LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE | Summer/Fall 2017

Field of dreams: The vision for the LTU athletics complex, and how you can be a part of it Meet LTU’s athletic coaches | President Moudgil visits India, China Breaking ground for a fourth residence hall | New DECA team shines | Alumni news | And more! Summer/Fall 2017 Volume XXXVI, Number 1

Published by Lawrence Technological University, Office of Marketing and Public Affairs, 21000 West Ten Mile LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Road, Southfield, MI 48075-1058; 248.204.2200 or 800.225.5588, ext. 4 Fax 248.204.2318 FROM THE PRESIDENT [email protected] Virinder K. Moudgil President

Editor: Bruce J. Annett, Jr. ([email protected]) Managing Editor: Matt Roush ([email protected]) With the start of fall semester, we mark the 85th anniversary Design: NetWorks Design, Inc. of the founding of Lawrence Technological University. On Writers: Bruce J. Annett, Jr., Stephanie September 6, 1932, Lawrence Institute of Technology opened with Casola, Sibrina Collins, Chris Mead, the first class of several hundred students. Jay Nicols, Matt Roush Editorial Support: Anne Adamus, It is hard to imagine a less promising time to launch a new Krysta Coleman, Howard Davis, enterprise. During what historians generally agree were the bleakest Kristen DeVries, Sofia Lulgjuraj, Brandé Oliver, Kristine L. Persinger, Lauren months of the worst economic year of the Great Depression, LTU Seebold, Julie Vulaj founder Russell Lawrence, supported by close members of his family Photography and Illustration: The Virinder K. Moudgil and a band of stalwart faculty, bravely faced the future. Collaborative, Gary Duncan, inFORM, Matt Lester, Justin Munter, Jay Nicols, Michigan’s unemployment rate was pushing 50 percent. Nearly 250 banks here closed, wiping ROSSETTI, Matt Roush, Glenn Triest, Windsor Star, Windsor Life Magazine, out the life savings of thousands of depositors. Our state’s once booming automotive industries and others produced less than a quarter of the output they’d achieved in 1929. © 2017 Lawrence Technological It just goes to show the power of a good idea. University. All rights reserved. Bylined articles reflect the author’s views and Russell’s rare formula that included evening classes for working students and a hands-on, real- not necessarily either the opinions or the policies of the University. world education that included both theory and practice soon captured the imagination of hundreds, Comments about the Magazine, articles, or letters may be sent to the and then thousands more. Key among these were Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, who offered editor. Send address changes to the the school a favorable lease on a suitable building at the edge of their manufacturing complex postal, fax, or email addresses noted above. in Highland Park, famous as the birthplace of the modern assembly line and former home of the Notice of non-discriminatory policy: Model-T. A huge variety of components were still being made there, a wonderful incubator for Lawrence Technological University illustrating the world of work and creative problem-solving. adheres and conforms to all federal, state, and local civil rights regulations, In the 85 years since, nearly 40,000 men and women have graduated from Lawrence Tech. Tens statutes, and ordinances. No person, student, faculty, or staff member will of thousands more have come for individual classes. We’re proud that so many have achieved so knowingly be discriminated against relative to the above statutes. Lawrence much success in their professions and communities. Over the years, alumni-led companies and Tech is an Equal Opportunity Employer. organizations have provided a livelihood for millions of people both in this country and abroad. On the cover: This rendering, from This issue of the magazine introduces some exciting new plans for expanding LTU’s facilities the Ann Arbor-based architectural and design firm The Collaborative for athletics and adding more campus housing. It also showcases a number of exciting achieve- Inc., shows a completed LTU athletics complex. The current vision calls for ments by alumni, faculty, and students. seating for 3,000 fans on the home side, with 1,000 more seats on the visi- tor side, lighting for nighttime events, Thank you for your continued involvement and support, rest rooms, concession stands, a spirit shop selling team apparel, a press box, and a two-story building in the south- east end zone housing team rooms, coaches’ offices, trainers’ spaces, and a weight room. The athletics complex will be used by LTU football, Virinder K. Moudgil men’s and women’s lacrosse, and men’s and women’s soccer teams, as President and CEO well as by the Southfield community for various athletic contests and community events. TableTABLE of Contents OF CONTENTS

Field of Dreams – The Bright Future – On Campus – Ford 2 vision for the LTU athletics LTU’s Commencement 19 statue dedicated, complex, and how you can 12 ceremony launches Research Day sets be a part of it. hundreds of careers. records, Kahn legacy lives on, and much more.

Coaches’ Corner – Home Sweet Home – 4 Lawrence Tech’s sports 16 Breaking ground for Alumni News – coaches weigh in on the the University’s fourth 35 Color the Lions’ new purpose of athletic programs at a residence hall. home LTU Blue, the university like LTU. Blue Devil who engineered the facebook.com/lawrencetechu Demon, and much more. twitter.com/LawrenceTechU Alumni Notes – Comings, goings, 40 youtube.com/lawrencetech career news, awards, and more from LTU and DIT alumni near and far. Join Lawrence Tech Alumni on LinkedIn Friends We’ll Miss www.snapchat.com/add/ 42 lawrencetechu DECA at LTU an Spanning the Globe – 18 Overnight Success – Donors Honored at 10 President Moudgil The latest club for 46 Springsation – visits India and College of Management majors Lawrence Tech China to plant the Blue Devil flag scores big at its very first recognizes the generous support internationally. competition. of its donors.

Back Cover Blue Devil teams take first and third in a global competition for autono- For the latest about Lawrence Tech, mous vehicles. visit www.ltu.edu/news

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Field of The exterior of the east end zone building, which will house team rooms, a weight room, trainers' facilities, and coaches' offices. Picture a crowd indr the bleachers eams on a This classic experience of collegiate athletics will soon be crisp, clear day. Laid out in front of them is realized at Lawrence Tech. Fans of many sports – women’s and men’s soccer, women’s and men’s lacrosse, or football – Lawrence Technological University’s sparkling students, alumni, parents, and friends are all invited to lend their green turf field, framed by the skyscrapers voices, their bullhorns, their noisemakers, and their overall spirit to support today’s and tomorrow’s Blue Devil athletes. of the Southfield City Centre and the riotous Last fall, Lawrence Tech celebrated the completion of an colors of the foliage. artificial turf field at the corner of Ten Mile and Northwestern Highway, the gift of an anonymous donor. Now the University In the air are the scents of hot chocolate and the grills that is announcing a vision for the complex that will surround that prepared the pre-game cookout on Alumni Plaza. Students in vibrant field. face paint cheer, while the pep band plays energizing numbers. “I look forward to welcoming alumni and other sports fans Then the fans rise as one as the Blue Devils tear through a to campus,” said Virinder K. Moudgil, LTU president. “This banner and take the field. new facility will aid considerably LTU’s ability to attract

1 Players will get "coached up" in great facilities for all outdoor sports at the future LTU athletics complex.

2 Players of all sports at LTU will have better facili- ties to build their strength.

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A view of the complex looking southeast.

the best students, and will be enormously beneficial in growing our community outreach and building pride and spirit among our students and alumni.” The vision for a comprehen- sive sports complex includes stadium-style seating for 4,000 fans with a two-story luxury press box, leading-edge sports field lighting, distinctive locker and team meeting facilities, fan-friendly concessions, and a spirit store to ensure that all fans have LTU blue attire and accoutrements.

IMAGE COURTESy THE COLLABORATIVE IMAGE COURTESy The final phase of the vision IMAGE COURTESy THE COLLABORATIVE will be a 30,000-square-foot building that will include a number Lawrence Tech’s vision will expand the experiences available to of coaches’ offices, a film room, team rooms, fan gathering fans of all types. spaces, and an innovative weight room that enables athletes to There are numerous opportunities available to support this see the field they aspire to win on and gives spectators a greater vision, from sponsoring lockers and paving stones, to naming appreciation for the rigorous dedication of the athletes. The large spaces like the press box and weight room, to branding the complex is intended to be designed with immersive branding to stadium or the entire complex. This is a unique opportunity for create a unique LTU Blue Devil experience for fans and student- alumni, corporations, and members of the extended Lawrence athletes alike. Tech community to be in on the ground floor and associate The impact of the new complex will reach far beyond the themselves in perpetuity with a facility in the heart of Southfield Lawrence Tech campus. Every summer, athletic skills camps – – well described as “the center of it all.” free to Detroit and Southfield public school students – and other The cost of the complex will be fully paid through philan- activities for pre-college students will be offered at the complex. thropy, giving Lawrence Tech supporters the opportunity to truly Two local high schools will use the facility as their home foot- make a difference in the lives not only of students, but also of ball field as well. More than 100 events will be held annually at parents, alumni, local businesses, corporate partners, the City of the complex. Thousands of fans from around Southeast Michi- Southfield, and sports fans throughout Southeast Michigan. gan and beyond are expected to be in attendance every year. If you or your business is interested in this ground floor As the Detroit region continues to enhance athletic venues and opportunity, contact Kristen DeVries, vice president of univer- teams in the professional arena, minor leagues and club sports, sity advancement, at [email protected] or 248.204.2305. 

3 Coaches diagram a play in the locker room.

4 A short running track will be a fea- ture of the complex's two-story weight room.

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Let’s get this straight up front: Every the city of Ypsilanti – like his police mentors, coaching youth student-athlete at Lawrence Techno- baseball the entire time. He also worked as a scout for several MLB teams. logical University is going pro. He began his college coaching career in 1999 and worked You bet. They’ll be among the finest as an assistant for Madonna University, Concordia University business leaders, engineers, scientists, (where he finished his bachelor’s degree), and Spring Arbor architects, and designers of the 21st University (which strung together a 36-game win streak en route to a No. 2 NAIA national finish in 2007). He was an assistant at century. How many of them will make CoaChES’ Siena Heights University in Adrian when the Lawrence Tech job it as pros shooting balls into nets, hit- opened up, and he accepted the position in January 2015. ting them over a fence, or lugging them across a goal LTU finished its inaugural baseball season 13–34, with a team line? Well, that’s anyone’s guess. comprised mostly of freshmen. “Nobody thought we’d win double digits, but of course as a coach and a player you always Lawrence Tech’s decision to restore a full slate of want to win more,” he said. “We had a lot of losses where we intercollegiate athletics, starting with the 2011–12 were competitive but just melted down at one moment. We school year, has not only added a new, more tradi- should be much stronger with more experience next year.” tionally collegiate vibe to the Southfield campus – Like most of LTU’s coaches, Eldridge says the University’s academic strength sells itself, but cost, and the lack of an on- it’s given hundreds of talented scholars a chance to campus baseball field, are challenges. The team now plays home get a great college education while continuing to games at Jimmy John’s Field in Utica while plans move ahead play the sports they love, when they thought perhaps for an on-campus baseball facility. they’d have to hang it up after high school. At Lawrence Tech, Eldridge said, the role of athletics “is to enhance the overall collegiate experience, not only for the A rare school with a rare mission by definition student-athlete, but for all students. The discipline and camara- will have a rare take on athletics. And that extends to derie and teamwork that athletes share on the field will translate LTU’s coaching staff. Let’s meet them. to their careers as they move on to the next phase of their lives. We want to win, but we have to remember that there is a much larger calling.” Stan Eldridge, baseball Lawrence Tech snagged a veteran college coach and architect Kylene Spiegel, women's basketball of one of the nation’s most successful youth baseball programs When you talk about women’s basketball at Lawrence Tech, when it hired Stan Eldridge as its first baseball coach. head coach Kylene Spiegel is impressed with her athletes’ work Eldridge was one of the founders of the A. Green on the field. Summer Baseball Program in Ann Arbor, which has But she’s even more impressed with their work in the produced more than 400 college scholarship players classroom. and 60 Major League Baseball (MLB) draftees since “We’ve been able to achieve more than a 3.3 GPA each its founding in 1996. semester as a team, so I think professors see the athletes’ time A knee injury ended Eldridge’s dream of playing management skills come into play, and really appre- professional baseball himself, but he says “every- ciate having student athletes in their classroom, from thing worked out for the best – I had a wonderful an academic and leadership standpoint.” career in law enforcement and coaching has meant more to me The Morenci, Mich., native got her undergraduate than I ever thought it would. You have a chance to affect the business degree and MBA at Ohio’s Tiffin University, lives of young men not just while you’re coaching them, but where she played basketball and later coached for six their entire lives.” years, before spending two years as an assistant at Many of Eldridge’s youth baseball coaches were police of- Kent State University. Last year was her first at LTU, ficers, and they encouraged him to pursue a law enforcement where the squad posted a record of 18–13. career. He earned an associate’s degree in criminal justice at Spiegel said a highlight for next year’s team will be an Washtenaw Community College and worked for more than 20 early season trip to Florida for two games, “right after finals” years on the police forces of the University of Michigan and in December.

4 S ummer/Fall 2017 She recruits at local AAU basketball events, attending one in ment driver, create excitement, and enhance the student experi- Grand Rapids, and another in Toledo. “July is really the craziest ence. LTU is a place where students can continue their athletic month,” she said. “I’m going to a tournament in Indianapolis careers as kind of a secondary option to the academics. But where there will be 200 teams just in the junior-senior division.” as we have more success, we will attract better athletes, but She said she’s always careful to stress academics in her without sacrificing education – people will say, ‘I can play in a recruiting pitch. quality program here and get a great education.’” “At a school like Lawrence Tech, you look at GPA, test scores, and what they want to major in,” Spiegel said. “I don’t Eric Green, men's cross country want to waste anyone’s time, theirs or mine, if they tell me they Eric Green caught the running bug at Pontiac Northern High want to major in education. But if they say business, engineer- School, and later ran as a scholarship athlete at Oakland Com- ing, architecture, or science, then we’re in the wheelhouse.” munity College (OCC) and Northwest Missouri State LTU will open the 2017–18 campaign Oct. 28 and 29 with University. Later, he taught and coached in Arizona the LTU Classic, a four-team tournament with the University before returning to Michigan, where he coached at of Michigan-Dearborn, Point Park University of Pennsylvania, Rochester College and OCC. He joined the LTU staff and the University of St. Francis in Indiana. Spiegel also has in 2012 and initially coached both the men’s and scheduled an 11 a.m. game on Tuesday, Nov. 7, against NCAA women’s teams. Division II Lake Superior State University, which will be a “Everybody and their brother want to come to “Kids’ Day,” with area elementary school students invited as Lawrence Tech now.” Green said the resumption of part of a field trip. athletics at LTU has made a big difference in drawing Spiegel is excited about the University’s decision to add more young students to the school, and “gives the rest of our college football beginning in the fall of 2018. students a chance to have fun and do something besides study.” “I think it’s the perfect time to come here,” she said. “The Green will have 16 athletes on his team this fall, “probably kids are excited, and everyone wants the atmosphere that comes the best team we’ve ever had. We have a good chance of win- with having college football.” ning the conference and placing high enough to qualify as a team for our national meet this year.” Joshua Pickens, men's basketball Joshua Pickens says he wanted the Lawrence Tech men’s bas- Tony Baracco, women's cross country ketball coaching job for one major reason: “When I came in for Tony Baracco has been a running coach for 19 years after a the interview, I found out they really have a growth successful career as a runner for Mt. Hood Community College mindset here.” in Oregon and the University of New Mexico. Now, The decision to reinstate athletics, including add- Baracco is leading LTU’s women’s cross country ing a football team by 2018, the quick success of program after a stint coaching the sport at Oakland many LTU teams, and the drive for expanded Community College. Baracco said highlights of his and improved athletic facilities “really excited me.” first season as LTU women’s cross country coach The biggest misconception about LTU that Pickens include school record runs by junior Marissa Bradley said he faces in recruitment is “that we’re just a at both the 5,000-meter and 6,000-meter distances. technical school. Yes, we have engineering and Bradley also was the top finisher in school history at architecture, but we also have really good arts and sciences and the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference meet. business management programs. I also have to remind people “We’re plugging along, but we can get better as a team,” that while you have to be a good student to be successful here, Baracco said. “We’ve got a couple of people coming in, and I’m you don’t have to be a 4.0 student.” looking forward to our top people improving. They’re all train- Pickens grew up in Rockford, Ill., and played college ball at ing and getting after it, and if our returners come back and build Ashford University. He coached at Ashford for five years and a foundation we’ll be much better.” then spent two years as an assistant at Midland University in Baracco also said there are great opportunities for athletic Nebraska before getting the LTU job. scholarships in women’s cross country. And he said he believes “In seven years of coaching, the teams I’ve been with have sports “improves academic performance… athletics produce been to the NAIA postseason four times,” Pickens said. “That’s better students.” the kind of success I want here at Lawrence Tech.” Pickens said athletics at a school like LTU “can be an enroll-

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Jeff Duvendeck, football higher academic achievers – beating out some schools that may Jeff Duvendeck has wanted to coach football since his playing be viewed as more powerful athletic schools. The value of our days at Central Michigan University. education has been the final tipping point.” He just never thought he could make a living at it. So he Duvendeck will also be involved, with the rest of LTU’s planned a career in the medical field and figured he’d coach as coaches, in fundraising for improved facilities at the Univer- a volunteer. sity’s athletic field, called The Point by generations of students. But in his last semester, he said, “I realized I was basing ev- erything around my love of coaching and my ‘like’ of medicine. Josh Heiple, men’s and women’s golf So I talked to my coach, Mike DeBord, and he gave Josh Heiple grew up golfing, and even though he’s one of the me some advice: ‘Don’t do it. It’s not a lucrative few LTU coaches with a day job – real estate manager for Battle profession, it’s a lot of hours and being away from Creek’s Kellogg Co. – he’s still a natural for the LTU golf job. your family.’ But he said that if I really wanted to, he Both LTU’s men’s and women’s teams play rigorous would help. So he wrote some letters for me that got schedules that stretch from the first day of school in me my first coaching job.” August to the end of the school year, with time out Like a lot of college assistant coaches, Duven- for final exams. The players learn tough time man- deck’s career has been nomadic – eight jobs in 17 agement skills traveling to invitationals and tourna- years. And he even had to take a pay cut to go from ments in the southern states when it’s too cold to play assistant coach in Division II football to a graduate assistant at in Michigan. Michigan State University. But he said MSU’s higher profile Heiple grew up in Sturgis in southwest Michigan got him his first head coaching job, at Culver-Stockton College and played college golf at the University of North- in Missouri. And a few years later, Lawrence Tech’s decision to ern Iowa. He left school to turn pro and played on various pro reactivate a football program after a 70-year hiatus turned out to tours for 10 years before returning to Michigan to complete be a perfect combination with his desire to move his family back his degree, in business communications, at Western Michigan to his native Michigan. University and to set up a golf academy in Kalamazoo. He then Since being named LTU’s head coach in January, Duvendeck coached at Glen Oaks Community College in Centreville, Mich., has been on the recruiting trail, beginning the building of a and Ashford University in Iowa, before taking the LTU post. program that will play its first games as an independent in fall “We’re doing well,” Heiple said of the LTU program. “The 2018, and join the NAIA’s Mid-States Football Association in women’s program has pretty much been in the top 25 poll non- fall 2019. stop out of 140 NAIA teams since we were in existence, and the “When I came in for my interview, I told the committee that men are hovering right around 40 out of 170.” I thought we could sign 40 kids this year,” Duvendeck said. Most of Heiple’s women’s team and several members of the “They looked at me like I was a little crazy, but we hit 42 men’s team are international students, which presents unique yesterday, and I think we’ve got a few more guys who will wind challenges in recruiting but like other coaches, Heiple noted, up here.” “It’s a great school, so we sell them on the academics more All those incoming freshman players will be redshirted this than anything.” fall and will join a second recruiting class for the first game in And while the purpose of NAIA athletics is to enrich the September 2018, and a third class for the first varsity game in student experience, Heiple also notes with a chuckle that “once September 2019. they get here, they want to win championships. They don’t look Duvendeck said he couldn’t be happier to be at LTU: “The at it as an extracurricular – it’s their life. They want to win.” support here has been great, the people have been very open and very professional. I think the people on the planning committee Ken Gaffney, hockey for football did a great job of research, laying out budgets and Big changes are afoot for the Blue Devil hockey program, the timelines.” veteran of Lawrence Tech’s athletic programs (the team has LTU’s academics have been a draw for recruiting, Duvendeck been operating continuously since 1992). said. “The benefit of being at Lawrence Tech is that our educa- LTU has been competing in the American College Hockey tion is extremely well respected, and people want to be a part of Association (ACHA), a nonprofit that governs club and non- that. They want to get a great degree while still having a chance varsity hockey in the United States. For the 2017–18 season, to play college football. It’s given us the ability to recruit the though, what had been the Blue team will begin competing in the NAIA Conference of the ACHA, while what had been the

