Day: March 17, 2025

Business Dean Emeritus Remembered

Two Michigan Tech Deans in suits shake hands and smile in front of the Michigan Tech Husky statue with campus buildings in the background in 2015.
Former School of Business and Economics Dean Robert Klippel, right, with current Dean of the College of Business, Dean Johnson, as the leadership torch is passed in 2016 and Klippel becomes Dean Emeritus.

The Michigan Tech College of Business joins friends and family in celebrating the life of two-time Michigan Tech School of Business and Economics (SBE) Dean Robert “Gene” Klippel, of Lakewood Ranch, Florida. Klippel died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2025, at age 86.