The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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inside michigan athletics Student-Athlete Of The Month: Men's Swimming Redshirt Junior David Moore When David Moore, now a redshirt solutions to that problem. You can dejunior on the men's swimming and sign a mechanism or a product that diving team, was growing up, he was solves the problem in a new, creative fascinated by his father's woodwork- way. At the same time, you have to be ing habit. wary of limits, like cost and things like He would watch his dad, M. Scott that. It's very interesting." Moore, who played football at Western Michigan, in the shop, and he eventually joined in. "We would make furniture, little wooden puzzles and a lot of stuff," Moore said. "I'll build things for my mom for Christmas, like a jewelry box and other cool things. He was a really big motivation for me to learn hoaw to design and build things. That's where that came from." When he was in high school in Holland, Mich., Moore developed a love for mathematics, too. At Michigan, he has combined those two passions in an area Moore is studying mechanical engineering and of study that seems to be tailor- works on engineering projects with three other made for him: mechanical engi- members of the men's swimming team. photo courtesy neering. michigan athletic media relations "I am really interested in product design," he said. "I enjoy the design Luckily enough, the swimming and aspect. I had an internship last sum- diving team also provided a unique mer, where I was able to gain a few opportunity for a budding engineer. patents. I feel like I have a knack for When they were freshmen, Moore and that area of study, and I'd really like to classmates Connor Jaeger, Sean Ryan continue with it in the industry. and James Ross began working on en"Design and manufacturing courses gineering projects together. are my favorite. That's where you're That first year, they wrote computer given a problem and you can design codes to develop a music synthesizer.