They hope the process will bring down the cost for ceramic parts used in industrial applications. John Opie earned a BS in metallurgical engineering from Tech and is vice chairman and executive officer of General Electric. The Institute for Materials Processing plans to have its aluminum cake and eat it, too. Researchers are developing a technology to divert salt cake into feed stock materials for manufacturing concrete products. The MTU women's basketball team has earned a berth in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Division II tournament.
Tech is seeded second in the region and earned a first-round bye.
Tech is 27-2 and won the Great Lakes conference tournament championship over the weekend. MTU volleyball coach Alan Segal has resigned to move to Armstrong Atlantic State in Savannah, Georgia. Segal coached the Huskies for two years. Only about 300 gallons of the 8,800 aboard were spilled. You give us procrastinators a bad name.