Adventure is calling, HOWL back! Take advantage of the three-day virtual study abroad fair to meet with study abroad professionals to learn about your options, and start planning your study abroad adventure! The virtual fair will take place September 13th – 15th. All sessions will be recorded and posted to the Michigan Tech study abroad YouTube channel.
Please find the attached flyer for the event the SSC is hosting next week Wednesday, September 15, 5-6pm. We encourage you all to come to this event!
On September 15 from 5pm to 6pm, the CEGE SSC will be hosting an event on how to talk to company recruiters. Some civil and environmental engineering companies have agreed to provide information. This is a great way to prepare for the career fair and meet people. If interested, please RSVP by September 10.
Be on the lookout for future monthly activities.
The CEGE SSC (Student Success Center) is excited to announce some exciting new events! This September we will be organizing a hike to Hungarian Falls with CEGE students planned for the 18th. Please fill out the attached form by September 10th if interested.
Sincerely, The CEGE SSC
The Michigan Tech Engineering Ambassadors is currently looking for new members!
Our mission is that through communication and leadership, we strive to become well-rounded engineers by motivating the next generation to improve our world. As part of our program, you will get to:
· Create and present your own STEM topic to a real audience!
· Conduct hands-on activities to reinforce your topic principles!
· Excite and inspire middle and high school students to pursue STEM careers!
· Improve your resume with this outreach experience!
Find out more about us at our INFORMATION SESSION on THURSDAY September 9th at 6:00 PM in FISHER 129. First general meeting is on Thursday September 16th at 6:00 PM in Fisher 129.
Contact group leader Brittney Duford (bkduford@mtu.edu) advisor Jaclyn Johnson at jenesbit@mtu.edu or Nancy Barr at nbbarr@mtu.edu to be added to the email list or with any questions. We hope you’ll join us!
Plan to Attend: The GMES and CEE departments, along with the Sustainable Futures Institute at MTU, have collaborated this year to host the 2021 Kappe Lecturer – David Dzombak – in a virtual event.
Is sustainable mining achievable? Can environmental engineering help get us there?
This event is made possible through support from the Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors.
When: 3:00 PM Tuesday, September 21st.
How to Attend: In person for live streaming in MEEM 112 or Virtually
Description: Extraction and processing of fuel and non-fuel minerals from the Earth has a plethora of impacts on land, water, air and ecosystems. Reduction and remediation of these impacts have long engaged environmental engineers in research and practice. Application of sustainability principles to mining is inherently challenging, considering the impacts involved and that mining involves removal of finite resources. However, as demand continues for fuel minerals such as coal and non-fuel minerals such as metals, consideration of environmental sustainability is increasingly being incorporated into development and operation of mines.
This talk will examine the environmental sustainability profiles of fuel and non-fuel mineral mining, and efforts that have been undertaken over the past 30 years to improve these profiles. The talk will focus on coal and copper mining in the U.S. as important examples of fuel- and non-fuel mineral mining. Current and evolving mining industry practices and related environmental engineering activities will be reviewed. Approaches for assessing the environmental sustainability of mining operations will be presented and applied to the two cases, with consideration of scale from operations at individual sites to system level.
The meaning of sustainable mining will be explored, as will the potential to achieve sustainable mining for fuel and non-fuel minerals. A framework for assessment of sustainability in mining that includes life-cycle metrics will be put forward. Application of the framework to copper will be presented as an example. The role of environmental engineers in advancing the environmental sustainability of mining will be examined with the audience.
About the Speaker: David Dzombak is the Hamerschlag University Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. The emphasis of his research and teaching is on water quality engineering, water resource sustainability, and energy-environment issues. At Carnegie Mellon he also has served as Associate Dean for Graduate and Faculty Affairs for the College of Engineering (2006-2010), as Director of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research (2007-2013), and as Interim Vice Provost of Sponsored Programs (November 2012-August 2013).
Dzombak received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. He also holds an M.S. in Civil Engineering (1981) and a B.S. in Civil Engineering (1980) from Carnegie Mellon, and a B.A. in Mathematics from Saint Vincent College (1980). He is a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, a Board Certified Environmental Engineer, a Diplomate Water Resources Engineer, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
The Build and Broaden Food Sovereignty Symposium will take place September 19-21, 2021 at the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) and Northern Michigan University. They are looking for volunteers to help coordinate the KBIC Day on September 19. If interested, please fill out the Volunteer Interest Form.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Symposium seeks to provide opportunities for Indigenous knowledge holders, researchers, practitioners, producers, and community members to share common interests, insights, and dialogue from across the fields of Indigenous agriculture and foods. Content of the symposium aims to center on four interrelated themes – Indigenous food ecology, economy, diversity, and sovereignty (FEEDS) to build and broaden education and collaboration, specifically in ways that FEEDS the body, mind, spirit, and community.
