Tompkins Receives Award from Chinese University
HOUGHTON--Michigan Technological University President Curt Tompkins has
been invested as a Distinguished Professor by the president of the University
of Science and Technology, Beijing.
The award was bestowed last weekend (April 20-21) as part of USTB's 50th
anniversary celebrations.
Both Tompkins and Dean of Engineering Robert Warrington represented Michigan
Tech in a massive ceremony at the USTB Sports Stadium.
Tompkins served as a panelist on a nationally televised special program
celebrating USTB's accomplishments over the past half-century.
While in Beijing, he delivered a lecture at the university focusing on
Michigan Tech and engineering education reform. He also distributed a
new book written by three Chinese students at Michigan Tech, "Being
an Undergraduate Student in the U.S." Tompkins wrote the foreword
to the book, which is printed in Chinese.
Currently there are 137 Chinese students enrolled at Michigan Tech, including
five graduates of the USTB. Dr. Shu-Zu Lu, a professor in Michigan Tech's
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is also a graduate of
USTB.
"Michigan Tech has been building a meaningful partnership with the
University of Science and Technology for several years, and Tech has been
educating Chinese students on our campus for nearly a century," Tompkins
said.
The relationship provides an avenue for intellectual and technical exchange
while providing diversity and a rich international perspective to the
campus community, he noted.
The University of Science and Technology Beijing funded the visit by
Tompkins and Warrington.
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