Alumni Resources

Bernie Alkire completed his baccalaureate degree in civil engineering at Michigan Tech in 1961. After graduation, he served for two years in the US Army as a Lieutenant and then five years with the Michigan Department of State Highways as a Highway and Bridge Design Engineer before going on to earn an MS and PhD in civil engineering at Michigan State. He returned to Michigan Tech in 1971 as an Instructor and was promoted . . .

Thomas A. Coleman completed his baccalaureate degree in civil engineering in 1957 at Michigan Tech and later earned a master’s degree at Michigan State in 1973. After graduation, he joined the Michigan State Highway Department, now the Michigan Department of Transportation. His MDOT career spanned 40 years in variable positions starting as a trainee and retiring as Deputy Director for Operations in 1997. In his early . . .

Fred Sherriff earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1963. After graduation he began a 33 year career in the food business as a Project Engineer with General Foods Corporation at Post Cereals in Battle Creek. He has held various positions of leadership in Plant, Division, and Corporate Engineering with what today is known as Kraft Foods, a subsidiary of the Philip Morris Companies. Sherriff held . . .