FINDING
AMERICA'S INDUSTRIAL PAST
RESEARCHERS
UNEARTH SECRETS OF WEST POINT FOUNDRY
It's not every day that a Michigan
Tech researcher gets quoted in the Poughkeepsie Journal.
Or the New York Times, for
that matter. But, when you are mapping an archaeological site that reverberates
with history, is pretty as a park, and is an hour's drive north of Manhattan,
attention is hard to avoid.
So discovered Pat Martin (Social
Sciences), professor of industrial archaeology, when he began documenting
the ruins of the West Point Foundry, located on the outskirts of the tourist
village of Cold Springs, N.Y.
"It's a compelling site,"
Martin says. "It has some big stories to tell."
One of four factories established
in 1817 by President James Madison to manufacture heavy artillery, the
foundry's rifled cannons helped the North to victory over the South in
the Civil War. At one time, 1,000 workers were employed at the facility,
and it came to symbolize the grit and power of the Industrial Revolution
through John Ferguson Weir's 1866 painting
"The Gun Foundry." (See http://pchs-fsm.org/westpointfoundry/westpointfoundry.html)
"It was a smoky, dirty
place," Martin says. Its ruins, however, are another story.
Of the dozens of buildings
on the 87-acre site, only one is standing. The rest are remains, foundations
filled with earth and overgrown by trees. "There's a stream flowing
though mature woods in a valley that leads to a marsh and the Hudson River,"
Martin says. Except for tumble-down walls and remnant artifacts of iron,
it's hard to differentiate between the old foundry landscape and the 600-acre
Audubon Society preserve next door.
"It was nature that drew
people there in the first place, but it was for an industrial enterprise,"
Martin said. Water powered machinery, and trees were cut and burned for
charcoal used in blast furnaces. The main road was the Hudson River.
But when steel began to overtake
cast iron in the marketplace, in the late 19th century, the West Point
Foundry was left behind. "It's returned to nature," Martin said.
The site was purchased in 1996
by the Scenic Hudson Land Trust, an environmental group. Last summer,
they brought Martin, Michigan Tech Instructor Tim Scarlett and a team
of graduate and undergraduate students to the old foundry to document
what was there.
"The impulse was to charge
right in there and get it done," Martin said. "But this place
is huge."
It's been a little tricky.
While good maps of the site in its heyday are easy to come by, most everything
has fallen down and tumbled toward the river; nothing is where it was.
As a first step, the researchers
assembled a database based on historical records, of which there are many.
The company did a great deal of business with the federal government,
and the National Archives has plenty of paperwork to prove it. Then, 10
industrial archaeology students took five weeks and "a lot of fancy
surveying gear" to map the actual site.
The final step, still in progress,
is to integrate the information and identify and map each of the ruins
within the foundry.
"It's big, complicated
and slightly confusing," Martin admits.
The next question will be what
to do with it all.
The first project will be the
renovation of the only structure left standing, the main office building
constructed in 1865. Martin envisions a visitors' center with an art gallery
and interpretive exhibits, plus an area for research and education.
Then, Martin thinks maybe it's
time to take a lesson from the Europeans. "Industrial heritage has
become a big thing over there," he says. "It's how our great
grandparents lived, and it's disappearing."
Judging from the interest in
the foundry, it may have a chance to become the US equivalent of one of
Germany's popular industrial heritage sites. Martin was quoted in a Sept.
8 New York Times article, "Seeking What Lies Beneath," and was
interviewed for a feature by National Public Radio.
The only problem with the West
Point Foundry, he told one East Coast reporter, was that it was so remote.
She didn't get it. "I have to travel and travel and travel,"
he explained. "I have to change planes and change trains."
Remoteness, chuckles the archaeologist
from the frozen shores of Lake Superior, is all a matter of perspective.
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COMING
TO A TELEPHONE NEAR YOU
submitted by Telcom
Michigan Tech will be installing
its own University-managed telephone system with the expiration of our
Ameritech contract in June 2003. According to Telecommunication Services,
the primary goals of this project are to stabilize the cost of telephone
service for campus and to improve our telephone service. The recent availability
of IP telephony technology allows Telcom to deliver voice services across
a data network.
Users can also expect simpler,
more usable telephones, better voice quality, and quicker response when
placing orders for telephone service from Telecommunications Services.
