Category: Michigan Tech News

Q&A with Bhakta Rath Winners Sanaz Habibi and Adrienne Minerick

A collaborative innovation in microfluidics reveals graduate excellence and outstanding mentorship as well as the secrets of viruses. Michigan Tech’s Bhakta Rath Research Award honors exceptional work and collaboration between a doctoral student and their advisor. This year, chemical engineering takes the spotlight as Sanaz Habibi and Adrienne Minerick share the honor. Habibi, who graduated . . .

What Lies Ahead: Cooperative, Data-Driven Automated Driving

Associate Professor Kuilin Zhang, Civil and Environmental Engineering and affiliated associate professor, Computer Science, was featured in a recent article on Michigan Tech News. The article appears below. Link to the original article here. By Kelley Christensen, September 28, 2020. Networked data-driven vehicles can adapt to road hazards at longer range, increasing safety and preventing . . .

MTU’s Adrienne Minerick Elected to Lead Engineering Educators

by Allison Mills, University Marketing and Communications Adrienne Minerick, dean of the College of Computing, is president-elect of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She will serve as president-elect from June 2020 to June 2021, a year that will surely be shaped by COVID-19 response efforts and their impacts on education, engineering industries and . . .

Papers Published

Associate Prof. Soner Onder and his graduate students published a paper titled “LaZy Superscalar” in the 42nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). ISCA is recognized as the premier conference in computer architecture with 10-20 percent acceptance rates. CS PhD student Gorkem Asilioglu (first author) will present the paper on June 15 in Portland, OR. . . .