February 3, 2012—
Michigan Technological University’s Rail Transportation Program–part of the Michigan Tech Transportation Institute–is one of seven members of a research university consortium that has received the US Department of Transportation’s (USDoT) first multi-million grant to a University Transportation Center focused solely on rail transportation. The University of lllinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will lead the consortium. Read More about it
Water is Life, the Winter Newsletter of the Lake Superior Binational Forum (LSBF), includes a feature on Professor Alex Mayer (CEE/GMES), winner of the LSBF 2011 Environmental Stewardship Adult Individual Award. See Superior Forum.
Pasi Lautala, research assistant professor (CEE) and director of the Rail Transportation Program (RTP), a part of the Michigan Tech Transportation Institute (MTTI), was a member of a site visit committee of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The committee evaluated the University of Alberta’s proposal to establish an industrial research chair in railway geomechanics. Lautala’s recent visit took him to Edmonton.