MESS members called Class of 2017 freshmen recruits this week to encourage them to come to UD’s Mechanical Engineering program. MESS members Kate Ordemann, Eli Gorman, Jen Moye, Anna D’Alessio, and Mike Marando along with Prof. Buckley called almost 90 students to tell them why they should come to UD-ME. Good news is a lot […]

Earlier this month, MESS members Eli and Jess did the Mechanical Engineering presentation for Engineering 101 (hosted by the engineering sorority, Alpha Omega Epsilon). The event was for local high school girls that have an interest in STEM. Eli and Jess talked to the students about Mechanical Engineering and how it can be applied to […]

The MESS recently visited two of Mr. Griswold’s 10th grade classes at Cape Henlopen High School, where our members conducted bridge design competitions with the students. Be sure to check out the pictures, these high schoolers definitely look like budding engineers!

This past Thursday, the MESS Sounds & Vibrations outreach team visited Selbyville Middle School in Selbyville, DE. The MESS presented to sixth, seventh, and eighth graders there. Check out the pictures!

While some students may consider winter session a time to relax and watch endless amount of TV, the MESS team members were studying or volunteering throughout the world or spent their time creating cutting-edge hands-on demonstrations. Dhara Amin traveled to Guatemala to monitor the bridge that UD’s Engineers without Borders had built a few years […]

On Friday, students from Polytech High School in Kent County visited Spencer Lab to test their structural bridge designs. These 20 students are all enrolled in a CAD class and are planning to enter their bridges into a design competition. MESS members Laura van der Post, Matt Durst, and Mike Pfeiffer led students on a […]

MESS ambassadors helped to host the Mechanical Engineering Department’s Chair’s Council this past week. The Chair’s Council is a departmental advisory board comprised of ME Department alumni who are leaders in business, engineering, and education. MESS ambassadors members of the council on a tour of Spencer Lab and gave them the students’ perspective on life […]

MESS lauched its outreach program on October 12th, 2012, with a visit to the Delaware School for the Deaf in Newark, DE. MESS Ambassadors, Laura van der Post and Mike Pfeiffer, spoke to a mixed group of high schoolers about the human body as a machine. Students got to measure their center of mass with […]

The MESS squad was out again in full force for the second Blue & Gold Recruiting event at UD Dept Mechanical Engineering. We had about 30 prospective students and their parents come through Spencer Lab on Saturday, Oct 13th. Special thanks to MESS grad mentors (and alums), Amy and Zach, for bringing the enthusiasm.  

The MESS kicked off its Peer Mentoring Program for underclassmen with a mixer – engineering style – this past Sunday evening. ME freshmen students met the upperclassmen, including Peer Mentoring Officers Mike Pfeiffer and Mike Marando. The group tackled some fun engineering challenges, including “Tower of Tuna” (make a structure out of 3 sheets of […]