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Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets
Universities are reclaiming their status as incubators of innovation. Thirty percent of the 2010 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award winners are universities.
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Holly M. Hillberg, ‘83 Chemical Engineering
Address to First Year Engineering Students at Michigan Technological University at Rozsa Center; Title: "From Engineering @ Tech to a Thriving Career …And living, loving, laughing along the way";
Hillberg is the former Chief Technology Officer & Vice President, Carestream Health Inc, Rochester NY; See the video on Engineering Michigan Channel on Vimeo |
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Four Generations
A fraction of the Harris clan visited Michigan Tech during Homecoming. Pictured, left to right, are Carole Harris and her husband, Jerry '53, Jessica Mariano '09, Laura Class of 2014, Ben Class of 2011, and Joan, wife of Mike '80. Photo by Adam Johnson '98 |
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Former Tech President Ray Smith Addresses Graduates
Ray Smith, who led Michigan Tech as its president from 1965 to 1979, addressed the graduates and received the University’s highest honor, the Melvin Calvin Medal of Distinction |
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Keynote speaker at the Department of Chemical Engineering 2009-2010 Awards Convocation, April 7, 2010, was Dr. Maureen L. Johnson, Exploration & Production Vice President Operations Technology, Operating Management System, Continuous Improvement and Activity Planning at
BP America Inc. |
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Philemon Lewis, a 1949 graduate of Michigan Tech with a BS in mechanical engineering, spoke to the REAC members on April 7, 2010. He told about his 50 year career in railroad engineering, including continuous rail welding for several major railroads. |
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Hajj E. Flemings, presented "Personal Brand Management" March 25 at Fisher 138; Hajj is a dynamic, energetic speaker that connects with his audience to inspire and challenge them to reach their hidden potential. Hajj a former collegiate basketball player accomplished his lifelong dream of designing footwear with his design of the equator cross-trainer sneaker for Mavada Footwear. He is a Michigan Tech Mechanical Engineering grad. |
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The Heavy Bridge
Three Michigan Tech alumni were on the engineering team that helped build the Portage Lake (don't say "lift") Bridge, which marked its fiftieth anniversary in June. John Michels '51 of Ontonagon was a project engineer and remembers it as "quite a stressful engineering feat, especially erecting the steel." |
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Mining History Comes to Life at Commencement In 1932, a distinguished Michigan mining engineer named Scott Turner received an honorary doctorate in engineering from Michigan Tech, at that time called the Michigan College of Mining and Technology. At Michigan Tech's midyear Commencement on Dec. 12--77 years later--one of the first recipients of the University's PhD in industrial heritage and archeology will wear Turner's historic academic hood to accept his degree.
The full story, "Mining History Comes to Life at Michigan Tech Commencement" is available online. |
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Powwow: Alumna Guides Youth, Celebrates Native Traditions
For the fourteenth year, the Spirit of the Harvest Powwow graced the Michigan Tech campus. One of the lead dancers who circled the Multipurpose Gym was Jessica Koski, a Tech alumna who is now a graduate student at Yale University pursuing a master’s degree in environmental management
Pictures and Video |
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Philanthropic Support for Michigan Tech Continues Strong
Fundraising has become a particular challenge due to economic conditions, but philanthropic support for Michigan Technological University continues to be strong, |
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Local Alumnus Makes Good: GS Engineering Awarded $25-Million Government Contract:
GS Engineering, founded by 1980 MEEM graduate Glen Simula, was awarded a $25-million, five-year contract with the US Special Operations Command. See video Glenn Simula talks about the Smart Zone |
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Dr. Terry Woychowski, a 1978 Mechanical Engineering graduate of Michigan Technological University, is vice president, global vehicle program management, General Motors Corp. He addressed the College of Engineering First Year Student Assembly, Mon., August 31 at the Rozsa Center at Michigan Tech. The title of his talk:
• "Engineering - How Will You Change the World?"
