Alumni

Robert Hirvela joined the HF Communications Division of Collins Radio Company in 1959 as a project engineer. In 1973, he led the Rockwell business unit that invented and developed the first Digital Automatic Call Distributor, the Rockwell Galaxy ACD, and launched what is known today as the Call Center Industry. In 1978, he transferred to the Air Transport Division of Rockwell as Director of Product Management with . . .

Cindy Anderson graduated from Michigan Tech in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. She later received a MS in Engineering Management in 1988 from Santa Clara University. In 1992, she joined Cornerstone Imaging in San Jose, Calif., and became the vice president of quality and information systems, steering the company through its growth from $14 million to $100 million in revenues and from a small . . .

James Klungness created Klungness Electronic Supply in 1954. In 1955 he entered another partnership to form Northern Electronics to develop a cable television system in Iron Mountain and Kingsford. This enterprise eventually expanded into six states serving almost 200,000 homes. He then founded American Microwave amp; Communications in 1960 to deliver broadcast signals to remote area cable systems nationwide. Jim . . .

Margo Woller-Carter is the Senior Manager of Human Factors Engineering and Technical Documentation of Siements Healthineers Ultrasound. Woller-Carter was born and raised in Merrill, WI, and went on to attend Michigan Technological University, where she gained an A.A.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology and a B.S. in Psychology. She went on to earn a Master's Degree in Cognitive/Human Factors Psychology from Kansas . . .