June 7, 2024

Michigan Tech IT wants to tell you about some changes that are coming to MyMichiganTech. This summer, Ellucian is phasing out and ending support for Luminus, the platform we use for MyMichigan Tech. It will be replaced by Ellucian Experience.

Experience is an inclusive interface with a mobile-accessible, user-friendly design that allows you to customize a central dashboard and access your information and campus services with a single sign-on. As changes are made over the next few months, they’ll be reflected on the MyMichiganTech page. Services will still be accessible as they are transitioned to their new location.

If you have any questions about MyMichiganTech, we can help. Contact IT at it-help@mtu.edu or call 906-487-1111.

Copper Shores Community Health Foundation’s 24/7 sexual assault hotline for all residents of the Copper Country is now live. Victims of sexual assault living in Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw and Ontonagon counties can call the hotline at any time for a variety of help.

This service is offered through the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic & Sexual Violence. The dispatchers are trained specifically to help victims of sexual assault, and keep up to date on the latest coping techniques and laws. If a victim chooses, they can be connected to local law enforcement, as well as the professional advocates and services at Copper Shores Victim Support, including an on-call advocate who is available at all times.

To access the Sexual Assault Hotline call 906-482-5797. For more information, visit coppershores.org/hotline.

The former crisis line has closed due to low call volume. Other services and programming at Copper Shores remain operational. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911. If you or someone else is considering suicide, call or text 988.

The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) has announced its All-Academic and All-Academic Excellence teams for the 2023-24 academic year. In total, 174 student-athletes from Michigan Tech were honored for scholastic excellence.

To receive GLIAC academic recognition, a student-athlete must be an active member on the roster at the end of the season, not a first-year student or first-year transfer student. All-Academic honors go to student-athletes who carry a cumulative GPA of 3.0-3.49. All-Academic Excellence honors go to student-athletes who have a cumulative GPA of 3.50-4.0.

See all the Huskies who received All-Academic honors at Michigan Tech Athletics.

Job Postings for Friday, June 7, 2024

Staff and faculty job descriptions are available on the Human Resources website. For more information regarding staff positions, call 906-487-2280 or email humanresources@mtu.edu. For more information regarding faculty positions, contact the academic department in which the position is posted.

Assistant Research Engineer – IT Support, Michigan Tech Research Institute. Apply online.

Collections Strategist Librarian, Van Pelt and Opie Library. Apply online.

Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer that provides equal opportunity for all, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Accommodations are available. If you require any auxiliary aids, services, or other accommodations to apply for employment, or for an interview, at Michigan Technological University, please notify the Human Resources office at 906-487-2280 or humanresources@mtu.edu.

Bhisham Sharma (ME-EM) will be hosting a plenary session Tuesday (June 11) on "Enabling Multifunctionality Acoustical Materials Through Additive Manufacturing" at Noise-Con 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Noise-Con is specifically focused on all aspects of noise control and acoustics.

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Jason Blough and James De Clerck (both ME-EM) attended the 2024 Society for Experimental Mechanics Conference in Vancouver, Washington, from June 3-6.

According to the Society for Experimental Mechanics' mission statement: the society is "composed of international members from academia, government, and industry who are committed to interdisciplinary application, research and development, education, and active promotion of experimental methods." The society aims to increase the knowledge of physical phenomena; further the understanding of the behavior of materials, structures and systems; and provide the necessary physical basis and verification for analytical and computational approaches to the development of engineering solutions.

Bough and De Clerck are profiled on the society's Executive Board page. Blough is the current president-elect for the 2023-24 year and acted as the vice president for 2022-23, while De Clerck held the positions of president, president-elect and vice president from 2022-23, 2021-22 and 2020-21, respectively.

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Ana Dyreson (ME-EM) attended the Power Systems Engineering Consortium (PSERC) Industry Advisory Board meeting at Cornell University, held May 29-30.

Dyreson presented on the PSERC project "Incorporating climate impacts into electricity system planning models: review and case study."

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Ana Dyreson (ME-EM) attended and presented at the Photovoltaic Performance Modeling Consortium (PVPMC) Workshop in Salt Lake City, Utah, held May 7-9.

Dyreson presented on the panel "Modeling Snow Effects on PV Systems." The presentation topic was "Snow shedding from single-axis tracking PV systems: observations from the Michigan Regional Test Center and implications for modeling widespread snow events." The presentation was co-authored by Ph.D. students Shelbie Wickett and Ayush Chutani (both mechanical engineering-engineering mechanics).

Bo Chen and Niusen Chen (both CS/ICC) were quoted by the Daily Mining Gazette in a story about their work to develop plausibly deniable encryption for everyday computing devices. The research, called PDE for short, ensures data on mobile devices and flash storage can be deleted securely — and earned Michigan Tech’s 2024 Bhakta Rath Research Award. A Q&A with the pair was published by Michigan Tech News in May.

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Sarah Fayen Scarlett (SS) was quoted by Bridge Michigan in a story about Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposal to designate the Keweenaw Peninsula as a national heritage area in recognition of its copper mining legacy.

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WLUC TV6 mentioned Michigan Tech’s Student Development Complex in a story about this year’s Houghton County VetFest, held Wednesday (June 5) at the SDC.

Upcoming WebFOCUS Maintenance

A production system maintenance window will be taking place on Sunday (June 9) from 10-11 a.m. WebFOCUS will be unavailable during that time.

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