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S UM M E R/FA L L 2019
LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
LTU’s Nursing Lab offers realistic healthcare simulation
Stadium going up | Fourth residence hall opens | Campus commencement a big success
New business accelerator | Alumni news & notes | Report to investors | and more
Summer/Fall 2019
Volume XXXIX, Number 1
Published by Lawrence Technological
University, Office of Marketing and
Public Affairs, 21000 West Ten Mile
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Virinder K. Moudgil
President T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
Editor: Bruce J. Annett, Jr.
(bannett@ltu.edu)
Managing Editor: Matt Roush
(mroush@ltu.edu)
Design: NetWorks Design, Inc.
Writers: Bruce J. Annett, Jr., Krysta
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Coleman, Pam Houghton, Jay Nicols,
Matt Roush, Lauren Seebold, and
others
Editorial Support: Krysta Coleman,
Pam Houghton, Robin Leclerc, Sofia New nursing lab – This 2,400-square- Fourth residence hall opens – A Alumni News – Thriving amid change
Lulgjuraj, De’Sha McCurdy, Christine
foot learning space includes a simulated high-tech haven for first-year students in the auto industry, changing the face of
Meola, Brańde Oliver, Kristine L.
Persinger, Lauren Seebold, René e intensive care unit hospital room and that also includes spaces to generate architecture, a new alumnus trustee from
Tambeau, Julie Vulaj clinic settings collaboration and community FCA, and more
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Photography: Gary Duncan, Jason
Keen, Matt Roush, Gary Triest, and
others
© 2019 Lawrence Technological
University. All rights reserved. Bylined Alumni Notes – Career news, awards
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articles reflect the author’s views and
and more from LTU and DIT alumni.
not necessarily either the opinions
or the policies of the University.
Comments about the magazine,
articles, or letters may be sent to the
editor. Send address changes to the Wright renovation – A careful, staged A Campus Commencement – The
postal, fax, or email addresses listed
above.
fundraising and renovation effort has first Commencement Exercises on LTU’s
put a new shine on this Frank Lloyd Southfield campus provided precious
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Notice of non-discriminatory Wright gem in Bloomfield Hills memories for new alumni and families
policy: Lawrence Technological
University adheres and conforms to
all federal, state, and local civil rights
regulations, statutes, and ordinances.
No person, student, faculty, or staff Friends We’ll Miss
member will knowingly be discrimi-
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nated against relative to the above
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statutes. Lawrence Tech is an Equal
Opportunity Employer.
On the cover: On the first floor of the
University’s Science Building is a new, Report to Investors
$400,000 nursing laboratory for the
Athletic stadium going up – On-Campus – LTU’s business honorees,
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LTU Bachelor of Science in Nursing
program, now admitting 48 students Permanent seating for 2,300 fans is the a new business accelerator, grants for
per year. Here, students check out next step in the buildout of Blue Devil medical research, an honor for two top
part of the lab equipment—a realistic Stadium administrators, and much more
humanoid replica named Sue, who
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makes breathing and heartbeat nois-
es and responds like a real person to
Donor Honor Roll
treatment. Cover photo by Glenn Triest.
Back
LTU Sports – The comings and goings
of Blue Devil Sports
Cover
LTU wins world championship for
autonomous vehicles, three years running.
In overcoming adversity,
my students are not ‘snowflakes’
F R O M T H E P R E S I D E N T
Normally, in this space, I review each magazine’s content and LTU’s latest achievements. But in this issue,
Virinder K. Moudgil I’m sharing my space with Dr. Robert Fletcher, professor of mechanical engineering, because he has
written a column that is absolutely compelling. As I said at my inauguration in 2012, “at Lawrence Tech,
it’s all about the students!”
Virinder K. Moudgil
I
President and CEO
often see criticisms about today’s college and university students, calling them
snowflakes, cupcakes, softies, or worse. My response is based on my experiences at
Lawrence Technological University and its College of Engineering, in which I teach.
Students that I interact with are not snowflakes, cupcakes, softies, or anything of the
kind. Rather, they are often the first generation in their blue-collar family to attend college
and, though there are adjustments for them, they are grateful to be here and work very hard
to succeed. Their parents have saved money for almost two decades so that these students
can go to college.
Robert Fletcher Some of these students come from well-to-do families, but are only one generation
away from their grandparents, who fled Europe and the gas chambers and concentration camp horrors that
were once there. The knowledge and awareness of those events have not been lost on them. They know that
even in civil societies, things can change for the worse very quickly.
Some of my students are from families where every member of their immediate and extended family lost
their auto company jobs in the “Great Recession,” when unemployment rose to nearly 30 percent in the area.
These students take nothing for granted, and know that nothing will ever be handed to them for free. They
fully understand the value of a good job.
Some are from farm families who work 15-hour days in the fields.... I had one student a few years back
that sometimes came late to a morning class in hip waders because he had to milk cows before coming to
school, and did not have time to change. These students know if they do not work, they do not eat.
lawrencetechu
Some students are from homes with small family companies which have successfully competed in business
now for decades against international competition and 15-cent-an-hour wages in China. They know the mean-
LawrenceTechU ing of hard work.
Some are from refugee families who have literally escaped brutal dictators with only their lives and the
lawrencetech clothes on their backs. Some of their family were murdered in their home countries. I personally know of two
students who had family members shot in front of their very eyes.... They are not here to mooch, nor to “take
advantage of the system.” They are here to work hard, seek opportunities, and to live a safe life....
Lawrence Tech Alumni Some of the students I teach have children of their own and work sometimes at two jobs to make ends meet
while going to school full time....
lawrencetechu Some are caring for sick and aging parents and dealing with the challenges that go with those responsibili-
ties. I had a student whose mother died in the middle of the semester. That student took care of her mother’s
funeral and burial. She then sold her mother’s home, closed her mother’s estate, and still earned a solid “B” in
my thermodynamics class. She is a strong individual, displaying a confident, purpose-driven life.
I do not know one student who would wilt or wither if someone criticized them, or who needs some sort of
“safe space” to survive. These students deal with reality and the real world every day....
No, the college students that I interact with are not snowflakes, cupcakes, softies, nor any other term like
that. They are good, decent, hard-working people, who will continue to work toward their own well-being,
and toward the well-being of their families, of society, and our country. They are grateful, appreciative, and
know they have much to learn and want to do so. We are lucky to have them helping to build our future, and I
For the latest about Lawrence Tech, visit
www.ltu.edu/news am fortunate to know them. Talking about these students in any other way is an insult to them, and the person
saying it.
LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019 1
‘we rise
by lifting
others’
LTU’s
nursing lab
T he 2,400-square-foot labo- LTU nursing stu-
ratory includes a simulated dents practice
intensive care unit hospital CPR on a realis-
room that will have all the
equipment normally found in
the hospital setting—oxygen,
suction, monitors—all sur-
rounding a hospital bed.
The rest of the lab will be
tic mannequin
who responds
to many medi-
cal treatments
exactly as a real
person would.
opens
comprised of three bays with hospital beds,
simulating a hospital triage or clinical set-
ting, where students can practice healthcare
skills such as inserting IV lines, inserting nasal
gastric tubes, making sterile dressing changes,
and more.
Two simulation patients—one an entire body
and set up as female, the other a torso set up as
male—will also be part of the lab. The replica
Lawrence Tech’s newest teaching patients make realistic breathing and heart
sounds, and the full-body simulator is wireless,
laboratory, for its nursing program, is with the ability to have changes in vital signs
and changes in physical characteristics. It offers
now ready for use. students the ability to practice numerous health
care skills. Coming in the fall will be more
equipment for more practice.
There is also a conference room with a large
video screen for debriefing students after their
practice sessions in the labs, as well as offices
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M. Therese crease the number of students
Jamison (stand- admitted per year from 32 to
ing) shows a 48. That third, larger class ar-
group of nurs-
ing students
rived on campus this August.
the electrical Jamison, Cleere, and Glem-
workings of the bocki have Doctor of Nursing
human heart in Practice degrees, the equiva-
the conference lent of a PhD in nursing,
room of LTU’s
new nursing
while Kaminski has a master’s
labs. degree in nursing.
Jamison says the LTU
program is unique in that nursing students are
immersed in nursing education from the first
day of their enrollment, rather than having to
spend two years in a more general-education
“pre-nursing” program before having to reap-
ply for nursing school—and, she said, students
for M. Therese Jamison, director of nursing at benefit from the association with Lawrence
LTU; Suzanne Cleere, assistant professor of Tech, a university known for small class sizes,
nursing; Margaret Glembocki, assistant profes- real-world “theory and practice” education,
sor of nursing; and Brian Kaminski, senior and successful STEM (science, technology,
lecturer. education and mathematics) programs. MR
“Having a space to talk to students about
their laboratory simulation experiences is criti-
cal to the educational process,” Jamison said. M. Therese Jamison, founding
Video recordings are made of students’ practice director of nursing at LTU, received
sessions with the lab equipment, and instructors her Doctorate of Nursing Practice
can coach students on their performance based degree from Vanderbilt University,
after earning a post-master’s certifi-
on the video.
cate in acute care nursing from the
The University’s total investment in the new University of Michigan and bach-
laboratory is $400,000. It is located in the LTU elor’s and master’s degrees in nurs-
Science Building, in space formerly occupied ing from Wayne State University.
by LTU’s Donley Computer Center, which has
relocated to the University Services Building.
Lawrence Tech, in partnership with Ascen- This decor in
the office of LTU
sion, received state approval to add a new Nursing Direc-
nursing program in 2016. The first class of 32 tor M. Therese
students was admitted in August 2017. A sec- Jamison is an
ond class was admitted in August 2018. example of
This year, LTU received state approval to in- her teaching
philosophy.
• • •
Lawrence Tech, in
partnership with
Ascension, received state
approval to add a new
nursing program in 2016
• • •
LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019 3
HISTORIC WRIGHT HOME
T oday, the sun is
shining through new skylights
at Lawrence Tech’s Affleck
House in Bloomfield Hills.
More importantly, when it
rains, water won’t drip into the
home around those skylights.
Affleck House, one of just
three homes in metro Detroit
designed in the Usonian style
of renowned architect Frank
Lloyd Wright, is in the midst of An outdoor The latest effort—being overseen by three winners of LTU’s
a restoration guided by alumni
living space is Distinguished Architecture Alumni Award (DAAA)—is a
perched over
a wooded
$46,000 replacement of the Affleck House’s 19 skylights.
of Lawrence Technological ravine at “The skylight work was on our agenda for years, but it was
Affleck House. becoming more and more of an issue because of leaks pretty
University, which has owned much every time it rained,” said Benedetto Tiseo, BSAr’78,
who received the DAAA in 1999. “We determined the leaks
the home since 1978. were not the result of the roofing but of skylight deterioration,
and we were able to raise the funds to get that work done.”
Affleck House’s restoration began in 2010, when the three
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GETS ONGOING RESTORATION
The Affleck DAAA winners —Tiseo, Frederick F. Butters, replaced countertops, cabinets and appliances while remaining
House viewed BSAr’83, BAr’84, MAr’09, who won the true to the home’s original design and improving the kitchen’s
from the south, award in 2003, and Dierdre Jimenez, BSAr’83, ability to handle catering. Butters said the new LED kitchen
with the master
bedroom at far
BSIA’85, who won it in 2009—began compil- lighting is so efficient it uses less power than a single 60-watt
left, two other ing a list of projects that needed to be done to incandescent bulb.
bedrooms, and preserve the historic home, with the assistance More LED lighting has been installed throughout the house.
the main living of LTU faculty. “The problem is there are not a lot of reflective surfaces in the
and dining area “When I first joined, the program had a price house—it’s all dark tidewater cypress siding, brick and dark
on the right.
tag that was pretty much insurmountable,” colored concrete inside,” said Tiseo, who has been an adjunct
recalled Jimenez, who has had a successful career in corporate professor at LTU since 1980. “It’s fine during the day because a
real estate management. “The strategy we came up with was to lot of natural light gets in, but at night you needed more lighting
break the work down into smaller projects that we could raise to function in the house.”
money for, execute, and leverage the success of those projects to Jimenez said another key to the success of the project was
raise money for the next project.” forming a separate subcommittee to restore Affleck House’s
The first project, repair of a critical retaining wall that Tiseo expansive hillside property.
said was “probably a year away from collapse,” used money “One thing that neither the faculty nor we architects could get
raised by selling custom Affleck House pens at a price of our arms around was the site,” Jimenez said. “It needed so much
$400—pens that Butters, a hobbyist wood- work, there were so many issues—we needed real expertise in
worker, made by hand out of spare pieces of the landscaping.”
tidewater cypress wood that is used inside and The subcommittee focused on two parts of the site—the
outside Affleck House. natural woodlands, which Jimenez said had become infested by
Other projects have included removing a invasive species, and the manicured part of the lawn. Eventually,
paved driveway that was causing major drain-
age problems, and a kitchen restoration that C O N T I N U E D
The main
living area.
LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019 5
HISTORIC WRIGHT HOME C O N T I N U E D with funds raised by special landscaping tours, Jimenez said the fessor Harvey Ferraro and Michael Slaughter, invasive species were removed. As for the manicured lawn, “we volunteer docents, “who do all of the tours out were able to put Mrs. Affleck’s rose garden back in the front of the goodness of their hearts.” yard, and we put back in the evergreens, what we call the eye- Also crucial to the project are architectural brow bed, along the road, which was in Frank Lloyd Wright’s historian and LTU professor Dale Allen Gyure, original sketches.” and professor emeritus Janice Means, an expert Butters is also working on restoring the home’s basement in energy systems, who Jimenez said helped workshop area into usable space. with design of the home’s heating and electri- The Affleck House was closed to tours during the restoration, cal systems. LTU Advancement staffers Robin but has since reopened. Leclerc and Julie Vulaj have also been instru- Affleck House was commissioned in 1940 by Gregor Af- mental, as has facilities manager Brian Ray- fleck—a Wisconsin native who had invented a fast-drying paint mond, whom Jimenez said “knows every inch used in the auto industry—and his wife, Elizabeth. They asked of that house.” Wright to design a country home after seeing photos of Wright’s Future plans for tours include musical events Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania. in the yard and events connected with the The home is built in Wright’s Usonian style, which was Woodward Dream Cruise, she said. his answer to the need for low-cost housing for the average All those involved in the project say it’s a The master American. Usonian houses were typically one story, with flat real labor of love. bedroom. roofs, reflecting the hori- zontal nature of America’s Midwestern plains. Wright also introduced skylights as a way of providing additional light. The homes used the lat- est in building technology but emphasized low-cost native materials. Affleck House features a long living-dining area and a small kitchen. Leading back from the living area is a long, narrow hallway off which are three bedrooms and two bathrooms, giving the house roughly a T shape. There’s also a partial walkout base- ment with a fourth bedroom, another bathroom, and a workshop-laundry area. The Afflecks raised two children in the home and lived there from 1941 until their deaths—Elizabeth in 1973, Gregor in 1974. They allowed curious visitors to tour the home while they lived in it—they kept a guest book that grew to more than 10,000 names. The Affleck children donated the home ‘Future plans for tours include musical to Lawrence Tech in 1978 as a teaching resource. “The whole idea is for people to come see the house, tour it, events in the yard and events connected and use it for meetings and events once this restoration is com- plete,” Butters said. with the Woodward Dream Cruise’ Jimenez said the tours are intended to provide a permanent funding source for Affleck House. She credits former LTU pro- 6 LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019
‘All those involved in the project say it’s a real labor of love’
A kitchen
renovation with
more modern
appliances and
an eye toward
catered events
was part of the
restoration
project.
About 30
members of
the LTU men’s
soccer team,
pictured here,
“There comes a point in time where every- all right?’ Everything we do is viewed through the lens of what as well as the
body who’s been involved with the project says the vision was for the house, and how the Afflecks lived there. women’s bas-
the same thing—you get sucked in,” Jimenez We’re hoping they’re happy with what we’ve done.” ketball team,
volunteered at
said. “I find myself many times talking to For more information on Affleck House tours, contact the University’s
Frank, or Mrs. Affleck, or Mr. Affleck, asking Tami Stanko at 248.204.2800 or tstanko@ltu.edu. MR Affleck House
them, ‘Do you like what we’re doing? Is this fall cleanup.
LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019 7
$2continues
million project These images
provided by The
L buildout of athletic stadium
Collaborative
Inc., LTU sta-
dium architects,
capture the
look of what
awrence Technological University has received fans will see this
fall at The Point
approval from the City of Southfield for the next portion on campus.
of a phased buildout of its outdoor athletic stadium.
Construction began in April on permanent offers 30 men’s and women’s
spectator seating for 2,300 fans. The $2 mil- NAIA athletic programs that
lion steel and masonry structure will include involve more than 500 stu-
space for adding future home and visitor locker dents. Lawrence Tech football
rooms, restrooms, and concession stands. A will have its first full season
permanent press box is also part of the future this fall against all varsity op-
plans, along with an athletic training and condi- ponents. (See sidebar.) Track
tioning facility. and field will debut in the
A permanent all-weather field and outdoor spring of 2020.
lighting were installed, in 2017 and 2018 re- “There are many terrific
spectively, thanks to an anonymous $1 million students who want to continue
gift. This new work is also being funded by an competing in athletics at the
anonymous donor. college level,” said Dean of
“We are delighted to build on the strong Students Kevin Finn, who helped resurrect
start that we have already established with the LTU sports. “The combination of our very
growth of our athletic programs,” said LTU strong academic programs with athletics has
President Virinder Moudgil. been a huge boost to school spirit and campus
LTU relaunched athletics in 2012 after a life.”
hiatus of more than 50 years. Football had not Southfield Mayor Ken Siver added, “The
been offered since 1946. Now Lawrence Tech City of Southfield is extremely excited to have
8 LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019knock off the NCAA Division III
First full varsity football season coming in September opponent, 30-22, in Milwaukee.
The first road trip comes on
Sept. 21 with a contest at Olivet
T
he Lawrence Technological schedule and enjoy full mem- ished the 2018 season ranked No. Nazarene in Bourbonnais, Ill. The
University football team bership benefits of the 15-team 7 in the nation, posting a Tigers had a strong showing in
will host six home games league. A member of the MSFA record of 9-4 overall and Midwest conference play, finishing 4-1 in
at the LTU Athletic Field in 2019. has claimed the NAIA national League champs in the MSFA. the Midwest League.
