Make to Innovate - M:2:I
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Make To Innovate (M:2:I) is an exciting new program in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University.
12/10/2024
Come see all the hard work our projects have been working on this semester! Chat with teams about joining for the Spring Semester! Everyone is welcome and see look forward to seeing you in the Howe Hall Atrium tomorrow at 4-6p.
09/16/2024
Department alum and NASA Flight Controller Dillyn Mumme came back to "Howe Home" to present a Make to Innovate - M:2:I UNICOM Talk. He discussed the NASA Gateway project, humanity's first space station around the moon. He's shown with M:2:I Director Matthew Nelson. NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium
08/06/2024
Now to wait for September to have CySat-1 pushed out of the ISS!
Launch...check! Successful docking to ISS...check! The boxes are being checked off for deployment of the Make to Innovate - M:2:I student-built CySAT-1 cube sat. The Cygnus spacecraft was successfully captured and installed with the International Space Station at 2:10 a.m. CDT Tuesday. View the stream as it happened live: https://go.iastate.edu/HZS2AC CySAT's deployment into space will be forthcoming. Look for further announcements. NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium
07/08/2024
Make to Innovate student team is first-time finalist in NASA’s RASC-AL competition - College of Engineering News The Make To Innovate (M:2:I) program’s RASC-AL student team was selected as a finalist for the first time in the recent NASA-organized national collegiate competition.
06/11/2024
M:2:I CyLaunch rocket team turns in best-ever performance in national competition - College of Engineering News The Make to Innovate (M:2:I) program’s CyLaunch student rocketry team achieved unprecedented success at the recent NASA Student Launch Competition in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Our Story
Make to Innovate is a project based learning classroom that introduces students to solving real world engineering problems through hands-on learning. Make to Innovate, or M:2:I, began in the Fall 2011 semester with the goal to get students involved in engaged in problem solving, building professional development skills, and to network with ISU Faculty and industry experts. To accomplish this M:2:I uses project based learning and pairs students with both a faculty advisor and technical advisors from industry. Several sponsors such as Boeing and Rockwell Collins have their talented engineers work as technical advisors which not only allows students to learn from experienced engineers, but also network with them which may help with the students move towards a career.
Today, Make to Innovate has grown to over 270 students spread across several departments and with 16 different projects. These projects range from sailboats, UASs, rockets, high altitude balloons and even space. While housed in the Aerospace Engineering department, we have students from Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, as well as others. We also have students from Meteorology, Kinesiology, Business and other departments on campus. The projects that we are involved in are heavily multidisciplinary, so these students serve critical roles in making the overall projects a success.
Students at Iowa State University that are interested in becoming involved with Make to Innovate should speak to their advisor or please visit our website at https://m2i.aere.iastate.edu for more information.
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