Manufacturing Engineering and Education
Faculty: Bradley K Deuser
Description: The student will explore key engineering concepts such as metal ductility, strain hardening springback, minimum bend radii, and material behavior during bending while designing hands-on activities for younger students. These activities will include forming wire into various shapes and functional objects, such as simple tools, decorative designs, and small mechanical structures, to make learning more interactive. Ideal candidates may have backgrounds in model building, LEGO engineering, woodworking, metalworking, 3D printing, or art and sculpture. The culmination of their experience will be activities that the Missouri S&T STEM Center will deploy to K-12 schools across the state to promote manufacturing education, so their work will have real impact!
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Faculty: Dr. Phillip Mulligan
Age requirement: 16 years+
Description: The student will assist in research on ballistics and explosives. They will work on their version of an armor for wearable ballistic protection. The student would spend the summer learning about terminal ballistics and additive manufacturing so they can design an armor for increased ballistic protection. Testing will be done in a safe and professional manner. The student will gain experience performing basic research, as well as exposure to instrumentation used in ballistics testing (high-speed camera, chronograph, etc.).