Winter/Spring 2018

LAWrenCe teCHnOLOgiCAL UniVerSitY MAgAZine

Autonomous vehicles: alumnus helps build global test center Outcomes: a look at notable alumni | grant to boost diversity in SteM | Marburger SteM Center’s busy first year High schoolers design a better Detroit | Alumni news & notes | report to investors | and more Winter/Spring 2018 Volume XXXVII, Number 2

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Virinder K. Moudgil President TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Editorial Support: Anne Adamus, 2 10 15 Krysta Coleman, Howard Davis, The world’s next auto – An LTU STEM success – A look back at the On-Campus – Homecoming in pictures, Kristen DeVries, Sofia Lulgjuraj, alumnus is in charge of the build out of busy fi rst year of the Marburger STEM new members of the Engineering Hall De’Sha McCurdy, Brandé Oliver, Lauren Seebold, Julie Vulaj the groundbreaking American Center Center of Fame, LTU moves up in rankings, for Mobility the Blue Devils’ biggest sports fan, and Photography: Gary Duncan, Justin much more Munter, Jay Nicols, Matt Roush, Nada Saghir, Glenn Triest, and others Alumni News – © 2018 Lawrence Technological DIT alum named to University. All rights reserved. Bylined Athletics Hall of Fame, articles reflect the author’s views and 33 LTU grad Dean Perelli is the not necessarily either the opinions man at GM for steering, suspension or the policies of the University. Comments about the magazine, 12 articles, or letters may be sent to the Alumni Notes – editor. Send address changes to the 4 Building a better Detroit – LTU helps Comings, goings, career postal, fax, or email addresses noted Outcomes – Lawrence Tech’s alumni Detroit students design the future of news, awards, and above. have changed the world for the better the city 34 more from LTU and DIT Notice of non-discriminatory in many ways since that fi rst graduating alumni near and far policy: Lawrence Technological class in 1933. Here are a few of the most University adheres and conforms to prominent Friends We’ll Miss all federal, state, and local civil rights regulations, statutes, and ordinances. No person, student, faculty, or staff Boosting diversity in member will knowingly be discrimi- STEM – LTU was the only 36 nated against relative to the above Michigan university to statutes. Lawrence Tech is an Equal 8 get a Howard Hughes Report to Investors Opportunity Employer. Medical Institute grant to increase diver- 14 On the cover: Autonomous vehicle sity in STEM education internationally research is a growing emphasis of Tost(ada) of the Town – A Blue Devil 39 Lawrence Tech students and fac- helps a longtime Detroit food business ulty, as well as for alumni like Mark become more effi cient Chaput, BSCE’87, featured in the lead story in this issue. Cover illustration from iStock.

Back 9 Cover Overpaid? – An LTU undergraduate student and her professor fi gured out Blue Devil Scholars – LTU sets aside who were the most overpaid and under- $3.5 million in scholarships for South- paid European soccer stars. They made a fi eld Public School students huge splash across the pond “Education thrives in an atmosphere of free and open discussion”

FROM THE PRESIDENT

December article on Politico.com reported that college presidents feel their institutions are under attack from all sides of the political spectrum – from the left, for pandering to the wealthy, and from the right, for being elitist. Increasingly, more people wonder Virinder K. Moudgil A whether college is worth the cost. This comes despite the fact that the value of a college degree has never been higher. In our annual Hotelling Memorial Lecture in October, Federal Reserve economist Daniel R. Carroll noted that in the early 1990s, college graduates could expect to earn twice as much as a high school graduate. Today, that figure is three times as much. Carroll called education “the engine of [economic] mobility.” Also, virtually all fast-growing, high-paying occupations require at least a two-year degree, and in most cases a four-year degree. It’s clear that despite the clamor over rising college costs, higher education is still a sound investment – especially in fields related to the occupations of tomorrow, which is where we at LTU concentrate our efforts. Education thrives in an atmosphere of free and open discussion. But perhaps what we have is an over-emphasis on the free and open discussion of political ideology, and an under-emphasis on what, in most cases, really drives higher education’s contribution to a better world – free and open discussion of issues in science, technology, and engineering. While free and open political debates are a cornerstone of democracy, the white heat those debates generate can blind us to the incred-

lawrencetechu ible advances coming out of America’s universities. At LTU, our research efforts are growing, leading to exciting new discoveries in fields as varied LawrenceTechU as astronomy, computer science, architecture, materials science, and business management. Our students win competitions in everything from autonomous vehicles to racing toboggans lawrencetech made of concrete. Our graduates have gone on to do great things, from designing sensors on Lawrence Tech Alumni NASA Mars rovers to designing the Ford GT and the Dodge Demon, to designing the second tallest building in the world. Our faculty are showing the world how to build sustainable cities lawrencetechu and bridges that last 100 years. This magazine details their efforts.

Virinder K. Moudgil President and CEO

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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 The world’s next auto This rendering shows a possible buildout for the American Cen- ter for Mobility’s headquarters starts here and other research and garage buildings for ACM clients. Alumnus Mark Chaput in charge of construction for the nation’s foremost driverless vehicle proving grounds

S itting behind the wheel of a big Ford pickup truck, Mark Chaput, BSCE’87, presses the broadcast key of the portable radio and says, “ACM 3, entering highway loop.” The voice from the control center crackles back quickly: “Copy, ACM 3, clear to enter highway loop.” With that, Chaput inches forward over a highway bridge, easing down an ac- Scess road on a snowy day, clearly eager to show a visitor the completed portions of the highway-speed test course at the American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti Township, west of Detroit. The site has a storied history as a World War II defense plant designed for Henry Ford that cranked out a B-24 Liberator bomber every 55 minutes, and later as a huge automatic transmission plant for General Motors’ Hydramatic Division. 500-acre site still need to be torn down. And now, it’s primed to make history again as the research center that might just Chaput is a career employee of the Michigan let America take its hands off the wheel. Department of Transportation (MDOT), most Chaput drives along an entirely average-looking freeway, past entrance and recently deputy director of its Bureau of Field exit ramps, 65-mph speed limit signs, bridges, guard rails, even a tunnel. Services. He led MDOT’s statewide construc- What isn’t there? Other vehicles. Not yet, anyway, at what Chaput calls the tion, maintenance, and operations divisions, foremost center for autonomous and along with the department’s research and intel- connected vehicles. The best in the ligent transportation systems (ITS) program world, he says, even though the control offices. That included research into self-driving center is still in a construction trailer, cars – autonomous vehicles – and cars that talk the temporary ACM headquarters is electronically to each other and the highway in an old Willow Run Airport hangar, infrastructure – connected vehicles – and the utility hookups are still underway, and supporting transportation infrastructure. several old buildings on the massive, The latter expertise prompted fellow alum- nus Kirk Steudle, BSCE’87, MDOT director, The tunnel that is part of the freeway-speed to “loan” Chaput out to ACM, a consortium of test track at the American Center for Mobil- ity. At left and the upper middle, Wiard Road state government, the auto industry, advanced and US-12 can be seen. Photo: The American electronics companies, and higher education. Center for Mobility Today, Chaput’s title at ACM is vice president

2 W inter/Spring 2018 of construction and infrastructure development. Mark Chaput in the temporary Over the course of 2017, he oversaw the con- headquarters of the American Cen- ter for Mobility, an airplane hangar struction of the 2.3-mile highway speed loop, at Willow Run Airport. with a full freeway interchange, a bypass road with a 700-foot tunnel, and a 1.3-mile-long Toyota Research Institute. 55-mph two-lane road. Also constructed was a Besides vehicle testing, six-lane boulevard with Michigan U-turns that Chaput said, “these customers would look familiar to any Detroiter. On the received their facility orienta- drawing boards are test environments to rep- tion and safety training, and licate big cities, small towns, residential, and received their facility licenses commercial districts, even an off-road driving and badges.” area. There’ll also be a technology park with a “Just as Michigan put the About Mark Chaput permanent ACM headquarters and garages for world on wheels, today we companies using the test track. are leading the way in the Chaput joined MDOT immediately after his graduation, part of Chaput is particularly proud of the highway mobility revolution,” Michi- a class of construction engineering grads that included MDOT Director Kirk Steudle, BSCE’87. In fact, Chaput, Steudle, and a speed loop because it required extensive ne- gan Gov. Rick Snyder said on third classmate, James E. Like, BSCE’86, resurrected the LTU gotiations with federal and local governments. the occasion of the opening. student chapter of Associated General Contractors of America US-12 used to be a six-lane divided highway “With ACM open for testing, during their time as students. past the north and west borders of the Willow we are taking one giant step Chaput worked on many high-profile construction projects Run site – something that was needed to move in the right direction to affirm during his years at MDOT, including the I-696 extension from 50,000 bomber plant employees a day in and Michigan’s place as the undis- I-75 to the Lodge Freeway, the widening of M-59 in Oakland out back in the 1940s. Today, that infrastructure puted leader in mobility.” County, and the resurfacing of I-75 in Wayne and Oakland counties. He was named deputy director of the MDOT’s Bureau wasn’t justified, so under Chaput’s leadership, That’s just the very begin- of Field Services in 2011. The bureau runs the department’s westbound US-12 traffic was ning, Chaput said: “We’re in The freeway construction, operations, and maintenance, along with interchange redirected to the eastbound discussions with many of the research into intelligent transportation systems (ITS) programs. and six-lane lanes of the former divided OEMs and several of the Tier The latter was the key to Chaput getting involved with the boulevard highway – two lanes in each 1s. We’re also in conversa- ACM, since he was already familiar with ITS systems involv- part of ACM’s direction. Using the exist- tions with sensor companies, ing vehicles that can communicate with each other and with test track. ing interchange ramps, the software companies, infra- roadside infrastructure. Chaput, a Southfield native and 1982 Southfield High School westbound lanes became part of the ACM’s structure providers, and even graduate, said he stayed close to home for college after looking highway speed test loop and the two-lane insurance companies. at “a couple of Big Ten schools” because of LTU’s “reputation in “urban arterial” roadway. Parts of Wash- There are so many business engineering.” tenaw County’s Wiard Road and Airport sectors involved in this tech- “I definitely value the education and training I received at Road rights-of-way were also absorbed into nology, ACM’s potential is Lawrence Tech,” Chaput said. “The whole approach of ‘Theory the ACM test track system, which required unlimited.” and Practice,’ being able to immediately apply what you additional negotiations with the Washtenaw ACM currently has just learn, not just learn the theory, really is a valuable approach to education that Lawrence County Road Commission. eight full-time employees and Tech has demonstrated over LTU joins American “This is the only automotive test track in also has several supporting the years.” MR Center for Mobility the world that has active public highways consulting groups on board. Academic Consortium – running right through it,” Chaput said. It named London-based Intertek see story, page 32 Vehicles being tested on that loop are dis- Group PLC to provide operations and maintenance creetly blocked from public view by privacy services. Chaput said more employees will be added “as we have need.” fencing, part of the site security inherent in any As for ACM’s eventual completion, Chaput said, “we anticipate initial comple- test track. There are also video security towers tion by 2020, but it’ll probably be a continuous construction effort for maybe throughout the site. eight to 10 years. Once we build an environment and users start using it, there ACM opened Dec. 11 and welcomed its may be different things that they want, or things they decide they don’t need, first customers, the auto supplier Visteon and so we will be continually building and adjusting this facility based on customer input.” Permanent garages and a headquarters building are likely coming in 2019-20. Overall, Chaput described his involvement in the project as “just amazing. Be- ing able to bring my infrastructure experience to the table, along with my interest and knowledge of where ITS is going and advancements in connected and auto- mated vehicles, to bring all that together, and be involved in the Visteon tests a construction of a premier facility like this, is really exciting.” driverless car at ACM’s founding investors are AT&T, Ford, Hyundai, Toyota, the American Center for and Visteon, along with $50 million from the Michigan Econom- Mobility’s prov- ic Development Corp. and the Michigan Strategic Fund. All told ing ground. about $110 million has been pledged for the center. MR

L awrence T ech M agazine 3 Since the first graduating class in 1933, Lawrence Tech alumni have contributed to all ar

O J ust u as the tcsplash of a stone o thrown m eSteven s A. Ballmer, into a still pond radiates outward in ever growing HD’13, retired as circles, so too is the impact of LTU alumni on their CEO of Microsoft in 2014, the world’s largest technology professions, communities, and the lives of countless company, and today owns the Los Angeles Clippers NBA team. In the early 1970s he participated in Lawrence Tech’s Summer others. Science Institute for promising high school students and then Nearly 40,000 men and women have graduated spent a year acing six of Lawrence Tech’s top mathematics since 25 brave pioneers walked across the stage at classes while still in high school. He then enrolled as a sopho- LTU’s first commencement ceremony in the dismal more at Harvard where he became dorm friends with Bill Gates. Great Depression year of 1933. Tens of thousands Later they launched one of the most innovative and successful more men and women have attended classes with- businesses in history. out earning a degree – sometimes taking one or two classes based on a particular interest, sometimes tak- Rosemary Bayer, CI-MBA’03, is co- ing many more to earn certification, a raise, or qualify founder and CIO of ardentCause L3C, serv- for promotion. ing IT needs of nonprofits, and co-founder LTU alumni, both graduates and former students, of the Michigan Council of Women in are well represented among the fields you might Technology, which provides STEM pro- gramming and support for girls and women expect: engineering, architecture and design, all areas around Michigan. She is a 2018 candidate and levels of management, construction, computers, for the Michigan Senate, District 12. and the sciences. But they also have found niches in such fields as law, banking, accountancy, medicine, The late Bennie L. Benjamin, BSCivE’55, worked his way government service, the military, academics, and up over 40 years to direct one of the nation’s largest water and even the clergy. While most alumni reside in Michi- waste treatment organiza- gan, they are also represented in all 50 states as well tions – the Detroit Water and as over 60 countries. Sewerage Department. DWS Conveying the impact of Lawrence Tech through provides water and waste treat- only a few individuals is difficult when so many are ment service to Detroit and worthy. It’s likely that you or someone you know 125 suburban Michigan com- should be on this list, too. Consider these men and munities – serving nearly half of the citizens of Michigan. women typical of the breadth and depth of what was, and is, the Blue Devil experience.

4 W inter/Spring 2018 o all areas of the economy and in hundreds of professions and communities worldwide.

John Buffone, BSAr’74, Vincent G. Dow, BSEE’79, retired as BAr’75, is vice president of vice president and chief engineer of electric architecture for Olympia Devel- distribution operations at DTE Energy. He opment. Over the past 39 years oversaw DTE’s electrical system, includ- he helped restore Detroit’s land- ing new customer connections, engineering, mark Fox Theatre and develop power plant electrical equipment, and all Comerica Park, home of the distribution system construction. He also oversaw distribution Detroit Tigers, which opened in contract management, performance management, the Smart Grid 2000, and its continuous upgrades. His main focus over the past efforts, and NERC standards and compliance for DTE. 10+ years has been the programming of the new Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, part of a team led by Christopher Ilitch, presi- Hajj Flemings, MBA’03, founded Brand dent and CEO of Ilitch Holdings, that went through an extensive Camp University, which focuses on entre- benchmarking process. Four of the six staff in his department preneurial and digital technology training. are graduates of LTU. He is also the author of The Brand YU Life: Re-thinking Who You Are Through Personal The late Donald W. Date, BSArE’49, was Brand Management. His clients include Dis- chief architect of the United States’ Panama ney, the U.S. Olympic Committee (Paralym- Canal Co. During his tenure in the 1950s pics), and the U.S. Department of Defense. through 1970s, the huge number of improve- ments and modernizations to buildings and Beverly Hannah Jones, BSAr’85, infrastructure that he managed at what was BAr’88, MAr’00, is president and CEO of then an American enclave significantly Hannah & Associates, Inc., managing part- increased efficiency and tonnage transported ner of Hannah-Neumann/Smith, LLC, and through the Canal, one of the world’s engineering wonders and CEO of Arawana Construction Trucking. busiest routes of commerce. She is among the first five African-American women to found their own architectural The late John Z. DeLorean, BSIE’48, firms. Ebony magazine in 1995 discovered led General Motors’ Pontiac and Chevro- there were 800 minority architects in the country, 10 percent let Divisions and was GM executive vice were female, and only five women had launched their own president in the 1960s. He is credited firms. with developing the first “muscle car,” the Pontiac GTO, along with a host of Jennifer A. Hitchcock, BSME’88, other innovations. After leaving GM, MGLM’09, DBA’15, PE, is executive direc- he launched the stainless steel-bodied tor for Research and Technology Integration DeLorean automobile, made even more at the U.S. Army Research Development famous as the time machine in the trilogy and Engineering Command (RDECOM), of “Back to the Future” movies. Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center, in Warren. One of The late Edward Donley, BME’43, HD’76, HD’87, advanced eight such major research, development, to chairman of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA, and engineering centers in the country, RDECOM is the Army’s and during his career grew it from a few dozen employees into largest technology developer. Hitchcock leads research and a Fortune 200 company. Donley integration of Army ground vehicle mobility, power and energy, also served as president of the survivability, and robotic and vehicle electronic architecture United States Chamber of Com- technologies. The civilian equivalent of a brigadier (one-star) merce and worked with several general, she oversees more than 600 people and manages the U.S. presidents, state governors, planning, execution, funding, and selection of technology and others to improve the educa- programs the Army will pursue to meet emerging battlefield tion process and outcomes at challenges. all levels.

