Alumni

Retired Michigan Technological University Materials Science and Engineering BS EMY 1951, MS Metallurgical Engineering 1954, PhD MSE 1960 1951 BS graduate of Michigan Tech with degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. Went on to earn MS in Metallurgical Engineering from Columbia University in 1954, and PhD in Materials Science & Engineering from Northwestern University in 1960. Appointed Assistant Professor . . .

Karen Swager graduated in 1992 from Michigan Tech with a bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.  She went on to earn a master’s degree in 1994. She started her career in 1994 as a Plant Metallurgist and Shift Supervisor in the fertilizer division of Cargill Corporation.  Over the next ten years she held several supervisory and managerial positions at Cargill.  In . . .

As the YouTube video begins, what appears to be a roller coaster approaches in slow motion: a green tube running on light rail tracks encased in bright yellow structure. As the object moves closer, it becomes a modernistic rock train with no driver and unloads into a container, turning upside down in the process. Then, it rights itself, ready to receive another load. According to its creator, Mike Dibble, this remote-controlled, . . .