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Civil Engineering Graduate Was a Leader on Hoover Dam Bypass Alumna Bonnie Klamerus is winding down duties associated with the hardest work she’s ever done: being the structures manager for a new bridge, completed late last year, that spans the Colorado River and links Arizona and Nevada, a quarter of a mile downstream from the grand and storied Hoover Dam. Klamerus is busy archiving documents about the design and construction . . .

Michigan Tech is known as a very successful engineering university. It is also known for its male-dominated population. Despite the fact that women are a minority on Tech's campus, it is clear that they, like men, can find success, even in the field of engineering. Amy Trahey, a 1994 civil engineering graduate of Michigan Tech is living proof of this fact.Growing up in Lansing, Mich., Trahey always had an interest . . .

Lee Bernson completed a baccalaureate degree in civil engineering in 1965. From there he worked as a Highway Engineer for the State of Colorado in Denver. In 1969 he was employed by Western Concrete Products Co. of Cadillac, Michigan and rose to the position of Executive Vice President. In 1976 he became co-owner of Mathisen Tree Farms, Inc. in Greenville, Michigan. Under his management, the Christmas tree and nursery . . .