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Michelle Boven
'99Michigan Tech teaches how to "survive and thrive." The weather and the distance from home really taught Michelle how to handle anything that came her way and the importance of building a network of people she could trust. These lessons learned at Michigan Tech have helped pave her career, where she is currently the Global Business Director for Performance Intermediates, a business unit of Industrial Solutions at Dow. . . .
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Daniel Rivard
'591936—2022 One of the most recognizable mottos in the world was coined not by a copywriter but by an engineer. Ford Motor Company's "Quality Is Job One" was a slogan and a corporate touchstone for seventeen years, practically forever in the short-attention-span world of marketing. It originated with one man's obsession with making everything better."""Dan Rivard was the face of Total Quality Improvement at Ford . . .
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Margaret Cobb
'83Margaret Cobb recently retired from Microsoft Corporation and established The Cobb Foundation, Northwest, a self-funded foundation dedicated to helping low-income students. As president of the Foundation, her mission is to provide students with access to educational opportunities not provided by public schools through funding music lessons, book clubs, athletic lessons and robotic workshops. The Cobb Foundation is dedicated . . .
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Merrily Madero '85
Colonel Merrily Madero ('85) has been using the problem solving skills she initially learned as a mechanical engineering student at Michigan Tech to solve problems around the world. Recently she was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for leading the Military Liaison unit at the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan during multiple attacks. She also supported the US Embassy during fifty-three outside-the-wire missions in twenty . . .