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Helena Seiver

Helena Seiver

'94

Helena Seiver (Kaplan) graduated from Michigan Tech with her Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics in 1994. She later went on to the University of Houston to receive her MBA and Master’s in Industrial Engineering, both in 2000. From being an active student during her time at Michigan Tech to serving in the National Guard and focusing on "building a better future one engineer at a time" through . . .

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Daniel Rivard

Daniel Rivard

'59

1936–2022 One of the most recognizable mottos in the world was coined not by a copywriter but by an engineer. Ford Motor Company's "Quality Is Job One" was a slogan and a corporate touchstone for seventeen years, practically forever in the short-attention-span world of marketing. It originated with one man's obsession with making everything better. "Dan Rivard was the face of Total Quality Improvement at Ford Motor . . .

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Lee Ann Keller

Lee Ann Keller

'87

Lee earned a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1987 and has since taken classes towards her MBA at Central Michigan University. After graduating from Michigan Tech, Lee began her career working for Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan as a Technical Service amp; Development Engineer in Dow Plastics. She later moved into Environmental, Health amp; Safety managing Dow's health promotion and . . .

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Merrily Madero

Merrily Madero '85

Colonel Merrily Dente Madero graduated from Michigan Tech in 1985 with her BS in Mechanical Engineering. Following her Tech graduation, she went on to earn four additional degrees, including a master’s in personnel management from Troy State Alabama (1989), a"master’s in military science from Air University (1996), a master’s in national resource strategy from National Defense University (2003), and a bachelor’s in theology . . .

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“He had a finite elements program. I was helping him debug his program, and I didn't really know what I was doing. I kept telling him that. But he would teach me.”Marty Lagina '77 on Bill Predebon, past chair of the ME-EM department