Newsletter and articles
 RTP’s Summer 2009 Newsletter has been released. To review the highlights of the 2008-2009 Program activities.
2009 RTP Newsletter (PDF)
RTP’s Summer 2008 Newsletter. To review the highlights of the 2007-2008 Program activities.
2008 RTP Newsletter (PDF)
Pasi Lautala (MTTI), Devin Harris (CEE) and eleven students in the Railroad Engineering and Activities Club participated in the annual conference of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA) in Chicago. Lautala presented a paper, "The Development of University Rail Transportation Certificate." Harris and graduate student Russell Lutch presented a paper, "Prestressed Concrete Ties in North America." Seven Tech students were recognized for winning AREMA scholarships.
Four Class Is land on Newsweek's 'greenest' company list from Progressive Rail
Articles
Railroad activities at Michigan Tech have received lots of local and national visibility via several newspaper and magazine articles. Following sections provide links to some of the articles.
June 2009: Michigan Tech Partners With IBM in Global Rail Innovation Center
CN Donates $250,000 to Michigan Tech's Rail Transportation Program
Keep it in the U.P. Radio program on WOLV, Pasi Lautala interviewed by Dick Storm mp3
or as (with permission from WOLV 97.7 FM Houghton-Hancock; Heartland Communications)
Fourth Annual Railroad Night: What are the greatest challenges facing the Rail Industry today?
Michigan Alumnus in BNSF News
Tech Rail Transportation Students Sweep Scholarships
Metro Magazine, a trade journal for mass transit professionals, ran this article featuring Research Assistant Professor Pasi Lautala (CEE) and the rail engineering program
Michigan Tech Rides the Rails into the Future
Third Annual Railroad Night on Feb. 19, 2008: What are the greatest challenges facing the Rail Industry today?
Michigan Tech launches undergraduate rail transportation program
Job outlook good in rail industry
Rail Scholarships Awarded to Michigan Tech Students
Second Annual Railroad Night Feb. 20
featured a panel discussion between industry representatives and a dinner buffet More about Railroad Night
Railroad
Engineering Featured in Civil & Environmental Department 2006
Review PDF
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Michigan
Tech Lode article on the return of railroad engineering to Tech PDF
Institute of Transportation
Engineers Newsletter article of Summer in Finland program PDF
Railway Track &
Structures article on Training a New Generation featuring Michigan
Tech Railroad Program PDF
The
July 2006 Trains Magazine has published a brief announcing
that Michigan Tech's Railroad Engineering and Activities Club
has become the first student chapter of the American Railway
Engineers and Maintenance-of-Way Association.
Railroad
Night -
REAC's First Annual event. A formal dinner with major recruiters
from class one railroads: UPRR, CSX, BNSF
REAC
Organizes Railroad Night at Michigan Tech and Becomes the First
Student Chapter of AREMA
Michigan
Tech article about Railroad Engineering program
Houghton
Daily Mining Gazette: All Aboard
Finlandia
Weekly: Michigan Tech Takes Students on a Train Trip to Finland
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