Michigan Tech News Archives

April 08, 2020

MTU Engineers Build Mobile Unit to Clean COVID-19 PPE

Michigan Tech and Therma-Tron-X, Inc. are building prototypes that use heat to clean
personal protective equipment.

A refrigerated shipping container. Commercial-grade baking sheets. A modified oven. These are the key pieces of a prototype that uses heat to sanitize personal. . . Read More

April 02, 2020

MTU Huskies Zoom in to Help Community Connect

Michigan Tech is doing a lot of Zooming these days. Student-tutors in the Building
Adult Skills In Computing program are going to teach community members how to use
it, too.

Digital communication matters — maybe now more than ever. That’s why the Michigan Technological University tutors who teach folks how to clear technological. . . Read More

March 24, 2020

Researchers Investigate Pumped Storage in Retired Underground Mines

Historic copper and iron mines throughout the Upper Peninsula could be a way to store
energy for local communities.

Three professors from Michigan Technological University and Texas A&M University are investigating a method to store power generated by alternative power sources by making . . . Read More

March 19, 2020

Michigan Tech’s World Water Day Moves Online

Michigan Tech will celebrate World Water Day March 23 and 24 with speakers, an art exhibit and poster competition—virtually. . . . Read More

March 16, 2020

MTU Profs Shift Teaching and Labs to Remote Instruction

The University will be doing remote instruction for the rest of the semester.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then rapidly shifting to remote instruction to slow the spread of COVID-19 is the mother of all classroom flips. . . . Read More

March 04, 2020

Almost Alien: Antarctic Subglacial Lakes are Cold, Dark and Full of Secrets

The camp above Whillans Subglacial Lake sits 800 meters above the water. Credit: JT
Thomas

Getting water samples from an Antarctic lake under 800 meters of ice takes days of drilling, precise equipment, lots of patience and an eagerness to understand one of . . . Read More

March 03, 2020

Solar for the People

The village of L'Anse installed a 340-panel, 110.5 kilowatt community solar array
last summer with help from Michigan Tech and other partners.

L’Anse leverages utility and university partnerships, as well as the know-how of its greatest asset, its citizens, to establish community solar. . . . Read More

February 27, 2020

Five Things You Can't Recycle Curbside and What Michigan Tech Students Are Doing About It

Students living in the Sustainability Demonstration House brandish one of the latest
contributionsâ€”from Milwaukee Tools. Huskies actively seek partnerships to upgrade
the former Michigan Tech presidential residence that now serves as a community-wide
education resource.

Save the date — and your (clean and dry) granola wrappers. . . . Read More

February 27, 2020

MTU Engineers Zap and Unstick Underwater Smart Glue

Biomedical engineers Bruce Lee and Saleh Akram Bhuiyan test catechol-containing adhesives
to make underwater smart glue.

With a small zap of electricity, biomedical engineers at Michigan Technological University take an underwater smart glue prototype from sticky to not in seven seconds. . . . Read More

February 26, 2020

Like Snowflakes, Soot Particles Are Unique—Affecting Climate Modeling

Atmospheric soot particles as seen under a transmission electron microscope are coated
by organic and inorganic materials. Different particles collected from the atmosphere,
even the same location and at the same time, can present very different amounts of
coating from particle to particle. This heterogeneity has an effect on the ability
of soot to absorb radiation.

New understanding of modeling soot in the atmosphere underscores the importance of reducing carbon emissions. . . . Read More