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O u tc o m e s CONTINUED

Elizabeth Howell, BSEE’92, now an Larry A. Lawson, BSEE’80, was presi- independent consultant, was vice president dent and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., of operations at ITC Holdings Corp., the one of the world’s largest non-OEM design- nation’s largest independent electric trans- ers and manufacturers of aerostructures for mission company. She was responsible for commercial aircraft. Formerly executive the operation of the high-voltage electric vice president of Lockheed Martin Corp. transmission system of ITC’s operating sub- and president of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Lawson held sidiaries, including more than 15,000 miles leadership positions in engineering, advanced development, of interstate transmission lines in seven states. She also led the business development, and program management. At Lockheed successful operational integration of two acquired companies. Martin, Lawson oversaw key aircraft production programs, such as the F-35, F-22, F-16, C-130J, and C-5, including highly The late William D. Innes, BSME’53, classified programs in the world-renowned Skunk Works® HD’68, worked 39 years with Ford Mo- organization. tor Company. He led Ford’s Engine and Foundry Division, working with such mo- Gretchen Minnhaar, BSArE’59, was torsports icons as Carroll Shelby to develop principal of Gretchen Minnhaar Designs in Ford’s dominant powertrains in the 1960s, Grand Rapids. As an architect, she worked contributing to the company’s unprecedent- on the Gerald R. Ford Museum and the ed success at Indianapolis, Le Mans, and renovation of the Amway Grand Plaza Daytona. As executive vice president in 1970, Ford’s number Hotel. As an artist, she exhibits all over the three position, he managed Ford’s North American Automotive world. Operations, consisting of 15 divisions and over 250,000 employ- ees. He is credited with manufacturing processes that shortened downtime between model changeovers and engineering ad- Amy Mioduszewski, BSPh’91, is a scien- vances that led to the development of safer, more pollution-free tist at the National Radio Astronomy Obser- automobiles. vatory in New Mexico. She researches and images the radio counterparts to X-ray bina- Ronald P. Knockert, BSEE’63, invented ries, known as microquasars. X-ray binaries the laser bar code scanner, developed com- are close binary systems of stars where one puters that helped land Americans on the member of the binary is a compact object, moon, pioneered remote keyless door locks such as a black hole or neutron star. for automobiles, and helped perfect intel- ligent transportation systems for consumer Javad Mokhbery, BSME’79, and his late brother, vehicles that provide directional, traffic, and Mohammed Mokhberi, BSIM’78, founded FUTEK Ad- service information. vanced Sensor Technology, Inc., of Irvine, Calif., which makes sensors for the aerospace, medical, robotic/automation, and au- The late Jack W. Laister, tomotive industries. They developed two sensors for the robotic BSAeroE’38, during World War arm of Curiosity, the NASA II developed the revolution- Mars rover, used to take core ary high wing/rear door cargo samples during its historic plane design still used in cargo mission. They also worked aircraft worldwide. The plane he with NASA on several other designed also carried the heavi- projects, including the creation est payload of its era and had of parts for the craft that will one of the highest security replace the space shuttle in clearances of the war. The 2020. huge glider was developed for an expected aerial invasion of Japan, to ferry troops and supplies had the atomic bomb failed to bring an end to the conflict.

6 W inter/Spring 2018 View a capsule history of Lawrence Technological University at www.ltu.edu/about.

James P. Ryan, BSArE’66, is retired as The late A. Alfred Taubman, HD’81, a owner and principal of JPRA, one of the former Lawrence Tech architecture student, was nation’s leading architectural firms that one of the nation’s leading real estate develop- specializes in commercial and shopping ers, retail innovators, and owners of shopping center development. Highly acclaimed local malls throughout the United States. He also designs include the Somerset Collection and owned Sotheby’s auctioneers and the A&W res- Great Lakes Crossing malls. taurant chain. He was generous in sharing his knowledge with students as a visiting professor and underwrote campus presentations by numerous accomplished architects. Heather Scalf, BSIA’01, is global com- modities lead, color and trim at General Gina Van Tine, BSAr’89, BAr’94, AIA, LEED AP, co-founder Motors Co.Working three to five years in with Kenneth Van Tine, BSAr’85, BAr’86, AIA, of inFORM advance, she and her colleagues create stra- studio. Their 2011 AIA Firm of the Year designed, developed, tegic solutions for materials, finishes, and and built the award-winning colors that consider each brand’s aesthetic, Bagley Street Pedestrian Bridge customer tastes, and regional differences. in Detroit as part of the $170 million Michigan Department of Transportation Ambassador The late George Sierant, BSME’47, Gateway Project. The firm also developed the first viable child safety seat designed LTU’s East Residence in 1966. Because of Sierant’s meticulous Hall, now under construction. research, testing, and collaboration with medical authorities, the design he developed The late Lewis C. Veraldi, BSME’68, as the for General Motors remains the standard father of the wildly successful original Ford used by child seat manufacturers today. Pro- Taurus, was credited by many for products posing a then-controversial backward-facing that restored fiscal health to the Ford Motor design that cradled youngsters on impact Company. As vice president in charge of car by absorbing momentum and shielded them development, Veraldi pioneered cross-disciplin- from crash debris, Sierant’s biggest challenge was overcom- ary personnel teams in the late 1970s and early ing the conventional thinking of the day. No infant-sized crash 1980s that led to the launch of cars that were dummies existed at the time so he proved his point in crash-sled among the highest selling and most innovative testing using dolls weighted with lead shot. new automotive lines in history. The “team” development process he innovated became the industry standard – widely adopted by Kirk T. Steudle, BSCE’87, PE, has served as director of the other manufacturers for numerous consumer products. Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) since 2006, the highest-ranking state official among LTU’s alumni. Steudle Daniel Winey, BSAr’74, BAr’75, COO of oversees MDOT’s more than $4 billion budget and is respon- Gensler, the world’s largest architecture firm, sible for the construction, maintenance, and operation of nearly oversaw the building of the Shanghai Tower, 10,000 miles of state highways, more than 4,000 state highway the world’s second tallest building and the bridges, and some 2,500 employees. He also administers multi- tallest building in China. He also leads modal transportation programs and Gensler’s Pacific Northwest and Asia regions projects that range from aviation to and served as a chairman and member of the Zilwaukee Bridge. Steudle is a Gensler’s Board of Directors. national expert in connected vehicle technology, a high-tech highway David Wright, BSME’86, is the founder and CEO operations technology that enables of Wi Inc., a groundbreaking contract medical device vehicles to communicate with roads development company, and the holder of over 40 and each other to improve safety patents. His company won a gold award in the Medi- and mobility. cal Design Excellence Awards for its LifePort Kidney Transporter, a new generation mobile perfusion device targeted to improve organ care between har- vesting and transplantation. Another product delivers therapeutic energy through the skin and deep into tissues. BJA

L awrence T ech M agazine 7 To boost diverse STEM education, LTU wins grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Lawrence Technological University will transform ation rates, as well as boosting GPA and the likelihood of moving on to graduate school. its classroom instruction and outreach efforts in the For decades, educational grants – including some awarded by HHMI – have focused on interventions aimed at students, STEM disciplines to increase diversity under a grant such as summer research appren- ticeships, tutoring, advising, and ... the“ goal of from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. summer bridge programs the project is to designed to ease the transition LTU was the only school in Michigan – and from high school to college. revolutionize one of only 24 nationwide, out of more than While these interventions can 500 applicants – to be selected for the award help the students involved, they teaching in the under HHMI’s Inclusive Excellence Initiative. don’t generally address long-term College of Arts The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, with issues that, if changed, could an $18.2 billion endowment, is the largest have a more sustained impact, and Sciences private nonprofit supporter of science education Asai said. in the United States. “Our goal is to catalyze ” The objective of the initiative is to help col- changes that last well beyond the lifetime of leges and universities encourage participation these five-year grants,” he said. Lior Shamir and cultivate the talent of more students in the An essay by Asai on the topic, “A New natural sciences. In particular, the HHMI initiative focuses on Strategy to Build Capacity for Creativity,” is those undergraduates who come to college from diverse backgrounds. These “new majority” students include underrepresented ethnic minorities, first-generation college students, and working adults with families. Said HHMI President Erin O’Shea: “The challenges this program addresses are important for all of us who care deeply about developing a more inclusive and diverse scientific community.” Finding a way to include all students, from all back- grounds, in STEM is critical for building future genera- tions of American scientists, said David Asai, senior direc- tor for science education at HHMI. “Science excellence depends on having a community of scientists that is rich in diversity of people and perspec- tives,” Asai said. available at www.hhmi.org. A third of U.S. first-year college In Lawrence Tech’s case, the goal of the project is to “revolu- “This award shows once students intending to study STEM tionize teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences, transform- again how Lawrence Tech is are underrepresented minorities (green). But only one-sixth of STEM ing it into a college that bases its education on classroom-based truly living its longtime motto baccalaureate degree recipients research experience,” or CRE, said Lior Shamir, associate of ‘Theory and Practice,’” LTU (turquoise) and one-tenth of STEM professor of mathematics and computer science. President Virinder Moudgil PhDs (blue) are underrepresented Shamir said courses in multiple disciplines, covering all said. “Adding research minorities. departments and programs in the college, will be modified into experiences to all classes CRE courses, providing research experiences to all students as in the College of Arts and Sciences that are part of the curriculum. Shamir said these experiences “will be relevant to each student’s cultural background designed in a culturally responsive fashion, allowing students to will increase the likelihood of student success, express their culture and identity through research.” and will increase participation and excellence Shamir said participating in research as an undergraduate among people who are now underrepresented student has been proven to increase student retention and gradu- in science.” MR

8 W inter/Spring 2018 Lionel Messi is, without a doubt, LAWRENCE the best soccer player in the world. TECH STUDY He’s also the most overpaid, according to a Lawrence Technological University study of the salaries of 6,082 soccer players in profes- FINDS EUROPE’S sional leagues in Europe. Lara Yaldo, an LTU master’s degree student in computer science, and computer science MOST OVERPAID, Associate Professor Lior Shamir used a variety of algorithms to analyze the salaries of Euro- pean footballers versus their on-fi eld skills and UNDERPAID performance. The results provide a fascinating glimpse into the intersection of sports, data science, and economics. FOOTBALLERS The study drew widespread media attention in Europe – prominent mentions in numerous British and French newspapers and websites – Messi prepares to shoot with weekly salary of €230,000, versus a predicted spreading LTU’s name throughout the conti- his dominant left foot during wage of €58,974. the fi nal of the 2014 FIFA World nent. But it drew barely a peep in the United Cup. Photo by Agência Brasil, a The most underpaid player? That dubious States, where pro soccer gets far less media public Brazilian news agency, distinction goes to Bernardo Silva, a Portu- attention. via Wikimedia Commons. guese player for the English Premier League Yaldo and Shamir said they came up with the club Manchester City, with an actual weekly idea for the study last year in a brainstorming    wage of €10,000 versus a predicted salary of session for her master’s degree project. €119,907. He was followed by Harry Kane, a “I love soccer, and I really want to do data Brit who plays for the English Premier League science, so this was both soccer and data sci- The study drew team Tottenham Hotspur, with a weekly ence,” said Yaldo, who got her bachelor’s de- wage of €15,000 versus a predicted salary of gree in computer science from Lawrence Tech widespread €119,798. in 2009 and now works as a high-performance The study also found which attributes computing administrator at EASi Engineering media attention contribute most to players being overpaid or in Troy. underpaid. In general, sheer size and strength The study, published in the July issue of the in Europe contributes most to being overpaid, while the academic publication International Journal    traits of reaction time, agility, balance, ac- of Computer Science in Sport, analyzed 55 celeration, and sprint speed most tend to be variables of player skill, including passing ac- discounted. curacy, heading accuracy, dribbling, shooting, Yaldo and Shamir said they weren’t surprised ball control, speed, balance, and acceleration. that the study found many top players are over- The researchers used pattern recognition with paid compared to their peers. machine learning to create a single composite “There is a premium to being the best,” score of the value of each player versus the Shamir said. “If you are the best, you make other players in the European leagues. more than you deserve, because your contribu- Then they took publicly available salary tion is more than your abilities. The impact data from the European leagues to determine of just having you on the team has a value.” which players were the most overpaid and Added Yaldo of Messi: “We don’t mean to tear underpaid, versus the salary they would receive him down. He’s very talented. He should be the based on their skill score. (The study didn’t highest-paid player.” include the extra income star players earn from Yaldo plans to graduate from LTU in May endorsements.) 2018 and then pursue a PhD in data science. The study found Messi, an Argentine who She and Shamir said the same computer model plays for the Spanish club FC Barcelona, is the could be used to analyze the skills and salaries most overpaid player, with an actual weekly of athletes in other professional sports. salary of 550,000 Euros (€), versus a predicted Lionel Messi in 2016. Photo from “I’d really like to try this with baseball,” salary of €235,026. He was followed by Angel Save the Dream at the Match of Yaldo said. As perhaps the most statistics-ob- Di Maria, another Argentine, who plays for Champions, via Wikimedia sessed professional sport, “America’s pastime” Commons. the French team Paris Saint-Germain, with a certainly seems ripe for the effort. MR

L AWRENCE T ECH M AGAZINE 9 Denby High School students learned about Andre Clemons of Dassault Systèmes women in STEM speaks to the Blue Devil Scholars,middle careers in a schoolers at the Sampson-Webber Leader- Marburger STEM ship Academy in Detroit, during a celebra- Center program. tion of the relationship between LTU and the K-8 school. Clemons challenged the students to think creatively about estab- lishing their own businesses and develop- Marburger STEM Center Year Two plans: ing ideas to further help their communities. T fundraising, student ambassador he way Sibrina Collins sees it, failure is not an option. professor of natural sciences, and a program called “Murder and When it comes to fi lling the future talent gap in STEM Maggots,” which Collins described as “disgusting but fascinat- (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), the fi rst- ing.” Morrissette showed how crime scene investigators can ever director of LTU’s Marburger STEM Center says, “We have determine the time of a murder by examining the number of to succeed. We just have to. As educators and institutions, we generations of fl ies that have bred in rotting fl esh. have to do a better job of selling STEM to young people.” Other programs planned for this year include: Collins said on the fi rst anniversary of the STEM Center that • Ask the Professor, a workshop at Detroit’s Denby High its fi rst year “was really about getting publicity and doing all we School where students will read articles Collins has written could do to draw attention to ourselves.” about scientists of color whose stories are seldom told in history The second year, she said, “will be about building partner- books, then work in groups to prepare a poster about their favor- ships and fundraising, because if you don’t have funding, you ite scientist. Creators of the poster judged the best will receive can’t do what you want to do.” LTU apparel. Another key part of the STEM Center’s second year, she said, • Pizza and a Prof, an on-campus program where students will will be developing current LTU students into Marburger STEM be recruited as Marburger STEM Center ambassadors. Those ambassadors, and have them conduct outreach among middle ambassadors will work with LTU faculty to develop engaging, and high school students – because “young people would rather hands-on research projects that can be conducted in a middle talk to young people, rather than us older folks.” school or high school classroom. “The key for us will be to work Some of the STEM Center’s second-year activities are with the middle school and high school teachers to make sure already in the books. On Sept. 9, LTU led a hands-on science what we are presenting aligns with the current curriculum.” activity at a program called “Girls in STEM” sponsored by Events such as this, Collins said, also help LTU understand the organization Women of AT&T. LTU student ambassador fi rst-hand how better to sell the opportunities in the STEM dis- Cynthia Turner led a workshop to teach girls how to prepare an ciplines to future students. “I want to develop relationships with organic lip balm. our students so they can tell us what the problem is, and how “Beauty products is an industry people don’t think of as we can fi x it. STEM, but it’s all chemistry,” Collins said. • NBA and Mathematics, a program in the continuing rela- Also on Sept. 9, an LTU “Extreme Science Saturday” pro- tionship between LTU and the Detroit Public Schools’ Sampson- gram for high schoolers featured Jeffery Morrissette, assistant Webber Leadership Academy, a K-8 magnet school on the

10 W INTER/SPRING 2018 Marburger STEM Center Director Sibrina LTU’s STEM ambassadors: Collins working with students STEM is fun, but needs more mentors attending LTU’s summer camps For Cynthia Turner, it’s becoming the like to explain what their job is, because in architecture mentor she never had. they’re so used to talking to other people and design. For George Terrell, it’s showing young in their industry, and when you have to people the power of mathematics – and explain it to people outside that industry, that they can figure it out. it can be hard to explain,” she said. “And Both are among the early student I don’t think a lot of people who made it ambassadors for programs at the through STEM degrees want to talk about Marburger STEM Center. their struggles. They don’t want to admit Turner said she’s wanted to be an that they might not have done that well city’s west side. “What we’re doing here is teaching them math astronaut since she was 6 – and that in school at first, that they had to work without telling them it’s math,” Collins said. In this exercise, she’s wanted to mentor younger people really hard and ask for help.” students will analyze NBA players based on statistics like points almost as long. Turner is happy to talk about her “Coming from a family where I’m the struggles and successes with young per game, assists per game, rebounds per game, and field goal only person who had an interest in engi- people – and to remind them that STEM percentage, to determine who truly should be the NBA’s Most neering, I wanted to be that role model, turns up in a wide variety of industries Valuable Player. Students will also work in teams to create a that mentor that I never had,” Turner said. that most people don’t realize. poster of their chosen player. Assisting in this effort is LTU “I want kids to be able to look at me and Take cosmetics, for instance. Turner’s STEM ambassador George Terrell, a computer science student. say, ‘She’s doing what I want to do.’” hands-on project at a recent STEM event • The Marburger STEM Center Seminar Series, a series of Turner, a Detroit native and graduate had girls making an organic lip balm. events for LTU students on STEM careers. In the next install- of Davis Aerospace Technical High School, “Engineers work in cosmetics, food, ment, Seun Phillips, vice president of the Michigan Science is working toward a bachelor’s degree in fashion,” Turner said. “You have to take Center, will talk about the center’s STEMinista project, in which mechanical engineering at LTU and plans into account chemistry, the mathematics the center is identifying women STEM professionals to serve as to graduate in December 2018. of handling the materials and how they For Terrell, a sophomore in computer work. People don’t think about all the sci- science and computer engineering, it’s a ence and engineering that goes into their desire to help young people “understand everyday life.” student ambassadors the power of mathematics and com- Terrell, for his part, wants to fuse puter science – it really does give people artificial intelligence with data science to almost superhuman powers, when you improve web search. role models and mentors to girls. “We will also take the opportu- use mathematics to understand the world “Google beat Yahoo because Yahoo lost nity to educate our students about volunteer opportunities at the better. They need to know this is obtain- its focus on search,” Terrell said. “I think science center.” able, this is an option for them. Lots of Google is doing that same thing right • Wayne County Community College District’s fall seminar kids look at math and computer science now, getting into cars, making watches. for women in STEM will feature an LTU presentation on the and think that it’s either impossible for They’re so big I think they’ve gotten stag- University’s many STEM programs, including Robofest and them or irrelevant. But once they see nant in search, and I think I have some summer camps. what they can do with it, maybe they’ll pretty good ideas on how to make that be inspired. I know I was.” relevant again.” • Another STEMsation night for students at the Sampson- Turner believes workers in STEM fields Unlike some big names in tech – Webber Academy in spring 2018, building on last spring’s suc- are partly to blame for not making their calling Elon Musk – Terrell isn’t afraid cessful inaugural event. careers seem more exciting to young of AI. • The second annual Science and Technology Showcase, people. “Computers only do what you tell them where LTU STEM students will show off their research projects “I don’t think a lot of STEM workers to do,” he said. MR to an audience of selected STEM industry professionals, which is again co-hosted with Medical Main Street, Oakland County’s life sciences industry economic development initiative. Meaghan Mar- • Participating in Michigan State University’s Science Festi- kiewicz (right), Marburger STEM val Day on Belle Isle again next spring. Last spring, Collins and Center program Meaghan Markiewicz, Marburger STEM Center program asso- associate, and ciate, met with more than 1,000 students and parents, conduct- LTU students led ing fun, hands-on scientific experiments. an effort at the The Marburger STEM Center was made possible by a $20 Detroit Science Center allowing million gift from former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who youngsters from took mathematics courses at LTU while still a high school stu- Detroit to design dent at Detroit Country Day. their own com- “Knowing what Mr. Ballmer’s passions are – reaching out to munity park. diverse populations and supporting those kids – that’s what our focus is,” Collins said. MR

