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ASME design team wins District Championship

The department's ASME design team set the standard for excellence in winning the ASME District B championship at the ASME Student Professional Development Conference held in Pittsburgh, April 4-6. Competing against teams from Carnegie-Mellon, the University of Toronto, and the University of Cincinnati, the MSU team with their window cleaning robot, Winboni, wiped the competition clean. Emily Duszynski, Kyle Koepf, Jonathan Luckhardt, and Joshua Thomet, were able to maintain the team's domination of this event in winning 9 of the last 11 district/regional competitions, with two 2nd place finishes. They will now move onto the world competition at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Boston, Massachusetts this November. Big thanks also go to Andrew Siefert, coach of the team, Dr. Clark Radcliffe, the team's mechatronics consultant, and Dr. Craig Somerton, the faculty advisor.