• Hands using a lock pick on a padlock.

    Home on the Cyber Range

    In a sunlit Fisher Hall classroom, students at long tables bend intently over piles of golden keys, red plastic key molds, latch bypass tools, metal barrel tumblers, and handheld key cutters. Instructor Victoria Walters, professor of practice in the Department of Applied Computing, roams the rows, offering advice. Special guests—students from the College of Computing's highly ranked MTU RedTeam—answer questions. The topic du jour is lock-picking.

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On the cover: There isn’t a corner of campus where the College of Computing isn’t collaborating. Find out how and why we’re connecting the dots at Michigan Tech, across the state, and across industries.


Gateway Magazine, published by the Michigan Tech College of Computing.

Summer 2025

  • Executive Editor: Dennis Livesay
  • Managing Editor: Cyndi Perkins
  • Production Manager: Will Schuett
  • Copy Editor: Jessie Tobias
  • Design: Jen Withers
  • Comments to the editor:cmperkin@mtu.edu