New Laboratories, New Possibilities

LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE | Winter 2016/17

New laboratories, new possibilities Taubman Complex formally opens | A history of computing at Lawrence Tech The man who built the Arsenal of Democracy | Football returning Alumni News & Notes | Report to Investors | and more Winter 2016/17 Volume XXXV, Number 1

Published by Lawrence Technological University, Office of Marketing and Public Affairs, 21000 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075-1058; LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE 248.204.2200 or 800.225.5588, ext. 4 Fax 248.204.2318 ABOUT THIS ISSUE [email protected] Virinder K. Moudgil President

Editor: Bruce J. Annett, Jr. ([email protected]) Managing Editor: Matt Roush ([email protected]) njoy a trip back to campus with this issue of the Lawrence Design: NetWorks Design, Inc. Technological University Magazine . It’s been an eventful past few Writers: Bruce J. Annett, Jr., monthsE here at LTU, and we’re hoping you find the stories in these Jay Nicols, Matt Roush pages interesting and useful. Editorial Support: Anne Adamus, Krysta Coleman, Howard Davis, This issue kicks off with a look at the newest addition to the Lawrence Kristen DeVries, Deborah Faes, Sofia Lulgjuraj, Lauren Morris, Brandé Oliver, Tech campus – the A. Alfred Taubman Engineering, Architecture, Julie Vulaj and Life Sciences Complex. This 36,700-square-foot educational Photography: Gary Duncan, Matt showplace offers plenty of new learning and research opportunities Lester, Justin Munter, Jay Nicols, Matt for students and faculty – and we give you a lab-by-lab tour. Virinder K. Moudgil Roush, Karen Sanborn, Glenn Triest, and others

Then, we take a look at the history of the computing revolution at Lawrence Tech, starting with © 2017 Lawrence Technological the University’s very first computer, installed in 1961. Those of you here in the intervening years University. All rights reserved. Bylined articles reflect the author’s views and surely recall advancing through the eras of punch cards, mainframes with tape drives, to client- not necessarily either the opinions server computing. And we honor the far-sightedness of prior LTU administrations that gave us or the policies of the University. Comments about the Magazine, one of the nation’s first fiber-optic-connected campuses, a pioneering student laptop distribution articles, or letters may be sent to the program, and an equally unique wireless internet access system – more than 15 years ago! editor. Send address changes to the postal, fax, or email addresses noted above. Lawrence Tech has always been about anticipating the future while also preserving the best of the Notice of non-discriminatory policy: past. We examine the personal library of architectural giant Albert Kahn, meticulously catalogued Lawrence Technological University and preserved in LTU’s library. We’re planning major Kahn events this year, so stay tuned. adheres and conforms to all federal, state, and local civil rights regulations, statutes, and ordinances. No person, Sibrina Collins, the inaugural director of LTU’s Marburger STEM Center, talks about the exciting student, faculty, or staff member will activities planned for Lawrence Tech’s effort to extend our educational outreach in the science, knowingly be discriminated against relative to the above statutes. Lawrence technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, along with architecture and design Tech is an Equal Opportunity Employer. (also called STEAM) to younger and younger students, right down to elementary school. On the cover: Renowned architectural And finally we examine the University’s latest academic addition, a Bachelor of Science degree in photographer Nic Lehoux captured nursing. The nursing shortage is real, in Michigan and across the nation, and LTU is doing its part this image of the A. Alfred Taubman Engineering, Architecture, and Life to address this challenge. Science Complex during a campus visit last fall. The rest of this issue includes details on Lawrence Tech’s latest high rankings by national polls, new plans to add football and to start playing games in 2018, stories about graduates, and our Report to Investors about the University’s 2015–16 academic and financial year.

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President and CEO For the latest about Lawrence Tech, visit www.ltu.edu/news TableT AofB ContentsLE OF CONTENTS

Taubman Complex From a few bits to virtual What IS the Alumni News – 2012 dedicated – LTU’s newest reality – The history of Marburger STEM grad takes over as building boosts the Uni- computing at Lawrence Center? – A Q&A director of alumni 2versity’s research and academic 9Tech, from the first computer 15with Sibrina Nichelle Collins, the 30relations, ESD honors for alumni capabilities. delivered to campus in 1961 founding executive director of and staff, architecture alumnus (total capacity – 2,500 bits of data) the Marburger STEM Center, the builds dream playhouses, a design to the University’s groundbreaking University’s new effort to reach out alum’s atmospheric urban photog- achievements in providing state- to younger students to promote raphy, and much more. of-the-art laptops and software to education and career choices in students and creating a campus- Science, Technology, Engineer- Alumni Notes – wide wireless network. ing, and Mathematics, as well as Comings, goings, architecture and design. career news, awards, 35and more from LTU and DIT alumni near and far.

In Memoriam

New laboratories, new possibilities – Take a 37 laboratory-by-laboratory Report to Investors – 5tour of the Taubman Complex, President Virinder K. seeing just how this new build- Moudgil, Vice Presi- ing is producing innovations to 39dent of Academic Affairs and improve our world and reinforc- The man who built Provost Maria J. Vaz, Vice Presi- ing LTU’s standing as a research the Arsenal of On Campus – Football dent of University Advancement powerhouse. Democracy – The returning to LTU, Kristen R. DeVries, and Vice Presi- 13University’s relationship to world- respected publications dent of Finance and Administration renowned architect Albert Kahn 16find LTU among the top for gradu- Linda L. Height report on the state continues, with new exhibitions of ates’ salaries, University moves up of the University. the great designer’s work, which in U.S. News rankings, a champi- changed the appearance of indus- onship in autonomous vehicles, Back Cover LTU establishes trial, commercial, and residential grants for business incubation and nursing program – Lawrence Tech buildings around the globe, and a green infrastructure, fall sports is responding to the nursing short- renewed effort to catalog Kahn’s update, Homecoming 2016, and age by becoming Michigan’s new- personal library, housed at LTU. much more. est nursing school. An initial class facebook.com/lawrencetechu of 32 nursing students will begin their studies on campus this fall. twitter.com/LawrenceTechU The University hired a doctorate- educated, veteran nurse practitioner, M. Therese Jamison, as the youtube.com/lawrencetech program’s founding director.

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L a w r e n c e T e c h M a g a z i n e 1 Mateusz Gibiec, LTU Student Government executive vice president; President Virinder Moudgil; William Taubman; Robert Taubman; and Douglas Ebert, chair of LTU’s Board of Trustees, officially cut the ribbon on the Taubman Complex.

It was standing room only at the Taubman Complex dedication. Taubman Complex boosts LTU’s research, academic

It’s also home to the Marburger STEM Center, named after Hundreds of Lawrence Technological Richard Marburger, LTU president, 1977–93, who is still active University supporters, students, alumni, in his sixth decade of service to the University, now as president emeritus. The Marburger STEM Center is the focal point of the faculty, and staff gathered on the final day of summer, University’s expanded efforts to improve science, technology, September 21, to dedicate the A. Alfred Taubman Engineering, engineering, and math education, as well as design, for students Architecture, and Life Sciences Complex. in grades K–12 through college. It was made possible by a $20 The $16.9 million, 36,700-square-foot building gives million gift from former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who Lawrence Tech much-needed laboratory and collaboration took mathematics courses at LTU as a high schooler and later spaces for the kinds of cross-disciplinary projects increasingly received an honorary LTU doctorate. His gift was the single common in the world of engineering and science. largest in school history. Included are new laboratories for robotics, biomechanics, The building is named to honor A. Alfred Taubman (1924– embedded software, and more. 2015), the pioneering shopping center developer, who studied architecture at Lawrence Tech in the 1940s. He provided the

2 W I N T E R 2 0 1 6 / 1 7 lead gift of $11 million for the building and was a longtime supporter of the University. Taubman’s sons, Robert and William, attended the dedication. Robert Taubman addressed the audience, saying, “Our father was an amazing person who believed in constantly giving back to the community that supported him. He was a lifelong learner who believed deeply that education can change people’s lives. And he had deep affinity for Lawrence Tech, because it allowed him to the design and fabrication of The new robotics lab was a key continue his education, usually at night, as he worked full time student projects. These spaces stop on the Taubman Complex tour. Robotics instructor Jim Kerns (cen- and raised his family. are high bay rooms that are ter) explains the science to Robert “He considered himself first and foremost a planner and open to the top of the third and William Taubman (second and programmer of space. That all goes back to his training as an floor – the ceiling is more third from right). architect here at Lawrence Tech.” than 20 feet above the floor. Taubman also said the company his father built, Taubman On the third floor is a biomedical engineering laboratory Co. LLC, has about a dozen Lawrence Tech alumni among its that blends the chemical and physical sciences. Nearby is a employees. microfabrication “clean room,” a lab for biology-based micro- Moudgil noted that the new building was funded through the electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), a bioinstrumentation lab, University’s “Proud Heritage, Bold Future” capital campaign, a biosensor lab, and cell culture and cell biology labs. The bio- which concluded June 30 and raised more than $125 million for sensors being worked on in the lab range from cancer detection facilities, programs, endowment, and scholarships. to food-borne illness. The building was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, director of Morphosis, a California and New York-based architectural firm known for unique educational and civic buildings. The architect of record is Detroit-based Albert Kahn Associates. DeMaria Building Company of Detroit and Novi is the general contractor. The first floor of the Taubman Complex features a 60-foot-long, 20-foot-wide lab for the research of boosts LTU’s research, academic capabilities LTU’s Eric G. Meyer, associate pro- LTU’s Eric G. Meyer, associate professor in biomedical engineering. It houses Meyer’s research into biomechanics, orthopedic sports medicine, injury mechanisms, joint function, gait analysis, arti- ficial limbs, and more. That floor also contains an embedded software laboratory and a robotics lab that is more than twice the size of its former home. On the second floor is more robotics space for C.J. Chung, professor of mathematics and LTU President Virinder Moudgil computer science and founder presents Robert (left) and William of Robofest, the global youth Taubman with framed photographs robotics competition. The of the Taubman Complex – a picture second floor also has engi- taken at night, as their father, legendary developer A. Alfred Taubman, neering research “studios” for might have seen it, back when he was an evening student at Lawrence Tech.

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The third floor also houses offices of the Marburger STEM Center, which is led by Sibrina Collins, who started at the University July 1. (See LTU Magazine, fall 2016.) Educational areas supported by the Marburger STEM Center include robotics; software engineering; modeling, simulation, and visualization; nanotech- nology; medical simulation and infor- matics; computer-assisted molecular modeling; synthetic biology; “green” chemistry; and design thinking. The center also supports academic programming in sustainable design, energy systems, architectural engineering, game art and design, media communication, transportation and industrial design, digital humanities, digital marketing, and mathematics. The north end of the new building features an outdoor atrium on the first and second floors. required because its heating Visitors check out the refreshments and the high technology inside the And on the west side of the building is a staircase enclosed by and cooling are run by no less Taubman Complex. a three-story-tall matte gray “orb” made of carbon-reinforced than 42 heat pumps. fiber. Composites industry officials say it’s a groundbreaking The building also features occupancy sensors that turn off use of carbon-reinforced fiber as a structural material. The bot- not only the lights but also half the electrical outlets if a room tom of the orb floats just above a one-foot-deep reflecting pool. is vacant. (Those interruptible outlets are color coded so that The new building was designed for LEED certification and building users don’t plug a clock – or equipment running a meets the most recent building energy codes. Joe Veryser, laboratory experiment – into them.) Lawrence Tech’s university architect, said that was “particu- Also, the building is designed to capture all rainwater falling larly challenging given all of the exhaust air coming out of the on its roof and feed it into an underground storage tank, where laboratories on the third floor. So, there is a huge heat recovery it will be used for lawn watering. The restrooms also include system in the building.” showers, intended to encourage employees to exercise during The building’s heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and the work day and consider commuting by bicycle. MR energy controls systems are highly advanced, with four digital HVAC control centers in the building –

The Taubman brothers and LTU Board of Trustees Chair Douglas Ebert check out the latest in video technology at the Taubman Complex.

4 W INTER 2 0 1 6 / 1 7 New newnewlaboratories… possibilitiespossibilities The labs of the new Taubman Complex will produce innovations to improve our world

L onger, healthier human lives. Better buildings. A cleaner planet. Engineered devices and software that will surprise and delight. From the ground- ﬂ oor robotics lab to the top-ﬂ oor engineering labs, that’s the aim of Lawrence Technologi- cal University’s new A. Alfred Taubman Engineering, Architec- ture, and Life Sciences

Complex. sssssssssssssssssssss The spaces are shared by Lawrence Tech’s Colleges of Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, and Engineering. And they’re intended to foster the kind of interdisciplinary research that is increasingly common in industry.

Robotics studio Let’s see what’s inside… laboratory by laboratory.

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Up on the second floor is another robotics space, where Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science C.J. Chung (right) works with students and LTU’s world championship Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition teams.

quicker results, and are dis- posable, portable, and cheap. The bioMEMS laboratory also includes a cleanroom for the fabrication of bioMEMS products. Bioinstrumentation laboratory Down the hall of the Taubman Complex’s third fl oor is this large laboratory, with seating and bench space for more than 30 students. LTU’s anatomy Cell culture laboratory and physiology classes are taught here. Students conduct This lab on the third fl oor at the end of the Taubman Complex research into bioelectric signals – heart signals, brain waves, nearest the Science Building features “lots of equipment to keep muscle activity markers, nerve conduction, respiratory and pul- cells happy,” says Jeffrey Morissette, chair of the Department of monary function indicators, and more. “We’ll be developing a Natural Sciences in LTU’s College of Arts and Sciences. “This course on wearable health devices in this lab,” said Jerry LeCar- is the place where our senior capstone students in molecular and pentier, director of LTU’s biomedical engineering program. This cell biology and chemical biology will do their work – moving room also features a spacious, adjoining biosensors laboratory DNA and genes around.” The lab features incubators at blood for the fabrication of sensors. temperature (37 degrees Celsius, 98 degrees Fahrenheit) and lots of hooded areas to prevent the cross-contamination of cell Experimental biomechanics laboratory cultures. We’re on the fi rst fl oor now. Yes, that’s a batting cage along one wall. And a set of golf clubs along another. This large, Cell biology laboratory 60-foot-long, 24-foot-wide space houses the research of Eric Next door, this multipurpose biology lab accommodates chemical and cell experiments. The hoods are heavier here, because of the chemical reactions that are performed. A variety of classes in several disciplines share the space. Biomaterials/histology laboratory The third laboratory in this three-lab interconnected cluster is outfi tted for work on living tissues. Histology is the study of the microscopic structure of tissues, so it’s no surprise there are plenty of microscopes here. Students in a variety of disciplines learn about how living tissue is constructed and operates. BioMEMS laboratory Down the hall from these labs, Lawrence Tech students research and develop miniaturized medical devices. MEMS stands for micro-electro-mechanical systems. Included are “lab LTU’s biomedical engineering staff and faculty in the new histology laboratory. on a chip” devices that offer quick, cheap analysis of biological Left to right: Bridgett Bailiff, administrative assistant; Gerald LeCarpentier, samples. These miniaturized “labs” operate with much smaller department chair; and assistant professors Yawen Li, Mansoor Nasir, and samples than traditional laboratory analysis requires, offer Eric Meyer.

6 W I N T E R 2 0 1 6 / 1 7 Engineering studio: Flexible, modular engineering studios are on the second floor of the Taubman Complex. The high bay space stretches upward to the ceiling of the third floor, allow- ing a wide variety of projects and construction activities to take place.

Meyer, assistant professor of biomedical engineering. It’s equipped with infrared motion detection cameras overhead and force sensors in the floor. Meyer uses this gear to study injury mechanisms, both during sports competition and in everyday life. He researches everything from athletic apparel to sports equipment to gait – how one walks and runs – in an effort to keep athletes in better shape, whether professionals or weekend duffers, and to keep all of us on our feet longer. Robotics engineering laboratory Across the hallway from biomechanics is LTU’s large new robotics lab, another 60-by-24-foot space. “It’s huge,” said Jim Kerns, college instructor in robotics. “We were actually fortunate at the old lab that the program was new, and we were still building enrollment. Now we have more students – and

Students at work in the new robotics engineering laboratory.

A hospital-quality ultrasound machine is one of the key pieces of equipment in LTU’s new biomed engineering lab.

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the space to ﬁ t them in.” The robotics engineering lab features What's the difference between regular student storage lockers, a track for autonomous vehicles, and software and embedded software? precise control of room lighting – which is important when you’re teaching students about machine vision. There are also Richard Chase says it’s all a matter of level. two separate small rooms for robot fabrication, equipped with a Gigabot 3D printer, a CNC lathe, and other tools. Kerns and other LTU faculty members say the future is bright for graduates in all of the disciplines that are represented in the High-level software – say, Taubman Complex. LTU robotics engineers are being hired into a word-processing program – the auto industry at a rapid clip. Morissette said biomechanical transfers keystrokes to symbols engineering graduates are too. He added: “In the sciences, we on the computer screen. But embedded software controls see our students go three different directions, and it’s about a the hardware that is the guts of third for each. First, some go to professional schools – medical, any computer – controlling how pharmacy, or graduate school in other health professions. Others a processor talks to memory, become researchers and move on to graduate school. The other how a joystick connects to a third goes into industry as medical and biological technicians at microcontroller, how an image is places like hospital clinics.” MR processed. Richard Chase Write high-level software like a cute app and you may have a hit, although you probably won't, LTU faculty members say the future since millions of apps are being written. But write embedded software and you control the technology itself. is bright for graduates in all of That’s why Lawrence Tech added an embedded software laboratory to the Taubman Complex. It’s a brand new playground for the disciplines that are represented Richard Chase, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his students in LTU’s embedded software program. in the Taubman Complex. “You can do a lot of cool things with embedded software, like integrate sensors and manage human-machine interface,” he said. And Chase said he has several new tools in the new lab – most “ importantly, the Canalyzer, an industry-standard tool to monitor the CAN bus networks that are inside vehicles. “That network controls how the headlights talk to switches on your dashboard, how the transmission talks to the body control module.” Chase said there’s strong demand for embedded software engineers in the automotive and other industries. ” “These graduates will get picked up by car companies, or anything from appliance manufacturers to space exploration,” he said. “Industry wants these students a lot. Embedded software can be used to control a washing machine, or control an antenna on a spaceship. The software running the Mars rovers is all embedded.” Chase joined LTU in August 2015 from TARDEC, the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Command, where he was a research scientist in microelectronics and embedded systems. He has bachelor’s and PhD degrees from Wayne State University and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, all in electrical engineering. He said he moved to LTU for the challenge of building a new program from the ground up. Chase said high school students interested in studying embedded software in college should pick up all the programming and hardware experience they can.