L awrence T ech M agazine 11 DESIGNING A BETTER DETROIT Lawrence Tech class gives Denby High students a hands-on look at architecture, design

A high school class in architecture, research on the issue and their architectural taught in the spring 2017 semester by Law- design, learning architectural and graphic rence Technological University design software along the way. staff, has produced at least one bud- Finally, they each gave a presentation on ding architect, as well as a whole their poster to industry experts. bunch of good ideas on building a Ideas included bus shelters with unusual better bus shelter. features: The class was taught by • A shelter with a mini-library inside to Meaghan Markiewicz, BSAr’14, promote reading; MAr’17, MUD’17, who is now • A shelter promoting continuing education working as STEM program as- and college attendance; sociate at LTU’s Marburger STEM • A shelter with information on fi ghting Center, the clearinghouse for the stress; University’s K-12 science, tech- • A shelter providing child care resources for nology, engineering, mathematics, young parents. and design education outreach ef- forts. The class was held at LTU’s LTU also brought in guest speakers to talk Detroit Center for Design + Tech- about architecture and design, including Andrea nology (DCDT) in Midtown. Rosefi eld, founder and CEO of Embrace Cre- In the class, students from atives, a website designed to connect artists and Denby High School were asked creative professionals; Rebecca Marshburn, to choose a vexing social issue in MUD’16, who is a content manager for the their neighborhood on Detroit’s Petify and Airbnb websites; and Christopher east side. Students chose every- Stefani, associate director of the DCDT, who thing from homelessness to lack developed the curriculum for the course. of educational achievement to Stefani said the course “was created to gang violence to teen pregnancy. engage the students in an architectural context Then, the students researched the social issue, to employ skills of critical thinking and ad- Students were including digging up national and local data on dress issues of blight and vacant land present the problem. Finally, they were asked to design in the Denby neighborhood from a local youth asked to choose a bus shelter that would contribute to solving perspective.” the problem. The effort produced at least one future archi- Along the way, the students also learned tect, Eric Smith, who graduated in June and is a vexing social about the basics of architecture – how to calcu- now attending LTU, majoring in architecture. late scales and square footage, how to prepare He said he had never considered architecture issue in their fl oor plans and elevations, and the basics of as a career, but after a few classes, “I began to construction materials. see the value of architecture, because you get neighborhood The students then created posters about to design structures that people really need in the problem they chose to tackle, using their their everyday lives, and if I’m an architect or

12 W INTER/SPRING 2018 an urban planner I can help my community and make it better.” Smith added: “My favorite part about the class was being able to design something myself, having the freedom to design a bus shelter that would benefi t people.” Smith said he’s “extremely excited” about his classes at LTU. “I’m ready to increase my knowledge and be around like-minded indi- viduals,” he said. Markiewicz, for her part, said “the progress of the students throughout the semester was incredible. Many students did not believe they would be able to complete a fi nal project but pushed through coming early, staying late, and even staying after school to make sure they presented a design they were proud of. These students tackled issues that some designers are not even talking about. In combination with their research and personal experiences, they produced impressive fi nal presentations.” An LTU adjunct professor who was also in- volved in the effort, Tiffany D. Brown, added: “Working with this group of kids was tough at fi rst. But over time, Meaghan and I were able to form relationships with many of them and teach them about being a voice in their commu- nity, and to think about how architecture and design shapes their lives. I remember being a student at what was considered a failing Detroit Public School, and someone from LTU came to an assembly to talk about architecture. If I can For more information on how Lawrence Tech’s Marburger reach at least one person in the room like that STEM Center can help other institutions create similar design- recruiter was able to do for me, I consider my based educational and professional development events, mission accomplished. I truly enjoyed being contact Meaghan Markiewicz at [email protected]. part of this program.” MR

L AWRENCE T ECH M AGAZINE 13 Tost[ada] International student speeds up production at Detroit food firm of the town A Lawrence Technological University international student has helped a Detroit food com- pany get faster and more ef- ficient on the production line. Ana Magan~a, an industrial engineering major from Mex- ico City, first visited Hacienda Mexican Foods as part of an ergonomics class assignment from Donald M. Reimer, col- lege professor in the College of Engineering. Reimer has known the com- pany’s founding family since the 1980s, when they attended LTU industrial engineering student business conferences together. Co-founder ~ Lydia Bermudez said Reimer has been both a Ana Magana at the end of the tostada line that she helped friend and a business consultant as Hacienda improve for Hacienda Mexican grew from a food Foods in Detroit. A tostada distributor in 1990 to a Mexican food is a flat manufacturer with Magan~a said she studied the several locations line to determine how workers fried tortilla and 70 employees. spent their time, interviewed Gabriel Ber- the most experienced em- mudez, Lydia’s son, was looking for ways to ployees, and developed new make his company’s operations more efficient product handling techniques and hit on the idea of using LTU student talent. and changed the layout of Magana visited the plant and said, “I really the production line to reduce liked it, and I decided I wanted to work there.” waste. She also implemented a So Magan~a was offered a summer position. new production logging form And Bermudez said Magan~a “almost from the to gather more data about the first day was a big contributor.” product. Tostadas – flat, “When she came in, I gave her one problem, Magan~a also conducted studies that sped up the cooling and fried tortillas, to analyze the process of how we manufacture drying process for tostadas and identified machine maintenance delicate and hard to handle – tostadas,” Bermudez said. “A tostada is a flat issues that caused variabilities in production. are packed for ~ fried tortilla. It’s very labor intensive, the Of the overall experience, Magana said, “I loved it.” shipment. process is very arduous, and the product is Magan~a plans to graduate in May 2018. She’s also a member very fragile. I didn’t frame what I wanted, of the Blue Devil golf team, which she said is how she heard I just told her to study it. After two weeks, she about LTU – “I was in a program to look at colleges in America, made a presentation and pretty much blew the and I wanted to study engineering, which is very difficult. whole staff away with what she was able to put A lot of coaches don’t like it. But at LTU, they don’t mind.” together with minimal input. She was extremely MR well prepared.”

14 W inter/Spring 2018 On CampusON CAMPUS Coming home to ...

Hundreds of Lawrence Tech alumni returned to Free footlong campus for festivities during Homecoming Week hot dogs? Don’t 2017. Some highlights are shared here. mind if I do!

The Blue Devils scored out of this scrum in front of the opponent’s net.

LTU’s Bookstore set up shop just outside the Alumni Tent with the latest in Blue Devil fashion.

Old friends reconnected in the Alumni Tent.

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An LTU player gets ready to bury the ball in the back of the net.

Blue Devils dare to score again.

The LTU Dance Team and hundreds of spectators stand for the National Anthem.

The Home - coming alumni celebration included fun activities for all ages.

The LTU Dance Team provided pregame entertainment.

Members of the LTU Dance Team took The stands advantage of a were packed for face-painting the men’s soccer station. game.

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This alumnus Save the date! apparently thought the live entertainment Homecoming Week in the pregame 2018 runs Oct. 7–13, Alumni Tent was good and will be capped by enough to com- the University’s first- mit to video. ever Homecoming football game!

Dean of Students Kevin Finn, center, on duty in his usual spot, cooked up free hot dogs for alumni and friends of the University. Dearborn Sausage donated foot- longs for the event.

The Blue Devil Pep Band provided lively entertainment.

The True Blue Society’s eve- ning celebration was a highlight of the week.

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Champion members Homecoming week offers of LTU’s True Blue Society receive traditions, new events recognition at Blue & White Night for For 85 years, Blue Devils have Architecture and Design. It 20–34 years of con- provided reasons to cel- was originally occupied by tinuous giving. Left ebrate excellence. This year’s E. George Lawrence, who carried to right are Roger Homecoming week was no on his brother Russell’s dream, Shtogrin, Chip exception. From student events after Russell passed away unex- Sestok, and Ken that collected dollars for hurri- pectedly just two years after Cook, with President cane victims and canned goods founding Lawrence Institute of Virinder Moudgil. for those in need in our local Technology. Following George’s community, to alumni events retirement in 1964, LIT alum- that honored achievement and nus Wayne Buell was named generosity, to exciting athletic president and moved into the contests, there was no short- home, where he lived until his age of accomplishments to retirement in 1977. At that point, celebrate. the house began its transition – For alumni, the week of activi- first as LTU’s Distance Learning ties culminated in the very first Center, then serving as the Blue & White Night: an evening Presidents Conference Center, of dinner, dancing, celebration, and finally transitioning into and the unveiling of the new the Professional Development Alumni House on campus. At Center. The house enters a new Guardian members of LTU’s True Blue Society Chuck Koury (left) and Jim Pizali received recognition at Blue & White Night for 35-plus years of the event, the first members era as it is transitioned back into continuous giving. were inducted into the new True a home – a home for alumni. Blue Society, created to recog- The space will now serve as an nize Lawrence Tech’s most loyal events and resource center for alumni donors. Some of the alumni returning to campus in inductees have been donating the years to come. KC to the University for more than 35 years. Event attendees enjoyed caricature The LTU Alumni Association drawings throughout the evening. also donated $20,000 toward the renovation of the Alumni House. “This Alumni House reminds each of us that we do indeed always have a home here at LTU,” said Diane Cairns, president of The LTU Alumni Association pres- the LTU Alumni Association. “The ents a check to President Virinder Moudgil for $20,000 to begin the commitment of the University renovation of the Alumni House. to provide this house is just the Left to right are Roger Shtogrin, beginning of our commitment Ron Muccioli, Rob McCalpin, Bill to make it a home.” The first ever Blue & White Night Schwerin, Anita Satkiewicz, Patrice The Alumni House was featured dinner and dancing, Patrick-Banks, Gary Lowell, Chris designed by Earl Pellerin, LTU’s accompanied by LTU alumnus Jasman, Moudgil, and Diane Cairns. first dean of the College of Vic Favot’s band, The Favorites.

Ambassador members of LTU’s True Blue Society receive recog- nition at Blue & White Night for five–19 years of continuous giving. Left to right are Jerry Sobieraj, Mohammed Samhouri, William Polom, Eric Lewis, Rae Killips- Parker, Al Flamme, Joanne Wade, Paul Erickson, Susan Collet, Diane Cairns, and Edward Bisson, with President Moudgil.

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Autonomous taxi research funded, feted

Lawrence Tech has begun the an autonomous taxi on the David Agnew of research and development of an LTU campus. It’s been rechris- MOBIS hands autonomous campus taxi thanks tened ACT, an acronym for over the keys of to donations from several corpo- Autonomous Campus Transport/ a Polaris GEM e2 converted rate partners. Taxi, in a naming contest won by to a drive-by- Nick Paul, one of the team mem- Hyundai MOBIS, the parts and wire EV by service division of the Korean bers. Chung said the University Dataspeed Inc. automaker, donated $15,000 for is planning to introduce Level to Maria Vaz, the purchase of a Polaris GEM 3 autonomy with the vehicle – LTU provost. e2 two-seat electric vehicle. allowing both hands and eyes Dataspeed Inc., a Rochester Hills off the road – by August 2018. engineering firm specializing MR in mobile robotics and autono- mous vehicle technology, con- Left to right: verted the vehicle to an autono- C.J. Chung (LTU mous drive-by-wire system. faculty), Serge Also donating to the effort Danielson- were a pair of Ann Arbor high- Francois (LTU tech firms. Soar Technology Inc. faculty), Gordon provided a LIDAR (laser-based Stein (LTU facul- radar) unit to help the vehicle ty), Chris Kawatsu find its way, while Realtime (SoarTech), Technologies Inc., a simulation Devson Butani (LTU mechani- technology firm, provided a cash cal engineering donation. student), Avram David Agnew, director of Kluger (LTU advanced engineering at advancement staff), David Agnew (MOBIS), Mitchell Pleune (LTU computer science student), Jane Tarakhovsky Hyundai MOBIS, formally turned (MOBIS), Nick Paul (LTU computer science student), Patrick Nelson (LTU faculty), Maria Vaz (LTU provost), Brian the keys of the vehicle over to Neumeyer (Dataspeed), Alex Sebastian (Dataspeed), and Howard Davis (LTU advancement staff). LTU Provost Maria Vaz and C.J. Chung, professor of computer science, in a ceremony on the LTU campus. Vaz thanked LTU student wins boat race poster contest the sponsors for providing a great learning and research Graphic design senior Daniel Crum, assistant professor of art about the significant event in opportunity. Stack won the Metro Detroit and design. “Students enjoyed our Detroit community. While LTU computer science stu- Chevy Dealers HydroFest poster learning more the results were ultimately dents have already won an design contest held to cel- close, Daniel’s design conveyed international award with the ebrate a century of boat rac- informed aesthetic references vehicle. They developed soft- ing on the Detroit River. and a quality that appropriately ware to make the car operate Selected by a combina- celebrates the 100 years of the autonomously – well enough tion of online public voting event.” that it took first place in the new and the selections of jurors, The HydroFest is one of the Spec 2 division of the Intelligent Stack’s poster was produced Motor City’s longest-standing Ground Vehicle Competition, in a limited print run and sold sports traditions and the lon- held at Oakland University in at the 2017 boat races, held gest continuously running June. The Spec 2 competition in August. Stack also had the hydroplane race on the H1 (IGVC), required multiple self- opportunity to meet fans and Unlimited circuit. The win- driving vehicle functions, such autograph his poster. ner of the race receives the as lane following, lane change, “The opportunity for LTU’s prestigious APBA Gold Cup, traffic sign detection, obstacle graphic design students to the oldest active trophy in all avoidance, and left turns. participate in an extracur- motorsports. MR After winning at IGVC, team ricular design competition for members began reprogram- HydroFest offered an exciting ming the vehicle to serve as real-world challenge,” said Lilian

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Five alumni named to Engineering Hall of Fame

Five alumni were inducted into the LTU College of Engineering Hall of Fame during the Univer- sity’s Homecoming festivities. “These alumni perfectly embody the University’s longtime motto, ‘Theory and Practice,’” LTU President Virinder Moudgil said. “They have achieved great success in their respective fields through inno- vation and leadership, using technology to make the world a better place.”

Mitchell J. Clauw, BSME’86 Clauw’s rise in engineering began as an LTU co-op stu- dent at General Dynamics and From left to right are Engineering global design, development, and volunteers regularly with local General Motors. He joined Hall of Fame inductees Judith performance for fuel system, STEM initiatives at K-12 schools, Chrysler Corp. after gradua- Curran, Elizabeth Howell, James suspension/steering, brake sys- helping students learn about tion, rising to senior manager Danahy, and Cheryl Gregory, LTU tem, tire/wheel, driveline system, careers in engineering. of Dodge Truck Quality and President Virinder Moudgil, Hall fastening, and powertrain inter- of Fame inductee, Mitchell Clauw, Reliability by 1998. He is now face components. A third gen- Elizabeth Howell, BSEE’92 College of Engineering Dean Nabil eration GM employee, Danahy Howell grew up in a small head of global pre-programs, Grace, and LTU Assistant Professor program management, and Selin Arslan. brings a performance mentality town in northern Michigan and planning at Fiat Chrysler to the company’s chassis team attended LTU on a Buell Honor Automobiles (FCA), where he global responsibility for strategy, with his extensive experience Scholarship. She began her is responsible for ensuring the tactics, and cycle plan timing for working on the Chevrolet career as an engineer at DTE worldwide application of stan- significant cross-vehicle com- Corvette and the Cadillac XLR. Energy and joined the start-up dard and robust engineering, ponents and systems related ITC Transmission, which later research, and development esti- to connectivity, electronics/ Cheryl L. Gregory, BSCE’88, PE became the publicly-traded ITC mation, product development, infotainment, and interior/exte- Gregory is vice president and Holdings Corp., the nation’s larg- timing, governance, and finan- rior and chassis functions. She senior transportation project est independent electric trans- cial processes. He holds two U.S. holds eight U.S. patents. Curran manager at the private consult- mission company. At ITC, Howell patents and is a longstanding serves as Ford’s partnership ing firm of Spalding DeDecker, led the successful operational member of the industrial adviso- champion for Lawrence Tech Inc., an employee-owned, integration of two acquired ry board at LTU’s A. Leon Linton and is a member of LTU’s College Michigan-based civil engineer- companies and oversaw the Department of Mechanical of Engineering Advisory Board. ing and surveying firm. Gregory startup of a new state-of-the- Engineering. She received the LTU Alumni joined DeDecker in 2003 and art control center. Since retiring Achievement Award in 2014 served as the transportation from ITC, Howell practices as an Judith Curran, BSEE’83 and was named one of the 100 department manager and independent consultant. She Curran began her career Leading Women in the North director of engineering, tri- has returned the favor of her as an engineer for United American Auto Industry by pling the company’s revenue scholarship, establishing the Technologies and joined Ford Automotive News in 2010. in the transportation market. Elizabeth A. Howell Endowed Motor Co. in 1986. She worked Gregory began her career as a Scholarship in Engineering and on the first electronic controls James A. Danahy, BSME’89 civil engineer with the Michigan championing the creation of the for fuel injection in engines at As executive director and Department of Transportation ITC Power Engineering Endowed Ford, and on the first electronic global functional leader of (MDOT) after graduating from Scholarship. Howell received the control to manage the shift chassis engineering at General Lawrence Tech. In 1998, MDOT LTU Alumni Achievement Award strategy of automatic transmis- Motors since 2016, Danahy over- made her the first transportation in 2014 and is a member of the sions. She is now director of sees eight directors and nearly service center manager in the University’s Board of Trustees. global vehicle components 1,200 employees in Mexico, MDOT Metro Region. She has MR systems and engineering plan- Korea, China, and the United served on LTU’s Civil Engineering ning and strategy, where she has States. He is responsible for the Advisory Board since 2010 and

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artists all mixed in with business LTU moves up in rankings – again majors and Greek life.’” The Princeton Review also Lawrence Technological President Virinder Moudgil. “It is based on an 80-question stu- cites Lawrence Tech as one of University has moved up in the gratifying that LTU’s efforts are dent survey, a survey of admin- the nation’s top Green Schools rankings of “Midwest Regional being recognized.” istrators at several hundred col- for its environmental programs Universities” according to the U.S. News also placed leges in each region, staff visits and focus. LTU is also ranked No. annual U.S. News & World Report Lawrence Tech on its list of to schools, and the perspectives 29 in the country for top under- survey of best colleges for 2018. “A+ Schools for B Students,” of college counselors and advi- graduate programs in game LTU has again been which the magazine sors whose opinions the com- design. named one of the defined as schools pany solicits. In October 2017, the best universities in where students who The student survey included Michigan-based news web- the Midwest, accord- might not have been questions that prospective appli- site Mlive.com released data ing to the Princeton “superstars” in high cants might ask on a campus from the U.S. Department of Review. Only 156 col- school have a chance visit. The survey asks students Education showing Lawrence leges and universi- to be accepted for to rate their colleges on several Tech is fifth among the state’s ties in 12 Midwestern admission – and issues – from the accessibility of colleges and universities for the states made the list where they can grow their professors to the quality of average annual earnings of its for 2018. and thrive. their science labs – and answer graduates, at $59,800. On the U.S. News Princeton Review questions about themselves, Zippia.com, the San Mateo, list, LTU was ranked editor-in-chief their fellow students, and cam- Calif.-based career guidance 38th among 165 listed Robert Franek said pus life. website, ranked Lawrence Tech Midwest regional uni- the education ser- The Students Say section fourth in Michigan on its list for versities. That’s up from vices company “chose of LTU’s listing on the website “best colleges for mechanical 40th last year and 54th Lawrence Tech and noted that “Lawrence Tech nets engineering majors. ” The results the year before that. the other outstanding students that are ‘very driven were based on average earn- And it puts LTU in the institutions on this and like to succeed.’ Indeed, ings after six and 10 years in a top quarter of the listed univer- list primarily for their excellent ‘most students are very enthusi- career, the percentage of gradu- sities. academics. We also give careful astic about their major and dis- ates at the institution who were “The strong performance of consideration to what students cuss their studies outside of the mechanical engineering majors, our overall academic program in enrolled at the schools reported classroom’ … They also stress rates of admissions and this prestigious national survey to us about their campus experi- that ‘there is no typical student graduation, and cost and debt.  reflects our ongoing commit- ences on our student survey for at Lawrence Tech. Everyone is MR ment to enhance the value of a this project.” very different. There are athletes Lawrence Tech degree,” said LTU The Princeton Review’s list is and computer programmers and

Services for businesses include security, IT essentials, mobility, Southfield Michigan Works! talent recruitment, labor market and entrepreneurship. These office now located in information, and training training courses allow beginner support. to intermediate technical users LTU Enterprise Center In Southfield, Michigan Works! to explore and become more has a new partnership with familiar with career possibilities The Southfield office of upcoming job fairs, and weekly Cisco Net Academy to offer free in information technology. Michigan Works! moved to workshops to assist job seekers access to self-paced courses in a The Enterprise Center also Lawrence Tech’s Enterprise with every aspect of their search. variety of areas, including cyber- houses the LTU Collaboratory, Center, at 21415 Civic Center a business accel- Drive, in July. erator offering a Michigan Works was estab- wide variety of lished in 1987 to provide ser- services to vices and support to Michigan’s entrepreneurs workforce development system. and emerging It has eight offices in Oakland businesses. MR County. For the job seeker, Michigan Works! provides The ribbon is about career management and job to be cut on the search assistance, labor market new Michigan information, information about Works! office.

