Horsepower to Hyperloops - Kettering University

IN THE MIX: Mike Colville ('00, EE), one of GM's leading performance engineers more commonly known as the “features dude,” discusses the development of one of the most audacious road vehicles ever developed, GM’s 2022 Electric Hummer. Colville also addresses the extreme off-road career where he gained his skills.

IN THE MIX: Jamie Zinser ('99, ME), Vice President of Global Automotive Sales and Marketing at Novelis, discusses sustainability and the infinite recyclability of aluminum.

48054: Dr. Babak Elahi, head of Kettering University's Liberal Studies Department, discusses the role liberal studies plays in STEM education and the path all Kettering students take through his department.

48504: How the new BorgWarner Scholars Program at Kettering could not only broaden minority access to STEM education, but supercharge Kettering’s entire cooperative model with coverage of all student needs for five years and a dynamic mentoring process.

IN THE MIX: Kettering alumna Ashley Swartz has dedicated her career to helping people walk. She is the team leader at Roam Robotics, where they developed a wearable robotic knee brace that is helping people walk — and even ski — without pain.

THE 48504: Travis Sage, lead designer for Kettering's innovative new Learning Commons, describes the building and shares why it represents an entirely new paradigm in higher education architecture.

Steve Schwartz and Genomenon, the company he co-founded, are saving lives with technology that allows diagnosticians to quickly review millions of scientific articles to make accurate diagnoses and find appropriate treatments for rare genetic diseases.

Automotive cybersecurity engineer Kristie Pfosi talks about cyber threats to your car you never even imagined--and what she and her colleagues are doing to prevent it.

The crisis in the 1940s that forced GMI to award degrees.

THE PRESIDENT'S SKETCHPAD: The third installment in a three-part series with Kettering University Dr. President Robert K. McMahan addressing a pivotal moment of institutional assessment and change, in the form of the President's Task Force of Program Realignment and Reinvention, which is restructuring the University for a changing future.

THE PRESIDENT'S SKETCHPAD: The second of a three-part series with Kettering University Dr. President Robert K. McMahan addressing a pivotal moment of institutional assessment and change, in the form of the President's Task Force of Program Realignment and Reinvention, which is restructuring the University for a changing future.

THE PRESIDENT'S SKETCHPAD: A three-part series with Kettering University President Dr. Robert K. McMahan addressing a pivotal moment of institutional assessment and change, in the form of the President's Task Force of Program Realignment and Reinvention, which is restructuring the university for a changing future.

IN THE MIX: Kettering grad Shawn Lange ('01, ME and EE) and his company, Lab2Fab are hastening the future of the food service industry with robotics, automation and artificial intelligence.

IN THE MIX: Cory Steuben ('10) went from co-op student at Munro and Associates to company president in 10 years. When others were circling their corporate wagons during the pandemic, he expanded the company, dramatically increased revenues, and founded a viral YouTube video channel, MunroLive.

Neil Berish ('23, ME) has taken what he's learned at Kettering and turned his hobby into a profitable business and Co-op opportunity. Within nine months of creating a website, he and his friend have purchased machinery and expanded from Neil's garage into a small warehouse space. Now he's back in school, his business is his Co-op and he is working to manage both his studies and a growing company.

Software engineer Wes Faler ('92) describes how he quit his own company in software engineering to return to a college project, building a plasma thruster, used to build a satellite that won NASA's Deep Space Derby. But it doesn't end there. Next up, is a ride on NASA's Artemis One rocket in late 2021 and a mission in deep space.

BULLDOG DIARIES: GMI's first women students did not arrive in the 1960s as commonly thought. Instead, they arrived years before, when GMI students were predominantly female for a short time.

GMI grad Lori Flees, SVP and COO of Walmart Health and Wellness, discusses Walmart's efforts to extend affordable primary health care to underserved populations, the changing face of health care delivery, and her extraordinary career.

IN THE MIX: Automotive software executive Qasar Younis discusses the future of autonomous vehicles…and how soon our cars will be chauffeering us around!.

BULLDOG DIARIES: A short story about how GMI President Dusty Rodes procured the land and expanded GMI with the Campus Center, parking deck and dorm during the 1960s

BULLDOG DIARIES: During the famous UAW strike of 1936-37, two GMI students snuck into the plant the strikers had occupied and got themselves in a world of trouble. In this episode, we reveal the students and the story behind their incursion into one of the most important strikes in U.S. labor history.

IN THE MIX: Sam Wells, senior global director sales at Inteva Products, has devoted his life to helping hundreds of young men achieve their potential in life, starting with academics and continuing into their careers. Making a difference is a story of the effect one person can have on his other people and his community.

IN THE MIX: Robotics Outreach Manager Kim Shumaker discusses the University’s extensive program, how it uniquely prepares high schoolers for college and Co-ops, and her quest to bring the nation’s top students to Kettering.

Dr. Ken McLeod of Binghamton University shares a plan for energy efficient, high speed, ground transportation techncology called Terraplane

BULLDOG DIARIES: Historian and author Tim Troupe Noonan relates the little-known story of the vital role Major Al Sobey's wife, Bess Penoyar Sobey, who was also an educator, played in shaping the early General Motors Institute.