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“I chose LSSU expecting a very good engineering education. What I didn’t expect was faculty with real-world engineering experience and abilities, labs with real-world equipment, projects with real-world outcomes, and an entire campus staff with real interest in my success, as a student and yet today. My LSSU engineering education has created or supported every desired career opportunity. LSSU was absolutely the right place for me.”

Dan Goodrich,
Mechanical Engineering 1999,
Vehicle Test & Development,
Electronic Brake Systems Group

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Student Organizations

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ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers

President:
	Josh Bodell jbodell@lssu.edu
Vice-President:
	Steven Morehouse smorehouse@lssu.edu
Faculty Advisor:
	Alexandru Herescu aherescu@lssu.edu Jaskirat Sodhi jsodhi@lssu.edu

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

President:
	Jacob Clark jckark4@lssu.edu
Vice-President:
	Zach Spurr z.spurr@gmail.com
Faculty Advisor:
	Andrew Jones ahjones@lssu.edu

SAE - Society of Automotive Engineers

President:
	Brian Parkham bparkham@lssu.edu
Vice-President:
	Nick Letts nletts@lssu.edu
Faculty Advisor:
	Jon Coullard jcoullard@lssu.edu

SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Currently Inactive

President:
	N/A
Vice-President:
	N/A
Faculty Advisor:
	Jim Devapradad jdevapradad@lssu.edu

SWE - Society of Women Engineers

President:
	Stephanie Peck speck@lssu.edu
Vice-President:
	N/A
Faculty Advisor:
	Collette Coullard ccoullard@lssu.edu Robert Hildebrand rhildebrand@lssu.edu

The Engineering Honor Society

President:
	N/A
Vice-President:
	N/A
Faculty Advisor:
	Eric Becks ebecks@lssu.edu

Engineering House

Co-Leaders:
	Brian Parkham bparkham@lssu.edu

	Jon Spencer jspencer1@lssu.edu
Faculty Advisor:
	Joseph Moening jmoening@lssu.edu Paul Weber pweber@lssu.edu

The Unique Properties of Sand: Its Use as Criminal Trace Evidence

Whittney Laderoute

Sand was collected and analyzed from five beaches in the upper peninsula of Michigan: The Shallows, Brimley State Park, Point Iroquois, Big Pine and Pendill’s Creek. Tests were undertaken in order to determine the reliability of sand as trace evidence in criminal investigations. Size and visual comparisons were made using a compound light microscope and chemical composition was determined by using SEM-EDS analysis. Results showed several size trends and SEM-EDS trends but gave no concrete evidence to suggest that the sand used in this experiment can be used as reliable trace evidence. Further research is necessary to confirm or deny this.

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