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Josh Rzeppa

Josh Rzeppa

'18, '19

Josh Rzeppa, a native of Sterling Heights, Michigan, turned Husky, is currently working in Detroit as an associate consultant for INVENSITY Inc. Josh earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering in 2018 before completing the Tech MBA® in 2019 while running cross-country and track for the Huskies. He says the Tech MBA® has advanced his career more than he ever thought possible. He leans on the MBA teachings every day in his . . .

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Steven Burdgick

Steven Burdgick

'90

by Marcia Goodrich Two thousand years before the Industrial Revolution, the Greek mathematician Hero came up with the idea for the steam turbine. English engineer Sir Charles Parsons built the first one in 1884, to generate electricity. And for the last twenty years, Steven Burdgick has fiddled, tweaked, and tinkered with steam turbines and their close cousins, gas turbines, ultimately revolutionizing aspects of a stogy . . .

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Alicia Spaulding

Alicia Spaulding

'08, '10

Alicia Spaulding graduated from Michigan Tech with a Bachelor's Degree in MechanicalEngineering Technology in 2008. She also earned a Bachelor's Degree in BiomedicalEngineering in 2010. Alicia is currently employed with Emerson in Novi, Michigan, as a new product development commodity manager. Alicia states: "The skills I gained in MET, combined with my biomedical engineering background,have truly shaped my career. I . . .

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Fred Mitchell

Fred Mitchell '61

Fred Mitchell earned a bachelor of science degree from Michigan Tech in Mechanical Engineering in 1961. During his 31 - year career with Boeing, Fred Mitchell has held numerous positions within the company. He has worked in the Renton Division Program Management Office, the Air Freight Systems Group, New Product Development, Payloads Engineering, and Project Engineering and Tooling. He was manager of payloads engineering . . .

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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