Alumni Resources

Alan Nelson is currently the Vice President of Technology Development at SLB (formerly known as Schlumberger), headquartered in Houston, Texas. He leads the development and commercialization of sustainable technologies across carbon dioxide capture and storage, hydrogen, geothermal and geoenergy, long duration energy storage, and critical minerals. He was born and raised in Cloquet, Minnesota where he graduated from University . . .

James Spain was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Arlington, Virginia.  At the age of 11, he moved to Florida, and at 17 to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he graduated from High School.  He earned a BS in Chemistry from Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in 1951.  He went on to earn his MS in Biochemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1953 and his PhD in Chemistry . . .

James Klungness created Klungness Electronic Supply in 1954. In 1955 he entered another partnership to form Northern Electronics to develop a cable television system in Iron Mountain and Kingsford. This enterprise eventually expanded into six states serving almost 200,000 homes. He then founded American Microwave & Communications in 1960 to deliver broadcast signals to remote area cable systems nationwide. Jim serves . . .