Norsk Hydro, NTNU, and MTU participants at the Executive Coordination Meeting. From right to left, Mroz, Plichta, Weykamp, Sandvold, White (standing), Larsen, Hauge, Brusethaug, Støren, and Predebon.

In November of 1998, representatives of Norsk Hydro a.s.a, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Michigan Tech signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a program to further technological, educational and scientific cooperation in areas of mutual interest. Each year, representatives of the three participating institutions meet at an Executive Coordination Meeting to review activity under the MOU, and plan for the coming year. This year, the Executive Coordination Meeting was hosted by MTU President Glenn Mroz on June 28th. NTNU Rector Eivind Hauge and Hydro Aluminium Vice President Erik Sandvold joined President Mroz as lead representatives from their respective institutions. Other participants in the meeting were:

-Stig Brusethaug, Head of R&D at Hydro Aluminium, Sunndalsøra
-William Endres, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, MTU
-Per Kristian Larsen, Professor of Construction Technology, NTNU
-Adam Loukus, Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, MTU
-Shu-Zu Lu, Research Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MTU
-Mark Plichta, Chair of Materials Science and Engineering, MTU
-William Predebon, Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, MTU
-Sigurd Støren, Professor of Materials Technology and Machine Design, NTNU
-Ghatu Subhash, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, MTU
-Helen Weykamp, Sr. Extrusion Metallurgist, Hydro Aluminium Technology Center, Holland, MI
-Calvin White, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MTU

NTNU and Norsk Hydro visitors toured research laboratories in Materials Science and Engineering. Here (left to right), Calvin White shows Sigurd Støren, Per Kristian Larsen, Stig Brusethaug, and Eivind Hauge the department's scanning Auger electron spectroscopy facilities.	From right to left, Robert Greenlund (Research Scientist in the MSE Department's Institute for Material Processing) shows Sigurd Støren and Stig Brusethaug products produced from aluminum slag (or salt cake), such as aluminum concentrate, a clean salt concentrate, and a residual product used to make light weight concrete.

Calvin White (left) and Erik Sandvold (right) at the wrap-up of the Executive Coordination Meeting.

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