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Nancy Cragel

Nancy Cragel

'86

Nancy graduated from Michigan Technological University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. She also attended the Ford College Graduate Program. After this, she worked as a Product Design Engineer for over three years and was responsible for design and development of an all-new power tilt, power-telescoping column at Ford Motor Company. She was awarded US Patent No. 5,520,416 Power Tilt, Telescoping . . .

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Health Nunnemacher

Health Nunnemacher

'08, '10

Heath A. Nunnemacher graduated from Michigan Tech in 2008 with his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, followed by his MBA in 2010. Currently, Heath is vice president of global electronics sourcing at Techtronic Industries (TTi), a global leader in cordless tools and floorcare products including brands Milwaukee Tool, Ryobi, Hart, Hoover, and VAX. He has held various positions across TTi and Milwaukee Tool in . . .

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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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Susan Trahan

Susan Trahan '87

Susan 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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“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