Under the watchful eye of expert professors, LTU students use the latest in laboratory equipment.

8 W I N T E R 2 0 1 6 / 1 7 From a few bits to virtual reality Lawrence Tech at the forefront of educational computing technology since the ’60s

he year was 1961. John F. Kennedy was inaugurated toil, philanthropy, and foresight to get the campus from 2,500 asT the 35th president of the United States. Soviet cosmonaut bits of data capacity to wireless connectivity that tops 100 mega- Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. Motown Records bits per second. signed The Supremes to their first recording contract. Elvis John Grden, BSEE’77, started at the University in the fall of Presley crooned “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” over the air- 1970 as an electrical engineering student and became a full-time waves, and “101 Dalmatians” ruled the box office. A gallon of employee in 1973. The first computer he remembers was an gas cost 27 cents. IBM 1130. “That machine rented for $1,000 a month, and that And Lawrence Technological University got its first computer. was low cost for IBM,” he said. “It ran punch cards in batches, The Jan. 19, 1961, Tech News student newspaper reported and its primary language was Fortran.” At least the memory was that a Burroughs Model E102 had been delivered during the first an upgrade from the 1961 machine – all the way up to 16K. week of the new year, and a course would be added in computer The University used this basic, workhorse machine for regis- programming using the new machine. The size of an automo- tration, and the printing of class rolls, grade sheets, and report bile, the computer had a grand total of 2,500 bits of capacity. cards, along with financial functions like accounts payable “It is hoped that the computer will permanently become an in- records and payroll. “Everything was keyed in onto punch cards tegral part of the engineering program,” the story said. Mordica and run as a batch,” Grden said. “What we think of as a hard Ryan, dean of academic affairs, reported plans to launch a short drive didn’t even exist.” non-credit course for seniors so that before graduating they were In 1973, the University split off its Computer Center from the at least fundamentally familiar with a computer’s capabilities. Office of the Registrar. And in 1974, the University Computer Ryan cited a recent American Society for Engineering Education Center was moved to its current location. In the fall of 1974, the paper that accurately predicted, “The handwriting on the wall University got a new addition to its computer system – a ma- reads plainly. All graduating engineers of the future must have chine called the Meta 4 that extended the capabilities of the IBM a knowledge of computers, just as they have a knowledge of 1130. “When we got that machine, we got our first tape drive,” mathematics. Engineering calculations of the future will be done Pictured here in 1983, these Tektronix by machines.” engineering work stations were among Today, LTU students and staff take the University’s leadership the University’s first computer-aided in computing and connectivity for granted. Technological is, engineering machines. after all, LTU’s middle name. But it took a lot of years, planning,

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Grden said. Not to mention eight primitive computer terminals – essentially typewriters on which the computer could type back the results of programs. In the summer of 1982, the University upgraded to Digital Equipment Corp. VAX machines, workhorse computers in- troduced in 1977 that were popular through the 1980s. LTU President Emeritus Richard Marburger recalls the excitement when the first far more capable machine arrived. “That was the first machine we had that had the capability of getting the whole campus community on email, so we could all communicate,” Marburger said. “Email was the great advantage of that machine.” Also during that time, Marburger said, the University used the the earliest adopters of BITNET, a cooperative U.S. university copper wires between buildings that had been abandoned by the computer network founded in 1981 by computer scientists at the Bell System during its antitrust breakup to provide data connec- City University of New York and Yale University. (According tivity between campus buildings. And the University installed a to Wikipedia, the name is an acronym for “Because It’s There lead-acid battery stack to create an uninterruptible power supply Network.”) Lawrence Tech faculty got email accounts for the to its computer systems. first time and could communicate electronically with their peers Steve Heleski, senior systems analyst in IT service delivery at other schools. The system also included people important to at LTU, remembers starting as a student in 1982 and working LTU who were off-campus – such as leadership of the Engineer- on the Digital VAX system using punch cards. One assignment ing Society of Detroit and LTU alumnus and board member Ed stuck in his memory – calculating wind chill values at different Donley, who was then chairman and CEO of Air Products and wind speeds – with the results coming back on that old-fash- Chemicals in Allentown, Pa. ioned green-and-white striped computer paper. Through the ’80s, LTU would add computer labs featuring The first video monitors would turn up on LTU’s campus in Apple Mac and IBM 286 and 486 equipment, alongside the Heleski’s senior year. Students could input their programs and venerable VAX machines. run their calculations on monochrome TV screens and get their The University also added its first computer-aided design work back a lot faster. Heleski would later work as a program- (CAD) lab in 1982, a donated unit worth $230,000 from General mer for the University from 1986 to 1999 and return to the Motors Corp.’s Truck and Coach Division. It had all of three University Computer Center in 2001. video terminals and a “digitizer-plotter,” better known as a Despite the primitiveness of the machines, LTU was a pioneer printer. That same summer, copper connections were made in connecting its computers to the outside world. As early as the between the Science and In this photo, dated 1986, students are 1970s, Grden said, Lawrence Tech’s IBM 1130 was able to com- Architecture buildings still using dot matrix printers and large municate over a phone line to Wayne State University’s bigger for terminals connected floppy drives. IBM machine. “It was called remote job entry,” he said. “You’d get your output back on a printer.” That communication continued with both Wayne State and the University of Michigan, Grden said, after the Computer Center’s move and the acquisi- tion of the Digital Equipment machines. And so it wasn’t a big leap in the early 1980s for Law- rence Tech to become one of

In this April 1999 photo, students work on PCs that are primitive by today’s standards.

10 W i n t e r 2 0 1 6 / 1 7 Now you save all your assignments and homework “ to the cloud and you can get them anywhere. . John Grden, right, with the Network Inc. – the pioneering nonprofit connectivity” provider University’s longtime workhorse mainframe, a Digital Equipment established in 1966 by Michigan State University, the University Corp. VAX machine.The photo is of Michigan, and Wayne State University. When that happened, dated "circa 1985.” LTU no longer had to pay stiff phone charges – upward of $1,500 a month, Grden recalls – in order to share data with the outside world. “The Merit connection let us be up all the time and eliminate the leased line cost,” he said. “And we got more capacity, a T1.” The gold standard of connections at the time, a T1 passed its data along at a then-blistering 1.5 megabits per second. Ac- counts vary depending on the source, but some longtime LTU computer staffers put the Merit connection as early as 1982, while others place it as late as 1988. Merit, for its part, says it has no record of any formal relationship with LTU before the University became a full Merit member in 1994. Lawrence Tech would take another big step in IT leadership in the late ’80s. Thanks to a connection through Ed Donley, Digital Equipment CEO and cofounder Kenneth Olsen visited campus. Grden said that while Olsen was impressed with Law- to those VAX computers. Some of the University’s earliest PCs rence Tech’s computer technology, he told campus officials they Another CAD lab was added are shown in this photo, also dated should give up on connecting buildings with copper wires, and “circa 1985.” in the former registrar’s office in the future, connect their buildings only with fiber optics. space in the Engineering Building. By 1984, it boasted 10 work Well, fiber optic lines were expensive, so Digital Equipment stations, each with a 19-inch color monitor, and LTU was of- came through with a grant – part of which was used to dig a fering three computer-aided engineering courses. And by 1985, fiber optic data connection from the Science Building to the LTU’s library was connected to a global database of books and Engineering Building. other materials. (The LTU Magazine article about the advance even paused to explain what a “database” was – “a collection of Within a few years, all the buildings on campus were con- information on the same subject … filed into a computer system nected with fiber optics in a network ring, so a cut in one and is accessible by using a computer terminal.”) The service place didn’t kill the whole system. Thanks to the foresight of wasn’t cheap – $10 to $15 a search, paid by students, which is Marburger and Grden, those lines are still being used today – $22 to $33 in today’s dollars! The library also began using the lines that run through steel conduit big enough to handle years University’s VAX computer to catalog its own collection. of further expansion. All that’s changed is the data transmission LTU’s computer connections to the outside world also got and reception equipment, which keeps getting faster and more faster in the 1980s, when the University connected to Merit sophisticated, on either end of the fiber optics. By 1990, LTU was operating a cluster of DEC VAX machines that could accommodate 500 users at once. It operated at a then-speedy 7 million instructions per second with storage of 20 gigabytes. (That was big for its day, but today’s typical PCs run 3 billion instructions a second and offer storage of 1 terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes.) Off-campus access was available by call- ing in to one of 40 available modem phone lines. Then the internet came and changed everything. Starting with Tim Berners-Lee’s 1989–90 invention of the software behind the World Wide Web – what we know today as the commercial internet – and the decision to put it into the public domain, royalty-free, in 1993 – the

This July 2001 photo shows students enjoying LTU’s state-first wireless internet access throughout campus.

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online medium exploded as a popular place for news, entertainment, and the exchange of business information. Documents that were once sent by everything from mail to bicycle courier to fax machine began being exchanged online. Rising alongside the web was computing power – which drove virtually all engineering and design to the virtual world. Suddenly, hundreds of possible versions of parts for products could be designed, compared, and tested, for everything from their beauty to their durability, almost instantly. So it was no longer “computer-aided engineering” – it was just how engineering was done. And art, design, and architecture, too. Not only that, but internet access was no longer something limited to a computer center. Technological advances in wireless access continued to drive down the price and drive up the speed This July 2001 shows the fruits of on campus you couldn’t ac- of internet access over short-range radio – today known as WiFi. LTU’s pioneering every-student-gets- cess your information. Now a-laptop program. LTU saw this coming. In August 2000, Lawrence Tech be- you save all your assignments came one of the nation’s first universities to distribute high-end and homework to the cloud and you can get them anywhere.” laptop computers to all incoming students. The laptops, then as Heleski helped implement the University’s BannerWeb now, were loaded with software that can handle advanced engi- system. Today, BannerWeb runs functions like recruitment, neering tasks, multimedia simulations, and large database analy- admissions, registration, financial aid, finance, and human ses. (LTU’s Help Desk now estimates the value of that software, resources for the University. “The big bonus with Banner is that if purchased off the shelf by an individual, at up to $116,000.) you can check on your information from anywhere on the web,” A laptop isn’t much good without connectivity, so LTU began he said. “You don’t have to come to the University or call the a project to offer free wireless everywhere on campus. And by registrar’s office to check on a class.” July 2001, with a $600,000 investment, the University provided The University’s connections continue to get faster and faster. wireless internet in all academic buildings, complete with full LTU CIO Tim Chavis said that when he arrived on campus in library access. 2009, “We had a 30-megabit connection for the entire campus. That’s basically what most people have in their houses now.” Today, the Edward Donley Computer Center is home to Today, the University has a 10-gigabit connection to Merit. And racks of servers – beefed-up PCs that do the lion’s share of every day, Chavis said, about 2,200 laptops, phones, tablets, computing on campus. But the number of racks, Heleski noted, gaming consoles, and other devices connect to the LTU data is falling “because the technology has gotten so good.” network. Marc Hoedeman, senior network operations engineer in IT “Each student has six or seven devices,” Chavis said. service delivery, came to LTU as a student in 1993 and became “Games, phones, smart TVs. And if you happen to be talking an employee in 1995. He says that when he gives tours of the about computer science majors, you’ll have servers and a whole Donley Computer Center, he tells people that when it opened, lot of other stuff going on.” “this room was full of refrigerator-sized boxes that had less ca- The peak time for connectivity on campus, Chavis said, is pacity than your smartphone.” (Hoedeman also designed the first between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. And, he said, “Only a very small version of LTU’s website, which went live in late 1997.) part of our traffic has anything to do with LTU schoolwork or One famous computer problem LTU avoided completely? operations.” The much-feared Y2K bug. Early computer coders in the 20th Chavis said improvements to the campus networks are in the century saved space in date-dependent applications by just us- works that will boost wireless speeds well past 100 megabits a ing the last two numbers of a year – say, 79 for 1979 or 90 for second. 1990. Many computer experts worried that systems would crash And that’s important to the University’s future. “It’s a really on Jan. 1, 2000, when the year rolled over to 00 and programs important student satisfaction issue,” Chavis said. “The number started putting the end of operations before their beginnings. one thing young people want is fast access.” Coders worked furiously in the late 1990s to convert two-digit Marburger credited Grden, retired LTU computer science year designations to four digits. But Marburger said LTU coders professor Tom Lackey, and former LTU Registrar Ann Liska always had enough foresight to use four digits for the year, right for giving Lawrence Tech the foundation for today’s computer from the beginning of LTU’s systems. system success. Today, the University uses Google Mail to handle its email “This is so important, because it illustrates the point that we and Google Drive to handle much of its document storage. “It’s have always had people on campus who are superbly capable,” a wonderful system,” Heleski said. “Used to be, if you weren’t Marburger said. MR

12 W i n t e r 2 0 1 6 / 1 7 The man who built the Arsenal of Democracy

ReconstRucted AlbeRt KAhn libRARy is A jewel in the lAwRence tech collection

visitor wandering behind the book and journal stacks in ALawrence Technological University’s library will come across several inlaid wooden doors. They look considerably older than the rest of the library, which opened in 1982. That’s because they are. Those doors open to rooms that invite the visitor back in time to a long-gone era, a younger America, when the smoke of industry created sooty skylines pierced by Art Deco buildings reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz’s Emerald City. This was the heyday of the legendary architect Albert Kahn, 1869–1942, who designed much of commercial and indus- the wood and reconstructed it Historian Grace Shackman (left) trial Detroit – not to mention much of the rest of the industrial here.” and Carol Rose Kahn, Albert's granddaughter, examining a book in Midwest, including many of the factories that would become The Kahn rooms opened in the Kahn library at LTU. the Arsenal of Democracy and help the Allies win World War 1983. The materials, Cocoz- II. Kahn’s iconic Fisher Building has been hailed as the state’s zoli said, “are on permanent loan, which means we keep the largest art object. The General Motors office building, Ford’s collection intact – not that we would ever sell or dispose of Highland Park and Rouge manufacturing facilities, and high-end any of it.” residences like Edsel Ford’s grand mansion set new standards. The collection consists of Kahn’s reconstructed library, And in LTU’s two beautiful walnut-paneled rooms, whose ma- complete with walnut paneling, built-in bookcases, shelves, terials date back as far as the late 19th century, Kahn’s heyday and about 3,000 titles. It shows Kahn was every bit as widely lives on. read and eclectic in taste as his designs The University’s Kahn Collection would suggest. came about more or less by chance, They offered to give us “This is Kahn’s personal, working in the late 1970s, when Karl Greimel, “their entire library, both library,” Cocozzoli said. “Here you’ll then LTU’s dean of architecture, visited find the things that were his sources of Albert Kahn Associates’ Detroit head- books and cabinets, enabling inspiration. He was a world traveler and quarters. The architectural firm was us to re-create Kahn’s it shows.” remodeling its offices and needed to library in a new space. The library includes everything from find a home for some of its historic ma- the auction book for the estate of actor terials. At that point, LTU was building ” Henry Fonda’s first wife to books on a new library as part of the construction of the Buell Manage- educational philosophy to books on gardens and landscaping. ment Building. And, of course, the majority of the books he collected are on art “They offered to give us their entire library, both books and and architecture. cabinets, enabling us to re-create Kahn’s library in a new space,” According to Cathy Phillips, reference librarian and head of LTU Library Director Gary Cocozzoli said. “They brought it to the University’s Archival Task Force, LTU staff has unearthed us in pieces, and our Department of Campus Facilities refinished plenty of previously uncatalogued items in the collection.

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“We’ve been discovering gems,” she said. Adri- enne Aluzzo, LTU digital projects librarian, has had to catalog those items one by one, since they were not yet represented in the worldwide database of books. There are simply amazing period pieces in the collection, like a set of broadside Soviet journals that show a Kahn-designed tractor factory in Chelyabinsk in 1930. The glowing prose, praising the glories of communism, and photographs of earnest factory workers and farmers ﬁ ll the pages. These factories would soon Lawrence Tech received a grant from the National Endow- play a part in the Soviet resistance to the Axis forces, its own ment for the Humanities to assist in the organization and con- version of Detroit’s Arsenal. servation of the materials and is hoping for more grant funding. Lawrence Tech is one of three places in the U.S. with major Librarian Cynthia Simpson, co-administrator of the NEH Kahn collections. Many of Kahn’s personal papers and letters grant, has been assisted by Albert Kahn’s granddaughter, Carol now reside in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., Rose Kahn, who provided unique perspective on this important while other personal papers, correspondence, publications, archi- collection. tectural drawings, and photographs are held at the University of The University is also organizing an exhibition exploring Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library. Albert Kahn’s genius and legacy. LTU, along with area partner But it is at Lawrence Tech where his personal library rests, institutions, has formed the Albert Kahn Research Coalition and where one can imagine Kahn, seeking inspiration, plucking a plans to offer annual programming honoring the legacy of Albert book or two off the shelf and sitting down at a big conference Kahn. table to recharge his creative batteries. And Albert Kahn Associates continues its relationship with Lawrence Tech right up to the present day. A number of alumni work for the ﬁ rm, which was architect of record for the spectacular new A. Alfred Taubman Engineering, Archi- tecture, and Life Sciences Complex. MR

The Kahn library is a window into the mind of one of America’s greatest architects.

