University of Nebraska - Lincoln
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
UNL ASME Activities
University of Nebraska - Lincoln student chapter of ASME does a variety of different activities to give a student idea of the future.
One of the activites is club meetings. Club meetings are usually held once a month during the school year. During the meeting, we talk about upcoming events such as speakers, tours, regional get togethers, and student design competitions. (I will talk more about these activites later.) A normal club meeting only last about 30 to 60 minutes. Each meeting there's free pizza and drinks. It is a good time to get to know other mechanical engineers.
See photos of a common Club Meeting.
Another activity that speakers during club meetings. Normally we invite mechanical engineers from companies in our region to talk about what they do, what to expect, and to answer questions from any one who wants to know more.
No Previous/Current Speakers
We also do tour on a regular basis too. The tours are just like what happens when we have speakers, but you actually have the opportunity to see engineering at work. Most of our tours are in the manufacturing facilities. Some of the last tours were UNL Power Plant and Kawasaki. If you have any tours you can suggest them to the officers by email or during club meetings.
Some regional get togethers are tours, conferences, design competitions, and the annual ME banquet. These are great opportunites to get to see more engineering and to get to more follow engineers.
The design competitions is opportunity to actually do some engineering. Each year ASME hold design competitions. Look at what our club did the year before and see if you want to get involved in the next one.
ASME Student Design Competition Website
UNL's 2007 Design Competition Entry and Results
ASME also is involved in E-Week. E-Week is the third to last week of the spring semester. Here graduating seniors show off their senior projects, clubs do activities for all the middle and high school students who show up. One things that ASME always does is the rapid prototyper. ASME can volunteer to spark interest of the young minds.
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