Alumni

Jaclyn Johnson joined Michigan Tech’s Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Department as a graduate student in 2007 and is now a senior lecturer in the department. She earned a master’s in mechanical engineering in 2008 and a PhD in 2011. Prior to coming to Tech, Johnson studied at Illinois Wesleyan University, gaining a bachelor's in physics in 2006. "I started as a physics/math major, and wanted . . .

Kathy received her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Michigan Tech in 1984. After graduation she went to work for General Motors Corporation as a Reliability Engineer at the Detroit Hamtramck Assembly Plant. Four years after leaving GM and accepting a Quality Engineer position with Kelsey-Hayes- a Tier 1 supplier of anti lock braking systems. During her years with Kelsey-Hayes she was promoted . . .

Terry Woychowski has done so much for so many and is clearly worthy of being the first recipient of the newly established Humanitarian Award. With his immediate family, Terry founded the Woychowski Charitable Foundation, sponsoring a Michigan Tech Senior Design Team to build a "Human-Powered Hammer Mill." He has formed a partnership with the World Hope organization to manufacture these grain processors and deploy . . .

Tom Walker earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1962. He spent eight years with General Motors, then joined Volkswagen of America in 1976 as general superintendent of the assembly plant in New Stanton, Pennsylvania. From 1979-1985, he was general manager of a Volkswagen subsidiary producing air conditioning evaporator and condenser coils in Ft. Worth, Texas. From 1985-1992, he was president and . . .