The new system will be implemented
in two phases.
Phase I will commence immediately
and will end on June 1. Telephone users in the Academic Office, Alumni
House, Annex, Combinatorics, Forestry, Gates, Hamar, Library, Memorial
Union, ROTC and SDC will be upgraded to the new service offering described
at the http://www.tc.mtu.edu/voiceservices/iptelephony.html
. This upgrade will require the selection of new telephone instruments,
installation, voicemail setup and training. A training center will be
provided through Telecommunication Services. Contact will be made with
each department to coordinate the transition. Disruptions will be kept
to a minimum.
All other users on campus will
keep their current telephones for Phase I, but the underlying telephone
system will be changed. This will include moving existing voicemail users
to a new voicemail system. Users who now use personal answering machines
will need to get an MTU voicemail box prior to conversion because these
machines will not operate with the new digital telephone system. Replacement
phones will be provided
Below is a tentative conversion
schedule. Each department in each building will be contacted prior to
conversion. The process is quick and should involve no out-of-service
time.
EERC, Dow
Starting October 21
Administration, Meese, CHP Central Stores November
Dillman, Fisher, Chemical Sciences, all
residence area administrative phones
December,January 2003
Rozsa, Walker, Minerals & Materials
February
MEEM, UPPCO
March
KRC *
April
Observatory, Golf Course, Ski Hill and
other remote campus facilities*
April, May
*These off-campus sites will require service through Ameritech or other
local providers.
Phase II will begin on June
1 and tentatively end in March 2004. It will affect those users who did
not receive new telephones. This will require the selection of new telephone
instruments, installation, voicemail setup and training. More information
will be made available to affected departments before June.
If you have any questions,
please contact Brenda Helminen at 487-1787 or brenda@mtu.edu,
or Chuck LaPointe at 487-1792 or clapoint@mtu.edu.
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BCBSM
OUT-OF-NETWORK DEDUCTIBLE ERRORS REPORTED
submitted by the Benefits Office
The Benefits Office has received
several calls regarding health insurance claims for Dr. Liston going to
an out-of-network deductible. This is an error. Often when a new doctor
comes to the area, it takes awhile for their Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Michigan Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) status to be set up. If
you have received any statements indicating that charges have gone to
an out-of-network deductible, you may correct this error by calling BCBSM
at 800/562-7884.
Also, anytime you are referred
to a physician, especially out-of-state, you must check to see if the
doctor is part of the BCBS PPO network. If you are having surgery, you
must make sure that the hospital is part of the BCBS PPO network. Benefits
has received many calls from people who were referred to out-of-network
doctors and facilities in the Green Bay/Appleton/Rhinelander, Wis. area.
A referral will waive the deductible and co-payment, but will not prevent
the doctor and facility from charging several thousand dollars above the
BCBS approved rates--and these charges would be your responsibility!
To find out if a doctor or
facility is BCBS PPO, log on to the web site http://www.bluecares.com
and follow the menu. It is always best to call the doctor and hospital
directly and verify this information.
If you have any questions,
feel free to call the Benefits Office or email mawilcox@mtu.edu,
or Ingrid Cheney at iecheney@mtu.edu.
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A
DOZEN TEAMS SIGN ON FOR CLEAN SNOWMOBILE CHALLENGE
A dozen teams representing
universities from the length of North America's Snow Belt have registered
so far for the Society of Automotive Engineers' Clean Snowmobile Challenge,
coming in March to Michigan Tech.
The sleds will compete March
19-22 at the Keweenaw Research Center. This will be Michigan Tech's first
year hosting the event, which is being organized by the KRC and ME-EM
department.
The Clean Snowmobile Challenge
is the SAE's newest collegiate design competition. Teams of engineering
students from participating schools take a perfectly good stock snowmobile
and then reengineer it to reduce emissions and noise while maintaining
or improving performance.
In addition to Michigan Tech,
Clarkson University in New York, Colorado State University, Idaho State
University, Kettering University in Flint, Minnesota State University-Mankato,
State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Idaho, the
University of Waterloo in Ontario, the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and the University of Wyoming
have registered.
The teams will compete in a
series of events, including an endurance trek from the KRC to Copper Harbor.
Teams will also be judged on emissions, noise, acceleration, braking,
handling and fuel economy.
