Alumni

Mr. Pruneski joined Chrysler Engineering following graduation. He held executive positions at Ford Motor Company and Eaton Corporation rising to General Manager of Eaton Corporation Brake Division. In 1982 Jim moved to Abex Corporation and was promoted in 1984 to head all of Abex Friction Operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe. In 1989 he became head of the Steel Wheels Business of Kelsey-Hayes . . .

Christopher Middlebrook aims to speed the flow of information throughout printed circuit boards and processing chips. "We need to couple light between devices with the lowest amount of loss possible," says the ECE associate professor, whose research focuses on optics and photonics. To do that, he is developing new waveguides using Siloxane. The material was developed by Dow Corning, which is funding Middlebrook's research. . . .

After receiving his electrical engineering degree in 1950, Donald Green stayed on at Michigan Tech, earning a degree in engineering administration and receiving an Air Force commission through the AFROTC program in 1951. Following service in the Korean War as a radar officer in Japan, he was employed by Ferson Optics, rising to the position of president in 1962. In 1968, Ferson Optics was sold to Bausch & Lomb. . . .

Mark earned the degree Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1980, and the degree Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1991. Early in his career Mark was Director of the Communication and Signals Technology Laboratory at SRI International, where he contributed to satellite communications, software defined radio, terrestrial cellular communications, digital . . .