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2011 Undergraduate Expo will be Thursday, April 14, 2011
Review of Undergraduate Expo 2010

Undergraduate Expo: Two Student Teams Work on Shotgun Shooting Sports
Wood Boiler, Medical Measuring Device, Biochemical Breakthrough: 2010 Undergraduate Expo Winners Named
From Puerto Rico to the UP, With Underwater Robots and New Socks
Michigan Tech Seniors Build an Air-Powered Moped
Tech's Best Undergraduate Research on Display at Expo Today
OpensAll Tackles Jars and Cans with Ease
See Videos of 2010 Expo

Graduate Student Government Research Colloquium

Graduate Student Government Research Colloquium Poster and Presentation Competition and Awards

Biomed Students win Biotechnology Research Center Student Research Forum Awards


World Water Day Center for Water and Society World Water Day Poster Competition Awards
World Water Day events at Michigan Tech are spearheaded by the Center for Water and Society, a group of more than 80 faculty members, staff and students involved in research and education on water issues.

Sustainable Futures Institute Poster Session Sustainable Futures Institute Poster Session and Awards
Graduate student projects connected with the Sustainable Futures Institute were presented and the annual banquet and awards was held.

Michigan Tech Graduate Student, Sinan Abood, a PhD student in environmental engineering, has won a Spot in International Satellite Imaging Competition

Aerospace Team Wins First Place Michigan Tech Aerospace Enterprise wins first place in AFRL Nanosat 6 Competition
The Michigan Tech Oculus-ASR vehicle designed and built by undergraduate students of the Aerospace Enterprise Team has won first place in national competition.

2010 Snowmobile Handling test SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge on March 7-12, 2011. The ME-EM Department, along with the Keweenaw Research Center, hosted the event. See KRC link for sponsorship, schedule of events and other information.
Clarkson Claims Top Spot in Clean Snowmobile Challenge
• Clean Snowmobile Challenge Video Player at Michigan Tech ME-EM Page
Three Sleds Complete Clean Snowmobile Challenge Endurance Run


Michigan Tech’s 2007 Winter Baja Competition Winter Baja at Michigan Tech, February 19, 2011:
Michigan Tech’s 2011 Winter Baja Competition was held on Saturday February 20, 2010 at Lake Linden Community Park in Lake Linden MI. The event is an informal, but competitive Mini-Baja race held on a motocross-style track made out of snow!
See videos and photos of the February 20, 2011 Winter Baja.


2010 Canoe Concrete Canoe Team Among the Top Five in the Nation
Michigan Tech's Concrete Canoe team placed in the top five at the National Concrete Canoe Competition (NCCC) in San Luis Obispo, Calif., which was held this past summer.  See the Fall 2010 Newsletter
Michigan Tech News story

2 Michigan Tech ASCE Steel Bridge Team provides outreach to local 4th graders teaching them about civil engineering, construction, and bridges.  During the workshop, students were challenged to assemble the team’s competitive steel bridge while focusing on construction safety.
Team’s Webpage: http://www.cee.mtu.edu/asce/steel_bridge/index.htm

Jasmin A Semester at Sea Includes a Camel Ride in the Sahara
“I didn’t know what to expect,” says Francisco, a third-year biomedical engineering major from Chicago. “They said it would be a life-changing experience. And it really was.”

Cross Cultural Engineering

Engineering a better life for the World's Poorest 80%: D80 Conference for 2010
The D80 Conference provided a platform for university students serving communities-in-need both domestically and abroad. The conferences highlight service and research work done by students from Michigan Tech and elsewhere, and are open to anybody interested in development, design, and delight for the poorest 80% of humanity.


Tech Team Wins National Honorable Mention for Improved Pit Toilet
We tend to take flush toilets for granted. We see them in our homes, our schools, our workplaces and our entertainment sites, and one is rarely far away when we need it. Water-guzzling flush toilets have without a doubt improved sanitation for us in the United States. However, the humble pit latrine could be an important piece in the puzzle of improving sanitation worldwide

Tech Concrete Canoe Team

Canoe Team Take 4th in Nation
Michigan Tech Concrete Canoe Team triumphantly returned to the National Concrete Canoe Competition in San Luis Obispo, California and earned an impressive 4th place out of the 22 qualifying teams.
Previously, Tech Concrete Canoe Team Floats to the Top in Regional Contest


Undergraduate Expo April 15: Undergraduate Expo 2010
From Puerto Rico to the UP, With Underwater Robots and New Socks
Michigan Tech Seniors Build an Air-Powered Moped
Tech's Best Undergraduate Research on Display at Expo Today
Grass Shows Promise for Removing Antibiotics from Water
Looking at student sleep (and stress and exercise) patterns
OpensAll Tackles Jars and Cans with Ease

  Four Michigan Tech Graduate Students Showcase Their Research in Lansing
They are participating in an observance of Graduate Education Week this week in Michigan, meeting with their hometown legislators and displaying posters about their research in the west and south first-floor corridors of the Capitol