On Saturday, March 22, the
center's 500-acre test track will be opened to spectators for the handling
event.
More than 1,000 contestants,
volunteers and support personnel are expected to participate in the Clean
Snowmobile Challenge this winter, in addition to visitors coming to view
the competition. To fund the Challenge, organizers are raising $100,000.
To contribute, send your donation
to Clean Snowmobile Challenge 2003, Keweenaw Research Center, Michigan
Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931-1295.
If you would like to be a volunteer, contact Jay Meldrum at 487-3178,
jmeldrum@mtu.edu.
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NEW REPORTING
TOOLS CHOSEN
Submitted by Bobbie Dalquist,
Chair, Reporting Tools Committee
The reporting tool committee,
which is a subcommittee of the Cross Functional Planning Group formed
in December, has been working to find a replacement for our reporting
tool IQ. We recently made the decision to use the Oracle products Oracle
Reports, Discoverer and Portal Reports. The committee will continue to
meet to formulate our strategy for converting IQ reports to the Oracle
reporting tools.
At about the same time that
we chose a new reporting solution, the company that owns IQ informed us
that they are no longer going to provide enhancements to IQ, and they
will stop providing technical support for IQ on September 1, 2003. We
are currently testing to find out if IQ will work with the spring 2003
release of Banner, which will be installed in November 2003.
The committee has set up an
email list, report-l, for anyone who is involved in writing reports for
Banner data or is interested in report development to keep them up to
date on the conversion process and invite them to demos on data warehouses
and using the Oracle reporting tools.
More information about the
committee's work is located at http://www.admin.mtu.edu/acct/xfpg/reporting_tools.html
To subscribe to report-l, send
email to majordomo@mtu.edu, leave
the subject blank and in the body of the message type <subscribe report-l>.
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LABORATORY
SAFETY COURSE TO BE OFFERED
Professor Dan Crowl (Chemical
Engineering) will be offering a unique four-week laboratory safety course
during the end of the fall semester. It is listed as CM5310: Laboratory
Safety. The purpose of the course is to provide the technical and cultural
background necessary to operate and manage a laboratory safely. It is
recommended for anyone in a research or instructional laboratory wishing
to improve their understanding of laboratory safety. This includes laboratory
research assistants, supervisors, managers, advisors, faculty and others,
in all departments.
"The course is listed
as a graduate course in chemical engineering, but I would like to make
the course available to anyone else in the University community interested
in improving laboratory safety," said Crowl.
The course will be offered
beginning Nov. 12 and ending Dec. 12 and will meet on Tuesday and Thursday,
1-3 p.m. in EERC 315.
Anyone interested in attending
this class should contact Crowl at crowl@mtu.edu.
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FACULTY
AND STAFF RECEIVE FUNDING
Oner Arici (ME-EM) has received
$205,893 from Visteon for his project, "Visteon Climate Control and
Powertrain Research."
Terry McNinch (Civil &
Environmental Engineering) has received $47,083 from MDOT for his project,
"Research Record 2003."
Robert Nemiroff (Physics) has
received $16,044 for six months from the Smithsonian Institute for his
Request for Support for the Astronomy
Picture of the Day.
Lawrence Sutter (School of
Technology) has received $600,000 from the South Dakota Department of
Transportation for his project,
"Investigation of the
Long-Term Effects of Magnesium Chlorite and Other Concentrated Salt Solutions
on Pavement and Structural Portland Cement Concrete."
Gretchen Hein (Engineering
Fundamentals) has received $400,000 for four years from the National Science
Foundation for her project, "Graduate/Undergraduate Engineering Initiative
for Development and Enhancement (GUIDE)."
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TEACHING
AT TECH: REFLECTIONS FROM THE CLASSROOM
by William Kennedy, Director
Center for Teaching , Learning
and Faculty Development
I recently received a publication
from the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Kansas, "Reflections
from the Classroom: A Collection of Essays on Teaching Written by Notable
Teachers at the University of Kansas."* One of those essays, "A
Backward Glance at a Second Chance," by Professor Don Steeples, the
McGee Distinguished Professor of Geology, caught my attention.
