See where Michigan Tech can take you.
Every Husky's path is different. Meet current students and recent graduates who are putting their education into action—through hands-on experiences, research, internships, student organizations, and the careers they're building after Michigan Tech.
Explore their stories to see what they've learned, what they've accomplished, and the opportunities they found along the way.
Ruth (geospatial engineering) took her love of math and found a major that combines data, maps, art, and the outdoors. She and a team of students recently partnered with the National Park Service at Isle Royale. Using land surveying, they helped map buried power lines so crews could dig safely and measured dock depths to help boats reach shore.
Carter (biomedical engineering) works with nanofibers that may one day help repair human tissue. When he saw that humidity could change how fibers formed, he wanted to know why. Professor Smitha Rao helped him turn that question into an experiment he could lead.
Being part of Michigan Tech's Advanced Snowmobile Enterprise team helped Jared (mechanical engineering) earn an internship before his second year. He then went on to complete a co-op and two more internships. Before graduation, he accepted a full-time job as a mechatronics engineer.
Three MTUengineering students developed a hypogravity simulator prototype from scratch as part of MoonStep, their NASA-funded capstone Senior Design project. Using elastics and pulleys to offload five-sixths of a person's body weight, the simulator mimics the gravitational conditions on the moon's surface. Now, a new team of Huskies are refining the next generation of the MoonStep simulator.
A team of undergraduate Computing[MTU] students helped create Space Trash, a video game that tracks how players move. They connected motion controls, improved the game, and built tools that help researchers read the data. One day, that data could help spot early signs of Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease.
As a student seven hours from home, Aili (statistics) met friends at Michigan Tech by trying new things—Rowing Club, tutoring in the Math Learning Center, and medical research, where she used data to study links between heart disease and Alzheimer's disease. By graduation, she helped publish three research papers and served as lead author on another.
Hieu (accounting) knows details matter—in his accounting courses and outside of class, where he helps run one of Tech's biggest winter traditions: broomball. He's not only learning how business works, but how to make it work.
Winter ticks are a growing problem for moose, and Grace (applied ecology) is researching a way to reduce the winter tick populations using essential oil from balsam fir trees native to the region.
JoAnn (chemical engineering) joined Michigan Tech's Alternative Energy Enterprise as a first-year student because she wanted real project experience. Now, she's helping turn discarded plastic into usable fuel.
Alyssa (software engineering) met the company Creative Mines at Michigan Tech's Career Fair and landed a co-op. There, she built web apps for real clients, met with the people who would use them, and showed them her own code. Some of her work went live the very next day.
Nathan (chemical engineering) knew college would cost more than his family had planned. Then he received the Working Families Scholarship through the Thompson Scholar Program. It helped make Michigan Tech possible and connected him with a community built around learning, service, and support.
During her college search, software engineering student Elise (software engineering) compared 35 colleges. She looked at cost, scholarships, job placement, salary, and more. Tech checked all the boxes—even as a student from Minnesota.
Colten (engineering management) discovered WMTU, Michigan Tech’s student-run radio station, during his first year—he found friends and a reason to get involved. As the station’s general manager, he leads meetings, manages resources, and uses skills from class to keep the station moving. WMTU became more than something to do. It became a place to belong and grow.
Through the Applied Portfolio Management Program, Elijah (finance) helps manage real money and pitch investment ideas in the College of Business Trading Lab. On-campus leadership opportunities and road trips for corporate visits and international investment competitions helped Tech became a place where he feels he matters and belongs.