Alumni Resources

Inducted posthumously, William J. Gregg, Jr. was a good friend to many of us in the department. He was a long-time faculty member in this department, and died tragically in an accident at the Quincy Mine on the 6th of December 2008. All four of Bill’s degrees were received from the State University of New York at Albany, at a time when that department was one of the premier geoscience departments in the country. His . . .

Richard Witte received a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in 1950.  He later received his Juris Doctorate from the Indiana University School of Law in 1956.  He was admitted to practice by the bars of Indiana, Ohio, Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He was employed as a patent attorney with the . . .

Xintan Chang attended Xi'an Mining Institute (XMI), earning his BS degree in Mining Engineering in 1969. Xintan joined Michigan Tech in 1981 as a visiting scholar in the Mining Department, and changed his status to graduate student afterwards. He earned his MSc degree in Mining Engineering from the Mining Department in 1983, and his PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics in . . .