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“We are delighted to recog- ments and innovative solutions Recognizing LTU’s best at nize the extraordinary work of that these awards recognize Lawrence Excellence Awards these individuals as well as the inspires us all.” MR generous support of the donors who have provided honorari- Lawrence Tech faculty and staff Registration Boards (NCARB) ums,” said Virinder K. Moudgil, gathered Oct. 10 for the annual Integrated Path to Architectural LTU president. “The accomplish- Congrats! Lawrence Excellence Awards Licensure (IPAL) program, to celebrate institutional received the Teaching Using eminence Technology award. The winners were:  William Madden, associ-  Justin Vail, a systems analyst ate professor of chemistry and in IT Service Delivery, received director of natural sciences the Mary Ann Marcum Customer programs in the College of Arts Service Award. and Sciences, received the Hsu Family Distinguished Award for  James Mynderse, assistant Creativity. professor of mechanical engi- neering, received the Henry B. Also presented were the and Barbara J. Horldt Excellence Mary E. and Richard E. in Teaching Award. Marburger Awards, as follows: Liping Liu Jody Gaber Lior Shamir Mary Ann  Staff Meltzer Person of the Year: Dorrie Frontera, secretary in the Office of Student Affairs Possible is everything.

 Faculty Member of the Year: Liping Liu, Increase your assistant profes- technical sor in LTU’s A. knowledge Leon Linton Justin Vail James Mynderse Dorrie Frontera with a master’s Department of degree from  Eric Ward, professor of Mechanical Engineering Lawrence practice in the College of Technological Architecture and Design and  Administrator of the Year: University. director of the LTU-National Jody Gaber, director of the LTU  Council of Architectural media communication program Architecture  Civil Engineering  Mary E. and Richard E.  Construction Engineering Marburger Champion for Management Institutional Excellence and  Electrical and Computer Preeminence Award: Lior Engineering Shamir, assistant dean for  Mechanical Engineering research in the College of Arts and Sciences and associate pro- LTU’s Civil Engineering program fessor of mathematics and com- is ranked fifth in the nation by puter science; and Mary Ann U.S. News & World Report. Meltzer, head coach of LTU’s women’s lacrosse team.

Architecture and Design | Arts and Sciences | Engineering | Management ltU.edu Eric Ward William Madden

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‘It’s the right time, you’re the right people, and you’re in the right city’

With those inspiring words, Lawrence Ford Motor Co. executive Marcy Tech’s Class of Klevorn helped kick off the new 2021 and their academic year for about 500 families are welcomed to incoming first-year students campus at the at Lawrence Tech’s annual University’s Convocation ceremony, held in annual August. Convocation She received LTU’s fourth ceremony. Global Citizen Award, presented annually to individuals who have shown great character and leadership in addressing global issues and promoting interna- tional understanding. As Ford’s executive vice presi- dent and president of mobility, Klevorn is responsible for Ford Smart Mobility LLC, which was formed in 2016 to accelerate the company’s plans to design, build, grow, and invest in mobil- ity services, as well as informa- tion technology and global data, insight, and analytics. She is also Global Village on a member of the LTU Board of Trustees. the grow Klevorn noted that four great trends are shaping the future of Lawrence Tech’s Global Village Project attract- both transportation and society: ed a record number of students – 91 – as the program devoted to exposing new students • The growth of cities, which to cultural diversity welcomed its sixth class. makes mobility more Global Village dates back to 2012, when challenging Virinder Moudgil became president of the • Air quality is getting worse University. worldwide, although transporta- Lisa Kujawa, assistant provost for enroll- tion is only the no. 3 cause of ment management, called Global Village “a it, behind cities themselves and great way to open the University in the fall, agriculture create a tradition for the start of freshman • The growth of the global year, and most importantly, allow interna- middle class, with fewer people tional students to see the state of Michigan. living in abject poverty It opens their eyes and widens their ability to • Changes in customer attitudes know who we are.” – thanks to electronics, custom- She said they’re in the right Marcy Klevorn, The program includes speakers, diversity Ford Motor Co. ers now expect everything to place because “Detroit has exercises, and poetry readings from various executive vice happen at lightning speed been a tech hub since 1903. cultures. The group also visits Underground She told the students that Innovation is in our DNA.” president and president of Railroad sites and the Motown Museum and they were the right people to LTU President Virinder mobility, smiles takes a Detroit architectural tour. Moudgil also addressed the stu- meet those challenges, because as she receives About 15 of the participating students were “you grew up with technology, dents, congratulating them on the Global natives of the United States. The rest were and you’re accustomed to work- choosing LTU and introducing Citizen Award international students, hailing from China, ing collaboratively and working the University’s deans and top from President France, Germany, India, and Japan. MR as a team.” faculty members. MR Virinder Moudgil.

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Keynote speaker Helen C. Stormwater management: More public Noehammer makes a point during investment, more green technology her presentation.

Urban growth and climate Noehammer said, the city paid Noehammer “We can’t build our way out change are making stormwater for stormwater management out said a massive of the problem underground, runoff management an increas- of property taxes. That wasn’t public informa- because there isn’t room, and ing challenge for the nation’s very fair, she said, because com- tion campaign the cost would be staggering,” civil engineers and urban mercial buildings – factories, before the Jim Nash, Oakland County Water planners. offices, multi-family housing charge was Resources Commissioner, said at More than 250 of them gath- – create the most stormwater imposed includ- the event’s conclusion. “Green ered at LTU to continue working runoff because of their large ed social media, infrastructure is the way to keep on solutions at the fifth annual expanses of “hard surface area,” postcards, bus that water from ever hitting the Regional Stormwater Summit. meaning parking lots and roofs. shelter ads, system.” The event was sponsored by Commercial land paid just 31 and booths That includes green building the Oakland County Water percent of the property taxes in at community events. “Still, we technologies such as water- Resources Commissioner’s Office the city. Now those properties surprised some people,” she permeable pavement, and plant- and the nonprofit Pure Oakland pay 60 percent of the storm- said. The owner of an average based systems like green roofs Water. water charge under the city’s Mississauga home pays $100 a and bioswales, using the earth’s Keynote speaker Helen C. formula, which is based on the year under the charge. natural processes to minimize Noehammer described how amount of hard surface area Organizers of the conference runoff. her employer, the city of on a property. (That amount say stormwater management is Projects discussed at the Mississauga, Ontario, became was determined using existing a growing problem, given the conference included ReRoot, an the largest municipality in aerial surveys of buildings in increasing frequency of extreme urban farm planned for Pontiac Canada to impose a stormwa- Mississauga, a city of 800,000 rain events. Mississauga, for that will include fruit trees and ter runoff management fee on Lake Ontario just west of instance, has had six so-called berry bushes, and a wide variety on city water and sewer bills. Toronto.) 100-year floods in the past 13 of runoff mitigation techniques Noehammer is director of trans- There are various credit pro- years. Overwhelmed, aging in the 10-year, multi-billion- portation and infrastructure grams for commercial properties stormwater systems can turn dollar rebuilding of Ford Motor planning for the city. that install green technology to those rain events into flooded Co.’s engineering complex in The “stormwater charge,” as minimize runoff, and subsidies basements and streets. Dearborn. MR it’s called, raised $41 million for places of worship, veterans’ LTU Professor in 2016, its first year of exis- organizations, working farms, Don Carpenter, low-income seniors, and low- tence – money badly needed to Oakland County maintain her city’s 1,200 miles income persons with disabilities. Water Resources of storm sewers, 51,000 catch Properties that drain directly Commissioner basins, and 150 miles of storm- into Lake Ontario are exempt, Jim Nash, keynote water ditches and swales along since management of the lake speaker Helen C. roadways and developed areas. is the responsibility of the prov- Noehammer, and Before the stormwater charge, ince, not the city. President Virinder Moudgil greeted guests after the event.

The summit included an industry exhibition, with more than a dozen com- panies displaying products and services for stormwater management. The Architecture Auditorium was nearly full for the stormwater summit.

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college credit hours toward a students will be tracked through LTU deepens relationship with STEAM degree from LTU. At a the rest of their middle and high Detroit Academy dinner at the school, the stu- school years to ensure their dents received a certificate of college readiness and will be Several events over the sum- Later in the spring, LTU hosted appreciation, along with an LTU eligible for scholarships to LTU. mer and fall continued the a computer coding workshop for backpack and flash drive. These MR/SC close partnership between the Sampson-Webber parents. The University and Detroit Public primary focus was to expose and Schools Community District’s engage parents in technology- Sampson-Webber Leadership related fields. The workshop was Academy. provided free, with additional In the spring, it was a rain- resources provided for the par- soaked dedication of an out- ents to continue learning. door classroom, a partnership To introduce the workshop, between LTU and the Ford Sibrina Collins, Marburger STEM Motor Co. Fund. A storm forced Center executive director, talked the event indoors for a while, about the importance of coding, but eventually the skies cleared, using the popular film, “Hidden and the celebration went on. Figures,” as an example. The outdoor classroom, which “The movie highlighted the is equipped with solar photo- mostly untold story of three Rain did not dampen the enthusiasm during the spring dedication of LTU’s voltaic panels, a rain harvest African American women – outdoor classroom at the Sampson-Webber Leadership Academy. system, and an instructional mathematicians all – who were garden, will serve as a living, major contributors to the race to teaching laboratory for subjects space,” she said. from biology to earth science Collins then taught the par- and physics. LTU’s efforts at the ents how to write computer school are coordinated through code to create a program. They the Marburger STEM Center, cheered when she announced, established to improve and “You have now just written your expand LTU’s K–12 efforts to very first program!” promote and encourage educa- Finally, in October, LTU rec- tion and careers in the STEM ognized the first class of 16 disciplines – science, technology, Sampson-Webber Blue Devil engineering and mathematics Scholars. LTU established the – along with architecture and Blue Devil Scholars Program design. The project includes in 2015. After graduating from curriculum designed to teach Sampson-Webber, the scholars In the fall, LTU brought successful STEM professionals to the Sampson- students about the generation will attend Detroit Collegiate Webber Leadership Academy to inspire middle school students. of renewable energy, conserving Prep at Northwestern, where water, and reinforcing sustain- they will earn not only a high ability. school diploma but 12–15 LTU student wins national plumbing engineering scholarship

Architectural engineering stu- committee was very impressed dent Rachel Gendich received with the candidates’ achieve- a $3,000 scholarship from the ments and goals and deter- American Society of Plumbing mined that three applicants Engineers (ASPE), the top award should be recognized this year. of its Alfred Steele Scholarship The committee assigned a mon- program. etary value based on the appli- “The education committee cants’ ranking, and the Board of After a brief thundershower, the ribbon cutting goes on, with LTU Provost did a very thorough review of Directors unanimously approved Maria Vaz (fourth from left) and Marburger STEM Center executive director the applications,” said ASPE the recommendations.” MR Sibrina Collins (fifth from right) representing the University. President Mitch Clemente. “The

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relative poverty, Rost noted, “I got invited back for next year,” Rost’s photos a hit in China “Everyone is walking around he said with a laugh. with smartphones.” While in China, Rost also vis- A display of photos of a small At the event, held at a local ited the Shanghai University of Chinese village taken by Steven hotel, Rost showed his photo- Engineering Science (SUES), a Rost, chair of the Department of graphs, along with a presenta- Chinese institution with which Art and Design in LTU’s College tion called “Image and Sense of LTU has had a long and close of Architecture and Design, was City,” about using the five senses working relationship. Visiting part of the “International Forum to understand your place in an scholars from SUES will soon be of Sustainable Development urban environment. working and teaching at LTU. and Design” in Anlong County Rost said the presentations MR in south-central China over the went well. How does he know? summer. Rost was invited to the 10-day workshop through a connection between Jin Feng, director of LTU’s Master of Interior Design program, and the director of the event, who works for an urban design consultancy in China. The government-funded workshop seeks to turn the Chinese village into a model of sustainability and artful design, while improving the local economy. The village in question is outside the city of Xingyi in Guizhou Province, just north of Vietnam. “It’s hilly, forested, with cone- shaped hills,” Rost said. “The landscape is beautiful, the archi- tecture is modest. Every square Innovation Encounter foot of available land is in agri- engineering competition culture.” Tobacco, rice, and corn are major crops, and incense and marks ninth year corn whiskey are major exports from the area. And despite the A design competition for engi- professor and director of the neering students invented event’s planning committee. at Lawrence Technological He based the competition on University is entering its ninth an innovation event that LTU year with enthusiastic support attended at the Illinois Institute from industry. of Technology in 2007. Initial financial support for Since the first Innovation Innovation Encounter came from Encounter in 2010, more than the Kern Family Foundation. The a dozen universities from coast Wisconsin-based foundation, to coast have participated. Most founded by the family behind have been members of a group Generac generators, seeks to of schools called KEEN, the Kern boost the level of entrepreneur- Entrepreneurial Engineering ship education in the nation’s Network, universities that have engineering schools. had grant support from the Kern Innovation Encounter is now Foundation. Industry sponsors self-sustaining through its spon- over the years have included sors. The competition itself was ElringKlinger Automotive LTU Art and Design Department Chair Stephen Rost found these arresting created by Donald Reimer, then Manufacturing Inc., Faurecia, images in the everyday life of a small Chinese village during a summer a college professor of engineer- Ford Motor Co., Masco Corp., visit. ing at LTU, now an adjunct Continued

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Microsoft Corp., Sundberg-Ferar Innovation Inc., and Visteon Corp. Encounter par- Lawrence Tech won the event ticipants and in 2015, placed second in 2014 faculty. and third in 2016. “Innovation Encounter con- tinues to engage students and industry in solving real-world engineering problems,” Reimer said. “Lawrence Tech is proud to host this event as an example of the University’s longtime motto, ‘Theory and Practice.’” In this year’s competition, held in October on the LTU campus, the competition’s judges. with non-engineering majors “Innovation Encounter is Marquette University placed The problem statement pre- also add needed diversity to an excellent opportunity for first, Ohio Northern University sented by Dürr focused on infra- the teams. “It was interesting students to obtain practical second, and Worcester structure upgrades of an existing to watch the students’ thought experience with a real-world Polytechnic Institute third. automated industrial paint shop. process as they tackled the chal- engineering issue,” said Gina Student teams are given a The teams were challenged with lenge problem,” said Tim Devries, Zasadny, entrepreneurial coor- real-world engineering chal- doubling the production output, Dürr project manager. dinator at LTU. “This provides lenge developed by the event’s while not increasing the length Designs and calculations were a terrific platform to stretch sponsor. This year, the spon- or footprint of a coating systems not enough to bring home the technical, creative, and business sor was Dürr Systems Inc., the production line. win. The teams also needed to skills that will transfer to the Southfield-based subsidiary of Although Innovation show confidence as they pre- workplace. Ultimately, this type the German mechanical and Encounter is an engineering sented their challenge solutions of experience makes the student plant engineering firm Dürr AG. challenge, by the very nature and answered questions asked stand out among their collegiate Three Dürr engineers served as of the competition, students by the Dürr judges. peers.” MR

Stucky Vitale has 20 employ- Award-winning architect: computers changed ees and has been involved in everything, but human touch still crucial numerous high-profile projects in the Great Lakes area, includ- Technology has forever altered ate completely accurate three- That goes beyond merely being ing the conversion of an indus- the practice of architecture, but dimensional models of designs, attentive, he said – it involves a trial building into the headquar- architects will always need a spin them around, and “fly” deep understanding of the ideas ters of now-defunct Borders deep human connection with through them has made it far the client is trying to convey. Inc., the Palladium in downtown their clients to make projects easier to communicate design Vitale joined the firm he Birmingham, the headquarters successful. concepts to clients. now leads in 1986 after work- of Asset Acceptance Corp., That was the word from However, he said, architects ing at Giffels Associates Inc., in and the Pontiac domestic vio- John A. Vitale, BSAr’76, BAr’80, still should “always listen to the Southfield. He became president lence shelter HAVEN. A current president of Royal Oak-based client. I can’t stress that enough.” of the firm in 1997. major project is the design of a Stucky Vitale Architects, as he 70-story mixed-use skyscraper received the 2017 Distinguished in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Architecture Alumni Award from MR LTU’s College of Architecture and Design. In his lecture following the John A. Vitale, winner of the 2017 award presentation, Vitale out- Distinguished Architecture Alumni lined the many changes in the Award, is flanked by Nicole Gerou, profession since he earned his BSAr’13, MAr’16, chair of the LTU degrees at LTU. Architecture Alumni Cabinet, and Constantine G. “Gus” Pappas, “The digital revolution has BSAr’77, BAr’78, FAIA, principal transformed architecture,” he at CGP Architecture in Royal Oak. said – noting that the ability of Pappas won LTU’s Distinguished computers and software to cre- Architecture Alumni Award in 2006.

