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Gerald Haycock

Gerald Haycock

'68

Jerry Haycock earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1968 and started as a Development Engineer for the Detroit Diesel Division of General Motors. In 1971 he joined Ford Motor Company as an Emission Development Engineer and has held various supervisory and management positions in the powertrain area. In 1995 he was appointed the Director of Core/Advanced Powertrain Engineering in the Advanced . . .

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Richard Robbins

Richard Robbins

'56, '96

Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Atlas-Copco Robbins, Inc. Richard J. Robbins graduated from the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (MCM amp;T) in 1956 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Since 1958, Dick has been a major contributor and a prominent influence in the mining and tunneling industry. In 1958, Dick joined The Robbins Company—established by his father, James S. Robbins, a 1933 MCM amp;T . . .

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Thomas Bronz

Thomas Bronz

'89

Thomas Bronz graduated from Michigan Tech in 1989 with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering. He earned an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2005. After graduation, Tom joined Motor Wheel Corporation in Lansing as a Product Engineer in the passenger car and light truck braking business. He worked with SAE and the Detroit OEMs evaluating alternative materials including asbestos-free . . .

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Thomas McKie

Thomas McKie '47

Tom McKie began his mechanical engineering education in 1941, enlisted in the Navy Air Corps in World War II, and returned to Michigan Tech after completing his military service in 1945 to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduation in 1947 he joined the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. In 1953 he joined Beloit Corporation in their engineering division and enjoyed a thirty-three . . .

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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