In its second year of competi- title six of the past eight seasons. On Sept. 14, a familiar foe visits On Sept. 28, LTU returns home
tion, LTU will play a complete The 2019 campaign opens Southfield in Wisconsin Lutheran. to host St. Francis University of
Mid-States Football Association Saturday, Sept. 7 against St. Last season, the Blue Devils engi- Joliet, Ill. before heading into a
Xavier, a university on the south neered a second half comeback, bye week.
side of Chicago. The Cougars fin- posting 27 unanswered points to When the Blue Devils return to
action Oct. 12, Indiana Wesleyan
The student
section goes
will be waiting in Marion, Ind.,
wild as wide for the two sides’ third meeting
receiver Kavon in two seasons. The Wildcats are
Higdon (5) scores also coming off their first year of
a touchdown competition and now enjoy full
in LTU’s 2018 MSFA membership.
season opener. The rest of October and
into November will be a battle
ground for Lawrence Tech as the
Blue Devils square off with four
straight opponents that finished
LTU quarterback Tyler Kulka (17) inside the NAIA’s top 25.
fires the ball downfield. Kicking off the stretch is
Adrian’s Siena Heights University
on Oct.19 for Homecoming.
The Saints finished 7-3 a year
ago and No. 25 in the NAIA.
October closes with a visit to
Marian University on Oct. 26
in Indianapolis. The Knights
clinched the Mideast League
with a 6-0 mark and didn’t suf-
fer a loss until the NAIA playoffs.
Marian finished the year ranked
No. 9.
November starts back home
in Southfield on Nov. 2 with
the University of St. Francis, an
institution in Ft. Wayne, Ind. The
Cougars fell in overtime of the
semifinals last fall after winning
back-to-back national titles
in 2016 and 2017. Concordia
University makes the short
trip from Ann Arbor to the LTU
Athletic Field on Nov. 9. The
Cardinals went 10-3 in 2018, fin-
ishing at No. 6 in the nation.
The 2019 slate closes on Nov.
16 with a road game at Taylor
University in Upland, Ind.
Season tickets to all six games,
its own college football team. The addition of The general contractor is Rochester-based at prices of $50, $80, and $100,
the expanded sports program, campus activi- Frank Rewold & Sons, Inc. are available at https://bit.
ly/2Epp25M. Single-game
ties, and residence halls have made positive For LTU’s athletic schedules, visit ltuath-
tickets went on sale in July. Any
enhancements to the college experience for letics.com. To donate to the stadium or other questions or concerns about
Lawrence Tech students.” LTU athletic projects, contact Jay Redman, season tickets for 2019 can be
The Collaborative Inc., with offices in 248.204.2317 or jredman@ltu.edu. MR directed to tickets@ltu.edu.
Toledo and Ann Arbor, is the project architect.
LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019 9University’s fourth residence hall
brings students living
East Residence
Hall welcomed
its first residents
L awrence Tech opened its fourth
residence hall at the start of the 2018-19
in August 2018.
academic year. East Residence Hall is a
95,000-square-foot, $21 million structure
that houses 308 students.
The new residence hall was designed by a Northville com-
pany, InFORM Studios, managed by four LTU architecture
alumni—founders Ken, BSAr’85, BAr’86, and Gina, BSAr’89,
BAr’94 VanTine, and principals Michael Guthrie, BSAr’95 and
Cory Lavigne, BAr’96.
The four-story building features many high-tech touches,
including all-LED lighting, advanced zone heating and cooling,
four laundry rooms, spacious common rooms, unique study and
gathering spaces, music practice rooms, a health club with full
gym equipment, a large community kitchen, and a bicycle stor-
age and repair area.
East Hall is a traditional, community style residence hall that
houses first-year LTU students. All rooms are double-occupancy,
and floors are designated by sex. The hall’s common restrooms A view of East Residence Hall, with Donley Hall in the
and showers are cleaned by professionals daily. background, from the fourth floor of the new hall on
move-in day in August 2018.
10 LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019on campus to 1,000+
A Blue Devil
welcome is in
store for new
students in East
Residence Hall.
LTU Board of
Trustees chair
Douglas Ebert
speaks to a large
audience at the
formal dedica-
tion of East
Residence Hall in
October.
Pink-shirted
volunteers help
first-year stu-
dents move into
East Residence
Hall in August
2018.
The community style enhances the ability of full-time, on-site
University Housing staff to assist students in their transition to
college through intentional programming and attention.
“East Residence Hall marks another step in Lawrence Tech’s
transformation from commuter school to a full-service residen-
tial campus,” noted President Virinder Moudgil. “With this new
residence hall, we now are home to more than 1,000 students
living full-time on campus.”
The residence hall was built between LTU’s Donley and
Reuss residence halls, creating a residential zone between the
main academic Quadrangle to the south, and North Campus,
home to LTU’s Don Ridler Field House, the Applied Research
Center, and several office buildings.
Dean of Students Kevin Finn said the University has made it
a goal to grow student and campus life.
“We made a commitment a few years back to make a residen-
tially focused campus, and our growth continues,” Finn said,
adding that students who are more involved in on-campus life
see greater academic success. MR
LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019 11A Campus Commencement
T
First-ever Commencement on Southfield campus
he way U.S. Sen Debbie “Hamilton,” Stabenow predicted the graduates U.S. Sen. Debbie
would “be in the room where it happens, on Stabenow, D-
Stabenow sees it, today’s society critical issues that affect all of us.” Mich., offers the
Commencement
faces many challenges stemming And she said graduates should aspire to ful- address May 11
filling another line of the play, “God help and at Lawrence
from constant, chaotic change— forgive me, I want to build something that’s Technological
from a changing climate, to going to outlive me.” University.
She said today’s graduates face three basic
wrenching economic upheavals, to problems: adapting to change, maintaining
the effects of modern technology, personal values and priorities, and building that
“something” that will outlive us.
to increasing levels of misinforma- “Your education here at Lawrence Tech can
tion and political division. help you tackle all of these,” Stabenow said.
“My advice to you is really simple. Keep learn-
Faculty mem- But giving a Commencement address at ing. Keep grounded. Believe in yourself. And
bers applaud Lawrence Technological University, Stabenow do something to make your community a better
the graduates expressed confidence that LTU graduates are place.”
as they leave
Don Ridler Field
up to the challenge. Stabenow noted that LTU graduates are
House. Quoting liberally from the hit musical already making a difference in many fields,
12 LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019a success by any measure
This LTU grad
put her career
and life ambi-
tions on her
cap….
…and this one
spoke with
pride of her
achievement.
cybersecurity to medicine to infrastructure.
And, in a reference to Lawrence Tech’s
ever-growing campus facilities, she joked that
“being a Lawrence Tech alumnus proves you’re
patient enough to put up with renovation, and
more renovation, and more renovation. But
I know students from 15 or 20 years ago are
probably pretty jealous of this campus today.”
