Graduate students fuel innovation

The US and Michigan economies need an injection of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit to create a new generation of competitive businesses with worldclass engineering products. Research-intensive universities such as MSU are engines of innovation and discovery powered by faculty and their graduate students. The constant flow of bright, free-thinking new minds in the form of graduate students is essential for the process of discovery and on graduation from MS and PhD programs they transfer the technology to the economy.

Ryan Monroe (Howell, MI) is a research student in non-linear dynamics working on centrifugal pendulum vibration absorbers to dampen vibration in variable displacement automotive engines designed to improve fuel economy. (Advisor: Prof. Steven Shaw, Distinguished Faculty)

Artwork by: Ed Emmerich, Okemos High School
Photo of Ryan Monroe by: Craig Gunn, MSU - Mechanical Engineering