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“One way of looking at it is Institute of Technology, and ‘The craziness keeps me sane’ that the sun should have ripped his PhD in physics from the Dr. Scott Schneider, educator, it away from us,” Schneider said. University of Albany in 1993. “Since we still have a moon, He came to LTU as a lecturer activist, and fan we’re looking more carefully at in 1992, became an assistant our calculations – hah!” professor in 1993, and a tenured Scott Schneider, LTU associ- Academics comes first.” Schneider said he’s inspired by associate professor in 1999. ate professor, got interested in Speaking of that, Schneider his students, particularly under- Since 2001 he has also served physics because it “explains how said he’s fascinated by astro- graduates, saying “I feel like I can as grand marshal at the annual things fit together.” physics, the way physics explains make more of a difference at the Commencement exercises, lead- He got into sports because the nature and behavior of undergraduate level.” ing the processional and escort- somebody asked him to be a planets and moons. He’s work- Schneider, a native of ing all students, faculty, and staff guest volleyball coach. And now, ing with a physics student on a Poughkeepsie, N.Y., earned into the ceremony Schneider describes himself as senior project, investigating the his bachelor’s degree in phys- “It’s the right size school for “happily addicted” to both. forces and motions of the moon. ics from New York’s Rochester me,” Schneider said. “I’d get lost That first night as an LTU guest at a big school. I like that we’re volleyball coach, Schneider said, agile, small but scrappy.” “I was lucky. They were winning, Like most who love to teach, having an easy night, so I could Schneider said he learns a lot do silly stuff like play ‘Duck, from teaching. Duck, Goose’ around the huddle.” “If I come out of a physics So Schneider decided to attend course and I haven’t learned a few other Lawrence Tech 17 new things that semester, sporting events. Then like so I’ll know that it’s time for me to many others who learn from hang it up,” he said. athletic competition, he says And that learning extends to his eyes were really opened by his sports persona: “It’s fun to the attitude of LTU teams who play the crazy, ‘yelly’ fool. But I’m weren’t having such an “easy actually an introvert by nature.” night.” It also extends to his work in “It’s the determination our the community: “The students teams play with, even when inspire me. I’ve become more they’re down, even when there’s socially aware, more of a social no hope of winning – they still activist, over the past four to five play as though they just need years,” he said. He serves as one more point,” Schneider said. LTU associate faculty advisor for the LGBT “How do you not cheer for that? professor Scott student organization, OUT! At Schneider (in How do you not root for that? LTU With Friends, and supports the blue beard) his latest cause, breast cancer So I’m addicted now, happily in his familiar addicted.” role as Fan awareness. The crazy get-ups that No. 1 of LTU LTU’s athletic staff nominated Schneider is now famous for athletics … Schneider to be the University’s were a gradual evolution, he representative in the “Real Men says. “I noticed that Party City … and in his Wear Pink” campaign to raise carries blue stuff, leg warmers, equally familiar funds for breast cancer research, crazy wigs, so I just started buy- role as grand and so throughout October, ing stuff,” he said. Now, at LTU marshal of LTU’s Schneider wore a different Commencement contests, Schneider is – well, as combination of pink attire every exercises. he put it, “infamous is the word I day. Schneider is also faculty think you’re looking for.” advisor for the Society of Physics Schneider said he even tries Students and an advisor for the to follow LTU sports teams Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. when they go on the road. “But “I’ve gotten pretty good at I can’t always because academ- attracting people’s attention,” ics comes first,” he said. “And he said. “The craziness keeps me that’s another thing I like about sane.” MR our sports programs. The stu- dents are true scholar-athletes.

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LTU offers a safe look at the solar eclipse Lawrence Tech’s campus was the site of a major solar eclipse watching party on Aug. 21, the first day of fall semester, as Associate Professor Scott Schneider set up solar telescopes on the University’s quad for public viewing. Schneider, a physics teacher and an avid amateur astronomer, had the telescopes ready from about 12:30 p.m. to the conclusion of the eclipse shortly before 4 p.m. Michigan was not in the path of totality for the eclipse, but at its peak, at 2:27 p.m., more than 79 percent of the sun’s disk was covered by the moon, causing a noticeable dimming of the sun’s brightness outdoors. MR Associate Professor Scott Schneider, in a pink cancer awareness hat and shirt, helps youngsters get a safe view of the eclipse through a solar telescope. Students, faculty, staff, and community guests responded to his invitation to witness the event on the campus quadrangle.

A thin layer of cloud couldn’t obscure the magnificent sight of a near- total solar eclipse.

Hundreds gathered on the LTU quad to view the eclipse in a variety of ways.

Symposium covers tech University of Michigan, gen- as a force for social good tly mocked the “techno utopian Technology can be used to serve digital fabrication consultancy future,” but also the public good and promote called the Product Manufactory. pointed out that inclusiveness, a panel discussion Among the projects she’s now the world today at Lawrence Tech argued during involved in are a countertop is more prosper- Homecoming week. “smart oven” coupled with a ous and less “Inclusive Technology: Seeking meal plan to offer the average violent than ever eliminates poverty,” to Do Good” was part of the person gourmet meals, and an before, thanks in large part to Bateman said. “I think technol- annual President’s Symposium internet-connected moisture technological advances. ogy’s role is to find the means Series, and hosted this year by sensor that tells users when to And Julie Bateman, director to solve that. We have enough the College of Architecture and water their plants. of operations at Ypsilanti-based fresh water, we have enough Design. Created by LTU President Meg Green, experience archi- Vayu LLC, talked about her com- food, we certainly have enough Virinder Moudgil, the President’s tect at Brighton-based Pillar pany’s large unmanned aerial educated people to share knowl- Symposium Series focuses on Technology Group LLC, spoke vehicle, designed to transport edge with people who lack basic technology and its applications of a teaching career that turned medical supplies to the world’s education ... I think the really to improve the quality of life. into user experience design, and one billion people who lack interesting market to look for, Panelist Mercedes Mane, a praised an app for diabetics that access to all-weather roads. and the way we start to spread serial entrepreneur, talked about closely monitors blood sugar “We have this situation in the this abundance more evenly, is her background, which included levels. world now where there is abun- developing tools for communi- a failed attempt at designing an Malcolm McCullough, pro- dance, but that abundance is ties to better access clean water, electric vehicle, and a successful fessor of architecture at the not shared in a way that housing, education.” MR

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LTU prof, alumnus, student form Wards Auto panel

Based on this conference ses- of automotive design students sion, you could be forgiven who have been charged with for wondering whether the “designing an experience that whole future of automotive enhances a group’s or individ- user experience is at Lawrence ual’s quality of life.” The charge Technological University. was left a bit vague intention- The automotive industry news ally, Feliciano said, to give the magazine and website Wards- students maximum flexibility. Auto held a User Experience The students are bringing social- Conference in October at the media and immersive-reality Suburban Collection Showplace technology experiences to the in Novi. The afternoon keynote automotive world, he said, as panel, “The Future of UX Design,” well as applications that deal vidual instructors in specific Keith Nagara, Emilio Feliciano, and Anushka Ghatia. consisted of an LTU professor, with caregiving in an aging pop- skills they’d like to learn, from an LTU alumnus, and an LTU ulation. Feliciano’s work at FCA playing a musical instrument student. has included designing the 2017 to dancing. She said she was Panelists predicted that the Keith Nagara, BSME’95, Chrysler Portal vehicle concept. inspired by the “shared econo- future of the auto industry will MAE’01, director of the transpor- Wrapping up the panel my,” in which the world’s largest include more of those shared tation and industrial design pro- was Anushka Ghatia, a senior media company, Facebook, pro- economy concepts – and more grams at LTU, traced the history industrial design student at duces none of its own content, “wow factor” technology, such as of automotive manufacturing, LTU. Now an intern at Honda, the world’s largest lodging ser- the large touch screens increas- currency, and people’s preferred she described designing a new vice, Airbnb, owns no real estate, ingly common as part of, or even lifestyles, and said the future of model for education – an app and the world’s largest taxi com- in lieu of, traditional instrument MR the automotive user experience that allows people to pick indi- pany, Uber, owns no vehicles. panels. will parallel them. In manufacturing, transporta- tion went from “coachbuilders” painstakingly constructing Young Women’s Leadership Conference one-of-a-kind carriages, to mass- produced assembly lines using a big success for College of Management interchangeable parts that the typical person could afford, to The College of Management and learn from panies across the United States automotive dealers adding other held a Young Women’s accomplished and Canada. She also launched services, to today’s Zipcar, Uber, Leadership Conference in women who Dakkota Integrated Systems in and Lyft services, allowing peo- October, drawing a strong work in a vari- 2001, providing assembly and ple to use a car for a few hours crowd of almost 170 to campus. ety of fields sequencing of automotive inte- or even just a few minutes. The event provided girls and – business, riors to several automakers. In In currency, Nagara traced young women at the middle information 2012, with joint venture partner the evolution from barter to school, high school, and under- technology, Faurecia, she launched Detroit precious-metal coins to paper graduate collegiate levels with and STEM.” Manufacturing Systems, a com- currency to credit cards to digi- wide-ranging exposure to busi- Conference pany that now employs more tal currency. In terms of popula- ness, technology, and the STEM keynote than 1,000 people. tion, today, for the first time in fields. speaker Andra Rush provided anecdotes and human history, more than half “The goal was to help build a Rush, CEO of examples of how hard work the population lives in urban- network of support to empow- the Rush Group and determination paid off in ized areas, a trend that’s only er young women, to provide of Companies, building her businesses and accelerating, he said. All these them with an opportunity to spoke on build- urged the audience members to things will drive the future auto- learn about business and tech- ing businesses Andra Rush dream big. motive market. nology careers and pathways in male-domi- The event also included a Panelist Emilio Feliciano, to success,” said Minakhi Jena, nated industries. Rush launched panel discussion on leadership BSTD’10, user experience director of business programs Rush Trucking Corp. in 1984 with and entrepreneurship, as well designer at FCA US LLC, spoke in the College of Management. a $5,000 loan and $3,000 in sav- as a leadership development of his work as an adjunct profes- “It was an excellent opportunity ings. Today, Rush Trucking trans- exercise. MR sor at LTU, where he has a class for young women to interact ports goods for Fortune 50 com-

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Community District (DPSCD) Technology in Motion Conference to enhance STEAM (science, features LTU STEM leader technology, engineering, archi- tecture/art, and mathematics) Sibrina Collins, executive direc- Zuniga, director of the M-STEP gramming efforts at their orga- education in DPSCD institutions. tor of LTU’s Marburger STEM Academies at the University nizations to solve the STEM tal- Collins said one of the chal- Center, spoke in a panel dis- of Michigan; and Angela ent gap, specifically in Southeast lenges that limits diversity in cussion focused on improving Thompkins, head of diversity, Michigan. Collins’ remarks the STEM fields is effectively diversity in STEM occupations at inclusion, employee experi- focused on the Blue Devil engaging colleagues to support the Technology in Motion (TIM) ence, and talent acquisition for Scholars Program, also known diversity and inclusion efforts. Detroit Conference, an event Consumers Energy. as the Blue Devil Promise, an “You have to work with your showcasing advances in autono- Each panelist provided an innovative partnership with colleagues who ‘get it’ first and mous and connected vehicles overview of the ongoing pro- the Detroit Public Schools make an impact,” Collins said. held in September at Cobo “Your other colleagues will even- Center in Detroit. tually come on board and want The panel, entitled “Solving to contribute and be a part of the STEM Talent Problem the effort.” through Diversity,” was moder- LTU’s new Autonomous ated by Don Hutchinson, dean Campus Transport/Taxi (ACT) of engineering, manufactur- vehicle was also on display in ing, and industrial technolo- front of the Spirit of Detroit gies at Oakland Community statue as part of the conference. College. Other panelists were SC Seun Phillips, vice president of education and engage- ment at the Michigan Science Sibrina Collins, executive director Center; Chris Ciuca, director of LTU’s Marburger STEM Center, of pre-professional education at left, makes a point at the for SAE International; Shannon Technology in Motion conference.

human-computer interaction marketing strategies for differ- Biomedical engineering concepts more frequently found ent types of AR/VR products, design course looks at in industrial design and interac- including Microsoft Hololens, tion design courses. Google Cardboard, Occulus Rift, wearable tech The course’s studio format and HTC Vive,” said Eric G. Meyer, includes a combination of inter- assistant professor of biomedical Wearable technology is an inventors, and hackers to turn active demonstration sessions, engineering. exciting area of the consumer concepts into products by focus- simple hands-on activities, and Said Mansoor Nasir, assis- electronics industry that has led ing on technology gaps and two guided four-week design tant professor of biomedical to the creation of new products customer needs through rapid projects. The students’ midterm engineering: “Students need to for fashion, sports, lifestyle, com- prototyping. project is to 3D print and assem- understand the capabilities of puting, and health, all of which A new course in LTU’s Depart- ble a smart watch. these products before they can include electronic or computer ment of Biomedical Engineering, During the second half of the think of various applications.” He capabilities. Wearable Technology Studio, course, students form groups added that augmented reality With products running the aims to unite maker-style skills and complete self-determined and virtual reality products “can gamut from health trackers to and cross-disciplinary design wearable technology product be used for clinical training, sim- virtual reality and augmented project teams to develop wear- development projects. Their ulated surgery, and classroom reality headsets, the industry able technology products. projects must address user learning – and the inclusion of attracted nearly $1 billion of The course recognizes the interaction, mobile app develop- haptic feedback can make these venture capital funding in 2015 increasing popularity of wear- ment, materials and manufactur- experience-based products even alone. able devices that include many ability, funding, marketing, and more realistic.”  These devices are coming sensors – from accelerometers differentiation from competing not only from big electronics to measure motion to heart rate, products. companies but also from the EKG, and EEG sensors to monitor “In the first week of the class maker movement, which has body functions. The students are the students used and then opened the door for hobbyists, encouraged to learn design and investigated the capabilities and

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Macomb Community College, LTU joins academic consortium Michigan State University, for connected, autonomous vehicles Michigan Technological University, Oakland University, Lawrence Technological Development Corp. nologies and future mobility, University of Detroit Mercy, University was one of 15 col- Nabil Grace, dean of the as well as ACM as an incubator University of Michigan, Ann leges and universities across College of Engineering, signed to address the specific needs of Arbor and Dearborn, Washtenaw Michigan to sign an agree- the agreement on behalf of industry to drive the future of Community College, Wayne ment in October creating the LTU. Said John Maddox, transportation.” County Community College, Academic Consortium of the president and CEO of ACM: The other members of the Wayne State University, and American Center for Mobility “This first-of-its-kind collabora- consortium are Eastern Michigan Western Michigan University. (ACM). tion will solidify Michigan’s place University, Grand Valley State MR The aim of the consortium is as a global hub for CAV tech- University, Kettering University, to train the next generation of high-tech talent at the center, located at the former Willow Run plant, in the latest connected abundant protein, for ligament and automated vehicle (CAV) LTU shines at biomedical tissue engineering. technologies. engineering conference Mansoor Nasir, assistant pro- “Lawrence Tech is a natural fessor of biomedical engineering, part of this consortium, since Lawrence Technological the toxicity of various agents to made two presentations in the we are and have been a leader University was well represented endothelial cells – the cells that education track. The first, which in these technologies,” President at the 2017 annual conference line blood vessels. She also pre- won the best poster prize, was Virinder Moudgil said. As an of the Biomedical Engineering sented a poster about a micro- a poster on the importance of example, Moudgil mentioned Society (BMES), held in October fluidic device to detect MRSA design and prototyping for bio- ACT – the Autonomous Campus in Phoenix, Ariz. bacteria. medical engineers, and it includ- Transportation taxi – now under On the research end, two Lyzen presented his master’s ed classroom assignments devel- development at LTU. The aim is graduate students, Nicole research project on designing a oped by Nasir and Eric Meyer, to have an autonomous electric Ravenscroft and Andrew Lyzen, bioreactor to promote the dif- assistant professor of biomedical car acting as a taxi for students and two undergraduates, ferentiation of a certain type of engineering, to practice these around campus by next fall. Angelica Guardia and Kathm stem cells, called mesenchymal skills. The second was a presenta- In the agreement, ACM and Alismail, presented research stem cells, to regenerate carti- tion on the unique collaboration the Academic Consortium posters. lage. between LTU and University of will partner to create educa- Ravenscroft presented four Guardia and Alismail present- Detroit Mercy students to cre- tional opportunities to train and posters. She reported her ed their undergraduate research ate prototype products to assist prepare students to support research on developing a micro- on developing a scaffold made people with disabilities as their automated vehicle testing and fabricated device for studying of collagen, the body’s most senior capstone projects. MN implementation. Consortium members will work together to identify workforce courses and training programs, as well Manufacturing Day at Comau as recruitment opportunities, Lawrence Technological University internships, co-op, and work- sponsored a visit by students study programs. of Oakland Schools Technical ACM is a nonprofit test- Campus Southeast to the Southfield ing, education, and product Innovation Campus of the Italian development center designed industrial automation manufac- to enable safe validation and turer, Comau. The visit was part certification of connected and of a statewide celebration of automated vehicle technology. Manufacturing Day on Oct. 6, It is one of 10 automated vehicle in which more than 1,200 high proving grounds designated school students from around the state toured a wide variety by the federal Department of of companies to learn about the Transportation. It is also part future of modern, next-generation of PlanetM, a transportation manufacturing. At Comau, students collaborative of industry, gov- participated in hands-on activities ernment, and academia set that included robotics, industrial up by the Michigan Economic planning, and welding.