Summing up, Stabenow said, “I know I
speak for everyone in this room when I say,
we can’t wait to see what you will become and
what you will achieve.”
Stabenow spoke at one of three Commence-
ment Exercises on Saturday, May 11, the 1 p.m.
ceremony for graduates of LTU’s College of
Business and Information Technology and the
Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Civil
and Architectural Engineering, and Engineering
Technology in LTU’s College of Engineering.
LTU presented her with an honorary Doctor
of Laws degree in recognition for her public
service.
A 9 a.m. Commencement ceremony honored
graduates of LTU’s College of Architecture and Lawrence Technological University Provost Maria Vaz,
Design and College of Arts and Sciences, with LTU Board of Trustees member Howard Padgham, U.S.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and LTU President
an address from noted Birmingham architect Virinder Moudgil after Sen. Stabenow was presented an
Victor Saroki, BSAr’79, BAr’80, HD’08. honorary Doctor of Laws degree at LTU’s 1 p.m. Com-
A 5 p.m. Commencement ceremony hon- mencement May 11. C O N T I N U E D
LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019 13Commencement C O N T I N U E D
Nicole Kennedy, 9 a.m. Com-
M.D., BSEE’95, mencement
offered her speaker Victor
advice to gradu- Saroki accepts
ates before a plaque of ap-
being presented preciation for
with an LTU his thoughtful
Alumni Achieve- address.
ment Award.
ored graduates of the Department of Electrical biomedical and electrical engineering and an
and Computer Engineering and the A. Leon MBA from the University of Michigan, and
Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering graduated from the Wayne State University
in LTU’s College of Engineering. The address medical school.
was presented by Douglas Patton, recently In all, nearly 700 LTU students received
retired senior technical advisor at DENSO degrees or certificates in the three ceremonies.
International America Inc. and a member of the It was the first time Commencement has been
••• LTU College of Engineering Advisory Board. held on LTU’s Southfield campus, in response
It was the first time Also at the 5 p.m. Commencement, Nicole to requests from graduates who sought to have
Kennedy, M.D., BSEE’95, section chief in the the ceremonies “at home.” The capacity of Don
Commencement Department of Vascular Surgery and medical Ridler Field House required that the ceremony
has been held on informatics officer at Henry Ford West Bloom- be divided in thirds. Several thousand family
LTU’s Southfield field Hospital, received LTU’s Alumni Achieve- members and friends attended the ceremonies,
campus, in response ment Award. After starting her academic career and thousands more around the world watched
at LTU, Kennedy earned Masters degrees in live online. MR
to requests from
graduates who
sought to have the
ceremonies ‘at home’
•••
5 p.m. Commencement speaker
Douglas Patton is flanked by
Provost Maria Vaz and President
Virinder Moudgil.
14 LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019A sea of caps in
LTU blue, some
meticulously
decorated by
graduates, at
LTU’s 9 a.m.
Commence-
ment May 11.
Outstanding students
named winners of 2019 Donley Awards
A
stellar student-athlete With all of her involvement, in information technology. Jaggi
and a student-entrepre- Bradley has stayed connected also dedicated his time and
neur were named the to her community on and off energy to numerous organiza-
winners of the 2019 Edward campus, serving as a tutor in tions, including the Sigma Phi
Donley Distinguished Graduate LTU’s Academic Achievement Epsilon Fraternity, Focus: HOPE,
Awards. Center, and an emergency room and Gleaners Community Food
Marissa Bradley Sahil Jaggi
Winning the award for female volunteer at St. John Providence Bank. He is an award-winning
students was Marissa Bradley, Hospital. She contributed to member of LTU’s chapter of an event. He is well rounded
BSBME’19, of Haslett. Winning her field of study by complet- Collegiate DECA, an interna- and puts everyone else’s needs
the award for male students was ing summer research projects tional organization of students before his own.”
Sahil Jaggi, BSCE’19, of Bingham at Michigan State University, who participate in business case The awards are named for
Farms. Kettering University, and study competitions. Edward Donley (1921-2017),
Bradley excelled inside and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Jaggi received many nomina- BME’43, HD’67, HD’87, who
outside the classroom through- Bradley’s coaches, supervi- tions for the award, ranging went on to become chairman
out her four years at Lawrence sors, mentors, and professors from classmates and professors and CEO of Air Products and
Tech. She was the Academic All- described her as “well rounded to employers and DECA compet- Chemicals Inc. and also chaired
American team captain of LTU’s and high-achieving,” “an excel- itors. One of his nominators said, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
women’s cross country team and lent mentor,” “a strong and effec- “Sahil is an extremely hardwork- He was a national figure in edu-
shared her love of the sport with tive leader,” and “a champion of ing individual who has managed cation, serving on numerous
elementary girls as a coach for character.” to complete his degree while boards dedicated to improving
the Girls on the Run program. Jaggi was both a dedicated maintaining a full time student teacher training and certifica-
She also held numerous lead- and involved student and an status and also managing and tion, and was a longtime LTU
ership positions on campus, entrepreneur during his years partially owning a large compa- board member and benefactor.
including vice president of the at LTU. Sahil worked on campus ny. He is the only student at LTU The Donley Awards are given
American Society of Biochemis- as an undergraduate teaching to compete at the International by the LTU Alumni Association.
try & Molecular Biology student assistant and owns his own Career Development Conference This year, they received and
group and president of the company, Micro Wise Inc., which in Washington, D.C., represent- voted on nominations for more
Society of Women Engineers. provides support and services ing LTU DECA, where he won than 30 students.
LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019 15On Campus
O N C A M P U S
Business honors fraternity
inducts 32
Lawrence Tech inducted 32 A large crowd enjoyed dinner and
students into the Beta Gamma an inspiring program at the induc-
Sigma business honors frater- tion event, held at Southfield’s ven-
nity in a March ceremony at erable Plum Hollow Country Club.
Plum Hollow Country Club in
Southfield. The other honorary inductee,
It was the second annual Andra Rush, founder, chair and
induction ceremony for the CEO of the Rush Group, shared
group, which is associated with how she founded a trucking
the Association to Advance company in 1984, at age 23,
Collegiate Schools of Business, after being unsatisfied working
the most exclusive accredita- in nursing. (She said she found
tion agency for college and truck drivers were making
university
business pro-
grams. AACSB
accreditation
is achieved
by less than 5
percent of the
world’s busi-
ness schools.
