Alumni

Joseph A. Gemignani earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1953. After graduation he served two years in the United States Air Force. He then continued his education at the University of Michigan Law School where he received his J.D. Law in 1958. He began his career in patent law with McGraw Edison Company in Milwaukee. In 1961 he joined Michael Best amp; Friedrich, one of the oldest and largest . . .

When Reagan May was nine years old, she went to a bowling alley with her family in her native DePere Wis. What happened next changed the course of her life, and it had nothing to do with strikes and spares. "Someone was there with a go-cart," the fourth-year mechanical engineering student at Michigan Technological University says. "I sat in, and I knew right away that's what I wanted to do." Like a scene from a . . .

Fred Spagnoletti graduated from Michigan Tech in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. Before graduation he accepted a position with Rocketdyne, with whom he had interviewed while at Tech. His first assignment was at their test site in the Santa Susana mountains northwest of Los Angeles on the turbo pump for the F-1 rocket engine. This was the engine on the Apollo program Saturn V main booster . . .

Judy Swann earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1983. Following graduation, she accepted a position as a Patent Examiner with the Patent and Trademark Office of the United States Department of Commerce in Alexandria, Virginia. Judy has remained with the Patent Trademark Office throughout her career, and now serves as a supervisory Patent Examiner. During the course of her . . .