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John Grisdale

John Grisdale

'71

John Grisdale was a three-year letter winner for the Michigan Tech hockey team from 1968 to 71. He was inducted into the Michigan Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1997. As a defenseman, Grisdale played 94 career games tallying 52 points on 11 goals and 41 assists. During his senior campaign, he gained All-WCHA recognition and was also honored with the Gitzen-Loutit Memorial Award as the team's outstanding defenseman. . . .

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Steven Burdgick

Steven Burdgick

'90

Patently Prolific by Marcia Goodrich Two thousand years before the Industrial Revolution, the Greek mathematician Hero came up with the idea for the steam turbine. English engineer Sir Charles Parsons built the first one in 1884, to generate electricity. And for the last twenty years, Steven Burdgick has fiddled, tweaked, and tinkered with steam turbines and their close cousins, gas turbines, ultimately revolutionizing . . .

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Fred Mitchell

Fred Mitchell

'61

Fred Mitchell earned a bachelor of science degree from Michigan Tech in Mechanical Engineering in 1961. During his 31 - year career with Boeing, Fred Mitchell has held numerous positions within the company. He has worked in the Renton Division Program Management Office, the Air Freight Systems Group, New Product Development, Payloads Engineering, and Project Engineering and Tooling. He was manager of payloads engineering . . .

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Cynthia Hodges

Cynthia Hodges '87, '90

After attending "Women in Engineering" as part of the Summer Youth Program at Michigan Tech when she was in 11th grade, Cynthia Hodges '87 '90 knew it was the place for her. "Michigan Tech prepared me very well for my career, for an unlikely reason. There were so few of women studying engineering back then, I got used to being one of the only women in the room. This suited me well for a career in industry, where women . . .

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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