About

Welcome to seeME! We’re glad that you are interested in our program and would like to share more about what we do.

When thinking about mechanical engineering (ME), many people imagine fixing cars or designing airplanes. However, ME isn’t just about building better machines; it’s a wide field that touches many other areas of science! Mechanical engineers may study animal or insect movement (like walking, jumping, and flying), design special materials to monitor a person’s temperature and health, observe patterns in earthquakes, test human-like robots, predict the formation of clouds and storms in the atmosphere, and much, much more. Often, students have yet to see all that ME can do, and we hope to share the magic of engineering with them!

In hosting seeME Day, we have three goals:

  1. Reach students with little-to-no background in engineering and get them interested in ME!
  2. Showcase cool and unconventional applications of ME through hands-on demos :sunglasses:
  3. Provide graduate students the opportunity to share something in STEM they are passionate about!

Our half-day, on-campus event (it’s free!) is hosted every year in May and features two short, 1-hour classes that introduce students to a variety of topics within mechanical engineering. Students have the opportunity to choose the classes they are interested in after signing up. Past classes have covered cool topics including:

  • Wind energy
  • Predicting the spread of disease
  • Origami in engineering
  • Biomechanics
  • The mechanics of baking
  • The science behind taste
  • Weather prediction
  • Sensors
  • Airplane and rocket design
  • Parallel computing
  • An intro to machine learning

Sound like fun? Stay tuned for our 2027 seeME event! Signups will open in March 2027 on our sign-up page!