Alumni Resources

Dr. John Towers (BS MTU MY 1943, MS METE U Notre Dame, Hon PhD MTU 1978). John Towers completed his career as the president and chief operating officer of AMAX, Inc. Prior to joining AMAX as an assistant metallurgist in 1946, he served with the US Army Corps of Engineers during WWII. He was promoted to foreman of the smelting department and then to general superintendent of smelting and refining. In 1959 he was promoted . . .

Herbert (Herb) Fluharty, 62, is a native of Rosebush, Michigan. He and his wife Christine, a native of Hancock, live in Traverse City, Michigan, and Scottsdale, Arizona. They have four children. Fluharty graduated from Tech with a Bachelor's in Civil Engineering in 1965. After working for several years in industry, he and his wife founded Mears Engineering, in Rosebush, in 1970. It started out as civil engineering . . .

A native of Aurora, MN, John attended St. Thomas College in St. Paul for two years prior to transferring to Michigan Tech to play football and complete his Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering, with honors. He was initiated into the Phi Lambda Upsilon honorary chemical engineering and Sigma Xi. After graduation in 1954, John joined the graduate program in chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, receiving . . .