Alumni

Following graduation Tom Simonen went on to receive a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. After appointments at Hughes Aircraft, Max Planck Institute in Munich, and Princeton University, he joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 18 years as a physicist and became program leader for magnetic fusion experiments. For the past 12 years he has been Director of the DIII-D National Fusion . . .

Alumna finds her dream and her niche. When she was but a youngster, Kristin Nelson Tolentino, of Ashland, Wisconsin, had a dream of working at Disneyland. So where does this 2001 alumna, age thirty, work these days? At Disneyland, of course. "I’m sort of amazed by it," she says. She sums up the job as showing people a good time: "It’s exciting every day to create magic for the guests. The direct result . . .

Smriti graduated with a Master’s in Electrical Engineering, with emphases in Electronics and Computer Engineering in 1992. She went on to earn her MBA at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan in 1998. She is currently a Dealer Systems Portfolio Manager in the Marketing Sales and Service at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. She has been with Ford her entire career spanning over 20 years. . . .

Birgit earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech, graduating summa cum laude in 1991. She then earned a MSEE degree from MIT, and later an MBA from the University of Michigan. Birgit is the Global Business Manager for Powertrain Installations at Ford Motor Company, based in Dearborn, Michigan. Her 20-year career at Ford has included research on sensors for electrical power assist . . .