Professor Steeples recalls
the time a colleague complained to him about a student who had shown up
on the last day of the drop period to request a "withdrew passing"
grade. Based on the fact that his colleague couldn't recall ever seeing
or talking to the student before this day, he categorically refused to
issue the grade. As a result, the student would receive a withdrew failing
grade on the permanent academic record. Later, the colleague commented
to Steeples, "Why did he wait until the last day to ask for the grade?"
Steeple's answer was that perhaps
the student had gotten behind, skipped some classes, realized that he
was not able to catch up, chose to ignore the increasingly desperate situation,
got depressed, and then tried to rectify the situation at the last possible
minute. In short, he acted like many 18-year-old students occasionally
do. To support his hypothesis, he told his colleague that he had once
lived through a similar crisis. Steeples asks us to remember throughout
this essay that poor performance in the classroom does not necessarily
denote a lack of ability or even a lack of preparation.
Steeples entered undergraduate
studies with ACT scores that landed him in honors everything. This high
school valedictorian, who had always completed his homework in his 45-minute
study hall, says that he made three initial mistakes that turned his undergraduate
experience into a lingering legacy of depression and personal failure.
First, he significantly underestimated the amount and consistency of effort
that would be required in college. Second, he entered a major that he
was not interested in to please his parents. Third, he took his advisor's
advice and entered the honors program.
Because he was an honors student,
the "C" he received in first-year English wound up losing him
three years of a four year scholarship that would have covered his tuition
and books. The financial burden placed on his parents fed into his rapidly
growing depression and diminishing sense of self-worth.
Error four occurred when Steeples
joined the football team. The demands of his engineering course work didn't
square well with the social and physical demands of his teammates, most
of whom were physical education majors. His grades continued to spiral
downward. His football career ended with an injury that required life-saving
brain surgery. During his recovery, he barely muddled through one or two
of his engineering classes but was forced to drop several others. Dropping
those courses, however, allowed him to earn an "A" in the introductory
geology class he truly liked. He recalls the day a hard-nosed geology
professor, after arguing heatedly with Steeples over some disputed points
on an examination, privately told Steeples that he had the talent to earn
a PhD in geology. That comment, that single personal affirmation from
a professor, changed the course of his life.
In spite of his dismal undergraduate
transcript, his Graduate Record Exam scores paved his way into graduate
school. He completed his graduate studies in 35 months, receiving his
PhD from Stanford and defending his dissertation with distinction. Only
then, he says, did he begin to feel a release from the lingering disappointment
and self-doubt that haunted him throughout his undergraduate and graduate
years.
Professor Steeples concludes
his essay by admitting that these harrowing life experiences now cause
him to tend toward compassionate accommodation when a student approaches
him for a second chance. Most often, he notes, we are asked to make such
a decision without knowledge of a student's home life, financial straits,
native trustworthiness, or the myriad of life's complexities that might
be impinging on that student at that moment. Steeples asks us to carefully
weigh the intentional and unintentional costs of answering yes or no when
a student gets up the courage to ask us for a second chance. The response
that we choose just might set the course for that student's life in ways
that we will never know.
*vol 5: Fall 2002
RAGTIME
VIRTUOSO TO PERFORM WITH KSO
submitted by the Department
of Fine Arts
Ragtime piano virtuoso Bob
Milne brings his dazzling style to Houghton when he appears as guest artist
with the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra in the Rozsa Center on Oct. 19-20.
Both concerts, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, and 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct.
20, will be conducted by Milton Olsson, chair of the Department of Fine
Arts.
Milne's entertaining performances
of ragtime and boogie-woogie receive rave reviews in his regular tours
of the U.S. and Asia. The Detroit News review is typical, calling Milne
"a spectacular pianist." From his home in Lapeer, he plays 200
concerts a year and is familiar to U.P. audiences from recent performances
in Calumet, Ontonagon and Crystal Falls. In the KSO concerts, Milne will
present a set of ragtime solos, complete with his humorous historical
commentaries, plus the premiere of his own composition, Concerto for Ragtime
Piano and Orchestra. The Concerto includes a bagpipe solo, which will
be played by Douglas McKenzie.
Milne is a respected educator
in the fields of music performance, improvisation and the history of ragtime
styles. Educated at the Eastman School of Music, he played French horn
with the Rochester, N.Y., Philharmonic and the Baltimore Symphony before
turning his avocation, ragtime, into a full-time career.