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A question and answer session What additional programs would you like to with Executive Director see added? When? We are exploring the possibility of establish- Sibrina Nichelle Collins ing a Marburger STEM Ambassadors program in which current LTU students support K–12 teachers in the classroom to deliver cutting-edge is often a buzzword today, and innovative STE(A)M curriculum. Further- STEM more, we have also established the Marburger but STEM has been in the DNA of LTU STEM Seminar Series, which not only celebrates since the University was established in the legacy of Dr. Richard Marburger, LTU’s fourth president, but brings to campus leaders in 1932, right next to Henry Ford’s Model T STE(A)M education and cutting-edge research. factory. The Marburger STEM Center is What attracted you to LTU? essentially the intellectual home or focal This position is my dream and allows me to point of all of the STE(A)M initiatives and programs focus on the promotion of STE(A)M education and diversity in taking place on the LTU campus. The “A” represents STE(A)M, which are my passions. My previous experiences as a chemistry faculty member, administrator, and museum execu- the fields of art and design. tive have played an important role for me as the first executive director. What is the purpose of the STEM Center? The center provides support and much needed space (labora- What’s been your impression of LTU in the time you’ve been tories, studios, and collaborative, flexible learning spaces) for here? faculty, students, and staff and also focuses on K–12 outreach I love being at a small college, where the faculty, staff, and programming. Central to our work is to expose young people students really get to know each other and support each other. to these fields, get them to understand how STEM shapes their This is really a family, and I am thrilled to be a member of the everyday experiences, and teaching these subjects in interesting LTU family. and exciting ways. What would you like the world to know about LTU that it What programs at the K–12 level does LTU have now to doesn’t now know? encourage students to consider STEM education and careers? LTU is one of the premier STEM and design-focused institu- We have many exciting programs to encourage students at the tions in the nation. We are Michigan’s best-kept secret. K–12 level. Extreme Science Saturdays are fun, hands-on programs led by LTU faculty. This academic year, we have included What is it about STEM that gets a bad rap? virtual reality, augmented reality, and mathematics. I don’t necessarily know if STEM gets a bad rap, but I do We also have the Marburger STEM Center Summer Camps, think for some youth a STEM career just does not seem to be as which are really important for the recruitment of students to exciting as being an entertainer, celebrity, or professional ath- LTU. Nearly 50 percent of students who participate in the lete. As educators, we have to do a better job of showing young summer camps, which are also led by our faculty, enroll here people that STEM can be just as exciting and rewarding. Some at LTU. We offer some 25 camps that cover a variety of topics, young people think you have to be a genius to pursue a success- including game art, industrial design, business and entrepreneur- ful STEM career pathway, which is completely untrue. ship, building an android app, and molecules and medicine. Robofest is an international outreach program and competition We’ve heard a lot of predictions about a STEM worker that teaches students in the junior grades 5–8, senior grades shortage. Do you agree? What fields does your experience 9–12, and college students to program robots. Since 1999 more tell you will be most in demand? How can LTU help ease that than 20,000 students from several countries and states have shortage? participated in Robofest. There is a STEM worker shortage. I also think we have to We also have a new partnership with the Detroit Public do a better job of encouraging more women and people of color Schools Community District entitled the Blue Devils Scholars to enter STEM fields. The Blue Devil Scholars Program is a Program, which focuses on enhancing the STE(A)M curriculum great example of helping to ease the shortage. The fields that in Detroit schools. When students graduate from high school, are in highest demand with high salaries are computer science, they will graduate with a diploma and a STE(A)M certificate information technology, civil engineering, and mechanical representing 12–15 college credits that they can use at LTU engineering. MR toward a STE(A)M degree, with scholarship support.

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Lawrence Technological University “This new college ranking from ranks in the top four of Michigan business experts at the Wall Street colleges and universities in the Journal and a leading British pub- average salaries of its graduates lication provides further evidence 10 years after completing their of what Lawrence Tech alumni and education, according to a new employers have known for a long ranking of more than 1,000 col- time – that an education at LTU is leges and universities published a sound investment,” Lawrence by the Wall Street Journal and Tech President Virinder Moudgil Times Higher Education, the said. “We are happy to see the United Kingdom’s top publication efforts of our faculty, staff, and on higher education. corporate partners validated by The rankings, based on this recognition.” responses from more than Overall, LTU was listed 325th 100,000 college students and in the nation, in the upper third schools’ internal data, showed of the more than 1,000 schools the average LTU graduate’s sal- ranked. oMR ary after 10 years at $53,700. In Michigan, that was good for fourth place among 31 schools listed.

LTU moves up in U.S. News rankings, Princeton Review calls University one of the ‘Best in the Midwest’

Lawrence Technological University gratifying that LTU’s the other outstand- might ask on a campus visit. has moved up in the rankings of efforts are being 017 ing institutions on Colleges had to allow their stu- “Midwest Regional Universities” recognized.” 2 this list primarily dents to be surveyed in order to according to the annual U.S. News U.S. News also BEST COLLEGES for their excellent be considered. & World Report survey of best ranked Lawrence academics,” said The Princeton Review survey colleges for 2017. Tech No. 26 on its in the Midwest Robert Franek, asks students to rate their col- Lawrence Tech was also once list of best colleges Princeton Princeton Review’s leges on several issues – from the again named one of the best for veterans. It was Review® senior vice president accessibility of their professors to colleges in the Midwest by the the highest ranking and publisher. the quality of their science labo- Princeton Review, one of only 156 of any university in 017 “We also give ratories – and answer questions colleges in 12 Midwestern states Michigan on this list. The ranking2 careful consideration to what about themselves, their fellow stu- so designated for 2017. shows schools that fully partici-BEST COLLEGESstudents enrolled at the schools dents, and their campus life. U.S. News said Lawrence Tech pate in federal initiatives helping reported to us about their campus The Princeton Review also was tied for 40th among 171 list- veterans and active duty service in the Midwestexperiences on our student survey ranks Lawrence Tech as one of ed Midwest regional universities, members pay for their degrees. Princetonfor this project.” the nation’s top Green Schools for in the top quarter of the rankings Lawrence Tech was also ranked Review ®The Princeton Review’s list is its environmental programs and of schools in 12 states. That’s up 44th in the nation among all based on 143,000 student sur- focus. It’s also ranked No. 17 in from 54th last year. universities in the strength of its veys, input from college admin- the country for top undergraduate “The strong performance of online graduate engineering pro- istrators and advisors, parents, programs in game design. our overall academic program in gram. More than 80 schools were and the independent company’s The Princeton Review’s this prestigious national survey ranked in this category. National College Counselor “regional best” lists constitute reflects our ongoing commit- The Princeton Review, also Advisory Board. about 25 percent of the nation’s ment to enhance the value of a listed LTU among the “2017 Best The survey’s 80-question stu- 2,500 four-year colleges. oMR Lawrence Tech degree,” said LTU Colleges: Region by Region.” dent survey included questions President Virinder Moudgil. “It is “We chose Lawrence Tech and that prospective applicants

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Tank Automotive Research, LTU focuses on autonomous vehicle research Development and Engineering Center in Warren. Lawrence Technological University location for much of this research. for testing driverless cars on 122 Congratulations to Mathematics is working hard on the automatic- A variety of industry partners miles of Michigan roadways. and Computer Science Professor driving autonomous cars of broke ground in November for Hua said Lawrence Tech will and faculty advisor CJ Chung and tomorrow. And it gives you a the American Center for Mobility, be ready to supply the American team members Gordon Stein, pretty good headstart on all of that a 311-acre chunk of the former Center for Mobility with qualified MSCS’16, of Oak Park; Yuan Li when you’re the world champion Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti graduates who are already experts and Fan Wei of China, master’s in autonomous vehicles. Township. The first phase of the in vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle- degree students in computer LTU’s Bigfoot 2 team won the facility will see $60 million in to-infrastructure systems. science; Devson Butani of India, grand award, called the Lescoe construction to build new centers But back to the IGVC, co- an undergraduate in mechanical Cup, in the 24th annual Intelligent for testing cars, connected tech- hosted by Oakland University, engineering; Mirmit Changani of Ground Vehicle Competition nologies, vehicle communications, the Association for Unmanned India, an undergraduate in robot- (IGVC), held at Oakland University, and more. State legislators have Vehicle Systems International ics engineering; and Nithin Reddy, besting 35 other college teams. also approved four bills that allow Great Lakes, and the U.S. Army’s MSME’16. But Lawrence Tech’s work on Sponsors of LTU’s IGVC team autonomous vehicles goes well included LTU’s Department of beyond a funny-looking rolling Mathematics and Computer robot that won a world champion- Science, Robofest, DENSO, ship. Realtime Technologies Inc., Kun Hua, associate professor Clearpath, Sparton Corp., of electrical engineering, is deep Omnistar, and the LTU Bookstore. into research on cars that talk to oMR each other and the environment around them, in a true ecosystem of communication. “An autonomous car is not LTU’s team wins top prize in the 24th enough,” Hua said. “True auton- annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle omy is not just a car that drives Competition. Left to right: Professor itself. It’s not just about your car CJ Chung, Fan Wei, Gordon Stein, keeping its distance from the car and Yuan Li. Not pictured are Devson ahead of you. It’s about your car Butani, Mirmit Changani, and Nithin talking to the car behind you if Reddy. you stop suddenly because of an accident. In the future, cars will be collaborative and operate in a system. We’re researching an entire Business incubation boosted by $100,000 state grant network of cars.” LTU has received grants from The Michigan Strategic Fund product ideas to market through Business Development Center, both Ford Motor Co. and DENSO approved a $100,000 grant to innovative design thinking and Automation Alley, and SCORE North America on such projects Lawrence Technological University the lean start-up method. See Detroit. as advancing the state of the art in to provide support and business more about the programs at The new Gatekeeper Grant will software that juggles the multiple advice to early-stage technology www.ltucollaboratory.com. continue the momentum cre- minicomputers now in various companies in Southfield and Troy. LTU has partnered with the ated by the first year’s award to automotive systems and creating This is the second year City of Southfield to foster eco- assist the growth of early-stage an autonomous vehicle navigation that LTU has received a state nomic development through the technology companies, especially laboratory, with a virtual road and Gatekeeper Grant to assist entre- city’s SmartZone. Based on the those focused on product design, GPS system that teaches model preneurs and innovators. LTU results from the Gatekeeper Grant, engineering, prototyping, and vehicles to navigate a specific provides services through the LTU Southfield has provided the LTU manufacturing. Terms of the grant route. Collaboratory and its Customer to Collaboratory additional support contract are still being finalized. “The number one question is Cash program. over the past year to help foster For further information, contact always, ‘Is it safe?’” Hua said. The LTU Collaboratory is a small business success. Mark Brucki, executive director of “We cannot think about one car hands-on resource center pro- Through the Gatekeeper Grant, corporate and community partner- or two cars, but about the entire viding education, networking, the LTU Collaboratory has also ships, at [email protected]. oMR environment.” mentoring, and connections to strengthened its collaboration and Michigan, where the U.S. auto funding. The Customer to Cash working relationships with agen- industry was born, is a natural program helps companies take cies such as the Michigan Small

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Grant has LTU prof organizing ‘green infrastructure’ for Great Lakes

Civil Engineering Professor Donald $120,000 grant from the Fred spread stormwater management Donald Carpenter is working with govern- A. and Barbara M. Erb Family best practices and technologies Carpenter ment officials to make stormwater Foundation, Carpenter is working across all governments in the management systems greener and with the Great Lakes Commission Great Lakes basin, with emphasis more sustainable for communi- on a “Great Lakes Stormwater on financially struggling, small, or ties across the Great Lakes. He Technology Transfer” project. rural jurisdictions that may face explains that “green infrastruc- An advisory group comprised of barriers to implementing those ture” is using nature to manage stormwater and green infrastruc- technologies. rainfall instead of traditional “gray ture experts met for the first time A sister project of the Great infrastructure” – concrete and Sept. 29 in Ann Arbor to launch Lakes Commission, the Green pipes. the effort. Infrastructure Champions Pilot Lakes Commission will work on With the support of a The aim of the project is to Program, also supported by the technologies and techniques that Erb Family Foundation, will create will lead to cleaner water in our a mentoring network of “green streams, our rivers, and the Great infrastructure champions” and Lakes.” Three students named national emerging communities across the The team plans on presenting University Innovation Fellows Great Lakes. The two efforts will the technology transfer plan at work in tandem to reduce physi- the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence cal and institutional barriers to a Green Infrastructure Conference, Three Lawrence Technological define problems, and address greener approach to stormwater to be held May 31–June 2, 2017, University students have been global challenges. management. in Detroit. The conference will named among 169 University The students said they were Carpenter’s green infrastructure draw up to 1,000 engineers, Innovation Fellows (IUF), a attracted to the program for the vision uses natural stormwater landscape architects, water qual- National Science Foundation proj- off-campus experiences it offers. runoff treatment technologies like ity professionals, government ect led by Stanford University’s “It’s an experience you couldn’t “bioswales” – essentially, man- officials, developers, planners, design program. get in any classroom,” said Makki. made wetlands – green roofs, per- academics, and nonprofit orga- The global UIF program trains Added Graczyk: “This program meable pavements, and more, to nization executives to focus on student leaders to create new teaches you many unconventional reduce the amount of runoff going green infrastructure in the Great opportunities for their peers to ways of thinking that I can apply into storm sewer systems. Lakes. MR engage with innovation, entre- both inside and outside the class- Green infrastructure is also a preneurship, design thinking, and room.” Jordan said she liked how way to make existing storm sewer creativity as part of their college the program inspired students to systems stretch farther in an era experience. put their ideas on innovation into of heavier rainfall events brought The LTU students, all sopho- practice. on by climate change. mores, are Steven Graczyk, The program was created “We’ve fractured the water Follow alumni Ashley Jordan, and Sarah Makki. by Stanford under a five-year cycle with our pavement and on social media Graczyk is majoring in mechani- National Science Foundation our heavily engineered water cal engineering with a Certificate grant. It is managed by Stanford’s systems,” said Jon Allan, direc- For all the latest in Entrepreneurial Skills. Jordan Hasso Plattner Institute of Design tor of Michigan’s Office of the information on upcoming is also a mechanical engineering (dschool.stanford.edu). With the Great Lakes and chair of the Great alumni events, major, while Makki is majoring addition of the latest cohort, the Lakes Commission. Through follow the LTU Alumni in robotics engineering. They are program has now trained 776 both projects, he said, “We’ll be Association on Facebook LTU’s second cohort of Innovation students at 164 colleges and accelerating technologies and Fellows. universities. UIF program lead- practices that re-create what and Twitter: University Innovation Fellows ers train candidate fellows during nature does – slowly filter the bad are a national community of an intensive six-week period to stuff out of water that’s going to students leading a movement to conduct in-depth analyses of go into the Great Lakes, rivers, ensure that all students gain the their campuses’ innovation status and streams, while also helping to facebook.com/LTUalumni necessary attitudes, skills, and and provide them with tools and prevent flooding and reduce risks knowledge required to compete in resources. to property.” the economy of the future. They After training, the fellows Added Carpenter: “We need to create new opportunities that help receive year-round mentorship, be smarter about how we manage their peers develop an entrepre- connect with one another online, water, and the tech transfer proj- @LTUalumni or neurial mindset, build creative and attend national conferences ect aims to do just that. Lawrence twitter.com/LTUalumni confidence, seize opportunities, and events. MR Tech and our partners at the Great

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Universities show off student automotive expertise at LTU Grand Prix

Eight teams competed with these students from the different design and build a small Formula- hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles, Formula SAE cars in early October universities will wind up working style race car judged on design, Aero Design for large model as Lawrence Tech hosted its with each other.” cost, manufacturability, accelera- airplanes, and Supermileage for annual Blue Devil Motorsports Sponsors of the event included tion, handling, fuel economy, and ultra-high-mileage cars. oMR Grand Prix. the auto supplier Brembo North endurance. Besides LTU, competi- America, the city of Southfield, SAE International has since tors included the University of LTU’s Blue Devil Motorsports, launched spinoffs into other types Michigan, the University of Toledo, the Colleges of Architecture and of vehicles – Baja for off-road LTU’s Formula SAE racer takes a Western Michigan University, Design and Management, the vehicles, Formula Hybrid for sharp turn on the Grand Prix course. Wayne State University, Ferris A. Leon Linton Department of State University, Kettering Mechanical Engineering, and University, and Hope College. Office of Student Engagement. Grand Valley State University also Providing food and drink for the sent team members to network event were Absopure, Better Made and observe. potato chips, Fuddruckers, and The event is intended as a fun U.S. Ice. day of good-natured competition Formula SAE is a student and networking during the “off design competition organized by season” for Formula SAE racing, SAE International. The competition which has its formal competitions started in 1978. Student teams in late spring and summer. “Many of these teams don’t have a lot of chance to interact during the competitions in the LTU’s Formula spring,” said Steven Rehak, a SAE, Baja SAE, senior in mechanical engineering and Formula at LTU who is business manager Hybrid teams of the University’s Formula SAE pose with their team. “The idea here was to give cars. the students a chance to meet and start building a professional network now, because a lot of

Great Lakes area colleges and universities showed off their SAE competition vehicles in October at LTU’s annual Grand Prix.

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Jolly, entrepreneurship coordina- student entrepreneurial group. LTU has keen KEEN finish tor in LTU’s Office of the Provost; The next Innovation Encounter Heidi Morano, project engineer will be held at LTU Oct. 20–21, Lawrence Technological University programs in industrial engineer- of the SEED; and Donald Reimer, 2017. oMR took second place in the 2016 ing; Cristi Bell-Huff, director of LTU mechanical engineering col- Innovation Encounter, a pro- the LTU Studio for Entrepreneurial lege professor. Also participating gram of the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Design (SEED); Katie were members of LTU’s EMpwr Engineering Network (KEEN). Five schools involved in the KEEN program, which seeks Fund reached out to its national to incorporate entrepreneurial Ford C3 grant to LTU aims to cut network of colleges and universi- thinking into engineering cur- affordable housing cost in half ties and invited them to compete ricula, participated this year. for grants based on local sustain- Besides Lawrence Tech, they were ability projects. Ford C3 works Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Lawrence Technological University The LTU professors and stu- with partners in higher education which finished in first place; has received a $25,000 Ford dents worked with Habitat for that are focused on the critical Ohio Northern University, which College Community Challenge Humanity of Oakland County on areas of business, design, and finished in third place; Kettering grant that could revolutionize the the research. engineering. University; and the University of production of affordable housing In addition to the Ford grant, Ford C3 is designed to use New Haven, Conn. – starting with one new home in an anonymous philanthropist has school and company resources in This year’s Innovation Pontiac. donated $6,000 and a city lot in creative ways, challenging schools Encounter was sponsored by Ford The grant will help fund the Pontiac for the construction of and students to design projects Motor Co. Ford representatives at construction of HOUSE02, a proof HOUSE02. that address pressing community the two-day event on Oct. 21–22 of concept home that will use the “We’ve been working with needs and make more relevant were Eric Levine, manager of techniques developed over the students and professionals to connections with students. Ford autonomous vehicle planning; Lon past two years by LTU architec- figure out how digital fabrication C3 differs from many traditional Zaback, manager of global design ture professors Scott Shall, Jim can more rigorously inform the college grant programs by requir- planning and strategy; James Stevens, Ayodh Kamath, and Brian building delivery process used to ing significant student input, Carlu, BSEE’02, manager of global Oltrogge, and LTU architecture make affordable housing,” Shall involvement, and leadership from design planning and strategy; graduate students. said. “Through our research, we beginning to end. As a result, win- Elizaveta Bodarenko, BSTD’16; The goal is to build a home at have found ways to use computer ning proposals have a distinct stu- and Andrew Dawson, BSTD’16. a cost of $50 to $65 per square simulation, digital fabrication, dent perspective on what it means Andrew Gerhart, LTU profes- foot. That would put the cost of a and products such as structural to have a sustainable community. sor of mechanical engineering, modest, 1,000-square-foot home insulating panels and reclaimed Ford C3 is an educational initia- delivered a workshop on creativity at $50,000 to $65,000 – not the material to reduce the cost and tive of the Ford Motor Company and problem-solving development. $110,000 to $150,000 achieved environmental footprint of hous- Fund, the philanthropic arm of Ford presented the students with through traditional construction ing, as well as the time required to Ford Motor Company. oMR an industry problem involving methods, Shall said. build the home.” autonomous vehicles.The teams The techniques will make it The Ford College Community worked on developing a solution more likely for affordable hous- Challenge (Ford C3) is a grant to the problem and presented it to ing to attract financing on a large competition launched in 2008 a panel of judges from Ford. The scale, as well. when the Ford Motor Company judges used a rubric to determine A revolutionary the winners. approach to con- Each team that placed was struction could presented with a trophy that make housing much was designed and built by the more affordable, students from the makeLab in according to a team LTU’s College of Architecture and of LTU students and

Design. They also received a cash Kowalczyk. professors. award. This is the seventh year Rachel the Innovation Encounter has and Asaro been held.

