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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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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Three faculty members in the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics are recipients of new endowed associate professorships at Michigan Technological University. ME-EM alumni John Calder and Ron Starr and their wives, Joan Calder and Elaine Starr, endowed the professorships.
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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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The 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.
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 about Bhakta Rath
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Hajj E. Flemings presented “Personal Brand Management” on March 25 in 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.
by Marcia Goodrich, senior writer
Dave House ’65 opened Thursday’s Entrepreneurship and Technology Symposium with a parable drawn from real life.
About 50 years after Leland Stanford built a small, coeducational college in the Valley of Heart’s Delight, there were a couple of young graduates who wanted to stay in the community, but unfortunately, all the good jobs were elsewhere. Their professor encouraged them to start their own company nearby and capitalize on the resources of the school. So William Hewlett and David Packard started a little electronics business in their garage, beginning the transformation of the agrarian Valley of Heart’s Delight into Silicon Valley, with Stanford University at its core.
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.
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