The group’s startup company is AsfalisMed, and it survived the first round of judging, based on applications, by Intel Innovators, which will award $100,000 to the winning project. The top five teams will have the opportunity to give a presentation on their efforts. Travis Beaulieu, a senior in applied physics, and Joel Florek, a first-year in mechanical engineering, lead the Tech group… [read more]
The Board of Control approved two new master’s degree programs, two new bachelor’s programs and a new PhD program. The new degrees–in medical informatics, biomedical engineering, biochemistry and molecular biology, physics and physics for high school teachers–now must go to the academic affairs officers of the Presidents’ Council, State Universities of Michigan, for review and approval… [read more]
More than 400 students received degrees at Saturday’s midyear commencement ceremony. Presented were 336 undergraduate degrees, 107 master’s degrees and 27 Ph.D.s. Chang K. Park, a 1973 Tech graduate, gave the commencement address. He is founder, president and CEO of the Harrison, N.Y.-based Universal Remote Control, Inc…. [read more]
Six Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets at Michigan Technological University received their military commissions during a ceremony at the Rozsa Center. Honored Saturday were Army commissionees Andrew Haney, Chad Hemingway, Wesley Hineline, Karen Smigielski and Daniel Vandermate, along with Air Force commissionee David Storck… [read more]
Michigan Technological University reports that its job placement rate has risen to an astonishing 94.6 percent. At its most recent Career Fair in September 2011, Michigan Tech hosted 720 recruiters from 245 companies… [read more]
Michigan Tech is standing above the rest when it comes to their first-time graduate entry enrollment. A recent study by the Council of Graduate Schools across the U.S. found that enrollment of new students decreased 1.1 percent; however, Michigan Tech has seen an increase in their program… [read more]