Recap the happenings from Alumni Reunion 2023. Learn more about last year's alumni award winners and inductees to the Presidential Council of Alumnae — and mark your calendars for Alumni Reunion 2024 — in our 2024 Michigan Tech Magazine.
Today (May 16) is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than 1 billion people with disabilities or impairments.
What is Digital Accessibility?
Digital accessibility refers to the ability of people with disabilities or impairments to independently consume and/or interact with digital applications and content. This includes digital documents, images, presentations, social media, software, audio/video, class materials and websites.
Removing digital barriers can help ensure everyone has access to the digital products and resources that are so important in our daily lives. In fact, you may not realize that you have benefitted from accessible technology. Talk to text, Siri, Alexa, closed captioning, audiobooks and mobile phone gestures are all great examples of how everyone benefits from inclusive and accessible technology.
The Accessible Technology Working Group (ATWG) at Michigan Tech is here to help. To learn more about how to make your digital assets accessible, visit our Training Resources page.
Visit the GAAD website for more information and ideas on how you can get involved.
If you’ve encountered an information and communication technology (ICT) barrier, please let us know by using our Barrier Reporting form.
Are you or one of your colleagues interested in building skills for solving problems and making improvements in the workplace? The Office of Continuous Improvement provides opportunities for free training and Lean systems certifications based on a belt system similar to how people advance in the martial arts, moving along a path of white, yellow, green and black belt certifications. Each belt level serves as a foundation for the next one.
White Belt
A white belt understands fundamental Lean concepts like flow and waste, can map a simple process, and is ready to actively participate in an improvement event.
Yellow Belt
In addition to white belt knowledge, a yellow belt applies more advanced Lean concepts, like root cause analysis, knows how to develop and execute basic countermeasures, and can recognize improvement opportunities. They’re able to complete straightforward projects on their own.
Green Belt
A green belt pioneers Lean in their units and supports improvement work in other units. They can initiate, co-facilitate and manage Lean kaizen. They’ve developed some expertise in Lean, are trained in soft skills like team dynamics and conflict management, and are able to mentor and teach others.
Black Belt
A black belt is a campuswide leader in our Lean transformation. They have advanced Lean knowledge, skills and abilities. Their experience and unflappable presence enables them to function as a coach or second coach, and they provide kaizen scoping and troubleshooting help to the green belts and others.
To see who has received formal Lean training and achieved belt certifications, visit our Lean Practitioners webpage.
The Vice President for Research Office (VPR) announces the Spring 2024 Research Excellence Fund (REF) award recipients. Congratulations to each of the awardees.
The REF team also wishes to thank the individual REF reviewers and review panelists, as well as the deans and department chairs, for their time spent on this important internal research award process.
The principal investigators of the awarded projects include:
Research Seed Grants:
The A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum is delighted to host Robert M. Hazen as the 2024 Edith D. and E. Wm. Heinrich Memorial Lecturer. His free public talk, titled “Mineral Evolution: A Case Study of a New Natural Law,” will be given tomorrow (May 17) at 7 p.m. in the ATDC Ford Conference Room.
Hazen, who is based at the Carnegie Institution for Science, is an esteemed scientist, author and speaker whose recent interests include mineral informatics, mineral evolution and the origin of life.
The lecture will be streamed live on Zoom (use passcode 137018).
Michigan Tech track and field middle distance runner Sam Lange has made the qualifying list in the 1,500 meters at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships, taking place in Emporia, Kansas, from May 23-25.
This marks Lange's first trip to nationals and the third straight year Michigan Tech track and field will be represented at the national meet.
Lange is the second 1,500m runner from Michigan Tech to compete in the men's metric mile at the championship meet, after Clayton Sayen competed in 2022 and 2023, advancing to the finals in 2022.
Read more at Michigan Tech Athletics.
Michigan Tech tennis student-athletes Chiara Heinz, Leon Sell and Vitor Jordao have been named to the 2024 Academic All-District Tennis teams, selected by College Sports Communicators. The organization recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom.
