LTU wins international self-drive autonomous competition award
SOUTHFIELD—The Lawrence Technological University rACTor Self-Drive team from the LTU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS), won the Lescoe Cup Self Drive Grand Award in the 32nd annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC), hosted May 30-June 2 on the campus of Oakland University. The Self-Drive team pushed boundaries with its new robot, “Schoolbus,” which […]
LTU team takes home national awards in architectural engineering competition
SOUTHFIELD—Students in Lawrence Technological University’s five-year combined Bachelor and Master of Science in Architectural Engineering program took home several top national awards in a student design competition sponsored by the Architectural Engineering Institute. The team won first place in construction management, as well as first places in design challenge awards for performance optimization of the […]
LTU student wins African Heritage Scholarship from electronics firm
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland—A Lawrence Technological University biomedical engineering major is among 10 students honored with African Heritage Scholarships by TE Connectivity, the Swiss manufacturer of connectors and sensors. TE officials say the $3.5 million program, now in its third year, is an investment in the company’s efforts to further diversify its workforce and bring new opportunities in the technology industry to […]
LTU team wins second place in cybersecurity competition
SOUTHFIELD—A team from Lawrence Technological University took second place and a $2,500 prize in a cybersecurity competition sponsored by the Detroit chapter of ISACA, formerly known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, an information security professional association. Taking second place from among more than 20 teams were the Blue Devil Byte Brawlers, a […]
LTU a finalist in international architectural engineering competition
SOUTHFIELD—Lawrence Technological University’s team has been selected as one of five finalists in the Architectural Engineering Institute’s 2024 International Student Design Competition. The final competition will be held in San Jose, Calif. April 8-10. In the competition, students are asked to design a building for a specific purpose, in a specific location, and of a […]
LTU-sponsored FIRST Robotics teams get first look at 2024 game, ‘Crescendo’
SOUTHFIELD—A complicated, musically themed contest in which robots must move plastic rings called “notes” around a basketball-court-sized game field, with bonus points for depositing them in receptacles called “amplifiers” and guiding their robots to star on a central “stage,” is the FIRST Robotics 2024 competition game. That’s what 300 high school students, parents, coaches and […]
Electrical, computer engineering senior projects show off skills learned at Lawrence Tech
SOUTHFIELD—Imagine a white cane for a blind person that detects objects in the user’s path, alerting them with a buzzer, and which lights up when it’s dark to make the blind person more visible to others. Or how about a robotic snowplow that automatically detects the dimensions of a parking lot and avoids obstacles? Or […]
LTU Grand Prix of student racing takes to the track Sept. 9
SOUTHFIELD—Lawrence Technological University’s Blue Devil Motorsports teams will once again hold their annual fall semester Grand Prix of time trials for student-designed Formula-style race cars. Established in 2009, LTU’s 14th Grand Prix will be held Saturday, Sept. 9 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the LTU parking lots along Northwestern Highway in Southfield (Parking Lot […]
LTU student wins Student Veterans of America scholarship
SOUTHFIELD—A Lawrence Technological University student is one of eight national recipients of a $10,000 Google-Student Veterans of America scholarship. The LTU recipient, Travis Bowman of Belleville, is a double major in computer science in LTU’s College of Arts and Sciences and robotics engineering in its College of Engineering. He is currently serving in the Air […]
Denied high school ceremony, Dearborn student gets scholarship to LTU
SOUTHFIELD—A few weeks ago, Hatem Gelan was one frustrated recent high school graduate. Today, though, he uses words like “fortunate” and “grateful” to describe his current mood. A full tuition scholarship to Lawrence Technological University will do that to a person. At the end of his high school studies, Hatem was late for a mandatory […]
