October 26, 2022

The Van Pelt and Opie Library is hosting a trial of Academic Video Online (AVON) which will run until Dec. 16. You can access the trial from the library’s Databases A-Z page. Please send us your feedback on this trial before Dec. 20 by emailing library@mtu.edu.

Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas, including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music and more. Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) in Academic Video Online makes it a useful resource for students, faculty and staff.

One of the Student Affairs division values states, “We inspire the leadership needed for all individuals to boldly push everyday boundaries while serving others.” For over 25 years, Michigan Tech has hosted the LeaderShape Institute as a way to do just that.

LeaderShape Institute is a four-day retreat that helps students identify their values and gain confidence in their leadership skills through self-assessment, intensive small group discussions, team building challenges and more. By leading with passion, integrity and a healthy disregard for the impossible, participants explore who they are and the impact that they want to have on their communities. LeaderShape Institute 2023 will be held Jan. 4-7 at the Ford Center in Alberta, Michigan, just prior to the start of the spring 2023 semester.

Do you know a student who is involved across campus? How about one who isn’t, but has shown you their passion for a specific cause or concern? How about someone who is still figuring out the direction they hope to pursue in life? We know leaders have a wide variety of experiences and don’t need to hold a position or a title to impact their community. No matter who they are, how they are involved on campus, or what their future goals are — this program could benefit a student you’re connected with.

Are you already thinking of someone? Invite them to apply! Applications are available online now through Nov. 14.

Are you interested in being involved in this program? Contact Student Leadership and Involvement at activities@mtu.edu to learn how you could contribute to this meaningful experience.

Today (Oct. 26) is WIBIT Wednesday at the SDC Pool!

MTU students and SDC Access Pass holders (minimum one-month), come make a splash with our new inflatable pool obstacle course called the WIBIT!

At WIBIT events being held this fall, you can test your individual skills on the course or challenge your friend to a race across the obstacles. The course is set up in the deep water and requires users to be able to pass our swim test. (Please see the WIBIT rules and swim test requirements at our website.)

The WIBIT has many different pieces and each event will have a featured combination. Potential featured pieces include:

• The Step — This piece allows users to climb up onto the course.
• The Base — Users must make their way across a horizontal surface. Be careful how fast you move, as it can get slippery!
• The Cliff — Users must navigate either side of a slope using the handles and their balancing skills.
• V-Connect — Users must use limited footing space to navigate across the horizontal structure.
• The Bridge — Users must navigate up and over an arched structure without falling through.
• The Slope — Users must climb up a six-foot wall that leads to a slide into the pool water below!

Featured Combinations:

• Wednesday, Oct. 26 — Step/V-Connect/Cliff/Slope
• Wednesday, Nov. 30 — Step/Bridge/Cliff/Slope

Times:

• 5-7 p.m. — Current SDC Access Pass holders (minimum one-month)
• 7:30-9:30 p.m. — Current MTU students

Come visit us at the pool to try out your skills!

Tonight (Oct. 26) at 6 p.m., Brian Forist will share his research on “The Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the Copper Country.” Please join us via Zoom for this free and open event!

The Keweenaw County Historical Society School at the Gay Museum has a set of floor looms built for and used by women employed by the WPA to weave rag rugs to sell in a craft shop along U.S. 41 near Ahmeek. Viewing these looms in 2021 inspired Forist’s research on Gay Industries and other New Deal-era programs employing women in the Keweenaw. He will be sharing what he learned during his visit to the Michigan Tech Archives in June 2022 and new directions for research.

Forist is a parks, recreation, and the outdoors faculty member at Indiana University and has worked as a national park ranger and environmental educator in natural and cultural history settings. His interest in the New Deal began when he worked in the Youth Conservation Corps in Hiawatha National Forest, living at a camp built by men in the Civilian Conservation Corps.

If you have any questions about the Archives' Travel Grant Program Speaker Series or our other programs and services, please contact University Archivist Lindsay Hiltunen at lehalkol@mtu.edu or copper@mtu.edu.

Be sure to follow the Michigan Tech Archives on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!

The Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics' (ME-EM's) next Graduate Seminar Speaker will present at 4 p.m. tomorrow (Oct. 27) in MEEM 112.