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LTU mechanical engineering asso- MArch ciate professor and director of the by

bachelor’s and master’s degree Illustration

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well as serving as a negotiator at and “could easily do it five more Consul general of Canada receives the Canadian Mission to the GATT/ times,” because the University World Trade Organization. offers so many interesting aca- Global Citizen Award at Convocation In his remarks George pointed demic programs. oMR out that he didn’t intend to go Lawrence Technological University honor societies, sports, advanced into the diplomatic corps – he Douglas George, consul general of welcomed some 500 new students research, and career-building was originally a zoology major Canada in Detroit, speaking after and their families at the annual internships. intent on solving the problems of receiving the LTU Global Citizen Convocation ceremony held in Convocation also was the the Great Lakes. But he chose to Award at Convocation 2016. August. conclusion of LTU’s 2016 Global live in an international residence Convocation included a pro- Village Project, in which 125 of hall in college, where he met stu- cessional of the University’s top the new students participated. dents from many other countries, officials in full academic regalia, This year’s third annual Global developing his interest in foreign along with the Lawrence Tech Citizen Award went to Douglas service. Pep Band playing inspiring music, George, the consul general of Staying open to new experi- and addresses by LTU President Canada in Detroit. ences was also the theme of Virinder Moudgil and Student Moudgil established the award Melotnik’s presentation. She said Government President Alyssa in 2014 to recognize individuals a unique advantage of Lawrence Melotnik. who have shown great character Tech is that students are “innova- Moudgil mentioned LTU’s roots and leadership in addressing tors and creators and explorers. in Henry Ford’s Highland Park global issues and promoting inter- That’s why LTU is a perfect fit for manufacturing complex, part of national and social understanding. people like you and me.” She said the vision shared by Ford and George is a career diplomat she’s changed majors three times LTU’s founding Lawrence brothers with more than 30 years of to turn tradesmen into engineers, experience and before taking his executives, and scientists – lead- position in Detroit was Canada’s ers and innovators for whom any- ambassador to Kuwait. He is thing is possible. responsible for Canadian affairs He also recognized LTU faculty in the states of Michigan, Ohio, who help undergraduates partici- Indiana, and Kentucky. pate in leading-edge research – Abroad, George has directed a distinction not typically found trade policy issues at the Canadian elsewhere – contributing to Mission to the European Union, as advances ranging from new medical cures to energy conservation The Class of 2020 gathers at to online security. And he recog- Convocation 2016 in the Don Ridler nized LTU students involved in Field House to start the fall semester.

LTU’s survey also asked what Tech, it’s someone they can Survey of grads shows power salary those who had found really get behind. It’s also a good employment would receive. The economy right now, we know of a Lawrence Tech degree mean overall salary in the survey that, and our students have a lot was $56.560. For those receiving of opportunity in engineering. But Even as they graduated, mem- defined as graduates who had undergraduate degrees, the mean construction, design, architecture, bers of Lawrence Technological found employment, or were start- salary was $48.986; for those and business are all growing, and University’s Class of 2016 were ing their own businesses, going to receiving graduate degrees, it was our students are very much in already making their marks in sci- graduate school, or into govern- $63,548. The Brookings Institution demand in those industries ence, engineering, architecture, ment service, such as the armed recently ranked LTU fifth in the as well.” design, and business. forces or the Peace Corps – was nation for providing the most LTU President Virinder Moudgil A survey from the University’s 87.7 percent for the 415 eligible value added in preparing gradu- added: “A college education is a Office of Career Services showed graduates surveyed. That’s up ates for well-paying jobs. major investment for families, and that as of commencement on May from an 82.3 percent success rate “Employers really value our these numbers show that pro- 7, nearly 88 percent of gradu- for the Class of 2015. graduates,” said Margaret “Peg” spective students and parents can ates had found employment or The undergraduate success rate Pierce, LTU’s director of Career be confident that when it comes to were headed for more advanced for 2016 was 84.4 percent, while Services. “We hear it from Lawrence Tech, their investment is degrees. the graduate student success rate employers all the time; that when a sound one.” oMR The overall “success rate” – was 91.2 percent. they hire someone from Lawrence

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Today’s national security challenges rival the Cold War

Although the presidential elec- President Virinder Moudgil, left, and tions were still several weeks in Julianne Smith, senior fellow and the future, on October 20 LTU’s director of the Strategy and Statecraft 2016 Hotelling lecturer provided Program at the Center for a New American Security. a timely roadmap of the complex tangle of international challenges facing the new administration that rank right up there with the worst case, President Recep Tayyip of World War II or the Cold War. Erdogan thinks a cleric living in Julianne Smith, senior fellow Pennsylvania was behind the and director of the Strategy and recent coup attempt against him, Statecraft Program at the Center and seeks his extradition. The U.S. for a New American Security wants more evidence. And mean- in Washington, D.C., and for- while, Erdogan is acting more and mer deputy and acting national more like a dictator, leading to a security advisor to former Vice crisis in a country where the U.S. President Joe Biden, said that it’s has important military bases. In true that “no single challenge the the Philippines’ case, President United States faces today is equal Rodrigo Duterte is cozying up to to the challenges of Nazi Germany, China and announcing a “separa- Imperial Japan, or the Soviet tion” from the U.S. Earlier Filipino Union.” But, she said, “What we presidents feared China and can argue is that we face a com- sought U.S. backing. plex set of challenges… that are Trade Organization, as well as and dynamic economy, unrivaled • Climate change will be anoth- interrelated and present a very the very idea of democracy and military strength, and the ability to er foreign policy headache going dangerous, fluid, and fast-paced free-market capitalism, are under forge coalitions among nations. forward, leading to a long list of situation.” attack. In the question and answer problems – refugee flows, armed Smith, delivering the seventh • Alliances under strain. Smith session that followed her presen- conflict, and resource scarcity – annual Harold Hotelling Memorial said organizations like NATO are tation, Smith had these observa- for which the U.S. must prepare. Lecture at LTU, broke the chal- not equipped to handle mod- tions: • Unmanned aerial vehicles, lenges down into five categories: ern challenges. She said NATO • Social media put just as much or drones, will be a vital part of • A growing diversity of actors “knows exactly what it would do if pressure on policymakers to react U.S. intelligence-gathering. The challenging the United States. Russian tanks rolled into the Baltic quickly as they do to businesses fact that it’s the ‘Wild West’ out During the Cold War, she said, the states.” But what about a massive and individuals, and that’s not there, with little international law U.S. was focused on nation-states cyberattack on the Baltics? Or always a good thing. governing their use, may actually – and one in particular, the Soviet “energy coercion,” where Russia • Where did we go wrong with be good for U.S. interests, since Union. Now, the U.S. faces chal- turns off the natural gas pipeline Russia? Smith said policymakers the U.S. leads the world in drone lenges from ethnic conflicts, failed to a European country in the mid- assumed the country would natu- technology. states, emerging powers like India dle of a bitter winter? NATO has rally turn to the West and seek to Smith’s appearance was spon- and Indonesia, rogue nations like no clear plan for those attacks. become a European nation. “That sored by the Colleges of Arts and North Korea, and an increasingly • Blurred lines between domes- all came crashing down when Sciences and Management. belligerent Russia under Vladimir tic and foreign policy. Forget Putin came back into office in The Harold Hotelling Memorial Putin, as well as global terrorist about politics ending at our 2012,” Smith said. Lecture Series was founded to and criminal organizations. shores – domestic disputes have • U.S. presidential transitions honor an esteemed scholar and • Adversaries using “asym- in recent years had major impact too often boil down to “whatever colleague. Harold Hotelling (1945– metrical” strategies for which the on our actions overseas. the last guy did, I’m not doing,” 2009) joined Lawrence Tech as an U.S. is unprepared. Included are Some respond to these chal- Smith said. But often presidents associate professor of economics non-military attacks like cyberwar, lenges by saying the U.S. should “learn that there were reasons the in 1989 and prior to his untimely propaganda, and advanced mili- walk away from foreign concerns last guy had some of those poli- death taught courses in business tary technologies falling into the and no longer be world cop, cies… The lessons of Iraq could law, business ethics, constitution- wrong hands. Smith said. But she said the U.S. have applied to Libya.” al law, urban social issues, and • Erosion of the foundation retains some unique strengths • Relations with Turkey and law and economics. oMR of the post-World War II order. that will serve it well in meet- the Philippines are at an all-time Organizations like NATO, the ing these challenges. Included low and must be addressed by United Nations, and the World are the world’s most innovative the next president. In Turkey’s

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President Moudgil gets Real McCoy Award from DAPCEP

Lawrence Technological University Excellence in Science, which was President Virinder Moudgil was among several awards presented among the honorees in the fifth to leaders and students in STEM annual Real McCoy Awards cer- fields. The awards are named after emony presented by the Detroit Detroiter Elijah McCoy, a mechani- Area Pre-College Engineering cal engineer whose inventions Program (DAPCEP), a nonprofit revolutionized steam engines, and organization that provides histori- who was the inspiration for the cally underrepresented youth with term “the real McCoy.” innovative educational program- This year, DAPCEP celebrated ming in science, technology, 40 years of providing STEM edu- LTU President Virinder Moudgil, wearing the lab coat presented to him, engineering, mathematics, and cation to students in and around received the Real McCoy Award from Michelle Reaves, DAPCEP interim science. Detroit. To learn more, visit www. executive director, and Johnny Lunsford, of Global Strategic Supply Solutions, Moudgil received the Award for dapcep.org. oMR a Livonia manufacturer and supply chain management provider.

Wooden bridge team a force to be reckoned with

Lawrence Technological University the project. The faculty advisor earned several top ratings in the was Mena Bebawy, assistant pro- National Timber Bridge Design fessor of civil and architectural Competition, held on college cam- engineering. Other team members puses around the country in late were seniors Johnathan Harden summer. and Johnathan Leclerc and fresh- The competition, open to men Scott Pangburn and Andrew all student chapters of the Yarbrough. oMR Forest Products Society and the American Society of Civil Timber bridge team members (left to right) Andrew Yarbrough, London Engineers, is in its 24th year. Jocham, Jonathan Harden, and Scott LTU’s bridge held up better Pangburn. Not pictured: Johnathan under weight than others, with Leclerc. a small net deflection of just 4.1 percent of the amount allowed, and a net deck deflection of just 2 percent. And that was under 20 kilonewtons of force – more than 4,400 pounds – for 60 minutes. LTU won second place among the seven teams competing for best support structure, and third place for most practical design. The bridge was a box girder beam enclosed around a structural frame. It featured carbon fiber reinforcement through the center of the box girder beam. And it used reclaimed wood for its strength and beauty. The completed LTU Student London Jocham led timber bridge.

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(Ohio) University, and Aquinas four sets, winning 25-19, 25-20 Fall sports College. The men also logged sev- and 25-21. update eral firsts in 2016, including finish- Earning WHAC All-Academic ing a season with double-digit honors were senior middle hitter wins and earning a WHAC quarter- Kristen Johns, senior setter Macee Women’s Soccer final berth. The Blue Devils were Logerstedt, senior setter Josie Under the leadership of first- given a seventh seed in their inau- Queary, and junior outside hitter year head coach Andy Richards, gural WHAC tournament, drawing Alisha Stidam. Queary was also the Blue Devils accomplished a second seed 16-1-2 Davenport named to the WHAC Champions plethora of program firsts, rewrit- University. LTU fell to the Panthers of Character Team. Making the ing the history of LTU soccer. For 6-0 on Nov. 5, concluding an Second Team All-Conference was the first time, the women’s soccer impressive season. The LTU women’s soccer team scores junior outside hitter Briana Reum, team ended the season with a Receiving WHAC All-Academic against the University of Cincinnati- who maintained 2.8 kills per set. Clermont on Sept. 9. winning record, going 11-7, 5-5 in honors were senior forward Ryan Named to the All-Freshman Team the WHAC, a significant increase Fernandez, senior forward Chris was setter/right-side hitter Kristi from 2015’s 4-13, 1-9 year. Lange, senior defender Tyler Doherty. Doherty amassed 50 aces A program-best 36 goals Winningham, junior forward in 109 serving attempts, giving her were scored this season and Mateusz Gibiec, junior midfielder the top spot in service aces per only 32 were conceded, the least Pablo Ripodas, and junior defender set in the WHAC. The Blue Devils amount to date. The Blue Devils Austin Sanders. Nicolas Rodriquez- finished their season ranked fourth defeated Cornerstone University, Bermejo, Santiago Amigo, and in Division 1 in total service aces Marygrove College, Indiana Tech, Winningham were selected for with 259, 1.99 per game, as well as and Lourdes (Ohio) College. LTU the All-Conference Second Team. fourth overall in digs totaling 1,996. finished the season sixth in the Rodriquez-Bermejo led the team They finished fifth in kills per set WHAC standings and was seeded with 9 goals and 8 assists for 26 with 11.2 through 130 sets, and seventh going into their first points while Amigo added five The LTU women’s soccer team fifth in assists per game with 10. WHAC tournament appearance. goals. Winningham contributed a defeated Cornerstone University 2-1 They were faced with the daunt- solid year, starting all 16 games at Homecoming Sept. 24, sending a Men’s Cross Country ing task of tackling No. 2 seed to tally two goals and four assists. big crowd home happy. The men’s cross country team University of Northwestern Ohio, Ripodas took home a Champions turned in a notable season, eventually falling 6-0 on Nov. 2. of Character award. Gibiec finished notching four top-10 finishes. Earning WHAC All-Academic the season ranked fourth in the At the Calvin College Invitational Team honors were senior defend- WHAC for game-winning goals they placed ninth of 16, at the er/forward Sarah Britain, senior with 0.2, scoring three through 15 University of Detroit Invitational goalkeeper Heather Derstine, games. Freshman Max Jewett was seventh of 13, sixth of 17 at the senior goalkeeper Megan Dixon, in net for the Blue Devils, finishing Lansing Invitational, and seventh and senior forward Nicole Propst. with 46 saves and 20 allowed of 10 at the WHAC Conference Freshman Tia Lamie was named to goals for a 69.7 save percentage. Championships. the All-Conference First Team and Senior Dillion Ross and junior sophomore defender/midfielder Volleyball Quinn Williamson were named Jordan Messing was selected for The women’s volleyball team to the WHAC All-Academic team the Champions of Character Team. ended their season with a winning and junior Tanner Flint earned the LTU’s men’s soccer team continued As a team, the Blue Devils record of 18-17, 8-8 in the WHAC, its climb this season. Champions of Character honor. ranked third in the WHAC in a dramatic improvement from last goals per game with 2.06, third in year’s 9-28, 6-15 season. For the Women’s Cross Country assists per game with 1.56, third first time in program history the The women’s cross country team in saves per game, and fourth in Blue Devils continued post-season participated in six invitationals, shots on goal per game, recording play, earning the seventh seed claiming a top-10 spot in three of 8.28. in the 2016 WHAC tournament, them. At the University of Detroit where they faced Siena Heights Invitational they finished ninth, at Men’s Soccer University. LTU fell to the Saints the Carnegie Mellon Invitational The men’s soccer team wrapped in three sets 25-16, 25-19, 25-21. eighth, and ninth at the WHAC up their season going 10-6-2, Perhaps Lawrence Tech’s biggest Conference Championships. 5-4-2 WHAC. They recorded game of the year came on Oct. 12 Earning WHAC All-Academic Team wins against WHAC opponents when they defeated Indiana Tech, honors was senior Janie Roberts. University of Michigan-Dearborn, something that hadn’t been done Sophomore Monica Ellicott was Siena Heights University, since October 2014. The Blue Lawrence Tech’s volleyballers named a Champion of Character. Concordia University, Lourdes Devils took down the Warriors in enjoyed plenty of success this fall. oJN

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Industrial engineering conference attracts 300

Hundreds of experts in improv- systems to eliminate ing manufacturing gathered at places where machine Lawrence Tech in September to operators could exchange best practices in the make mistakes; and growing field of industrial engi- reducing the impact neering. of operations on the The Industrial Engineering and environment through Operations Management Society’s reduced waste and Detroit 2016 conference drew resource consump- attendees to campus from 42 tion. FCA reduced the countries. amount of water it The event was co-chaired by takes to produce a car Ahad Ali, associate professor in by 38 percent between mechanical engineering at LTU, 2010 and 2015. and Steven Sibrel, senior sup- Other keynotes plier quality engineer at Harman were presented by International, a Novi-based executives from Ford supplier of connected vehicle Motor Co., General Hundreds of operations management and industrial engineering professionals gathered at technology. Motors, Airbus, Eaton Lawrence Tech in September for a global conference. LTU President Virinder Moudgil Corp., Siemens, and gave the welcoming address. Accuride Corp., and researchers Carlo Materazzo, head of global from the University of Iowa and world-class manufacturing at Fiat the University of Johannesburg in Architecture prof gets grants Chrysler Automobiles, provided South Africa. There were also a the opening keynote, outlining wide variety of breakout sessions for book on Yamasaki his company’s efforts to boost – engineering education, lean quality through Kaizen continuous operations, energy conservation, Lawrence Tech Architecture century architecture. He received improvement techniques. construction management, model- Professor Dale Allen Gyure has an honorary degree from LTU in Materazzo cited the many ing and simulation, sustainable received two grants to support 1984. achievements of the automaker manufacturing, project manage- his work on a new book on the Gyure received a $7,500 resulting from these efforts: nine ment, data analytics, and more. architecture of Minoru Yamasaki. Wyeth Foundation for American straight years of reduced inci- Industrial engineering deals Serenity and Delight: The Art Publication Grant from the dence and severity of workplace with the optimization of complex Architecture of Minoru Yamasaki College Art Association, as well as injuries; a massive waste and loss processes or systems. Industrial is to be published in 2017 by Yale a $7,500 grant from the Chicago- reduction program; redesign of engineers work to eliminate wast- University Press. based Graham Foundation. ed time, money, materi- The book is an examination Gyure joined LTU in 2001. His als, energy, and other of the work of Yamasaki, whose research focuses on American resources, eliminating designs included the doomed and modern architecture of the parts of processes that do World Trade Center towers in 19th and 20th centuries. He not generate value. New York City, as well as several has published two books: Frank Ali, director of LTU’s landmarks in Detroit, including Lloyd Wright's Florida Southern bachelor’s and master’s One Woodward Avenue, originally College (2010) and the Graham degree programs in the headquarters of Michigan Foundation-supported The industrial engineering, Consolidated Gas Co., and the Chicago Schoolhouse, 1856– reports that enrollment is McGregor Memorial Conference 2006: High School Architecture rising in the program – Center at Wayne State University. and Educational Reform (2011), from 50 students last fall Yamasaki moved to Detroit in as well as numerous articles, book to 75 this fall. oMR 1945 to join Smith, Hinchman & chapters, and reviews. He has Grylls as chief designer and prac- served on the boards of directors ticed in the city for more than 40 for the Society of Architectural years. He was known for mixing Historians and the Frank Lloyd modern materials and functional Wright Building Conservancy, LTU President Virinder touches with historical elements, and is a member of the Michigan Moudgil welcomes the IEOM and was a vital – and occasionally Historic Preservation Review conference attendees to controversial – figure in mid- Board. oMR campus.

