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Waino Wahtera Center for Student Success
Administration Building, 1^st floor
The Center is dedicated to making a positive impact in the lives of Michigan Tech’s students by helping them develop attitudes, values, and skills that enhance their academic and personal success.

Ion Space Propulsion lab
ME-EM, room B007C
The ISP Lab explores the fundamental operating processes in plasma space thrusters, works to improve the performance of existing technologies, and investigates innovative new devices and methods for in-space propulsion. Also, the lab houses the student Aerospace Enterprise, which won the University Nanosat 6 competition and will launch its satellite into orbit aboard a Department of Defense rocket this year.

Fernstrum Family Adaptable Classroom
ME-EM, room 402
A dazzling array of the latest instructional technology includes iPads, laptops, video camera and voice recorder, the capability to project larger-than-life images of 3D objects and an audiovisual system that allows the professor to enhance teaching through seamless integration of technology.

Applied Portfolio Management Program and LSGI trading room
Academic Building
Real money, real investments, real business—the APMP helps students prepare for a career in finance or wealth management by gaining firsthand experience. Students have access to Michigan Tech’s sophisticated Bloomberg Terminal (one of only two in Upper Michigan) and spend time in the trading lab analyzing real-time market data, researching price quotes, and placing trades.

William G. Jackson Center for Teaching and Learning
Library
The Center works to continuously improve teaching and learning at all instructional levels at Michigan Tech. The center brings together technological tools to upgrade teaching, learning, learning assessment and student assessment of teaching.

Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor
Poster session set up in library
Although based 500 miles from Michigan Tech’s campus, MTRI is an integral part of the university. Its scientists and technicians are Tech faculty members and staff, and MTRI offers undergraduate and graduate research internships each summer. In addition to national security work, the institute applies information technology solutions to problems in infrastructure and the natural environment.

Paul and Susan Williams Center for Computer Systems Research
EERC, 5th floor
This 10,000-square-foot center provides a space where Michigan Tech’s computer scientists and engineers can put their heads together. The Williams Center supports research on real-time, high-performance computing and information processing; computer-aided design of digital systems; and embedded and distributed computer systems.

Student Enterprise—Blue Marble Security
EERC, room 637
This student-led virtual company combines a rich educational experience in engineering design, team building, project management, and original product development. Students work to develop security solutions for people in their homes, for local governments to protect their communities, for industries to protect their workers and their infrastructure, and for international markets. More than 50 students participate in a wide variety of projects.

Outdoor Adventure Program
O’Connor House, Townsend Drive
As a prime location for outdoor adventures, such as kayaking, canoeing, backpacking, and climbing, the OAP embraces the adventurous spirit of Michigan Tech and strives to get students, faculty, staff, and community members outside and active!

Humanities Digital Media Zone
Walker, 1^st floor
The HDMZ is a computing, language-resource, and media-production facility that features Macintosh and PC computers with an assortment of digital media software.

Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership
M&M building, room 722
This four-year technological leadership program promotes in students an innovative and visionary entrepreneurial spirit, teaches them communication and people skills, and gives them a broad perspective of the world. The program ends in a five-week global experience where students select and implement their own projects abroad.

Sustainable Futures Institute
Poster session set in Great Lakes Research Center
The Institute is an incubator for research, education and outreach efforts related to sustainability, overseeing such projects as Wood to Wheels, Advanced Power Systems and student enterprise programs and coursework in sustainability. The SFI has over 100 participating campus members and oversees more than $15 million in research projects addressing all areas of sustainable systems development.

Great Lakes Research Center named-labs
Great Lakes Research Center
The GLRC provides state-of-the-art laboratories to support research on a broad array of topics. Faculty members from many departments across campus collaborate on interdisciplinary research, ranging from air–water interactions to biogeochemistry to food web relationships.

Seaman Mineral Museum
1404 Sharon Ave.
The museum and its 25,000 specimens are located in a new building adjacent to the Advanced Technology Development Complex. The museum hosts the world’s finest collection of Keweenaw Copper District minerals, as well as the most comprehensive collection of Michigan minerals and one of the best fluorescent mineral exhibits in the US. The collection includes many individual specimens that are the best of their species.

Hybrid Electric Vehicle Mobile Lab
SDC lot
The Michigan Tech Mobile Lab is a fully outfitted laboratory housed in an expandable, double-wide trailer. The mobile lab partners with government, industry, and nonprofit organizations to deliver education, outreach, and research across the nation, from small communities to the nation’s capital.

Student Development Complex
Ice arena, Opie suites, Rockwell lobby, video board, stadium turf, women’s soccer
The SDC is awash in campaign-funded projects, from the state-of-the-art video scoreboard, to the turf on Sherman Field, to the lobby and the hockey suites, and the championship women’s soccer team. Coaches and student-athletes will guide visitors through the facility and share the key role athletics plays on campus.