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only vote against? James Nai- After his basketball career, DIT alum, ‘father of modern smith, who invented the game.) Goldman was a math teacher, basketball,’ named to Athletics Canada would go on to earn a athletic director, and basketball silver medal in Berlin, losing the coach at Detroit Tech from 1937 Hall of Fame gold to the United States 19–8 to 1950, leading his team to a in a game played outdoors in a 143–75 record. He also offici- Imagine a basketball game Goldman was the nation’s driving rainstorm on a muddy ated basketball and football for where the rules required a “jump leading collegiate scorer in clay court. 43 years for the Detroit Catholic ball” after every made basket. 1932. And in 1935–36, he was Schools Association. Sounds like a snoozefest, right? a member of the Windsor Ford During World War II, Goldman So much for those exciting fast V-8 company team that won worked at Smith, Hinchman & breaks. the Canadian championship, Grylls in Detroit as a principal Well, you can thank a Detroit qualifying them to represent designer of ammunition. In 1944, Institute of Technology alumnus Canada in the 1936 Olympics he designed and developed the – and the latest member of the in Berlin, Germany. But as a U.S. 155 mm howitzer anti-tank shell LTU Athletics Hall of Fame – for citizen, Goldman couldn’t play that allowed Allied Forces to ending that rule back in 1936. for Canada. He was even offered turn the tide against Germany’s Julius “Goldie” Goldman was Canadian citizenship, accord- “invincible” Tiger tanks. He later born in 1910 in Mayesville, S.C., ing to his family – but declined, worked as an executive with to Lithuanian immigrants who when he found out he couldn’t both Federal Engineering and moved to Canada when he was 2 switch back to U.S. citizenship Fisher Body in Detroit, retiring years old. Raised in Windsor, On- after the Olympics. Instead, he in 1965. He then resumed his tario, Goldman was a four-sport became an assistant coach for teaching career at Oakland Com- star at what is now W.D. Lowe Canada, and its representative munity College in 1970, teaching Secondary School in Windsor. He on the Olympic Basketball Rules math until he finally retired for crossed the border to attend DIT, Committee. good in 1995 at the age of 85. He 1928–32. (DIT assets, including While on that committee, died in 2001. BJA student transcripts and alumni Goldman pressed for the programs, were transferred to elimination of the jump ball after LTU when DIT closed in 1981.) every basket, and prevailed. (The Julius “Goldie” Goldman

something I wanted to pursue,” and others that were emerging. LTU grad Perelli the man at Perelli said. We were building it at a plant GM for steering, suspension After two summer jobs with in Brazil and a plant in Thailand, GM, he was hired full-time in with engineering in Japan. It had If you drive a General Motors 1985 as an associate engineer to be a design that could handle product and marvel at its nimble in manufacturing. He moved to all markets.” handling, you now have a Blue product engineering in 1990, Of his LTU education, Perelli Devil to thank. where he acted as a design re- said, “It opened a lot of doors. Dean Perelli, BSME’85, has lease engineer for various com- I’ve met a lot of Lawrence Tech been named director of steering, ponents. A series of promotions grads in the industry. Lawrence suspension, and structure for followed beginning in 1997. Tech is a great engineering GM worldwide. He was previ- Included was a five-year stint in school with a great reputation in ously vehicle chief engineer Brazil, where he was in charge the industry. It served me very responsible for midsize crossover of the rollout of a midsize truck, well, and gave me the founda- vehicles in North America, where the S10 Colorado, and an SUV tion for my career.” he supervised the rollout of the version, the Trailblazer, which is Perelli is married and the all-new 2018 Chevy Traverse and sold worldwide except in North father of three – a son, who’s Buick Enclave. America. also an engineer at GM, and Perelli was born in Detroit and Dean Perelli “Every assignment has had its two daughters, one a teacher grew up in Dearborn Heights, own challenges,” Perelli said of in Novi and the other a fashion graduating from Crestwood took a physics course. “That got his 32-year career at GM. “When merchandising graduate who High School in 1980. He started me interested in engineering, I was in Brazil, we were engi- works in retail. His brother Alan, off pursuing education in ac- and I talked to a friend of mine neering a global midsized truck BSME’95, is an engineer in the counting at Henry Ford Com- who had just graduated in engi- that was going to enter some auto industry too – but at Ford munity College, but by chance neering, and I decided this was markets that were very affluent, Motor Co. MR

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Alumni Notes includes news Navy and in the private sector. John Waldrop, Cary B. Wood, MSIO’96, was gathered from alumni, their He also earned a MA in health BAr’87, was named president and CEO of An- families and friends, and care administration from George promoted to gelica Corp., a provider of health- media reports. Submissions Washington University and principal and care linen and medical laundry received after the deadline for resides in Annapolis, Md. now serves services in Alpharetta, Ga. this issue will be published in as director of He has formerly served as presi- the summer/fall 2018 issue. Constantine “Gus” George operations at dent and CEO of Sparton Corp., Use the form in this section Pappas, BSAr’77, BAr’78, FAIA, the Bloomfield interim CEO, COO, and group to share news about yourself earned the Gold Medal Award Hills firm TMP Architecture. He vice president at Citation Corp., and alumni you know! from AIA Detroit. Gus is the worked for the firm from 1994- and held various leadership founding principal of Constan- 2001 and returned in 2015. positions at Delphi, UT Automo- tine George Pappas Architecture tive, Elkay Manufacturing, and Michael W. Fitzpatrick, & Planning. Pat Williams, BSBA’92, the town- Formica. He is a member of the BSME’73, received the 2017 Sam ship supervisor of Canton (Mich.) University’s Board of Trustees. Cupp Impact Award by Winning John Czarnecki, Township, was elected to serve Futures. A nonprofit, Winning BAr’78, BAr’79, on both the Regional Clearing- Deb Brazen, BSAr’99, MAr’02, Futures partners with metro MAr’09, AIA, house Review Committee (RC2) RA, NCIDQ, LEED AP BD + C, has Detroit high schools to provide DBIA, LEED AP, and Transportation Coordinating joined the architectural staff weekly mentoring sessions. Mi- has returned Council (TCC) for the Southeast of Bloomfield Hills-based TMP chael has mentored more than to Southfield- Michigan Council of Govern- Architecture Inc. She is working 100 students in the last 20 years. based Barton ments (SEMCOG). on projects for Michigan State He is vice president and former Malow Co. as University, Oakland Community owner of Fitzpatrick Manufactur- its newest senior director. John James C. Roach, College, and St. Clair County ing in Sterling Heights and the spent 21 years at Barton Malow MEMS’94, is a Community College. Deb was first mentor in Winning Futures from 1981 to 2002. senior manager, previously director of project to reach 20 years of mentoring. purchasing-sup- planning and cost estimating, Kevin J. Blaser, AMET’82, plier relations, at facilities planning and manage- Robert Piatek, BSAr’73, BAr’77, BSIM’84, was promoted to plant FCA US LLC. He ment at Wayne State University. AIA, LEED AP, received the manager at the Dearborn Tool was recently ap- Charles Blessing Award from AIA and Die plant located within the pointed head of Salvatore “Sam” Moschelli, Detroit. Robert is associate prin- Ford Motor Co. Rouge Complex. innovation for FCA US Purchas- BSAr’00, MAr’06, AIA, LEED AP, cipal and senior vice president After 28 years in stamping en- ing in addition to his responsibil- has received a Young Architect at HKS. gineering, Kevin is now respon- ities for warranty management. Award from AIA Detroit. Sam sible for delivering large panel is an architect with Integrated Douglas stamping dies for new model Teresa Davis, MSAT’96, was Design Solutions. W. Kuef- vehicle programs. named superintendent of the fner, BSAr’74, Mount Clemens Community Hassane El-Khoury, BSEE’01, received the Brian Fifelski, BSAr’86, BAr’93, Schools. was elected to the board of the 2017 Robert F. MAr’09, RA, is the new national Washington, D.C.-based Semi- Hastings Award senior project manager and Michelle “Shelley” L. Johannes, conductor Industry Association. from AIA Michi- owner’s representative for BSAr’96, has published a chil- He is president and CEO of San gan. Douglas design and construction at the dren’s chapter book, “Beatrice Jose, Calif.,-based Cypress Semi- is a partner at WTA Architects, Detroit office of Concentra Medi- Zinker, Upside Down Thinker.” conductor Corp. and he also has an MArch from cal Clinics, one of the nation’s This is Shelley’s first published Washington University. largest providers of urgent, occu- book. James R. Warren, MBA’04, was pational, and physical therapy named president and CEO of David Wynkoop, BSIM’74, was care. the Forging Industry Association named a director of Bello Machre (FIA). The FIA includes 200 North Inc. A nonprofit based in Glen Victor Silvino, BSBA’87, was American metal forging produc- Burnie, Md., Bello Machre (which named Philippine country man- ers, suppliers, and service provid- means “home of my heart” in ager for VMware Inc., a subsid- ers. James has 30 years of trade Gaelic) provides services to de- iary of Dell Technologies that association experience working velopmentally disabled persons. provides cloud computing and with manufacturers, and related David has more than 30 years platform virtualization software organizations. As president and of administrative experience and services. CEO, he is overseeing all FIA ini- in health care, both in the U.S. tiatives and is accountable for its overall financial and operational success.

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Meredith McLellan, MAr’05, Christopher AIA, has earned a Young Archi- Hess, MAr’13, News for Alumni Notes tect Award from AIA Detroit. AIA, LEED AP, Meredith is an associate and was promoted Complete this form and tell us about yourself or your fellow Law- project manager with Smith- to associate at rence Tech or DIT alums. Mail to the Office of Alumni Relations, or GroupJJR’s Workplace and Build- the Bloomfield email [email protected]. Tell us about honors, promotions, marriages, ing Technology Studios. Hills firm TMP appointments, and other activities. Architecture ❏ New Address? Francis Wilmore, BSAr’06, has Inc. He joined the firm after his joined KKT Architects, Inc., in graduation from LTU. Name Tulsa, Okla., as a design director. Scott Barnes, MAr’14, has joined Street Lauren A3C Collaborative Architecture Christenson, as senior project architect. Scott BAr’09, BIA’09, will oversee A3C’s Education City State ZIP was promoted Work Group and General Practice to associate by Studio. Home Phone ( ) the Bloomfield Hills firm TMP James W. Thomson, MAr’15, AIA, Email Architecture. NCARB, was named vice presi- She joined TMP in 2011. dent and managing principal of the Midwest region Buildings Matt McCaffrey, + Places practice by the global MCEM’09, PE, infrastructure firm AECOM. LEED AP, was James has 23 years of experience promoted to in design and leadership and project execu- expertise in healthcare. tive in Houston, Texas by the Michael Rinkus, construction DBA’16, was and development firm Skansa appointed USA. He joined Skansa in 2003 as executive vice an intern and was most recently president and a senior project manager. chief academic officer at Walsh Nicole Gerou, College of Troy. BSAr’13, MAr’16, He had served as interim ex- was accepted ecutive vice president and chief into the inau- academic officer since April 2016. gural class of He has worked at the college for the Christopher nearly 30 years, after executive Kelley Leader- positions at Comerica Bank. He ship Develop- also has an MA in management ment Program by the AIA Detroit from Central Michigan University chapter. Nicole is an architectural and a BSBA from Wayne State designer at Hamilton Anderson University. Associates in Detroit.

Use the email address above or mail to: Lawrence Technological University, Office of Alumni Relations 21000 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075-1058 Fax: 248.204.2207

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Information for this section secretary of the LTU Alumni James D. Rea, ABCT’57, of Joseph D. Doubleday, Jr., is gathered from family and Association Board, 1961-62; and Northville, Sept. 1, 2017. Mr. Rea AEEtT’61, of Dade City, Fla., friends of the deceased and treasurer, 1962-64. He is survived served in the Army during the March 27, 2017. from newspaper and elec- by five children. Korean War. In 1959, he bought tronic media accounts. When his first bar, The Jade, in Detroit. John M. Wells, BSIM’61, of Battle providing an obituary, please Lewis C. Castagna, BSME’50, Over the years, he owned and Creek, July 11, 2017. Mr. Wells furnish as much informa- of Livonia, July 14, 2017. He is operated three other bars in was an assistant vice president tion as possible, including survived by two children. Detroit and Northville before when he retired from Standard the date of death and any building The Starting Gate in Federal Bank in Troy, Mich. He is Lawrence Tech- or DIT-con- Walter J. Moore, BSME’50, of 1984, which became a mainstay survived by his wife, Elaine, and nected survivors and their Rochester Hills, July 31, 2017. Mr. in Northville. He is survived by a daughter. graduation dates. If sending Moore served in the Army Air his wife, Mary Margaret, and two a newspaper clipping, please Corps in the Pacific during World children. Gerald Norman Bohan, BSEE’62, include the date and name of War II. He had a long career in of Pinehurst, N.C. Born in Earling- the paper. engineering, retiring from Wil- Frederick E. Garrity, Jr., ton, Ky., Gerald was a veteran of liams International in 1988. He is BSArE’58, of Danville, Calif., May the Korean War. He retired from survived by four children. 5, 2017. Mr. Garrity served in GMC Truck and Coach where he Frederick R. Porter, BSChE’41, the Air Force during the Korean was a master sales executive. of St. Johns, Mich., Sept. 18, Walter E. Moritz, BSArE’50, of War. Throughout his career he 2017. Mr. Porter was a World West Bloomfield, June 3, 2017. worked in city planning, Harold B. Chavey, BSME’62, of War II veteran who served in the Mr. Moritz served in the United architectural drafting, building Clarkston, June 27, 2017. Mr. Army Air Corps. He worked for States Army. Following his inspection, and started his own Chavey served in the Air Force Schmieg Industries for many discharge, he was an architect business, Fred Garrity Design during World War II, then spent years and retired from Ford for the City of Detroit until he and Construction. He is survived most of his engineering career Motor Co. as an environmental retired. He is survived by his wife, by his wife, Marlene, and two working for Chrysler. He is sur- engineer with more than 17 Frances. children. vived by his wife, Jane, and two years of service. He is survived by stepchildren. three children. Maxwell O. Spilsbury, BSME’51, Wilbur J. Butler, BSEE’59, of Ven- of Livonia, Sept. 14, 2017. He is ice, Fla., May 26, 2017. Mr. Butler Roger J. Martin, ARACT’62, Donald L. Harshman, BSME’48, survived by his wife, Jeanette. worked 26 years for AMP Inc. in of Marysville, July 15, 2017. of Lathrup Village, Aug. 20, 2017. Harrisburg, Pa. He is survived Mr. Martin served in the Army Mr. Harshman retired as an Paul J. Stenberg, BSAeE’51, of by his wife, Margaret, and four during the Korean War and was engineer at the GM Tech Center, Sun City Center, Fla., Aug. 10, children. awarded a Bronze Star. He retired then worked at Borg Warner. He 2017. He is survived by his wife, from General Dynamics as direc- is survived by four children. M. Lucille, and three children. Carl H. Huebner, BSME’59, of tor of facilities in 1993 after 25 Hattiesburg, Mo., Sept. 15, 2017. years. He is survived by his wife, John G. Valerio, BSME’48, of Leo V. Peterson, BSME’54, of Mr. Huebner served in the Army Elma, and four children. Dearborn, March 25, 2017. Mr. Bloomfield Hills, June 23, 2017. during World War II and was a Valerio was an Air Force naviga- Mr. Peterson earned his mechan- mechanical engineer at Vick- Raymond W. Hodzen, AEEtT’63, tor during World War II, and an ical engineering degree through ers Aviation for 33 years. He is of Brunswick, Ga., Sept. 16, 2017. engineer with Ford Motor Co. His night school classes while help- survived by his wife, Hope. Mr. Hodzen started working for hobbies included assembling his ing his father run the family busi- Chrysler in 1951 as an electrical first car as a teen from junked ness, Peterson Machine Products Frank P. Malinowski, Jr., engineer. He was drafted into parts, to building a replica 1929 Corp. During his career he also BSME’60, BSIE’66, BSIM’66, of the Army in 1956 and honor- Mercedes-Benz Gazelle roadster started two other businesses, Meridian, Idaho, Feb. 2, 2017. He ably discharged in 1962. He in his retirement. He is survived Multi-Automatic Equipment is survived by his wife, Beverly. retired from Chrysler in 1988. by three children. & Service Co. and RMZ. He is Mr. Hodzen is survived by two survived by his wife, Helen, and Jerry Werner, BSCvE’60, of Flow- children. Roy Thomas Heady, BSAeE’49, five children. ery Branch, Ga., April 7, 2017. of Lexington, Ky., Sept. 25, 2017. During his career, Mr. Werner Hans G. Austermann, ABCT’65, Born in North Bay, Ontario, he William T. Sheppard, BSCvE’54, opened Timber Systems, Omega BSCE’77, of Lake Orion, Dec. 9, served in the Royal Canadian of Tallahassee, Fla, May 7, 2017. Engineering, and Construction 2016. Mr. Austermann is an Army Air Force, 1942-45, and became He is survived by three children. Material Specialties, as well as veteran and retired from the a naturalized U.S. citizen in Concrete Preservation Systems. Oakland County Road Com- 1947. Mr. Heady was recording Richard G. Mitchell, BSIE’55, He is survived by his wife, Carrol, mission after 36 years as a civil of Gladwin, Aug. 2, 2017. He is and five children. engineer. He is survived by three survived by his wife, Nadra. children.