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Old friends get Homecoming spirit draws reacquainted in alumni, students, others the Alumni tent.

Lawrence Tech alumni from was sponsored and coordinated around the world enjoyed several by the College of Management. days of Homecoming Week fes- Thursday’s activities featured tivities leading up to the official a student open house at the Homecoming Day celebration Taubman Complex, with a faculty on Sept. 24. For students, the vs. student flag football game, a week included fun and games powder puff football game, and a outside and serious stuff like a Homecoming bonfire warming the Career Services Company Crawl spirits. to Fortune 500 companies in Friday, Sept. 23, featured the Dean of Students Southfield. Night of Champions student- Kevin Finn cooks On Wednesday, Sept. 21, athlete dinner, a hockey tilt vs. up the goodies hundreds attended the grand Ferris State University, and the for alumni and opening of the A. Alfred Taubman seventh annual Homecoming students. Engineering, Architecture, and Concert, featuring rapper Lil Life Sciences Complex, home of Dicky. Homecoming wrapped up the Marburger STEM Center. It Saturday, Sept. 24, with a service was standing room only as LTU project cleaning up Belle Isle students, alumni, local community State Park, the True Blue Reunion leaders, and area business leaders Brunch, a Homecoming tailgate, toured the spectacular new labora- and men’s and women’s soc- tories and collaboration spaces in cer games on Lawrence Tech’s the $16.9 million, 36,700-square- spectacular new AstroTurf athletic foot building. The complex is field. oMR an architectural gem – besides its high-tech labs, it features a spectacular glass atrium and what might be Michigan’s most interesting staircase – a three-story- high black orb made of carbon reinforced fiber. Industry officials say it’s a groundbreaking use of composites as building materials. That evening, more students, faculty, and community members enjoyed a lively discussion Several student groups enjoyed the flawless weather. on the North American Free Trade Agreement, as the annual Painting on that Blue Devil spirit. President’s Symposium tackled “NAFTA Revisited: The Way Forward in the 21st-Century Global Economy.” The truth behind the controversial trade deal was gleaned by modera- tor Tom Marx, director, Center for Leadership, LTU College of Management, with distinguished panelists Douglas George, consul general of Canada; Juan Manuel Solana Morales, consul of Mexico; and Paul Traub, senior business The LTU Blue Devil Band led the cheer for the men's and economist, Federal Reserve Bank True Blue Reunion Brunch attendees receive a University women's soccer teams. of Chicago. This year’s program update from President Virinder Moudgil.

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joined the LTU faculty in 2003. Employees, alumni, receive excellence awards She became associate dean in 2010. She has served as thesis Lawrence Technological University advisor to 19 master’s degree honored six of its employees and students and has published some a distinguished alumnus Oct. 40 journal and conference papers. 12 during its annual Lawrence As a researcher, she has secured Excellence Awards program. $720,000 in research awards, The two winners of the Mary including a $400,000 National Ann Marcum Customer Service Science Foundation CAREER Award were Tracy Kash, admin- award, given to promising young istrative assistant to the dean of researchers. She has been rec- the College of Arts and Sciences, ognized by her peers for her and Chevette White, graduation work ethic, dedication, and warm and scheduling coordinator in human touch with students and the Office of the Registrar. Both fellow faculty members. were praised for going above and The Marburger Champion beyond the norms for customer for Institutional Excellence and service in their respective roles From left to right, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Maria Vaz, Preeminence was bestowed upon and maintaining precise work and President Virinder Moudgil, and President Emeritus Richard Marburger con- Kirk T. Steudle, BSCE’87, direc- a positive outlook while dealing gratulate Staff Person of the Year Anne Dandar. tor of the Michigan Department with demanding schedules. of Transportation. Steudle has Winning the 2016 Henry B. Tech in 2014 and has since earned SAE Aero Design team and the served as state transportation and Barbara J. Horldt Excellence rave reviews for her work with the American Institute of Aeronautics director under Republican and in Teaching Award was Mark program’s students. and Astronautics Student Chapter, Democratic administrations. He Farlow, BSAr’81, BAr’82, MAr’09, Winning the Marburger Faculty and facilitates workshops world- is a national expert on connected an adjunct faculty member in Member of the Year Award was wide on active, collaborative, vehicle technologies and has the College of Architecture and Andrew Gerhart, professor of problem-based, and entrepreneur- received several national awards Design. mechanical engineering. Gerhart ially minded learning. from transportation organizations. Farlow is director of design at teaches fluid mechanics, thermal Winning the Marburger He has been generous in provid- Hamilton Anderson Associates in sciences, engineering design, Administrator of the Year Award ing time and counsel supporting Detroit. He has been an adjunct and creative problem-solving. He was Elin Jensen, associate dean of LTU students and programs. professor at LTU since 1995. serves on numerous LTU com- graduate studies and research in oMR Earlier this year, he was also mittees, as faculty advisor to the the College of Engineering. Jensen selected to receive the 2016 Distinguished Architecture Alumni Award by the Architecture and Design Alumni Cabinet of the Profs win grant to advance fluid power education Lawrence Technological University Alumni Association. (See story on Four professors in the A. Leon mechanics classes, but they based modules for LTU fluid page 31.) Linton Department of Mechanical want more students engaged in mechanics and thermodynam- Three LTU employees received Engineering have won a $25,000 this area and to make students ics courses, which are taught to the 2016 Mary E. and Richard E. grant from the National Fluid more aware of fluid power appli- mechanical engineering majors in Marburger Fund for Excellence in Power Association (NFPA) to cations, including pneumatics and their junior year. Those modules Achievement Awards. bring problem-based and entre- hydraulics.” will be shared with the engineering Winning the Marburger Staff preneurial-minded learning to fluid Liu said Lawrence Tech’s exist- education community. Person of the Year Award was mechanics and thermodynamics ing involvement with engineering Founded in 1953 and based Anne Dandar, administrative education. programs emphasizing entrepre- in Milwaukee, the National Fluid assistant for the transportation The team is led by principal neurship and innovation – such Power Association brings fluid and industrial design programs investigator, Assistant Professor as KEEN, the Kern Entrepreneurial power industry partners together in the College of Architecture Liping Liu. Other members are Engineering Network – estab- to advance fluid power technol- and Design. She spent 15 years Professors Robert Fletcher and lishes a strong foundation for the ogy and foster members’ success. in design, development, and Andrew Gerhart and Assistant entrepreneurial-minded course NFPA’s members include fluid manufacturing at Ford Motor Co., Professor James Mynderse. modules to be developed under power manufacturers, distributors, then worked as a consultant in “The NFPA wants students to the grant. educators, and researchers. oMR business planning, project devel- know more about fluid power,” Liu said she, Mynderse, opment, human resources, and Liu said. “Some of the elements Fletcher, and Gerhart are already fundraising. She joined Lawrence are covered in our current fluid at work developing fluid power-

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Tom Lewand Shinola’s Lewand tells students: was interviewed by LTU student ‘Don’t be afraid to fail’ Justin Becker.

The new CEO of the watch, phones – as well as a line of jew- bicycle, and leather goods manu- elry. It’s also in a new partnership facturer Shinola Detroit LLC told with Quicken Loans founder Dan a largely student audience at Gilbert on a downtown hotel. Lawrence Technological University Lewand said that’s part of the to aim high and be unafraid of entrepreneurial talent of Kartsotis, failure. to make unexpected moves and Tom Lewand, who spent 20 break into other industries. “We years with the Detroit Lions, was look for skill, experience, and And he praised Detroit as a It seems like there’s a new ven- named CEO of Shinola in June. authenticity in whatever space center of entrepreneurial talent. ture fund popping up every day. His appearance at LTU was part we’re in.” He said Kartsotis “could have Technology, mobility, transporta- of the University’s Entrepreneurial Lewand also told the LTU audi- built Shinola anywhere in the tion are all huge here, but you Lecture Series, presented by the ence that in addition to manage- country. But one of the things that also see things like apparel and University and EMpwr, LTU’s ment and manufacturing talent, attracted him to Detroit was how fashion starting up downtown and student entrepreneurship organi- Shinola is now on the hunt for fertile the environment here is for in Midtown.” oMR zation. engineers and people with techni- startups. The barriers to entry are Lewand’s remarks came in a cal skill for the audio equipment low, you see a lot of people get- one-on-one interview conducted line. ting funding from a lot of sources. by LTU student Justin Becker, a senior majoring in civil engineering. Becker co-chairs EMpwr. Lewand said he was attracted Service awards presented to faculty and staff to Shinola because of “the mission – to celebrate the skills and talent that American workers have, particularly those here in Detroit. It was a daring idea, a big idea, a crazy idea, that our founder Tom Kartsotis had, to come from Dallas, where he had founded a company 30 years ago called Fossil that also made watches, but had sold. Tom decided he wanted to do something with those proceeds that would have some greater social impact and pursue President Virinder Moudgil (center) with 25-year service award winners (left President Moudgil with Joyce his most deep-rooted entrepre- to right) Anthony Sky, Lisa Anneberg, and Abolhass Khosrovaneh. McKissen, recognized for 30 years of neurial ideas. He convinced a service. Not pictured: Joseph Dubrosky. Swiss manufacturing partner to go into a venture with him here in Detroit and bring back a long- dormant industry and do some of the world’s most complicated manufacturing and compete at a global level.” Shinola has grown from zero to $100 million in revenue in just three years. And the company continues to branch out into other products. First into leather goods, and now the company has announced an President Moudgil with Gayle President Moudgil (left) with Marilyn Rands and Bruce Annett, Jr., recognized expansion into audio equipment Schaeff, recognized for 35 years of for 40 years of service. – turntables, speakers, and head- service.

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ematics and computer science, Chung said the team plans on GlobalHack team makes finals said the team worked on the sys- publishing the source code for tem for 17 hours, averaging one the application with a free, open LTU’s computer science team at ters to quickly direct homeless line of code per team member per source license so that anyone can the GlobalHack VI software com- people to shelters with empty minute. use it. The project submission is petition, held in October in St. beds. It also provides a way for publicly available Louis, Mo., finished in the top 20 homeless people to communicate at devpost.com/ percent of more than 150 teams. with shelters. software/global- In GlobalHack, teams compete Team members were Nicholas hack. oMR to develop software from the Paul, captain, a senior in com- ground up over the course of one puter science; Nick Virag, a senior weekend. This year’s competition in computer science; and Jacob drew more than 1,000 partici- Crane, a sophomore in mathemat- pants, developing software around ics and computer science. From left to right, the theme of preventing or ending The team received the project Nicholas Paul, team homelessness. Friday night and completed it by captain, and mem- The team designed a system Saturday night. Faculty advisor bers Jacob Crane using Google Maps to allow shel- C.J. Chung, professor of math- and Nick Virag.

Prior to that, he spent two years Coach Jeff Blue Devils returning to the gridiron as offensive graduate assistant Duvendeck under Mark Dantonio at Michigan After a hiatus of 70 years, GPAs earned by our current stu- State University. In 2006-09, he Lawrence Technological University dent athletes, they are consistently was offensive coordinator and will again field a football team higher than the GPAs of our over- offensive line coach at Northern and has hired a coach, Jeff all student population.” Michigan University. Earlier posts Duvendeck, who will lead efforts Moudgil added that the included offensive line coach and to build a team that will begin University’s Strategic Plan, adopt- recruiting coordinator at Michigan competing in the 2018 season. ed last year, with input from the Technological University, graduate stadium and player amenities are LTU expects to attract students entire campus community, calls assistant at Grand Valley State expected to be part of a new capi- with strong scholastic aptitude for LTU’s continued transition to a University, and graduate assistant tal campaign, planning for which who also enjoy the competi- more residential environment. “As at Tiffin (Ohio) University. is under way. tion, discipline, and camaraderie a result we need to provide more A native of Flushing, Lawrence Tech offered football of intercollegiate athletics. The opportunities for an active student Duvendeck played running back when it was founded in 1932 and University reinstituted athletics in life and recreation,” he said. at Central Michigan University, fielded teams until World War 2011 and now fields 24 men’s and Southfield Mayor Ken Siver was where he earned a bachelor’s II, when most students and fac- women’s teams in basketball, soc- enthusiastic about LTU’s move, degree in health promotion and ulty left to fight. A football team cer, lacrosse, hockey, golf, tennis, which both he and the University rehabilitation in 2001. He earned reformed after the war for a year bowling, baseball, softball, volley- expect to bring a substantial and a master’s degree in kinesiology but student interest had waned, ball, and cross country. steady stream of new athletes, from Michigan State University and the sport was discontinued. LTU is a member of the their families, friends, alumni, and in 2016. At a time when some higher National Association of other guests to the city. This past summer, Lawrence education institutions are engaged Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), Coach Duvendeck spent six Tech added a $1 million AstroTurf in conversations about football’s the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic seasons as head coach at Culver- multi-sport playing field, the gift costs and health-related concerns, Conference (WHAC), and the Stockton College in Canton, Mo. of an anonymous donor. Adding LTU expects to address these Michigan Collegiate Hockey issues and build a successful Conference (MCHC). LTU intends program. to compete in football as an “The NAIA members are much independent program in 2018, more diligent in containing costs and join the Mid-States Football and stressing scholarship,” said Association of the NAIA in fall Kevin Finn, LTU’s dean of stu- 2019. dents. “And it is our intention to “We anticipate that we will meet or exceed all applicable safe- continue to attract strong scholars ty and conditioning procedures to to our new football program,” said insure the health and well-being of President Virinder K. Moudgil. our players.” oMR “Indeed, when we examine the

L a w r e n c e T e c h M a g a z i n e 29 AlumniA NewsLUMNI NEWS husband on campus! I am look- Alumna for alumni: 2012 grad is ing forward to meeting other LTU alumni in the months and years to now director of alumni relations come and to hear about how LTU impacted their lives in the same In her new role as director of (WMU), where she worked as way that it did mine.” alumni relations, Krysta Coleman a graduate assistant, graduate Coleman’s achievements knows a thing or two about what intern, and interim assistant direc- while a student at LTU include it’s like to be an LTU alumna. tor of campus programming and the Senior Legacy Award and That’s because she is one. registered student organization the Ed Donley Distinguished Coleman, BSBM’12, took over development. She also continued Graduate Award. At WMU, she as the University’s alumni rela- her education, earning a Master earned the Donna Talbot Award tions director effective Jan. 1. She of Arts in Educational Leadership for Excellence in Student Affairs was previously at Michigan State from WMU in 2015. in 2014. And at Michigan State, University, where she was assis- “To say that LTU helped to form Krysta Coleman she won the New Advisor of the tant director of student life, over- the person I am today would be an Year – Spartan Silver Award and seeing student government. understatement,” Coleman said. Epsilon Sorority, and had the the Walter Adams Advisor of the After graduation, Coleman “Besides receiving an outstanding opportunity to travel across the Year – Spartan Silver Award, both worked for a year as a graduate education, I also met some of my country to numerous confer- in 2016. assistant in LTU’s Office of Student best friends through organizations ences as well as to China with the Engagement. She then joined like Students Planning Activities Leadership study abroad program. Western Michigan University Monthly (SPAM) and Delta Phi I even met and got engaged to my

the ESD Distinguished Service ESD honors Lawrence Tech alumni, staff Award. This award is given to ESD members who have distinguished Several LTU alumni and staff Board member. extraordinary qualifications and themselves in their professions received awards from the Harold A. Ladouceur, BSME’63, experience in their professions. or by exemplary service and Engineering Society of Detroit was inducted into the ESD College Unfortunately, Ladouceur died at contributions to ESD. This award (ESD) at the organization’s annual of Fellows. The rank of ESD Fellow the age of 89, just months after was presented to Richard E. dinner in June. is reserved for ESD members of being honored. Marburger, HD’93, LTU president Kirk T. Steudle, BSCE’87, unusual distinction, conferred Two LTU alumni and an employ- emeritus; William A. Moylan, received ESD’s highest honor, the by invitation for outstanding and ee were among the recipients of Jr., BSCE’74, associate profes- Horace H. Rackham Humanitarian sor of construction Award. This award is given to management at Eastern an ESD member for outstand- Michigan University; ing humanitarian achievements and Matthew N. Roush, as exemplified by meritorious managing editor of the technical accomplishments for the University News Bureau benefit of mankind or by recogni- and director of media tion on either a local, national, or relations at LTU. Moylan international level for extraordinary also received “The Ray” achievements in civic, business, volunteer award from public-spirited, or humanitarian LTU in 1998. endeavors. Kirk T. Steudle Harold A. Ladouceur Richard E. Marburger Also, Gene D. Steudle is director of the Dickirson, BSME’73, Michigan Department of Trans- president of Gene portation. He has also received Dickirson Engineering, several awards, including LTU’s was presented the ESD Alumni Achievement Award in Outstanding Leadership 2008 and the W. N. Carey, Jr., Award. This award Distinguished Service Award is granted to exem- from the Transportation Research plary ESD committee or Board in 2015. He was named to council members based the LTU College of Engineering on their service and Hall of Fame in 2012 and is a accomplishments. College of Engineering Advisory William A. Moylan Matthew N. Roush Gene D. Dickirson

