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ALT Black and gold Michigan Tech CEGE graphic announcing new research funding for Sandeep Chitta. Chitta’s portrait appears on the right. Text highlights a $110,000 ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Grant for a 24-month project titled “Experimental Investigation of Fluid-Mediated Proppant–Shale Contact Mechanics.”
ALT Michigan Tech funding announcement graphic featuring Professor Emerita Judith Perlinger smiling on the right, wearing a brown top and pink patterned scarf. A vertical gold panel on the left reads “NEW FUNDING” in bold black letters. The black background features a large white headline announcing Perlinger's MDARD grant for PFAS research. Below the Michigan Tech Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering logo, gold text congratulates her on receiving funding to advance PFAS research and address environmental contamination.
ALT Zack Fredin stands between CEGE Chair Emin Kutay (left) and Dean Michelle Scherer (right), holding his wooden 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award plaque. All three smile at the camera in a conference room with a screen congratulating faculty award winners in the background.
ALT Zack Fredin smiles while shaking hands with Michigan Tech President Richard Koubek as they hold his wooden 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award plaque. Another university official stands near a window in the background.
ALT Black-and-white collage highlighting Michigan Tech Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering. Images include students gathered outdoors with a canoe, a faculty headshot, students and faculty at a department event, and the Steel Bridge Team standing behind their competition bridge. A yellow banner across the center reads “Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering News.”
ALT K-Day 2026 collage featuring scenes from past Michigan Tech K-Day celebrations. The large top photo shows students and faculty enjoying the outdoor event, while three smaller photos below show a group at an audio equipment booth, participants at a colorful inflatable activity, and students gathered at an organization table. Black and gold text across the center reads “HAPPY K-DAY 2026,” with Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering branding at the bottom.
ALT Graphic announcing that the CEGE Student Success Center is open for Fall 2026 in Dillman 102. A photo shows the entrance to the center with a sign reading “Civil & Environmental Engineering SSC is open for coaching — Come in!” The graphic highlights one-on-one discussions, faculty- or student-led presentations, student organization meetings, small-group study, and informal meetups and collaboration. A QR code links to Fall 2026 coaching hours, with the Michigan Tech Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering logo at the bottom.
ALT Black-and-gold 906 Day graphic from Michigan Tech Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering. Large gold text reads “Happy 906 Day” above four photos showing Michigan Tech’s waterfront campus, an aerial winter view of campus, a person kayaking on the Portage Waterway near campus, and green northern lights glowing over Lake Superior with people silhouetted along the shore. The bottom includes the department name and MTU Engineering logo.
ALT Graphic titled “Transforming Construction Safety with AI.” Text notes that Bo Xiao’s research was highlighted by the NAIRR Pilot. The design features a grayscale construction site with cranes, a partially built structure, worker icons, and digital network graphics suggesting AI and smart construction technology. Michigan Technological University Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering branding appears at the bottom.
ALT Three students walk onto Michigan Technological University’s campus beneath the stone and metal campus arch displaying the words “Michigan Technological University.” One student walks beside a bicycle on a sunny summer day.
ALT Aerial view of Michigan Tech’s incoming freshman class gathered in a large circle around the Husky logo at midfield on Sherman Field. Students fill the field around the black, white, and gold logo, with yard lines and GLIAC logos visible on the green turf.
ALT A group of incoming and returning Michigan Tech graduate students stand together for a photo in a classroom during Graduate Student Orientation. Rows of classroom tables and chairs are visible in the foreground.
ALT Aerial view of Michigan Tech’s campus in Houghton, Michigan, surrounded by dense green trees and waterways under a dramatic partly cloudy sky. Campus buildings sit along the Portage Waterway, with the Keweenaw landscape stretching into the distance. Part of the structure and pulley system from the elevated viewpoint is visible along the right and top of the image.
ALT Landscape research funding graphic featuring Mo Sadeghi on the left. Text announces $100,000 in funding from the National Road Research Alliance (NRRA) for Sadeghi’s 18-month project, “Overpredicted Resistances of Low-Displacement Piles in Sands Using Static Analysis Methods.” Michigan Tech Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering branding appears along the bottom.
ALT Portrait of Ishi Keenum outdoors on a sunny, tree-lined campus. Keenum is smiling at the camera, wearing glasses and a sleeveless black top. Green trees and landscaping are softly blurred in the background.
ALT Graphic announcing a new publication titled “A Probabilistic Decision-Making Framework for Coastal Railroads.” The design features portraits of Civil Engineering PhD students Amir Tajik and Saeed Sohrabi and Professor Yousef Darestani against a black-and-gray background with Michigan Tech gold accents.
ALT Portrait of Audra Morse wearing a black blazer over an orange top and a gold chain necklace. She has short gray hair and is smiling slightly at the camera, with a softly blurred office background.
ALT Bright, newly renovated Construction Management and Senior Design student space in Dillman Hall featuring high-top worktables, flexible seating, lounge furniture, a TV, movable collaboration boards, large windows, and black, gray, and Michigan Tech gold hexagonal wall accents.
ALT Construction Management students, faculty, and members of the Husky Construction & Design Association gather for a group photo during the 2026 Construction Management Student Awards Night at Michigan Technological University. A presentation screen in the background reads "2026 CMG Student Awards Night."
