School of Technology

Associate Professor, School of Technology

Yu Cai is an assistant professor in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech. His areas of interest include computer networking and engineering education. Cai has extensive industry experience as a software analyst and network engineer, with his past clients including IBM and Ford. His credentials include the following:

• Microsoft Certified Database . . .

Senior Lecturer, School of Technology

Ronald Mauno is a senior lecturer in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech. Mauno’s areas of expertise are construction safety, CAD (e.g., AutoCAD, Carlson, and Revit), material testing (e.g., soils, aggregate, and concrete), and surveying fundamentals. He advises the Michigan Tech Chapter of the National Association of Home Builders.

Mauno has been . . .

Professor of Practice, School of Technology

Bob Maatta is a professor of practice in the computer network and system administration program in the School of Technology. He joined the School in the Fall of 2011 after several years in the School of Business and Economics, and a career as a consultant with IBM. He is a Sun . . .

Lecturer, School of Technology

Danny Miller is a lecturer in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech. His areas of expertise are UNIX system administration and computer networking.

Miller is an educational member of the System Administrators Guild, which is a special technical group within the Advanced Computing Systems Association. He is also active within the local . . .

Associate Professor, School of Technology

Dr. Jinshan Tang is currently an associate professor of the computer network and administration program in the School of Technology at Michigan Technological University. He got his PhD degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and received postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and National Institute of Health.

From 1998 to 2000, he . . .

Lecturer, School of Technology

Todd O. Arney is a Lecturer in Computer Network and System Administration in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech.  His areas of expertise are Linux based systems with an emphasis on the practical application of theory and real-world network and system administration.  With over 18 years of experience working in . . .

Associate Professor, School of Technology

Nasser Alaraje is an associate professor and program chair of electrical engineering technology in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech. Prior to his faculty appointment at the University, he was employed by Lucent Technologies as a hardware design engineer, from 1997 to 2002, and by vLogix as chief hardware design . . .

Assistant Professor, School of Technology

Paul Buda is an assistant professor in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech. His areas of expertise are pedagogy and the application of academic/administrative software. Buda is a member of the Michigan Society of Professional Surveyors and holds an NCEE Fundamentals of Land Surveying certificate. His professional honors include . . .

Associate Professor, School of Technology

Eugene Levin is an associate professor and program chair of surveying engineering, as well as the director of the integrated geospatial technology graduate program in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech. His areas of expertise are photogrammetry—the design, development, customization, integration, and delivery of off-the-shelf commercial and research software . . .

Assistant Professor, School of Technology

Paul Buda is an assistant professor in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech. His areas of expertise are pedagogy and the application of academic/administrative software. Buda is a member of the Michigan Society of Professional Surveyors and holds an NCEE Fundamentals of Land Surveying certificate. His professional honors include . . .

Lecturer, School of Technology

Lynn Artman is a lecturer in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech. Artman’s areas of expertise include construction project management and project control. She advises two student groups on campus: the student chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America and the Efficiency through Engineering and Construction Enterprise (ETEC). The . . .

Assistant Professor, School of Technology

Dr. Aurenice Oliveira joined the Electrical Engineering Technology program at Michigan Technological University in spring 2007. She received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil in 1995, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil in 1998, and . . .

Associate Professor, School of Technology

Mark Johnson is an associate professor in the School of Technology and holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Tech.

Johnson’s areas of expertise are lean manufacturing practices, manufacturing and service-sector simulation, the design of experiments, power transmission using turbo-fluid machinery, and the design of hydraulic . . .

Lecturer, School of Technology

Ted Anderson, a lecturer in the School of Technology, joined the Michigan Tech faculty in 1984. Previously, Anderson worked for fourteen years in a small-electronic manufacturing business in the design, prototyping, testing, and manufacturing of strain-gage instrumentation, custom educational laboratory equipment, custom electronic scales, and portable (static and dynamic) weighing and . . .

Assistant Professor, School of Technology

Chunming Gao is an assistant professor in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech. Prior to his faculty appointment at the University, he was employed by the Bank of China, Shandong as a senior software engineer and a director of the IT department, from 1991 to 1999, and by the Michigan Tech Library as a senior database administrator, from 2005 to 2007.

Gao's areas of expertise are efficient algorithm designs, data management, systems security, and innovative HCI designs. . . .

Associate Professor, School of Technology

Guy Hembroff is an associate professor and program chair of computer network and system administration in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech. His areas of expertise are network engineering, medical/health informatics, Internet security, and programming.

Hembroff is the principal investigator on two healthcare projects for local clients: UP Healthcare Health Information . . .

Assistant Professor, School of Technology

Yushin Ahn is an assistant professor of surveying engineering as well as of the integrated geospatial technology graduate program in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech. His area of expertise is digital photogrammetry, digital mapping, sensor modeling/calibration, 3D reconstruction from remote sensing data, polar region monitoring and change detection.

Associate Professor, School of Technology

John Irwin is an associate professor and program chair of mechanical engineering technology in the School of Technology at Michigan Tech. His areas of expertise include jig, fixture, and gage design; the design and manufacture of environmental simulation chambers and A/C units for locomotives and mass-transit units; and the design and . . .

Assistant Professor, School of Technology

Sunil Mehendale is an Assistant Professor in the School of Technology at Michigan Technological University.  Prior to joining Michigan Tech as a faculty member, he worked for Carrier Corporation, Syracuse, NY as a Staff Engineer and Scientist in the Heat Transfer Technology and Components group.  There, he was responsible for . . .