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School:Western Michigan University

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Western Michigan University's Engineering Campus is filled with senior design projects from each and every engineering discipline, from competing in the "Chainless Competition" to re-designing residence halls to accommodate more residents. The college is involved with a lot of student and company projects, companies include, Stryker, Hayworth, Parker Hannifin, Eaton Corp, Fabri-Kal, Denso and many more. This is two semesters worth of work that ends up with inviting the company sponsors and the Kalamazoo Community to the day long event each group has a 30min window to present their project with a written report is due to the college as well as the sponsor company. This year will be the 152 senior presentations. 
== Regional and local economic development efforts =Local Economic Development Dfforts =
The[http://www.wmich.edu/ime/iee.html Industrial and Entrepreneur Engineering] student organization is currently a Gold Member of the Institute for Industrial Engineering which they are currently planning of a large conference for the Midwest region. The group is composed of mostly industrial engineers but they are able to show the region what kind of innovation ways that are taking place at Western Michigan University in the paper competition where some of the projects from the Entrepreneur engineering courses have been submitted. 
[http://www.wmich.edu/startinggate Starting Gate] is a new project started by the "B-School" to help with startups to present students with the resources to help build and grow their small startups. By helping with the Business Model Canvas to reaching customer segments. This is only starting gates second semester but they have a diverse group of students from freshman with innovations from high school trying to further their knowledge to MBA students. 
= Related Links =
[[Western Michigan University Student Priorities]]
[[Christopher Woodward]]
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