In addition to the Ragtime
Concerto and Milne's solos, the concerts will feature Schubert's Symphony
No. 6 and the premiere of "Melusina Calls to the Loon," composed
by Elizabeth Meyer during her tenure as Isle Royale National Park's Artist
in Residence in 1999. Meyer based the piece on loon calls, water sounds
and other bird and animal calls, achieving an effect that Olsson calls
"enchanting, filled with wonderful sonic effects." The piece,
scored for violin, flute, clarinet and strings, features Cori Somers,
the KSO's new concertmaster, as soloist.
Meyer earned a doctorate in
composition at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., before moving
to the Copper Country in 2001 as
executive director of the Copper
Country Suzuki Association and the KSO's principal violist. She has received
numerous commissions and grants from the American Composers Forum, the
Teacher Composer Alliance and the Wyatt Fund. Somers comes to the U.P.
from Kalamazoo, where she earned an M.A. in violin performance from Western
Michigan University. She has performed in several orchestras including
the Lansing Symphony, Battle Creek Symphony and Kalamazoo Symphony, and
performed in many solo, chamber music and orchestral festivals, including
the Pine Mountain Music Festival.
The KSO's guest artists are
supported by a grant from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.
Tickets for the concerts are available from Rozsa Center Ticketing Services,
487-3200, the SDC Central Ticket Office, Tech Express, Calumet Theatre
and on the web at http://www.tickets.mtu.edu.
The cost of tickets is $15 for the general public and $6 for students.
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CELEBRATE
"BEAUTIFUL MEXICO" IN FOOD AND MUSIC
"Mejico Lindo," or
"Beautiful Mexico," celebrates Mexican American culture on Friday,
Oct. 18, in the Memorial Union, and everyone is invited.
The event, set for 6:30-9 p.m.,
features a Mexican dinner catered by the Memorial Union and performances
by Vincente Vaaquez and David Chantaca. Their music ranges from traditional
Mexican (Pedro Infante) to songs by Santana.
For just $10 ($5 for children),
you can enjoy a live performance, and a delicious Mexican buffet that
will include mariachi drumsticks, creamy
guacamole, fiesta corn chowder, Spanish cornbread, beef and chicken enchiladas
and capirotada--bread pudding.
Tickets can be purchased in
advance at Educational Opportunity, in the Alumni House, from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.
The event is sponsored by Educational
Opportunity's Outreach and Multiethnic Programs. For more information,
call 487-2920.
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ARTIST
CHENG-KHEE CHEE VISITING MICHIGAN TECH
submitted by the Fine Arts
Department
Internationally recognized
watercolor artist Cheng-Khee Chee comes to Michigan Tech on Oct. 23-27
for the 2002 Guest Artist Residency sponsored by the Department of Fine
Arts. He will present four lecture-demonstrations illustrating his paintings
and creative techniques in the McArdle Theatre on Oct. 23-24. These two-hour
presentations are scheduled for 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Wednesday and 10
a.m. and 2 p.m on Thursday. All are free and open to the public.
"We invite everyone who
is interested in art of any kind to come to the demonstrations,"
said Residency coordinator Mary Ann Beckwith, professor of art. "Cheng-Khee
Chee is a wonderful artist and teacher--everyone will find something of
value in his presentations."
Cheng-Khee Chee's paintings
have been widely exhibited throughout the United States and Asia, earning
more than 150 national awards, including the highest awards from the American
Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Allied Artists of America,
Knickerbocker Artists USA, Singapore Watercolor Society and many others.
His work has been published in numerous books, including "The Watercolor
World of Cheng-Khee Chee" (1997). His illustrations for the book
"Old Turtle" by Douglas Wood received international attention,
with awards including the 1993 American Booksellers Association Children's
Book of the Year Award and the International Reading Association Children's
Book Award.
Chee is associate professor
emeritus of the University of Minnesota-Duluth, where he taught from 1965
to 1994, receiving the 1994 University of Minnesota system-wide Distinguished
Teaching Award. That same year, he was honored as "Duluth's Cultural
Ambassador to the World." He is frequently sought as a national show
juror and workshop instructor.