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Farlow wins Distinguished Architecture Alumni Award

Mark Farlow was selected to receive the 2016 Distinguished Architecture Alumni Award by the Architecture and Design Alumni Cabinet of the Lawrence Technological University Alumni Association. The annual selection is made by previous winners of the award, which dates back to 1997. Farlow also received the Henry B. and Barbara J. Horldt Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016. Farlow is director of design at Hamilton Anderson Associates in Mark Farlow Detroit, leading the development of the firm’s projects, with an AIA-Detroit, the International emphasis on mixed-use, hospital- Interior Design Association ity, and commercial and residen- Michigan Chapter, and the tial process. The firm is designing Masonry Institute of Michigan, some of the most prominent proj- and has traveled around the world ects in Detroit, such as the District to represent his employers in Detroit (including Little Caesars business development efforts. He Arena), Brush Park Neighborhood has also served on the Royal Oak Development, Orleans Landing, Historical Commission, the board and Corktown Neighborhood of directors at the Birmingham Development. Bloomfield Art Center, the AIA- Technology Award, becoming the He has also been an adjunct Detroit Membership Committee, In 2009, he also launched first adjunct professor to receive professor of architecture at LTU and chaired the AIA-Detroit House the country’s first online this award. Overall, Farlow has since 1995. Tour Committee twice. graduate-level thesis studio for taught more than 160 students Farlow earned three degrees In 2007, Farlow was invited to Lawrence Tech’s online Master in the past seven years and has from LTU: a Bachelor of Science serve as a design lead for the AIA- of Architecture program. He was helped nearly 200 students in in Architecture in 1981, a Bachelor 150 Neighborhoods by Design recognized for his groundbreak- securing career opportunities of Architecture in 1982, and a Charrette. Working with another ing work with the University’s locally and nationally. oMR Master of Architecture in 2009. LTU alumnus, Frank Arvan, 2013 Teaching & Learning Using In his second year of architecture BSAr’78, AIA, along with students school, he became the resident from both the University of Detroit curator of LTU’s Frank Lloyd Mercy and Lawrence Tech, the Wright-designed Affleck House in transit-oriented development they Bloomfield Hills. After graduating designed for Royal Oak focused from LTU, he pursued a Master on the issue of transit and life- of Science in Architecture at the style choices in the metropolitan University of Cincinnati, 1982–84, Detroit area. The proposal was Save the dateS! and then joined the faculty at subsequently awarded the Design Mississippi State University, in Transit award for its vision and LTU Homecoming 2017 where he remained until 1988. design excellence. He joined the architecture firm Farlow also chaired LTU’s Monday, Sept. 25 – Saturday, Sept. 30 Garbooshian/Budday in 1988, Architectural Alumni Cabinet, Event details coming soon! and Victor Saroki & Associates 2009–10, and has served three in 1992, before taking his pres- times as keynote speaker for ent post at Hamilton Anderson in the College of Architecture and 2014. He has numerous profes- Design’s annual commencement sional awards from AIA-Michigan, recognition ceremony.

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From shopping malls to mansions to dream playhouses, Architecture alumnus building elaborate toyscapes

In a 30-plus-year architecture Wayne Visbeen career, Wayne Visbeen, BSAr’84, (right) and BAr’86, has designed more than members of 100 shopping centers and hun- the Visbeen Architects, dreds of spectacular homes. Inc., team go But when he wants to really over designs have some fun, he designs elabo- for dream play- rate playhouses for children. houses. “It’s a blast,” Visbeen says of his playhouse designs. “When I’m being for real as an architect, I have to think about structure, mechanics, efficiency, and budget. I do homes from $150,000 to $25 million, everything from fabulous mansions to small houses, but we always have to think in technical detail. In a playhouse, I can do a five-minute sketch and the team can take it and run with it. I can have fun and get crazy. I can dream and dream big.” an LTU student, and in five years Grand Rapids and directed store 30 playhouses in a single day, Visbeen was hired by the designed over 100 shopping cen- design for the retail chain Gantos. and became a partner in Leavitt’s Taubman Co. when he was still ter prototypes. Then he moved to He started his own company, company, Charmed Playhouses. Visbeen Architects, Inc., in 1992. A TV crew filmed the installation “I started out doing retail of a playhouse for a Make-A-Wish design,” he said. “I worked for Foundation child in Grand Rapids, Martha Stewart, I did the Softer and the two pitched a TV show Side of Sears campaign, worked about spectacular playhouses. Upcoming Alumni Association Events in retail all over the world, Brazil, Later, Visbeen designed for fun Singapore, Europe. At the end of a playhouse for the daughter of 1995, I started designing residen- Golden State Warriors star Steph Easter Bunny Brunch tial houses in order to stay home, Curry. Visbeen posted the design Sunday, April 2, 2017 because I was on an airplane 50 on social media – where Curry’s 11 a.m.–1 p.m. percent of my life.” wife saw it and contacted him, That worked for a while, but asking him to build it. Buell Management Building cafeteria now, Visbeen said, “our residen- The Curry playhouse became Cost: $7 Adults - $5 Children - Under 2 free tial business has exploded.” He’s the pilot episode of Playhouse Includes buffet breakfast, picture with the Easter Bunny, designed homes in 46 states, and Masters, featuring Visbeen’s , has current projects from coast to designs and Leavitt’s construction. Easter egg hunt, and children s crafts coast and overseas – so he’s back It’s available for viewing at www. Registration information coming soon! on airplanes regularly again. tlc.com/tv-shows/playhouse- The playhouse designs started, masters. Eight more episodes of Alumni Social at Windsor Express as things often do, by chance. He Playhouse Masters began airing in Basketball Game was speaking at a builder’s show January 2017. Wednesday, April 5, 2017 in Orlando, Fla., and Canadian Of the playhouses, Visbeen landscaper Tyson Leavitt heard said, “It’s a fun hobby. I literally Watch your email for more information! him. A few years later, Leavitt do it on airplane time, because I’m called Visbeen and said he was in the middle of 50 custom home For any questions about upcoming alumni events, contact starting a custom playhouse busi- projects all over the country.” Krysta Coleman, director of alumni relations, at ness, and asked Visbeen for some And outside it. Visbeen said [email protected]. designs. After some initial hesita- he’s also working on a tion, Visbeen said he designed 35,000-square-foot villa for a

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Wayne Visbeen says his fantastic kids’ playhouses let him “dream and dream big.”

Wouldn’t this be an amazing place for a kid?

prominent family in India. what better thing to do than take For now, Visbeen said, he’s a bunch of architects from Rome looking forward to the 25th anni- to Barcelona, and have them look versary of his company in June. To at great architecture, cool cities, celebrate, he is flying 28 people – and eat, drink, and be merry?” his entire staff and significant oth- oMR ers – to Europe, for a cruise from Rome to Barcelona. “We thought,

Engineering alumnus chosen as new president of Macomb Community College

James O. Sawyer IV, BSME’85, Sawyer is a certified quality engi- the search committee, said, was named the new president neer and had 17 years of business “Even with a competitive and of Macomb Community College experience prior to joining MCC. qualified candidate pool, Dr. (MCC) on Dec. 20. He was the college’s dean of engi- Sawyer was clearly the best Sawyer was previously provost neering and advanced technol- choice. His long-standing and senior vice president of the ogy from 2002 to 2007 and vice experience with the college and college, a post he had held since provost from 2007 to 2009. His community, as well as his solid 2009. He is the sixth president in experience includes curriculum background in business, will MCC’s 63-year history. development, grant management, ensure a smooth transition with After graduating from Lawrence program reviews, technology and a knowledgeable leader ready James O. Sawyer Tech, Sawyer earned advanced building enhancements to improve to fully leverage Macomb’s degrees from Central Michigan learning, and partnership develop- strengths while effectively of Leadership Macomb, St. John University – a master’s degree ment. guiding the institution into the Providence Hospital, Macomb-St. in administration in 1989 and a Sawyer was chosen to lead future.” Clair Workforce Development, doctorate in education, with an Macomb after a comprehensive A resident of Macomb Michigan Design Council, and emphasis on educational leader- national search. MCC board chair County for more than 40 years, American Society of Body ship and administration, in 2008. James F. Kelly, who also chaired Sawyer serves on the boards Engineers Foundation. oMR

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in winter, when I get off work, it’s Detroit by night already dark. I love the mood you LTU-trained photographer’s brooding cityscapes part of DIA exhibit can get at night, how it transforms the look of the city. I love the strong contrast between light and Jonathan DeBoer, BFA’11, says he DeBoer is a professional the Detroit Institute of Arts, which dark that you get at night, that just feels more awake at night. graphic designer and photogra- features the city’s nightclubs, sort of film noir, Gotham City- Perhaps that’s why his stunning pher. His mostly black-and-white music venues, skylines, and inspired look of black and white nighttime cityscapes look so photographs are part of the streets at night, and runs until with heavy contrast.” vividly alive. “Detroit After Dark” exhibition at April 23, 2017. A native of Port Huron, DeBoer “I am a night person,” DeBoer said he chose LTU for college said. “I’ve always felt more awake because “I was look looking at and creative at night – especially both architecture and graphic design, and Lawrence Tech is one of the few schools that offers both. And I heard great things about the college, that it would really prepare you for a career.” DeBoer said he fell in love with photography through two classes at LTU in 2008 and 2009. Photography, he said, “allows me to look at Campus Martius Penobscot Lights my surround- ings and look at the world in a new light. I find that photography is the best way to express myself. I can communicate my thoughts and emotions through photography better than I can with words. That’s what I really love about it.” While his degree wound up being in graphic design, DeBoer said he is “still interested in architecture, and I can express that interest through photography.” Not all of DeBoer’s subjects are buildings at night. He’s also been the team photographer for the Detroit City FC soccer team since its first season. He’s employed as a graphic designer at Sawicki & Son Inc., a printing company in downtown Detroit. oMR

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Alumni Notes includes Alan H. Cobb, School District. The holder of 32 U.S. Joseph R. Sprangel, Jr., AMET’95, news gathered from alumni, BSAr’76, FAIA, patents, Tom retired as vice president DBA’09, is the first dean of the College their families, and friends. LEED AP, president of advanced vehicle technology devel- of Business and Professional Studies Submissions received after and CEO of Albert opment at Chrysler. He was previously at Mary Baldwin University in Virginia. the deadline for this issue Kahn Associates, executive engineer in charge of Ford Joseph previously taught at Ithaca will be published in the sum- received a 2016 Motor Co.’s advanced engineering College, Lawrence Tech, and Spring Gold Medal from group. He is also a member of the Arbor University. mer 2017 issue. Use the form the American Institute of Architects President’s Club for lifetime giving at in this section to share news for his work and dedication in advanc- Lawrence Tech and a member of the Agustin “Augie” V. Arbulu, MB’97, is about you and alumni you ing the AIA and the profession of College of Engineering Advisory Board. the executive director of the Michigan know! architecture during his 40-year career. Department of Civil Rights. He was He is LTU’s 2000 Distinguished Delores Annajee, BMSE’87, is a recently profiled in an article in the Roger E. Avie, Architectural Alumni Award honoree. senior logistic analyst with Unified Detroit Jewish News in which he cited BSIM’68, is the His firm is architect of record for LTU’s Business Technologies, Inc., in Troy, police/community relations as one of CEO and presi- recently completed A. Alfred Taubman focusing on process improvement and the most pressing concerns he faces. dent of Medical Engineering, Architecture, and Life mechanical system documentation Systems Resource Sciences Complex. for the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Jacqueline L. Buchanan, MSIS’00, Group, a consult- Command. She is also a Train-the- is president and CEO of Auburn Hills- ing company Grace A. M. Smith, BSAr’85, BSIA’85, Trainer Professional, Certified CMMI based Genisys Credit Union. Jackie specializing in computer installations RA, LEED AP, was appointed by Gov. Partner, and ISO Auditor. was recently cited by Crain’s Detroit in medical facilities using a variety Rick Snyder to a four-year term on the Business in the category “Most of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) State of Michigan Historic Preservation R. Scott Leo, BSEE’87, is president Influential Women: Finance.” software. He also serves as CEO and Review Board. Grace is an architect of ETS Engineering, Inc., a Royal president of Supply Team, a Service- who has specialized in historic preser- Oak-based engineering/consulting Mark J. Jordan, AEET’02, BSET’11, Disabled Veteran-Owned Small vation for the past 23 years. firm, where he is working with local is senior sales manager for western Business. A decorated Vietnam War architects involved in the revitalization regional sales and operations at veteran, Roger is serving his second Thomas S. Moore, BSEE’86, received of Detroit. Cincinnati-based Intelligrated’s district year as the statewide finance officer a 2016 Distinguished Graduate Award office in Ontario, CA. Mark has more of the American Legion. A former from the Paris (TX) Intermediate than 20 years of experience in material LTU Alumni Association president, he handling automation. is a member of the Trustees Society for lifetime giving and received the University’s 2009 Ray Award for vol- unteerism at Lawrence Tech.

Daniel W. Winey, BSAr’74, BAr’75, MAr’15, FAIA, IIDA, LEED AP, is the COO at Gensler, a global architecture, design, planning, and consulting firm. He recently received the Magnolia Silver Award and certificate for contributions to the culture of China and for designing 0116 22001166 22001166 220 6 Shanghai Tower, the tallest building NATION’SNATION’S BEST BEST GREENGREEN BESTBEST COLLEGES COLLEGES ONLINEONLINE PROGRAMS PROGRAMS COLLEGECOLLEGE in in the the Midwest Midwest in China and second-tallest build- U.S.U.S. News News & & Princeton Princeton Princeton Princeton WorldWorld Report Report®® Review Review®® ing in the world. His company has Review Review®® 001166 22001166 22001166 22 operations in Shanghai and Beijing. NATION’SNATION’S BEST BEST GREENGREEN BESTBEST COLLEGES COLLEGES ONLINEONLINE PROGRAMS PROGRAMS COLLEGECOLLEGE in in the the Midwest Midwest Dan is an LTU trustee and a 2010 U.S.U.S. News News & & Princeton Princeton Princeton Princeton WorldWorld Report Report®® Review Review®® Review Review®® Distinguished Architectural Alumni Advanced technologies and global competition LTU ranks fifth among U.S. colleges and

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Christopher member of the West Michigan Minority George, BSAr’04, Contractors Association and the MAr’08, was pro- National Society of Leadership and News For Alumni Notes moted to associ- Success. Use the space below to tell us about you or your fellow Lawrence ate, Architecture + Tech or DIT alums. Mail it to the Office of Alumni Relations, fax to Design, at Harley Sheryl L. Mitchell, 248.204.2318, or email [email protected]. Tell us about honors, Ellis Devereaux DBA’14, Albion’s promotions, marriages, appointments, and other activities. (HED). In this role, Chris is respon- city manager, sible for leading the design and techni- was unanimously ❏ New Address? cal systems for large, complex proj- appointed by ects for the firm’s Southfield office. In the Calhoun Name addition, Chris will continue to support County Board technical project team leadership and of Commissioners to the board of Street coordination relative to the use of Summit Pointe, an independent mental building information technology (BIM) health agency. City State ZIP as a BIM Champion. Tynisha McGee, MBA’15, Home Phone ( ) Stephen McKay, BSAr’05, MAr’07, GCertNML’15, is the associate dean of a partner and vice president of Academic Affairs and Accountability Email Cranbrook Custom Homes in Shelby at Wayne County Community College Township, was named one of the “30 District. She also was elected record- in Their Thirties” by dBusiness maga- ing secretary of the National Alumni zine. Steve launched the company with Council of the United Negro College two partners in 2011. Fund and honored with the National Black MBA Association-Detroit Chapter Ben J. Loznak, BSAr’10, MAr’13, is Presidents Award. with Cornwell Architects in Traverse City. He recently earned licensed archi- Jeanne Seaman, MBA’16, was tect status with the State of Michigan. appointed office manager of the accounting department at the Traverse Zachary P. Verhulst, BSAr’13, City Record-Eagle. MAr’15, is an architectural technician at TowerPinkster, an architectural/ engineering firm with offices in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. Zach is a

LTU Alumni and their families and friends enjoyed lunch and a Tigers game at Comerica Park.

