2011 Team Projects

The Tauber Institute was pleased to engage in thirty-three team project sponsored by top global firms during the summer of 2011. New company sponsors included Boral Limited, General Mills, Meritor, OfficeMax, PepsiCo, and SPX.

Each two- to four-person project team is made up of engineering, MBA, and/or MSCM students. Along with receiving high-level corporate support from the company, each team is advised by a College of Engineering and a Ross School of Business faculty member and overseen by a Tauber Institute Co-Director. The projects officially are under way on-site on May 9, 2011 and continue for 14 weeks, through August 12. Executive summaries of team projects will be available in September.

Alcoa, Whitehall Planning - Whitehall, MI 
Alcoa, Whitehall/Texas - Whitehall, MI
The Boeing Company, Environment - Renton, WA  
The Boeing Company, Fasteners - Everett, WA 
The Boeing Company, Test - Seattle, WA 
Boral Limited - Charlotte, NC
BorgWarner, Drivetrain - Auburn Hills, MI
BorgWarner, Emissions - Vigo, Spain & Valenca, Portugal 
BorgWarner, Thermal - Cadillac, MI
BorgWarner, Turbo - Kirchheimbolanden, Hungary
Cardinal Health - Chicago, IL
Cisco Systems - San Jose, CA  
Dell - Austin, Texas
The Dow Chemical Company- Midland, MI
Exide Technologies - Fort Smith, AR  
Federal-Mogul - Southfield, MI
Ford Motor Company, Body - Dearborn, MI
Ford Motor Company, Paint - Dearborn,MI
General Mills - Minneapolis, MN
General Motors - Warren, MI
Grainger - Lake Forest, IL
Masco Corporation - Adrian, MI
Meritor - Troy, MI
Microsoft Corporation - Redmond, WA
National Grid - Waltham, MA
OfficeMax - Chicago, IL
PepsiCo - Chicago, IL
Pfizer - Groton, CT
Raytheon Company - El Segundo, CA
SPX - Raymond, ME
UPS - Atlanta, GA
Whirlpool, Applicances - Marion, OH
Whirlpool, DTC - Benton Harbor, MI

Convening back in Ann Arbor, students will present their results of their projects and compete for over $40,000 in scholarship monies at the Tauber Institute's annual Spotlight! event, held on September 16, 2011 at the Ross School of Business.

Spotlight! 2010 Recap

For more information about Tauber Team Projects, please contact Amy Bellas, P.E., at (734) 647-2220 or woodliff@umich.edu.