Alumni Resources

Switching from mechanical engineering to business worked out very well for Jim Trethewey. The Ironwood native was inspired to switch by legendary accounting professor Sam Tidwell and never looked back. Beginning his career with Copper Range, a local mining concern, he soon joined Cleveland-Cliffs (now Cliffs Resources) and advanced through management positions over the years. From Ishpeming to Ontario to Cleveland, . . .

Dr. Bill Johnson is currently a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia. He is a renowned scholar in the general area of diffusional phase transformation, especially in the influence of compositional and epitaxial strains on the thermodynamic description of crystals, the evolution of microstructure in thin films and bulk alloys, and the effect of stress on the kinetics . . .

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 . . .