Lawrence Tech
achieved the
honor in 2018.
Entry into
Beta Gamma
Sigma is
reserved for
the top 10
percent of
undergraduate
students and
the top 20 per-
cent of graduate students, along $1,200 a week 30 years ago, employees who are smarter The newest members of Beta
with distinguished business when she was earning $400 than they are, and cultivate Gamma Sigma at LTU, with their
professionals. Its name derives a week as a nurse.) Today, her great customers, suppliers, com- faculty members and LTU
from the first letters of the Greek munity backers, and “friendly administration.
Rush Group is a transportation,
words for honor, wisdom, and logistics, and auto supply empire competitors.” MR
earnestness. with 1,100 tractor-trailers and
Attendees heard presenta- a billion-dollar manufacturing Beta Gamma Sigma Huang, William Kaiser, Ravi
tions from two honorary induct- plant. inductees were: Kallepalli, Samantha Mabbitt,
ees. Bankole Thompson, colum- “There will be moments in Venkata Rathna Aniriudh
nist for the Detroit News and your life when you are pushed Undergraduate students: Mamidipaka, Adam Mucciacio,
editor-in-chief of the Detroit- out of your comfort zone,” she Maria Alvarez Rodilla, Matthew Menuka Lakshani Nugaliyadda,
based antipoverty non-profit told the students, parents, and Blunk, Joshua Denomie, Peter Amber Plee, Mark Rakuc, Sally
think tank PuLSE Institute, urged LTU faculty and staff. “Or you’ll Ebaugh, Teryn Kline, Adam Scheuermann, Harsh Shah,
students to incorporate the be in your comfort zone and Ktona, Suhas Potluri, Max Sabo, Amica Tubbs, Cesar Daniel
struggle for civil rights into their you’ll feel something is missing. Alex Snarski, Garrett Vonk Hernandez Urbina
careers. He told the students I urge you to get out of your Graduate students: Doctoral students:
that “you aren’t just the leaders comfort zone. Failure is where Matthew Ainsworth, Haifa Christopher Atkinson, Kassem
of tomorrow, you are the leaders you learn.” She also urged stu- Alburek, Chris Collacott, Hanyu Ayoub Ghanem, Michael
of today, and you can make a dents who found businesses to Gao, Kristin Golden, Xinhui Thibideau
difference.” surround themselves with
16 LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019O N C A M P U S
Prof wins Heart Association grant
for testing engineered blood vessels
A Lawrence Tech professor the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. research and development
has won a two-year, $151,734 Xia is still assembling the opportunity it brings for our
grant from the American Heart equipment he’ll need to build students,” said Nabih Jaber,
Association to develop a better the testing system, which will associate professor and depart-
way to test lab-grown blood be housed in LTU’s Engineering ment chair. “The project will
vessels. Building. He’s also looking for provide an opportunity for
Jinjun Xia, assistant professor undergraduate students to assist research evaluating the impact
in LTU’s Department of Electrical in the research—ideally fresh- of the stresses on vessels. These
and Computer Engineering, men, so they’ll be able to con- kinds of experiments are hard to
won the Institutional Research tinue with the project through perform because current test-
Jinjun Xia
Enhancement Award from the its conclusion in late 2020. He ing techniques leave the vessels
AHA. plans to draw the students from vulnerable to damage. Dr. Xia’s are developing a variety of tis-
Every year, hundreds of thou- LTU’s electrical and computer proposed method will keep the sue engineered constructs such
sands of patients undergo coro- engineering, biomedical engi- vessels intact while testing the as the ligament, cartilage and
nary or peripheral artery bypass neering, and nursing programs. stresses they undergo.” blood vessels. We look forward
surgery. Bypass surgery cur- “Electrical and Computer Added Yawen Li, chair of to collaborating with Dr. Xia on
rently requires harvesting blood Engineering is very proud of LTU’s Department of Biomedical using his innovative ultrasound
vessels from the same patient, Dr. Xia’s achievement, and we Engineering: “Biomedical engi- technique to test the mechanical
causing additional injury, while are looking forward to the neering faculty and students properties of these tissues.” MR
synthetic vessels are prone to
cause blood clots. A promising
alternative is tissue engineered
blood vessels, or TEBVs, where Two LTU leaders receive
a patient’s own cells are used to
grow new blood vessels on spe-
recognition from Crain’s
cial scaffolding.
TEBVs must be tested for
Provost Vaz named improvement and blossoming of
STEM (STEAM) education oppor-
strength before use, however. STEM leader tunities both at the collegiate
Current testing technology level and for our precollege out-
is limited to techniques that Crain’s Detroit Business has reach programs. On a personal
destroy the vessel, requiring the named Vice President of level, she led and embraced the
creation of duplicate TEBVs, an Academic Affairs and Provost institutional efforts in STEM due
expensive and time-consuming Maria J. Vaz as a “2019 Notable to her own academic discipline
process. Women in STEM.” The STEM of physics, and as a teacher and
“The technique to grow these acronym represents Science, scholar. Her decades of experi-
vessels is understood, but Technology, Engineering, and ence in the field and contribu- Maria Vaz
there is no nondestructive way Mathematics, which, along with tions in advancing STEM educa-
to measure their mechanical the Arts, are seen as attributes tion at Lawrence Tech and than a decade and an invest-
strength, to measure the stresses often cited for career success. and beyond deserves wide ment of more than $4 million.”
those vessels will undergo in the In support of Vaz’s nomi- recognition.” Wilken also said that, “She
human body,” Xia said. nation, President Virinder K. Karen Wilken, program has shared her expertise and
Xia is proposing to use a com- Moudgil said, “There are few director of the Kern Family enthusiasm to help shape and
bination of ultrasound to create aspects of the core responsi- Foundation in Waukesha, Wis., build a network of 43 like-
forces similar to those the vessel bilities of our University that added that Vaz “is the definition minded institutions across
will experience inside the body, don’t receive the benefit of her of a compassionate, innovative, the country through the Kern
and laser imaging to capture engagement and leadership. She dedicated and ambitious leader Entrepreneurial Engineering
the effect of those forces, to test is a key member of our leader- with the best interest of faculty Network. In addition, I’m aware
the vessel’s strength without ship team. Her positive influence and students at heart. Her idea of the countless hours Dr. Vaz
destroying it. on LTU’s programs, our students, to bring an entrepreneurial has spent in leading efforts in
Similar technology also devel- our faculty, and our general mindset into the education of all the K-12 space to improve the
oped by Xia is currently used in academic stature cannot be undergraduate students at LTU, pipeline of students interested
the aerospace industry to test over-emphasized. Through her and particularly engineering stu- and prepared for engineering
carbon fiber composite materials achievements and interests, she dents, has led to a partnership
now being used in aircraft like has had a huge impact on the with KFF that has lasted more Continued
LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019 17O N C A M P U S
and technical programs in high-
er education.”