6 S ummer/Fall 2017 White team will continue to compete in the ACHA’s Meltzer said she loves working with the 18 women on her Division III. team: “It’s that connection with them on a daily basis – I’m Ken Gaffney is entering his ninth season as head learning from them, they’re learning from me. The main reason coach, and said college hockey – and sports in I coach is that you hope you make a difference in their lives at general – at LTU “provides another opportunity for some point, that they’ll learn positive things here.” student engagement. It just adds to the overall col- She said LTU athletes have a strong work ethic and high ex- lege experience.” pectations for themselves. “For a lot of kids on this team, it’s not Gaffney said he recruits a mixture of high school just about the lacrosse, it’s about the academics. They chose the graduates and veterans of major junior hockey teams –where school based on academics, and they get a chance to continue to players can be as old as 20 – to the LTU program. “We tell them, play the sport they love.” it’s a private university with the associated cost, and it’s a rigor- The team was wildly successful on the field in 2017, too. ous academic program. We use that as a selling point. Yes, it’s Meltzer was named NAIA Coach of the Year, five Blue rigorous, but that’s going to get you a great career and a higher Devils were NAIA All-Americans, and senior Kadijah Kahlo salary.” was Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The team finished No. 2 in the Last year’s Blue team finished 20–7, and lost to eventual ACHA country in the NAIA Invitational, falling to No. 1-ranked Division III national champion Aquinas College 1–0 in the Savannah College of Art and Design 16–10 in the champion- regional tournament final. ship game. Moving to the NAIA for the upper-level team means Gaff- ney will for the first time be able to offer athletic scholarships Paul Nemzek, assistant coach, men’s lacrosse (which the ACHA prohibits). Paul Nemzek joined the LTU coaching staff in summer 2016 This fall, Gaffney will bring in about 25 first-year players, after 20 years of coaching at the high school level. His own and 30 to 40 percent of them will be placed on the NAIA team, background included playing high school lacrosse in the 1990s while the rest will compete on the ACHA Division III White at Detroit Catholic Central, though he opted to play football team. instead of lacrosse at the collegiate NCAA Division II level. Home games are played at the Southfield Civic Arena, only Nemzek has filled in frequently for LTU head lacrosse half a mile from LTU’s campus. coach Kevin Riley, whose courageous nine-year battle against cancer continues. Mary Ann Meltzer, women’s lacrosse “The kids played their hearts out for him this year. He’s a It’s an exciting time to be a Blue Devil, according to Mary Ann true inspiration to all of us,” Nemzek said of Riley. “Whenever Meltzer. you’re having a bad day, just think of what Coach Riley has “LTU has evolved a lot over the past five years,” she said. “I been through, and it doesn’t seem so bad.” think it’s a great time to come here – we’re growing, The 2016–17 team posted their best season ever, a 10–4 we’re adding football. And the academic part sells record and co-championship of the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic itself.” Conference. The team was invited to its first-ever NAIA national Meltzer grew up playing lacrosse with her three championship tournament, where it lost a close 14–13 match older brothers in Ohio. Her oldest brother wound up to the eventual national champion, Reinhardt University of playing at Ohio State. She played at the University Waleska, Ga. of Maryland, where she became a two-time All- The Blue Devils started the season with 17 players, “on the American. low side of where you’d like to be,” Nemzek said – and then Coaching stints followed, at Birmingham Seaholm injuries pushed the roster down to 14 or 15 active players for High School, the club team at the University of Michigan – Ann most of the season. “You have 10 on the field, so not a lot of Arbor, and Olivet College. She joined LTU in the 2015–16 subs, but our players made the commitment to be in top condi- school year. tion,” Nemzek said. Meltzer recruits at summer lacrosse club programs. Only Nemzek said recruiting for the coming season is “going well about 100 Michigan high schools play women’s lacrosse, so so far. We’re offering kids a great opportunity to get an incred- contacts with club programs are crucial. She said word is still ible education … and we compete for conference and national getting out that LTU has added a lacrosse program, not to championships, and have a track record of producing players mention other sports, residence halls, and a full undergraduate who get post-season honors.” campus life.

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Will Dyer, men’s soccer winning record, and LTU participated in the Wolverine-Hoosier Will Dyer has built the Blue Devil soccer team from its begin- Athletic Conference tournament for the first time. nings, serving as club team coach for two years before taking “A lot of firsts, a lot of fun,” was how Richards described it. the varsity team in 2011, when LTU returned to But he was also quick to give credit to his players. formal interscholastic athletics. “I found the team to be very hardworking and very Born hard of hearing, Dyer played youth soccer in receptive to coaching,” Richards said. “I think they the Deaf World Cup and Deaf Olympics, and played pulled together and turned the corner very quickly, NCAA Division I soccer at Ohio State University. based on their effort and their attitude. There are in- dividuals in the program who could play at any level A horrific injury – Dyer got kicked in the head on a slide tackle, fracturing his skull and costing him – good, talented soccer players who decided their education was most important to them and Lawrence part of his sight in one eye – ended his collegiate career. After college, Dyer coached club soccer in Columbus and Tech has the best that can be offered.” Richards is a native of Peterborough, England, and for Detroit Country Day before joining the Blue Devils. Dyer is proud of the Blue Devils’ gradual improvement on the earned his bachelor’s degree in education in his native country. field. The team won three games in its first season in 2011 and He came to the United States in 1995 to go to graduate school at Oregon State University, where he was also a graduate assistant just two games a year in 2012 and 2013. But then things started turning around, with the team winning six games in 2014, nine soccer coach. Later, he was head coach at Bowling Green State University and for the Michigan Jaguars youth soccer program games in 2015, and going 10-6-2 in 2016, the team’s first win- ning season. LTU also has qualified for the Wolverine-Hoosier before joining LTU. Athletic Conference playoffs the past two years. Like other coaches, Richards views LTU’s academic standing Dyer echoed other coaches in saying the University’s as both challenge and opportunity – a barrier to some poten- academic offerings provide a unique opportunity for gifted tial student-athletes, but a boon to those seeking highly valued students to continue their athletic careers. degrees. He said the addition of a nursing program should help “LTU’s academics are a main drawing point for us, especially with athletic recruitment as well. architecture and engineering and business,” Dyer said. “Arts and Athletics, Richards said, “is changing the campus. It’s an sciences play an important role as well. In fact, a big challenge exciting time.” is getting people to realize we’re not only a tech school – we Karen Baird, have pre-law, pre-dental, we’ve adding nursing – and that since softball we’re in the NAIA, we can offer athletic scholarships.” A knee injury changed the course of Karen Baird’s career. “I played softball, basketball and soccer as a kid, but when I The Blue Devils also enjoy a close relationship with Detroit’s semi-pro soccer team, the Detroit City Football Club. got to high school I had to choose between soccer and softball,” “Le Rouge,” as they are known, practices at LTU’s athletic field, the 1989 Northville High School graduate said. “So freshman and uses LTU housing at the Arbor Lofts apartments on Civic and sophomore year, I played soccer. Then I tweaked Center Drive for its players during its summer season. “LTU has my knee and decided to give softball a try for my ju- been a sponsor of DCFC since its founding,” Dyer said. “It’s a nior and senior years, and that led me down a whole new path.” great relationship – it gives visibility to our program to area high school players, club soccer players, and the DCFC fan base.” Baird would go on to play golf, basketball and soft Dyer will welcome 53 players this fall, who will be separated ball at Adrian College, where she graduated in 1994 onto varsity and reserve teams. Both teams will play complete with a Bachelor of Arts in health, physical educa- schedules and train together. Occasionally, Dyer noted, players tion and recreation. She taught high school for a few years before realizing that “my passion was more in advance from the reserves to the varsity – giving as examples coaching than the classroom.” So she went into college coaching Derrick Butcher, who just graduated, and incoming sophomores Jaccob Sooy and Austin Rassey. – first as director of intramural athletics, softball coach and golf coach at Albion College from 1997 to 2002, then as head soft- Andy Richards, women’s soccer ball coach at Eastern Michigan University from 2002 to 2013. Lawrence Tech landed an experienced, successful college coach Baird was most recently an assistant softball coach at Oakland in Andy Richards to start the 2016–17 season, and the effect University before taking the reins at LTU July 31. was immediate. The team’s record improved to 11–7, its first LTU’s softball team went 22-28 in its inaugural season, an outstanding record for a team comprised almost entirely

8 S ummer/Fall 2017 Note: As of press time for this magazine, the women's bowling coach position is vacant. A new men's bowling coach has been hired, but has not yet begun work.

of freshmen. LTU also made the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic And he’s a perfect fit for a school like Lawrence Tech. Yes, he Conference tournament in its first year of competition – which, makes a living as a volleyball coach – but he has bachelor’s and as far as LTU Athletic Director Scott Trudeau has been able to master’s degrees in civil, environmental, and chemi- determine, is the first time that’s happened in the history of LTU cal engineering from Wayne State University. athletics. “I started playing volleyball when I was in high “We’ll be a sophomore-based team this year, and we also school, played at a pretty high level, played beach have seven freshmen coming in and a few juniors and seniors,” doubles for 25 years semi-pro, and that paid for col- Baird said. “We’ll carry 22 or 23 people on the team.” lege,” Ruhl said. “Coaching came as a way to give In the NAIA, softball teams play a few exhibition games in back to the sport and try to teach new players how to the fall, with the regular season running from March through play at the highest level they could reach.” May. This year’s team plans a road trip to warmer climates to Before LTU, Ruhl was an assistant coach at Wayne kick off the season over spring break. State and coached at the high school and community college Baird said she appreciates the “true combination of athletics level. He’s still an instructor at Team Detroit, a volleyball club and academics” of sports at the NAIA level. “People can come team based in Novi. to LTU, have that school spirit, give back to the game they grew Ruhl said he believes the aim of athletics at a school like LTU up with, and continue to play at the collegiate level,” she said. is “to broaden the scope of students who come here. The goal is “On top of that they receive an awesome degree.” to get more people to find out about Lawrence Tech. And I love the place because it’s a technically focused school, and I’m one Steve Behmlander, men’s and women’s tennis of those guys who loves that.” Steve Behmlander wrapped up the LTU tennis program’s third He can coach both men’s and women’s teams because the season in April. He coaches both the men’s team, which com- women’s season runs from August through November, and the petes in the fall, and the women’s team, which competes in the men’s season December through March. He also coaches the spring. Last year’s men’s team finished second in the LTU reserve team, giving him three teams and close to 50 Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference and qualified athletes to watch over. for the NAIA tournament, which is “kind of unheard- Ruhl said he recruits to LTU through Team Detroit and other of in the tennis world” for such a young program. club programs, especially on the men’s side, since few high Behmlander, like other coaches, says LTU’s aca- schools in Michigan offer the sport for men. He said he’s still demics can be both a draw and a barrier to recruit- building awareness that the University has added a sports pro- ing, but said, “It’s not easy to recruit in any sport, gram. “I find that once they find out about it, it’s a great fit for a but here we’ve got a great story to tell.” He said he lot of athletes,” particularly those just below the level of being always emphasizes LTU’s broad academic offerings, courted by major universities. “You can be small for a volleyball including the new nursing program. player in California, but 6 feet 4 inches is big here,” he said with An athletic program at a school like Lawrence Tech “rounds a laugh. “We’re turning the corner.” the school out. It’s a great outlet for not only the student- He said he also realizes his players are challenged by LTU athletes but the student population in general. I attend a lot of academics. “Being mindful of their time is a priority with me,” our athletic events in all sports, and it’s cool – you have kids Ruhl said. “I’ll have shorter, more intense practices, and less from other teams attending, and also kids from the school’s travel during weeks of high schoolwork levels, like midterms. general population. You can wear your LTU blue and cheer on Also, after they get in here, we put them on a game plan to make your fellow students and become part of the team.” sure they’re successful academically and athletically.” Athletes also become public representatives of the University, Highlights of his plans for next year’s competitors are a Behmlander said. “I always tell the kids, ‘You’re going to be spring break trip to Florida for the men’s team, and a road trip to held to a higher standard.’” He added, there’s a “healthy compe- a Missouri tournament for the women. MR tition” among all athletic teams to achieve the highest GPA. Ed Ruhl, women’s and men’s volleyball Ed Ruhl has been around LTU volleyball since the program’s inception five years ago, but only became head coach of both squads this past April. For schedules and the latest news about Lawrence Tech athletics, visit www.bluedevilathletics.com

L awrence T ech M agazine 9 President Moudgil spreads the word overseas – as

awrence Technological L University offers its students plenty of chances to travel the world. But they can also learn about global issues and other cultures and languages without ever leaving the friendly confi nes of the Southfi eld campus.

President Virinder Moudgil notes that LTU has 52 countries represented in its student body and provides many programs that offer students a peek at other cultures, including the Global Village Project for incoming students every August. Graduates “are much more likely to succeed in a global economy if they have experience with people from around the world during their education,” noted Moudgil. LTU also reaches out overseas. Moudgil traveled to China in spring 2016, meeting with educational and business leaders, and this year, he spent several weeks in India, touting the opportunities that come with an LTU education.

Dr. Moudgil on his 2017 India visit with Jeffrey Saxton, counselor for public affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Dr. Moudgil before a reception in China in 2016. New Delhi. S p a n n i n g

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Moudgil visited India’s capital, New Delhi; the south-central technology hub of Hyderabad; and the northern state of Punjab. He wanted to learn fi rst-hand about the political and educational climate in the areas of India that send students to LTU. He also met with the American consulates in New Delhi and Hyderabad to gauge their perception of the University. “Lawrence Tech is viewed very favorably,” he said. The president also served as a keynote speaker at an academic conference, “Indo-US Partnership on Green Chemistry/Engi- neering and Technologies for Sustainable Development,” orga- nized by Panjab University in Chandigarh and Florida Polytech- nic University. His topic was LTU’s emphasis on sustainability in its engineering and architectural programs. Dr. Moudgil with Dr. Jianguo Xia, president of Shanghai University of In an interview with the Economic Times, India’s largest Engineering Science. business newspaper, Moudgil emphasized that U.S. higher education institutions remain interested in attracting students for programs in engineering, architecture, and management. from India, particularly in the STEM-related disciplines – in Lawrence Tech’s major academic partner is Shanghai University part due to the severe shortage of STEM-skilled workers in the of Engineering Science (SUES). American economy. “Not only do we get a lot of students from this university, we The purpose of President Moudgil’s trip to China last year also teach in China by sending our faculty for short periods of was to visit several universities that send students to LTU time to assist those Chinese students who are unable to meet the economic demands of coming to the United States,” Moudgil said. “And together with SUES, Lawrence Tech is planning to establish a Sino-U.S. college of engineering. Once that is established, it will streamline the process for students from China and the United States to interact and visit each of those campuses for education and projects.” MR

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L AWRENCE T ECH M AGAZINE 11 Commencing a President Virinder Moudgil welcomes the exuberant crowd to Commencement. bright future

large and enthusiastic gathering of nearly 5,000 people saw Lawrence Technological University recognize the educational achievements of more than 900 graduates during the 85th Commencement Aexercises at Ultimate Soccer Arenas in Pontiac on Saturday, May 6. It was one of the University’s largest grad classes ever. The University conferred a doctor of business administra- tion degree, honoris causa, upon Robert S. Taubman, chairman, president, and CEO of Bloomfield Hills-based Taubman Centers Inc. Taubman also provided the Commencement address, em- phasizing that managing change is the only constant in life and a successful career. Drawing examples from his own background, he said that the Robert S. Taubman, chairman, president, and CEO of Bloomfield Hills- United States had about 2,000 regional shopping malls in 2000 – based Taubman Centers Inc., receives his honorary doctorate in business administration from LTU President Virinder Moudgil (right), LTU board and that that number is down to about 1,000 today. Nevertheless, chairman Douglas Ebert (left) and LTU Provost Maria Vaz. he said conventional store retailing remains dominant,

LTU's annual celebration of academic achievement draws a big crowd in person, online

Proud graduates ready to take on the future.

12 S ummer/Fall 2017 Blue meets the doctorates-to-be.

Some graduates’ caps got a creative floral treatment.

with more than 90 percent of all retail sales still taking place in 1988, president and chief executive officer in 1990, and in brick-and-mortar settings. chairman in 2001. He is active in many of his industry’s leading But what has changed is customer expectations, he said. organizations. Dining and recreation have never been more important to retail- Among many civic and charitable commitments, Taubman ing. Overall, he said, “It’s not a question of stores vs. internet – serves on the executive committee of Southeastern Michigan they are woven together.” Council of Governments and as a member of the board of Also at Commencement, Rajeev Batra, BSEE’90, president directors of Business Leaders for Michigan. He is a trustee of of the Digital Factory division of Siemens Corp., and Alan the Cranbrook Educational Community, where he chairs the Cobb, BSAr’76, president and CEO of Kahn, the Detroit audit committee. He also serves on the University of Michigan architectural firm, received Alumni Achievement Awards. Both Investment Advisory Committee, and is a council member of men urged graduates to pursue their passions and dreams in the the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard professional world. Kennedy School. Taubman holds the Bachelor of Science degree Taubman has headed his company and served on the Taubman in economics from Boston University. Centers Board of Directors since the company’s initial public He and his family, including his late father, A. Alfred Taubman, offering in 1992. He also is a member of The Taubman Com- HD’85, a former LTU student, are among Michigan’s most gen- pany’s Operating Committee. He joined the firm in 1976, was erous supporters of advances in health care and higher educa- elected executive vice president in 1984, chief operating officer tion. Lawrence Tech’s Taubman Student Services Center and

We’re betting mom and dad were proud to help. LTU President Virinder Moudgil (center) with Alumni Achievement Award winners Alan Cobb, BSAr’76 (left) and Rajeev Batra, BSEE’90.

What’s Commencement without a selfie or two?

L awrence T ech M agazine 13 A sea of LTU blue on Commencement Saturday. Blue gowns, rather than black, were new this year, mirroring Commencing a a national trend in academic garb. bright future

Taubman Engineering, Architecture, and Life Sciences Complex sible. He progressed at Siemens to general manager of the auto- were made possible through lead gifts from the Taubmans, who motive and aerospace markets and led the team that broke into also provided the landmark Ockham’s Wedge sculpture at the the aerospace industry. Siemens customers soon included center of campus and the Fulcrum sculpture to be dedicated Boeing, Lockheed, and Rolls Royce. He then rose to vice soon in the University’s library. president and general manager of automation and motion in Raj Batra leads the Digital Factory (DF) division for Siemens the United States. In 2007, he became president of the industry Corp. in the United States. He is responsible for overseeing a automation division. Batra assumed his current position when comprehensive automation portfolio of seamlessly integrated Siemens reorganized in 2014. hardware, software, and technology-based services for the Siemens is also an important partner with Lawrence Tech, business. The nearly 1,500 employees of DF serve a wide having provided the University and students with nearly $300 variety of global manufacturers and their supply chain, includ- million worth of in-kind software. ing industries such as automotive, aerospace, food and beverage, Alan Cobb, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, is president and chief electronics and battery assembly, and tires. executive officer of Kahn, the architecture firm founded by the When Batra was recruited by Siemens in 1993, he became renowned architect Albert Kahn in 1895. Kahn is comprised one of just two Siemens employees in Michigan. He wanted of seven companies that make up the Albert Kahn Family of to penetrate the automotive market, held tightly in a Companies. Cobb has been a leader in design and practice since competitor’s grip, and achieved what many considered impos- he joined the firm in 1976.

The big picture – Commencement 2017 was a big deal, with 5,000 people attending and 7,000 more watching around the world online. LTU’s redesigned mascot Blue is always a hit.