  Engineering Students Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Kaitlyn (Reed) Bunker (Electrical Engineering), Nicole Colasacco-Thumm (Geosciences/Climate Dynamics), Jared Cregg (Biomedical Engineering), Ashley Thode (Civil Engineering), Eli Vlaisavljevich (Bioengineering), and Samantha Wojda (Biomedical Engineering) all won National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

Team 25
Pulling their way for others
The team of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics seniors at Michigan Tech developed a Human-Powered Off-Road Wheelchair prototype that was created through the mechanical engineering senior capstone course. The 8-speed vehicle is easy to maneuver by pulling back on the handlebars and can reach speeds up to 4 mph, roughly equal to a slow jog, although the speeds are “user dependent.”

2010 Snowmobile Handling test

SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge on March 15-20, 2010. The ME-EM Department, along with the Keweenaw Research Center, hosted the event. See KRC link for sponsorship, schedule of events and other information.
• Clean Snowmobile Challenge Video Player at Michigan Tech ME-EM Page

• Final Results: Madison Sweeps Clean Snowmobile Challenge, Tech Nabs a Silver
• Three Sleds Complete Clean Snowmobile Challenge Endurance Run
More MPGs on the Trail: Fuel Economy the Focus of Clean Snowmobile Challenge Twenty-ten
2010 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge at Michigan Tech (KRC)
Coke Gives $10,000 to Clean Snowmobile Challenge
• Banquet Video


Award Winning Video: Michigan Tech Formula SAE

Michigan Tech's SAE Racing Wins Video Contest
Award Winning Video: Michigan Tech Formula SAE wins the "This is our SAE" video contest! The winning video can be seen above (Youtube Video Link)

2008: Michigan Tech Formula Car SAE Team at Michigan International Speedway
See the results for 2008 and photos or view the Michigan Tech Formula SAE website for more details and photos


  Chemical Engineering Grads Excel in National Design Competition
Two May 2009 Michigan Tech chemical engineering graduates were among the best in the US this year in AIChE’s National Student Design Competition in the individual category. Terry Mazure and John Krystof placed second and third, respectively, for their solutions to a large-scale chemical engineering design problem

Michigan Tech’s 2007 Winter Baja Competition

Winter Baja at Michigan Tech, February 20, 2010:
Michigan Tech’s 2010 Winter Baja Competition was held on Saturday February 20, 2010 at Lake Linden Community Park in Lake Linden MI. The event is an informal, but competitive Mini-Baja race held on a motocross-style track made out of snow!
See videos and photos of the February 20, 2010 Winter Baja.


View the Video

Safer Helmet, Safer Head: Michigan Tech Team Takes its Award-winning Invention to San Francisco Inventors Expo

Enhanced Bio-Morphological Helmet
Michigan Tech researchers have designed an improved helmet better able to withstand indirect impacts. The video can be viewed at the Inventor's Digest Magazine website View the Video. The contest is sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance.


Michigan Tech's Society of African and American Men Michigan Tech's Society of African and American Men, SAAM, hosted Men's Week 2009, with a weeklong series of professional development programs.

Michigan Tech EcoCAR Michigan Tech EcoCAR Team Hits the Road
Teams participating in EcoCar, The NeXt Challenge, aim to reengineer their Vues to reduce fuel consumption and emissions while retaining the vehicle’s performance and customer appeal.

Oak Ridge Vacationing with Nuclear Reactors
Amanda Taylor, a sophomore in chemical engineering from Romeo, Mich., interned at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), in Oak Ridge, Tenn., for ten weeks during the summer semester

Michigan Tech Students Meet President Obama in Ghana Michigan Tech Students Meet President Obama in Ghana
Eight students from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies’ Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership at Michigan Technological University are in Ghana this summer working on community development projects.

Michigan Tech Baja team Baja Team Wins Award for most combined points in all three Baja SAE events
For the first time in school history Michigan Tech has won the Mike Schmidt Memorial Iron Team Award in the SAE International Collegiate Design Series Baja Competition. The Iron Team title is awarded to the team with the most combined points after all three North American Baja SAE events.

Students Break 1,000 mpg in SAE Supermileage Competition Students Break 1,000 mpg in SAE Supermileage Competition
Michigan Tech's team surprised everyone last weekend by wringing a whopping 1,140 miles per gallon out of their low, sleek, custom-made vehicle in the 2009 SAE Supermileage competition.
The effort was enough to earn them a silver in the 25-team field in just their second year at the event, held June 4-5 at the Eaton Corporation Marshall Proving Grounds, in Lower Michigan.
Supermileage Enterprise team Website


2009 Undergraduate Expo

2009 Undergraduate Expo highlights student research, enterprise teams and senior design projects with the Award Winners and Video Clips

 


Blue Marble and the Business of Engineering Blue Marble and the Business of Engineering
Blue Marble is one of numerous Enterprise teams thriving on campus in which students find industry sponsors, solve problems, and learn many important business practices in addition to some intense engineering

Graduate Student Council-sponsored Research Poster Graduate Student Council-sponsored Research Poster Presentation and Research Colloquium Competition Rozsa Center

Green Campus Green Campus Enterprise Working to Lighten University's Carbon Footprint
During spring semester, the Green Campus Enterprise conducted a three-pronged effort aimed at cutting the University's generation of greenhouse gases.