Born in Fujian, China, Cheng-Khee
Chee grew up in Penang, Malaysia, and received his BA in Singapore. He
came to the U.S. in 1962, completing his master's degree at the University
of Minnesota. In an artistic career shaped by both East and West, he has
explored and experimented with ways to synthesize the concepts and processes
of both traditions. His ultimate goal in painting, he says, is to achieve
the essence of Tao, the state of effortless creation. He hopes to produce
paintings that will be neither East nor West, realism nor abstraction,
but contain elements that communicate on a universal and timeless level.
This residency is supported
in part by the Incha Lee Memorial Fund. More information about this year's
Guest Artist Residency is available from the Department of Fine Arts,
487-2067.
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STRUT
YOUR STUFF WITH THE PROS
The internationally acclaimed
dance company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago comes to town for a single
performance at the Rozsa Center on Sunday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. The company
will also hold two 90-minute master classes in jazz dance for intermediate-level
area dance students, offering an excellent opportunity to receive instruction
from first class professional dancers. The classes will be held at 11:30
a.m. and 2 p.m. in Walker 210. The cost is $8 for MTU students with ID
and $12 for the general public. Participants should call the Rozsa Center
Box Office (487-3200, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday) to register.
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FRIENDS
OF THE LIBRARY TO MEET OCT. 29: ARCHIVIST
NORDBERG GUEST SPEAKER
The Friends of the J. R. Van
Pelt Library will be holding their annual meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 29,
at 4 p.m. in the Michigan Tech Archives, located on the third floor of
the Van Pelt Library. All interested persons are invited.
The speaker will be University
Archivist Erik Nordberg, who will discuss "Regional Historical Archives:
A Symbiosis of Collections and Community."
Although the archives' purpose
is to document the history of the University, their larger goal is to
document the broader history of the Copper Country. In this role as a
regional history center, the MTU Archives must maintain a close relationship
with the local community to ensure that historical events--and current
events, which quickly become historical events--are reflected in the archives'
holdings.
The Friends' annual meeting
will be held for the first time in the MTU Archives, allowing members
to see the new furniture that was purchased for the archives by a grant
from the Friends.
For more information, contact
Dee Vincent at 487-2871.
WEIGHT
WATCHERS MEETING MONDAY
Weight Watchers will hold their
regular meeting on Monday, Oct. 21, noon-1 p.m. in Memorial Union Alumni
Lounge B.
New members are always welcome.
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ADVANCED
PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR OCT. 17
Jay Polk of the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology will be presenting
a seminar, "An Overview of an Advanced Propulsion Technology Development
Program," on Thursday, Oct. 17, 3-4 p.m. in MEEM 112.
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DAY-LONG
WORKSHOP OCT. 29 ON GETTING TECH TRANSFER GRANTS
A workshop on getting funding
for technology development commercialization, "SBIR/STTR Grants:
How to Get Funded," will be held Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. in the Memorial Union Red Metal Room.
The Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant programs
are offered by all federal agencies that fund research.
The workshop will be conducted
by Lisa Kurek and Mickey Katz-Pek, managing partners of Biotechnology
Business Consultants, LLC. The program will focus generally on NIH and
NSF programs. However, the basic principles apply to all funding agencies.
This is an in-depth course
covering all aspects necessary for writing winning grants. Topics include
SBIR/STTR programs, concept validation and scoping out projects, the role
of SBIR/STTR in transferring technology from academia to industry, preparing
research and development proposals, unique aspects of SBIR/STTR budgets,
the importance of market research and knowing your customer, and putting
together a research and development collaboration with leading universities
and research institutes
To attend, RSVP to Jim Baker,
director of technology partnerships, at 487-2228 or jrbaker@mtu.edu by
5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24.
The Office of Intellectual
Property and Technology Commercialization and the Vice President for Research
are underwriting the workshop. The $25 fee will be waived for students,
staff and faculty of MTU. Lunch is included.
regular
features
NEW STAFF
Rita S. Korby has joined the
Memorial Union food services staff as cashier/dishwasher/cook. She previously
worked as a manager at three other food service establishments.
Korby enjoys sewing and reading.
She lives in Laurium with her husband, Dennis, and children April, Timothy
and Hannah.
Ronald Hutula has joined Facilities
as an electrician. He was previously employed as a journeyman electrician/supervisor
at Manderfield, Inc.
Hutala lives in Atlantic Mine
with his wife, Sandra, and children Neil and Nicole.