integration of all student servic-
es and the one-stop shop con-
Johnson named
Vaz was named provost at LTU cept, including the programmat- to ‘Notable
July 1, 2006, with the title of vice ic development and implemen-
president of academic affairs tation of LTU’s A. Alfred Taubman Women in HR’
added in 2017. She has been Student Services Center.
one of Lawrence Tech’s most ver- She expanded LTU’s Student Deshawn Johnson, executive
satile leaders. Earlier, Vaz served Affairs Division as an important director of human resources,
as interim provost, associate partner in student education. As was named one of “Crain’s 2019
provost, dean of graduate pro- a result, a dynamic student life, Notable Women in HR” by Crain’s
grams, and interim dean of LTU’s the re-introduction of varsity Detroit Business magazine.
Colleges of Arts and Sciences sports, the support of healthy The article honoring Johnson
and Engineering. choices, and the well-being of all lauded her for a “calm and ana-
As provost, Vaz oversees LTU’s students are important compo- lytical approach to hiring, train-
ing and retaining staff in align- Deshawn Johnson
four colleges, the library, and nents of the integrated student
the offices of eLearning, Student experience, and the professional ment with the University’s stra-
Affairs, Enrollment Management, and personal growth of students tegic objective.” Linda Height, a benefits renewal process that
and Corporate and Community at LTU. vice president of finance and cut health and welfare costs
Partnerships. She has led and As associate provost and administration, said Johnson to the University by $1.1 mil-
supported the development dean of graduate programs, Vaz “has initiated many programs lion. She also streamlined the
and implementation of new led the establishment of the that have saved the University University’s benefits administra-
undergraduate and graduate University Assessment program, both time and money and have tion process by moving from
programs that differentiate and in 2001 the development improved the level of customer a manual entry system to an
Lawrence Tech, among them and establishment of the first of service to all our employees.” electronic data feed process. In
biomedical engineering, archi- three doctoral programs at the Added Lisa Kujawa, associate addition, Johnson developed
tectural engineering, robotics University. provost for enrollment and out- and implemented an updated
engineering, industrial engineer- Vaz joined the Lawrence Tech reach: “I have to thank Deshawn talent acquisition strategy,
ing, chemical biology, molecular faculty in 1984 after completing for all the work she has put which included background
and cell biology, media com- her master’s and PhD in physics into my staff and how much checks and electronic access
munication, transportation at Kent State University, and a time she has given to provide to all employee forms through
design, and game art. She has licenciatura in physics from the advice, counsel, and also good DocuSign. She also improved
established an environment of University of Lisbon. In 1992 management strategy for what employee retention by adding
collaboration and interaction she was named chair of the they want to create and make Employee of the Month and
between the academic colleges Department of Natural Sciences our goals a reality. Without Department of Excellence to the
to generate interdisciplinary aca- and in 1994 became associ- Deshawn, we could not have University’s employee recogni-
demic programs and research. ate dean of the College of Arts started those conversations and tion programs. And she took the
She also oversaw the launch of and Sciences. In 1998 she was begun to create a better envi- lead in developing Lawrence
LTU’s B.S. in nursing program appointed associate provost and ronment for the future.” Tech’s conflict resolution policy.
in partnership with Ascension dean of graduate programs. Vaz Recent achievements include Johnson is a member of the
Providence. is also a trustee of Rose-Hulman implementing two voluntary Society for Human Resources
Vaz implemented LTU’s lead- Institute of Technology. BJA early retirement programs and Management and the HR
ership curriculum program Certification Institute. She also
required for all undergraduates holds the Professional in Human
POWER UP
as well as an initiative on sus- Resources (PHR), Certified
tainability education. She estab- Professional Coach (CPC),
lished Lawrence Tech’s Center Energy Leadership Index Master
for Teaching and Learning and Practitioner (ELI-MP) and Society
the Research Support Service of Human Resources Manage-
Committee to support faculty Master’s degrees and graduate certificates ment Certified Professional
development in both teaching (SHRM-CP) certifications.
and research. In addition she Architecture and Design | Arts and Sciences Johnson earned a MS in
supported the creation of LTU’s Business and Information Technology | Engineering human resources administration
eLearning Services office to Learn More from Central Michigan University
provide online teaching and the ltu.edu/gradprograms | ltu.edu/applyfree and a BA in management and
expanded use of technology in organizational development
the classroom. from Spring Arbor University.
In Enrollment Management, SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN Possible is everything.
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Vaz was an early advocate of
18 LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019O N C A M P U S
Movie premiere heralds on orbital calculations from the
earliest U.S. satellite launches
particularly for students from
historically under-represented
‘Women Untold’ of STEM through the Apollo moon land-
ings, and later taught math-
populations.
Collins said she plans to use
LTU held a world premiere in neering cancer researcher and ematics at several universities. the film both in LTU classrooms
April of a student-produced later university president; Alice The film was a senior research and as an educational tool for
movie on previously little-known Augusta Ball, a chemical and project funded by LTU’s grant middle and high school teach-
African-American women who pharmaceutical researcher who from the Howard Hughes ers. It will also be entered in film
achieved great things in science developed a treatment for lep- Medical Institute. The grant is competitions.
and related technical fields. rosy; and Evelyn Boyd Granville, focused on course-based under- The film is now available on
Called “Women Untold,” the a mathematician who worked graduate research experiences, LTU’s YouTube channel. MR
film was based
From left to right in the front row
on a series of
are Isabella Forsthoffer, editor, pro-
articles writ- ducer and videographer on the film;
ten by Sibrina Sibrina Collins, executive director,
Collins, execu- Marburger STEM Center; Marie
tive director of Anne Torres-Lopez, director, pro-
LTU’s Marburger ducer, writer and editor; and Genna
STEM Center, Skalski, the film’s voice-over talent.
and published In the back row, left to right, are
in Undark, a Carlos Gonzalez, graphic designer;
Tristan Littles, videographer; Dacey
non-profit sci-
Cook, editor and motion graphics
entific publica-
developer; Elise Ritschdorff, editor
tion. and videographer; Stephen Baird,
The women assistant producer and director of
profiled were photography; and Chase Kaufman,
Jewel Plummer producer, editor, and videographer.