14 S ummer/Fall 2017 Robert Taubman delivers the 2017 Commencement address. LTU graduates put their hands together for Indeed she did – all the way to her degree. Commencement speakers

He has helped reposition the 122-year old firm with the pri- dent of both AIA Detroit and AIA Michigan. He received the mary goal of melding design excellence with sustainability. His AIA Detroit Gold Medal in 2016. Cobb is a board member of business and design philosophies have pushed for environmen- the Michigan Architectural Foundation and a member of the tally sensitive design considerations that preserve the country’s advisory boards of both Lawrence Tech’s College of Architec- historic and iconic structures while making the world a greener ture and Design and the University of Detroit Mercy School place. In the past 20 years, his leadership has guided Kahn of Architecture. to more than 60 design awards, including three AIA National His architectural projects include the expansion and reno- Honor Awards. vation of the Cobo Conference and Exhibition Center, Lear Honored with Lawrence Tech’s Distinguished Architecture Corporation’s headquarters, the renovation and restoration Alumni Award in 2000, Cobb was instrumental in the building of the University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium, and Delta of LTU’s newest academic building, the A. Alfred Taubman Dental of Michigan’s corporate office. Engineering, Architecture, and Life Sciences Complex, which For the third year, Commencement was also streamed live opened in 2016. As the architect/engineer of record, Kahn online. Viewership hit a record, with 7,435 watching at least employed new materials and methods in the building’s construc- part of the ceremony, up from 5,414 in 2016 and 2,774 in tion. The firm’s ability to design for extreme conditions was key 2015. The largest share of viewership this year was overseas. to making the building’s unique design feasible. MR/BJA A licensed architect in 40 states, Cobb has served as presi-

For the third year, Commencement was streamed live online. Viewership hit a record, with 7,435 watching.

He may be a Blue Devil, but he’s a friendly one.

L awrence T ech M agazine 15 An artist’s conception of LTU’s fourth residence hall, looking to the northwest from the edge of the quad near the Buell Management Building.

Lawrence Tech breaks ground on

The ceremonial shovel that has been used at all LTU groundbreakings since the Engineering Building in 1953.

LTU broke ground in May on its fourth residence hall – a 95,000- square-foot, $21 million structure scheduled to open for fall semester 2018.

The building, called East Residence Hall, will be four stories tall and house 308 students and housing staff. When it opens, Lawrence Tech will have more than 1,000 students living full- time on campus. East Hall was designed by An artist’s conception of LTU’s fourth residence hall, looking to the the Northville architecture southeast from the area between firm inFORM Studio, founded Donley Hall and Reuss Hall. by Lawrence Tech alumni Ken, BSAr’85, BAr’86, and Gina, BSAr’89, BAr’94, VanTine. commuter school to residential campus, and said the new resi- The firm’s other two principals are also alumni, Michael Guth- dence hall will focus on the health and well-being of students rie, BSAr’95, and Cory Lavigne, BAr’96, as is the residence and community-building – “a design that encourages social hall project manager, Eric Klooster, BSAr’09, MAr’13. interaction and an enhanced community orientation.” Features At the groundbreaking ceremony in May, President Virinder will include a fitness center and bicycle garage. Moudgil noted the University’s continuing transformation from Student Government President Kienan Kowalski, a senior

16 S ummer/Fall 2017 When the hall opens, LTU will have more than 1,000 students living full-time on campus.

Officials with LTU and its partners turn the earth over at the ground- new residence hall breaking for the new residence hall.

The audience gathers for the groundbreaking of LTU’s fourth residence hall.

(formerly North Housing), which opened in 2002 and houses 217 students, and the Lloyd E. Reuss Residence Hall, which opened in 2015 and houses 150 students. Lawrence Tech’s first housing unit, South Residence Hall (formerly South Housing), opened in 1977 and accommodates 390 students. “It has been the University’s objective to cluster undergrad majoring in construction engineering technology and manage- housing in the heart of the campus to better enable entering ment, later hired to work on the project, said LTU’s additions of freshmen to become part of a community and a part of cam- residence halls and intercollegiate athletics give students “all the pus life,” said Joseph Veryser, LTU university architect. “The academic benefits of a small university and all the extracurricu- principle is one of closeness to one another and closeness to lar perks of a large university.” campus activities and core support areas, such as food service, East Hall will sit between the Edward Donley Residence Hall bookstore, and library.” MR

L awrence T ech M agazine 17 New DECA chapter scores big

at first state competition with an expert judge. Vonk was also a finalist in Corporate Finance. Also competing for the LTU team was Chanz Harris, a sophomore. nly a few weeks after its founding, Merissa Hudnall, coordinator of undergraduate and LTU’s chapter of Collegiate DECA proved graduate student services in LTU’s College of Management, O that it’s already a force to be reckoned with in said she was “proud of these students for representing LTU the collegiate business world. Four LTU business and the College of Management so well.” administration majors scored top places in the Michigan In their performance at the state competition, Sabo, Collegiate DECA State Career Development Conference, Dirlam, and Vonk earned the right to attend the International held in Grand Rapids. Collegiate DECA Career Development Conference. LTU sophomore Max Sabo placed first in the Executive DECA, formerly known as the Distributive Education Job Interview competition, a mock job interview for an Clubs of America, prepares emerging leaders and entrepre- entry-level management post, and third in the Banking and neurs in marketing, finance, hospitality, management, Financial Services competition, in which students analyze and entrepreneurship. LTU started its chapter at the end of a real-world banking and financial services situation. Josh the Fall 2016 semester as an extracurricular opportunity Dirlam, a junior, finished second in the Corporate Finance for students to take on leadership roles and attend education- competition, in which students analyze investment and cor- al conferences, participate in competitive events with other porate finance opportunities. students at universities within the state and internationally, A team of Sabo and Garrett Vonk, a sophomore, finished and prepare for their careers. More than 3,500 high school third in the Business Ethics competition, in which students chapters and 275 collegiate chapters involve more than analyze a business situation involving an ethical dilemma, 215,000 members in activities sponsored by DECA and its then present a resolution of the dilemma to an expert judge. corporate partners. Kirk Markowski, a junior, was a finalist in the Retail Man- LTU was one of 11 universities competing in the state agement competition, in which students analyze a real-world championships. MR situation, develop solutions, and role-play their strategy

From left to right are LTU DECA team members Chanz Harris, Kirk Markowski, Max Sabo, Garrett Vonk, and Joshua Dirlam.

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development think that other Research Day 2017 sets records people want and need our help to save their lives,” Kim observed. “It The increasing role of research Research Day. “And here, we do turns out that’s not the case. All in the educational mission of what we do best, which is applied they want is for us to be a partner Lawrence Tech was on full display research.” and to make decisions together.” this spring during the University’s Colloquium honoree Joongsub Kim also said he’s publishing a fifth annual Research Day. Kim, professor in the College book on design review, a process The event was organized by of Architecture and Design and he said is not exactly beloved by Matthew Cole, associate professor director of LTU’s Master of Urban architects. He said he’s convinced in the College of Management, Design program and the Detroit that designers must be more who praised the “incredible buy-in Studio, spoke on civic engage- aware of the needs of all people and support” from the University ment and governance in – not just the relatively small per- administration, including architectural design – the over- centage of the population that can President Virinder Moudgil and sight of design by the community LTU Associate Professor Lior Shamir afford their services. MR Provost Maria Vaz. for the broader public good. (right) checks out the latest in A record number of research “People working in community physics research. posters – more than 80 – were on display for the event, representing top-flight intellectual output from LTU students and faculty. The day began with oral research presenta- tions in each of LTU’s colleges – Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Management. “Research is essential to the mission of a university,” Moudgil told the crowd gathered for the President’s Colloquium, which Students were eager to present their research is the keynote presentation on Joongsub Kim gives the keynote presentation. results to visitors.

U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Management prof sees success and Lorenzo Rubalcava, an aide to in journal, advocates for cancer patients Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.). “Finding out I had lung cancer three and a half years ago was the It was a busy spring for Patty Organizational Performance,” Network Awards for Excellence. scariest time in my life,” Castelli Castelli, professor in the College published in the Journal of The paper has been down- said. “Whenever I heard of lung of Management. Management Development, was loaded 1,902 times since its 2016 cancer, the prognosis was not Her latest academic paper, selected by the journal’s editorial publication. good. But I am living proof that “Reflective Leadership Review: team as a Highly Commended Castelli also visited people who are diagnosed with A Framework for Improving paper in the 2017 Emerald Literati Washington, D.C., in April to lung cancer can and do survive.” participate in the American Castelli credited her survival to Patty Castelli, Lung Association’s Lung Force early detection and having good professor in the Advocacy Day in support of lung LTU College of health insurance through her Management, meets cancer patients. During the visit, employer, which let her get excel- with Rep. Sander Castelli advocated for robust, lent care from the time she was Levin (D-Royal sustained federal funding for lung diagnosed, through her recovery. Oak) on behalf of cancer research, and for quality More about Castelli’s battle the American Lung and affordable health care for with lung cancer can be found in Association. people living with lung cancer. She the “Lung Force Heroes” section met with U.S. Rep. Sander Levin of the website www.lung.org. (D-Royal Oak), Jonathan Hirte, MR an aide to U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Tipton), Greg Mathis, an aide to

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Visitors enjoy the Albert Kahn legacy lives on – displays of Albert Kahn’s design work in in Detroit buildings and at LTU “Albert Kahn: Under Construction.” For Lawrence Tech’s library columns, creating open fac- and College of Architecture and tory spaces. Concrete floors also Design, this past winter might be accommodated heavier machinery considered the “Winter of Kahn.” and reduced fire risk. Two major campus events Kahn’s industrial designs and other exhibits and events brought lots of natural light and showcased the University’s long- good ventilation to the factory, time links to legendary architect Stone said, replacing the dark, Technology showcased Kahn’s Albert Kahn, designer of such wood-floored New England mill- blueprints for the Belle Isle iconic structures as Henry Ford’s style industrial building with Aquarium, the nation’s oldest Highland Park complex and modern steel and concrete. Kahn aquarium, which also featured a Detroit’s Fisher Building. Included would go on to build hundreds gallery talk on the significance of was a multimedia display in of buildings for the auto industry, the design. Alan Cobb, BSAr’76, FAIA, president the University Technology and most notably for Ford Motor Co. Then, in March, academics, and CEO of Kahn, the Detroit archi- tectural and design firm, with LTU Learning Center Gallery, “Albert and General Motors Corp. Kahn researchers, and the architectur- Provost Maria Vaz at the Albert Kahn also designed the ultimate expres- Kahn: Under Construction.” ally curious gathered on campus symposium on campus. In February, Joel Stone, senior sion of the Arsenal of Democracy, to review the work and legacy curator at the Detroit Historical the Willow Run bomber plant. He of Kahn in a daylong research by Kahn’s design, including Society, presented a lecture died in 1942. symposium. Academics debated Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and on “The Ubiquitous Mr. Kahn.” While Kahn was sometimes how Kahn’s work reflected the Walter Gropius, founder of the Attendees learned that Kahn’s very derided as overly utilitarian, crank- social attitudes of his day. Donald Bauhaus school of art and design first architectural project, at the ing out boring buildings for big R. Bauman, LEED AP, NCARB, in Germany. Cobb said Kahn ripe old age of 16, was the leg- business, there’s no doubt he director of architectural develop- worked toward creating a “univer- endary 660-foot-long front porch could do beautiful work, such ment and historic preservation sal space” that could be used for of Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel. as Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium at Detroit-based Albert Kahn anything from industrial to resi- Kahn was born in 1869 in what and Clements Library, the Detroit Associates, described efforts to dential to performance purposes. today is the German state of North Athletic Club, and the Edsel and redevelop the New Center area of LTU is home to Albert Kahn’s Rhine-Westphalia, the son of a Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Detroit, which includes the for- personal library, which was rabbi. He moved to the United Pointe Shores. mer GM headquarters – now the removed from his former Detroit States with his family in 1880. One thing’s for sure, Stone state-owned Cadillac Place office office piece by piece and painstak- Although a prodigy at piano, Kahn said – if you seek out Kahn’s building – the Fisher Building, the ingly reconstructed in a wing of gravitated toward architecture, work in Metro Detroit, “it’s like Argonaut Building, the New Center LTU’s library. On permanent loan and began work as an office boy Motown, it’s all around you. He One building, and the Albert Kahn from the firm, it contains thou- for famed Detroit architect John did 900 buildings in the Detroit building. sands of books and magazines Scott. Kahn learned to draw from area, and most of them are still Kahn President and CEO Alan on art, design, architecture, and Detroit painter Julius Melchers, with us… he built them to last for Cobb, BSAr’76, spoke on Albert engineering that were the great and joined the firm of Detroit centuries.” Kahn’s influence on the modern architect’s everyday sources of architect George Mason in 1885, Also in February, an exhibit at architecture movement. He refer- inspiration. MR for whom he designed the Grand LTU’s Detroit Center for Design + enced many architects influenced Hotel porch. In 1896, he formed a partner- ship with Alexander B. Trowbridge and George W. Nettleton and began designing Detroit buildings like the Palms apartments, Belle Isle Aquarium, and Temple Beth El (now the Bonstelle Theatre). Kahn’s brother Julius was also an important part of the great architect’s success – he invented steel-reinforced concrete, which Large projected pictures were combined with models Visitors check out Albert Kahn’s restored personal allowed concrete buildings to be of Kahn’s industrial designs in “Albert Kahn: Under library, in a wing of the LTU library in the Buell built with larger spaces between Construction.” Management Building.

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Showing a tape of former vice There’s an ethical hold on some Defending basic research: presidential candidate Sarah Palin of this research, however, because mocking government-funded fruit it comes close to the genetic UM president delivers Cisler fly research, Schlissel noted that “repair” of seemingly healthy Lecture on advances in medicine that research eventually led to a people. clear understanding of the genetic “I always wanted to play origin of horrible human bone basketball, but I wasn’t talented Why on Earth are they studying Research where nobody is telling deformities. enough,” Schlissel said. “What that? the researcher what to study. “You can’t predict where if we cloned the Michael Jordan It’s a question you some- The results ultimately became science will lead or what a proj- gene and gave it to me, or to my times hear about basic scientific profound.” ect’s ultimate importance will be,” offspring? The scientific com- research, much of it government Schlissel traced the history of he said. munity is pausing … to study funded, without a specific goal in the discovery of DNA from early Today’s genetic and stem cell whether this is appropriate.” mind. 20th century experiments to the research, Schlissel said, may The Walker L. Cisler Lecture Such research found a strong identification of DNA as the keeper eventually make possible indi- Series was founded at Lawrence defender in University of Michigan of the genetic code in the 1950s vidually tailored medicines and Tech with a generous gift from the President Mark Schlissel who and 1960s, all driven by curiosity the repair of genetic defects that Holley Foundation.MR delivered LTU’s 21st annual – and which have today become cause diseases like cystic fibrosis Walker L. Cisler Lecture in April. multibillion-dollar industries. and sickle-cell anemia. Schlissel, a biology researcher before becoming a university administrator, argued that pre- cisely that kind of basic research is responsible for many of the scientific advances that make our lives longer, healthier, and better. Schlissel focused on advances in stem cell and genetic research during his talk. He presented example after example showing that “discovery science, driven by University of Michigan president Mark Schlissel curiosity, has been responsible for University of Michigan president Mark Schlissel opens his (right) with LTU President Virinder Moudgil most major scientific advances. Walker L. Cisler Lecture on campus. (center) enjoy the reception before the lecture.

Assistant Professor Anne Kohnke is the ISACA academic advocate Lawrence Tech takes top for LTU. She mentors and supports students interested in IT and two spots in cybersecurity cybersecurity. MR competition Ð again

For the third consecutive year, LTU students took first and second places in a regional cybersecurity case competition in April. The Fourth Annual Scholarship Case Competition was sponsored by the Detroit Chapter of ISACA, formerly known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. The first place winner was Xu Zou and the second place winners were a team of Sagar Naik and Venkata Rathna Anirudh Mamidipaka. All three students are pursuing master’s degrees in information technology. First place earned $4,000 and second place $2,500. A total of 15 LTU students on eight teams participated in the event, which is designed to enrich the experience of students by providing a Photo: Anne Kohnke real-world security scenario to solve. The teams worked on a From left to right are ISACA competition winners Venkata Rathna Anirudh case study and presented reports to a panel of IT security industry Mamidipaka of Lawrence Tech, Obay Alijerian of Eastern Michigan University professionals. (EMU), Xu Zou of LTU, Qisheng He of EMU, and Sagar Naik of LTU.

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Sculptor Mino Kramer LTU dedicates Ford sculpture with Edsel Ford II at the dedication of LTU’s new at campus entrance statue of Henry Ford.

The Henry Ford Trade School sculpture’s April 25 unveiling and experiential learning Alumni Association (HFTSAA) has dedication ceremony – as was at the Trade School had a close relationship with LTU Edsel Ford II, great-grandson of was extended to since the University’s 1932 found- the automotive pioneer and mem- the higher educa- ing. That relationship now has ber of the Ford Motor Co. board of tion level at LTU,” physical evidence – a sculpture directors. said Lawrence Tech of Henry Ford outside LTU’s Buell Henry Ford opened a trade President Virinder Management Building at one of school in 1916 that would eventu- Moudgil. “This new the busiest locations on campus. ally enroll nearly 3,000 students sculpture recognizes The sculpture was a gift of the a year. Henry and his only son, Ford’s role. We’re HFTSAA, and many trade school Edsel, were also instrumental in also pleased that its alumni were in attendance for the the creation of LTU in 1932 on the placement on our campus dovetails so well with our uni- versity’s continued support of the City of Southfield’s commit- ment to public art.” The Ford Trade automaker’s Highland School graduated its last class in Park campus – and 1952. Most of its alumni are in one of the first acts of their 80s and 90s. Members see LTU founder Russell the scholarship and statue as a Lawrence was to way of serving and informing new create a scholarship generations while highlighting fund to attract Trade the legacy of Ford’s educational School graduates. In approach and preserving the 2015, the association memory of their organization. donated $750,000 to Speakers at the April 25 event create a permanent included Moudgil; Douglas Ebert, endowed scholarship chairman of the LTU Board of fund for undergraduate Trustees; and George Banda, mechanical engineer- Henry Ford Trade School Alumni ing students at LTU. Association president. Sculptor With the new sculpture are LTU board chairman Douglas Ebert, Henry Ford “Henry Ford’s ‘theory and Mino Kramer also attended. MR Trade School Alumni Association President George Banda, Edsel Ford II, and practice’ model emphasizing LTU president Virinder Moudgil.

Many Henry Ford Trade School alumni were in the crowd for the dedication The unveiling of the latest artistic addition to LTU’s campus. of LTU’s new sculpture of Henry Ford.

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Clubs of Adoption Society and also volun- Donley Award students excel Southeastern teered with local pre-school Michigan. and elementary science fairs. In Kadija Kalo and David Stroshein Biology and a student senator for Graduating addition, he workd as a biology, are LTU’s 2017 recipients of the the College of Arts and Sciences with a 3.99 chemistry, and math tutor in Ed Donley Distinguished Graduate in LTU’s student government. Kalo GPA, David Lawrence Tech’s Academic Awards. They were selected for was also an outstanding student Stroshein, Achievement Center. the honor by the LTU Alumni athlete and served as the captain BSMCB’17, is As a Lawrence Tech freshman, Association Board of Directors. of the 2016 WHAC Champion a model of the Kadija Kalo Stroshein elected to continue a The Donley Awards recognize and national runner-up women’s accomplished, research project he began in high not only academic achievements, lacrosse team. For her outstand- well-rounded school of identifying microbes but also participation in campus ing leadership on and off the student. He present in carnivorous pitcher activities, employment while a stu- field, she was awarded the 2016 served for three plants and comparing lab grown dent, involvement in professional Student Leader of the Year award. years as the specimens to natural flora. He associations, and community Kalo accomplished all of this treasurer of the was awarded project funding service. while maintaining a 3.78 GPA student chap- through Quest, LTU’s co-curricular Nominated by several faculty and working in the Academic ters of both experiential learning program that David Stroshein members, as well as her lacrosse Achievement Center as a tutor the American enables students to pursue their coach, Kadijah Kalo, BSBCM’17, to other students in biology and Chemical Society and the Society passions outside the excelled both inside and outside chemistry. During the summer of Physics Students and was classroom. Stroshein also the classroom during her time at of 2016, she held a prestigious involved in the American Society received a Presidential Under- Lawrence Tech. student researcher position at of Biochemistry and Molecular graduate Research Award, which An involved student leader, Pepperdine University. She also Biology. provided additional funding. He she was a founding member was a model student volunteer, Through all of this activity, researched a variety of subjects at and vice president of the student donating her time to such causes Stroshein found time to give back Lawrence Tech and at the Donald chapter of the American Society as Greening of Detroit, Sparrow to others. He regularly volunteered Danforth Plant Science Center in for Biochemistry and Molecular Hospital, and the Boys & Girls at the Grosse Pointe Animal St. Louis, Mo. MR

variety of career paths. Coy envi- practice was developed in 2005 at LTU launches groundbreaking new sions the program attracting the California College of the Arts. master’s program in social practice students who aim to teach, work Since then, approximately 10 for a foundation or community others have been formed around development group, obtain a job the country. A new program in the College of ting. It will operate out of LTU’s at an art institute, or pursue a Students in the social practice Architecture and Design is aimed Detroit Center for Technology + career as an urban planner. program will be encouraged at graduate students who intend Design (DCDT) in Midtown Detroit. Coy developed the program to to initiate community projects to use their skills in art, design, While the MFA in Social encompass the use of a wide with wide-ranging applications. and technology to make a differ- Practice is a graduate program, variety of media, sculpture, and Projects might include evaluating ence in the community. spaces are reserved for high large-scale installation art to the economics of Eastern Market’s The Master of Fine Arts in school students seeking college projection mapping, augmented muralism movement or creating Social Practice was created in credit, who will collaborate on reality, tactical urbanism – even a performance piece in a public response to an emerging and sig- projects. The MFA in Social street art and live performance. park – whatever the students nificant movement within the art Practice suits those following a The first known program in social wish to pursue. and design worlds, in which fine “Our college offers so many art, technology, design, and com- different disciplines as a design munity engagement intersect. ecosystem,” said Karl Daubmann, “This program is the first of dean of the College of Architecture its kind in Detroit, as well as the and Design and executive director region,” said Assistant Professor of the DCDT. “This MFA program Steve Coy. operates within the groups that The 60-credit-hour degree exist. Rather than representing program is designed to foster any one discipline, it pulls the collaborative efforts between stu- many different disciplines dents and the community at large. together.” SC Students will create and assess community-based art and design Lawrence Tech’s Detroit Center for activities, all in a real-world set- Design + Technology in Midtown.

