MTU reaches out to high school robotics – UpperMichigansSource.com

HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) - Michigan Technological University staff are inspiring local high school students interested in engineering.

MTUs Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics department holds their second annual Robotics Machining Workshop this week.

"This year they're building a sterling engine, and with that engine you can put in on a coffee pot and the heat coming from the hot coffee will, the engine will move and that generates the power," said William Predebon, chair for MTUs Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics department.

Students from Houghton, Calumet and Lake Linden high schools are attending.

"It's important because it will help these students develop these skills and then hopefully consider engineering as a profession when they graduate," said Predebon. One incoming senior from Houghton High School is considering exactly that.

"When I am in robotics, I feel like I am in my full functioning capacity, said Houghton High School senior Danielle Lunde. Everything makes sense and I can just work. It's so much fun and the people are so great. The robotics team just becomes like your family. And so, I love it so much."

Lunde has been in robotics for three years. She attended the workshop last year as well.

"It really teaches us how to make our parts more precise and make parts that we, in the past, would have just bought because we didn't realize that we could make it ourselves, Lunde said.

Lunde plans to study mechanical engineering at Michigan Tech after graduation. Her goal is to someday design prosthetic legs.

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