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Providing a 'thesis' for engineers:
As the largest independent electricity transmission company in the country, ITC has served as one of Michigan Technological University's corporate sponsors of the Senior Design Program since 2005.
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Palmgren Earns GLIAC Commissioner's Award
by Wes Frahm, director of marketing and athletic communications
The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference has selected Michigan Tech women’s tennis player Amy Palmgren for one of its inaugural Commissioner’s Awards for Academic and Athletic Excellence.
The awards, sponsored by Meijer Inc., are being presented by the GLIAC for the first time to honor student-athletes who excel both in the classroom and on the fields of play.
Palmgren, a senior from Holly, holds a perfect 4.00 GPA in computer engineering. The Huskies’ number one singles and number one doubles player earned a place on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America First Team in 2007. She is a four-time All-GLIAC selection who earned Second Team All-GLIAC accolades this past fall. Palmgren has also been named an ITA Scholar-Athlete twice and to the GLIAC All-Academic Team three times. |
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Nordic Skiing U.S. Nationals at Michigan Tech
The Michigan Tech Nordic Training Center hosted the US Senior Nationals
in January. The event featured skiers from both the US and other
countries. Sophomore Jesse Lang was the top finisher for the Huskies as
he finished 36th in both the 10-kilometer freestyle and the 15-kilometer
classical. More about U.S. Nordic Skiing Nationals at Michigan Tech
Jesse Lang has been selected as an alternate to the United States Under-23 ski team. Lang earned a spot on the team after he posted a seventh place finish in the overall competition at the US Senior Nationals hosted at the Michigan Tech Nordic Training Center. |
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Walt Anderson to receive Board of Control Silver Medal
"Michigan Tech and the Manhattan Project" featuring Electrical Engineering professor emeritus Walt Anderson
Electrical Engineering professor emeritus Walt Anderson is flanked by Michigan Tech president Glenn Mroz and Jean Anderson, Mechanical Engineering professor emeritus at the 2007 Alumni picnic. |
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New
Academy of Electrical and Computer Engineers Inducted
Cynthia S. Anderson '85, Teo A. Babun '72, Paul K. Goethe '49, Townsend H. Porter '68, Tim A. Williams '76 were inducted into the ECE Academy.
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Jindong Tan (ECE) has received $70,000 from the National Science Foundation for a two-year project, "CSR-EHS: Reliable Networking and Communications for Embedded Body Area Networks." |
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Center
for Integrated Systems in Sensing, Imaging, and Communications
Microfabrication
Facility
"Better, Faster, Cheaper, Safer" -- A Research Center at the Center of Everything; CISSICFeatured in Michigan Tech Magazine (PDF) |
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Schulz appointed Dean of Engineering
Tim Schulz, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has accepted appointment as Michigan Tech’s next dean of engineering effective July 1, Provost Dave Reed has announced.
Schulz came to the university in 1992 as an assistant professor and now chairs the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the department’s Dave House Professor and directs the Center for Integrated Systems in Sensing, Imaging and Communications. |
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Tim Schulz, has been elected a Fellow in SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering. He was selected in part for his research in signal processing methods for sensing and imaging..
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Michael Roggemann (ECE) has received $70,000, the first-year funding of a possible three-year amount totalling $210,000, from the University of Arizona for "Basic Research in Advanced Imaging and Non-Imaging Sciences."
Michael Roggemann (ECE) has received $70,000, the first-year funding of a possible three-year amount totalling $210,000, from the University of Arizona for "Basic Research in Advanced Imaging and Non-Imaging Sciences."
Earlier in 2006, Michael Roggemann will conduct research for the
Department of the Army to explore ways to improve the communications
capabilities of America's soldier: See
story here |
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Blue Marble Enterprise featuered in Tech Today
This Enterprise team is working on eight different projects, including Voltair, a wind turbine that sits atop the Electrical Energy Resource Center and means to bring wind power to households; to AquaScan 365, a water contamination detection system that is looking at drinking water in Houghton, Hancock, Calumet and Grand Rapids; to Pathfinder, which seeks to automate lighting on the Tech Trails so they can be used for nighttime cross-country skiing, biking and running. |
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IEEE Members on a Power Trip...
IEEE MTU Student Chapter members took an inside view of the generation of electricity by coal in a recent trip to Presque Isle Power Plant in Marquette |
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John A. Soyring, vice president of solutions and software at IBM Corporation was the Michigan Tech Fall 2006 Commencement speaker. Mr. Soyring joined IBM after graduating in 1976 from Michigan Tech with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.
Soyring is a member of Michigan Tech's Electrical and Computer Engineering Academy and the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board. Read the Michigan Tech news story. |
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Professor Chunxiao Chigan received $400,000 for a five-year project from the National Science Foundation for "CAREER: Research on Real-Time Robust and Secure Communications for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks." |
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4th Annual ECE Department Hockey Game
Saturday, December 16 at the SDC Ice Arena
See Faculty
Student Hockey Game 2006 Photos and Video Clips
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Michigan Tech Ranked 7th Among PC Magazine's Top 20 Wired Colleges: Acccording to the PC Magazine and The Princeton Review rankings for 2007, Michigan Tech was the only university in the state to make the list. . PC Magazine singled out the university’s Enterprise Program, specifically the Blue Marble Security Group. Through the program, teams of students provide real-world solutions to industrial and governmental sponsors. Blue Marble clients include the state of Michigan and Rockwell Collins.
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New
ECE Faculty in 2006
Melissa
G. Meyer joins the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
as an assistant professor. She comes to Michigan Tech from the University
of Washington and Zhijun Zhao joins the faculty
of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an assistant
professor. He comes to Michigan Tech from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. Read the
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Michigan
Tech's ECE Senior Design Teams and Blue
Marble Enterprise Program Featured in the Bechtel
Globe
See
the article here |
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Academy
of Electrical and Computer Engineers
New
website of Photo Gallery and Biographic sketches |
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Discover,
Design & Deliver: Michigan Tech ECE Movie
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IEEE
Student Action
IEEE
Members Research Communications, Electromagnetism, Power Amplification
and Radio Transmission
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Perger
Investigates Bomb Basics
Warren Perger is trying
to find out why bombs blow up. |
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Paul
Bergstrom is Developing the World's Smallest Transistor
Just when you
thought cell phones couldn't (or shouldn't) get any smaller, Paul
Bergstrom predicts that pretty soon you'll be slipping one into
your wallet alongside your driver's license. |
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House
Foundation Endows $1 Million Professorship
The House Family
Foundation, established by retired president of Nortel Networks
and former Intel executive Dave House ('65 EE),
has donated $1 million to create an endowed professorship at Michigan
Tech.
Read the House Endowment
Story
Dave House brings his experience back to college - More
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Women
in Technology Award
Charlotte Field
('77 EE), senior vice president of national communications engineering
and operations for Comcast Cable, is the 2005 Women in Technology
award winner in recognition of her significant contributions to the
cable industry. See
story from Women In Cable Telecommunications here |
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Kanwal
Rekhi (MS EE '69)
president and CEO of Ensim Corporation visited with ECE grads and
parents at the ECE graduation reception.
About the new
Library, Rekhi
Hall and the CILIT Center |