Crowdsourcing Tick Collection: End of Summer Update

Tick Talk, the crowdsourcing tick collection project conducted last year at Michigan Tech, is underway for its second year.  MTU’s Genomic Sequencing Lab wants ticks from you, your family and your pets. The goal of this project is to identify the prevalence of tick-borne illnesses in the Copper Country. Please bring any ticks you find to one . . .

Fully Funded PhD Opportunity in Mechatronics

Assistant Professor Amna Mazen, Departments of Applied Computing and Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology, is seeking applications for a Ph.D. position in mechatronics starting in spring 2025. The research will focus on leveraging mobile manipulators for tasks in healthcare and industrial applications. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Michigan Tech Teams Finish 2nd and 3rd in IDETC-CIE Conference Hackathon

The Michigan Tech Institute of Computing and Cybersystems’s (ICC) Center for Artificial Intelligence sponsored the participation of three Michigan Tech student teams in the ASME Student Hackathon, held during the pre-conference period of the 2024 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC-CIE) Conference. The hackathon took place from August . . .