Alumni

Franklin Weigold was born in St. Charles, Michigan. He earned the degree Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1960, and went on to earn an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He began his career with Westinghouse Electric in Youngwood, Pennsylvania as an application and marketing engineer for power semiconductors. As one of the pioneers in silicon semiconductors, he worked on many state . . .

Christie graduated from Michigan Tech in 1993 with a bachelor of science degree in Electrical Engineering. She also received Modern Language Certification in French at this time. After graduation, she accepted a position with Ford Motor Company in Dearborn as a Product Engineer. During her career with Ford she spent six months in Dunton, England as a Calibration Engineer-Foreign Service Specialist with the Ford-Small . . .

In high school in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Mark never realized that he’d eventually develop the spinal cord stimulator to ease chronic neural pain for his mother, but a Michigan Tech education can take you places you’ve never even dreamed about. "Growing up in Wisconsin, I was looking for someplace different than UW Madison or Marquette, and Michigan Tech was a great educational value and is a smaller school. It prepared . . .

Trygve Ivesdal joined Raytheon Company in Wayland, Massachusetts, as an electronic design engineer. With the beginning of the microelectronics era, he moved to Raytheon’s Semiconductor Division in Mountain View, California. In 1966, he moved to Melbourne, Florida, and was part of the start-up of what today is known as Harris Semiconductor. In 1969, Trygve and three associates formed Microsystems, Florida’s first privately . . .