Alumni

Dick Bayer earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with honor from Michigan Tech in 1944. Three years later, he joined the Michigan Tech faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. During succeeding years he was promoted to associate professor and full professor. He retired in 1983, after 37 years of service. In addition to his career at Michigan Tech, he also served as an officer in the U.S. Army combat engineering . . .

Hussein M. Zbib earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1981, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1983 and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics in 1987 all from Michigan Tech. In 1988 he was hired as an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. He was promoted to Professor in 1998. Currently he is Interim Director and Professor of the . . .

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 . . .

Pamela Klyn is currently Executive Vice President - Corporate Relations and Sustainability at Whirlpool Corporation, where she's worked since she graduated from Michigan Tech in 1993. Previously, Klyn served as a Senior Vice President in the Global Product Organization at Whirlpool. In that role, she led all of the washer, dryer and commercial laundry platforms globally with accountability for developing the product . . .