SOUTHFIELD –

Staff of The Engineering Society of Detroit spent the week of June 8 visiting

Michigan Technological University in Houghton and Ferris State University in

Big Rapids.

The visits

advanced creation of an ESD student chapter at both schools. The chapters will

offer engineering students of all disciplines a chance to meet and network with

students, professors and professionals across the broad field of engineering

and science. Students will have the chance to learn leadership, communication

and organizational skills that will help them throughout their careers.

An 11-hour

road trip to Houghton June 9 brought ESD Executive Director Robert Magee,

Director of Membership Heather Lilley and Director of Communications and Public

Relations Matt Roush to Michigan Tech’s beautiful campus in the western Upper

Peninsula. The group spent June 10 in day-long meetings with Michigan Tech

leadership, including President Glenn Mroz and Wayne D. Pennington, Dean of the

College of Engineering and tours ofMichigan Tech’s many engineering

laboratories.

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