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Retired"Michigan Technological University"Materials Science and Engineering"BA 1956, MS 1958, PhD Metallurgy 1962 Graduated with B.A. degree from DePauw University in 1956, M.S. from Indiana University in 1958, and received his PhD in Metallurgy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962. Became a member of the Michigan Tech faculty in 1961, and was named department chair of metallurgical engineering in January 19 . . .

Sam received his B.S. in Geological Engineering from Michigan in Tech in 1951. He then went on to earn an M.S. in Geology from the University of Idaho in 1953 and a Ph.D. in Geology from Ohio State University in 1959. He was also a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship to New Zealand between 1953 and 1954. After completing his Ph.D., Sam began a life-long academic career at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While . . .

Laurie Couture-Dorschner, a 1979 graduate of Michigan Tech with a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, began her career with Bemis Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979 as a materials development engineer, the first female engineer hired by Bemis Company. She held various engineering and manufacturing positions until 1984, when she joined Kimberly-Clark Corporation in Neenah, Wisconsin. Her initial assignment . . .