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Renowned climber Yvon Chouinard said that when scaling mountains, he never felt scared, instead totally alive. By that standard, Scott Wazny '94 is on cloud nine literally and figuratively. On May 30, 2005, he reached the summit of Mt. Everest. Mountains bid Wazny to go from the flatlands of southern Michigan, where he grew up, to the mountains of Oregon in 1997. The former Michigan Tech football player - he made . . .

"A well-respected education in engineering and the unique location made Michigan Tech an easy choice. The UP has always been a place I considered special." In his Dynamic Controls class, Dennis Grumm ’05 was given the opportunity for extra credit by solving a calculus problem based on the origins of Bode plots. "I learned a lot about problem solving with that assignment; somewhere in the middle of a couple pages . . .

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 . . .

Donald G. Wheatley went to work for General Motors in 1963. He worked on the guidance systems doing vibration and fatigue analysis for the Apollo project. Out of the sixty new hires on the project, he was the only one remaining at the end. He also did some work on the main battle tank. Don then accepted an offer from Ford, where he worked on a small team to define the new Ford Maverick. He later led the team that designed . . .