gregory Davis. He walked undergraduate students through the various tradeoffs involved in gear ratio selection. The campus and buildings there are rich with automotive history. Where else can you be in class where they have the original enlarged cutaway of the first hydraulic valve lifter mechanism?
Second bonus: With some extra time, I walked through the Athletic Center too. They were hosting a kids robotics competition that day. I hadn’t been under that roof since I walked across a stage 27 years ago. Rumor has it I may have also won a couple swimming races there back in the 90’s.