Starting Sept. 7, KDS will offer order-ahead service for meal exchange, along with BJ Bucks or Kettering Cash.
Download the Bite app via Google Play or Apple App Store, connect to your card and you’re ready to go.
If you have any questions, email catering@kettering.edu.
The IT August Newsletter is now available. This month’s edition covers the following topics:
To view the newsletter, click here.
If you have any questions or concerns, contact the Technology Help Desk at HelpDesk@kettering.edu or (810) 237-8324.
Kettering alumni, Scott Haney (’18) and Jackie Wilson (’20) will give a presentation on Functional Safety from 12:20 to 1:20 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 9, in AB 1817.
Haney and Wilson both currently work at FEV, an independent international service provider of vehicle and powertrain development for hardware and software. FEV is based in Germany, but has locations around the world, including Auburn Hills.
Food will be provided at the event.
To RSVP for the event, click here. Please RSVP by Monday, Sept. 6.
What: Functional Safety Presentation
Who: Scott Haney (’18) and Jackie Wilson (’20)
When: 12:20-1:20 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 9
Where: AB 1817
Check Bulldog Weekly for more info.
Schaeffler Group is hiring more than 25 Engineering Co-op positions. The Co-op office is hosting Schaeffler Virtual Information Session at 12:30 p.m., next Wednesday, Sept. 8.
Schaeffler Group North America is responsible for the engineering production, sales and marketing for the INA, LuK, FAG and Barden brands throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. All four brands provide high-performance, precision technologies for the Automotive OEM, Industrial OEM and distribution markets, as well as the aerospace industry.
To see current Engineering Co-op job postings, click here. Search “Co-op” in the Keyword or Job Title. Corporate housing is available to those who qualify.
RSVP for this event in Kettering Connect. A Zoom meeting link will be provided the day before the event to anyone who registered.
For questions, contact Nathan Kober at nkober@kettering.edu or the Co-op team at co-opmanagers@kettering.edu.
What: Schaeffler Virtual Information Session
When: 12:30 p.m., next Wednesday, Sept. 8
Who: Schaeffler Group North America is responsible for the engineering production, sales and marketing for the INA, LuK, FAG and Barden brands throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
RSVP for this event in Kettering Connect.
For questions, contact Nathan Kober at nkober@kettering.edu or the Co-op team at co-opmanagers@kettering.edu.
Kettering Dining Services is conducting two focus groups Sept. 9, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. Both groups will be in the Gold Room on the fourth floor of the Campus Center.
Participants will receive a free lunch from the Sunrise Cafe.
To RSVP, email mark.sandru@sodexo.com and indicate which session you wan to attend.
KDS will be closed this Friday, Sept. 3-6. It will reopen at 7:15 a.m., next Tuesday, Sept. 7.
The following are KDS special events:
Kettering GlobalX is having a Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Workshop from 3 to 5 p.m., Oct. 21-Nov. 18.
The weekly online workshop, which is tailored to women in a variety of leadership roles, is designed to encourage self-reflection while providing the knowledge, techniques and language necessary to overcome obstacles we create for ourselves that prevent us from achieving our leadership best.
Dr. Stacee L. Reicherzer, licensed professional counselor, will be the presenter. She wrote “The Healing Otherness Handbook: Overcome the Trauma of Identity-based Bullying and Find Power in Your Difference.” Reicherzer also is the supervisor of clinical mental health counseling interns at a clinical facility at Southern New Hampshire University.
To register, click here.
For more information, visit globalx.kettering.edu.
The annual Bulldog Pub Crawl and bus tour around downtown Flint will be at 5:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 17. Enjoy delicious appetizers and brews at local establishments. All alumni, students, faculty and staff are welcome.
Your ticket guarantees your spot on the bus, transportation to each stop on the tour, light refreshments and a commemorative pint glass. The ticket price does not include drinks.
Tickets are $10 for students and $20 for alumni, faculty and staff. Meet in the Great Court of the Campus Center at 5:30 p.m. The bus leaves at 6 p.m.
