The Tour Think more. Time out Think more. Michigan Tech offers a great education in the natural beauty of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. We have greatly expanded our research and graduate programs and will always emphasize excellence in undergraduate education in engineering, the sciences, business, technology, communication, and forestry. MTU has one of the nation's largest enrollments in several degree programs, including environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, metallurgical and materials engineering, and scientific and technical communication.
Students have access to lasers, robots, electron microscopes, and the latest computers.
Chemical engineering students operate the nation's only university-run Process Simulation and Control Center. Mining engineering students have their own working experimental mine, and electrical engineering students are designing their own robot. Metallurgy students have access to a variety of scanning electron microscopes to analyze materials in the beautiful new Minerals and Materials Engineering Building. America's interest in the environment has helped shape the growing civil and environmental engineering department. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has named MTU the lead university in the Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies.