Alumni

Following completion of his doctorate at MTU, Dr. Truckner joined Babcock and Wilcox as a research and development metallurgist. He moved to Alcoa in 1973 as a Research Engineer in the Physical Metallurgy Division. He became Senior Technical Supervisor in the Alloy Technology Division in 1985, Division Manager of Alcoa Laboratories in 1989, and eventually Vice President of Technical Development for the Labs. He served . . .

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 for . . .

Dave Gaylord founded Progressive Heat Treating in 1976 and served as its President and Treasurer until his retirement in 1999. Progressive was a metal heat treating business that provides Austemper continuous furnace heat treatment for a range of automotive, furniture and stamping industry customers. Concurrent with his retirement, Progressive was fully acquired by Bodycote International PLC. Prior to Progressive, Mr . . .