Orgs & Teams

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 Socially Engaged Design
• 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

Core Professional Competencies

Experiences in Student Organizations build the professional competencies that employers say they’re looking for, including:

• Leadership: Cultivate an environment that collectively develops a shared purpose and inspires others to work toward it.
• Teamwork: Work to define and achieve shared goals by leveraging individuals with different perspectives, roles, responsibilities, and aptitudes. Learn to overcome conflict and to use it to your team’s advantage to create more robust solutions.
• Ability to Accept and Manage Risk: Learn to critically assess available information, take action despite uncertainty, manage outcomes, and learn from failure as well as from success.

If you’re a Michigan Engineering student, use Spire to find out more about how student orgs can foster your professional growth.

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 

Core Professional Competencies

Student Team Experiences build the professional competencies that employers say they’re looking for, including:

• Ability to Accept and Manage Risk: Evaluate and manage risk through design decisions and actual operations in intercollegiate design competitions or with real world project partners.
• Systems Thinking: Gain experience working on unconstrained, multidisciplinary, collaborative team projects. 
• Teamwork: Work with other team members to design, manufacture, and test complex systems. 

If you’re a Michigan Engineering student, use Spire to find out more about how Student Teams can foster your professional growth. 

Core Professional Competencies

Experiences through Women in Science and Engineering build the professional competencies that employers say they’re looking for, including:

• Empathy: Explore and develop the skills needed to thrive as an engineer in the world as it currently exists and to start creating a more equitable and just world. 
• Grit / Persistence / Resilience: Connect with senior scientists and engineers from diverse backgrounds and learn about the many pathways you can take to achieve STEM success. 
• Leadership: Hone your leadership skills as a peer mentor and/or facilitator of a WISE program.

If you’re a Michigan Engineering student, use Spire to find out more about how WISE can foster your professional growth.