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LTU students build museum docent robot

A team of Lawrence Technological Turkus added: “This project University robotics engineering is important to me because as a students built a robot that gives child I spent a lot of time in people anywhere in the world the museums. By building our opportunity to visit an historic telepresence robot, we are able to Detroit auto plant. bring the experience of the Ford The students demonstrated the Piquette Avenue Plant museum to robot at the annual dinner meet- anyone in the world with an inter- ing of the Model T Automotive net connection.” Heritage Complex, the nonprofit The front of the docent assist robot The cost of the robot is about that runs the Ford Piquette Avenue bears this purely ornamental hood $5,000, which students raised Plant as a museum. ornament built around the emergency from sponsors. A senior capstone class of stop button. For more information on the robotics engineers, led by LTU Ford Piquette Avenue Plant muse- robotics instructor James Kerns, products of history, the Model T.” um, visit www.fordpiquetteav- built a robot that follows magnetic And Cowan spoke for many on enueplant.org. MR tape around the Piquette plant the team when he said, “I love the at the heels of a docent leading history of the Piquette museum a tour. A camera attached to the and love the idea of helping them The LTU team puts the docent assist robot allows visitors from around expand their digital reach.” robot through its paces. the globe to log in and join the Joseph Yudasz, leader of the docent tour, viewing the museum from an assistant robot building team, explains how the robot works at eye-level perspective. Virtual visi- the Model T Automotive Heritage tors can type in questions for the Complex, the nonprofit that runs docent, which are displayed on a the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant as a screen on the robot. museum. The students built a custom- made steel chassis for the robot, moving assembly line. At Piquette, which is powered by rechargeable automotive assembly was still batteries and uses wheelchair done the old-fashioned way, in motors and wheels to get around. a plant that would have been at They named the robot H.E.N.R.Y., home in any New England mill for “Historical Engineering town. Workers put an automotive Narrated Remotely for You.” frame up on sawhorses and bolted Jerry Mitchell, a retired Wayne and welded the rest of the car’s State University anatomy profes- parts onto it, rolling it out the door sor who chairs the Piquette plant’s when it was done. April Fool’s While no model of efficiency board, called the LTU students For some April Fool’s Day fun, LTU’s marketing and public affairs team put “wonderful young people, an compared to the moving assembly out a spoof press release announcing that a goat (blue, of course) had been inspiration to all of us” who make line, the Piquette plant did set released on the green, living roof of the A. Alfred Taubman Student Services him “more optimistic about the records for its time, at one point Center, in order to keep the sedum properly trimmed. The release was future of our country.” churning out 110 Model Ts a day. greeted with good humor by area media, and set a near-record for “likes” The nine students who worked The museum last year attracted and reactions on LTU’s Facebook page. on the project are Zachary Cowan, 18,000 visitors from more than Matt DiMilla, Patrick Feliksa, 50 countries. It is listed as an Christopher Leclerc, Ryan Martin, automotive heritage site with the Charles Morton, Luis Rodriguez, Automotive National Heritage Nicole Turkus, and Joey Yudasz, Area, part of the National Park team captain. They started build- Service system. ing the robot in November. The students said they’re proud The Piquette plant was home to to showcase a critical part of Model T production from 1904 to Detroit’s history through the use 1910. On Jan. 1, 1910, Henry Ford of modern technology. Yudasz opened the more famous Highland said the robot “helps bring atten- Park plant, where he perfected the tion to one of Detroit’s most iconic

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master’s program in architectural LTU places two finalist teams in engineering prepares us to lead the architectural engineering competition industry.” She echoed the words of the program’s director, Professor Filza Two teams of LTU students were learned a lot about plumbing and team. In the competition itself, Walters: “When it comes to intel- among the five national finalists fire protection, and that became we learned how well Lawrence lectual leadership, students devel- in an Architectural Engineering my personal contribution to the Tech’s integrated bachelor’s- op novel approaches to traditional Institute competition to design systems, present well in front of a new athletic practice facility at a jury of multinational firms, and Texas Tech University in Lubbock. always bring new ideas forward.” “We definitely learned a lot and LTU’s teams have made it to had a lot of fun,” said team mem- the finals every year they have ber Caitlin Boote, MSAE’17. entered. Other members of Boote’s The teams were given a base team were Yeman Al-Rawi, Teah budget and a front elevation of Fink, Chris Lange, Pierce Sadlier, the building designed by the firm and Amber Zuehlke. The other Gensler, “and no details,” Boote LTU team was comprised of Mark said. From that bare-bones Fenty, Alyse Finley, Rachel Ritter, information, the LTU students Haley Talcott, Andrew Tucker, developed a 120-page report Jagoda Wojtowicz, and Liuyang full of structural, mechanical, Yang. Their faculty advisor and electrical, and construction mentor was Associate Professor engineering calculations, tables, Ralph Nelson. and plans for the building, which The LTU team’s design for a new athletic practice and competition facility at Boote now works at US Gypsum contained a 2,000-spectator track Texas Tech. as an advanced manufacturing and field venue, practice football engineer. MR field, weight rooms, medical and training offices, team rooms, and Demand for the course contin- more. Engineers as entrepreneurs ues to grow. In 2017–18, Gerhart Boote’s team designed an LTU a key national player in boosting innovation, will facilitate workshops with elegant, high-performing build- colleagues in Arizona, Michigan, ing that was net energy positive design thinking in engineering education Washington, D.C., Colorado, and thanks to photovoltaic arrays on Texas. Carpenter will teach some the roof and nearby carports. The What started out as a curriculum of those courses, as will col- six-story building also featured development program at Lawrence leagues from other institutions geothermal heating and cooling, Tech, run by two LTU professors, around the country. and a system of filters and dis- has become a sprawling, national The aim, Gerhart said, is infection methods to make both program. to “use active pedagogies like black and gray wastewater The aim is the same, though: problem-based learning to instill recyclable for use in toilets injecting entrepreneurial thinking Donald Carpenter Andrew Gerhart the aspects of the entrepreneurial and janitors’ closets. The into the engineering curriculum. mindset. How do you look for 189,000-square-foot structure was Engineering professors Donald Louis University among the first opportunities? How do you take designed for the Living Building Carpenter and Andrew Gerhart – heard of the effort and asked those opportunities and create Challenge, which requires that started training professors in- Carpenter and Gerhart to present value? How do you create value buildings be net positive in energy house on modifying course cur- to their faculty. The pair was also in ways other than purely tech- and water re-use, last 100 years ricula to include active, collabora- invited to facilitate workshops in nical?” In the broadest sense, or more, and improve the sur- tive, and problem-based learning Europe and South America. they’re teaching engineers to rounding community. to boost the entrepreneurial con- By 2013, the Kern Foundation’s think like businesspeople, like “The first, biggest challenge tent in LTU courses in 2009. Their Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering entrepreneurs. was to solidify our team dynamic,” work is part of Lawrence Tech’s Network, a growing group of And Gerhart and Carpenter Boote said. “Working together longstanding relationship with schools committed to providing continue to expand the workshops with fellow students who had the Kern Family Foundation of more entrepreneurship educa- at LTU. Innovating Curriculum distinct and good ideas that were Waukesha, Wis., whose charitable tion for engineering students, with the Entrepreneurial Mindset different than mine meant coming efforts include entrepreneurial formalized and institutionalized was offered to 16 faculty mem- up with compromises. Nobody engineering education. the courses, and Gerhart and bers – mostly from the humanities got bossy or condescending, and Other universities – Ohio Carpenter started presenting at faculty in communication and everybody had their ideas heard. I Northern University and Saint other institutions. psychology – in May. MR

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Presenting their case: Undergraduate management, MBA students square off

LTU’s College of Management Program and the Center for hosted its first undergradu- Leadership in LTU’s College of ate Strategic Management and Management. Business Policy Case Competition A $200 prize was awarded to in April. the winning team of Abdulhameed Participants in the undergraduate Strategic Management and Business Policy The college has been hosting Alshammari, Norah Alshihri, Tyler Case Competition. business case competitions to test DeMeere, and Tyler Holt. the analytical skills of its MBA stu- In the MBA Capstone Program, dents since 2014. This year, three three teams from Marx’s Global Two management students groups of students from John Strategic Management class ana- Zhu’s undergraduate Strategic lyzed the business strategies of recognized by FEI Management and Business Policy three grocery leaders – Kroger, (MGT 4213) capstone class ana- Meijer, and Walmart. The Detroit Chapter of Financial fessors as being engaged both lyzed and made strategic recom- Each team analyzed the struc- Executives International (FEI) inside and beyond the classroom mendations for the electronics ture and competitive intensity recognized two LTU students in through participating in research retailer Best Buy. of the industry, technological its annual FEI Academic Awards projects,” said Minakhi Jena, Founded in 1966, Best Buy was trends, external opportunities and ceremony, held in February. director of business programs in renamed and rebranded in 1983 threats, and internal strengths and Joshua Dirlam, an undergradu- the College of Management. “He and has expanded throughout weaknesses and recommended ate in LTU’s Bachelor of Science in is eager to learn about finance and the United States, Canada, and strategic actions to enhance Business Administration program share his knowledge with others.” Mexico. It gave up operations the companies’ long-term com- with a minor in economics and Master of Business in China in 2011 and Europe in petitive advantages. Each team a concentration in finance, was Administration student Xinhui 2012. interviewed company managers, recognized for maintaining a 3.84 Huang was recognized for main- The students focused on four surveyed customers, collected GPA, while also serving as captain taining a 3.60 GPA while serving strategy-related questions: Should data from industry and company of the LTU golf team. as a graduate research assistant, Best Buy provide customers with reports, and compared products, Dirlam is a member of the working closely with finance fac- better sales force knowledge, or prices, services, and facilities. College of Management Student ulty on a research project studying products with low prices? How The presentations were Advisory Board, the Student various option-based investment will Walmart’s decision to ramp assessed by a panel of four Athlete Advisory Committee, strategies. He was also chosen up in-store electronics sales grocery industry experts: Ryan and LTU Collegiate DECA. He for the Certified Management affect Best Buy? How will Best Mathews, Bryan Neiman, Mike also tutors students in finance, Accountant Scholarship Program Buy compete against internet Hamelin, and James Loughran. accounting, economics, and through the Association of giant Amazon? How will Best Buy The Walmart team received the general business in the Academic Accountants and Financial Profes- expand globally? award for best overall presentation. Achievement Center. sionals in Business. Huang plans Judges for the event were The three student teams were “Joshua is known by his pro- to pursue a PhD in finance. MR Atul Kalia, director of engineer- Kroger: Xeying Chen, Xi Li, ing at Pontiac Coil Inc. and co- Matt Federspiel, and Gregg founder of Certus Management Laframboise; Meijer: Brent Malik, Consultants, and Thomas Marx, Ebone Maxwell, and Walmart: professor and director of the Chen Lu, Valerie Scott, and Kirby Senior Service College Fellowship Wilson. MR

Honorees Xinhui Huang (right) and Joshua Dirlam (second from right) at the ceremony honoring them. With this LTU group are (left) Howard Davis, execu- tive director, corporate and foundation relations; (second from left) Minakhi Jena, director of business programs, College of Management; (fifth from left) Kristen DeVries, vice president, university advancement; and (fifth from right) Participants in the MBA version of the event. Bahman Mirshab, dean of the College of Management.

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thinner warfarin. She said she Center, said she hopes the event Career event highlights talked to several potential employ- grows in future years. student talent at Science and ers as well. “The LTU students are “It was a good turnout,” said really doing awesome research,” Technology Showcase Gerald LeCarpentier, chair of Collins said. “This Science and LTU’s Department of Biomedical Technology Showcase clearly Engineering. “People from all over demonstrates our university LTU students showed off their tomato disease, but I did tell her were talking to our BME folks and motto, ‘Theory and Practice.’ This research expertise to more than she’s doing microscopy and has the life sciences folks. And we was a great collaboration with the 40 area employers at the inaugural the ability to do very meticulous had some very good hands-on Marburger STEM Center, Career Science and Technology Showcase, work, and that I am interested in.” displays.” Services, and Medical Main Street organized by LTU’s Office of In fact, Budd eventually hired that In one display, Aimee to provide an informal setting Career Services and Marburger student, Katelyn Allen, BSMCB’17, Tomlinson, BSBmE’17, showed for our science and biomedical STEM Center, as well as Oakland as a laboratory technician. off her development of a device engineering students to make key County’s Medical Main Street Budd said he also attended the to tell EMTs or others performing connections with employers. We biotech economic development fair looking for computer science CPR how much pressure to put on absolutely plan to make this an program. students – and they were there as a person’s chest – not too little, annual event and draw more LTU The fair focused on the well. George Terrell, a sophomore which won’t get oxygen into the students and industry partners.” University’s unique blend of sci- computer science major, showed lungs, and not too much, which MR ence, engineering, and business a project analyzing the lyrics of can break a rib. talent, including students from Beatles songs written by Paul Sibrina Collins, executive direc- biomedical engineering, molecular McCartney and John Lennon, to tor of LTU’s Marburger STEM and cell biology, and computer see if the words both men favored science. could determine which one of Gerald W. Budd, president of them really wrote a particular Livonia-based Phoenix Imaging song. Inc., said the event was worth- “I got a bunch of business Management, Career Services while for him. cards, so it was a good day,” hold first ‘Industry Night’ “I met one young woman Terrell said. showing a project on tomato dis- Christina Diez, BSMCB’17, ease,” said Budd, whose company showed off her project to analyze LTU’s College of Management and – science, technology, engineer- sells machine vision inspection two genes to identify differences the Office of Career Services held ing, architecture and design, and equipment and pharmaceutical in individual tolerances of the their first-ever Industry Night with mathematics. testing gear. “I’m not interested in painkiller codeine and the blood local businesses in March, and “Our students are prepared for about 30 employers attended. internships and co-ops,” College College officials said the objec- of Management Dean Bahman tives of Industry Night were Mirshab said. “These businesses threefold: can entrust our students with • To introduce industry recruit- projects that are vital to their ers to LTU faculty, showcasing organizations. These opportunities their expertise in a variety of can enrich our students’ class- disciplines, their teaching abilities room experience, and indirectly, and research capabilities, and the these businesses can tap into our degree programs offered at the faculty expertise to boost their University. productivity.” • To introduce LTU students to Attendees at the event included the recruiters, showing how LTU major area businesses such as students differ from those of other Quicken Loans, Eaton Corp., Kelly schools, thanks to the University’s Services Inc., Credit Union One, “Theory and Practice” method of Modis, and ImageSoft. instruction and its strong “Events such as these serve as emphasis on global business, a gateway to new opportunities for leadership training, and business our management students as well communications. as employers,” said Peg Pierce, • To acquaint local businesses director of LTU’s Office of Career with LTU’s unique advantage as Services. MR a school founded on and com- LTU students George Terrell and Christina Diez at LTU’s first-ever Science and mitted to the STEAM disciplines Technology Showcase.

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to evaluate the human heart. LTU makes a ‘STEMsation’ at On the design side, Meaghan Sampson-Webber Leadership Academy Markiewicz, MAr’17, STEM pro- gram associate in the Marburger STEM Center, led an architectural More than 50 parents and stu- STEM Center Director Sibrina an LTU and Sampson-Webber challenge to build a tower as tall dents attended STEMstation Night Collins and Sampson-Webber partner, led students in a con- as possible – and not eat the at Sampson-Webber Leadership Principal Karla Craig welcomed struction activity to complete an materials – using marshmallows Academy, a K-8 school within the the parents and students. additional seating platform for the and dry spaghetti. Detroit Public Schools Community “We are thrilled to partner with Outdoor Classroom Project that LTU representatives also District. The event, held on May students, teachers, and parents was completed this summer. provided parents information 18, was hosted in partnership at Sampson-Webber Leadership John Peponis, a graduate about the Blue Devil Scholars with Lawrence Tech’s Marburger Academy, focusing on exposing student in LTU’s Department of Program, Robofest, and the 2017 STEM Center. and engaging young people to the Biomedical Engineering, showed Middle School Summer Camp STEMsation Night was filled STEAM disciplines,” Collins said. students the latest technology for Sampson-Webber students. with hands-on interactive activi- LTU’s mascot, “Blue,” also used to obtain an echocardiogram SNC ties in six STEAM Stations – each attended, engaging students and Sibrina Collins, with a different focus. The stations parents throughout the evening. director of the included robotics, design, engi- Three Sampson-Webber teach- Marburger STEM neering, mathematics, science, ers – science teacher Lashon Clay, Center, with Blue and 21st-century literacy. LTU mathematics teacher Kevin Fells, and Sampson- students, representatives from the and English language arts instruc- Webber Principal Detroit nonprofit EcoWorks, and tor Jacqueline Blakely led STEAM Karla Craig. Sampson-Webber students and stations. Cynthia Turner, a junior teachers led the stations. mechanical engineering student The primary focus of at LTU, led a robotics activity, STEMsation Night was to expose the “Balloon Scorpion Blaster,” and engage students and parents in which a Lego scorpion robot to the STEAM (science, technol- operated by a controller using ogy, engineering, art and design, Bluetooth technology pops a and mathematics) fields. balloon. Kicking off the event, Marburger Paul Goldsmith of EcoWorks,

Marburger STEM Center reaches out at Belle Isle Science Festival

More than 3,200 parents and Marburger STEM Center spon- students attended the 2017 MSU sored two stations in the Dossin Science Festival (Detroit Expo Great Lakes Museum. Day) at Belle Isle Park’s Dossin “The goals of the MSU Science Great Lakes Museum and Festival are very much aligned A Sampson-Webber Leadership Academy student learns basic construction techniques from Paul Goldsmith of EcoWorks. Belle Isle Nature Zoo in April. with the goals of the Marburger The University’s Marburger STEM Center,” said Sibrina STEM Center was among the Collins, executive director of the participants. center. “Central to the work we Photonics research advances at LTU “The MSU Science Festival pro- do is to expose young people to vides an opportunity to put STEM the STEM and design fields and Jinjun Xia, senior lecturer in SPIE Digital Library, as part of professionals in front of the com- help them understand how STEM the Department of Electrical the proceedings of the Dynamics munity in a fun and informal set- shapes their daily experiences.” and Computer Engineering, and and Fluctuations in Biomedical ting,” said Jena Baker-Calloway, Collins led a hands-on robotics senior electrical and computer Photonics XIV conference. SPIE lead organizer for the festival and activity and Meaghan Markiewicz, engineering major Ashley Julin is the international society for the director of the MSU Detroit Center. MAr’17, Marburger STEM Center have published a paper entitled study of optics and photonics. During the event young people program associate, presented “Polarization Enhanced Laser The paper can be found at http:// and families interacted with the students with an architectural Speckle Contrast Imaging for dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2249928. various STEM stations. LTU’s challenge. SNC Vascular Dynamic Study” in the MR