RSVP before this Friday, Sept. 3 to receive a Kettering University Igloo cooler. To RSVP, click here.
Questions? Email alumni@kettering.edu.
CopyThe SAGE Club is hosting a Battle of the Bins recycling contest from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 15 in the main entrance of the Campus Center.
The event is to raise awareness for recycling on campus. The students who collect and bring in the most recyclable materials can win up to $100 in gift cards.
Parents and guardians of incoming B-Section students, the virtual Parent/Guardian SOAR Fall 2021 will be at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 14 or Tuesday, Sept. 21.
Learn more about how to best support your Bulldog as they begin their first term! We’ll discuss classes, program requirements, support resources, housing and more.
To register, click here. The event link will be sent to you 24 hours prior to the event.
Starting Monday, Aug. 30, the tunnel between the Campus Center and Academic building will be closed for renovation work through the end of Summer Term.
During this time, there will be two approved entrances to the Academic Building:
While the primary entrance to the Campus Center will continue to be the southwest ground floor entrance (“pizza doors”), students and employees coming from the AB to the Campus Center will be allowed entry at the main, front entrance.
Hard-hat tours of the Learning Commons are available for additional dates and times. Click on the dates to sign up.
Attention senior students, don’t inadvertently delay your graduation!
If you have an outstanding end-of-work-term evaluation, you have not achieved Co-op credit.
To ensure you are on track to graduate, do the following:
Kettering faculty and staff are invited to attend a New Colleague Reception from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 8, outside of the Campus Center at the grassy area at Chevrolet and University avenues.
Join us to welcome colleagues who joined Kettering during virtual work operations. We are thrilled they are on board and have looked forward to welcoming them to campus.
A light breakfast will be served.
To RSVP, click here.
Will Page (’20, IE) published a paper at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Second International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (IEEE ICHMS), which will be Sept. 8-10 in Magdeburg, Germany.
The hybrid conference (virtual and physical attendance) focuses on state-of-the-art research in Human-Machine Systems, including contributions from academia, industry and management agencies.
The paper, “Advancing Human Adoption of Technology,” will be available in the next edition of IEEE’s Xplore.
Page is now a project manager at Light Guide Systems, an industrial automation company, based in Wixom, MI.
When: 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 31
Where: Room A on the fourth floor of the Campus Center
Who: Chirs Nuccio (’09, ME), Customer Team Director at Brose Group, an automotive supplier of mechatronic systems and drives
A boxed lunch will be provided upon the completion of this event. Seating is limited. RSVP is required and available to the first 25 students.
Check Bulldog Weekly for more info.
Mechanical Engineering Professor Dr. Raghu Echempati has been appointed an honorary faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Guwahati, India.
Echempati received this honor for his work with IIT’s Ph.D. students, speaking at their conferences, giving guest lectures and working on joint research papers. The appointment lasts two years.
There will be no automobile access to and from all campus parking lots, including Campus Village Apartments, from 6:30 a.m. until about noon, Saturday, Aug. 28 because of the Crim Festival of Races road closures.
If you will need to leave during this time, it’s best to park at the Durant-Tuuri-Mott Elementary School, 1518 University Ave., before 6:30 a.m., Aug. 28. Please see the map.
On this day 106 years ago, Charles Kettering was granted the patent for the electric car starter. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Kettering filed the patent on June 15, 1911, but it wasn’t until this day more than four years later in 1915 that he was granted the patent. Here’s Kettering (at right) with Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (at left), former General Motors president who gave the green light for General Motors to take over the Flint Institute of Technology, add to its campus and rename it the General Motors Institute of Technology.
Eta Kappa Nu is hosting study sessions to help students with any Electrical Computer Engineering problems from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 1 and from 5 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 15 in the Sunset Room.
Study snacks and beverages will be available. For more information, contact mais2858@kettering.edu.
The Kettering Student Government is partnering with other student organizations to host the following events for Diversity Week:
The Kettering Student Government and other student organizations will host the following events for Diversity Week:
