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Sheryl Sorby

Sheryl Sorby

'91, '85

Sheryl is currently Professor of Engineering Education at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. She is currently President of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Prior to her current appointment she was Professor of Engineering Education from 2015-2017 and Professor of Teaching and Learning from 2014-2015, both at The Ohio State University. She was a Fulbright Specialist from September—November . . .

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Donald Wheatley

Donald Wheatley

'62, '63

Donald G. Wheatley went to work for General Motors in 1963. He worked on the guidance systems doing vibration and fatigue analysis for the Apollo project. Out of the sixty new hires on the project, he was the only one remaining at the end. He also did some work on the main battle tank. Don then accepted an offer from Ford, where he worked on a small team to define the new Ford Maverick. He later led the team that designed . . .

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Frederic Sherriff

Frederic Sherriff

'63

Fred Sherriff earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1963. After graduation he began a 33 year career in the food business as a Project Engineer with General Foods Corporation at Post Cereals in Battle Creek. He has held various positions of leadership in Plant, Division, and Corporate Engineering with what today is known as Kraft Foods, a subsidiary of the Philip Morris Companies. Sherriff held . . .

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John Beattie

John Beattie '63

John M. Beattie took his first job upon graduation with the Louis Allis Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was a design engineer on a variety of commercial, military, and NASA space projects. His expertise was in ball bearing technology and V-belt technology. In 1968, he joined the Toro Company in Bloomington, Minnesota, as a project engineer for the Riding Greensmower 3 and Groundsmaster 322. A few years . . .

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“He had a finite elements program. I was helping him debug his program, and I didn't really know what I was doing. I kept telling him that. But he would teach me.”Marty Lagina '77 on Bill Predebon, past chair of the ME-EM department