Alumni

Richard G. Cottrell earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1973 and his MS in Systems Science from Michigan State University in 1976. Rich retired as CMS’s director of system planning and protection in 2010. During his thirty-seven-year career with CMS/Consumers Energy, Rich was involved in all aspects of the planning, engineering, and design of electric transmission distribution lines . . .

1921—1978 John A. La Duke was a Michigan native and a first-generation university student. He graduated from Michigan Tech in 1949 with BS in Electrical Engineering.  A significant portion of his education was paid through the GI Bill following his service in World War II in the China-Burma-India Theater. He was married to Carla V. Weimar in 1946. She accompanied him to Michigan Tech and was an instructor in the . . .

Thomas Karpus, a 1990 electrical engineering graduate of Michigan Tech, is a great example of an alumni worth featuring. He has won Michigan Tech's Outstanding Young Alumni Award (2003), spoken at Commencement and earned a successful living in the electrical engineering field. Growing up in the small town of Bessemer, Mich. in the Upper Peninsula, Karpus was essentially interested in sports and science. He participated . . .

Mr. Anderson began his career in 1944 working on the Manhattan Project as a Process Engineer with Tennessee Eastman Corporation. In 1954 he returned to Michigan Tech rising to the rank of Professor, Assistant head of Electrical Engineering in 1970 and Acting Head in 1972 and 1979-80. In 1984, he was appointed to the position of Director of the School of Technology. He retired from Michigan Tech in 1988 after forty . . .