The Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) is a research center of
Michigan Technological University
Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech, MTU, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Houghton, Michigan, founded in 1885 as the Michigan Mining School, the first post-secondary institution in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. ...
located in
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The institute specializes in advancing the state of the art in remote sensing and information technology for a variety of applications.
MTRI has its heritage in the branch of the
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) that remained not-for-profit and developed into the
Altarum Institute after ERIM's organization was divided by a corporate takeover in the late 1990s. It became part of Michigan Tech in 2006 and includes research programs related to national security, protecting and evaluating critical infrastructure, bioinformatics, earth sciences, and environmental processes, including transportation.
References
External links
Michigan Tech Research Institute−MTRI website*
ERIM Corporate History
Michigan Technological University
Engineering research institutes
Education in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Science and technology in Michigan
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