Author: Heather Powers

Heather Powers is a Associate Director of Digital Content in University Marketing and Communications (UMC) at Michigan Technological University. Powers is responsible for all content aspects of UMC's recruitment and reputation web properties and proactively improves and maintains quality, benchmarks, and tests to innovate key sites and pages to meet integrated marketing, brand awareness and reputation, and recruitment goals.

Rail Transportation Program Making Headlines

Michigan Tech’s Rail Transportation Program has gained national recognition for its innovative approach to rail education. The program was recently showcased in articles that include the feature “All aboard! Michigan Tech’s Rail Transportation Program is Leading the Way” on the College of Engineering news blog and “Rail Transportation Program Building Impact, Reputation,” in the latest issue of Michigan Tech Magazine.

Earlier, this month, professor Pasi Lautala, program director, junior civil engineering undergraduate Landon Vojtech, and Michigan Tech alum Aaron Dean ’18, who earned his BS in mechanical engineering, were quoted by UPword in a story about the award-winning program.