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Ed was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1938. In 1943 he moved with his family to Oceanside, California just north of San Diego where he completed his early schooling. He graduated from MiraCosta College in 1958, from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961, and from Johns Hopkins University in 1965 with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering Science. After a year at the H.C. Orsted Institute of the University of Copenhagen . . .

Ray Kauppila earned bachelor degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1951. He then came to Tech as a teacher in 1957 and received a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1960. He left Michigan Tech briefly to earn his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1968. Kauppila served Michigan Tech as a teacher and researcher from 1957 until his retirement . . .

The year was 1986 and Jayson Eurick, a junior-high student from Saginaw, Mich. was watching the movie Top Gun, featuring Tom Cruise as "Maverick," a young naval aviator aspiring to be a top Navy pilot. Little did Eurick know that he would eventually follow Maverick's footsteps and his own childhood dreams, earning his own way to top gun instructor in the Navy.Having never flown before, Eurick did not seriously consider . . .