Outreach

Michigan Tech is one of five universities nationwide selected to receive a 2009 Ford College Community Challenge grant. The funding will enable undergraduates to work with community groups and schools to help winterize homes of elderly residents of the community. 

The Family Engineering program helps families work together to discover what engineering is, how to solve engineering problems and inspire some youngsters to pursue education and careers in engineering.

MentorNet links students and young teachers with professionals for career guidance.  

A group of Grand Rapids middle-school science teachers are spending this week at Michigan Tech, finding ways to make earth science more engaging for students.

IBM is opening a Global Rail Innovation Center in Beijing, China, and the company has tapped Michigan Tech as one of only two university partners. The other is MIT.

Scientists should take a stand in the environmental policy debate.

Africa is dotted with monuments to what doesn't work. Terry Woychowski wanted to build something that would.

Two Michigan Tech deans have been appointed to serve on the Great Lakes Wind Council.

CN, one of the largest railroads in North America, today announced it has donated $250,000 to Michigan Technological University's Rail Transportation Program to create the CN Rail Transportation Education Center (CN RTEC).

Michigan Tech has awarded scholarships for summer programs to three Detroit-area high school students for their entries in the Science and Engineering Fair of Metropolitan Detroit.