Heinz was named an All-GLIAC Honorable Mention and went undefeated in regular-season GLIAC doubles matches in the No. 3 position. She partnered with Emily Rose on six of the wins and Caoimhe McDonnell in the other. Heinz had a 5-2 record in her singles matches with three wins at No. 5 and two at No. 4. She has a 3.92 GPA in engineering management.
Sell was also an All-GLIAC Honorable Mention and teamed up with Jack Lin in the No. 1 doubles spot, going 3-3 in GLIAC matches. Sell also held a 1-4 record in singles, playing in the No. 3 slot all season. He has a 3.97 GPA in management.
Jordao earned the award for the second straight season. He had three doubles wins on the year. He added three singles wins in both the No. 1 and No. 2 positions, including a victory over NCAA Division I St. Bonaventure. He is also a recipient of the GLIAC's Pat Riepma Postgraduate Scholarship, and holds a 3.9 GPA as a dual major in mechanical engineering and engineering management.
Read more at Michigan Tech Athletics.
Job Postings for Thursday, May 16, 2024
Staff and faculty job descriptions are available on the Human Resources website. For more information regarding staff positions, call 906-487-2280 or email humanresources@mtu.edu. For more information regarding faculty positions, contact the academic department in which the position is posted.
Budget and Operations Coordinator, Center for Diversity and Inclusion. Apply online.
Department Coordinator, Waino Wahtera Center for Student Success. Apply online.
Food Service Helper (12 months/ 40 hours/ first shift) #24136, Dining Services (AFSCME posting dates May 16 to May 22, 2024 — external applicants are encouraged to apply; however, internal AFSCME applicants are given first consideration if they apply during the internal AFSCME posting dates). Apply online.
Food Service Helper (nine months/ 40 hours/ first shift) #24137, 24138, Dining Services (AFSCME posting dates May 16 to May 22, 2024 — external applicants are encouraged to apply; however, internal AFSCME applicants are given first consideration if they apply during the internal AFSCME posting dates). Apply online.
Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer that provides equal opportunity for all, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Accommodations are available. If you require any auxiliary aids, services, or other accommodations to apply for employment, or for an interview, at Michigan Technological University, please notify the Human Resources office at 906-487-2280 or humanresources@mtu.edu.
Jeremy Goldman (BioMed) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $17,589 research and development contract cost from Marquette University.
The project is titled "Deciphering the relationship between bioresorbable magnesium alloy corrosion and the inflammatory microenvironment of the neotinima."
This is a potential two-year project.
The Orlando Sentinel mentioned Michigan Tech as one of the 10 finalist teams in NASA’s 2024 Lunabotics Challenge. The first round of the competition ended Tuesday (May 14) at the University of Central Florida’s Exolith Lab. The finals will be held today and tomorrow (May 16-17) at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
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The Keweenaw Report picked up the Parade of Nations Committee’s announcement naming Isabella Tampas of Lake Linden-Hubbell High School the winner of the parade’s 2024 logo contest. The story ran Wednesday (May 15) in Tech Today.
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Moon Travel Guides mentioned Michigan Tech in a two-week road trip guide to exploring the Upper Peninsula.
PhD Defense: Utkarsh Chaudhari, ChE
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering candidate Utkarsh Chaudhari will present their dissertation defense today (May 16) at 1 p.m. The presentation will be in person in H-STEM 248 and virtually via Zoom.
Chaudhari's defense is titled “Sustainability Assessment of Circular Economy in PET and Polyolefin Plastics Supply Chains in the U.S. and Michigan: A Systems Analysis Approach.”
Chaudhari is advised by David Shonnard.
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Chemical Engineering Advisor: David Shonnard SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN PET AND POLYOLEFIN PLASTICS SUPPLY CHAINS IN THE U.S. AND MICHIGAN: A SYSTEMS...
*****Attention all Michigan Tech alumni and friends in the Raleigh-Durham area! Join Madison Paul '19 for a social gathering at Trophy Brewing & Taproom on Thursday, May 16, 2024,...
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