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CNSA Learning Center Hours

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Epsilon Pi Tau, in conjunction with the CNSA program and the School of Technology, is pleased to announce the Spring Semester 2012 hours for the CNSA Learning Center.

Tuesday evenings — 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.

Wednesday evenings — 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.

Thursday evenings — 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.

The CNSA Learning Center coaches will be available in EERC 328 during the times listed above.  For further information, contact Evan Hendrick at erhendri@mtu.

Upper Peninsula Road Builders’ Scholarship Fund Announces Scholarship Recipients

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Detour, Road Closed SignThe Upper Peninsula Road Builders’ (UPRB) Scholarship Fund Committee has announced the recipients of scholarships for the 2011-2012 academic year. Scholarships are provided annually to students demonstrating the dedication and desire to complete their studies and receive a degree in Civil Engineering or Surveying Engineering from Michigan Technological University.

These scholarships are presented to undergraduate survey students who are in their second to fifth year of study and enrolled at Michigan Tech in the bachelor’s degree program for Civil Engineering or Surveying Engineering. Michigan Tech scholarship recipients are Ethan Richmond (Eben Junction) and Mark Jakubik (Whittemore).

“This year the scholarship committee received thirty applications and is able to provide 12 scholarships,” UPRB Scholarship Fund President Kevin Harju said. “We are excited to see so many bright and talented young people seeking a career in civil engineering and are honored to support their educational development.”

Since 1956, the Upper Peninsula Road Builders’ Memorial Scholarship Fund has encouraged men and women to study civil and environmental engineering, acquiring the tools necessary to pursue careers in Michigan’s construction industry and beyond. Unlike most undergraduate scholarship programs that support students in a four year course of study, the UPRB scholarships are intended to support fifth year civil engineering students who often do not qualify for scholarship aid to finish their studies.

“The young people receiving scholarships exemplify the work ethic and commitment of students at Michigan Tech in pursuit of their education and goals,” Harju said. “We congratulate them on their scholarship.”

The Upper Peninsula Road Builders’ Scholarship Fund is funded by private donations from the men and women who work in Michigan’s road building industry. Those wishing to help the fund sponsor future scholarships are encouraged to send contributions to the Upper Peninsula Road Builders’ Memorial Scholarship Fund, Box 239, Hancock, MI 49930.

School of Technology Works to Upgrade College Curricula with Enhanced Digital Design

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As part of a $269,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, two faculty in the School of Technology (SOT) are embarked on an effort to bring academia abreast of industry.

The principles involved are Associate Professor Nasser Alaraje, who is chair of the electrical engineering technology program, and Assistant Professor Aleksandr Sergeyev. The two just conducted an intensive, two-day workshop on Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).

Representatives from seven institutions in six states (Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Georgia) engaged in the hands-on learning experience, working with both the software and the hardware. read more »

School of Technology Begins New Minor

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Fanuc RobotA new minor in data acquisition and industrial control begins this semester in the School of Technology.

The focus: an understanding of the electrical and electronic systems that control modern industrial processes.

“Engineers need this experience,” said Dean Jim Frendewey, “and it will help them and us.”

Associate Professor Nasser Alaraje, chair of the School’s electrical engineering technology program, put together the new minor. He said, “It’s a valuable skill that is highly marketable, highly respected, and highly desired by industry. There is great interest.”

The minor addresses gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data as a component of designing and conducting experiments and industrial functions.

Alaraje said the capability is ideal for engineers of every discipline being offered on campus. “It’s the basis for collaboration on multidisciplinary projects, because most real-world work involves several disciplines.” The specialty, he added, brings together electrical systems, computing, sensing hardware, data acquisition software and control systems.

The minor, the first in the School, entails 16 credits. All of the required and elective courses are already being taught on a regular basis by existing faculty.

Raising Tech’s Flag in the Kandahar

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Mechanical Engineering Technology alumnus, Lt. Joe Ruohonen ’09, raises the Michigan Tech flag while out on patrol with his team in the Kandahar district in Afghanistan. Lt. Ruohonen is based out of Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska, with the field artillery division.

School of Technology Hosts Alfred Stubbings, Maltese Restoration Contractor

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The School of Technology is hosting Alfred Stubbings, a restoration contractor from Malta, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 31, in Dow 642. Stubbings, with 20 years of experience, will discuss his past restoration projects, the oldest dating back to Neolithic times (3,500 BC).

Stubbings will illustrate process, bidding procedures, funding, management, and relationships among clients and expert collaborators who represent various disciplines. In this context, he will talk specifically about four projects:

  • Fort Angelo: a huge fortification of medieval origins at the mouth of Malta’s Grand Harbor.
  • Palazzo La Salle: an original palazzo that dates to the origins of Valletta, built by the Knights of St. John in the sixteenth century. It is now used as a school of arts.
  • St. Peter’s Monastery in the old city of Mdina: a pre-medieval building that was first used as a hospital and in 1418 became a nun’s cloister.
  • Restoration of a 300-year-old house of character transformed to a modern private residence.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

School of Technology Offers First Graduate Program

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The School of Technology is undergoing a transformation. Established in 1972, at the outset it offered training certificates; then two-year associate’s degrees; then bachelor’s degrees; and now comes its first graduate program–a master’s in integrated geospatial technology.

Dean Jim Frendewey says of the program, which was approved by the State Thursday, “It fits in with what we are about and what we do.” He adds that this blend of theory, technology, and application is “a natural evolution.”

Simply put, geospatial means information linked to location. Global sustainable development depends on the availability and reliability of data about natural and built features and locations–rivers and towns, mountains and pipelines. This information can be used to plan the built environment or to respond to natural disasters; for instance, locating a cell phone tower, or, after an earthquake, comparing damage information and population information to help deliver emergency services and pinpoint zones of refuge. read more »

New BSE Emphasis: Geospatial Engineering

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Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE)—Geospatial Engineering

The Geospatial Engineering pathway was defined to study geospatial concepts that include measurements, modeling, data collection and acquisition techniques, maps and mapping technologies, data and metadata formats, and visualization. The approved plan reflects state-of-the-art geospatial research and technologies, and it includes courses from Surveying Engineering (School of Technology), Computer Science, Physics, and Business.

As a geospatial engineer, you will combine the use of spatial information software and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic data to create 3D maps, employing Earth observation systems, global navigation satellite systems, laser and radar imaging sensors, wireless technologies, and more.

Contact Jim Loman (jcloman@mtu.edu or 487-2259, School of Technology advisor, for more information.

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