Alumni

On January 1, 2012, Charles "Chuck" Cloninger became president of Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (WPS). He began his engineering career with WPS thirty years ago, as an assistant engineer in Green Bay. At WPS, he was promoted to division engineer, Green Bay (1982); division engineer, Two Rivers (1984); electric distribution engineering projects engineer (1988); operations engineer—distribution (1989); customer . . .

Jeffery (Jeff) Feldt received the degree Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1984. He received an MBA from Grand Valley State University in 1996 and is a registered professional engineering in Wisconsin and Michigan. Mr. Feldt has spent the last 35 years working in the electric utility industry. During college, he participated in the Cooperative Education Program with Bechtel Power Corporation . . .

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 . . .

After graduation Donald Moore joined McGraw Edison’s Power Systems Division as an Apparatus Engineer which included power system simulation tool development. In 1978, Don founded PLM Technologies a power system engineering business. By 1984, PLM grew into a full service power engineering design and construction firm operating in five states. In 1991 PLM sold its construction and engineering divisions. In 1992 . . .