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Technological Solutions for Tomorrow.

Michigan Tech's proving grounds provide results.

Researchers at Michigan’s R1 flagship technological university have incredible assets at their fingertips. The innovative prototypes and methods they pioneer impact environments reaching from the depths of Lake Superior—the world's largest freshwater lake by surface—to outer space. Ideas conceived in our 15 research centers and institutes become licensed life-changing technologies. Michigan Tech brings faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, community, government, and industrial partners together to create the future. Together, we explore creative research approaches and develop the technological solutions tomorrow needs.

$106.9

million in research expenditures

$98.1

external funding by source

15

research institutes and centers

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Tomorrow needs forward-thinking visionaries who devise solutions to problems that haven't yet emerged. In this issue of Tech Magazine, read about the students, faculty, and alumni making Michigan Tech a hub of robotics innovation. Meet the three computer science alumni who turned an altruistic idea into a $3.5B company that's now leading the artificial intelligence career revolution. Learn about the vibrant defense industry economy in the Copper Country and how Michigan Tech is helping write the region's next chapter of leadership in national security research—and much more.

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Researchers at the Great Lakes Research Center