Alumni

Mr. Nardi joined Hughes Aircraft Company in Torrance, California in 1959 as a member of the technical staff. He held various engineering management positions throughout his career with the company, retiring as Manager of Satellite Ground Equipment Laboratories in 1992. A strong supporter of higher education, Mr. Nardi held advisory board positions at California State University, Long Beach; California State University, . . .

As a successful entrepreneur, Randy Hammelman, a 1997 electrical engineering graduate of Michigan Tech, is a great example for our alumni spotlight. Growing up in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisc., Hammelman was interested in sports and the outdoors. He was accepted at larger schools in Wisconsin and Illinois before choosing to attend Michigan Tech due to its small size and the outdoor environment surrounding the Tech area. . . .

Chang K. Park was born and raised in Korea. He came to the United States as a teenager for higher education. Park graduated from The Brooklyn Academy and received the New York State Regent Award in math. He graduated from Michigan Tech with a dual degree in Electrical Engineering and Engineering Administration in 1973. Following college, Park joined an engineering consulting firm in Philadelphia that specialized in . . .

Alumni spotlight | A new way to harvest solar energy "A lot of people think of solar panels as being all there is to solar" says Ron Van Dell, President and CEO of Austin-based SolarBridge Technologies. "They tend to think if panels were cheaper, then solar would be affordable. But, with the price of solar panels falling fast, what used to be the dominant cost is now less than half the total" Of the rest, the most important . . .