Alumni

Paul K. Goethe received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Tech in 1949. He continued his education through Westinghouse’s advanced degree programs conducted by the University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State University.""He joined the Westinghouse Specialty Transformer Department, serving as a design engineer, development engineer, supervising engineer and engineering manager. While at . . .

Particle accelerators are massive structures, used to find the tiniest details of our universe. Scientists around the world flock to these facilities to try out theories, hunt for particles and seek to understand a fully unified theory of physics. "The Tevatron was a proton-antiproton collider and the highest energy accelerator in the world until the LHC(Large Hadron Collider) at CERN (the European organization for . . .

Charlene graduated from Michigan Tech in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. She immediately went to work for 3M Corporation in St. Paul, Minnesota where she has remained throughout her career. Her first position was a project engineer and she then moved on to become a senior product development engineer. Her current position with the company is applications/sales engineer. In 1998, Charlene was . . .

Why did you choose Michigan Tech? I wanted to study electrical engineering. I was able to commute daily from my childhood home in Nisula. I received a scholarship. How well did Michigan Tech prepare you for your career? Very well, since I didn’t need to get a master’s degree for the jobs I had. What was your first job after graduation and how has your career progressed? As an electronics engineer at AC Electronics, an . . .