Category: Students

MSE graduate student Joseph Licavoli has been awarded a $4000 scholarship from the H. H. Harris Foundation for the 2012-13 school year. The award is in support of those who have proven through professional and academic pursuits, a professional and/or academic interest in metallurgy and cast metals as well as outstanding academic performance. Licavoli provided a statement about his goals in metallurgy and a sketch of his experiences. He is working with Dr. Paul Sanders.

4.0 Students (EMSE)
Knudsen, Michel D SR EMSE
Michels, Taylor J SR EMSE
Nitz, Calvin A SO EMSE
Taylor, Lance P SR EMSE
Tianen, Matthew N JR EMSE

3.50-3.99 Students (EMSE)
Dillon, Jesse R SR EMSE
Glover, Alexandra G JR EMSE
Greutman, Stephen K SO EMSE
Harju, Markus K SU EMSE
Haselhuhn, Stephanie G SR EMSE
Heck, Sara M SR EMSE
Konieczny, Anthony M JR EMSE
Leonard, Samantha L SR EMSE
MacEwen, David M SR EMSE
Michael, Kelsey R SR EMSE
O’Connor, Austin D SO EMSE
Pringle, Adam M SO EMSE
Schaefer, Evan J SR EMSE
Seidl, Alex J SR EMSE
Thiel, Alexander F SR EMSE
Villeneuve, Bradley J SO EMSE
Waterman, Thaddeus W SR EMSE
Whalen, Kelsey M JR EMSE
Wittbrodt, Benjamin T SR EMSE
Wyzlic, Michael P SR EMSE

4.0 Students (EMSE)
Deane, Kyle J SR EMSE
Honkanen, Katri E SU EMSE
Michels, Taylor J SR EMSE
Taylor, Lance P SR EMSE
Wittbrodt, Benjamin T SR EMSE
Wyzlic, Michael P SR EMSE

3.50-3.99 Students (EMSE)
Anderson, Shane M FR EMSE
Bryant, Caleb R SR EMSE
Deming, Carol J SR EMSE
Dillon, Jesse R SR EMSE
Freiberg, Daniel S JR EMSE
Glover, Alexandra G SO EMSE
Greutman, Stephen K FR EMSE
Heck, Sara M SR EMSE
Kraft, Nicholas J SR EMSE
Laureto, John J SR EMSE
Michael, Kelsey R SR EMSE
Mulder, Meredith L SR EMSE
Nigro, Elizabeth A SR EMSE
O’Connor, Austin D FR EMSE
Roeser, Mackenzie T SR EMSE
Sahr, Alyssa M SR EMSE
Steele, Alicia M SR EMSE
Thiel, Alexander F JR EMSE
Tianen, Matthew N SO EMSE
Villeneuve, Bradley J FR EMSE
Waterman, Thaddeus W SR EMSE
Wolbeck, Emily C JR EMSE
Wong, Matthew J SR EMSE

The Graduate School is pleased to announce that two students have earned fellowships from The DeVlieg Foundation, which supports graduate students pursuing research in engineering, wildlife and biology at Michigan Tech. One of the recipients for Spring 2012 is Patrick Bowen, PhD candidate, Materials Science and Engineering.

On April 12, Michigan Technological University hosted the 13th Annual Undergraduate University Expo. In the ballroom of the Memorial Union Building, undergraduate students displayed exhibits from their Enterprise teams and senior design projects.

Senior Design winners included the Bioabsorbable Polymer-Coated Metal Stent Degradation Simulation Design team, the Economic Recovery of Alloying Elements from Grinding Swarf Design team and the Portage Health Noise Monitoring Device Design team.

Read more at the Michigan Tech Lode, by Nicole Iutzi.

Undergraduate Expo 2012

Expo Awards

Senior Design Awards to MSE Projects

Taking first place was Bioabsorbable Polymer-Coated Metal Stent Degradation Simulation Design. The students devised a better way to check for the degrading of stents, which are inserted into arteries, both in vitro (in the lab) and in vivo (in the living subject). Team members were Kristina Price, Brendan Daun, Thomas Faulkner, Erin Larson, Derek Yesmunt and David Strobel (Biomedical Engineering); and Kelsey Waugh and Matt Gardeski (MSE). The team was sponsored by Boston Scientific and advised by Associate Professor Jeremy Goldman (Biomedical Engineering) and Associate Professor Jaroslaw Drelich (MSE).

Second place went to the Economic Recovery of Alloying Elements from Grinding Swarf. The students speculated that they could help metal-grinding operations reclaim cobalt and nickel, in addition to other metals, from the waste or “swarf.” It could produce as much as $1.75 million in a year. The team consisted of Alicia Steele (MSE/ME); and Daniel Hein, Michael Wyzlic and Nicholas Kraft (MSE). They worked with the Casting Services Group of ThyssenKrupp. Jaroslaw Drelich was their advisor, too.