About
At our first annual Expo, students from Maryland Engineering’s civil and environmental, aerospace, mechanical, and bioengineering programs will showcase solutions to some of society’s most pressing challenges. Their solutions will be judged by experts in their respective fields with winners receiving cash prizes.
Our Capstone Expo is an expansion of individual departments' Annual Design Day, where teams of students present project prototypes built to solve selected engineering problems.
The Capstone Design Expo is sponsored by the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company.
Meet Our Emcee
Mike Tinskey, Professor of the Practice
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mike is a co-founder of Cobra Motorcycles, as well as a drone start-up Cobra Aero.
Mike recently led Ford Motor Company’s emerging business activities as Director of Global Emerging Services, Connected Vehicles. His focus was to develop and implement new products, business models, and partnerships to ensure success of Ford’s connectivity plans globally, including the generation of new revenue opportunities. He also led the creation of several new entities including: Ford Insure (digital insurance), Ionity (ultra-fast charging joint venture), and Ford Commercial Services (digital fleet services). He’s also been one of the key leaders in spinning off technology-based component companies like Visteon and Automotive Components Holdings (ACH).
Mike spearheaded the go-to-market strategy and execution for Ford electrified vehicles globally. Developed and executed foundational global product cycle plan and incubated new businesses and services to support the plug-in products such as Mustang Mach-e, Focus EV, Fusion Energi, and Transit Connect Electric.