The Waino Wahtera Center for Student Success is hiring for 2023-24
- Orientation Team Leaders
- Success Coaches
- ExSEL Peer Mentors
- Peer Teaching Assistants
Returning Staff Application Due: Feb 1, 2023
New Staff Application Due: Feb 5, 2023
Interested?? Watch the informational video and fill out the Google application form on the website: https://www.mtu.edu/success/now-hiring/.
Each summer for more than 50 years, Michigan Tech Summer Youth Programs (SYP) has welcomed to campus more than 1,000 youth from grades 6-11from across the country and around the world. We need your help to ensure they experience the Michigan Tech community we all know and love.
SYP students come for week-long, hands-on, experiential learning in one (or more) of our 50+ week-long explorations in STEM, humanities and law. During their time at SYP, students gain confidence in their ability to be successful in college as they experience residential life, responsibility in arriving to class on time and exploring the beauty of the Keweenaw Peninsula.
We’re looking for passionate individuals who enjoy working with youth and want to inspire the next generation of doers and makers. Each year we hire 50+ undergraduate and graduate students for a variety of rewarding experiences that build leadership, communication and critical interpersonal skills.
If you or someone you know are interested in learning more about being a member of the SYP team, we encourage you to attend our hiring sessions, visit our website or email us at outreach@mtu.edu.
Hiring information session dates:
- Wednesday, Nov. 16, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. | MUB Alumni Lounge A
- Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. | MUB Alumni Lounge A
- Wednesday, Nov. 30, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. | Wadsworth Hall Cherry Room
The Michigan Tech Writing Center is seeking peer writing coaches for the 2022-23 academic year. There are several positions open.
Undergraduate students who have recently completed Composition or Global Issues are strongly encouraged to apply; however, we will also consider other students with an interest in writing. We offer 10 hours of work per week at $11 per hour (starting pay), flexible and accommodating schedules, training, and a welcoming and inclusive environment.
Please forward our application to your students. Students with questions can contact me at jchase@mtu.edu.
Thank you, and I hope you have a great Winter Carnival.
Best,
Josh Chase
Interested in working on a project for NASA? Have you taken CEE 3810? Interested in contributing to journal and conference papers about the research? If so, Dr. Paul van Susante is looking to hire on an hourly basis (10 hr/week at $15/hr) an undergraduate student (US Person or Citizen) with geotechnical knowledge for immediate start in January to help with his NASA cone penetrometer project. They need to perform a great many 1m deep cone penetrometer tests under controlled conditions (inside the freezer container) where we have to reset the testbed with lunar simulant, compact to the desired relative density and create icy layers with specified wt% ice (particles or cemented). The lunar simulant then needs to be emptied from the testbed and put in the drying container to dry out before the next test. The tests themselves include a regular ASTM DCP, a modified instrumented ASTM DCP, a handheld electronic cone penetrometer, a percussive cone penetrometer with 5 different cone geometries. The work is on campus in the Benedict Lab. Safety training and respirator training will be required. You will work with the other students as part of the Planetary Surface Technology Development Lab (www.huskyworks.space) and work may be available/extend through summer. If you are interested, please contact Dr. van Susante to express your interest and send your resume highlighting your geotechnical knowledge at E-mail: pjvansus@mtu.edu .
The MTU Center for Science & Environmental Outreach provides after school STEM classes for students at Baraga Elementary and CJ Sullivan Elementary School (L’Anse). Classes are once per week for one hour between 4-6 pm. They may be virtual or in-person. The Center has lots of lessons already to go that an instructor just has to organize supplies for. Classes begin week of Sept. 13
The Center also conducts 1.5-2 hour science field trips during the school day for K-8 classes, which usually take place at their schools. There are already lessons prepared and supply kits ready to go. You can choose times to fit your schedule.
You must have your own car. If you’re interested, please complete this online application.
Feel free to contact Joan Chadde (jchadde@mtu.edu) with any questions. The supply kits are stored in the forestry building, rather than GLRC, for easy access. We would have a short training with all interested instructors first.
The high-performance computing laboratory for Sustainable Intelligent Transportation Systems (SITS-Lab) in the Department Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering is looking for hourly research assistants to help a research project on using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to monitor traffic flow dynamics. The hourly research assistants will work with a Ph.D. student on using a semi-automatic traffic annotation tool, iATTS (Interactive Annotation Tool for Transportation Surveillance), developed at SITS-Lab to identify and annotate individual vehicle trajectories in UAV videos. The work will be conducted in our research laboratory, Dow 842. The hourly pay rate will be $12/hour and it is expected that you would be able to work 10-20 hours per week.
To qualify for this position, you should be familiar with the following computer operations:
1. Google Earth (Google Maps) software
2. Windows Paint
3. Familiar with video play software such as windows media player
4. Quick learning ability to operate a Windows GUI – iATTS
The successful candidates must be able to show excellent communication skills, demonstrated attention to detail, and a good work ethic. You need to pass a training test in order to do this work.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Dr. Kuilin Zhang (klzhang@mtu.edu) and his Ph.D. student, Violet Hung (yhung@mtu.edu)
The Waino Wahtera Center for Student Success is hiring Orientation Team Leaders for the fall of 2021. If you are interested in helping your fellow students in their transition to and overall success at Michigan Tech, we encourage you to apply!
Please visit our hiring website for more information and a link to apply: https://www.mtu.edu/success/now-hiring/
Applications are due March 14, 2021 – early applications encouraged!
Students can direct any questions success@mtu.edu
With the excitement of campus tours resuming soon, we are looking for more campus tour guides that would be willing to help us out for this semester.
If you are looking for an on-campus job or would like to help promote your department to prospective students through tours, please apply!
We look forward to the possibility of working with some great students from such great departments.