Alumni Resources

Norm is a 1961 graduate of the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science. He began his 34-year career with the Michigan Department of Agriculture, Pesticide and Plant Pest Management Division, in 1963 as an inspector working with a cereal leaf beetle and nursery inspection program. From 1964 to 1972 Norm was the district inspector in Escanaba responsible for all division, and many departmental activities . . .

Mr. Philip Belisle, Retired - President, Applied Dynamics and Executive Vice President of Speedrack Products Group Ltd., is originally from Lake Linden. He earned his baccalaureate degree in civil engineering in 1960. After serving in the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, as a First Lieutenant for three years he returned to Michigan Tech and completed a master's degree in civil engineering in 1964. Belisle then went on . . .

Paul W. Fernstrum, a mechanical engineering alumnus, is chairman and past president of Menominee-based RW Fernstrum amp; Co., a third-generation family-owned company that invented—and continues to manufacture and market—the Gridcooler keel cooler, a marine engine heat exchanger, which was developed during World War II for landing craft. Paul began his career at RW Fernstrum as a draftsman. In 1975 he . . .