Javad Baqersad is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the director of the Noise, Vibration, and Harshness and Experimental Mechanics Laboratory at Kettering University.

Saturday (Oct. 29) is the annual Tadych's Marketplace Foods Kids Day at Michigan Tech. Tadych's Marketplace Foods of Houghton has purchased 500 youth tickets for Saturday's Michigan Tech Athletic events that it will give away beginning today (Oct. 26) at noon. 

The tickets are for children high school age and under and are available for both events on Saturday — football against Grand Valley State at 1 p.m. at Kearly Stadium and hockey versus St. Lawrence at 6:07 p.m. at the John MacInnes Student Ice Arena. Fans are encouraged to only take tickets to the games they will attend.

Tadych's Marketplace Foods will give away the tickets on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at noon today. They are free of charge, and anyone can pick up the youth tickets.

Michigan Tech Athletics and Tadych's have partnered together annually for more than a decade on Kids Day.

The Michigan Tech soccer team is wrapping up the regular season by hosting Northern Michigan for Senior Day on Friday (Oct. 28) at 5 p.m.

Fans can catch both games on FloSports, as part of the four-year media partnership with the GLIAC beginning this fall. The game will also be aired locally on FOX-UP with Davie Ellis on the call.

Read the preview at the Michigan Tech Athletics website.

Thursday (Oct. 27)
• Apex Legends vs. Various, 7 p.m. Phase One Fall Series Finals
• Super Smash Brothers: Ultimate vs. Oakland, 7 p.m. NACE Starleague Conference Championship
• Overwatch 2 vs. Siena Heights, 7 p.m. NACE Starleague
• League of Legends vs. Minnesota State, 7 p.m. NACE Starleague

Friday (Oct. 28)
• CSGO vs. TBD, 7 p.m. NACE Starleague Conference Championship
• Overwatch 2 vs. Concordia Texas, 7:30 p.m. Activision-Blizzard Collegiate
• Overwatch 2 vs. McMaster, 9 p.m. Activision-Blizzard Collegiate

Times are subject to change. Check Twitter @MTUEsports for updates.

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Esports News
Read more in the MTU Esports weekly update.

MLive quoted Stephen Techtmann (BioSci) and David Shonnard and Rebecca Ong (ChE) in a story about Techtmann’s BioPROTEIN project, which recycles plastic waste into edible protein. They spoke about their roles in the project and its next steps moving forward.

The story was picked up by the Pentagon’s Stars and Stripes news service. The research was also highlighted in Michigan Tech’s 2022 Research Magazine.

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Valoree Gagnon (CFRES/GLRC) and Erika Vye (GLRC) were interviewed by WLUC TV6 in a broadcast about the two-day Indigenous Knowledges Symposium hosted by Michigan Tech on Oct. 24-25.

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House Digest referenced the Michigan Tech Center for Student Mental Health and Well-being’s Self-Care Space webpage in a story about creating “the ultimate self-care space” in your home. 

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The Keweenaw Report mentioned Michigan Tech in a story about manufacturing education showcased at Hancock High School last Friday (Oct. 21).

The school and the SME Education Foundation invited guests including local manufacturers and professors from select Michigan Tech departments to see what the students were working on.

Info Night: 2023 Amtrak Tourism Faculty-Led Study Away

Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 Amtrak Tourism: Trains, Cities, and Sustainability faculty-led study away. The program is only $1,000 plus tuition, and makes six stops over 19 days where students can earn 6-10 HASS and PE credits.

Anyone interested is welcome to attend an informational session in the Academic Office Building Commons (AOB 209) at 5:30 p.m. today (Oct. 26). There will be snacks.

You can also reach out to the faculty director and co-director directly: Mark Rhodes at marhodes@mtu.edu and Kathryn Hannum at khannum@mtu.edu.

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CEGE Alumni Speaker Series: 'A Husky Heads South for Traffic Engineering'

The next presenter in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering (CEGE) Alumni Speaker Series is Alex Hainen, associate professor at the University of Alabama.

Hainen will present the virtual webinar "A Husky Heads South for Traffic Engineering" at noon Thursday (Oct. 27) via Zoom.

