Midwest Energy News covered an in-depth story about recent work published by Richelle Winkler (SS), Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE), Lucia Gauchia (ECE/MEEM) and CS graduate student Abhilash Katamneni about the economic feasibility of residents leaving the grid in the Upper Peninsula using solar-hybrid systems. See the story here. From Tech Today and Midwest Energy News
Computer science and programming are becoming essential tools in the world today. Teachers at all grade levels who want to learn how to bring computer science into their classrooms are invited to participate in a free three-day workshop at Michigan Tech this summer. The workshop, scheduled for August 15–17, is funded by a Google Inc. . . .
Myounghoon “Philart” Jeon received the best paper award from the EAI (European Alliance Innovation) Conference regarding art and technology integration. Philart’s paper is about “Aesthetic Computing” and its case projects. Congratulations Philart on a job well done!
In News of the Exciting yet Absolutely Unsurprising: Last Friday, the Board of Control promoted Laura, Philart and Tim to Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations to all three!
Associate professor Philart Jeon received a research grant from NIH through George Washington University in the amount of $76,336. The project is entitled, “NRI: Music-based interactive robotic orchestration for children with ASD”. This is the 2nd year funding from NIH via the NRI (National Robotics Initiative) program.
Congratulations to Benjamin Closner, Rory Straubel, and Mitch Davis for winning the 2016 NMU Invitational Programming Contest! Pictured left to right: Jason Hiebel, Benjamin Closner, Rory Strauble, Mitch Davis and Dr. Min Song, Department Chair and Professor of Computer Science. The winning team “MID OR FEED” consisted of MTU undergrads: Mitch Davis, Rory Straubel, and . . .