Dr. Pasi Lautala and eight students from Michigan Tech attended the Joint Rail Conference in Columbia, South Carolina April 12-15. The four graduate students (Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Priscilla Addison, Steven Landry, and Sumanth Kalluri) presented their technical papers  while undergraduate students presented their senior design/enterprise projects. All eight students received scholarships from ASME to attend, and Sumanth Kalluri brought home the 2016 Best Student Technical Publication award for his paper, “Toward Integrated Life Cycle assessment and Life Cycle Cost Analysis for Road and Multimodal Transportation Alternatives – A Case Study of the Highland Copper Project.”