Alumni Resources

"It all started with Michelob Dark on tap at the Dog House," says John Palmer '87. When the metallurgy grad moved to California in 1988, he couldn't find a good beer, so he started making his own. Thus began the current best-selling home-brewing book on Amazon.com. After succeeding in his own brewing attempts, he began to self publish How to Brew: Everything You Need To Know To Brew Beer Right The First Time. Brewers . . .

Dr. Richard J. Arsenault (BS MTU MY 1957, PhD MY Northwestern 1962). After graduating with a doctorate in Metallurgy from Northwestern University in 1962, Dr. Arsenault joined Oak Ridge National Labs as a research scientist. In 1967, he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He then joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and later the Department of Metallurgy . . .

Dr. Howard Perko completed his BS degree in civil engineering at Michigan Tech in 1993 with distinction. From there he went on to earn MS and PhD degrees from Colorado State University with emphasis in soil mechanics. He received several graduate and post graduate research grants from NASA and worked a short time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. One of few "planetary geotechnical engineers," he assisted the Mars . . .