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Juan Dalla Rizza
'71Juan Dalla Rizza is President, Owner, and Principal Engineer of Dalla Rizza & Associates Consulting Engineers, Inc. Juan started Dalla Rizza & Associates in 1982. The company is involved in large and small engineering projects including commercial, grounds-up construction, and tenant build-outs for many of the large office buildings in the area. They also offer fire protection, plumbing, mechanical and electrical . . .
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Matthew Benzik
'15Matthew Benzik earned a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Michigan Tech in 2015. Matthew joined the team at SLM Solutions in Wixom, MI as a technical service specialist, senior field service engineer. He is the first line of support for SLM Solutions working with customers on any machine issues they have and coordinating the escalation of field engineering issues to their engineering teams in . . .
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Susan Trahan
'87Susan graduated from Michigan Technological University with a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1987. In 1994 she received a Master’s of Science in Business Administration from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Susan began her career as a Quality Engineer in Precision Weapons Development at Alliance Techsystems/Honeywell. In 1991 she began working for SCIMED, which later became . . .
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Paul Swift '33
Paul Swift earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1933 and attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business amp; Engineering. After nine years of working as a corporate industrial engineer for Carnegie Steel and F.V. Gardner, he returned home to Houghton to join the family hardware business. He worked as a partner in the I.E. Swift Company, with his father and uncle, and then became . . .