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IN THE
NEWS
The Michigan Tech FutureTruck
team was featured in an article, "Clean, Green Towin' Machines,"
by Associate Editor Amy Higgins in the Sept. 19 edition of Machine Design
Magazine. The MTU team took second place in FutureTruck 2002 with its
SUV unofficially named "Hybrid Theory."
"We plan to further increase
our fuel economy and cut emissions. Additions to the engine such as an
electronic throttle control and other emissions equipment should help,"
said team leader Nick Manor in the article.
To read the entire article
you can go to the magazine's web site at http://www.machinedesign.com
.
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MTU
NOTABLES
The following students were
awarded the DeVlieg Fellowships for the 2002-03 academic year: Angela
Arpke (Civil/Environmental Engineering), Nathalie Brandes (GMES), Salvadora
Keith (Social Sciences), Michael Larsen (Physics), Steven Mattson (ME-EM),
Torsten Mayrberger (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Marcel Potvin
(School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science), Daniel Rucinski
(Civil and Environmental Engineering), Jeremy Shannon (GMES), Bruce Szczechowski,
Jennifer Taylor, Steve Windels and Emily Wright (School of Forest Resources
and Environmental Science), and Frederick Young (Humanities).
The Charles DeVlieg Foundation
supports annual fellowships and fellowship supplements to MTU graduate
students who are U.S. citizens in any field of engineering or science
with an emphasis on environmental research. Selection is based on the
student's academic record, recommendation of the student's advisor and
the value of the award to the student's research and/or professional development.
Nominations are submitted to the graduate school dean, who determines
the recipients.
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October
National Disability Awareness
Month
17
Thursday
Noon--Live in the Lobby, Carp--Rozsa Center
3-4 p.m.--Seminar, "An Overview of an Advanced Propulsion Technology
Development Program"--MEEM 112
7 p.m.--Seminar, James Harrell, "Archaeological Geology in Egypt--Dow
642
8 p.m.--A Texas Romance--McArdle Theatre
18
Friday
Noon--Live in the Lobby, Johnny Perona and the Finn Woods Ramblers--Rozsa
Center
6/7:15 p.m.--Club Indigo dinner/movie--Calumet Theatre
6:30-9 p.m.--"Beautiful Mexico," dining and entertainment--Memorial
Union
8 p.m.--A Texas Romance--McArdle Theatre
19
Saturday
Noon--Football, Wayne State at MTU--Sherman Field
4 p.m.--Women's Volleyball, Ashland at MTU--SDC
8 p.m.--A Texas Romance--McArdle Theatre
8 p.m.--Ragtime Piano Virtuoso Bob Milne and the KSO--Rozsa Center
20
Sunday
2 p.m.--Women's Volleyball, Findlay at MTU--SDC
3 p.m.--Ragtime Piano Virtuoso Bob Milne and the KSO--Rozsa Center
21
Monday
Noon-1 p.m.--Meeting, Weight Watchers--Memorial Union Alumni Lounge B
23
Wednesday
2 and 7 p.m.--Lecture/demonstration, Cheng-Khee Chee--McArdle Theatre
24
Thursday
10 a.m. and 2 p.m.--Lecture/demonstration, Cheng-Khee Chee--McArdle Theatre
25
Friday
7:05 p.m.--Hockey, Minnesota at MTU--SDC
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MICHIGAN
TECH POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Job descriptions will be available
at 1 p.m. on Friday, or by e-mail at jobs@mtu.edu.
For a complete list of open
positions, see
http://www.admin.mtu.edu/hro/postings/index.shtml.
The following positions will
be posted Friday, October 18, 2002, at 1 p.m. through noon, Friday, October
25, 2002, in the Human Resources Office.
Coordinator of Greek Life--Office
of Student Affairs
University employees are reminded
to apply in writing prior to noon, Friday, October 25, 2002, to be considered
as internal candidates for bargaining unit positions only. Applicants
from the recall pool will be given first consideration for non-bargaining-unit
positions only. Vacancy announcements are normally posted every Friday
at 1 p.m. in the Human Resources Office. Complete job descriptions are
available in the Human Resources Office or by calling 487-2280. More information
regarding employment opportunities is available by calling the Job Line
at 487-2895. Michigan Technological University is an equal opportunity
educational institution/equal opportunity employer.
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