Alumni

Leanne Jensen is an Associate Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company focused on model-based human engineering. Her 20+ years' experience in product development and manufacturing environments provides a solid foundation for model-based enterprise and human performance. Her work has encompassed military and commercial programs to create high value design-build solutions and mitigate complex risks, issues, and costs using . . .

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 . . .

Korey Kiepert embodies the career advice to "do what you love." Korey earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Tech in 1997, and then continued on to earn his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Tech in 1999. Despite unlikely odds and sage advice from engineering associates, he chose to pursue his childhood love of building roller coasters. What started as a hobby in his closet when he was a boy became . . .

Ray H. Herner earned his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1953 and an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering in1954.  Prior to coming to Michigan Tech, Ray attended Lake Superior State University ("Soo Tech") for two years.  At Tech, Ray received a Teaching Fellowship for Mechanical Engineering.  After graduation he lived and worked in Alpena for 22 years.  His career included working at Abitibi, . . .