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36 W i n t e r 2 0 1 6 / 1 7 In MemoriamIN MEMORIAM Information for this section William C. VanLeuven, BSME’51, of Lynwood S. Jackson, AEEtT’62, of Kenneth G. Masters, BSIM’68, of is gathered from family and Fenton, Jan. 25, 2016. Mr. VanLeuven, Dearborn, July 16, 2016. Mr. Jackson Fenton, July 20, 2016. Mr. Masters friends of the deceased and a World War II veteran, owned and was an electrical engineer at Ford was president/owner of Wamcor, Inc. from media accounts. When operated Valmec, Inc., for many years. Motor Co. He was survived by his He was survived by his wife, Karen, providing an obituary, please He was survived by his wife, Annie, wife, Mary, a son, and a daughter. and three sons. furnish as much informa- three sons, and two daughters. Demetrius “Jim” S. Raptis, BSEE’62, Gilbert J. Opaleski, BSIM’71, of tion as possible, including Alexander Waligora, BSIE’52, of of Royal Oak, March 6, 2016. Mr. Kimball Township, Feb. 10, 2016. Mr. the date of death and any Shelby Township, Sept. 5, 2016. Mr. Raptis, who was awarded the Purple Opaleski worked at the General Motors Lawrence Tech- or DIT- Waligora retired from General Motors Heart for his service with the Marines Tech Center in Warren, retiring as head connected survivors and their Corp. after 42 years as an Engineering in Korea, was a sales engineer with the of plant engineering in 1987. He later graduation dates. If sending Group manager. He was survived GE Foundation. He was survived by his worked for Cushman & Wakefield, a newspaper clipping, please by his wife, Eunice, two sons, and a wife, Katherine, a son, and a daughter. where he oversaw construction of the include the date and name of daughter. Chrysler Tech Center in Auburn Hills. the paper. Harold A. He also served as a Sanilac Township Jan A. Derecki, BSCvE’55, of West Ladouceur, supervisor. He was survived by his Chicago, IL, Sept. 27, 2015. Mr. BSME’63, of wife, Frances, three sons, and two Russell R. Noble, BSEE’48, of Grosse Derecki was a senior scientist at the Livonia, November daughters. Pointe Shores, June 9, 2016. A Marine National Oceanic and Atmospheric 23, 2016. Mr. Corps veteran, Mr. Noble was chief Administration. He was survived by his Ladouceur worked Elmer E. Anderson, BSIM’72, of engineer of safety design at Chrysler wife, Krystyna, a son, and a daughter. as an engineer Port Richey, FL, Dec. 2, 2013. Mr. Corp. After retiring from Chrysler, he at a variety of companies, includ- Anderson was a general accountant formed Noble Engineering PC, serving Clifford F. Miotke, ing Vickers, Alpha Industries, and at General Motors. He was survived as president and principal consultant. AMT’57, of Multifasterner Corporation and held 61 by his wife, Linda, two daughters, and He was survived by his wife, Marjorie Brighton, July 12, patents. He was survived by his wife, a son. Ann, and two daughters. 2016. He was Lucille, and a daughter. survived by his Charles H. Birdsall, BSIM’72, of Robert W. Lemon, wife, Gloria. Donald L. McInnis, BSIM’63, of Traverse City, June 29, 2016. Mr. BSME’49, of Downers Grove, IL, Aug. 9, 2016. Mr. Birdsall, who also held an advanced Farmington, Aug. McInnis, an Air Force veteran, was the degree from the United Kingdom in 21, 2016. After Dennis G. DeClerk, BSIM’58, of sole proprietor and manager of Village marine archeology, was survived by service in the Bloomfield Hills, July 21, 2016. An Air Valet Dry Cleaners. He was survived his wife, Kathleen, and two daughters. Army Air Corps Force veteran, Mr. DeClerk had a long by his wife, Sylvia, and two daughters. during World War career in the construction business. Wilford B. Kellum, BSAr’73, of II, Mr. Lemon worked in the automo- His first job was in his father’s compa- Charles D. Sanovich, BSIM’64, of Traverse City, Aug. 7, 2016. Mr. Kellum tive industry until 1986 and was a ny, DeClerk Industries, and ultimately Lincoln, CA, Oct. 5, 2016. After ser- worked for a time for Gourdie Fraser lifetime member of LTU’s President’s he owned his own business, Stress- vice with the Army in Germany, Mr. and then retired as Sergeant First Club. As a student, Mr. Lemon was Con Industries. He was survived by his Sanovich worked for Carroll Shelby Class from the U.S. Army. As a stu- active in Lawrence Tech’s aeronautical wife, Barbara, and four stepchildren. Enterprises and at TRW Microwave as dent, Mr. Kellum was president of the program, helped build the “Spirit of chief financial officer. He was survived Civil Engineering Society Club and a Lawrence Tech” airplane, and provided James E. Baltazar, AIST’58, of by his wife, Elaine, two daughters, and student government representative. He helpful counsel during its restoration. Beulah, June 27, 2016. Mr. Baltazar’s a son. was survived by his wife, Nancy. He was survived by three daughters career as an industrial engineer and and a son. quality control engineer included posi- Reginald D. Shepard, BSEE’65, of William Mayle, BSME’77, BSCE’84, tions at General Motors, Rockwell Cape Coral, FL, Dec. 26, 2015. Mr. of Livonia, Sept, 29, 2016. Mr. Mayle William F. Golisch, BSEE’50, of International, and Outboard Marine Shepard was an engineer in the auto- was a product designer at Ford Motor Escondido, CA, Sept. 29, 2016. He Corp. He was survived by his wife, motive industry, retiring from General Co., a Marine Corps veteran, and a was survived by two daughters and Barbara, two sons, and four stepchil- Motors in 1992. recipient of the Purple Heart. He was a son. dren. survived by his wife, Judy, and three Homer T. Harrison, AIST’67, of daughters. Robbie A. Richard Pharo, AEEtT’58, of Lewiston, Bloomfield Hills, Sept. 5, 2016. Mr. Williams, June 1, 2016. A Navy veteran, Mr. Harrison was a longtime executive in John W. Winters, BSAr’85, BAr’87, of BSCvE’50, of Clio, Pharo was survived by a brother. the auto industry. He was survived by Royal Oak, Jan. 29, 2016. Aug. 17, 2016. Mr. his wife, Maureen, six daughters, and Williams was a David W. Dunham, BSCvE’59, of two sons. Bradley W. Fairse, BSIM’87, of World War II vet- Hillsdale, June 26, 2016. A Korean Clarkston, Aug. 6, 2016. Mr. Fairse eran and a General War veteran, Mr. Dunham was a senior Bruce O. Karvonen, BSIM’67, was a production manager at Chrysler. Motors Corp. retiree. He was survived assistant civil engineer for the City of of Plano, TX, Dec. 13, 2013. Mr. He was survived by his wife, Carla, by his wife, Irene, three daughters, Detroit. He was survived by his wife, Karvonen was a sales representative and two sons. and a son. Grace, and two sons. for the GE Foundation.

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Thomas B. Blair, BSCE’91, of New Donald J. Urban, BSAr’98, of Hudson, July 28, 2016. Mr. Blair Brighton, Sept. 15, 2016. Mr. Urban THE LAWRENCE TECH FAMILY was director of product engineering was an architectural designer at at Edward C. Levy Co. and a former Leidos. He was survived by his wife, member of the Civil Engineering Heather, and three daughters. Advisory Board. He was survived by Julius Pallone – his wife, Pamela, and a son. Phillip E. Atwater, BSME’03, of extraordinary volunteer Waterford, Oct. 22, 2014. He was sur- Michael R. Schurig, MBA’96, of Flint, vived by his wife, Carol. Julius L. Pallone, an LTU trustee since 1982 June 8, 2016. Mr. Schurig was an and advisory member of the University Army veteran, serving in the Vietnam Matthew C. Grant, AGS’12, BSIT’14, corporation, died August 12, 2016. Mr. War. He was survived by his wife, of Salisbury, MD, Sept. 8, 2016. Mr. Pallone also served on the board’s finance Lois, and a son. Grant worked for Apple, Inc. He was committee. He formerly was chairman of survived by his mother and a brother. the board and president of Maccabee’s Life Christina A. Schulz, MSIS’97, of Insurance Co., president and CEO of Royal Ferndale, July 20, 2016. Ms. Schulz Financial Services, Inc., and chairman and was a longtime Ford Motor Co. CEO of Royal Life of America. A graduate employee. She was survived by two of Fordham University and the Polytechnic Institute of New York, siblings. Mr. Pallone was active in numerous professional and business organizations. In 1986, Lawrence Tech honored him as one of the “Outstanding Volunteers of Michigan” sponsored by the Michigan DIT IN MEMORIAM chapter of Fund Raising Executives. He helped LTU secure scholarship and capital campaign commitments, recruited volunteers for corporate solicitation, and provided the University with facilities Edmund J. Zeglen, BSME’41, of James M. Nederlander, of for phonathons. Farmington Hills, June 6, 2016. Mr. Southhampton, NY, July 25, 2016. Zeglen, a World War II Air Force veter- A veteran of World War II, Mr. an, was a manager of product liability Nederlander served over 70 years as and safety for Massey Ferguson for 35 chair of the Nederlander Organization years. Upon his retirement he formed and managed a network of promi- Kurt Tech – his own company, Zeglen Associates. nent theaters across the U.S. and automation pioneer and longtime trustee He was survived by three daughters in London. Locally, these included and a son. the Fisher Theatre and Detroit Opera Kurt O. Tech, BSME’48, HD’90, an advisory House. A successful producer, he was member of the University corporation since Lawrence R. Sieczkowski, BSMa’68, the recipient of several Tony Awards 1975 and a trustee, 1981–94, died Sept. 18, of Chesterfield Township, Oct. 19, and numerous other top entertainment 2016. Mr. Tech was associated with the Cross 2015. Mr. Sieczkowski was a senior awards. He was also credited with Company, an innovator in machine tools, for business analyst with Fiat Chrysler. He developing the outdoor amphitheater 40 years prior to his retirement as the firm’s was survived by a brother. concept, including what is now DTE president in 1980. Working his way up from Energy Music Theater at Pine Knob. being a drill press operator, he was a pioneer Survivors include his wife, Charlene, in the development of automatic production and a son. lines, helping manufacturers, including auto makers, streamline their processes by using automation for complex tasks. In 1958 he received LTU’s Alumni Achievement Award. He was a past president of the Alumni Association, the Russell Lawrence Foundation, and his evening school graduating class. Active and respected in his industry, Mr. Tech also served his community, including being a life member and past chairman of the Salvation Army’s Metropolitan Detroit Advisory Board, a trustee of St. John Health System, and a trustee and former chair of the Judson Center. He was a member of the Grosse Pointe Shores Employee Retirement Commission for 20 years, serving 10 as its chairman. Survivors include his wife, Carole, and three sons.

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FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CEO

y all measures, the past lifetime of leadership and sup- year has been one of port to his alma mater as chair tremendous progress of the Board of Trustees and, Bfor Lawrence Technological with his family, late wife, and University. This comes in the company he led, being large part thanks to the gener- among the University’s most osity of thousands of alumni, generous donors. faculty, staff, corporations, On September 21 the foundations, and other friends campus community came who have rallied to address together again for the dedica- campus needs and support stu- tion of the A. Alfred Taubman dent aspirations. Engineering, Architecture, and LTU’s ambitious 10-year Life Sciences Complex. This Proud Heritage, Bold Future $16.9 million, 37,000-square- capital campaign came to a foot facility completes the close June 30, 2016, raising link, symbolically and physi- land and parking adjacent The world championship of Robofest, more than $125 million in cally, between the buildings to the north side of campus. a global robotics competition cre- cash and pledges. The cam- around LTU’s quadrangle ated by C.J. Chung, professor of Renamed LTU’s Enterprise mathematics and computer science, paign has already provided that house LTU’s four col- Center, this building will is a chance for President Moudgil to important new resources for leges: Arts and Sciences, eventually include a business speak to hundreds of students from scholarships and enhanced Engineering, Architecture and incubator as well as academic around the world – and their parents. facilities. The dollars raised Design, and Management. We space. were nearly twice its original expect that the collaboration These facility expansions porter, and longtime former goal. between the programs in all marked the second year of Board of Trustees chair. So In May we dedicated the these areas will continue to notable additions. In August popular and successful has Edward Donley Residence expand. 2015, our third campus been the expansion of resi- Hall. Formerly called North Lawrence Tech’s campus housing center opened. The dential options for students, Housing and opened in 2002, also grew with the purchase Lloyd E. Reuss Residence the Board of Trustees has this building’s new name of a 97,000-square-foot office Hall is named to honor the already approved the addition recognizes Edward Donley’s building and five acres of University’s great friend, sup- of a fourth campus residence hall. We’re on a fast track to plan and build this facility to accommodate students for fall 2018. And while all these improvements change the face of the campus in Southfield, at the same time in Detroit’s burgeoning Midtown, our Detroit Center for Design + Technology, also opened in

President Moudgil and other university administration and faculty congratulate LTU's world champion team in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition, held in June. The students whose faces appear on the computer screens were attending the congratulatory celebration via computer hookup from India.

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2015, is providing numerous first-hand opportunities for students and the University to develop solutions to urban issues and challenges. The center is located on Woodward Ave., on the much- anticipated trolley route, the QLine, which will run between downtown and the New Center area. All this facility growth is among the early frui- tion of many aspects of the University’s Strategic Plan that was completed last year. Over 18 months or so, the trustees, the campus leadership team, and many others within the LTU community collaborated to develop the In partnership with another the competition, discipline, Alumni enjoy breakfast and meet- plan, the sixth in a series that great Southfield institution, and camaraderie of intercol- ing longtime friends at the annual True Blue Brunch, part of LTU's has guided LTU since we for- St. John Providence, we have legiate athletics. And the aver- Homecoming festivities. malized our planning process launched an innovative all- age GPAs of our student ath- in 1999. Each update reflects new program leading to a letes are actually higher than the evolution and advance- Bachelor of Science degree in ment of the University and nursing that will enroll its first provides the “roadmap” for students in fall 2017. VISION, MISSION, VALUES, CAUSE where we want it to be and Augmenting housing and how we will get there. Both program growth, another key he Vision, Mission, Values, and Cause statements in the trustees and campus lead- goal of the Strategic Plan has TLawrence Technological University’s newest Strategic ership groups meet regularly been a paradigm shift to a Plan, developed with broad campus involvement, reflect to gauge our collective prog- more vibrant student life with LTU’s emphasis on technological innovation. ress. more student activities that The plan continues to focus encourage interactions and Vision: To be recognized for transformative STEM and on strong academics, first and learning in and outside the Design education that develops leaders with an entrepre- foremost. Our STEM pro- classroom. neurial mindset and global perspective. grams in science, technology, Part of the increase in engineering, and math have student activities is exempli- Mission: To develop innovative and agile leaders through been boosted and are expand- fied in the burgeoning stu- a student-centric learning environment and applied re- ing to reach as deeply as the dent demand for and growth search embracing theory and practice. primary school level. The of intercollegiate athletics. goal is to improve America’s After a nearly 50-year hia- Values: Character and Integrity global competitiveness, and tus, LTU athletics programs Theory and Practice the effort has significance were relaunched in 2012 and Teamwork and Trust for workforce development, we now field 20 men’s and/ Student-focused and Caring national security, economic or women’s teams in basket- opportunity, and more. We’re ball, soccer, lacrosse, hockey, Cause: The intellectual development and transformation firmly committed to offering bowling, baseball, softball, of our students into critical thinkers, leaders, and lifelong STEM and STEM-leading volleyball, golf, tennis, and learners. education, buttressed with cross country. We are attract- design education. ing students with strong scholastic aptitudes who also enjoy

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those of our general student Even as these new facili- architecture programs. Other Dr. Moudgil speaking at a Lawrence population. ties, programs, and activities programs recognized were Tech vigil to mark the mass murder of nearly 50 people in an Orlando, As reported elsewhere are added, LTU’s reputation engineering and computer and Fla., nightclub in June. in this magazine, capping has continued to grow. Among information sciences. LTU off this return to athletics the rankers, LTU placed in was also cited for best overall is again fielding a football the top 100 colleges and uni- quality, quality in the Great of important new investiga- team, something that LTU versities nationwide in the Lakes region, and quality in tions to improve educational has not had since the World 2016 PayScale College Salary Michigan. success and outcomes. War II era. This past summer, Report, which measures the Business Insider, a busi- Lawrence Tech students Lawrence Tech added a $1 earning power of college ness, celebrity, and technology are serious and committed million AstroTurf multi-sport graduates. news website, ranked LTU to success – no matter where playing field, the gift of an Lawrence Tech also ranks among the 610 “Smartest they are on their professional anonymous donor. Adding in the upper third of more Colleges in America” in path. We appreciate the con- stadium and player amenities than 1,000 colleges and uni- 2016 based on brainpower, as tributions of LTU’s donors, is expected to be part of a new versities for the highest aver- reflected by the school’s aver- volunteers, and friends who capital campaign, planning for age salary of graduates 10 age standardized test scores. contributed to the progress of which is underway under the years after completing their As I’ve reported in the past, this past year. Your support leadership of Vice President education, according to the organizations as diverse as the makes a difference in all we Kristen DeVries. She was Wall Street Journal and Times Kern Family Foundation, the do, and we are grateful for it. appointed in August, follow- Higher Education, the United Kresge Foundation, and the Thank you! ing a national search, to lead Kingdom’s top publication on National Science Foundation LTU’s Office of University higher education. have placed LTU at the lead Advancement. In the 2017 USA Today college rankings, Lawrence Virinder K. Moudgil Tech is in the top 5 percent of all American colleges and universities for the highest paid graduates and the best

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Frederick M. Adams, Jr. Lauren L. Bowler Joseph E. Champagne Vincent G. Dow, Douglas E. Ebert Elizabeth Howell, Former Chairman, Retired Vehicle Line Former Chairman, BSEE’79 Chairman of the Board, BSEE’92 Northern Trust Company Executive, Midsize/Large Board of Directors, Former Vice President Lawrence Technological Independent Consultant, Cars, General Motors Ross Controls; and Chief Engineer of University; Former Chief PYRACAP, Inc. Corp. Former President, Distribution Operations, Operating Officer, Oakland University DTE Energy Cranbrook Educational Community

Raymond R. Khan, Marcy Klevorn Larry D. Lyons Howard B. Padgham John G. Petty, BSME’65 Lloyd E. Reuss BSEE’70 Vice President and Chief Former Vice President, Former Vice President, Former Director, Fox Former President, Former Senior Vice Information Officer, Car and Minivan Product Advanced Manufacturing Vehicle Program, General Motors Corp. President, CIO, Blue Ford Motor Company Team, Chrysler Corp. Engineering Power Train, General Dynamics Corp. Cross/Blue Shield Chrysler Corp. of Michigan

