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After earning his PhD, he joined Phelps Dodge Mining Company (now Freeport McMoRan) in the newly formed Process Technology Center. In that industrial R&D role, he developed new bio heap and tank leaching technologies.

Former Michigan Tech hockey player John Rockwell, who is a 2006 inductee to the Michigan Tech Sports Hall of Fame, played 69 games and made 2,268 saves in net for the Huskies from 1975 to 1979. The goaltender earned All-Western Collegiate Hockey Association First Team honors in 1978-79 and was the team's most valuable player that season.

Jason is a flight director at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. He is responsible for managing and carrying out human space flights to the International Space Station (ISS). Only seventy-five flight directors have served at NASA in the fifty years of space flight.

A native of Grand Prairie, a town of 55,000 residents in Northwestern Alberta, Canada, Malekoff came to Tech to play hockey; he says that he left a winner in all ways. He graduated in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in business administration, with a concentration in finance. "I've always been interested in business and entrepreneurship," he says.

Besides being a professor at UCSB, Turner is also the Sensors Task co-leader in a collaboration involving UCSB, the California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Army Institute for Collaborative Biotechnology.