Alumni

Divyang (Dave) Suresh Pandit was born in Visnagar, Gujarat, India. He earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Gujarat University and was employed in Mumbai before a childhood friend who was already enrolled at Michigan Tech contacted him about an opportunity to get his master’s degree. "I had never heard of Michigan Tech or seen a flake of snow," he said. Pandit’s sister was a doctor in Detroit, . . .

John Eastman graduated from Michigan Tech in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He went on to earn an MBA from Ohio State University in 1980. After graduation, John went to work for General Motors Corp in the Buick Automobile Engineering Section where he was assigned to the Experimental Noise and Vibration Engineering Section. While at Buick he introduced the new dynamic rubber testing . . .

When Reagan May was nine years old, she went to a bowling alley with her family in her native DePere Wis. What happened next changed the course of her life, and it had nothing to do with strikes and spares. "Someone was there with a go-cart," the fourth-year mechanical engineering student at Michigan Technological University says. "I sat in, and I knew right away that's what I wanted to do." Like a scene from a . . .

Raymond M. Trewhella (BSME ’56) began his career with Cliff Naturals (Cleveland Cliffs) in 1956 where he was responsible for mechanical and electrical maintenance for forty skilled associates and the startup of the first pelletizing iron ore plant in Michigan. He left in 1960 to assume the position of senior engineer with General Electric Company in Irmo, South Carolina. While at GE, he received the General . . .