Alumni Resources

Mr. Somes joined Columbia Southern Chemical Company in Barberton, Ohio in 1957, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, after earning a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Tech. He progressed from Process Engineer through the ranks to General Foreman. In 1965 he left PPG and joined Dundee Cement Company as Production Manager of a green field Cement plant under construction in Clarksville, . . .

Dr. Thomas J. Rentenbach, a 1932 civil engineering graduate of Michigan Tech, was Chairman of the Board of Rentenbach Engineering Company. After graduation, Thomas entered the Army Corps of Engineers. He worked with the Corps until 1946, in the United States and on the Panama Canal. In 1946, he founded Rentenbach Engineering Company and served as General Manager until 1956, as President from 1956 to 1971, as Chairman . . .

Katerina E. Aifantis enrolled at Michigan Tech in 1999 at age 16 and received her Bachelor of Science in Engineering in 2002 at age 19. With a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation, she earned her Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and her Doctorate in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Groningen at the age of 21, becoming the youngest person . . .