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“I chose LSSU expecting a very good engineering education. What I didn’t expect was faculty with real-world engineering experience and abilities, labs with real-world equipment, projects with real-world outcomes, and an entire campus staff with real interest in my success, as a student and yet today. My LSSU engineering education has created or supported every desired career opportunity. LSSU was absolutely the right place for me.” Dan Goodrich,
Mechanical Engineering 1999,
Vehicle Test & Development,
Electronic Brake Systems Group |
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Mechanical Engineering
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Faculty and Staff |
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Jon Coullard
Laboratory Engineer
BS 1990, Lake Superior State University
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Jim Devaprasad
Professor, Manufacturing Engineering Technology
Program Chair, Manufacturing Engineering Technology
Director, Robotics Laboratory
Coordinator, Senior Projects
BS 1983, University of Madras, India
MS 1986, University of New Mexico
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Paul Duesing
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Coordinator, Cooperative Education
BSME 1971, MSME 1973, University of Michigan
Licensed professional engineer for Michigan and Ohio
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Robert Hildebrand
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
B.S.E. (ME) 1990, University of Michigan
M.S. (EM) 1994, University of Nebraska
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Muhammad Janjua
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
B.S. 2000, Ghulam Khan Institute of Engineering and Technology
M.S. 2003, City College of New York
Ph.D. 2009, New Jersey Institute of Technology
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David Leach
Engineering Projects Manager
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Sai Nudurupati
Assistant Professor
BS 2003, Chaitanya Bhasathi Institute Of Technology; PhD 2009, New Jersey Institute of Technology
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"I just landed my dream job! I'm moving to Connecticut where I will be designing high-performance racing mountain bike suspensions. My interest in biking is the reason studied mechanical engineering in the first place and I just wanted to let Professor Duesing know that his ability to teach the fundamentals made it possible for me to reach my goal."
--Jesse Jakomait '03
Cannondale Bicycle Corp.
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am thankful for the project management skills I learned from Professor
McDonald and the dedication to detail and quality that Professor Duesing
required from us. I would not be where I am now if it was not for their
valuable influence."
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Stryker,
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Optim- ization of Salmon DNA as an Internal Standard for qPCR
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 Elaina Murray
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The Escherichia coli species is a human fecal contamination indicator and as such is used in beach monitoring efforts. Quantifying E. Coli presence in local beach waters helps the health department determine if a beach should be closed. The current method of determination, Colilert, takes 18 hours to produce data. Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR), which measure genetic DNA, is also method used to quantify the number of E. Coli, but it can be done much faster than Colilert. In order to standardize the qPCR results, an internal standard is included which is salmon DNA. This project goes through the process of optimizing the salmon standard curve. Each of the components was modified and the resulting standard curve was analyzed for improvements; the primers and probe were purchased new and the concentrations were varied, the DNA was purchased new and the standard curve concentrations and dilution methods were varied, the DNA was cleaned with a Qiagen kit, and new master mix and bovine serum albumin were purchased and prepared. We found that changes to the concentrations of primers and probe and cleaning the DNA showed an increase of optimization, and that changing the dilution methods had no effect of optimization. A combination of the above modifications may be able to produce an optimized salmon DNA standard curve.
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