Alumni

Ruth joined the Air Force in 1980, an Honor Graduate from basic training, and was stationed at Kl Sawyer Air Force Base as an Avionic Instrument Systems Technician. The Air force selected her to attend Michigan Technological University in 1984. While here, she received the Carl Schonberg Award, given by the faculty at Tech to the student selected as the outstanding electrical engineering undergraduate. In 1986, Ruth graduated . . .

When Robert Sherman heard he'd be working on the Manhattan Project, he thought, "Good. I'll be in New York City."Michigan Tech alumnus Robert Sherman joined the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. He designed and built equipment used during the test of "the gadget" - the plutonium bomb detonated in 1945 over the New Mexico desert.He got his orders while stationed in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, in the US Army Signal Corps . . .

Mr. Bomke joined the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers following graduation and served as a combat engineer in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. After the war, he joined Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company and in 1948 took a position with Southern Services, Inc., rising to Manager of the Electrical Design Department. Elmer accepted the position of Vice President, Electrical Operation at Gulf Power Company in Pensacola . . .

Ellen Bauman graduated from Michigan Tech with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1990. She later returned to Tech and completed her master’s degree in electrical engineering in the spring of 1993. Bauman started her career in 1990 as a field service engineer for Industrial Services Technology in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She developed conveyor control systems and oversaw their installation in various Midwestern . . .