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 . . .
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.
Please join the Department of Humanities’ Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture (RTC) graduate program for the first Brown Bag of the semester with Professor Charles Wallace (CS). The Brown Bag will take place on Sept. 13 at noon in the Petersen Library in Walker 318.
Submissions of original undergraduate research papers are being accepted for the 2024-25 edition of the Infinite Loop, a journal for computing-related research. The journal welcomes submissions from all majors.
Undergraduate and graduate students interested in teaching the basics of computing to local middle and high school students are invited to join Copper Country Coders. The student organization will hold an organizational meeting on Saturday, September 14, 2024, at 11 am in Rekhi 112.
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 . . .