Fall Family Weekend: Tour MFGE, PME, and WWU Racing Team
Description
Join the Engineering & Design Department (ENGD) during WWU's Fall Family Weekend for tours of the Manufacturing Engineering, Polymer Materials Engineering, and WWU Racing Team Facilities! More details below. Find us in the Ross Engineering Building (ET). WWU CAMPUS VISITOR'S MAP
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2024
Time: 10 AM to 2 PM
Be sure to register here!
WWU Racing Tour (Free)
10:00 AM-2:00 PM
Ross Engineering Technology 151, WWU Campus
A tour of the project lab and a chance to see some of WWU Viking race cars!
Manufacturing Engineering - making things faster, better and smarter (Free)
10:00 AM-2:00 PM
Engineering Technology, Manufacturing Engineering suite, WWU Campus
Welcome to our Open House, where Manufacturing Engineering comes to life! Join us on an exclusive tour of our state-of-the-art facilities and labs, where innovative design meets precision production. Discover how our students and faculty harness the power of automation and digital manufacturing to transform raw ideas into tangible, high-quality products.
Polymer Materials and Engineering (Free)
10:00 AM-2:00 PM
Engineering Technology Building, Room 113, WWU Campus
Polymer Materials Engineering (PME) students and faculty will be hosting lab tours from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm for anyone interested in learning more about how students and faculty are working to contribute to a circular economy with sustainable polymers and composites. Tours will include viewing the hands-on lab spaces of the PME program, discussions of industry-sponsored research, student professional organizations, and a day-in-the-life of an engineering student! Highlights will include demonstrations of recycling and sustainability research, instruments for measuring properties, and polymer and composite manufacturing processes. Read more about how students collaborate with local industry partners to recycle ocean plastics into new products, how students are recycling carbon fibers from scrap airplane composites parts and hear from the PME faculty about the curriculum and other research projects.