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LTU hosts ASCE student conference, takes third in concrete canoe competition

LTU hosted about 300 students carry, how much they bend under and faculty members from 10 uni- load, as well as how much the versities in the Great Lakes region bridges themselves weigh. in early April for the American Student teams also built Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) bowling balls and canoes out of North Central Region Student advanced formulations of con- Student teams prepare their concrete canoes for the competition. Conference. crete. The canoes raced at Pontiac LTU student Lauren Gersch Lake State Recreation Area, took first place in the event’s where Lawrence Tech took third first phase, an academic paper place overall, behind first place competition on engineering ethics. Michigan Tech and second place Then, LTU and the other University of Michigan. schools tested their building Other schools competing skills in the Steel Bridge included Case Western Reserve Competition, sponsored by ASCE University, Michigan State and the American Institute of Steel University, Ohio Northern Construction. Teams build small University, the University of steel bridges that cross a span Detroit Mercy, the University of and conform to predetermined Toledo, Wayne State University, The women’s concrete canoe team is all smiles after a successful specifications. Bridges are judged and Western Michigan University. run on Pontiac Lake. on how much weight they can MR College of Management launches online Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a critical issue non-technical courses that can be confronted by international, customized to match their inter- national, and local organizations, ests and skill sets. Course choices businesses, and industries, from include networking infrastruc- healthcare, banking, and finance to ture, network security, disaster transportation, retail, and govern- recovery, business continuity, and The full concrete canoe team. ment. The WannaCry ransomware countermeasures. attack is just the latest example. Cybersecurity focuses on pro- In response, LTU’s College tecting computers, networks, pro- of Management has launched grams, and data from unintended an online Graduate Certificate in or unauthorized access, change, Cybersecurity to give students the or destruction. skills and knowledge required by The cybersecurity trade companies to combat the threats magazine CSO predicts a shortfall and attacks that endanger service of 1.5 million people trained in delivery and profitability. cybersecurity by 2019. The U.S. Cybersecurity is not only a Bureau of Labor Statistics technical issue, but also a man- predicts an 18 percent increase agement one. The 15-credit certifi- in the rate of growth for cyberse- cate is interdisciplinary, designed curity jobs by 2024, much faster to attract students from diverse than the average for all occupa- backgrounds who can pursue tions. MR The Steel Bridge Competition in the Ridler Field House. a combination of technical and

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in job interviews and on college Engineering majors designing to help the disabled applications; others have patented their innovations. LTU students in several programs the students will not only improve The students designed a device In another project, Lawrence spent the academic year design- the efficiency of our clients’ work to help workers with dexterity Tech biomedical engineering ing novel devices to assist people but also eliminate barriers that issues assemble spray bottles students worked with colleagues with disabilities, on the job and in prevent them from performing with a single hand, reducing phys- from the University of Detroit the home. new types of work. STEP looks ical discomfort and stress. Mercy to design devices to One group of students was forward to continuing this rela- Team leader Steven Graczyk, address the needs of disabled from the Sophomore Entrepren- tionship with LTU for years to a mechanical engineering major, veterans they interviewed. The eurial Engineering Design Studio, come.” said of the competition: “It was designs were presented to the which requires students to solve One of the teams involved nice to take what we learned in veterans in a program at the a real-world problem using with the STEP projects wound up the classroom and apply it to real- John D. Dingell VA Medical Center engineering skills. Last fall, finishing third in the nation at the world problems and actually see in Detroit. they worked with the nonprofit SourceAmerica Design Challenge, our work helping people. That’s The devices ranged from a cane Dearborn-based agency Services an engineering competition. something as an engineer is good with an integrated stirrup, meant to Enhance Potential (STEP) and to see, the things you create help- to assist a veteran with multiple StoneCrest Behavioral Health ing people in the real world. It was sclerosis in lifting his leg, to a Center in Detroit to develop prod- also good to see other schools wheelchair pad designed to ucts to help people with disabili- and how they were helping people prevent pressure ulcers (also ties navigate the workplace. with disabilities in the work force.” known as bedsores). STEP works to train and According to SourceAmerica Their efforts drew praise from place people with disabilities in Design Challenge Program the veterans, and the students meaningful employment, and Manager Charissa Garcia, the said they intend to pursue StoneCrest provides employment benefits of competing for students commercial production of their opportunities to STEP clients. can be far-reaching. Past competi- devices. MR The LTU students met with STEP tors have shared their experience clients, learned what they needed, The effort and designed products to meet to develop those needs. assistive Steve Slayton, STEP resource technologies center director, said, “The relation- for the dis- ship with Lawrence Tech has been abled drew rewarding on many levels. I could local media not be more impressed with every coverage. aspect of the University, from the campus to the faculty and most of all the students. The way the Students demonstrate their assistive students were able to engage and cane for an audience of disabled analyze the needs of the people veterans and medical staff at the we serve has been truly inspiring. John D. Dingell VA Medical Center Many of the designs developed by in Detroit. Audio tech certificate added

The Department of Engineering of study in courses such as Music Technology has added a new for Audio Engineering, Audio undergraduate Certificate in Audio Principles, and Audio Senior Technology for students in the Project. MR media communi- cation program. The certificate comprises 15 semester hours

Lawrence Tech’s Phono Lab is one of the places students LTU claims third place in the SourceAmerica Design Challenge for assistive learn about audio devices for the disabled. technology.

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Lawrence Tech ranked in top 50 for game design

Lawrence Technological University their graduates’ starting salaries has earned a No. 29 ranking on and employment experience. the Princeton Review’s 2017 list “It is an honor being ranked saluting the top 50 undergraduate among the best undergraduate programs that teach game design. programs in the world,” said It was the second year LTU’s Marshall “Mars” Ashton, assistant program ranked in the top 50. professor in LTU’s College of The Princeton Review (www. Architecture and Design and direc- PrincetonReview.com) chose tor of the Bachelor of Fine Arts the schools based on a survey in Game Art program. “Despite it conducted of 150 institutions how young both the game art bines instruction in art and design Lawrence Tech’s game art program offering game design coursework and game software development and in computer science. combines the University’s industry- or degrees in the United States, programs are, we have seen an The Princeton Review devel- leading design expertise with its long tradition in technology. Canada, and some countries incredible amount of progress oped its “Top Schools to Study abroad. as we contribute to the field at Game Design” project in 2009 The company’s 40-question large and the development of with assistance from a national administrators and faculty from survey asked schools to report on the Michigan game development advisory board that helped design respected game design programs everything from their academic community.” LTU officials say the the survey instrument and meth- and professionals from some of offerings and faculty credentials to program is unusual in that it com- odology. Board members included the top gaming companies. MR

Conservancy, and a Philadelphia- from LTU and Detroit Western Prof’s shipping container based design group, Groundswell. International High School work project makes the front page Coy’s and Cooley’s effort was together on assembling the part of a front-page roundup of project’s components. They also Detroit shipping container projects have design sessions together at Steven Coy, assistant professor rial for a variety of needs – in this in the April 27 Detroit News. LTU’s Detroit Center for Design + in the College of Architecture and case, an 11-container develop- Cooley also co-founded Technology. MR Design, is working with a variety ment that will include a children’s the Detroit business incuba- of nonprofits and Slows BBQ play area, shaded pavilions, a live tor Ponyride, where students co-founder and LTU adjunct pro- entertainment venue, and a sales fessor Phillip Cooley on a public area for vendors of food and other use project in Detroit’s Dequindre products. Cut – a former rail corridor – that It’s backed by $300,000 in makes use of shipping containers. grants from Kresge Innovative GD&T workshop The containers provide easy, Projects: Detroit, the Knight Cities cheap, basic construction mate- Challenge, Detroit Riverfront

LTU’s Smart Manufacturing and Lean Systems Research Group hosted 80 participants in a Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) Workshop on campus in March. GD&T is often used to show tolerances on mechanical drawings, which helps to reduce costs. The speaker was John-Paul Belanger, president of Rochester Hills-based Geometric Learning Systems. The organizer was Ahad Ali, associate professor, director of LTU’s Bachelor Shipping container projects are big news these days, and LTU’s architecture of Science in Industrial Engineering and Master of Science in Industrial and design faculty and students are in on the trend. Engineering programs, and director of the research group.

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programs, praised Mohilldean’s Architectural engineering student a “intellect and natural abilities in finalist for prestigious fellowship structural engineering.” He added that Mohilldean “has some unique artistic qualities that are often An LTU student was one of four ing among your peers … The absent in a technical mind.” national finalists in a competition time and effort spent in preparing Mohilldean’s essay for the with hundreds of other students a worthy and thoughtful submis- competition was also unique – a for a prestigious traveling archi- sion was most evident and study of large wooden structures. tecture and design fellowship. appreciated.” In an era of steel and glass, Hadiel Mohilldean, MSAE’17, The SOM Foundation is the Mohilldean noted that “wood contended for the SOM charitable arm of the Chicago- uniquely offers both aesthetic and Foundation 2017 Structural based global architecture firm structure opportunities to building Engineering Travel Fellowship. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The design not available in any other Although she did not win, the competition was open to students construction material,” praising its foundation wrote Mohilldean that at accredited degree programs in “beauty, complexity, color, grain, being one of four finalists was a civil or architectural engineering and texture.” significant achievement, and that with a focus on structures. The essay covered the big pic- “we hope you will regard this Keith Kowalkowski, LTU ture of wood – three trillion trees accomplishment with pride in associate professor and direc- covering 30 percent of the Earth’s having been selected as outstand- tor of civil engineering graduate Hadiel Mohilldean land, in 100,000 species – and the small advantages, noting that nobody hugs a column made of learning at the University. They concrete. She also said the rise of Three more LTU students named include encouraging students engineered wood products allows University Innovation Fellows from non-engineering fields to wooden skyscrapers: “Recent become involved in an engineer- innovations in engineered wood… ing design course that aims to allow timber to withstand larger Three LTU engineering students tance, students go through six improve employment prospects design forces. This opens up new were named University Innovation weeks of online training and travel for the disabled; broadening LTU’s possibilities for more robust timber Fellows in February, the third to an annual University Innovation existing leadership curriculum to design expressing new achieve- group to earn the designation. Fellows Silicon Valley Meetup. include larger and more interdis- ments in form, height and span.” LTU’s newest fellows are Leah Throughout the year, they take ciplinary community service proj- Mohilldan credited Hall, Aneeka Patel, and Joe part in events and conferences ects; and expanding LTU’s existing Kowalkowski, along with Ralph Pishek. Hall is majoring in bio- and have opportunities to learn mentorship program for first-year Nelson, associate professor in medical engineering, while Patel from one another, Stanford men- students. the College of Architecture and and Pishek are majoring in indus- tors, and leaders in academia and The latest cohort of LTU Design, and Robert W. Fletcher, trial engineering. industry. Innovation Fellows joins earlier professor of mechanical engineer- The University Innovation LTU’s latest class of Innovation fellows Leah Batty, Justin Becker, ing, with giving “continuous sup- Fellows program trains students Fellows is proposing several Steven Graczyk, Ashley Jordan, port and feedback, giving me the to improve education in entrepre- steps to boost interdisciplinary Sarah Makki, and Nada Saghir. best guidance” in the competition. neurship, design thinking, and project-based and leadership MR She chose to study wooden creativity at their schools. Fellows structures because buildings are a design innovation spaces, start major contributor to carbon emis- entrepreneurship organizations, sions – but wood is by definition host experiential learning events, a carbon sequester, storing a ton and work with faculty to develop of CO2 per cubic meter. “So that’s new courses. why we need to re-evaluate our Run by Stanford University’s procedures, and that’s why more Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, and more people are looking at the program has trained 1,000 construction with engineered tim- students at 185 schools since its ber products.” inception. Mohilldean will now be pursu- Fellows are sponsored by ing a master’s degree in civil and faculty and administrators as indi- From left to right, Cristi Bell-Huff, director of the Lawrence Technological environmental engineering. She viduals or teams and are selected University Studio for Entrepreneurial Engineering Design (SEED); University is also working as a structural through an application process Innovation Fellows Aneeka Patel, Leah Hall, and Joe Pishek; and Heidi engineer at Ghafari Associates in twice annually. Following accep- Morano, SEED project engineer. Dearborn. MR

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Delta Mu Delta members Mausoff, Sagar Naik, Aishwarya Management students named inducted were: Narasimhan, Christopher Orr, to business honor society Doctoral Naga Udaya Deepthi Parupudi, Gerald Storey Andrea Prendi, Stephanie Saez- Graduate Jovane, Anne Schwartz, Michael Nearly 50 College of Management advised the students: “Don’t do Sanad Affara, Fatimah Mohammad St. John, Jiayi Sun, Neil Thomas, students were inducted into the anything because you want to A. Alomair, Lisa Anderson, Neha Sashi Velnati, Naga Durga Sravani Delta Mu Delta international busi- meet people and advance your Bibireddy, Brian Blassic, Patrick Yelamarthi. ness honor society this spring. career… Do something that Bostick, Paul Coles, Yolanda Undergraduate In a dinner program, Beth comes from your heart.” Dewberry, Mary Evarts, Michael Ekram Mohammad A. Adam, Chappell, outgoing president and LTU President Virinder Moudgil Fraley, John Gates, Jennifer Lama Alabdulqader, Theresa CEO of the Detroit Economic Club, also addressed the crowd, noting Gonzalez, Ramya Priya Gundala, Coward, Joshua Dirlam, Tanner offered an inspiring message to that wherever they may be in their Georgeta Hirceaga, Rahul Jakkam Flint, Jan Frederik Horstkoetter, the inductees, their guests and careers, they will have an oppor- Chandrashekar, Casey Johnson, Kirk Markowski, Carolyn family members, and LTU faculty tunity to “excel, change the world, Michael Kaplan, Mark Kohls, McCullen, Collin Peters, Christian and staff. be transformative.” Jonathan LaRue, Xi Li, Kathleen Souvenir, Amanda Steinbis, Chappell urged the inductees He also encouraged the stu- Lytle, Rahul Mamindia, Charles Mashia Tate. MR to give their time, talent, and dents to read and learn widely in treasure to the community during philosophy, ethics, and econom- their careers. ics, and to be sensitive to cul- “When I was first starting out, tural differences in today’s global Ascension Michigan chief operating I had student loans to repay, and economy. I didn’t have a lot of money to Delta Mu Delta is a business officer named to Board of Trustees give to charity – but I had time,” honor society that recognizes aca- she said. “It’s amazing how you demic excellence and encourages Jean M. Meyer, COO of Ascension operations and can use your gifts and your skills students to create a community Michigan, has been named to the executive vice to help other people. Be bigger that fosters the well-being of its University’s Board of Trustees. president at St. than yourself. Be bigger than your individual members and the busi- “Ms. Meyer’s expertise in John Providence, career.” ness community. This year was health care will be an invaluable and previously When it came to nonprofit LTU’s fourth annual induction addition to the Lawrence Tech president of involvement, Chappell also ceremony. board as we seek to expand our Providence Park Jean Meyer educational offerings in the life Hospital in Novi, sciences, including our recent senior vice president of patient addition of a Bachelor of Science care and chief nursing officer of in Nursing degree,” LTU President St. John Providence, and COO and Virinder Moudgil said. chief nursing officer at St. Vincent Meyer has more than 25 years Hospital in Indianapolis, where of experience in health care, she spent 15 years in a variety of including front-line patient care leadership roles. experience as a nurse and senior Meyer was named one of the leadership experience in large 100 Most Influential Women health systems. As president and in Michigan in 2016 by Crain’s CEO of St. John Providence, she Detroit Business. She serves on led a health system with $2 bil- several other boards, including The newest members of Delta Mu Delta at the induction ceremony. lion in annual revenue, which has the Detroit Regional Chamber, six major hospitals in the Detroit Oakland Family Services, and the area and more than 125 urgent Greater Detroit Health Council. care, rehabilitation, primary care, In November, Lawrence and other health care locations Tech and St. John Providence throughout the region. established a bachelor’s degree Meyer earned a bachelor’s program in nursing. The program degree in public health education will enroll an initial cohort of 32 from the University of Wisconsin students for the Fall 2017 semes- – La Crosse, and bachelor’s and ter, with classroom instruction master’s degrees in nursing from on LTU’s Southfield campus and Loyola University of Chicago. clinical and laboratory instruction Beth Chappell, outgoing president and CEO of the Detroit Economic Club, Prior to her appointment as CEO, at six St. John Providence hospital delivers her remarks to the honorees. she was president of acute care locations in metro Detroit. MR

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he was a community relations als each have an infectious pas- University Advancement powers up intern for the Detroit Lions and a sion for the power of philanthropy graduate assistant and coordinator to transform higher education,” The Office of University Advance- what is now known as EcoWorks in the Office of Diversity Education said Kristen DeVries, vice presi- ment has named four new staffers in Detroit, and events director at at Central Michigan University. He dent of university advancement. who seek to foster LTU’s mission Metro Parent Publishing Group in holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts “They have chosen an auspicious of providing education based on Ferndale. She studied urban stud- in Sports Studies and a Master time in LTU’s history to come on “Theory and Practice” through ies at Wayne State University and of Science in Administration, board to inspire and engage stu- philanthropy. has a certificate in nonprofit man- Philanthropy, and Fundraising, dents, faculty, staff, and alumni in agement from the Kellogg School both from CMU. building an even brighter future.” Avram Kluger, of Management at Northwestern “These exceptional profession- MR senior major gifts University. officer. Kluger engages Lawrence Brooke Franklin, Stavros named ‘Phenomenal Tech’s friends by corporate and fostering knowl- foundations Woman’ of faculty edge about and officer. Franklin connections with the University works to establish Jacqueline M. Stavros has been development community to advance philan- long-term partner- named the 2017 recipient of the and change, thropic support. Kluger was previ- ships, strengthen Phenomenal Woman Award for strategy, effec- ously executive director of Keshet, existing relationships, initiate new faculty. tive leadership, an Ann Arbor-based Hebrew contacts in the corporate sector, The award is given to a role sustainability, language and cultural immer- and assist in providing strategic model for women through leader- and apprecia- sion program for high school direction for the advancement ship, spirit, and dedication. The tive approaches students in partnership with the of LTU. She has a background award was presented at the annual to inquiry, Ann Arbor Public Schools. Earlier, in both the corporate world and Phenomenal Woman’s Brunch relationship building, and social he was major gifts officer at Starr education, including positions in April, which was keynoted by construction. She has co-authored Commonwealth, a boarding school as an elementary school teacher, Sibrina Collins, executive director six books and 20 book chapters for at-risk youth in Albion, and regional director and director of LTU’s Marburger STEM Center. and 29 articles. She earned a campaign director of the Jewish of outreach development at the The event also featured awards Bachelor of Arts in marketing Federation of Ann Arbor. He holds Michigan Association of Public for administrators, staff, and from Wayne State University, an a Bachelor of Arts in political sci- School Academies, and a project students. MBA with a concentration in inter- ence and economics from the manager in the education and tal- Stavros has more than 25 years national business from Michigan State University of New York at ent division of the Detroit Regional of international experience in State University, and a Doctorate Plattsburgh and a Master of Public Chamber. She also developed the leadership, strategy, strategic of Management from Weatherhead Administration from New York business corps program for the planning, organizational develop- School of Management at Case University. Detroit Public Schools. Franklin ment and change, and marketing. Western Reserve University. earned a bachelor’s degree in She joined LTU as an adjunct She has worked with clients on Lisa M. Grace, communication from Central State professor in 1997 and joined the strategic business challenges in major gifts officer. University in Wilberforce, Ohio, faculty full time in 2000. North America, Europe, Australia, Grace supports and studied educational leadership Her research interests are and Asia, and has delivered more the development as a graduate student at Central focused on the positive theories than 70 invited presentations. of organizational Michigan University. and practices of organization MR relationships while managing a Quentin Davis, philanthropic gifts program that development ACE advances the University’s fund- associate. Davis raising and outreach objectives. provides support Grace was formerly deputy direc- to the advance- tor of the Grandmont Rosedale ment staff. Development Corp. in Detroit, Specific areas where she managed finances of assistance include major and and fundraising activities, super- planned giving and the annual vised administrative staff, and fund. Davis was previously project oversaw communications and manager at Nonprofit Enterprise human resources. Earlier, she at Work, an Ann Arbor provider Lawrence Tech and its Collaboratory business incubator were among the was development director and of consulting, training, and other sponsors of the annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship, an event held at energy education administrator at resources for nonprofits. Earlier, the Westin Southfield that promotes business formation in Michigan.

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Lions’ stadium refresh: Color it LTU blue

As the Detroit Lions reveal their internet connectivity, and a com- $100 million renovation of Ford plete renovation of Ford Field’s Field for the 2017 NFL season, suites, restaurants, and gathering they’ll no doubt be wearing their places. usual Honolulu blue. The north side of the stadium is But the renovation project designed in mid-century mod- itself has a slightly different hue. ern style, with influences from Lawrence Technological University Detroit’s auto industry giants. The Blue Devil blue, to be exact. south side renovations celebrate No less than eight LTU alumni Detroit’s traditions, taking its styl- are working on the project for ing cues from the former Hudson’s ROSSETTI, the Detroit-based department store warehouse that Elsewhere, “loge boxes” feature A rendering of the new Grid-Iron Club architectural design and planning Ford Field was built around. large, comfortable seating. Other at Ford Field. firm. ROSSETTI, which specializes One new bar, the 200-seat suites have been renovated in one in the design of stadiums, arenas, Lounge, is 6,800 square feet in of two themes – the Red Zone, consultants were meeting client and entertainment venues, was the size and inspired by Detroit’s featuring natural materials and expectations.” architect of the original stadium underground music scene. Its luxury fabrics, and the 20s Suites, Hoane said that as a techni- in 2002, and is overseeing the centerpiece: a 48-foot-long bar which boast wood flooring and cal designer, he helped produce renovation. with two chef’s tables. improved audio and video gear. construction documents for the Working on the project are Da- Another new venue, the 275- A new South Club transforms sev- stadium’s 100-plus suites. vid Andruccioli, BSAr’77; Allison seat Corner Bar, is inspired by eral suites into a club with large Vasile-Hoxha, who’s headed for McCarty, BSAr’05; Samantha Smi- the neighborhood watering holes open spaces and an expansive graduate school in landscape gelski, BSAr’10; John Bigtacion, around the Lions’ original home, view of game action. architecture at Harvard, said that BSAr’11; Adam Hoane, BSAr’11; Briggs (later Tiger) Stadium. It Recently, five of the eight “as an intern, I was able to work Joe Donelko, BSAr’12; Brendon includes a collection of Lions alumni involved discussed their on the project from the early stag- Veldboom. BSAr’16; and Andreea memorabilia. roles on the project. es of design, and I was also on the Vasile-Hoxha, BSAr’17. Suites on the north side of the Smigelski said she assisted the technical team. Jumping back and The project includes new, stadium are connected to a lounge project manager on the massive forth between the two sides was a 152-foot-long video boards, an called the Terrace Club. A 106-seat build, filling in where she didn’t really good experience.” improved sound system, improved Grid-Iron Club focuses on food. have time and “making sure our Bigtacion said he worked on early design, then was able to personally “design a few spaces, including the Corner Bar and a few retail spaces, so I got to freewheel a little.” Veldboom and Bigtacion added they were able to produce custom furniture pieces for some of the suites. All five said they believe their LTU education helped them fit into the culture at ROSSETTI. “This firm has a very studio feel to it,” Bigtacion said. “Just the culture that we have, the camara- derie, the open feel of it reminds Continued

From left to right are LTU alumni Brendon Veldboom, Andreea Vasile- Hoxha, Samantha Smigelski, Adam Hoane, and John Bigtacion, all of whom worked on the Ford Field project.

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me of being at Lawrence Tech, and Vasile-Hoxha and Bigtacion sitting in studio and being able to also mentioned working in LTU’s bounce ideas off your neighbors.” makeLab as an important part of Smigelski spoke for several of their career preparation. her peers about that culture, and Veldboom pointed out that how LTU got her there: “They are ROSSETTI has been involved in willing to work with you here on some of the world’s most famous whatever your interests are, not entertainment venues. “Sports just what you’re already good at. If and entertainment – it doesn’t get you say, ‘I want to learn some- much cooler than that in the world thing I have never done,’ they will of design,” he said. “What makes coach you through that. At LTU, me want to stay is that you can’t the leadership opportunities, the do cookie-cutter work. You have to student organizations, working be innovative, constantly push- for housing, all of that taught me ing, and trying to learn more. That social skills that made me a better ties into LTU – whenever you’re leader and more marketable.” in studio, it’s not like a math class where there is a right answer. There is constant exploration. The new Corner Bar at Ford Field. LTU is good preparation.” MR

minor league organization. “Most sales, marketing, media, the arts. Business grad hooping it up of our kids played Division I col- They’re all so happy to be a part as Canadian team owner lege ball,” Willis said. “I’ve got of this league, and you know you a coach and two assistants who are touching a lot of lives, and it’s have NBA experience.” special.” Hockey may be Canada’s national Willis, a Detroit native, earned Willis credited his business sport, but a Lawrence Tech alum- an associate degree in engineer- education at LTU with prepar- nus wants to start putting a bas- ing from Wilberforce University ing him to own a sports team: ketball in every Canadian child’s and a BA in public administration “Everything I was taught at LTU hands along with the hockey gear. from Wayne State University and in my business career, I am Dartis Willis, CIMBA’01, owns the before attending LTU. His career putting to use.” MR Windsor Express, that city’s team included positions in training and in the National Basketball League development at Lear Corp. and Dartis Willis on the cover of a 2014 (NBL) of Canada. Eaton before starting his own edition of Windsor Life Magazine. Willis said he was asked to consulting firm. review the league’s business plan Willis says he’s learned six years ago by a friend. He says that in professional sports, he liked the league’s prospects so no matter the level, every much that he plunked down the minute spent in the arena franchise fee to start a team, once must grab and hold the PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WINDSOR STAR. PHOTO COURTESY he saw that Windsor was an avail- Dartis Willis fans’ attention. able market. “It’s entertainment on “Like a lot of kids in Detroit, I to freedom in Canada, draws top of the basketball,” grew up spending a lot of time in about 2,000 fans a game to WFCU Willis said. “We do every- Windsor,” Willis said. “So it was a Centre in Windsor. This year, thing with entertainment no-brainer for me.” the Express finished the regular that the big guys do.” He The Express has won the NBL season 22–18 and made it to the also said he now realizes title two of the league’s six years semifinals of the playoffs before “just how many lives in existence. being knocked out by the London you touch with profes- “We brought Windsor its first Lightning, a team that went 35–5 sional sports. You give professional sports title,” Willis during the regular season. the players the oppor- noted. The team, named after an Willis likened the quality of tunity to make money expression for the Underground play to the NBA Development doing what they love. Railroad that transported runaway League, or D-League, the National But there are so many slaves from the antebellum South Basketball Association’s official other careers that come with it –

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This Blue Devil helped design the Demon

The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon production car on the planet, the will be the fastest production car Demon can be easily driven safely in history when it goes on sale on the street too – so owners can this fall. drive the car to the track, race all And its development is being day, and then drive it home.” led by a Blue Devil, Jim Wilder, Wilder’s work on the project BSME’94, who is vehicle develop- involved “a tremendous amount ment manager on the project for of track testing with the car, IMAgE CoURTESy FCA – NoRTH AMERICA. FCA – NoRTH IMAgE CoURTESy FCA US LLC. hundreds and hundreds of passes How powerful is the Demon? on a drag strip, making sure every the Challenger, the Demon will The Dodge Demon. Try 840 hp on 100-octane gas, and part of the car works properly, ev- have an automatic transmission – a mere 808 hp with 91-octane gas ery piece of equipment that would “a ZF eight-speed automatic,” to commute to school. We wound station premium. Try 0 to 60 in 2.3 affect the performance of the car Wilder said. “We talked about up buying a ’65 Plymouth Satellite. seconds. Try 9.65 seconds in the is right… Before that, we were doing a manual, but 98 percent of That was going to be my back quarter mile. working hand in hand at some of drag cars nowadays are automat- and forth to school car, at least in The Demon is the latest chapter the highest levels of the company, ics. Today’s automatics are so nice weather. But it very quickly in a lifelong love affair with fast figuring out the content of the car, good there’s no real reason to do turned into a father-son race car cars for Wilder. making sure all the bits and pieces a manual. And it’s quicker with an project – an eight point roll cage Wilder said he picked LTU came together correctly.” automatic. and a big block Chrysler in it. We for college because he wanted Production of the Demon is ”Despite its power, the Demon raced that car until 1999, and we a smaller school, and “I knew I to start this fall. The vehicle will is not a big gas-guzzler. Wilder still have it.” wanted to go into automotive, and come from the factory with one says he drove one recently to a Wilder said he’s hardly alone it’s a good school for that.” After seat, since Dodge figures most of dragstrip and got a respectable having a racing background on the attending part-time and working the 3,300 Demons to be built this 19.5 mpg at freeway speeds. Demon team: “Quite a few of us part-time his first two years, he model year will spend their time Wilder has been driving to drag- are drag racers or fans. Being able received a full scholarship his on the drag strip. But Dodge is strips for a long time. He’s been to take what you like to do in your last two-and-a-half years. He was offering a passenger seat racing since he was 21. personal life and bring it into your leader of the SAE Baja competition as a $1 option, and a back seat Here’s how it started: “When I job, that’s pretty special, pretty team his senior year. as another $1 option, which went to Lawrence Tech, my sister awesome.” Wilder spent time at Lear Corp. “essentially makes it the interior went away to college, so my dad The price of the car hasn’t and a year on a Cosworth team of a Challenger, a car you can get said, since you’re saving me yet been announced, but Dodge developing a turbocharged Ford with a V-6.” money by not having to pay for officials have said it’ll be under Escort before joining Chrysler in Also like the family version of room and board, I’ll buy you a car $100,000. 1996. He’s always been involved There’s even a part of the in the company’s fast cars – the vehicle named after Wilder – its Dodge Neon SRT4 in the early steering wheel, dubbed the Wild 2000s, and later the Chrysler 300, Wheel. Dodge Charger and Magnum The way Wilder recalls it, Tim SRT8s, Caliber SRT4, the second Juniskis, head of passenger car generation Chrysler 300 and brands for FCA – North America, Dodge Charger SRTs, and most told him if he could get the car un- recently the 707-hp Dodge Chal- der 10 seconds in the quarter mile, lenger SRT Hellcat. he could have the Demon’s steer- “The Hellcat is a beast, it’s fast, ing wheel covered in the high-end but this thing, the Demon, really synthetic material Alcantara rather takes it to another level,” Wilder than leather. said. “We changed a lot on the Done. And now that wheel car (from the Hellcat), we left no carries part of Wilder’s last name. stone unturned – we did whatever MR we could do to make it faster. We looked at every part to see if we could get rid of something to save weight. While being the fastest AMERICA. FCA – NoRTH IMAgE CoURTESy Jim Wilder with one of his babies.

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Beset by declining revenue and Albion city manager returns to population after the shutdown of keynote Management Alumni Week several major employers, the city is experiencing a downtown resur- gence, spurred by the efforts of Sheryl L. Mitchell, DBA’14, a senior analyst for the Oakland city government, local business, returned to campus as key- County Board of Commissioners and Albion College. note speaker for the College of for 15 years and as a staffer “Although Albion has experi- Management’s Alumni Week in for Detroit City Councilman Mel enced declining revenues for near- spring 2017. Ravitz for 13 years. She had ly 10 years, it is because of our While it might not seem intui- already earned a bachelor’s degree partnerships with public, private, tive, Mitchell says a doctorate in in political science from the and community organizations that business administration from LTU University of Michigan-Dearborn we have many new initiatives that and a master’s degree in pub- keep moving Albion along in a was the perfect extension of her Sheryl L. Mitchell long career in public service. lic administration from Central positive direction,” Mitchell said. At LTU, Mitchell spoke about Michigan University. singling out DBA program director “My research revolved around the advantages of teamwork and Mitchell said she was attracted Jacqueline Stavros as a major civic engagement – the intentional the cohort environment of LTU’s to the LTU doctorate because of influence. process of including the voices in graduate business programs. its cohort program, which has “Gaining a level of expertise in the community in identifying the She also mentioned that a school students working in teams. “That the area of positive organizational priorities of government budgeting counselor once tried to talk her really prepares you for the reality leadership and change has been decisions. The LTU educational out of government work in favor of work in many organizations such an asset in my profes- training continues to positively of teaching or nursing, “more now, where you no longer work as sional life,” Mitchell said. She influence my ability to serve as a traditional career paths for women an individual in isolation,” Mitchell also earned the Lawrence Tech government leader.” at that time.” said. The degree would also let Alumni Association’s Ed Donley Mitchell said she’s most inter- Mitchell told the LTU students her consider more career options, Distinguished Graduate Award in ested in finding ways to give the “not to let anyone else tell you such as teaching, becoming a 2014. public a greater voice earlier in the where you might go, but carve researcher, or continuing in gov- A few months after graduating budget process. To her thinking, your own path.” ernment service. from LTU, Mitchell was named citizen input should be sought Before beginning her doctoral Mitchell called the LTU learn- city manager of Albion, a city of earlier and with regularity. MR studies, Mitchell had worked as ing experience “phenomenal,” 8,000 people in mid-Michigan.

Country Club, Plum Markets, and Chaldean Chamber names Saroki The District Luxury Living. its Business Person of the Year Saroki currently serves on the LTU Board of Trustees and is past president of AIA Michigan Victor Saroki, BSAr’79, BAr’80, His firm has earned more than 60 and AIA Detroit. He also serves was honored with the Business design awards, including the AIA on the board of directors for the Person of the Year award at the Michigan Firm of the Year in 2007. Chaldean Community Cultural Chaldean American Chamber of He was also the Birmingham Center. Commerce’s 14th annual awards Bloomfield Chamber Business Saroki has been an invited dinner, held April 28 at the Person of the Year in 2000, speaker and a juror at LTU, the Shenandoah Country Club in West recipient of the Distinguished University of Michigan, University Bloomfield Township. Nearly 900 Architecture Alumni Award from of Detroit Mercy, Cranbrook civic, business, and community Lawrence Technological University Academy of Arts, Birmingham leaders attended the gala event. in 1998, and Young Architect of Bloomfield Art Center, and the Victor Saroki Saroki is president of Saroki the Year from AIA Detroit in 1994. Michigan Design Center. He has Architecture, an architecture and He received an honorary LTU doc- participated in many AIA juries, representative for the national interiors firm in Birmingham that torate of architecture in 2008. including the National Interiors committee. Saroki also has served he founded in 1983 with his wife, The works of Saroki and his Jury. As part of the National as a past board member with Michelle. firm include the Royal Park Hotel AIA program, he chaired the America’s Thanksgiving Parade, Saroki was admitted to the in Rochester, the Birmingham AIA Detroit 150-year “Blueprint Birmingham Community House, College of Fellows of the American Theater, ABC Harley Davison, for America” committee and is and Birmingham YMCA. MR Institute of Architects in 2000. Tribute Restaurant, Shenandoah the Regional College of Fellows

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their dollars. The team raised LTU grad getting a kick out of ÔLe RougeÕ nearly $750,000 in the larg- est crowdfunding campaign Phil Lucas, BSChB’12, has been ily hosted a German exchange stu- Iceland involved touring stadiums in Michigan history to rebuild a soccer fan since childhood. He dent while he was in high school, and learning about the “Viking Keyworth Stadium, which opened played for LTU – and then went to and he now frequently travels to Thunder Clap.” Iceland’s passion- originally in 1936 with a visit by work for the University as student Europe to visit soccer stadiums ate fans popularized this global President Franklin D. Roosevelt. engagement programs coordina- and research fan culture. mainstream chant even though This spring, team owners tor, and as liaison between LTU At DCFC, Lucas is responsible they have only 300,000 residents. announced they’re seeking inves- and the City of Southfield. for growing Le Rouge’s pres- Detroit City FC fans bring tors who could provide the cash Now, Lucas’s love for what the ence in the community through passion to their match days in needed to become a pro club. world calls “the beautiful game” outreach and relationship build- Hamtramck with their own march, Billionaires Dan Gilbert and Tom has taken his career in a new ing, including managing the adult chants, banners, flags, and danc- Gores have announced their intent direction, as the first-ever com- recreational Detroit City Futbol es. “I’ve attended professional to bring a team in the nation’s top munity liaison for the Detroit City League. This league has games matches in Olympic stadiums and league – Major League Soccer – Football Club (DCFC). Tuesday and Thursday small-town tournaments,” Lucas to Detroit by 2020. a minor league soccer nights throughout the added. “The DCFC experience is Thus, exactly where Le Rouge team founded in City of Detroit. so electric.” will end up is still up in the air, 2012 that plays in the A recent visit to Fans also back the team with and Lucas says he’s happy to con- National Premier Soccer tribute and build a positive soccer League. The team is culture in the community. After all, nicknamed “Le Rouge,” the team’s motto is “Passion for after the team’s colors, Our City. Passion for the Game.” the city’s French roots, “Detroit City FC has spurred and the River Rouge. revitalization of our region and DCFC plays its home Phil Lucas brings people together like no matches at Hamtramck’s other experience,” Lucas said. historic Keyworth Stadium, rou- “I’m humbled to continue building tinely selling out and drawing soccer the right way in Detroit.” more than 7,000 rabid fans. Lucas MR has been a season ticket holder since the team’s inception. Fans of the Detroit City Football Club The transition from a fan to are known for their passion – boister- the front office was a natural for ous songs, cheers, and even smoke Lucas, who played soccer growing in the team's colors wafting through

up in Monroe, Michigan. His fam- Detroit City Football Club. BFAIÕ11, Photo by Jon DeBoer, the stands.

A bold new look

The Blue Devil Motorsports trailer has a bold new look, meaning LTU students will arrive looking just as fast as they are on the track. The new trailer art was supported by a gener- ous contribution from Ken, BSME’78, and Margaret Grezlik. The trailer was designed by transportation design student Aras Puodziunas with LTU Art Director Sofia Lulgjuraj.

