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Great Lakes Research Center Dedication

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Updated from From Tech Today by Marcia Goodrich, magazine editor

The Great Lakes Research Center dedication ceremony for Michigan Technological University’s newest building was on Thursday, Aug. 2. The speakers were Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz; Stephen Hicks, chair of the Board of Control; and Guy Meadows, director of Great Lakes initiatives at the GLRC.

The three-story, 50,000-square-foot center has three distinct areas: a boathouse for the University’s three research vessels and environmental monitoring buoy network, a complex of research laboratories, and a public area that includes conference facilities and space for K-12 education.

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National Transportation Council Meeting at Tech

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The Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) is holding their summer meeting at Michigan Tech. The CUTC’s membership represents over 70 of the nation’s leading university-based transportation research and education programs. The purpose for the program is to advance the state-of-the-art in all modes and disciplines of transportation and improve the nation’s mobility, economy, and defense. The CUTC provides a forum for improving and enhancing research and education in transportation and related areas.

The Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) was established in 1979 by the major transportation research centers and institutes in the United States.

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Students from Community Colleges are Engaged in Research Projects

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Undergraduate Students from Community Colleges are engaged in university research projects at Michigan Technological during Summer 2012: MiCUP program stands for Michigan College/ University Partnership Program. It is for Community College Students from: Delta College, Grand Rapids Community College, Wayne County Community College District.

“MICUP = My Cup. My cup of knowledge that was filled with diversity, higher education, innovation, and hands-on experience. From this experience, I have grown culturally, educationally, and mentally” according to Reginald Hicks, Michigan Tech Marketing Student, WCCCD Transfer Student.
MiCUP is Michigan Tech’s “Transfer Transition Program” helps community college students transfer to a four-year institution to earn a baccalaureate degree.

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Enterprising High School Students Showcase Accomplishments in Detroit

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Michigan Technological University and General Motors sponsored a High School Enterprise Showcase at the GM Renaissance Center in Detroit. Teams of high school students from Detroit, elsewhere in Michigan, and as far away as Puerto Rico, Atlanta and Chicago will present their work to find scientific and technological solutions to real-world problems in business and industry.

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Exchange Program with Engineering School in Denmark

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Officials from the Aarhus School of Marine & Technical Engineering recently had meetings at Michigan Tech concerning the international student exchange program. Anna Kathrine Jørgensen, international coordinator, and Leif Tranborg, Provost, Engineer, Master in adult education, were in Houghton for several days of meetings and tours.

They met with International Programs and Services, Thy Yang, director, and faculty from the School of Technology, College of Engineering, School of Business and Economics to promote the international exchange programs. These photos show them touring the Great Lakes Research Center with Michael Abbott, Director, Great Lakes Research Center Operations, Dr. David Shonnard, Chemical Engineering and Sustainable Futures Institute, and Dr. Leonard Bohmann, Associate Dean of Engineering, with Darnishia Slade, assistant director, International Programs and Services.

The organizational structure of the school is based in the Danish Maritime Authority under the Danish Ministry of Business and Industry. The school was founded in 1896 and from the year 1968, the school has been a self-governing institution with its own board of directors authorized to educate Marine and Technical Engineers.

A Bachelor of Technology Management and Marine Engineering is a Danish polytechnic Profession Bachelor education. The main subjects of the education are Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Automation and Management.

AAMS Website: http://www.aams.dk/da-DK/English.aspx

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Michigan Tech Engineering Programs in Washington D.C.

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The HEV mobile laboratory was on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. On the labs first trip outside the state, United States Senator Carl Levin stopped by to give the students and their work a stamp of approval. “It may be located the Upper Peninsula, but all of Michigan has been impacted by it. Tens of thousands of engineers have come out of Michigan Tech,” said Sen. Levin. Michigan Tech Staff and faculty from four programs participated in the National Transportation Workforce Summit in Washington, DC, April 24 to 26.

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Michigan Tech – Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers SHPE Students

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A group of six Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) students is heading to Grand Rapids to make 12 presentations at Burton Middle School in Grand Rapids during the school day on Friday, May 4. The students will reach nearly 500 students in Grades 6-8. After school, they will meet with Hispanic high school students to discuss college options and possible majors and careers.

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