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Ted S. McRoberts, BSArE’65, of Austin L. Crawford, Sr., David L. Jackson, BSBA’77, of Teresa M. Oldham, BSBA’87, Marietta, Ga., Sept. 11, 2017. ABCT’71, of Sault Ste. Marie, July Rome, Ga., June 20, 2017. Mr. of Livonia, July 24, 2017. Ms. 22, 2016. Mr. Crawford worked in Jackson served in the Navy Oldham was an insurance agent Dennis E. O’Malley, AMT’66, of outside sales for Wickes Lumber from 1967-69, aboard the USS with Allstate before retiring. Elkhart, Ind., Jan. 21, 2017. Mr. for 38 years, and served in the Oriskany. He worked more than She is survived by her husband, O’Malley served in the Army, National Guard’s Engineering Di- 30 years for Delta Airlines. He is Daniel, and two children. 1966-69. He is survived by his vision. He is survived by his wife, survived by his wife, Sheila, and wife, Edith. Margaret, and two children. two children. Jeffrey T. Smeed, BSME’87, of Dearborn, Aug. 25, 2017. Mr. Lanny D. Ross, BSCvE’66, of Frederick L. Miller, BSME’71, Karl W. Whitson, AEEtT’77, Smeed worked 33 years at Ford Kerrville, Texas, Aug. 11, 2017. of Grass Lake, Aug. 13, 2017. Mr. of Detroit, Jan. 22, 2017. Mr. Motor Co. where he was named Mr. Ross founded Alana Con- Miller worked 33 years as a me- Whitson was an evening physics one of the first senior engineers struction Co., Inc. He is survived chanical engineer with Chrysler lab manager and instructor at in chassis. He worked on many by his wife, Patricia, and four Corp. He is survived by his wife, Lawrence Tech for 21 years, and iconic programs, including Mus- children. Judy, and two children. retired from Chrysler in 1983. He tang, Super Duty, and Taurus. is survived by two children. Ronald L. Abramovich, BSIM’67, Norman Tople, BSIM’72, of Deborah L. Beason, BSBA’89, of Ocala, Fla., July 6, 2017. Mr. Farmington Hills, Oct. 10, 2017. Paul Bouza, BSBA’78, of India- of Novi, Jan. 14, 2017. She is sur- Abramovich worked in account- napolis, Ind., Nov. 24, 2017. Dur- vived by her husband, Gary. ing and finance at General Mo- Alfred L. Werner, AIST’72, of ing his career, Mr. Bouza worked tors for 37 years. He is survived Ellijay, Ga., March 26, 2017. Mr. for Microdot, Zanxx, Kendall & Scott A. Larry, ACET’89, of by his wife, Carolyn, and three Werner was a quality engineer Davis, and AmerCan. He retired Birmingham, Sept. 10, 2017. children. with the federal government, from BRC Rubber and Plastics as Mr. Larry had a long career in and a Navy veteran. He is sur- chief financial officer. Mr. Bouza construction that started in 1977 George Grudich, AEEtT’68, of vived by his wife, Lorraine, and is survived by two children. when he joined the Taubman Co. Rochester, Mich., Oct. 19, 2017. three children. In 1988, he became a construc- He is survived by his wife, Nor- Ronald J. Mrozek, BSAr’79, of tion manager at Lockwood een, and three children. Callum Morrison, BSEE’76, Sterling Heights, May 19, 2017. Companies and eventually was of Southfield, July 19, 2017. Mr. Mrozek was president of named COO. Mr. Larry formed George Agob Harants, BSEE’68, Mr. Morrison was born on Isle Huntington Construction. He is his own company, DePadua of Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 15, of Lewis, Scotland, where he survived by his wife, Paula, and Construction, in 1995. He also 2017. He is survived by his wife, learned his trade in the Glasgow two children. served as president, and later Patricia. shipyards and worked at the chairman, of the Michigan Hous- atomic energy plant. After im- John E. Martens, BSBA’83, of ing Council. He is survived by his Anthony M. Matelski, BSME’68, migrating to America, he worked Royal Oak, June 16, 2017. wife, Elaine, and three children. of Onaway, May 9, 2017. Mr. many years at Ford Motor Co. He Matelski owned and operated a is survived by his wife, Peggy. Joseph P. Gazda, BSEE’85, of Sylvester Galczyk, BSEE’90, 400-acre farm in Northern Michi- Phoenix, Ariz., July 29, 2017. He of Bloomfield, Mich., Oct. 4, gan. He was Waverly Township Adam M. Sizen, BSBA’76, of Fort is survived by his wife, Donna. 2017. Mr. Galczyk worked in the supervisor for 12 years, as well Wayne, Ind., July 8, 2017. Mr. automotive industry, focus- as serving on the Cheboygan Sizen served in the Army before Keith M. Wirth, BSAr’85, BAr’87, ing on powertrain sensors and County Planning and Zoning becoming a buyer with Edward of Hope, Sept. 27, 2017. Mr. Wirth instrument clusters. He was most Board and the Board of Com- C. Levy Co. for more than 30 was an architect with Three Riv- recently employed by Continen- missioners, where he was the years. He is survived by his wife, ers Corp. for more than 17 years. tal Corp. most recent board chairman. Mr. Theresa, and four children. He is survived by his wife, Mary Matelski is survived by his wife, Lou, and two children. Charles Jennett, BSME’93, of Roberta. Donald A. Zurawski, BSBA’76, Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 12, 2017. of Livonia, July 3, 2017. Mr. Jeff A. Matson, AEET’86, of Mil- He is survived by his wife, Terri, Richard E. Morley, BSCvE’68, of Zurawski served in the Navy ford, June 27, 2017. Mr. Matson and two children. Savannah, Ga., Oct. 18, 2017. Mr. and retired from a long career in was vice president of Matson Morley worked for Ajax Paving the automotive industry. He is Enterprises. He is survived by for more than 20 years, retiring survived by his wife, Paula, and two children. as senior vice president. He is three children. survived by two children.

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Hugh A. Harris, BSME’97, of highest award in the EPA, for his LaWRENcE TEch FaMILy Cardiff, Wales, Nov. 3, 2017. Mr. work on reducing greenhouse Harris grew up in Livonia and gas emissions for light duty joined the Navy in 1985. He vehicles. He is survived by two Robert Dean Hatch, of Willsboro, was accepted into the Nuclear children. N.Y., Oct. 1, 2017, former department chair Program where he oversaw and professor emeritus of electrical engi- nuclear submarine engine room Christopher J. Wharff, BSBA’15, neering, from complications of Alzheimer’s operations, and was stationed of Royal Oak, Sept. 15, 2017. Mr. disease. A native of Syracuse, he was a on the USS Tennessee. During his Wharff was a cargo claims spe- veteran of the U.S. Air Force, where he spent professional career, he worked cialist at Cherokee Insurance Co. several years working for Gen. Curtis LeMay for Chrysler and also the EPA He is survived by two children. at Andrews Air Force Base. He turned down where he won a Gold Medal, the an appointment to West Point and instead earned BSEE and MSEE degrees from Rens- selaer Polytechnic Institute. He took doctoral classes at Michi- DIT IN MEMORIaM gan State University. After earning his bachelor’s, he worked for North American Aviation, in charge of recording and photo- Harvey Hohlfeldt, BSME’47, Andrew Kit, BSCE’53, of Marble- graphic equipment on fighter jets. Prof. Hatch later returned BSEE’49, of St. Clair Shores, June head, Mass., Oct. 18, 2017. Mr. Kit to the Albany area to work for General Electric. He joined the 17, 2017. Mr. Hohlfeldt started retired from Badger Engineers, LTU faculty in 1965, retiring in 1996. In retirement, Prof. Hatch Northern Industrial Manufactur- Inc. in 1993. Prior to Badger, he continued teaching as an adjunct professor at Northern Arizona ing Corporation in 1978, and was with Chas. T. Main, Inc., and University and Coconino County Community College in Arizona. was a long-time member of the Stone & Webster. He is survived He also taught at Clinton Community College in New York. Engineering Society of Detroit by five children. Family members said a memorial service will be held next and Society of Automotive Engi- summer in Willsboro, where Prof. Hatch had a summer home. neers. He is survived by his wife, James A. McDonald, BSBA’65, Survivors include his wife, Barbara, and three children. Kaye, and two sons. of Stanley, N.C., Oct. 22, 2017. He retired from Colt (Garlock) Robert S. Roth, BSME’50, of Industries of Gastonia, N.C., then John F. Peterson, of Harbor Springs, June 8, 2017. During Detroit, Sept. 12, 2017. Mr. Roth started Aquapura Pool Supplies, World War II, Mr. Peterson left Wayne State University (WSU) to was a decorated World War II Inc. Mr. McDonald was a U.S. enlist in the 75th Army Battalion. He fought in the Battle of the U.S Army veteran who served in Army veteran. He is survived by Bulge and was awarded the Bronze Star. After graduation from Nuremberg, Germany, as a guard his wife, Margaret, and three WSU with a doctorate in education, Mr. Peterson worked as a at the Nazi war criminal trials. He children. teacher, counselor, and principal in the Detroit Public Schools, is survived by his wife, Katheryn and as an adjunct professor at Lawrence Tech. He is survived by (Kati), and two sons. Charles M. Norman, BSBA’66, his wife, Esther, and four children. of Sandusky, Ohio, Oct. 21, 2017. Gustaaf August Van der Mr. Norman worked for the Waerden, BSCE’52, of Grosse Macomb County School District Pointe Park, June 14, 2017. Mr. as an accountant and transporta- Marvin Stern, May 25, 2017, associate Van der Waerden began his en- tion supervisor. He is survived professor of humanities. Dr. Stern joined LTU gineering career with the City of by his wife, Karen, and three in 1994 and was an accomplished histo- Detroit, then moved into federal children. rian, educator, and author, specializing in service with the United States 18th-century subjects. He earned degrees Department of Defense at the Charles K. Hirchert, BSME’73, in history from Brandeis University (AB, AM, Army Tank Automotive and Ar- of Livonia, July 16, 2017. Mr. and PhD), Harvard University (AM), and Yale maments Command. He became Hirchert began his career with (AM). He was a visiting fellow in 2001-02 at the chief engineer responsible General Motors in 1968 at the Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the for the M1 Abrams, the U.S. Milford Proving Ground, and re- UK. Prior to LTU, Dr. Stern was on the faculty military’s main battle tank to this tired from GM Pontiac Truck and at Temple University. He was a U.S. Army veteran. Not only was day. Van der Waerden remained Bus in 2002. He is survived by his Dr. Stern an enthusiastic instructor and student mentor, but he in federal service for 36 years. He wife, Mares, and two children. was also instrumental in developing LTU’s Core Curriculum as is survived by his children. well as planning and maintaining a University rose garden for many years. Survivors include a son, Clark.

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hanks to the accomplish- tments and hard work of our students, faculty, and staff, the wise counsel and helpful guidance of our Board of Trustees, and the generosity of our alumni and other donors, Lawrence Technological University has had another exceptional year. The start of fall classes in August also marked the beginning of LTU’s 85th year of service to Michigan, the na- tion, and the world. Although there have been many changes in our society and the profes- sions that we have served over the past 85 years, the funda- mental hallmark of Lawrence Tech – our experiential, theory its graduates – and in rankings in the nation’s top 100 among LTU awarded an honorary doctorate and practice approach to of the University overall. all of the nation’s colleges and to Robert S. Taubman, chairman, higher education – remains as The U.S. Department of Ed- universities! president, and CEO of Taubman Centers Inc., at Commencement relevant as ever. ucation reports that Lawrence The career guidance website, 2017. With Taubman are (left) The legacy has been re- Tech is fifth among the state’s Zippia.com, ranks Lawrence Douglas E. Ebert, chairman of LTU’s markable. Nearly 40,000 men 93 colleges and universities for Tech fourth in Michigan on its Board of Trustees, Provost Maria and women have graduated average annual earnings of its list for “best colleges for me- Vaz, and (right) President Moudgil. from Lawrence Tech, tens of graduates. chanical engineering majors.” thousands more have attended PayScale, the Seattle-based U.S. News & World Report has helping veterans and active classes here, and millions of compensation consultant, ranked LTU 38th among Re- service members pursue a col- people have earned their liveli- currently ranks LTU fourth gional Universities-Midwest, lege education. hoods working for alumni-led among bachelor’s degree- up from 40th in 2017 and 54th Other top rankings include companies and organizations granting institutions in Michi- in 2016. U.S. News also ranked the Princeton Review’s “Best both in this country and gan for the pay of its recent LTU 25th on its list of Best in the Midwest” designation, abroad. We can share great graduates and of its graduates Colleges for Veterans, which conferred on only the top 25 pride in that record of success. with 10 years of career experi- identifies schools that fully percent of colleges and uni- Moreover, all manner of ence. That ranking puts LTU participate in federal programs versities, and its listing of LTU outside organizations have as one of the nation’s Green recognized the quality of our Colleges and Best Schools for educational programs and our Game Design. graduates. Lawrence Techno- We remain proud that the logical University continues to prestigious Brookings Insti- be among the top schools in tution in 2015 ranked Law- the Great Lakes region when it rence Tech fifth in the entire comes to the compensation of country for providing the most value-added in preparing its President Virinder Moudgil walks graduates for well-paying oc- with Hsiao-Ping Moore, dean of cupations. the College of Arts and Sciences, in Among other hallmarks of a the 33rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace Walk Celebration in great university is its ability to Southfield. earn support from individuals

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The program, offered through facility, East Residence Hall, the College of Arts and Sci- that will provide space for 308 ences, will be adding an ad- students and housing staff. ditional cohort of 32 students When it opens for the fall term each year. in 2018, it will allow us to Other new academic pro- house over 1,000 students on grams are being considered campus. in fields where the demand More students living on for graduates is strong. It is campus also strengthens de- important to look to diversify- mand for more activities and a ing our programs so LTU can robust campus life. We attract remain strong even when the students with strong scholas- demand for certain programs tic aptitudes, many of whom may wane due to economic also enjoy the competition, cycles. discipline, and camaraderie You’ve observed that Law- of intercollegiate athletics. In- rence Tech has also continued terestingly, the GPAs of LTU’s to transform itself from a largely commuter campus to President Virinder Moudgil delivers more of a residential one. This remarks at the ceremony creating At last spring’s dedication of a students, particularly under year we attracted students the Blue Devil Southfield Scholars statue of Henry Ford, donated by represented minorities, enter from 33 states and 52 coun- program, which will annually offer the Henry Ford Trade School Alumni and achieve in scientific tries and were forced to turn 50 Southfield Public School stu- Association, are (from left) Douglas careers. Finding ways to away students who wanted dents half-tuition scholarships to Ebert, chairman of the LTU Board Lawrence Tech. The students will of Trustees; George Banda, HFTSAA include all students, from all to live here. Great progress is be selected by a committee of SPS president; Edsel Ford II; and LTU backgrounds, in STEM educa- being made on the construc- teachers and administrators. (See President Virinder Moudgil. tion is critical for sustaining tion of LTU’s fourth housing story back cover.) America’s leadership in the and organizations that have sciences. The benefit accrues concluded that what LTU is to all of us in assuring a better doing has value and impor- quality of life and a stronger tance, and that we have the po- national economy. tential to do even more. That The HHMI Award is the is why the recent news of a $1 latest of a number of other million grant from the How- large grant awards that LTU ard Hughes Medical Institute has earned in recent years, (HHMI) is so significant. including several million dol- HHMI is the largest private lar research awards to Dean nonprofit supporter of higher of Engineering Nabil Grace education in the United States. that support our nationally Lawrence Tech was one of 24 acclaimed programs in civil nationally and the only school engineering. in Michigan to receive funding As we work to secure the from among the 500 colleges future of Lawrence Tech and and universities that sought meet the needs of our stu- support for a new program to dents, we continuously review boost minority participation and adjust our programs. This in STEM studies and careers. fall we welcomed the charter Dr. Lior Shamir and oth- class of 31 students in the ers in LTU’s Department of new Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Nursing program, developed Science will be using the funds in partnership with Southfield to develop new ways to help neighbor St. John Providence.

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student athletes are actually system. We’re told it is the higher than those of our gen- only university-based loca- eral student population. tion for this vital service in Next fall, a football team will the state. Also on campus be the newest of our 24 men’s is the LTU Collaboratory, a and women’s athletic teams, re- business accelerator offering turning after a 70-year hiatus. a wide variety of services to We have begun fundraising entrepreneurs and emerging to upgrade and expand our businesses. facilities for athletics and look LTU’s location in this dy- forward to growing support from alumni – both to help fund the new spaces and be President Moudgil shook hands active participants in cheering with every graduate crossing the stage at Commencement 2017. the Blue Devils to victory on the field and courts! LTU programs in engineer- ing, architecture, and design have enjoyed much success in achieving reaccredita- tion by the various bodies that perform this important namic city is among our great- Dr. Moudgil chats with students at measurement and affirmation est assets, and I’m delighted LTU’s annual Ford Motor Co. Day. of quality. Lawrence Tech’s that Lawrence Tech has such College of Management is a wonderful relationship with and retail options for students completing a long process to the newly re-elected mayor, and visitors. We’re excited that achieve a new accreditation Ken Siver, Southfield’s city Lawrence Tech is a part of it from a third organization that council, and the city admin- and we appreciate the tremen- accredits business programs, istration. The area around dous support of the city’s lead- the Association to Advance campus is developing as a ership. If you’ve not been to Collegiate Schools of Business. beautiful, pedestrian-friendly, campus or the area in a while, The process to achieve such ac- mixed-use community with prepare to be amazed. There is creditations or reaccreditations many more residential, dining, even more to come. is very involved and complex. Your contributions and I appreciate the hard work of those of other alumni and our faculty and staff who ex- friends continue to have a pended much time and energy huge influence on the repu- to create the reports and verifi- tation of, and the services cations that this requires. provided by, Lawrence Tech- In July, Lawrence Tech’s nological University. Enterprise Center on the Thank you for your interest north side of campus became and generous support! the new Southfield home of Michigan Works!, the agency that helps support Michi- gan’s workforce development Virinder K. Moudgil

President to president, LTU President Moudgil speaks to University of Michigan-Ann Arbor President Mark Schlissel as Schlissel prepares to deliver LTU’s 2017 Cisler Lecture. His topic was advances in genomic medicine.

