MTEC SmartZone is celebrating a 10-year milestone. From humble beginnings, the high-tech business incubator transformed the cities of Houghton and Hancock into a vibrant and growing technology sector, creating more than 350 jobs locally.
If you are looking for “mechanical engineering programs that stand out from the pack,” the MechanicSchools.com website lists Michigan Tech as one of the top five schools to consider.
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His cell phone area code is still 906, reflecting his Upper Peninsula roots, but Rob Waara’s role as chief engine engineer with the SRT Viper racing team has taken him far afield, including to the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The Center for Diversity and Inclusion sponsored this year’s MiCUP/MI-LSAMP Research Gallery Walk, held on Thursday, June 20, in the Rozsa Center Lobby.
The event recognizes the research of students participating in the seven-week Michigan College/University Partnership Program (MiCUP) and the Michigan Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (MI-LSAMP) Program here at Michigan Tech.
Michigan Tech is partnered with MI-LSAMP to continue our shared goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minority and first-generation students in STEM and non-STEM fields.
Taking another step toward making affordable and durable prosthetics available to India’s low-income population, a team of Michigan Tech senior design students have redesigned and cost-optimized a prosthetic knee.
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What’s a university education worth? That’s a question often asked by students, parents and legislators.
According to 2013 rankings recently released by PayScale, Michigan Technological University’s graduates rank 18th in the nation among 437 public universities in the return on investment (ROI) from their degrees. PayScale compares the cost of a college education to the salaries earned by graduates.
Emeritus and Research Professor John H. Johnson (MEEM) has been selected to receive the 2013 ASME Internal Combustion Engine Award.
The society awards the honor “for leadership in innovative research in the modeling of diesel engine particulate filters and aftertreatment systems based on extensive experimental data; for dedication in educating graduate students on diesel engines; and for leading and participating in the national studies of technology to reduce internal combustion engine fuel consumption.”
The award consists of a $1,000 honorarium. Johnson will be honored at the ASME 2013 Internal Combustion Fall Technical Conference, set for Oct. 13-16 in Dearborn.
“This is certainly a well-deserved award for John,” said Department Chair Bill Predebon (MEEM). “He has devoted over 40 years to research on diesel engines, particularly in diesel emissions.”
Johnson’s research focuses on emissions and fuel consumption, and he has played a leadership role on the National Academy of Engineering committees that develop recommendations for laws and regulations governing vehicles. His work has had a major impact on the current Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for trucks.
The Center for Michigan’s “Bridge,” a web publication of Michigan news, published a feature article about Hajj Flemings, a mechanical engineering alumnus of Michigan Tech. See the link for the article.
The ME-EM Order of the Engineer, Senior Awards Banquet and Capstone Design Day was April 23, 2013.
The keynote speaker for the banquet was Colleen L. Jones-Cervantes.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1983. After graduation, Colleen joined Chevron Corporation as a Project Engineer. She has been challenged for twenty-eight years by progressing through a variety of assignments in Chevron’s Marketing business, product supply operations, asset management, lubricants and retail functions. Her varied assignments have required eleven relocations, including two international assignments.
Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics Graduate Seminar: Thurs., April 25 at 4:00 in 112 MEEM.
Dr. Daniel S. Hussey from the National Institute of Standards and Technology will be the ME-EM guest speaker for Thurs., April 25 at 4:00 in 112 MEEM. His presentation is entitled ‘Seeing the World with Neutron Vision’.
Dr. Daniel S. Hussey is a research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology where his primary research is on neutron optics including neutron imaging of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Dr. Hussey started at NIST as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in 2004. Dr. Hussey earned a PhD in physics from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN in 2003 where he used dense samples of polarized 3He in polarized neutron reflectometry studies of magnetic thin films. Dr. Hussey earned his bachelor of science in physics from the University of New Hampshire in 1999. Dr. Hussey has authored or coauthored over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers in 2010.
Abstract: “Seeing the World with Neutron Vision”
Neutrons primarily interact with matter via the strong nuclear force (as opposed to the electron density) and so provide a complementary view of world to more conventional probes of matter.
In particular, neutrons have a very high sensitive to hydrogen while being very insensitive to common metals such as aluminum. This has enabled neutron imaging to play a key role in understanding the water transport in hydrogen fuel cells. Neutrons can also be treated as waves and it is possible to construct a neutron Talbot-Lau interferometer to obtain phase and darkfield images which can increase the contrast for small variations in material density or porosity. An ongoing challenge in any neutron scattering or imaging measurement is the inherently low neutron intensity as compared to what is possible at modern x-ray synchrotrons. This is partly due to the difficulty in focusing neutrons as the refractive index differs from one by only 1-10 ppm. A new reflection base lens technology shows great promise to create the world’s first practical neutron microscope. In this talk, I’ll discuss how neutron imaging has benefited fuel cells and how it might be useful for lithium batteries, give an overview of the Talbot-Lau interferometer, and introduce the idea of the neutron microscope.