This package provides the beamer theme Houghton and the beamer color theme husky which mimic the powerpoint theme provided by University Marketing and Communications (UMC) at Michigan Technological University. This theme comes in two flavors: the first is the standard format according to the UMC’s powerpoint theme (left), and the second is a modification which changes the footline to be a bold MTU gold color. (right).

Standard	Gold
(pdf)	(pdf)

The two theme variants work well in both 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. Both are developed with the idiomatic beamer style, so usage should mimic any other standard style.

Simple Example

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Houghton}

\newcommand*{\emailstack}[2]
{\shortstack{\textbf{#1}\strut\\\small\url{#2}\strut}}

\title{Michigan Tech Styled Beamer Themes}
\author[Hiebel and Hiebel]{
	\emailstack{Jason Hiebel}{jshiebel@mtu.edu}
	\and
	\emailstack{Jason Hiebel}{jshiebel@mtu.edu}}
\institute[Michigan Tech]{
	Department of Computer Science\\
	Michigan Technological University}
\date[Sept. 2018]{
	Sample Document Preparation\\
	September 2018}
\logo{\includegraphics{
	MichiganTech_Horizontal_TwoColor.png}}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
% ...
\end{document}

This example replicates the title cards illustrated above. The golden footline replaces the ruled footline if the gold option is specified in the usetheme command (\usetheme[gold]{Houghton}).

Each of the standard title page elements are specified. The author specification uses the standard \and command for specifying multiple authors. To specify other author information, such as email, we can use the shortstack command (as illustrated by the \emailstack definition. The footline contains the short-form for both the author and date.

Logos must be obtained from the UMC’s resources page. The full color logo should be used with the standard layout, and the black logo should be used with the gold layout. The image format you use will depend on the latex compiler: pdflatex uses png files, latex uses eps files, etc. Other logos can also be provided.

If you specify a logo, it will be rendered as-is. If the logo is rendering too large, you can use the adjustbox package to change the size and alignment of the logo at document compilation. This will likely be less effort than changing the image file directly. For example, the husky logo from UMC, and likewise the footline, will take up approximately half the vertical space of the slide. The following definition will rescale the image to a more reasonable size (as evidenced by the standard/gold example pdf’s).

\usepackage{adjustbox}
\logo{\adjustbox{valign=c}{\resizebox*{!}{4ex}{
	\includegraphics{HuskyIcon_OneColor_Black.png}}}}