Alumni

Yucong Wang was attracted to Michigan Tech's excellent reputation in metallurgical and materials engineering when he was searching for the ideal university to pursue his Ph.D. degree after he completed his B.S. and M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University (China). But it was the memorable experiences he had as a student that made it special, such as when Professor Angus Hellawell, who . . .

Gholamreza (Reza) J. Abbaschian (BS U Tehran, 1965, MS MTU MY 1968, PhD U Cal-Berkeley 1972). Dr. Abbaschian is currently the dean of UC Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering, Riverside, CA. Prior to his present position, he was the Vladimir A. Grodsky Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, where he served as the department chair from 1986 to 2005. He held visiting faculty positions . . .

Jennifer Trice earned two degrees from Michigan Tech—a bachelor's in 1987 and master's in 1989, both in metallurgical engineering. She was hired at 3M in 1989 and spent her entire 30+ year career there before retiring in 2020. Trice's first role at 3M was as an Advanced Design Engineer providing metallurgical support as part of the Corporate Engineering group responsible for designing proprietary capital equipment . . .