Alumni

Bhakta Rath '58 has used his Michigan Tech education to reach great heights, achieve honors at the highest levels, and sponsor important initiatives. He was awarded the 2009 Padma Bhushan from the Indian government, its second highest civilian award. Established in 1954 by the president of India, it recognizes distinguished service of a high order to the nation in any field. For Michigan Tech, he and his wife, Sushama . . .

Simple Design Equals Smaller Footprint: Rail-Veyor System for Mining (and More?) As the YouTube video begins, what appears to be a roller coaster approaches in slow motion: a green tube running on light rail tracks encased in bright yellow structure. As the object moves closer, it becomes a modernistic rock train with no driver and unloads into a container, turning upside down in the process. Then, it rights itself . . .

Greg Sesselmann had an epiphany but was afraid to tell anyone. "I was the black sheep of the family," he explains. "If somebody had spilled the milk, they’d all close their eyes and say, odds are, it was me." His family of six Tech graduates (all with better GPAs) never heard this particular hare-brained idea, but when a co-worker did, she refused to leave him alone until he worked on it. "She pressured me to push that . . .