Heather A. Kirkvold Engineering Lab at James Madison University

05/06/2019

Congratulations graduates! So great to see my peeps walk...with so many honors too!

05/02/2019

MADE Undergraduate engineering students (juniors) working on a T-1 (Teaching-1) worthy project...Metallography of welded cross sections.

More polishing please!

01/14/2019

The Infrastructure Innovation Research Laboratory at the JMU MADE program is officially operational as a functional concrete lab. We begin 2019 with four students and two faculty.

06/25/2018

Faculty Maker-Training 2018. Many interesting projects starting to take shape in the Fab Lab at Madison Engineering. Wood teel

06/22/2018

Progress!

05/30/2018

Infrastructure Innovation 1029 is up and running for summer 2018!

Madison Gilmore, Engineering student (jr.) at JMU, and Rene Schleich, Mechanical Engineering Masters student from the University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrucken, Germany (htw saar) are tearing it up this summer! Looking forward to big things and lots of concrete from them!

04/09/2018

Enthusiastic and lively students working with hot steel samples at 955 degrees Celsius!

JMU juniors ENGR 314 Engineering Materials Lab are learning about heat treatment processing of steel and the effect on structure and thus properties.

We take safety very seriously and therefore this is hands-off learning (literally!) and not hands-on learning.

03/14/2018

Failure Mode Analysis (FMA) is critical to the engineering design process. Failure to design for failure modes is creating opportunities for us at JMU Engineering!

03/06/2018

American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) SE 2018 Annual Conference, Daytona Beach, FL

Great conference, great collegues, and presenting two papers!

"Developing Future Sustainability-Minded Technical Professionals: A Pilot Course Partnership with USGBC"

"Design, Build, and Program a Thermostat for a Tiny House"

01/12/2018

The Equestrian Safety Vest Capstone team has completed their impact tesing apparatus. This semester they will focus on accumulating baseline data.

11/08/2017

Processing - Properties - Structure. In materials science and engineering if you change one, you change them all.

Dr. Rob Prins and I are building capacity in metallography and heat treatments of steels for the purpose of enriching student learning both in and out of the classroom. We have three students applying to present at the 2018 National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR).

10/25/2017

The American energy infrastructure earned a grade of D+ according to the American Society of Civil Engineers 2017 infrastructure report card. This is why the ACP report is relevant!

ASCE's 2017 Infrastructure Report Card | GPA: D+