Program Goals To link the technical needs of our community to the technical skills of university mechanical engineering students To provide our community with alternatives for solving their important technical problems To provide hands-on technical experience to mechanical engineering students To instill community service awareness and leadership in engineering students and impart to students that their role and responsibility as engineers is to serve society in all aspects of work and life

How does the ProCEED program benefit the community and the students? Take a look at our benefits. Our program cannot work without your help and contribution, both by submitting projects as well as other resources. Take a look at how little it takes to contribute to this wonderful program and build a better community.

Our mechanical engineering students can provide technical solutions for many diverse segments of the community including, for example: Physically challenged or elderly: assistive devices, increased access to public facilities, barrier-free homes (for example, wheelchair lift for playground equipment) Under-resourced: engineering and manufacturing assistance for minority-owned businesses (for example, automated manufacturing equipment for empowerment zone companies) Environment: waste reduction and recycling methods (for example, machine to sort recycled waste products)

Our Support Department volunteers available to visit your facility to help you shape potential project ideas. Eight hours of classroom instruction each week, as well as counseling to the individual student teams. Machine shops and computer facilities to design and construct physical models Attempt to maintain project continuity beyond a single semester time frame if further technical development is needed to implement the design