Orgs and Teams

College of Engineering Student Organizations Website

Talk to a Human: mariahmo@umich.edu | (734) 615-5728

Semesters Offered/Recommended: Year Round

Financial: No Extra Fees

University of Michigan Engineering supports 135+ engineering affiliated student organizations. These organizations provide an amazing opportunity to advance your leadership, team development, technical skills and engineering knowledge through a wide-variety of hands-on activities, outreach events, and professional development events – all while strengthening your community of peers.

Looking for something to complement your student organizations experience? Consider one or more of these:

• Wilson Student Team Project Center
• International Programs In Engineering
• Center for Social Engaged Design
• Petrovich Emerging Leaders Experience
• Engineering Career Resource Center

If student organizations aren’t quite your style, one of these opportunities may be a better fit.

• Multidisciplinary Design Program
• Center for Entrepreneurship
• Women in Science and Engineering

Experiential education through student organizations can give you great resumé points and memorable interview material.

Most projects provide the opportunity to:  

• Develop leadership skills through leading committees, events, or the organization itself
• Enhance hands-on engineering skills through building your own engineering projects
• Improve problem-solving skills by handling challenges set forth from competition projects
• Develop real-world engineering solutions by designing new processes and working in large and complex groups
• Increase mentoring/mentee skills through working with more inexperienced members, STEM outreach events with community youth, and networking with alumni

Wilson Student Team Project Center Website

Talk to a human: WilsonCenter@umich.edu | (734) 615-6400

Semesters Offered/Recommended: Year Round

Financial: No Extra Fees

The Wilson Student Team Project Center is a work space to exercise practical application of engineering knowledge through hands-on development, fabrication and testing. The Wilson Center facilitates idea sharing, collective learning and opportunities for students to develop leadership, management and presentation skills.

Looking for something to complement your student teams experience? Consider one or more of these:

• Student Organizations
• Multidisciplinary Design Program
• Center for Entrepreneurship

If student teams aren’t quite your style, one of these opportunities may be a better fit.

• Center for Socially Engaged Design
• ArtsEngine 

Taking part in a student team can give you great resumé points and memorable interview material.

Sample Project: Michigan Electric Racing 

• Develop system architecture for tractive system and controls for electric cars
• Design, construct, and test several versions of control and safety circuits for electric race car
• Design compact packaging and high and low voltage circuits and PCBs using EAGLE CAD software

Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Website

Talk to a human: umwise@umich.edu | (734) 467-7014

Semesters Offered/Recommended: Year Round

Financial: No Extra Fees

The WISE unit aims to increase the participation by women and gender minorities in academic programs and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and to foster their future success.

WISE experiential education opportunities can give you great resumé points and memorable interview material.

Sample Project: Girls in Science and Engineering (WISE-GISE)

●      Work as student leaders in on-campus camp

●      Develop and teach hands-on projects in science and engineering

●      Serve as role models for future women in science and engineering