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Tanya Klain

Tanya Klain

'90

The 2012 Outstanding Service Award posthumously honored Tanya Wareham Klain, who died on December 7, 2008. Tanya earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1990 and was a vibrant presence on campus. She was active in her sorority, Alpha Gamma Delta, Undergraduate Student Government, residence hall councils, the Alpine Ski Club, and the Michigan Tech Student Foundation. Besides earning a degree, she made . . .

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Clayton Webber

Clayton Webber

'99

Clayton Webber earned a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) from Michigan Tech in 1999. Clayton is CEO/president at Components Express, LLC in Woodridge, Illinois. Clayton states that the experience he gained while studying MET at Michigan Tech has been invaluable. It provided him with a comprehensive understanding of a wide variety of engineering disciplines, which has been crucial in enabling . . .

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Michelle Boven

Michelle Boven

'99

Michigan Tech teaches how to "survive and thrive." The weather and the distance from home really taught Michelle how to handle anything that came her way and the importance of building a network of people she could trust. These lessons learned at Michigan Tech have helped pave her career, where she is currently the Global Business Director for Performance Intermediates, a business unit of Industrial Solutions at Dow. . . .

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John Calder

John Calder '67, '76

John is the retired owner/CEO of Dorsey-Alexander Inc., Cincinnati Controls Inc., and four other motion control, sensor, and machine guarding safety control companies. He started his career as a design engineer for Dynapar Corp, designing digital industrial counters and kinematics control systems.  He and his family moved to Loveland Ohio in 1976 to work with Dorsey-Alexander Inc. as a Sales Engineer and had a hand shake . . .

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“He had a finite elements program. I was helping him debug his program, and I didn't really know what I was doing. I kept telling him that. But he would teach me.”Marty Lagina '77 on Bill Predebon, past chair of the ME-EM department