Barbara Samardzich Victor A. Saroki, John G. Smith Daniel W. Winey, David B. Wohleen Cary B. Wood, MSIO’96 Former Chief Operating BSAr’79, BAr’80 Chairman, Board of BSAr’74, BAr’75, MAr’15 Former President, Former President and Officer, Ford of Europe President, Victor Saroki & Directors, Chief Operating Officer, Electrical, Electronics CEO, Sparton Associates Architects, PC Ross Controls Gensler Safety and Interior Sector, Corporation Delphi Corp. A dv i s o ry M e M b e r s o f t h e C o r p o r At i o n e x o f f i C i o

MaryAnn Wright Richard H. Cummings Edward Donley, BME’43 Virinder K. Moudgil Group Vice President, Former Senior Vice Former Chairman, Air President and CEO, Technology and Chairman, NBD Bank and Products and Chemicals, Lawrence Technological Industry Relations, NBD Bancorp, Inc. Inc. University Johnson Controls Power Solutions

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FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND PROVOST

t is with great pleasure that caliber candidates. A design Marburger STEM Center to health management and use of I share some of the accom- architect with experience in focus on innovative teaching technology will be hallmarks plishments and develop- both academia and industry, that reinvents the meaning of of LTU’s program. Students Iments of the past academic he was attracted to Lawrence STEM as “Systems, Technol- will start their nursing courses year as well as some of the Tech’s multidisciplinary ogy, and Educational Mentor- as freshmen and will have events that took place this fall. design culture. He and his ing” through student research their laboratories at nearby With students at the center, we team are already working on and K–12 outreach. The goal Providence Hospital and their strive to continually enhance their college’s strategic plan is to instill in all students a clinical training in the six academic offerings, campus to make Lawrence Tech even passion for STEM careers. Dr. hospitals that are part of the life, and career opportunities. better known for the quality of Collins’ office in the Taubman St. John Providence health Throughout the past aca- designers that we produce. In Complex is literally in the system. Our Office of Admis- demic year we were very busy addition to architecture and in- middle of it all. sions is now very busy recruit- planning for events culminat- terior architecture, the college In addition, we are proud ing our first class that will ing in the fall. The Taubman offers excellent undergradu- to start serving the health care start fall semester 2017. The Complex, where the Mar- ate transportation and indus- industry through a partner- program will be administered burger STEM Center and our trial design, game art, graphic ship with St. John Providence within the College of Arts and programs in the life sciences design, and interaction design to offer a brand new direct- Sciences. and robotics are now residing, programs. We look forward admit Bachelor of Science Lawrence Tech’s undergrad- was under construction and we to an even greater future with in Nursing. We have worked uate enrollment continues to had to prepare for the move. Dean Daubmann. hard together to form a strong increase. This fall our under- All the planning and work Dr. Sibrina Collins started partnership and on November graduate students increased by were well rewarded as we as the inaugural executive di- 3 we were authorized by the 3.1 percent with a 7.3 per- had a very smooth transition rector of the Marburger STEM Michigan State Board of Nurs- cent increase in credit hours and move to the new build- Center, also on July 1. She is ing to offer the new degree. relative to the fall semester ing, which officially was another dynamic addition to Our program will empha- of 2015. The freshman class dedicated in September. New Lawrence Tech. Working with size the skills that are needed increased by 6.4 percent with laboratories for biomedical the faculty and the admin- for the nurse of the 21st an average GPA of 3.5 and engineering, molecular and istration, she is developing century. In addition to the an average ACT score of 25. cell biology, robotics, and the the vision and mission of the traditional nursing functions, Students looking for careers in sophomore Entrepreneurial engineering and other STEAM Engineering Design Studio are disciplines continue to find designed to expand and de- that a Lawrence Tech educa- velop pedagogy and research tion is an investment with that fully engage students in enormous return, as identified their learning, so exemplified by the Brookings Institution, by the University’s theory and PayScale, Wall Street Journal, practice motto. and others. We were also successful Despite the added rooms in concluding two searches provided by the Lloyd E. for key administrators. Karl Reuss Residence Hall that Daubmann started as the opened in fall 2015, we find new dean of the College of that campus housing is again Architecture and Design on completely full. Over 800 July 1, after a national search students reside on-campus, that attracted numerous high- achieving a 100 percent occupancy rate. With the increase of residential students there Provost Vaz congratulates Lior is a growing number of daily Shamir, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, for events on campus organized outstanding scholarly achievement at by the students themselves or LTU's Research Day in April.

44 W i n t e r 2 0 1 6 / 1 7 REPORT TO INVESTORS by the Office of Student Af- fairs – sports competitions and games, professional student chapter meetings, professional seminars, service learning activities, plays, clubs, Greek life, and more. It is exciting to see the engagement of students in vibrant campus activities that enhance their leadership skills and sense of civic responsibility. During the presidential election about 50 of our students helped at the voting stations in Southfield. Our athletic program, with students competing as part of the National Association $200 million dollars, many of professionals. The DCDT Provost Vaz (upper right) meets with of Intercollegiate Athletics our faculty received grants for provides excellent opportuni- alumni and former staff and faculty during the annual True Blue Brunch (NAIA), continues to grow. projects that involve students, ties for architecture and design at Homecoming 2016. Left to right: This year we started a men’s including undergraduates, in and other LTU students and Richard Maslowski; Stan Harris; Joe baseball team and a women’s research or industry sponsored faculty to connect with each Dyki; John Grden, BSEE’77; Provost softball team. Our student ath- projects. In 2015–16, faculty other and engage in Detroit’s Vaz; Barry Knister; and Ruth Favro. letes continue to be role mod- obtained some $2 million for renaissance. els for all the other students. research and student projects. In 2015–16 the evalua- AACSB accepted our ap- In addition to being part of LTU’s Detroit Center for tion team from the National plication, and the chair of the competitive sports teams, they Design + Technology (DCDT) Association of Schools of Art visitation team made his initial are also very good students. has been bustling with activity and Design (NASAD) visited visit to LTU this past fall. In The scholarship of our in Detroit’s Midtown district. LTU to accredit all the art addition, the College of Engi- faculty complements and en- In addition to several studios and design programs offered neering prepared last year for hances the classroom experi- that take place at the DCDT, by the College of Architec- the ABET accreditation team ence. In addition to a software many exhibitions, presenta- ture and Design. The graphic visit in October 2016. Eight donation by Siemens that tions, and seminars have oc- design, game art, interaction programs were evaluated. We includes 200 seats for student curred there. It has also served design, transportation and will report next year on our and faculty training and has as a gathering place for design industrial design, and interior success. a commercial value of about and community development architecture programs were Lawrence Technological all re-accredited for 10 years. University’s faculty and staff We are thankful for the many strive to provide an excellent faculty and administrators education that offers outstand- who maintain such quality ing value. The contributions programs for students, and we of our alumni and friends as are proud of our students who partners in assuring the dis- do such excellent work. tinctiveness and affordability The process for attaining of a Lawrence Tech education Association to Advance Col- are essential to our success. legiate Schools of Business Thank you for your generous (AACSB) accreditation for support! the College of Management is now in its final phase. The

Provost Vaz provided the closing Maria J. Vaz remarks at the world championships of Robofest, held at the Don Ridler Field House.

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FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT

lfred Lord Tennyson support for a reason. Once I Kristen DeVries, once wrote, “Hope graduate, I know I will be able vice president of to be hired into a great job. university advance- smiles from the ment (right), enjoy- Athreshold of the year to come.” This job will not only help me, ing some qual- And our hope at Lawrence but I already know I want to ity time with LTU Technological University return this favor to another Alumni Association is based on generations of LTU student one day. I will President Donna strive to achieve my goals and Bell, BSEE'89, at students, now alumni, lead- Homecoming 2016. ing happy, productive lives remember that now I have an in communities throughout additional person helping me Michigan and indeed around that I can make proud. Thank the world. Each year we you.” – Jacob are delighted to welcome hundreds of alumni back to The woman graced with President Moudgil wrote numbers of alumni, donors, campus to engage them in the this scholarship will in turn about the tremendous impact and friends coming back to life of the institution that they become a great architect and the A. Alfred Taubman Engi- the University for events like have helped shape. continue to value her educa- neering, Architecture, and Life Homecoming and Spring- Today, thanks to the tion. Sometimes my motiva- Sciences Complex is already sation, engaging with our generous support of alumni, tion weakens, but I continue having on our campus, thanks students through guest lectures trustees, corporations, founda- to strive for my goal. Before I to the philanthropy of so and mentoring, cheering on tions, and our own faculty received the email about the many. Philanthropic support our sports teams, and offer- and professional staff, LTU scholarship I was having a is also providing the backing their financial support. is stronger than ever. Philan- difficult week, but that email bone for the Detroit Center Because of you, Lawrence thropy continues to transform gave me hope. I sincerely want for Design + Technology, as Tech will continue to grow in lives, whether through the to thank you for giving me the well as the remarkable new reputation and in excellence as hundreds of donor-supported motivation to continue.” AstroTurf multi-sport playing we stay true to our mission to scholarships that students – Autumn field. We even enjoyed achiev- develop innovative and agile received this year, or through ing Bronze Status as a Bike- leaders through a student-cen- the sponsored research mak- “Thanks to this scholarship, I Friendly University thanks to tric learning environment and ing roads safer and cars more will be able to take the classes a generous alumnus. applied research embracing efficient. I want. I will learn as much as In this new year, we are theory and practice. It is always our students I can during my time here and optimistic about ever-growing Again, an LTU freshman who say it best: become an engineer that will student says it best, “I will make a difference in the world. Kristen DeVries, vice president of always remember the impact “After opening an email let- It warms my heart knowing university advancement, enjoys you have made on my life. I ting me know I had received that later in life, I’ll be able to a chat with (from left) President Virinder Moudgil, LTU board chair understand the value of this a scholarship, I immediately give back to my community as Doug Ebert, and Robert Taubman, opportunity, and I will work thought of the future. I knew you have given to me.” prior to the dedication of the hard for myself, my team, that I was receiving this – Joshua Taubman Complex in September. my family, you, as well as Lawrence Technological Uni- versity. Thank you. I hope to one day help students achieve their dreams just as you have helped me.”

Kristen R. DeVries

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FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

retention rates, and the overall plant operations and institu- and no cost increase for life, grade point average of our tional support budget items disability, vision, and dental students. Student athletes have increased in FY2015–16, as coverage. As a strong advo- increased our reach by attract- well as scholarship support cate for preventive health ing excellent students from and our debt service from the care, the University instituted around the country and across new housing bond. the “Healthy Living” initia- the state. These numbers Each year, we invest more tive two years ago, and it has have contributed to our solid in student scholarships. This resulted in remarkable ben- operating performance and are year, scholarships increased efits for employees and their in line with the University’s to $16,644,114. All of these families. As a group, we are strategic initiatives. scholarships are funded shedding pounds and reducing Reuss Hall, our newest through operations. The Uni- the need for blood pressure 150-bed housing unit, was versity did not increase tuition medications. Linda L. Height completely full throughout at all in FY2015–16, but con- In order to assist our this academic year, and we tinued to provide a significant employees with retirement awrence Technological continue to be oversubscribed amount of support to students readiness, an additional 0.5 University ended Fiscal in housing. Because of that, through these academic and percent match was added Year 2015–16 on a very we continue to lease beds athletic discounts. Addition- to the University match for Lpositive note by exceeding from a third party in the area. ally, there is approximately employees’ 403b plan, bring- budget projections and achiev- It will be important to our $1,000,000 of funded scholar- ing the match up to 3 percent ing a surplus of $3,915,403. growth initiatives to look for ships that is awarded annually, of salary. Many educational This marks two consecutive ways in which to add an addi- thanks to the generosity of our programs are provided, both years of achieving better than tional housing unit on campus donors. individually and in group expected budget surpluses. by fall 2018. Human Resources and the settings, so employees can Enrollment numbers were We continue to focus on Benefits Committee continued be well-informed about their strong in both undergraduate identifying cost efficiencies their work to enhance em- options. Our plan is reviewed and graduate programs, with and ways in which to deliver ployee benefits while reducing twice a year by our investment an overall 7.3 percent increase quality service at the lowest overall costs. By working with advisor and changes are made in credit hours. price. This is an effort that our insurance providers, the when necessary. The athletic program requires all University depart- Benefits Committee negoti- Campus Facilities remains continues to positively affect ments to be involved. Due to ated a competitive rate for busy with routine maintenance our enrollment numbers, our the opening of Reuss Hall, employee medical benefits, items, lifecycle maintenance requirements, and new projects. With some additional capital approved by the Board of Trustees, several major lifecycle purchases were begun, including the replacement of old boilers and windows across campus. Consider- able attention continues to be paid to our landscaping, and, as a result, LTU received its second Green Star Award from the Professional Grounds Management Society for the

Lawrence Tech received another Green Star Award from the Professional Grounds Management Society for the beauty and sustainable design of campus.

L a w r e n c e T e c h M a g a z i n e 47 REPORT TO INVESTORS beautification and sustainable design on our campus grounds. In FY 2015–16, we were successful in purchasing the Mark Plaza property, which is contiguous to our campus. This property will continue to be used as rental property, with the net revenue going toward the endowment. This 97,000-square-foot building and five acres of land will be incorporated into the update of the Campus Master Plan and may allow for some educational use in the future. Emphasis continues to be placed on the safety of our campus, both physically and with our computer systems. This year, we continued to Each year, more than $17 million in replace cameras across the LTU and donor-funded scholarships Revenue: $80,889,861 University and to add exterior give students the opportunity to benefit from a superior Lawrence cameras in the parking lots. Tech education. Spending from Endowment 0.4% Door access is also a significant project being undertaken strategy is reviewed with the by Information Technology Finance/Investment Commit- Other 0.5% and Campus Safety. We have tee of the Board of Trustees. had several Critical Incident Some changes have been made training workshops. Addi- to our portfolio due to the tionally, Campus Safety has changing marketplace. forged strong relationships Overall, the University is Auxiliary 5% with the City of Southfield making progress in its goals Police and Fire Departments. to increase enrollment and Tuition & Fees 94.1% Investments in the Univer- retention. That is important sity endowment performed as our revenue comes primar- well in this fiscal year. ily from student tuition. To Lawrence Tech outperformed assure our financial health, Expenses: $76,974,458 similar institutions, and the we must continue to focus on S&P 500 over a one-year alternative revenue opportu- period and kept pace with nities, cost efficiencies, debt Academic Support 42.6% Plant Operations 9.3% them over three- and five-year reduction, and increasing our intervals. These investments endowment. Improvements in are monitored constantly, and these four categories will help The addition of a third student dor- the University’s investment us improve the financial health mitory required major upgrades to of the University as well as drainage and water management sustaining its reputation. service on campus. Here,Capital the project 2.6% is underway in January near Ten Mile Road. Scholarships 21.6% Debt Svc/Bond Resv 4.1% Auxiliary 0.8% Linda L. Height Institutional Support 18.4%

Financial results for fiscal year ending June 30, 2016

48 W i n t e r 2 0 1 6 / 1 7 “I have family that attended Lawrence Tech. They not only encouraged me to follow in their footsteps, but are also the reason I was awarded the LTU Alumni Scholarship. RASHA SHKOUKANI MAJOR Like many other students I know, support ARCHITECTURE from donors has given me the opportunity to CLASS YEAR pursue my passion here, and I am so grate- SENIOR HOMETOWN ful for their investment in my future.” MACOMB, MI

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Lawrence Tech, St. John Providence partner for nursing education

awrence Technological University’s motto, “Theory and one day a week as a nurse practitioner Practice,” has been brought to life in another new aca- in cardiovascular services at St. John demic program – nursing. Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Warren L The program, beginning in the Fall 2017 semester in August, Campus. Why? Said Jamison: “The M. Therese Jamison will provide classroom instruction at Lawrence Tech with landscape in healthcare is continuously clinical and laboratory instruction at six St. John Providence changing, and as an administrator and faculty member, I must hospital locations around metro Detroit. St. John Providence be abreast of what is going on in the healthcare industry, so I is part of Ascension, the largest nonprofit health system in the can effectively and positively inform our students.” U.S. and the world’s largest Catholic health system. Jamison said the nursing shortage is real and will continue, The new program will be administered by Lawrence Tech’s due to an aging population, which creates more patients, and an College of Arts and Sciences as a major in the Department of aging population of nurses nearing retirement. That’s one rea- Natural Sciences, and will culminate with a Bachelor of Science son she believes LTU’s nursing program will be well-received: in Nursing. The program will admit an initial cohort of 32 stu- “Because of the nursing faculty shortage and the lack of clinical dents in fall 2017, and 32 new students per year thereafter. sites, 75,000 nursing student applicants have been turned away “Michigan and the nation as a whole are in the midst of in just the past few years.” a continuing shortage of qualified, well-trained nurses,” Jamison said the LTU program’s close alliance with St. John Lawrence Tech President Virinder Moudgil said. “We aim to Providence makes the program unique, as does its direct admit- help solve that problem with a nursing education program that tance. (Most bachelor’s degree nursing education consists of will take full advantage of our 85-year history as a technologi- two years of “pre-nursing” prerequisites, when only the most cally advanced university. LTU’s ‘Theory and Practice’ motto successful students are allowed to participate in the final years is a perfect description of the kind of nursing education we will of actual nursing education. At LTU, qualified students will be deliver with our partners at Providence.” admitted directly to the BSN program, and will begin receiv- “This partnership is part of our ongoing commitment to pro- ing nursing education in their first semester.) Also, she said, the viding the training our future nurses need so they can deliver LTU program will be conducted in 11 consecutive semesters the high quality and compassionate care that patients expect and over four years with no summers off; most other BSN programs deserve,” said Jean Meyer, St. John Providence president and take five years to complete. CEO. Jamison added that LTU’s status as a technically focused The Michigan Board of Nursing approved the application for school will confer special advantages to students in terms of the new program Nov. 3. being exposed to other science, engineering, and design disci- Lawrence Tech has hired Therese Jamison, DNP, ACNP-BC, plines. as professor of nursing and director of the program. Jamison The six St. John Providence locations where students will earned her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Vanderbilt complete clinical studies are St. John Hospital and Medical University. Earlier, she earned both a Bachelor of Science and a Center, Detroit; St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Warren; Master of Science in Nursing from Wayne State University, as St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Madison Heights; well as a post-master’s certificate as an acute care nurse practi- Providence-Providence Park Hospital, Southfield; Providence- tioner from the University of Michigan. Providence Park Hospital, Novi; and St. John River District A veteran nursing specialist, Jamison continues to work Hospital, East China Township MR