Fourth-year management major (supply chain and operations management concentration) Jackson Pundt is interning with the Canadian National Railway this summer. His classes in the Michigan Tech School of Business and Economics help him add value to the company while navigating corporate culture.
Josephine Amponsem, a master’s student in Applied Natural Resource Economics in the School of Business and Economics at Michigan Tech, is working alongside Emanuel Oliveira, assistant professor of economics, building a socioeconomic database with more than one million observations on factors impacting entrepreneurship. In addition to collating and cleaning data, Amponsem is using Stata, an econometric software for analyzing huge amounts of economic data.
Amponsem is also gaining hands-on experience working with Latika Gupta, assistant professor of economics, collecting and mapping data on energy efficiency in the steel industry. “We ask ourselves what is the data telling us, and how can it be used to make economic decisions,” Amponsem says.
The following Michigan Technological University students successfully completed the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt (CSSYB) examination and are now Certified. Though not a requirement, there were eight students who took the exam, with a 100-percent successful completion. This accomplishment is attributed to the revamping of the Operations and Supply Chain Management Six Sigma Fundamentals course, integrating more science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) content while focusing on behavioral and technical dimensions of quality management, a skill in demand by employers.
Michigan Tech has 17 student-members of ASQ and became an official student branch this spring.
| Name | Major | Hometown |
| Shan Amarmani | Engineering Management | Bacolod City, Philippines |
| Timothy Bart | Engineering Management | Brighton, MI |
| Bruce Brunson Jr. | Biomedical Engineering | Detroit, MI |
| Hailey Huyser | Engineering Management | Mokena, IL |
| Kyle Huyser | Engineering Management | Middleville, MI |
| Ryan Larson | Engineering Management | Grand Rapids, MI |
| Gabriela Mayorga | Engineering Management | Grand Rapids, MI |
| Keaton Thames | Engineering Management | Highland Ranch, CO |
Get to know Mari Buche, associate dean of the Michigan Tech School of Business and Economics and professor of Management Information Systems
