Alec Fisher Scholarship, for junior or senior students studying Environmental Engineering or Management Information Systems.
The Bernard F. Gaffney Memorial Scholarship, for local Houghton High School graduates (current or past graduates) could also be awarded to a current MTU student.
Deadline: April 1, 2022
On Wednesday, Feb 23, stop by Fisher 129 at 5 pm to build spaghetti towers with the Built World Enterprise and the CEGE Student Success Coaches. Test your engineering skills on who can build the tallest spaghetti and marshmallow skyscraper with this fun activity.
GEI was late in getting registered for today’s Virtual Career Fair. They still have multiple time slots open for several different disciplines.
Pavlis Honors College (PHC) is accepting applications to the Undergraduate Research Internship Program (URIP) for the 2022-2023 academic year. The internship program will run from September 2022 through mid-March 2023 and is open to any undergraduate student on campus with an identified faculty research mentor. Faculty and students who are already working together are welcome to apply.
PHC will provide $800 in funding for the student intern, with the expectation that faculty will provide equivalent matching funds to be dispensed concurrently, resulting in a total of $1,600 paid at a rate of $10/hour over the course of the internship. Faculty may make use of research funds, IRAD, startup packages or consult their chairs, deans or center/institute management to identify the source of their match.
Details regarding the application process can be found on the Pavlis Honors College website.
The deadline to submit applications is 5 p.m. Friday, March 25. Faculty need to supply a letter of support as part of the application package. If you have questions about the submission process, please email urip@mtu.edu.
The Undergraduate Research Internship Program is made possible with the support PHC and by generous donations from the Portage Health Foundation and the DeVlieg Foundation.
MTU American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is hosting Allied Construction on Monday, February 21st at 5:45 pm.
Allied is looking to hire MTU students for summer internships and would like to speak to anyone who is interested. They are providing pizza and drinks at the meeting for those who come! An estimated number of students is greatly appreciated so please accept the google calendar invite if attending.
Finland leads the world in the UN sustainable development ranking! Here is your chance to go to Finland and experience why and especially how Finland is so sustainable.
On February 16th at 4:00 pm, there will be an info session for the summer 2022 Finland faculty-led study abroad program. The session will take place in room 144 in the Forestry Building. See attached flyer for more details. Questions can be directed to the faculty leader, Mark Rudnicki mrudnick@mtu.edu.
Thursday, February 17, 2:00-3:00pm, Van Pelt Library 244
Not sure if your news is fake? Not even sure what that means anymore? Join us to talk through some lateral reading strategies that can be helpful when evaluating your sources. This workshop will feature discussion and hands-on exploration of real-life examples.
Refreshments will be provided. Register to attend here: Bad Info: Search Like a Fact Checker workshop
CP is hiring (3) engineering summer interns to work in our asset management group out of our Bensenville, Illinois office. The posting can be found here. CP will be available virtually at the career fair on February 16th as well.
The Social Science department will be offering a new course this summer that helps to satisfy elective requirements for the Humanitarian Engineering minor and may be of interest to students in your programs. SS3105-Native American and Indigenous Communities will be offered during Track A in a hybrid format M-R 12:30-1:35 in AOB 201.
The World Water Day (WWD) Committee asks you to keep in mind that 2022 World Water Day will be virtually celebrated at Michigan Tech from March 17-22 (the events are being planned now). WWD has been celebrated annually at Michigan Tech since 2007. World Water Day events will again include a student Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition instead of a poster competition, because it is a better fit for our virtual format. KBIC Tribal Water Day and Michigan Tech World Water Day speakers will present on March 22nd. There will be an art show, and other virtual student engagement activities. World Water Day is sponsored worldwide by the United Nations—this year’s theme is “Groundwater – Making the invisible visible”
The student 3MT competition has two categories: (1) original student research; and (2) course-based research. There will be student cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for both categories!
Here is the link to the Google Form students should use to register for the competition. Students must register by Friday, March 4th. Once registered, the WWD Committee will send a second form to which registered students can submit their video and supporting materials, which will be due the week prior to World Water Day (Friday, March 18). Attached to this note is a link to Michigan Tech’s 2020 winning 3MT presentation by Jordan Ewing. This is a great opportunity for students to enhance their skills in presenting and communicating research and coursework to a lay audience, and also an effective way to motivate students to do their best work! If you have any questions, please direct them to Robert Handler (rhandler@mtu.edu).
