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Craig Lazzari

Craig Lazzari

'42

Craig Lazzari graduated from Michigan Tech with a BS in Mechanical Engineering with honors, then served in the U.S. Navy in World War II. He began work in 1947 as a project and sales engineer for the Fish Engineering and Construction Corporation. He participated in the engineering and design of the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Project, the Pacific Northwest Pipeline and various projects for Humble Oil Company, Shell . . .

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Dillon Bennetts

Dillon Bennetts

'22, '24

Dillon Bennetts graduated from Michigan Tech with a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology and a Minor in Naval Systems Engineering in 2022. He also earned a Master of Science Degree in Manufacturing Engineering in 2024. Dillon is currently employed with General Dynamics Electric Boat (Strategic Weapons Systems) in Groton, Connecticut, as an Engineer 1 — Systems. Dillon states: "Being a graduate . . .

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Diana Brehob

Diana Brehob

'78

Diana earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1978. She earned her Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1982 and her PhD in 1985, both from the University of California, Berkeley. She conducted research in internal combustion engines as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota and at Ford Motor Company before transitioning to patent law in 2000. She . . .

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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 . . .

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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