The Indigenous Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Symposium will explore histories, contemporary movements, and future transformations of Indigenous agriculture and food sovereignty in North America. On the first day of the Symposium within the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, the theme is SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL: PRACTICING FOOD SOVEREIGNTY. For days 2-3, we invite proposals within the following overarching Symposium themes on day 2, TWO SIDES OF A CIRCLE: ECOLOGY & ECONOMY and day 3, THE EARTH WILL SHOW US THE WAY: EDUCATION & DIVERSITY.
This Symposium brings together academia, Traditional Knowledge Holders, and the local Great Lakes community for discussion of key issues and means of collaboration through organizations such as the Intertribal Agriculture Council, National Science Foundation, Northern Michigan University, Michigan Technological University, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, and more!
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department is pleased to invite the University community to attend Spring 2021 virtual senior design team presentations on April 30 from 8 am – 11 am. This semester students have undertaken a wide range of projects to fulfill the Department’s senior design requirement.
GROUP 1: MTU Public Transportation System Evaluation and Recommendations
Zoom: https://michigantech.zoom.us/j/88905239430 (beginning @ 8 am)
GROUP 2: Dam Projects in the Copper Country
Zoom: https://michigantech.zoom.us/j/83466511049 (beginning @ 9 am)
GROUP 3: Lake State Railways Alpena Improvements
Zoom: https://michigantech.zoom.us/j/145639414 (beginning @ 8 am)
GROUP 4: Northeast Boundary Tunnel, Washington D.C., Brierley Associates & Baraga County Road Commission Projects
Zoom: https://michigantech.zoom.us/j/85081616652 (beginning @ 8 am)
How Sustainable Are the Restaurants in the Keweenaw?We are on a mission to find the most sustainable restaurant in the Keweenaw and we need your help! Fill out this Google Form every time you dine-in or order takeout at a local restaurant in the Keweenaw to rate the sustainability of your experience.
This initiative involves 3 main phases:
- Phase 1 involves rating the sustainability of your dine-in and/or takeout experience every time you eat at a local restaurant in the Keweenaw. Please fill out this Google Form to rate how sustainable your experience was.
- Phase 2 involves reviewing restaurant menus to see how many vegetarian/vegan options they offer.
- Phase 3 involves interviewing local restaurant owners to learn more about where they source their food from and what they do with the waste they produce.
Questions? Email sdh@mtu.edu. Thank you for supporting this initiative!
Mark your calendars—the 21st annual Design Expo will be held virtually on Thursday, April 15, 2021.
Important Dates:
Registration Deadline: March 04, 2021, by 11PM
Video and Digital Poster Submission: April 08, 2021, by 11PM
Video Judging: April 12-15, 2021
Virtual Design Expo: April 15, 2021, 2-hour live event
*The exact time is being finalized.
What will this year’s Virtual Design Expo look like?
RocketJudge
RocketJudge is a platform designed to streamline competitions—the platform works with more than 500 different competitions a year around the world to provide electronic scoring for professional conferences, university poster sessions, invention conventions, science fairs and more.
Who will use RocketJudge: Enterprise and Senior Design team videos will be asynchronously scored by judges over the course of four (4) days, April 12 – April 15, leading up to the Virtual Design Expo, April 15, 2021. Prior to the start of Virtual Design Expo, judges will have the opportunity to review team video presentations and assign a score.
Zoom
Who will use Zoom: The Michigan Tech community, friends, family, and corporate sponsors are invited to tune into Zoom for the Design Expo Opening Remarks to officially kick-off the event. More information to come.
Registration for Zoom is coming soon.
Gatherly
Gatherly is a platform designed for spatial video chat. The platform lets users move around and talk freely to others at the event. As soon as you move close to someone on the map, you automatically start video-chatting with them. Move into an open group, and you’ll join their conversation seamlessly.
Who will use Gatherly: The Michigan Tech community, friends, family, and project sponsors are invited to tune into Gatherly for a 2-hour event where teams and audience members have the chance to engage in conversations over project work, discoveries, and everything in between. Registration for Gatherly is coming soon.
Please check out the Design Expo student page for more information.
Register for Design Expo today!
For questions, please feel free to reach out anytime.
Bre Tucker, bctucker@mtu.edu
Enterprise Program Coordinator