Photos above and right: Students assemble a structures for earthquake testing

Photos above and right, students test the structure using an earthquake simulator

Role Model Speakers

Engineers and scientists from industry and the government, educators, and university faculty lead informational sessions and discussions for students in the Summer Youth Explorations in Engineering and Women in Engineering programs. Shown below are some of this summers participants, with name and company of the participants, showing who are the alumni and those who participated in Summer Youth Programs as high school students.

• Patricia Henderson, Consultants of Tri-D, Inc.& Cygany, Inc., Graduated MTU '77 Geophysics
• Sheila Heyrman, Kimberly Clark, Graduated MTU, Chem Engineering '93 also participated in WIE ‘88
• Angela Johnston, Kimberly Clark, Graduated MTU, Chem Engineering '00
• Debby Kozol Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation CE '84
• Kim Nowack, Mackinac Bridge Authority, Graduated MTU, '85 Civil Engineering
• Derhun Sanders, U.S. Army TACOM, Graduated MTU, Biological Sciences '97 also participated in EIE '86 and SYP '89
• Rodwick Barton, Chem Eng Graduate Student
• Carmon Choice, Chem Eng Graduate Student

83 from Michigan
7 from Wisconsin
15 from other states

This summer Michigan Tech will have hosted 1200 seventh-twelfth grade students on campus for 1-4 weeks of hands on programming. 53% of the pre-college students are female, about 40% are otherwise underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. The support of the academic departments on campus is what makes these programs possible.

About Explorations in Engineering

Students experimenting with bridge strength

Debby Kozol, an '84 CEE graduate, shares her experience emploued by the Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation

Photos of one of one of the many Environmental and Ecology Explorations

Photos of one of one of the many Environmental and Ecology Explorations

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