Alumni

Jennifer Trice earned two degrees from Michigan Tech—a bachelor's in 1987 and master's in 1989, both in metallurgical engineering. She was hired at 3M in 1989 and spent her entire 30+ year career there before retiring in 2020. Trice's first role at 3M was as an Advanced Design Engineer providing metallurgical support as part of the Corporate Engineering group responsible for designing proprietary capital equipment for . . .

Following his graduation from MTU, he took position with Wolverine Tube Inc (Decatur, AL) and worked there for nine years in Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality Engineering Management and Marketing Management positions. In 1980, he joined Detroit Center Tool (DCT), a company started by his father in 1966. DCT and its several subsidiaries conducted business in the area of manufacturing automation (robotics), automotive . . .

Dave Gaylord founded Progressive Heat Treating in 1976 and served as its President and Treasurer until his retirement in 1999. Progressive was a metal heat treating business that provides Austemper continuous furnace heat treatment for a range of automotive, furniture and stamping industry customers. Concurrent with his retirement, Progressive was fully acquired by Bodycote International PLC. Prior to Progressive, Mr . . .