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There’s a new Director at the helm of the Michigan Tech Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC). His research in acoustics and noise control tailors well with the mission of the GLRC, which seeks to educate the scientists, engineers, technologists, policymakers and stakeholders about the Great Lakes basin.
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Teeth are kind of like ceramics—except that while china plates shatter when smashed against each other, our teeth don’t, and it’s because they are full of defects. Those defects are what inspire research led by Susanta Ghosh, who examines the microarchitecture of brittle materials like glass and ceramics.
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Michigan Tech alumna Audra Thurston ’18 has a degree in chemical engineering, but after an internship at circuit board manufacturer Calumet Electronics, her career took an unexpected turn. Thurston’s experience was held as an example of current trends in small business and STEM education. She shared her story at a White House event last July.
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Daisuke Minakata simulates the conditions of natural sunlight, analyzing the photochemical fate of organic compounds in the surface water of Lake Superior. Specifically, he’s interested in the impact of amino acids, an important source of energy for microorganisms. When the sun shines on amino acids, they synthesize, degrade and result in new byproducts, including carbon dioxide.
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 Michigan Tech students earned First Place at the ASM International Undergraduate Design Competition for their project, "Cobalt reduction in Tribaloy T-400". The team used advanced techniques CALPHAD (Pandat) with machine learning (Bayesian Optimization) to identify new and promising alloy substitutions. Michigan Tech took first place last year for an aluminum alloy project.
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Carolynn Que, biomedical engineering graduate student, explains how one hallway conversation changed her career. “My first thoughts were that she must be mistaking me with someone else; I had two classes with her and she had to know I’m not at the top of my class. I think she did know but she gave me a chance—and I haven’t looked back since. I have been working with Dr. Smitha Rao in the Biomedical MicroDevices lab for almost a year now.”
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“There’s no sitting around wondering the answer to a question—just Google it. Rote learning can be done at home or on the beach. To survive, we have to provide students with a reason to come to campus and to provide funders with a reason to support transformational educational research that will move us ever forward.”
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