Since graduating from MTU in 2009, Hainen has been involved with traffic engineering and traffic signals with many departments of transportation across the country. He started his faculty work at the University of Alabama in 2014 and started his research by deploying the Federal Highway Administration’s ATSPM platform for the Alabama Department of Transportation.

Growing from the original 85 intersections to now nearly 500 intersections, Hainen is involved with collecting data and working with engineers to study new ways to optimize traffic signal operations. Through these endeavors, he has also been engaged with every traffic signal manufacturer and nearly every traffic detection manufacturer. The next phase of this work focuses on trajectory control and leveraging basic safety message (BSM) data in modern traffic signal controllers. This talk will highlight many of these projects.

All of this was started by Professors Emeriti Bill Sproule and Bernie Alkire, and Associate Professor Kris Mattila (CEGE) encouraging and guiding Hainen to pursue graduate work and research.

Hainen is extremely thankful to be able to share some of this work with MTU colleagues.

Read more on the University Events Calendar.

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3MT Competition: Registration Open

3MT (Three Minute Thesis) has had a time change!

The event will now take place next Thursday (Nov. 3). Preliminaries will start at noon, and finals will start at 7 p.m.

Participating in the 3MT can be a way for you to develop important communication and research skills, and to participate in the building of research culture at Michigan Tech. Cash prizes are also available to the top competitors and the people's choice.

In addition, the winners of the local 3MT competition are given a chance to represent Michigan Tech at the next level of competition, and potentially even national and international 3MT competitions, which provides an excellent networking and professional development opportunity.

Michigan Tech's 2022 3MT competition will be held next Thursday (Nov. 3) at the MUB Ballroom. For more information on the competition, please see the 3MT page on the Graduate Student Government (GSG) website.

To present in this year's competition, please fill out and submit the 3MT 2022 Registration form.

3MT 2022 Cash Prizes:

• First Place — $300
• Second Place — $150
• People's Choice — $100

To have your event automatically appear, please submit them to the University Events Calendar.

The Rozsa Galleries Present: Arabesque

Wednesday, October 26, 8 a.m.–8 p.m. | Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, Rozsa Galleries A-Space

THE ROZSA GALLERIES PRESENT ARABESQUE AN ART EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF CLEMENT YEH AND TOMAS CO FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 THROUGH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2022 GALLERY HOURS: M-F 8...

Robot101 - Americanizing the Robot

Wednesday, October 26, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. | J. Robert Van Pelt and John and Ruanne Opie Library, East Reading Room

As part of the Robot101 initiaitve this fall (robot101.mtu.edu), join us to hear Dustin Abnet from Cal State Fullerton discuss how the Robot became an American concept. In...

Prototype Your Innovation

Wednesday, October 26, 4 p.m.–6 p.m. | Memorial Union Building (MUB), The Alley Makerspace

How do you communicate an innovative idea with stakeholders? The more you can demonstrate how your innovation works, the better your understanding of the solution and the more...

Research Networking Session

Wednesday, October 26, 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. | Memorial Union Building (MUB), Ballroom A

One of the practical impacts of the pandemic has been a reduced number of networking opportunities for researchers and scholars across our campus community. To help to...

Talk: A Roadmap for Climate Action at Michigan Tech

Wednesday, October 26, 4 p.m.–5 p.m. | Grover C. Dillman Hall, 320

From 4-5 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26 in 320 Dillman, Director of Sustainability and Resilience Alan Turnquist will talk about the challenges and opportunities that climate...

Students For Life General Meeting

Wednesday, October 26, 5 p.m.–6 p.m. | Fisher 132

Students For Life General Meeting

WIBIT Wednesday

Wednesday, October 26, 5:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m. | Student Development Complex (SDC), Pool

MTU Students and SDC Access Pass Holders (minimum 1-month), come make a splash with our new inflatable pool obstacle course called the WIBIT! Events will be held this fall...

SAE Aero Design Weekly Meeting

Wednesday, October 26, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. | SAE Aero Lab, MEEM 703

SAE Aero Design aims to offer valuable experience to Michigan Tech students of all majors interested in an extracurricular engineering & design opportunity. Come join our...