Dr. Woychowski presented a seminar at ME-EM October 2009:
• "Leadership — Changing the World Through Influence" --- -- New Video |
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Alumnus Endows Bhakta Rath Research Award at Michigan Tech - More Details
Bhakta Rath '58 has been honored with the 2009 Padma Bhushan from the Indian government, its third-highest civilian award. Established in 1954 by the president of India, it recognizes distinguished service of a high order to the nation in any field. MORE |
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Keynote Speaker: Martha N. Sullivan at the Department of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics Senior Recognition Banquet
Martha N. Sullivan Remarks at ME-EM Senior Banquet from Engineering Michigan on Vimeo.
Martha Sullivan Academy profile |
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Jim Cooper earned a degree in metallurgy in 1939 and parlayed it to worldwide achievement. Jim spent nearly 40 years in the mining industry, much of it in Mexico. Read more of the Jim Cooper story . . . . . |
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Entrepreneurship in Hard Times: Kanwal Rekhi, a Michigan Tech alumnus, advisor and supporter who became a highly successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Rekhi says hard times can actually be the best of times for would-be entrepreneurs, |
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Distinguished Alumnus Award to Frank Pavlis
A poor farm boy, Frank Pavlis was typical of his generation to be the first in his family to attend college. He came to Michigan Tech on a four-year scholarship, hungering for an engineering education. So, inadequate food notwithstanding, and the need to work part-time to offset expenses, he persevered and in 1938 graduated at the top of his class |
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John Soyring IBM vice president for solutions and software,
speaks at Rozsa Center "Your Future at Michigan Tech"
He was the Fall 2006 commencement speaker. He is vice president of solutions and software at IBM Corporation.
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Holly Hillberg, Chemical Engineering '83, the chief technology officer and vice president of Carestream Health, Inc. received the 2009 ATHENA Award at the 23rd annual ATHENA Awards
luncheon Jan. 22. |
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Jerry P. Jason ('98 MSE) is one of four new flight directors named by NASA (Michigan Tech News) Four New Flight Directors Selected to Lead NASA's Mission Control SpaceRef news |
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Sarah A. Rajala, EE '74, has been named dean of Mississippi State University's Bagley College of Engineering.
She has been chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State since 2006. Prior to that, Rajala was associate dean for research and graduate programs at North Carolina State University, where she taught and worked in administration for more than two decades. She will serve as the 2008-09 president of the American Society for Engineering Education |
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Kimberly L. Turner (BSME '94) received the Michigan Tech Outstanding Young Alumni Award. She is an associate professor and co-vice chair of the mechanical engineering department at the University of California at Santa Barbara |
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Walt Anderson, Electrical Engineering, recieved the Board of Control Silver Medal
"Michigan Tech and the Manhattan Project" featuring Electrical Engineering professor emeritus Walt Anderson |
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Col. Lawrence B. Farnum '41
Mining Engineering, served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, appeared on C-Span on the Korean War Veterans panel, where Korean War Veterans discussed David Halberstam's "The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War" |
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Harvard's David A. Edwards, Ph.D., honored at commencement
David A. Edwards, Ph.D., was awarded the Melvin Calvin Medal of Distinction, Michigan Tech's highest honor, at the Spring 2007 Commencement.
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Michelle L. Boven (Stevens) (BSME '99) has received the 2006 Distinguished New Engineer Award from the Society of Women Engineers, Detroit Section. See the Dow Automotive Michelle L. Boven News Article |
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Three of the General Motors corporation's chief vehicle engineers graduated
from Michigan Tech. See
the Michigan Tech Magazine story |
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Korey Kiepert is a design engineer with The Gravity Group that specializes in the creation of roller coasters. Roller coaster design engineer Korey Kiepert. |
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Frank
Pavlis (Chem Eng '38) Gives $2 Million to Promote Technological
Leadership at Michigan Tech. Story
from Tech Today |
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Hilary
Dussing, a Michigan Tech Geological Engineering
'79 graduate is the Senior Project Manager in Russia for Shell
Oil Company of The Netherlands. She visited Tech and presented
a seminar and was inducted into the Geological and Mining Engineering
Academy. See
the report and photos
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