Partnerships and Innovation

MTUengineering

In the College of Engineering, our research efforts range from single-investigator, one-year projects to complex multi-disciplinary projects involving several companies and government entities, spanning years.

Whether the work takes place on campus, with industry, or in developing nations, we seek to engage issues of critical importance.

We believe that multi-institutional collaboration is vital. We’re working to forge new partnerships and connections. We welcome all inquiries.

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Pasi Lautala, PE

  • Associate Dean for Research
  • Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
  • Director, Rail Transportation Program, Michigan Tech Transportation Institute
  • $15M
    from NSF for the Great Lakes Innovation Hub
  • $8M
    in combined funding for a new recycling process technology to extract pure polypropylene (PP) from multilayer plastic packaging waste
  • $53.1M
    investment in the H-STEM Engineering and Health Technologies Complex
  • $18.5M
    in federal funding to expand infectious disease research
  • $15M
    invested in Ultra-Strong Composites by Computational Design
Ezra Bar Ziv
At Michigan Tech, Ezra Bar-Ziv, a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is now working to develop the pilot scale application of STRAP.

REMADE Institute Grant Supports MTU, UW-Madison, and Braskem America for Circular Re-use of Multilayer Plastic Waste

The REMADE Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) public-private partnership, will provide $600K in funding for a new recycling process technology to extract pure polypropylene (PP) from multilayer plastic packaging waste. The project is a partnership between Michigan Technological University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Braskem America, all of which are providing additional foundational project funding to develop new Solvent Targeted Recycling and Precipitation (STRAP) technology.

2024 Partnerships

2023 Partnerships

2022 Partnerships

2021 Partnerships

“The State of Michigan has been laser-focused on building the talent necessary to make Michigan the best place to build the future.”Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II on supporting the mobility industry workforce
“94% of tech industry executives consider innovation partnerships a necessary strategy.”Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, Taha Masood, and Andy Ouderkirk, Harvard Business Review