Cobb, a pio-
Nuclear nonproliferation edged that tensions between
the United States and Russia are
blackouts every night to prevent
air raids. The countries weren’t
expert details latest science rising again.
LTU President Virinder
nuclear powers in his boyhood,
he said. Now they are. And
A university consortium is She noted that nuclear non- Moudgil also spoke of the fear of they’re in conflict again.
developing new technologies proliferation has played an nuclear confrontation. Moudgil Pozzi’s presentation was the
to detect both weapons-grade important role in preventing said he grew up in India, 18 23rd annual Walker L. Cisler
nuclear materials and under- the spread of nuclear weapons miles from the Pakistan border, Lecture, a series sponsored by
ground nuclear testing, a lead- beyond the eight countries that during the last war between the a generous gift from the Holley
ing scientist in the effort said in now possess them, and that two countries, and there were Foundation, where Cisler served
delivering LTU’s annual Walker L. safeguards will on the board for many years.
Cisler Lecture. require continu- Cisler, CEO of Detroit Edison Co.
Sara Pozzi, professor of ing internation- from 1954 to 1971, enjoyed a
nuclear engineering and radio- al cooperation. career that spanned a lifetime of
logical sciences and professor She said that personal, professional, civic, and
of physics at the University of despite politi- business accomplishments.
Michigan, said the Consortium cal tensions, Past Cisler lecturers have
for Verification Technology has scientists in included Nobel laureates, uni-
won a five-year extension of its different coun- versity presidents, professors
work out to 2024. tries can still from Harvard and CalTech, and
The consortium, of which she cooperate on science writers from The New
is founding director, consists of nonproliferation York Times. MR
12 universities and nine national “because they
laboratories—and is about to have a common
expand—working together to language,” sci-
develop new technologies for ence—although Sara Pozzi makes a point during the
nuclear treaty verification. she acknowl- 2019 Cisler Lecture.
LAWRENCE TECH MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019 19O N C A M P U S
Seventh annual Research Day ing LTU he said he’s brought
about $1.7 million in research
mission of a university.
“Research is critical,” he said.
sets more records funding to the University, much
of it from the corporate sec-
“It is absolutely mandatory for
a university to survive. And it
Lawrence Technological historically under-represented tor and the military. Because can take a lot of different forms,
University’s seventh annual populations. of corporate competitiveness but it is critical. Not because of
Research Day set more records LTU President Virinder and government secrecy, the the number of papers that get
in a new, larger home. Moudgil called Research Day “a research funding hasn’t led to published, even though that is
LTU faculty and students transformational event for this many papers published in peer- important—but because of the
made 17 oral research presenta- University. The level of talent on reviewed scientific publications. people it can impact and ben-
tions in the morning of the April display here today has always But Fletcher said research—of efit. You get to help people. And
5 event, and an afternoon poster existed at LTU, but we did not any and all types—is vital to the that’s fun.” MR
session—moved to larger quar- have the formal platform to
ters in LTU’s Buell Building— present it until Research Day
featured 95 posters, for a total
of 112. That’s up from 102 pre-
was established. You can really
feel the excitement and enthu- LTU takes second in worldwide
sentations a year earlier, accord-
ing to Research Day chairman
siasm of our young scholars
and researchers, as well as their
ASHRAE competition
Matthew Cole, associate profes- faculty mentors. Best of all, at A cross-disciplinary student
sor in LTU’s College of Business LTU, there are opportunities for team from Lawrence Tech took
and Information Technology. undergraduates—as early as second place in the interna-
Topics presented varied wide- freshman year—to do signifi- tional ASHRAE Student Design
ly, from experiments in particle cant, groundbreaking research.” Competition.
physics, to sports injury preven- Research Day also includes the The five students won in the
tion, to wind turbine design, to LTU Presidential Colloquium, in Integrated Sustainable Building
the development of flying and which a faculty member is hon- Design category of the compe-
hopping robots, to an analysis ored for their research efforts tition. Their award was one of
of the U.S. roofing industry work with a keynote presentation. just two earned by Michigan
force, to mathematics teaching This year’s honoree was Robert schools at the event, held as
techniques. Fletcher, professor in LTU’s A. part of the 2019 ASHRAE Winter
The presenting sponsor of Leon Linton Department of Conference and Expo in Atlanta,
Research Day was the Howard Mechanical Engineering. Ga. in January. Sixty colleges and Josie Queary (left) and Erin Moran,
Hughes Medical Institute. LTU Fletcher and his students con- universities participated in four members of the second place
is one of only 23 schools across duct research on hybrid vehicles categories at the event, having Lawrence Tech team, at the ASHRAE
the country, and the only one and energy systems. Since join- been selected from hundreds of Winter Conference and Expo.
in Michigan, to receive an HHMI entrants.
grant to boost diversity in scien- More research presentations Team members were London In the competition, students
tific and technical fields through required a bigger space, so this Jocham of Pontiac, Shawn were asked to integrate elegant,
increased involvement of year’s Research Day poster ses- Kitchen of Troy, Erin Moran of efficient, and sustainable build-
undergraduates in research, par- sion moved from the Architecture St. Joseph, Brittany Davis of ing systems in the design of
ticularly undergraduates from Gallery to the Buell Building. Petoskey, and Josie Queary of a four-story, 70,000-square-
Midland. Queary and Moran foot resort hotel and spa near
attended the event and dis- Istanbul, Turkey. Architectural
played a poster on the project. and structural design, along
Ralph Nelson, associate profes- with mechanical, electrical and
sor of architecture, was the fac- plumbing engineering all played
ulty advisor for the team. a part in the students’ design,
Jocham, Moran, and Queary Nelson said.
were studying in LTU’s five-year ASHRAE, formally known
combined bachelor’s and mas- as the American Society of
ter’s degree program in architec- Heating, Refrigerating, and
tural engineering, while Kitchen Air-conditioning Engineers. is a
and Murray were students in global professional organization
LTU’s Master of Architecture to advance heating, ventilation,
program. Queary, Kitchen and air conditioning, and refrigera-
Davis have graduated from tion systems design and con-
Lawrence Tech since completing struction, with more than 56,000
the project. members worldwide. MR
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