Alumni

Richard G. Cottrell earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1973 and his MS in Systems Science from Michigan State University in 1976. Rich retired as CMS’s director of system planning and protection in 2010. During his thirty-seven-year career with CMS/Consumers Energy, Rich was involved in all aspects of the planning, engineering, and design of electric transmission distribution lines and substations . . .

Paul W. Juodawlkis has focused his career on the development of advanced technology for national security as research engineer, group leader, and technical advisor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory. He began his career at the Laboratory in 1988 as a hardware systems engineer on the team that developed the Airborne Seeker Test Bed (ASTB) platform, an airborne multi-sensor instrumentation . . .

Don Autio began his career with Hanna Mining Co. in Iron River as an electrical engineer. After five years, as the mines were closing, Don moved to E. I. DuPont in their construction division as an instrument engineer. After two years in construction, he accepted a job in Midland, Michigan with Dow Corning Corporation. Don spent the next 30 years with Dow Corning in various engineering and management positions. During . . .

Being an engineering student in the 1980s, John learned computer programming in FORTRAN on key punch cards. "One evening, as I was leaving the computer lab in the EE Building, I walked outside on a windy and snowy night." remembered John. "Another person was walking towards me, and they dropped their entire box of punched cards, which blew all over the place. I helped them pick up as many as we could, though we were unable . . .