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Rebecca Ufkes
'87Rebecca graduated from Tech in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. Upon leaving Tech she worked at Kaman Aerospace in Broomfield, CT for two years. She then took a position with Sikorsky Aircraft and remained with Sikorsky as a consultant while starting Ufkes Engineering after a move to South Carolina in 1990. In 1994 she earned her MBA from The Citadel and in 1995 partnered with her husband . . .
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Steven Burdgick
'90Patently 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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Matthew Benzik
'15Matthew Benzik earned a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Michigan Tech in 2015. Matthew joined the team at SLM Solutions in Wixom, MI as a technical service specialist, senior field service engineer. He is the first line of support for SLM Solutions working with customers on any machine issues they have and coordinating the escalation of field engineering issues to their engineering teams in . . .
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Albert Maki '48
Abbie Maki earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1948. He spent three years in the gas turbine division of General Electric, then four years on the staff of the vice president for manufacturing at North American Aviation. In 1955, he joined AVCO, where he was the program manager for the Titan and Atlas reentry vehicle program. Under his direction, the company performed the research, development . . .