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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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Dematic, a logistics company based in Luxembourg with North American operations headquartered in Grand Rapids, has opened a satellite engineering office in Houghton and hired a team of 11 interns. The interns include students from the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, as well as the School of Technology.
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CBS Detroit and the Great Lakes Innovation and Technology Report published a news story about the international logistics firm, Dematic, opening a satellite office in the MTEC SmartZone in Houghton, where they will employ 11 or more Michigan Tech student interns. See Dematic’s Satellite Office.

The Wall Street Journal’s “MarketWatch” reported that Wineman Technology has donated $80,000 in software to Michigan Tech’s hybrid electric vehicle engineering program to help develop a mobile lab. The news is also causing a buzz on Twitter. Wineman Technology is a leading automotive design and test system integrator. See Wineman Technology.

Associate Professor Reza Shahbazian Yassar (ME-EM) provided expert commentary for an ABC Science story, “Cotton T-shirt to Charge Mobile Phones?” on a University of South Carolina scientist’s effort to convert a T-shirt into a supercapacitor. Read more