Students named to the 2009 National Ski Coaches Association National All-Academic Ski Team
Michigan Tech had 14 skiers named to the 2009 National Ski Coaches Association National All-Academic Ski Team. To be eligible, skiers had to have a 3.5 GPA for the Fall semester and have participated in the NCAA Central Regional Skiing Championships. “This is a great honor for these student-athletes,” said head coach Joe Haggenmiller. “They work hard both in the classroom and in competition and this award recognizes their hard work.”

2008 Snowmobile Handling test

1. 2009 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge at Michigan Tech ME-EM Page
2. Michigan Tech Takes a Silver in Clean Snowmobile Challenge
3. Forest Service Official: Clean Snowmobile Challenge Helps Sustain the Natural World
4. Wisconsin Madison Sweeps Clean Snowmobile Challenge
5. 2009 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge March 16-21, 2009 at the Keweenaw Research Center


Advanced Motorsports Enterprise: Creating the future of the vehicle & mobility industry
Global challenges are driving fundamental changes in transportation.
Interdisciplinary teams of Michigan Tech students are hard at work developing solutions to these challenges. The Enterprise program embraces an active, discovery-based learning model--where faculty and industry serve as coaches and mentors, and students develop the broad knowledge and skill bases needed to succeed in today's ever-changing environment. Industry involvement is critical to the success of Enterprise. Support of Michigan Tech's four Advanced Motorsports Enterprise teams offers enhanced access to tomorrow's engineers and leaders, increased visibility of sponsoring companies, and perhaps most importantly the opportunity to actively shape the future of engineering education. Advanced Motorsports Enterprise Brochure


Sustainable Futures Institute Sustainable Futures Institute
Sustainability Research Projects Poster Session Contest Winners


2009 Winter Baja Competition The 2009 Winter Baja Competition February 14th in Lake Linden, Michigan 2009 Winter Baja Competition photos and video in Lake Linden, Michigan

Undergrad research

2009 Undergraduate Expo highlights student research, enterprise teams and senior design projects with the Award Winners and Video Clips

2008 Undergraduate Expo



Kenneth Brooks (MSE

Kenneth Brooks (MSE) won a $25,000 metallurgy scholarship awarded by the Ellwood Group, Inc

Daily Mining Gazette story.


Aero Design Team wins first place
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Michigan Tech Aero Design Team soared to first place in Society of Automotive Engineers’ Aero Design East Contest held May 4-6 in Ft. Worth, Texas They won a third-place finish in the SAE Aero Design West, held in March in Van Nuys, Calif. More Aero Design Team Photos

Michigan Tech wins

Michigan Tech wins 8th place in 21st Annual ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition at Montreal, Canada at the Montreal’s Olympic Basin 2008


Aqua Terra Tech Nicaragua

ATT-NSF

Aqua Terra Tech Enterprise won the national Haested Methods award, beating out teams from the country’s best universities and research organizations. Now they have an impressive project in Nicaragua. See the news story here

Now Aqua Terra Tech is Featured at NSF News


EWB Engineers Without Borders Michigan Tech is off to great start. The Michigan Tech chapter won the EWB National Award for Chapter Development

ECE Senior Design Michigan Tech's ECE Senior Design Teams and Blue Marble Enterprise Program Featured in the Bechtel Globe

See the article here


Heather_Wright

Heather Wright was awarded first place in the 2006 Student
Design Competition at the 30th Pan American Conference of Engineers

Michigan Tech Research Magazine


International Design Civil, Environmental Student Design Projects in Bolivia
CH2M-Hill story
MTU Alumni story

Senior Design CEE

Michigan Tech C&EE Senior Design Teams Earn National Attention

Story & photos


IT Oxygen ITOxygen Enterprise wins $1.2 million grant News Story provides details (PDF)

2006 Snowmobile Handling test

2008 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge at Michigan Tech ME-EM Page


Aerospace
Huskysat image

Aerospace Enterprise Wins Bronze at Nanosat 3. See News story here.
Photos from Aerospace Team members trip to conduct experiments in reduced gravity, Photo Gallery


International Night

Talent Shows at Michigan Tech!!

The global talent of our students at Michigan Tech really does show! These are shows that are organized, engineered and put on the stage by student performers!


Barros
Michigan Tech MEEM student Sam Barros participated in The Learning Channel (TLC)'s Junkyard Wars TV show January 20th: Find out more in Marcia Goodrich's story here.


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