Former GM vice president and Kettering grad Dan Hancock discusses the future of mobility and propulsion from the standpoints of performance, efficiency and environmental impact.

A Kettering University professor, a recent grad, and two students discuss Kettering’s SAGE, or Student Association for Global Engineering, Club, in which students direct and deliver engineering solutions as humanitarian efforts in Michigan and elsewhere. Spoiler Alert: it’s not as simple as it seems!

Mechanical engineering professor Dr. Jennifer Bastiaan, one of Kettering's SAE faculty advisers, and students Braydin Jones and Benjamin Spore, discuss all things SAE

Dan Mantz, CEO of the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation talks about the upcoming 2024 VEX Robotics World Championships, sponsored by REC, the mission of the REC Foundation. their mission to grow STEM and computer science programs around the world and their venture into drones, online virtual reality and other cutting edge technologies.

The Ultimate Mobility Vehicle – a car with legs developed to take anyone safely anywhere – is at the heart of this episode’s discussion with the UMV’s developer, John Suh, founding director of Hyundai’s New Horizon’s Studio. We were joined by Kettering President Dr. Robert K. McMahan to address various related topics like asking the right question and changing assumptions, that arise when engineering on the edge.

Hemanth Tadepalli is a 2023 graduate of Kettering University, where he won the Sobey Scholar Award and the President’s Medal, two of the school’s most prestigious honors. In the most recent Horsepower to Hyperloops episode, we discuss how an undergraduate Co-op program, like Kettering’s, can be a dramatic career jumpstart. We also talk about the critical role of cybersecurity in the coming age of autonomous vehicles.

Hemanth is a cybersecurity compliance engineer at May Mobility, a top autonomous vehicle company in Michigan. In addition to being at the forefront of two cutting edge technologies, he is also pursuing his masters in cybersecurity at UC Berkeley. In his spare time (if you can believe it) he plays the viola in the Troy Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.

Jeffrey Thennisch '90 started his career in corporate law, moved to intellectual property, helped the surviving spouse of a musician regain the royalties from her late husband's music, and now finds himself working on the cutting edge of new musical technologies.

Sheri Hickock '99, CEO of Climate Impact Partners (CIP) in London, is heading up CIP’s efforts to partner with international corporations, governments, non-profits and local organizations on hundreds of sometimes huge projects around the world. These projects are designed to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere by billions of tonnes.

An inspiring story of self-belief, adaptability, an engineer’s ability to solve problems and an unbelievable work ethic spanning two continents reveals a young man's rise from modest circumstances to success in two industries: automotive and wealth management.

The often-overlooked soleus muscle in the calf has been called the “second heart” because it is the muscle that sends blood back up to the heart. System engineer and entrepreneur Dr. Ken McLeod ('77, Electrical Engineering) discusses his invention, the HeartPartner™, which is designed to assist the soleus muscle in its work and hence significantly increase the health of the user.