Alumni Resources

Dan Farrell completed his baccalaureate degree in geology at Michigan Tech in 1960. As a student, he played hockey for the Huskies. After graduation, he went to graduate school from 1960-62. After spending three years as a high school teacher, Dan began working for the Canadian International Development Agency and taught in Zimbabwe and Ghana for three years.  In 1968, John McInnes asked Dan to return to Houghton, serving . . .

Upon receiving his Baccalaureate degree in Electrical Engineering at Michigan Tech in 1957, Jon took a position as an instructor of electrical engineering until completing his Masters Degree in 1960. He was then promoted to Assistant Professor, and taught for two more years before joining Raytheon Mfg. Co. as a computer design engineer. He enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1964, completing his Ph.D. with a . . .

It’s a Michigan Technological University electrical engineer’s dream: Connect the two Michigan peninsulas’ power grids using the latest technology in a massive project, the first of its kind. And Tech alumni are playing huge roles in it all. A high-voltage, direct current (HVDC) device is being installed near St. Ignace in the Upper Peninsula to control increased power transfers in the original but . . .