04/10/2026
🎓 Andrew Dohm ‘Spring 27
🖥️ Computer Engineering, Minor in Cyber Security
📍 Edwardsburg, MI
✨ Blue Marble President
⚡ “The biggest thing you need here is the willingness to learn new things, the passion and drive to contribute to projects, and the collaborative spirit to work with others on a team.”
🤝 9AM Answer emails - In his role as President of Blue Marble, he oversees six different Vice Presidents, as well as the seven projects currently running, and he creates the itinerary for the E-board meeting.
💻 11AM Intro to Cryptography - With his goal of making the world a safer place on the internet, it is important for him to learn the basics of Cryptography.
🍔 12PM Lunch
💡 1PM Design fundamentals - Andrew works with a small team in class to develop a solution for snow accumulation on roofs in Houghton, and he makes sure that the team is ahead on their deliverables and contributing to the final project design.
🔌 2PM Intro to algorithms - As a Computer Engineer, he takes both Computer Science and Electrical Engineering courses. This class expands his knowledge of the CS world and how he can apply different algorithms to many different situations.
📄 3:15PM Meet with Dr. Archer - This includes looking at the progress of the team, initiatives for renovations in their lab, tracking the allocation of resources, and making sure everything is accounted for. They also talk about a larger component of Enterprise, with a focus on getting students involved. This requires planning numerous events, such as info sessions, Enterprise Day, and Design Expo, all with the goal of recruiting new members.
🎮 4PM Microcontrollers Lab - Andrew is working on soldering and designing a game on a breadboard as a part of his final project, as well as building an LCD to connect into the microcontroller, and creating schematics of how everything should function once hooked up.
💼 6PM Runs the E-board meeting - Being on the E-board is about shaping the organization into what you would like future students to experience. The biggest question for any executive board is how to improve our organization and bring in new members? This meeting involves Dr. Archer (Blue Marble’s advisor) and the six other e-board members. Andrew checks in with them about the team’s objectives and what they would like to see for the future of Blue Marble.
🙋 7PM Company meeting, Andrew presents to the group, congratulates individual accomplishments, conveys information between the company and Blue Marble, and they help each other through problems that either side may have.
💥 8PM Working on homework and/or enterprise project - In partnership with Westwind AI, Andrew is developing a sensor package that can detect unexploded ordinances in Ukraine. He works on building what is called a Software Defined Radio (SDR) that uses Python to tell a computer to emit specific frequencies that attenuate down into the ground and show areas that have a more reflectivity. He also contributes to testing in the lab using these same sensors to find inert medium counterparts.
Last spring, Blue Marble had the task of working on a digitized training manual for the U.S. Navy. This was a long-standing project before Andrew joined Blue Marble, and once he joined and got a team going, they not only turned this vision into a reality, but Andrew and his team also were able to ship it to Virginia to be put into use. This was a unique project because instead of just creating a prototype, their product went directly to use.
Andrew lives for the ability to learn, both inside and outside of the classroom. Enterprise gives students a chance to apply their knowledge and learn new skills. Students learn project management, different design tools, and many other skills that will take them far in their future careers. The biggest thing you need in Enterprise is the willingness to learn new things, the passion and drive to contribute to projects, and the collaborative spirit to work with others on a team. The name of the game is to collaborate to reach the best possible solution. Blue Marble has a good spread of not only electrical and cybersecurity students, but students from all majors who have different outlooks and contributions to the project.
Andrew's advice to incoming freshmen is to get involved, find something that you'd like to do, and just go do it. New students might see joining something as a huge barrier to cross, but it is really not. Enterprise is about getting students to learn and grow, and Enterprise is a great way for students to apply their theoretical knowledge from class. Once you are involved, really get behind the passion and the mission of your team, and it will make the work much more enjoyable. When you look back at your project, you will be proud of what you did as a result of wanting to learn and grow.
▶️ Learn more about the Blue Marble Enterprise: https://bms.enterprise.mtu.edu/
