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Congratulations to Matthew Brynick and Maria Kasza, new students in our Tech MBA program. Both are student-athletes who received DII ADA Academic Achievement Awards! See the story from Tech Today:

Tech Student Athletes Honored by D2 Athletics Directors Association
by Wes Frahm, director of athletic communications

The Division II Athletics Directors Association has honored 67 Michigan Tech student-athletes with 2008-09 DII ADA Academic Achievement Awards. The Huskies had the ninth-most award recipients of any Division II institution in the country.

The awards recognize student-athletes with a 3.5 grade point average who have completed two years at their school. A total of 4,041 student-athletes from 116 institutions nationwide earned awards, compared to 2,155 individuals from 67 universities last summer.

Read more at Tech Today.

Nils Stenvig is pursuing an MBA and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering at Michigan Tech. Recently, Nils and Adam Manty, a graduate of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the Outstanding Poster Award for “Reducing Blackout Likelihood via Advances in Tripping, Re-Closing, Load Shedding and System Separation Strategies” in the IREE Section at the National Science Foundation Engineering Education Programs Awardees Conference, held Feb. 1-3 in Reston, Va.

The poster integrated research from projects titled “Transient Analysis of Single Pole Tripping and Re-Closing Strategies on the 300kV Aura-Orkdal Line,” “Transformer Magnetization Measurement Inaccuracies” and “Dynamic VAR Control.”

Nils and Adam are advised by Associate Professor Bruce Mork from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In addition, Nils is advised by Director of Graduate Business Programs Ruth Archer from the School of Business and Economics.

Nils says: “I actually ended up talking quite a bit about our MBA program, tying a bit of energy economics into my research spiel. A lot of people were really impressed with the MTU group. This will now be an annual event, and the business school should consider sending a representative in future years. It was a really interesting and educational experience!”

Congratulations, Nils!