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Alumni Notes includes news James J. Connor, BSIM’74, is man- Nicholas Salowich III, BSAr’85, AIA, Donna L. Bell, gathered from alumni, their aging director of Alderney Advisors is the new science and technology BSEE’89, the families, and friends, and LLC, a business advisory firm in studio leader at the Detroit office of global product media reports. Submissions Southfield, where he oversees a range SmithGroupJJR, one of the nation’s development qual- received after the deadline for of executive-level strategic, financial, largest architecture, engineering, and ity manager for this issue will be published and operational services for clients. planning firms. He was previously the electrical systems Jim was formerly president and CEO firm's project manager, focusing on at Ford Motor Co., in the winter 2017–18 issue. of Tecumseh Products Co., where he the development and management of received the 2017 Use the form in this section oversaw 7,400 employees at 17 manu- complex architectural projects, includ- Women of Excellence Award from the to share news about you and facturing facilities. ing the University of Michigan Ford Michigan Chronicle. Donna is former alumni you know! Nuclear Reactor Building renovation in president of the Lawrence Tech Alumni Steven J. Susick, BSME’79, PE, is Ann Arbor. Association and a member of the 1954–1982 vice president of operations at The National Society of Black Engineers. Mosaic Co. Based in Lithia, FL, Mosaic Jack Shubitowski, BSBA’86, president She also serves as chairperson for John V. Yanik, BSArE’54, professor produces and markets concentrated and CEO of Huron Valley State Bank, Ford's African Ancestry Network and emeritus in the School of Architecture phosphate and potash for agricultural based in Livingston County, was hon- as a member of Ford’s Women in and Planning at the Catholic University use, employing nearly 9,000 people ored as the Huron Valley Chamber of Engineering where she mentors aspir- of America in Washington, D.C., has in six countries. Steve is working on Commerce Citizen of the Year for 2016 ing engineers and leaders. written a new book called Architecture construction of a new plant for a joint in recognition of his work with several In the Names of My Fathers. The venture in Saudi Arabia. organizations and programs aimed at Victor Allen, BSBA’90, MBA’95, is an 110-page book includes many color children and teens. Jack is a member adjunct faculty member in Lawrence pictures and discusses his growing Larry Lawson, of the College of Management Board Tech’s College of Management and co- up in Detroit, attending LTU, his love BSEE’80, president of Advisors at Lawrence Tech. author, with Ron May, of the new book of architecture, and the difficulties and CEO of Spirit Project Management for Experienced that must be overcome in the field. He AeroSystems Jeff Lemmer, BSMCS’87, was Project Managers. shares his experiences with architects in Wichita, KS, appointed vice president and chief Frank Lloyd Wright, Minoru Yamasaki, received the Stop operating officer of information tech- Timothy Bowles, BSIM’90, is senior Paul Rudolph, the Albert Kahn office, Diabetes Volunteer nology at Ford Motor Co., effective vice president of corporate planning and Louis I. Kahn. He also recounts Leadership Give June 1. At the same time, he also for American Axle & Manufacturing the five-year effort he led to save Award from the American Diabetes was elected a Ford Motor Co. officer. (AAM) in Detroit. He was previously and rehabilitate Catholic University's Association in recognition of his In this role, Jeff is responsible for CEO and president of Transtar Corp. 1919 gymnasium as a new home for outstanding leadership in raising automotive-related application devel- and executive officer and president his school. John's book is available money for research, including an opment and running the day-to-day of Commercial Truck at Meritor Inc. through Barnes & Noble and Amazon. unprecedented $400,000 in Wichita. operations, including networks, data In his new position, he will support Larry is an Alumni Achievement Award centers, and employee collaboration AAM’s business development Gene D. Dickirson, BSME’73, PE, winner and College of Engineering Hall tools. He reports to Marcy Klevorn, initiatives. received the outstanding leadership of Fame honoree, both in 2012, and a Ford executive vice president and award from the Engineering Society of former member of the Lawrence Tech president, Mobility, a member of the Jeffrey Ruiz, AEET’90, is the onsite Detroit for his role in mentoring and Board of Trustees. He is a member of LTU Board of Trustees. He began his healthcare technology manager at judging grade school and high school the 1932 Society for lifetime giving. career at Ford in 1987 in systems Holland Hospital in western Michigan. engineering competitions over the programming for parts and service He is also an adjunct professor of past several years. Gene retired from 1981–2000 warranty. biomedical electronics technology at Ford Motor product engineering in Muskegon Community College. 1998 and now owns Gene Dickirson Michael A. Neville, BSAr’82, FAIA, John J. Sammut, BSEE’88, BSBA’88, Engineering in Plymouth. He is a was inducted into the American is president and CEO of Grand Rapids- George “Buddy” Huyler, BSAr’91, is member of the Presidents Club for life- Institute of Architects (AIA) College based Firstronic LLC, a provider of senior project manager with a special- time giving at Lawrence Tech. of Fellows. manufacturing and supply chain ty in serving education clients at the services for the electronics industry. Kalamazoo office of TowerPinkster, an Robert Piatek, BSAr’73, BAr’77, is Douglas DelGrosso, BSME’84, is CEO The company received a 2016 architecture and engineering firm. director of the Detroit office of HKS of Chassix Inc., a precision chassis IndustryWeek Best Plant award at the Architects. In an interview with the casting and machining company in 2017 IW Manufacturing & Technology Robert Jordan, BSAr’92, is director Birmingham Eccentric, Bob discussed Southfield. He also serves on the Conference & Expo in Cleveland. John of architecture and interiors at Ghafari the potential for Detroit and its sub- company’s board of directors. Douglas is a 2007 Alumni Achievement Award Associates in Dearborn. He was previ- urbs to re-use old buildings, particu- was formerly president and CEO of winner, a former member of LTU’s ously a principal and director of archi- larly those built in the 1920s, ’30s, and Henniges Automotive Inc. in Auburn Alumni Association board, and a mem- tecture at Sidock Group. ’40s, for new purposes. “They're going Hills. He is a former member of the ber of the E. George Lawrence Society to stand forever,” he said. “It's just Lawrence Tech Board of Trustees and for lifetime giving. gutting them and making them work.” a member of the Benefactors Society for lifetime giving. In 2001 he received a National Philanthropy Volunteer Award.

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Patrick Williams, BSBA’92, a com- Patrick R. Phelan, mercial sales manager with a Tier 1 BSCvE’02, PE, ME alum named president of automotive supplier, was elected LEED AP, is a Canton Township supervisor after principal at BMJ Macomb Community College serving two terms as a township Engineers & James O. Sawyer IV, BSME’85, has been named presi- trustee. Pat was inducted into the Surveyors Inc., dent of Macomb Community College, effective July 1. Canton Hall of Fame in 2013 for his a consulting “As Macomb’s next president, Dr. Sawyer will not only community involvement and is active engineering firm ensure a seamless, positive transition for the college, but in the Canton Commission for Culture, in Port Huron. he also possesses the dual strengths of being an experi- Arts and Heritage. enced educator with a comprehensive grounding in business and industry,” Tiffany D. Brown, said Jennifer Haas, chair of the MCC Board of Trustees. Alexander J. Adler, BSAr’95, MAr’03, BSAr’04, MAr’07, Sawyer has advanced through positions of increasing responsibility at AIA, joined the architectural team at MBA’15, AAIA, MCC for 14 years, serving as provost and senior vice president, vice provost the Bloomfield Hills office of TMP NOMA, is an for career programs, and dean of engineering and advanced technology. Architecture Inc. Alex brings more adjunct professor Earlier, for 17 years, he held engineering, quality, and operations manage- than 20 years of experience to the in the College of ment positions in automotive and defense companies. firm. Architecture and Sawyer told the Fraser-Clinton Township Chronicle that a continued Design at Lawrence emphasis on student success and meeting the educational goals of individu- Joseph R. Sprangel, Jr., AMET’95, Tech as well as a mentor for students als is paramount. DBA’09, is the dean of the College of at the University’s Marburger STEM Sawyer also holds a master’s degree in administration and doctorate in Business and Professional Studies Center in Detroit. She also has been education from Central Michigan University. at Mary Baldwin University in appointed to a new AIA K-12 Working “Macomb Community College has long been among LTU’s closest Staunton, VA. Group that will focus on initiatives educational partners,” said Lawrence Tech President Virinder Moudgil. “It is and curricula to expose grade-school the source of many of our top students and so it gives us special pleasure Christopher Stockman, BSME’97, students to architecture. Tiffany is also to see one of our own alumni advance to MCC’s top leadership role. We look was promoted to director of engineer- a new addition to SmithGroupJJR’s forward to an even stronger relationship.” ing for fuel and brake delivery, North Detroit office. Macomb Community College (www.macomb.edu) is one of the nation’s America, at Cooper Standard, a Novi- leading community colleges, providing learning experiences to nearly 40,000 based Tier 1 automotive supplier. Christopher George, BSAr’05, MAr’09, students annually. Macomb nationally ranks in the top two percent in the was promoted to associate for archi- number of associate degrees awarded by community colleges and is the Marsha Winegarden, BSME’97, tecture and design at Harley Ellis largest grantor of associate degrees in Michigan. MCC’s educational pro- global executive director of new model Devereaux. He is responsible for lead- gramming includes pre-collegiate experiences, university transfer and career programs at Ford Motor Co., was ing the design and technical systems preparation programs, bachelor degree completion and graduate degree named among 100 Leading Women by for large, complex projects for the programs, workforce training, professional education and certification, and Automotive News. firm’s Southfield office. continuing education and enrichment opportunities. BJA

Thomas Minneker, BSTe’98, MSIO’04, Sarah Witting, BSEE’06, an electri- MBA’16, was promoted to forensic cal engineer at Nissan, is one of 25 safety engineer at General Motors. Medtronic Global Heroes. Sarah was honored for running marathons despite News for Alumni Notes Adam Barden, BSME’99, is the owner having bradycardia, which means a Complete this form and on a seperate sheet of paper, tell us about you of Vassar True Value Hardware and slower than normal heart rate. or your fellow Lawrence Tech or DIT alums. Mail both to the Office of Rental as well as Frankenmuth True Alumni Relations, or email [email protected]. Tell us about honors, Value Hardware. He is also a member Alexander T. promotions, marriages, appointments, and other activities. of the Tuscola County Development Fritz, BSAr’10, ❏ New Address? Corporation board. is a designer at the Detroit office Name 2001–2016 of Quinn Evans Architects. His Dartis Willis, Sr., CIMBA’01, president experience includes Street and CEO of the Windsor Express bas- new construction, ketball club, received the Ian Fowler renovation, and preservation projects. City State ZIP Executive of the Year award from the Alex is working on the conversion of National Basketball League of Canada the Inn on Ferry Street in Detroit into a Home Phone ( ) for the 2015–16 season. Under Dartis' three-unit condominium. guidance, the Express won back-to- back league championships in 2014 Email and 2015. (See story, page 36.)

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Andrew Queenan, Allison Kasprzyk, BSAr’13, is a is also on the adjunct faculty at the Yong Li, DBA’16, is the author of a BSAr’10, MAr’11, designer at Whiski Kitchen Design University of Michigan-Flint. graduate thesis titled “The Impact of AIA, is a project Studio in Royal Oak. Leadership Behavior on Employee architect at the Michael Paciero, MSArE’15, is a vir- Engagement.” His thesis was rec- Grand Rapids Kiana Doggan, MSTPC’15, joined the tual design and construction project ognized as among the 25 most office of Detroit Creative Corridor Center team coordinator at ROSSETTI and a former accessed dissertations and theses TowerPinkster, an as a project manager for drinks and Challenge Detroit fellow. He was during November and December 2016, architecture and design and the Detroit Design Festival. recently featured in an article in based on total PDF downloads in the engineering firm. Kiana and William Wenzell were mar- Crain’s Detroit Business on what ProQuest Dissertations & Theses ried on July 9, 2016. millennials in Metro Detroit look for in Global database. Jasmine Jones, an ideal work environment. BSME’12, Ivan Garcia, BSIOE’12, released BSBM’15, is her first book in event manager at a series titled The the Westin Book Single Ladies' Cadillac Detroit Commandments: hotel. He received Songs for Love, the Westin For the Healing, Freedom, and Purpose. The Manager of the 90-day devotional relates contem- Quarter award for the first quarter of latest on porary music to love, single life, and 2017. The award is given to a manager dating. Jasmine was Miss Lawrence who exemplifies the Westin brand LTU Tech 2011. within his department, his peers, and hotel guests. athletics, Lea Wojciechowski Ross, MSTPC’12, visit married Josh Ross at St. Hugo of Kurt Neiswender, MUD’15, AIA, LEED the Hills in Bloomfield Hills on Aug. AP, a project architect at Sedgewick & 1, 2015. Lea is a high school tutor in Ferweda Architects in Flint, received a www.bluedevilathletics.com Troy and teaches technical communi- 2017 Young Architects Award from the cation at Lawrence Tech. American Institute of Architects. Kurt FriendsFRIENDS We'll Miss WE’LL MISS

Information for this section Edwin Donaldson, BSME’48, of Frederick Brauning, BSArE’50, of Edward J. Pawlak, BSME’50, of is gathered from family and The Villages, FL, Oct. 7, 2014. Mr. St. Clair Shores, April 19, 2017. Livonia, Oct. 3, 2016. Mr. Pawlak Donaldson, an Air Force veteran, was Mr. Brauning, an Army veteran with was a mechanical engineer at General friends of the deceased and a senior project engineer designing service in World War II, was the Motors and Ford, Motor Co. where from newspaper and elec- transmissions at Ford Motor Co. founder and owner of Fred Brauning he designed the transmissions for tronic media accounts. When He was survived by two sons and a & Associates, an architectural firm race cars at LeMans and Sebring. providing an obituary, please daughter. in Detroit for over 60 years. He was Mr. Pawlak was a member of the furnish as much informa- survived by three sons and two Benefactor's Society for lifetime giving Charles W. Hendries, BMSE’48, of daughters. at Lawrence Tech. He was survived by tion as possible, including Presque Isle, Nov. 3, 2016. The win- a daughter. the date of death and any ner of four medals during service in Joe D. George, BSIE’50, of Swartz Lawrence Tech- or DIT- the Navy during World War II, Mr. Creek, Oct. 17, 2016. Mr. George Kenneth W. Davis, BSArE’51, of connected survivors and their Hendries worked for 33 years as a began his career at General Motors’ Shelby Township, April 28, 2017. procurement manager at Michigan world headquarters in Detroit, later Mr. Davis was a U.S. Army veteran, graduation dates. If sending Bell Telephone Co. He was survived by moving to Fisher Body 1 before and recipient of the National Defense a newspaper clipping, please his wife, Martha, three daughters, and retiring after more than 30 years of Service Medal. He was survived by his include the date and name of two sons. service. He was survived by his wife, wife, Josephine, and four sons. the paper. Irene, three sons, and two daughters. Jack W. Joynt, BSCvE’49, of Medford, Ernest H. Graf, BSME’51, of Roseville, OR, May 18, 2016. Mr. Joynt, a mem- Eugene S. Kaczmar, BSIE’50, of July 8, 2016. He was survived by his Frank Crossland, BSAeE’40, of Seattle, ber of the President's Club for lifetime Birmingham, March 12, 2016. Mr. wife, Persis, and two children. Nov. 14, 2015. Mr. Crossland worked giving at Lawrence Tech, worked for Kaczmar, a Navy veteran with service for Boeing Airplane Co. for 30 years. Ford Motor Co., retiring as superin- in World War II, had a 25-year career Milton T. Kirkenmeier, BSIE’51, of He was survived by three daughters tendent of the Ford Rouge Foundry with Ford Motor Co. as an industrial Palm Bay, FL, April 3, 2017. and two sons. in Dearborn. He was survived by four engineer, working in Mexico City for sons and three daughters. several years. He was survived by his wife, Betty, and two daughters.

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Robert L. Preston, BSIE’51, of George W. Jamgochian, BSIE’52, Paul D. Thompson, BSIM’52, of Wallace H. Hansen, BSIE’53, of Jacksonville, FL, Dec. 26, 2016. Mr of Hartsdale, NY, June 16, 2016. Mr. Orlando, FL, Jan. 2, 2017. Mr. Newark, DE, Oct. 25, 2016. A former Preston had a 31-year career in mar- Jamgochian worked for several gov- Thompson was a colonel in the U.S. Army statistician, Mr. Hansen retired keting and quality with BFGoodrich. ernment contractors in aeronautics Air Force, where he flew with the Sky in 1987 as manager of industrial After retiring in 1993, he served as and aerospace. A Navy veteran, he Blazers acrobatic team, the precursor engineering at the Chrysler Assembly a substitute teacher and worked in was awarded the Philippine Liberation to the Thunderbirds, and received Plant in Newark. He was survived by customer service in several banks. Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Medal, and numerous honors, including the his wife, Providenza, three daughters, He was survived by his wife, Jill, two the Victory Medal for service in World Bronze Star, for his service. After retir- and two sons. daughters, and a son. War II. He was survived by his wife, ing from the Air Force, he served as Rose, two daughters, and a son. dean, provost, and vice president at Movses Movsesian, BSChE’53, of James S. Svenson, BSME’51, of Novi, Daytona Beach Community College. He Plymouth, Sept. 14, 2016. He was Oct. 4, 2016. Mr. Svenson was retired was survived by his wife, Patricia, two survived by his wife, Ann Marie, and from Chrysler. He was survived by sons, and a daughter. four sons. three daughters and two sons. Geno Morosi, AMT’54, of Clinton Township, Sept. 20, 2016. Mr. Morosi was a Navy veteran and a survivor of Ed Donley the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was survived by his wife, Virginia, two leaves legacy of leadership sons, and two daughters.

Edward Donley, BME’43, one of Lawrence Tech’s most Robert H. Sharkey, BSIE’54, of involved, accomplished, and generous alumni, passed away Westminster, SC, March 3, 2017. Mr. April 1 in Bethleham, Penn. He was 95. Sharkey, a Navy Seabees veteran with Mr. Donley grew up during the Great Depression in a service in World War II, worked for various companies as a chemical engi- one-room log cabin built by his great-grandfather on a farm neer. He was survived by seven sons near Richmond, Mich. and a daughter. He received a scholarship to attend Lawrence Tech, where he was elected president of the student government Thomas H. Burks, BSEE’55, of Royal and served as editor of the student newspaper, the Tech Oak, Jan. 9, 2017. Mr. Burks, a News. These posts heralded a legacy of University leader- National Guard veteran, worked for 39 ship that continued his entire life. years at Detroit Edison. He was sur- From 1971 to 1993, Mr. Donley served as a member vived by his wife, Ann, and three sons. of LTU’s University Corporation, which then functioned Frank Chikos, BSME’55, of as the executive committee of the Board of Trustees. He Lincolnshire, IL, March 3, 2014. was the Corporation’s chairman 1982 to 1993, and concurrently served as a Mr. Chikos worked for Chrysler trustee 1984 to 1994. His professional accomplishments were recognized by the Lawrence Tech Alumni Automotive, where he was an expert Achievement Award he received in 1959 and by an unprecedented two honorary degrees from his alma in wheels and brakes. He retired in mater – the Doctor of Industrial Management in 1976 and the Doctor of Engineering in 1987. He was 1967, but promptly returned to work also tapped to present the commencement address each of those years, the only individual who has stood for Pioneer Engineering and White before two graduating classes. Motors. An Army veteran, he was During his long board service, he aided LTU’s transformation as one of the nation’s pre-eminent pri- awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Combat Infantry Badge for service vate, technological universities. He used his optimism, business acumen, and reservoir of relationships to in World War II. He was survived improve the reputation and recognition of LTU and guide and inspire its leadership, faculty, and students. by his wife, Rose, two sons, and a As chairman and CEO of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Mr. Donley led the firm’s expansion from a daughter. small local business to a Fortune 500 enterprise, one of the leading companies of its kind in the world. He retired in 1986. Richard P. Newton, BSEE’55, of In a citation of tribute prepared by LTU’s Board of Trustees for Mr. Donley’s family, he was cited for Whiting, NJ, April 27, 2017. Mr. having “served his nation and its youth with distinction as an ambassador for improving literacy, lead- Newton, a Navy veteran, worked for 30 ing some of the country’s most distinguished organizations dedicated to enhancing educational achieve- years for Bell Telephone Laboratories in plant engineering, retiring as the ment at all levels. He chaired the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, his counsel was sought head of design and construction. He by the most prominent leaders in manufacturing, business, and academia, and he advised governors, our was survived by two daughters and nation’s presidents and their cabinets.” a son. Mr. Donley, his wife, Inez, who predeceased him, and the Donley family have been especially supportive of Lawrence Tech, helping to fund a number of facilities and also endowing one of the Anthony M. Camilletti, BSME’56, University’s top scholarships. Several years ago, the LTU Alumni Association named the annual distin- of Sterling Heights, Feb. 1, 2017. A guished student awards in his honor. In 1999 he received LTU’s Ray Award for extraordinary volunteer General Motors retiree, Mr. Camilletti service. served on Lawrence Tech's alumni Last year, the Board of Trustees by unanimous acclamation named the Edward Donley Residence Hall board from 1957 to 1960. He was sur- vived by two sons and a daughter. as a prominent and permanent commemoration of his generosity and service. LTU’s Edward Donley Computer Center was named for him some 20 years ago. “Mr. Donley’s passing leaves a real void in our University community,” said LTU President Virinder Moudgil. “Lawrence Tech is a better institution because of his leadership and involvement. He was the very model of an inspiring and helpful advocate and a wonderful friend.” Mr. Donley’s survivors include a daughter, two sons, and 10 grandchildren. BJA