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b oArd of t rustees

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

Raymond R. Khan, Marcy Klevorn Larry D. Lyons Jean Meyer Howard B. Padgham Lloyd E. Reuss BSEE’70 Executive Vice President Former Vice President COO Former Vice President Former President Former Sr. Vice and President of Mobility Car & Minivan Product Ascension Michigan Advanced Manufacturing General Motors Corp. President, CIO Ford Motor Co. Team Engineering Powertrain Blue Cross Blue Shield Chrysler Corp. 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 President and CEO Officer President Directors Chief Operating Officer Electrical, Electronics Angelica Corp. Ford of Europe Saroki Architecture Ross Controls Gensler Safety and Interior Sector Delphi Corp. A dvisory M eMber of the C orporAtion e x o ffiCio

MaryAnn Wright Richard H. Cummings Virinder K. Moudgil Principal and Owner Former Sr. Vice Chairman President and CEO TechGoddess LLC; NBD Bank & NBD Lawrence Technological Former Group Vice President Bancorp, Inc. University Engineering and Product Development, Johnson Controls Power Solutions

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FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND PROVOST

uring the past year we director, Dr. Therese Jamison. Dhave seen the positive cul- This fall we welcomed LTU’s mination of several stra- first class of 31 nursing stu- tegic initiatives and we have dents. Students are admitted started new ones that continue directly into the BSN and start to enhance academic offerings, their nursing courses as fresh- campus life, and career oppor- men. Their laboratories are on tunities for all Lawrence Tech campus and nearby Provi- students. dence Hospital. Their clinical The most important accom- training will take place in the final Self-Evaluation Report, Provost Maria Vaz and President plishments in academic affairs six hospitals that are part of the identification of visiting Emeritus Richard Marburger attend include: the St. John Providence health team members, meeting with an LTU donor appreciation event. • ABET re-accredited six system. Our program empha- the team chair, and respond- engineering programs and sizes the skills required for ing and clarifying statements • Lawrence Tech is one of granted first time accreditation nurses of the 21st century. In and questions from the team 13 schools in the nation ac- of three programs: Bachelor of addition to traditional nursing related to the Self-Evaluation cepted into the Integrated Path Science in Robotics Engineer- functions, health management Report. Dean of Management for Architectural Licensure ing, Bachelor of Science in and use of technology are the Dr. Bahman Mirshab and his (IPAL). This allows students, Mechanical and Manufactur- hallmarks of LTU’s program. faculty, staff, and students through internships and co- ing Engineering Technology, • One of the most notable await the decision of the op programs in architectural and the integrated Bachelor achievements of 2016–17 was AACSB board. firms, to fulfill the professional and Master of Science in Ar- the $1 million Howard Hughes • Lawrence Tech’s College of requirements to sit for their chitectural Engineering. We Medical Institute grant to the Arts and Sciences also started licensure exam. The process are particularly pleased that College of Arts and Sciences an ESL Institute approved by also allows students who finish both the robotics engineering to extend our course-based the government. For the first their Master of Architecture and mechanical and manufac- undergraduate research time, Lawrence Tech can requirements to sit for the turing engineering technology experiences (CRE) project admit international students exam at the time they gradu- programs received a six-year across the entire college and who come to campus to only ate. To achieve this goal, Law- accreditation, the maximum to high schools and com- study English. rence Tech works very closely given by ABET in their first munity colleges. We expect • Dean Karl Daubmann with several architecture firms application. This does not that this pedagogy, which is completed his first year lead- that are partners in the IPAL happen very often. The ac- very inclusive, will help more ing the College of Architecture program and provides intern- creditation of a total of nine students in under represented and Design. He has spent this ship opportunities for LTU programs was a herculean populations to choose STEM year listening to students, students. effort by the faculty and the careers. This project further faculty, staff, alumni, and oth- • The Sophomore Entrepre- administrators of the College differentiates LTU’s College of ers and making improvements. neurial Engineering Design of Engineering. We are very Arts and Sciences, already a He moved the transportation studio is completely imple- proud of their accomplish- model of 21st-century liberal design and industrial design mented and is now part of the ments. arts education. programs from a building at curriculum for most engineer- • LTU launched a new • LTU’s College of Manage- the edge of the campus to the ing majors. The uniqueness Bachelor of Science in Nursing ment continued to prepare to main Architecture Building. of the studio and the direct (BSN) program this fall. We’re achieve initial accreditation The programs have much bet- connection of students with excited to begin serving the by the Association to Advance ter facilities, bright and open. their customers, this past year healthcare industry with the Collegiate Schools of Business Dean Daubmann also con- disabled employees of a small support of and strong partner- (AACSB). In 2016–17 all the nects with the strong alumni manufacturing company, have ship with St. John Providence. preliminary work to prepare base of the college and the been highlighted in several Dr. Hsiao-Ping Moore, dean of for the visit of the evaluation professional community. He conferences and magazines. LTU’s College of Arts and Sci- team that occurred in Novem- is on the board of the Ameri- Each year, Lawrence Tech ences, led and worked on the ber 2017, was accomplished can Institute of Architects, hosts a variety of special project proposal and hired the including submission of the Michigan. speakers, lectures, and schol-

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arly symposia, often with the by two percent relative to fall support of alumni, corpo- 2016. The freshman class in- rations, and other friends. creased by 11.8 percent. Fresh- Among these were Walker men have an average GPA of Cisler lecturer Mark Schlissel, 3.5 and an average ACT score president of the University of 25. Students looking for ca- of Michigan. Ford Executive reers in engineering and other Vice President and President STEAM disciplines continue of Mobility Marcy Klevorn to find that a Lawrence Tech was featured during the education is an investment Convocation for new students. with enormous return, as teams. The 2016–17 women’s Provost Vaz chats with a Detroit She’s also an LTU trustee and identified by the Brookings In- lacrosse coach, Mary Ann Public Schools student at the dedi- Meltzer, was named the cation of an outdoor classroom at received LTU’s fourth annual stitution, PayScale, Wall Street the Sampson-Webber Leadership Global Citizen Award. LTU’s Journal, and others. As did national NAIA Coach of the Academy in Detroit, part of the President’s Symposium Series, most universities in the U.S., Year and senior Kadhija Kalo University’s ongoing relationship hosted this year by the College we saw a decrease in gradu- was named NAIA national with the Detroit Public Schools of Architecture and Design, ate international students. We Student of the Year. What great Community District. welcomed an informative continue to work on new strat- honors! These are in addition panel about “Inclusive Tech- egies to strengthen undergrad- to our many student athletes and the students themselves nology: Seeking to Do Good.” uate programs because they recognized for their academic – sports competitions and The College of Management’s are a pipeline to our graduate achievements as well as ath- games, professional chapter Young Women’s Leadership programs. letic performances. meetings, professional semi- Conference keynoter was Lawrence Tech’s athletics Once again our campus nars, service learning activi- Andra Rush, CEO of the Rush program, competing as part of housing is completely full, ties, plays, clubs, Greek life, Group of Companies. Cel- the National Association of In- including 75 students we had and much more. This vibrant ebrating the gifted architect tercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), to house in the nearby Arbor activity enhances students’ Albert Kahn, whose personal continues to grow. An impor- Lofts apartment building. leadership skills and sense of library is housed at LTU, was tant addition this year was the Over 800 students now reside civic responsibility. During a group of events and presen- first class of student athletes on campus, a 100 percent the 2016 presidential election tations championed by the in football. Next year, with a occupancy rate. The new East about 50 students helped at the College of Architecture and second round of recruiting Residence Hall, now under voting stations in Southfield, Design and LTU’s library. and a full roster, we will start construction, will provide 308 and many others participate Speakers included Joel Stone, competition with the goal of more beds in fall 2018. This in other projects and with senior curator at the Detroit varsity NAIA conference play will give LTU a capacity of charities supporting the com- Historical Society, and Kahn in fall 2019. Football and a over 1,000 beds on campus. munity. CEO Alan Cobb, BSAr’76. new marching band surely will The increasingly residential Lawrence Technological LTU’s monthly Leaders & change Saturday afternoons on flavor of the campus creates a University’s faculty and staff Innovators series, offered in campus in the fall. dynamic student life organized strive every day to provide partnership with WWJ News- We are proud of all of our by the Office of Student Affairs an excellent education with radio 950, brought in leaders outstanding value. The con- like Denise Ilitch, president tributions of our alumni and of Ilitch Enterprises, and Ric friends are essential for that Devore, regional president of success. Thank you for your PNC Bank. generous support! Lawrence Tech’s undergrad- uate enrollment continues to increase. This fall our under- graduate students increased Maria J. Vaz

Look, no hands, and we’re moving! Provost Maria Vaz checks out the autonomous taxi, now being devel- oped at LTU and scheduled to go into service on campus this fall.

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FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT

everal weeks ago, LTU Kristen DeVries greets alumni at shosted an event with a Homecoming 2017. number of prominent individuals who weren’t all LTU students, faculty, and that familiar with Lawrence alumni dare to tackle issues Tech. President Moudgil facing our community. Blue began his introductory Devils have superpowers in remarks with brief mentions collaborating, taking bold of rankings and accolades, and actions, and building strong then he turned to the focus alliances to create positive and of his talk: LTU alumni. He lasting community change. reiterated what is felt daily Just as Henry and Edsel @krdevries – your stories are assuring that Lawrence Tech here on campus – the success Ford and the Lawrence broth- worthy of being applauded far can support a diverse and of our institution should be ers dared to found Lawrence and wide!) impactful student population. measured solely by the success Tech in the midst of the Great Students enter Lawrence Essential financial support of our alumni and our ability Depression, applying engi- Tech with technology embed- through scholarships assures to contribute to and support neering theory to practical ded in their daily lives, using that LTU can attract bright that success. solutions, to the revolution it to communicate, to col- and capable LTU students Dr. Moudgil shared story in mass manufacturing, Blue laborate, to socialize, and to regardless of their financial after story of innovation, Devils today dare to tackle learn. This technical familiar- situation. Each year, a growing dedication, and brilliance that the seismic technical changes ity is harnessed and bolstered number of academically quali- he has witnessed in alumni of that are shaping our digitally- through classroom learning fied, deserving students seek every generation. The publica- driven era. and career specific collabora- LTU scholarships. Current tion you are reading right now Do you have a story of your tions, where Blue Devils join students indicate that financial is certainly a reflection of the own daring, or one of a fellow businesses and community support is the most important tremendous work going on alum? Email [email protected] leaders to address real world factor in their ability to remain within our walls, but it is also so we can broadcast that story problems with smart solutions. in college. a reflection of all of you – the through our Facebook, Linke- But it takes more than leading We are grateful to all of the difference you make every day dIn, and Twitter feeds. (Don’t technology and exceptional alumni and friends of Law- at work, at home, and out in be surprised if your story faculty to turn students from rence Tech who supported your community. We could ends up on my personal Face- learners to practitioners. The our students with scholar- not be prouder! book or Twitter feed as well - future of LTU depends on ship gifts last year. The word “support” is used with great Kristen DeVries, vice president of intention. While the financial development, led boost is certainly appreciated, ceremonies for the what our students appreci- April 2017 dedica- ate most about scholarships tion of a bust of is the morale boost. Every Henry Ford at the Buell Management time a student walks into the Building entrance. Advancement Office and I say The statue was “Congratulations on receiving donated by the this scholarship!” the student’s Henry Ford Trade eyes light up. They stand a School Alumni Association. little taller and dedicate just a bit more effort to their stud- ies, because they know that someone out there is rooting for their success. If you are in- terested in providing scholar- ship support, please do call me

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at 248.204.2305 to talk about The Henry Ford Trade School available options. Alumni Association donated a bronze bust of Henry Ford that Once those students gradu- was unveiled on April 25, 2017, in ate, they will continue to be a moving ceremony that included grateful as they launch careers, dozens of HFTSAA alumni and Edsel build families, and elevate Ford II representing the Ford fam- their communities. ily. The new sculpture anchors the plaza leading to LTU’s executive The last thing we want is to offices in the Buell Management lose touch. LTU was a “home” Building. for thousands of students dur- ing their degree pursuits, and transform the house into a this year, Lawrence Tech has true home for alumni. created a physical home on LTU continues to evolve campus – the newly designated as a well-regarded university Alumni House. The house was that trains tomorrow’s leaders originally designed by Dean of and engages in community Architecture Earl Pellerin for transformations. Join us to then-president, George Law- assure that Lawrence Tech rence. Wayne Buell followed moves ahead on a daring path in his footsteps, living in the to create technology innova- home and welcoming students, tions that will reach across the faculty, and alumni. Its mid- globe and make a significant century modern style contin- impact on the metro Detroit ues to captivate and inspire. community. We can’t wait for Lawrence Tech’s goal for you to write the next chapter the space is to foster a robust, as together we dare to trans- positive, and stimulating envi- form our community. ronment to benefit both those involved in the University and visitors from the broader Alumni House is being created as a headquarters for alumni activity on community. We have great campus. The home earlier served as the residence of former LTU presidents ideas on how the house will be Kristen R. DeVries George Lawrence and Wayne Buell. used, but since, as an alum, it truly belongs to you, we’d like to know how you envision it being used. Ideas for events or new traditions? Email us at [email protected]. (In thanks for your ideas, we’ll be happy to send along a Lawrence Tech mousepad or laptop sticker.) We also welcome your tal- ents in refurbishing the home. Can you landscape, paint or design? We’d love your input and your manual labor as we

President Moudgil thanks the leadership of the LTU Alumni Association for a $20,000 gift toward renovation of the former LTU president’s residence, later used as a professional development center, into Alumni House.

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FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

awrence Technological semester. East Residence Hall, LUniversity ended Fiscal as we are calling it, will also Year 2016–17 with a mod- house an exercise room and est surplus of $338,432. Our several collaboration spaces strategic initiatives to increase for students. This was another residential undergraduate strategic initiative that we in- growth bore excellent results vested in for the benefit of the as we saw the largest new campus community and the undergraduate class in many University’s continued growth. to look for ways to enhance Linda L. Height years. However, as was true of As there are many areas employee benefits while reduc- the nation’s entire academic in which we are investing ing overall costs. In working plan, bringing the match to community, there was a large resources, it continues to be with our insurance provid- 3.5 percent of salary. Many reduction of both graduate important that we look for ers, the Benefits Committee educational programs are and international students. opportunities to gain cost negotiated a competitive rate provided for everyone, both The athletic program con- efficiencies wherever pos- for employee medical benefits, individually and in group tinues to positively affect our sible. As we worked with our and no cost increase for life, settings, so employees can enrollment numbers, retention banking partner on new bond disability, vision, and den- be well-informed on all their rates, and the overall grade financing, we were also able tal insurance coverage. Our options. Our plan is reviewed point average of our students. to refinance some older bonds “Healthy Living” initiative twice a year by our investment This was an area where we to get better rates, providing continues to provide benefits advisor and changes are made invested heavily this year, some savings in interest paid. to employees and their fami- when necessary. including in our fledgling foot- As the number of full-time lies through preventive health With the addition of capital ball team. undergraduates increase, so initiatives. dollars, the Office of Campus Because of the growth in the does LTU’s student schol- In order to assist employees Facilities has completed sev- number of residential under- arship account. This year, with retirement readiness, an eral major lifecycle improve- grads, all of LTU’s housing scholarships increased again additional 0.5 percent match ments across campus. Signifi- units continued to be fully to $18,415,591. All of these was added to the University cant time and resources have occupied, and we continued to scholarships are funded match for employees’ 403b been spent to improve the lease beds from a third party. through operations. In addi- Because of this, the Board tion, approximately $1,000,000 of Trustees approved bond of funded scholarships is financing for another 300-bed awarded annually through the housing facility. Construction generosity of our donors. began in June 2017, and it Human Resources and the will be ready for the fall 2018 Benefits Committee continued

LTU administrators and other leaders wield shovels at ground- breaking for the University’s East Residence Hall, held in May. The new facility will house more than 300 students when it opens in August 2018. The bright colored waterproofing and insulation will be covered.

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40-year-old South Residence Southfield Michigan Works! making progress in its goals to our endowment. Improve- Hall, including infrastructure Office. This brings many increase enrollment and reten- ments in these four categories and cosmetic improvements. more visitors to campus and tion. The addition of nursing, will help us improve the finan- For the third year in a row, strengthens our bond with football, and more housing cial health of the University as LTU received the Green Star the City of Southfield. The space is critical to our contin- well as its reputation. Award from the Professional Enterprise Center received ued success, particularly since Grounds Management Society new exterior lighting and a LTU’s revenue comes primar- for the beautification and sus- new parking lot, along with ily from student tuition. To as- tainable design of our campus improved landscaping. Plans sure Lawrence Tech’s financial Linda L. Height grounds. For the second year are in the works for interior health, we must continue to in a row, LTU won Southfield’s improvements as well. As a focus on alternative revenue Community Pride Award for building that is expected to be opportunities, cost efficiencies, the appearance of the campus. a rental property for LTU, it debt reduction, and increasing In September 2016, the continues to be approximately 36,700-square-foot A. Al- 75 percent occupied. fred Taubman Engineering, Campus safety remains a Revenue: $79,863,871 Architecture, and Life Sci- critical element for recruit- ences Complex was completed ment and retention of both Spending from Endowment 1.7% Tuition & Fees 92.7% and put into use. This build- students and employees. We ing, home of the Marburger have continued to add ad- STEM Center, was completely ditional cameras both inside funded through donations and outside our buildings, and includes laboratories for along with improved door the engineering and science access. We have also moved programs. to a hybrid Campus Safety With “technological” as staff, with some of our safety our middle name, the Uni- officers having the qualifica- Auxiliary 5.2% versity continues to invest in tions to be armed on campus. Other 0.4% IT infrastructure, educational This provides another layer programs, and security soft- of safety that was not avail- ware. This year, we began to able in the past. Our Office of replace our Learning Manage- Campus Safety continues to Expenses: $79,556,200 ment Software System with a maintain strong relationships new, improved product. We with the Southfield Police and also began to transition from Fire Departments. Academic Support 41.9% Plant Operations 9.7% our current Banner system to Investments in the Univer- a web-based model that will sity endowment performed impact everyone on campus. well in this fiscal year. Law- New webinars were created to rence Tech outperformed The addition of a third student dor- refresh all employees’ knowl- similar institutions and the mitory required major upgrades to drainage and water managementCapital edge of cybersecurity and se- S&P 500 over a one-year service on campus. Here, the2.3% project curing our data. This manda- period, and kept pace with is underway in January near Ten Mile tory educational program will them over three- and five-year Road. also be provided to every new intervals. These investments Scholarships 23.1% Debt Svc/Bond Resv 4.5% employee when hired. Other are monitored constantly, and significant IT improvements the University’s investment Institutional Support 17.9% Auxiliary 0.6% this year included upgrading strategy is reviewed with the our network capacity 10-fold Finance/Investment Commit- Financial results for fiscal year ending June 30, 2017 and replacing our campus tee of the Board of Trustees. wireless. Some changes have been made The LTU Enterprise Center, to our portfolio due to the formerly the Mark Plaza build- changing marketplace. ing, is now the home to the Overall, the University is

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THE BACK PAGE LTU offers $3.5 million in scholarships to ‘Blue Devil Scholars’ from Southfield Public Schools

awrence Technological University will set The agreement will also have LTU designing aside $3.5 million to provide scholarships to middle school summer camps in the STEAM dis- L students in Southfield Public Schools (SPS) ciplines that will provide educational and career under a new partnership, the Blue Devil Southfield exploration for students in SPS’ Levey Middle Scholars program. School. During the school year, LTU will also host LTU President Virinder Moudgil and SPS Interim Levey students in its “EXtreme Science Saturdays” Superintendent Derrick L. Lopez signed the mem- program and establish a focused STEAM explora- orandum of understanding creating the Blue Devil tion day. Southfield Scholars program in a ceremony at the In addition, LTU will provide workshops for SPS SPS’ John W. English Administration Center. educators in teaching techniques known as Active Under the program, SPS will create a committee Collaborative Learning and Project Based Learning. of teachers, principals, and other staff to select The agreement also provides for LTU to use SPS 50 Blue Devil Southfield Scholars to receive the athletic fac-ilities for practice and training. scholarships – students who will pursue majors in “This new partnership accomplishes several of the STEAM (science, technology architecture and our goals as a university,” LTU’s President Moudgil design, and mathematics) fields. There will be 50 said. “We want to create more STEAM scholars to students selected for the scholarships each year. fill the huge talent gap in those disciplines, a gap that is especially severe in Southeast Michigan. We LTU President also want to strengthen the town-and-gown rela- Virinder Moudgil tionship between the city of Southfield and LTU. and Southfield And we want to foster closer ties and coordination Public Schools with K-12 school districts in Southfield, and all over Interim Superin- the region.” tendent Derrick Lopez sign “We are excited about our partnership agree- the Blue Devil ment with Lawrence Technological University as an Southfield extension of our ongoing relationship,” SPS Interim Scholars Superintendent Lopez said. “This agreement is the agreement first of many within our Southfield Compact, an as Southfield initiative that strengthens our partnership with Mayor Ken Siver residents and businesses in the Southfield and looks on. Lathrup Village communities. The LTU partnership will empower our students and families with new and different opportunities to grow and develop, and the collaboration will lead to better-prepared students for college.” Southfield Public Schools operate 13 schools, serving nearly 6,200 children and their families in the cities of Southfield and Lathrup Village. MR