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Philip H. Bush, BSEE’57, of Granada Robert L. Boorn, BSME’60, of David H. Dage, BSEE’63, of Valley Donald V. Rasmussen, AMT’66, Hills, CA, Jan. 23, 2017. Mr. Bush Prescott, AZ, April 3, 2017. Mr. Boorn, Springs, CA, May 27, 2014. Mr. Dage of Brighton, July 21, 2016. Mr. worked in the hydraulic research an Air Force veteran, was a Lockheed was the owner of Dage Scientific in Rasmussen was survived by his wife, industry. He was a regular contributor Corp. retiree. Valley Springs. Sharon, and two daughters. to Lawrence Tech and served as trea- surer of Kappa Phi Sigma. John G. Daly, BSEE’60, of O'Fallon, Norman J. Hankala, BSEE’63, of William N. Chapman, AMT’67, of MO, September 2016. He was sur- Hendersonville, NC, Aug. 20, 2016. He Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 7, 2017. Mr. William Kuschel, AMT’57, of Livonia, vived by his wife, Cynthia, and three was survived by his wife, Margaret, Chapman worked his way up to an Jan. 9, 2017. Mr. Kuschel's lifelong children. and two daughters. assembly line process engineer during career was dedicated to pattern mak- his 40-year career at General Motors. ing at Progress Pattern, Lear Seigler, James “Tom” Keegan, AMT’60, of Harold Ladouceur, BSME’63, of He was survived by two sons. and T.E.I. He was survived by two Hartland, April 21, 2017. Mr. Keegan Livonia, Nov. 23, 2016. Mr. Ladouceur daughters and a son. was an engineer for Chevrolet at the was survived by his wife, Lucille, and Duane L. Wolfe, BSIM’67, of GM Proving Grounds. He was survived a daughter. Homosassa, FL, Oct. 6, 2014. A Edsel R. Landahl, AMT’57, of by his wife, Sandra, a son, and a step- Marine Corps veteran with service in Eastpointe, Feb. 5, 2015. Mr. Landahl, daughter. Gary S. Van Neck, BSArE’63 of the Vietnam War, Mr. Wolfe worked in a Coast Guard veteran, was a mechan- Saugatuck, Dec. 17, 2016. Mr. Van the automotive finance and insurance ical engineer at the GM Tech Center for Roger D. McClelland, ABCT’60, of Neck, a 1981 Alumni Achievement industries. over 25 years. He was survived by his Emmett, Sept. 13, 2014. He was sur- Award honoree, had a successful wife, Pauline, and a daughter. vived by 11 children. career as an architect, primarily with Donald J. Reda, BSIM’68, of Oakland ROSSETTI Associates, and later in Park, FL, Nov. 1, 2015. Joseph J. Zaccagni, BSArE’57, of Jerry A. Nogy, BSIM’60, BSIE’66, of facilities with First of America Bank Macomb, Sept. 19, 2016. Mr. Zaccagni Wickenburg, AZ, April 27, 2016. as well as several entrepreneurial Eugene A. Tauriainen, BSEE’68, of was the founder of Joseph J. Zaccagni ventures. He was survived by his wife, South Lyon, Dec. 24, 2016. A Navy & Associates, Inc., an architectural George F. Grohs, BSArE’61, of Charlotte, two daughters, and a son. veteran with service in the Korean firm in Southfield. He was survived by Rochester, July 3, 2015. He was sur- War, Mr. Tauriainen retired from Ford his wife, Bernadine, three sons, and a vived by his wife, Mary Jo, and one Lee R. Bohning, BSCvE’64, of following a 35-year career. He was daughter. child. Gulfport, FL, March 8, 2017. He was survived by his wife, Eleanore, and survived by three children. two sons. Earl W. Blohm, BSME’58, ACmT’74, Charles F. Maddox, BSME’61, of BSEE’85, of Livonia, April 10, 2017. He Commerce Township, July 8, 2016. Richard R. Grden, BSME’64, of L. Kirk Walters, BSME’68, BSEE’95, of was survived by his wife, Carol, and Mr. Maddox was a product engineer Warren, Nov. 14, 2016. Mr. Grden Shelby Township, Aug. 16, 2016. He two stepchildren. manager at Ford. He was survived was survived by his wife, Connie, two was survived by his wife, Janet, and by his wife, Donna, three sons, and a sons, and a daughter. two sons. Harry D. Gibson II, AMT’58, of daughter. Madison Heights, April 4, 2016. Mr. James L. Skinner III, AIST’64, of Troy, Charles E. Cain, BSIM’69, of Novi, Gibson, a Coast Guard veteran, was Roger M. Sackett, BSCvE’61, of Mesa, Dec. 15, 2015. A Navy veteran with March 21, 2017. He was survived by an executive at Grand Trunk Western AZ, Nov. 3, 2016. Mr. Sackett, a Navy service in the Korean War, Mr. Skinner his wife, Dorothy. Railroad. He was survived by three veteran, joined Dow Chemical Co. in worked at Chrysler for 39 years. He daughters and two sons. Midland in 1963 as a project plan- was survived by his wife, June, and Gary K. Evatz, BSBA’69, of Bruce ner. He later was assistant manager three daughters. Township, July 21, 2016. Mr. Evatz Lawrence Hogan, BSME’58, of Huron, and then vice president and district owned and operated Pebble Pushers OH, Dec. 16, 2016. He was survived manager at Dow’s Southeast District in Zygmund A. Lipka, BSIM’65, of Ray, Inc., selling concrete, sand, and gravel by his wife, Marilyn, a son, and a Atlanta. He was survived by his wife, May 10, 2016. Mr. Lipka served in the to local builders. He was survived by daughter. Betty, and a son. Navy as an electrical technician and his wife, Mary, and a son. retired as an engineer after more than George K. Obsniuk, BSME’58, of William F. Stocker, Jr., AMT’61, of 30 years at Ford. He was survived by Marlyn K. Lisk, AMT’69, AIST’70, Northville, May 5, 2015. Mr. Obsniuk Clinton Township, Aug. 8, 2016. Mr. his wife, Charlotte, two sons, and a BSIM’73, of Dearborn, Feb. 26, 2016. was a Ford retiree. He was survived by Stocker, a Navy veteran, retired from daughter. Mr. Lisk was a program change coor- two sons and two daughters. TRW Inc. in 1998. He was survived by dinator at Ford Motor Co. and a mem- his wife, Sharon, and two daughters. Kenneth G. Hoadley, AEEtT’66, of ber of the Presidents Club for lifetime Michael A. Cammarata, AMT’59, of Linden, May 2, 2016. A Navy veteran, giving at Lawrence Tech. He was a Macomb Township, March 30, 2016. Bert B. Pellegrini, AEEtT’62, of Mr. Hoadley was survived by his wife, member of LTU’s Alumni Association Mr. Cammarata used his skills at Livonia, May 22, 2016. Mr. Pellegrini, Karen, and two daughters. Board of Directors, 1974–84, and many companies until settling at the a Navy veteran with service in World served several years as president. He Chrysler Tank Plan and retiring from War II, worked at Detroit Edison for Douglas Pierce, BSBA’66, of Orchard was survived by a son and a daughter. General Dynamics in 1989. He was 47 years. He was survived by his wife, Lake, Sept. 13, 2016. The son of the survived by a daughter. Adriana, and a daughter. founder of Guardian Alarm, Mr. Pierce Daniel J. McKernan, BSEE’69, founded his own security company, of Utica, NY, April 12, 2015. Mr. Martin R. Spielhaupter, BSEE’59, of Earl E. Custer, BSIM’63, of Fort Automatic Alarm, after graduating. A McKernan was a project engineer at Okeechobee, FL, Aug. 10, 2015. Myers, FL, Aug. 16, 2016. During a decade later, Automatic Alarm merged the GE Foundation. He was survived 30-year career with General Electric, with Guardian Alarm and Mr. Douglas by two children. Frederick J. Wenson, ARACT’59, of Mr. Custer worked at the Appliance was appointed CEO. He was survived Surprise, AZ, Nov. 2, 2016. He was Division in Louisville, KY, the Lighting by his wife, Arlene, and two daughters. Bobby L. Harrison, BSIM’70, of survived by his wife, Antoinette, three Division in Houston, the Carboloy Southern Pines, NC, Sept. 9, 2014. sons, and two daughters. Division in Detroit, and the Aircraft Engine Division in Cincinnati. He was survived by his wife, Susan, and a daughter.

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Francis Noggle, BSME’70, of Michael Meinhardt, BSAr’79, BAr’81, Rochester Hills, Nov. 16, 2016. Mr. of Birmingham, Jan. 6, 2017. Mr. DIT IN MEMORIAM Noggle worked at Ford Motor Co. for Meinhardt was an architect for the over 30 years. A student leader, after Detroit Medical Center and Oakwood graduation he was an active volun- Hospital. He was survived by his part- Walter A. Denny, BME’48, of Adrian, Jesse Cabrera, BSBA’58, of Westland, teer aiding LTU fund-raising efforts ner, John Comperchio. Jan. 29, 2016. Mr. Denny was a June 9, 2016. Mr. Cabrera, an Air and was a former president of the member of the Society of Professional Force veteran with service in the Presidents Club at Lawrence Tech. He James L. Overholt, BSPh’79, of Engineers until his retirement from the Philippines and Korea, had a 28-year was survived by his wife, Nancy, and Clinton Township, March 3, 2017. Mr. Charles A. Strand Co. in Detroit. He career at General Motors. He was sur- two daughters. Overholt worked for the Army for 28 was survived by his wife, Nelie, and vived by four sons and a daughter. years, eventually becoming senior three daughters. Arnold Curtiss, AIST’71, BSIM’75, of research scientist for robotics. He Oliver J. Boss, BSIM’59, of Commerce The Villages, FL, Dec. 20, 2016., Mr. most recently worked for the Air Force Gerard W. Goyette, Sr., BSPh’50, of Township, March 1, 2017. Mr. Boss, Curtiss worked at General Motors' as acting chief scientist and senior Trenton, Feb. 28, 2017. Mr. Goyette, an Army veteran with service in World Allison Transmission division for over scientist for Autonomous Systems. a Navy veteran, had a long career as War II, was a senior auditor for Detroit 40 years, retiring as manager of sales He was survived by his wife, Kathryn, a pharmacist. He was survived by his Edison, retiring after 40 years. He was and service in 2007. He was survived three sons, and a daughter. wife, Elizabeth, three daughters, and survived by his wife, Elizabeth, seven by his wife, Carol. two sons. daughters, and two sons. Jeffrey A. Bertoia, BSEE’82, of Carl L. Westergard, BSIM’71, of Milford, March 30, 2017. Bernard P. Lucas, BSIE’51, of Novi, Conrad Dowel, BAGS’59, of Northville, Talladega, AL, Nov. 29, 2015. An Army April 22, 2016. Mr. Lucas, a World April 4, 2017. Mr. Dowel, an Army veteran, Mr. Westergard worked for Kenneth M. Spahr II, AIET’82, of War II veteran, retired from General veteran during the Korean War, was Nissan in Smyrna, AL. He was sur- Tawas City, Feb. 27, 2017. Mr. Spahr Motors with over 40 years of service survived by his wife, Barbara. vived by his wife, Wanda, two sons, worked as head of communications at the Ternstedt Division Plant in and a daughter. at Ford Motor Co. He was survived by Detroit. He was survived by his wife, Leonard G. Milburn, BSBA’69, of two daughters, a son, and a stepson. Florence, two daughters, and a son. Chatham, Ontario, Jan. 30, 2016. Mr. Harold “Skip” Miller, BSME’73, of Gordon worked in the Service Parts Chesterfield, March 9, 2016. Mr. Miller Kristyna Hellen, BSBA’84, of Palm Anthony Palermino, BSPh’52, Operation at the AC Delco Division was a project manager at General Harbor, FL, Sept. 18, 2014. Ms. Hellen of Marysville, Jan. 12, 2017. Mr. of General Motors. He was survived Motors. He was survived by his wife, was a computer programmer at Ford Palermino, an Army veteran with ser- by his wife, Laureen, a son, and a Marcia, a son, and a daughter. Motor Co. She was survived by her vice in Korea, managed several phar- daughter. mother and four siblings. macies in St. Clair Shores and later Leonard E. Chapman, ABCT’74, of owned and operated his own Clinic Richard J. Granke, BSCh’72, of Royal Howell, April 23, 2017. Mr. Chapman Michael D. Jones, BSME’86, MEM’11, Pharmacy in Richmond until his retire- Oak, Jan. 13, 2016. Mr. Granke was was a retired engineer for the City of MBA’12, of Southfield, Sept. 16, 2016. ment. He was survived by his wife, a senior environmental engineer at Farmington. He was survived by his He was survived by his father and five Barbara, five sons, and a daughter. General Motors. He was survived by wife, Frieda, and three sons. siblings. his wife, Sally. Thomas R. Parry, BSSS’56, of Daniel Murray, BSCE’74, of Naples, Scott D. Herd, BSBA’90, of Warren, Hillsborough, NJ, Feb. 8, 2017. Mr. FL, Sept. 5, 2016. An Army veteran, Sept. 28, 2014. Parry, a Navy veteran with service Mr. Murray established and owned in World War II, was a high school D.W. Murray Building Contractors Jessica L. Jensen, BSBA’96, MBA’99, teacher in Ferndale and later president and Engineers, Inc., as well as several of Royal Oak, July 16, 2016. Mrs. of the Western Pennsylvania Safety other businesses in the Downriver Jensen was business manager of the Council. He was survived by two sons Detroit area. He was survived by a son Royal Oak and Southfield campuses of and two daughters. and a daughter. Oakland Community College. She was survived by her husband, Matthew, Neil E. Persinger, BSIM’74, of Troy, and two daughters. March 15, 2013. He was survived by two children. Andrew G. Korol, BSME’00, of Livonia, Sept. 3, 2013. Mr. Korol was a Lawrence W. Van De Velde, AIST’74, former Lawrence Tech employee. BSIM’78, of Onsted, Feb. 20, 2017. Mr. Van De Velde was one of the Billy R. Brown, AASMfE’02, of Detroit, founding partners of Sunrise Windows June 13, 2016. Ltd. in Temperance. He was survived by his wife, Laura, and a son. Mark S. Swank, BSCS’03, of Commerce Township, Aug. 21, 2014. Robert W. Patyk, BSAr’75, of Clinton Mr. Swank worked as a software engi- Township, Sept. 13, 2014. He was neer in the automotive and tech indus- survived by four children. tries in Southwest Michigan. He was survived by his mother, a twin brother, Burt V. King, BSBA’77, of Canton, July and two sisters. 27, 2016. An Air Force veteran with service during the Korean War, Mr. King was survived by three daughters.

L awrence T ech M agazine 45 DonorDONOR Honor Roll HONOR ROLL

St. John Major donor society inductees Providence| Ascension honored at Springsation represented by Peggy onors play an essential role in the opportunities provided Vandenhemel by Lawrence Technological University. Their generosity Dhelps provide an outstanding education at an affordable price to the young adults who will be the leaders and innovators of tomorrow. The newest members of LTU’s major giving clubs and societ- ies were honored at the University’s annual Springsation recep- tion and dinner on May 18, held at the Henry Ford.

Russell E. Lawrence Society ($500,000 to $999,999) Albert Kahn St. John Providence | Ascension Associates represented by 1932 Society ($100,000 to $249,999) Mike Giovanni Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation Meijer, Inc.

Trustees Society ($50,000 to $99,999) Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. Mr. Bruce J. Annett, Jr. and Mrs. Amy Annett The Herbert and Elsa Ponting Foundation Mr. Leonard Kosloski, BSBA’90, and Mrs. Elaine A. Kosloski

Benefactors Society ($25,000 to $49,999) Mr. Dean De Galan, BSEE’74, and Mrs. Cynthia De Galan ZoAtex, Inc. Mr. Vincent, BSEE’79, and Mrs. Frances Dow represented by William L. Gregg, BSMCS’90, MBA’94, and Carol E. Anderson-Gregg Vincent Hylton The Godfroid Scholarship, In Honor of Dr. Robert and Mrs. Susan Godfroid Mr. Addison, BSAr’70, and Mrs. Deborah Igleheart Lego Education Magna International NFPA Education and Technology Foundation PepsiCo, Inc. Mr. Steven, BSEE’92, and Mrs. Colleen Stout Mr. W. Bernard White, PE, BSCE’80 ZOATEX Inc.

Meijer Inc. Fred A. and represented by Barbara M. Adrian Lewis erb Family Foundation, represented by Douglas ebert

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Presidents Club Lifetime ($10,000 to $24,999) Magna Mr. Tim Chavis International GE Appliances represented Mr. Robert, BSIM'74, and Mrs. Elaine Heck by Benjamin Saltsman Ms. Jeanne Johnston Professor Richard and Mrs. Pauline Maslowski PNC Bank Progressive Metal Manufacturing Co. Roura Material Handling, Inc. Mr. Brian, BSPh’88, and Mrs. Kathlene Wagner West Michigan Auto Auction

Bruce and Amy Annett

PNC Bank represented by Gina Coleman

W. Bernard White

Richard Maslowski

Dean V. De Galan

Tim Chavis

For more information on Lawrence Tech giving clubs and societies, contact Julie Vulaj, director of major gifts, at 248.204.2313 or [email protected].

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New LTU society celebrates support year after year, no matter what the gift

or years, Lawrence Tech has recog- Lawrence Tech, then still at its original nized its most generous benefactors Highland Park location, because “it gave F annually based on their cumula- me the opportunity to go to school, work tive giving to the University. But Lauren part time, and live at home.” Seebold, LTU’s director of annual giving, After college graduation, McCoskey saw an opportunity to honor donors for a spent two years in the Army, then em- different reason. barked on a long career that included stints “Large, transformational gifts make at Packard, Ford Motor Co., Budd Co., and headlines,” she said. “But the donors who fi nally, South Carolina-based Spartanburg support LTU year after year in ways that Steel Products, as its Detroit-area sales and are meaningful to them are our founda- engineering manager. He retired in 1993, tion. They’ve been right there with us as and is now active in several charities, as the University continues to grow, helping well as theater organ clubs, and serves as make every exciting new step possible, and their loyalty really a consultant to Packard collector clubs. He also has a grandson deserves to be celebrated.” who is an LTU alumnus – Matthew Weber, MSAE’11. Thus, the True Blue Society was born. The new donor rec- McCoskey said he gives to LTU “to give back to the Univer- ognition society launched this summer to show appreciation for sity, to help programs and students.” LTU’s most steadfast supporters – from He said he gives every year simply those who have made a gift in each of because “once I got started, I wanted to the last two years to those like Walt continue.” McCoskey, BSME’51, who has been donating to his alma mater for 46 consecutive years – the longest consecu- At this time, membership in the True tive yearly giving streak of any donor, Blue Society is only open to alumni according to University records. and former students of LTU, LIT, McCoskey grew up on Detroit’s west and DIT. For more information, side and graduated from Cass Technical visit www.ltu.edu/trueblue or call High School. He opted to attend 248.204.2309.

Walter and Dorothy McCoskey

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LTU takes first, third in autonomous vehicle competition

eams from Lawrence Technological University finished first and Behind the wheel – but with no third in the nation in the two divisions of the Intelligent Ground hands on it – is a competition T official as the LTU autonomous Vehicle Competition (IGVC), held June 2–5 at Oakland University in Rochester. car goes through its paces. LTU took first place as the only team to successfully finish competi- tion in IGVC Spec 2, a new division for full-size autonomous vehicles. student in computer science. In Spec 2, the autonomous vehicles move around a course consisting Associate team members were of lines painted on a grass field. They must stop for stop signs and fol- Muhammad Momin Aftab, an low road markings. electrical engineering under- The championship team was comprised of computer science students grad, and Nirmite Changani, a Nicholas Paul, team captain, Mitchell Pleune, and Devson Butani, an robotics engineering undergrad. undergraduate in mechanical engineering. Team advisors were C.J. Chung, One of the University’s two other teams, iWheels 3, took third place professor of computer science, in IGVC Spec 1, a competition for smaller autonomous vehicles resem- and senior lecturer Gordon bling NASA’s Mars rovers. That competition was in its 25th year. In this Stein, BSCS’16, MSCS’16, division, the vehicles also move around a course of white lines painted and adjunct faculty Jonathan on grass, but the courses have obstacles like barrels and cones that the Ruszala, MSCS’10. vehicles must maneuver around. Also competing were Team members were Butani, team captain; Sean Bleicher, a com- students from the College of Engineering’s robotics engineering pro- puter science undergraduate student; and Kevin Cox, a graduate gram. Members of this team were Adam Drotar, technical captain and mechanical team lead; Mark Kenney, electrical team lead; Kristin Jordan, public relations captain; Shuwei Xu, programming lead; and team members Syed Athar, Zachary Carey, Michael Dupuie II, Ryan Moreno, Ryan Pizzirusso, Lacy Pyrzynski, Ryan Woods, Chris Suchezsky, Bryan Walther, Thomas Weeks, and Alex Wendt. The full-size autonomous vehicle entered in Spec 2 was a Polaris Gem two-passenger electric vehicle with a top speed of 25 mph. It was donated to the University by Hyundai Mobis, the parts-and-service division of the Korean automaker, and DataSpeed Inc., a Rochester Hills-based autonomous vehicle technology developer. The Gem will soon have a new life as an autonomous taxi on Lawrence Tech’s campus. The vehicle was dedicated on July 27 as part of a victory party celebrating the championship. Chung said the vehicle The Spec 2 team with the vehicle just before its test run. might be in service as early as October. MR