Michigan Engineer

Published by the University of Michigan College of Engineering.

Publisher
Stephen W. Director, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering

Executive Editor
Byron Roberts (BA ‘85)

Editor
Bill Clayton

Art Director
Mark Nystrom

Art Support
Linnete Lao

Contributing Editors
Katherine Austin, Jean Dougherty, Neal Lao, Lois Rose and Connie Scheibe 

Photographers
Chris Burkhalter, Dwight Cendrowski, Paul Jaronski, Marsha Ledford, Mark Nystrom, Michael Schimpf, J.D. Small and Martin Vloet

Illustrator
Celia Johnson

Printer
Foresight Group 

Web Editor
Bill Clayton

Michigan Engineer is published two times a year by the University of Michigan College of Engineering.

Michigan Engineer offices are located at: 2966D Cooley, 2355 Bonisteel Blvd. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104

Phone: 734 647-7089
Email: michiganengineer@umich.edu
Web: www.engin.umich.edu

Send address changes to:
Engineering Alumni Relations
1221 Beal Ave, Room 2C11A
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2102 Or email: engin.alumni.relations@umich.edu

Contributors

Connie Coon  Conny Coon is the editor of a communication arts trade magazine, The Big Idea, an advertising trade magazine that covers Detroit, Chicago and Minneapolis.

Paul Gargaro has been a staff reporter for The Bridgeport Post, Crain's Detroit Business and Bloomberg News. His freelance portfolio includes articles for The New York Times, Detroit Monthly, The New Pacific, and Urban Land.

Kim Roth is a freelance writer who has contributed to the Chicago Tribune, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Washington Post and the Gale Group E-Commerce Sourcebook (forthcoming). 

Barbara Wylan Sefton is a freelance writer whose publishing credits include Gourmet, Art & Antiques, Food Arts, American Style, Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion, and HOUR Detroit.

The Regents of the University of Michigan

David A. Brandon, Ann Arbor
Laurence B. Deitch, Bingham Farms
Daniel D. Horning, Grand Haven
Olivia P. Maynard, Goodrich
Rebecca McGowan, Ann Arbor
Andrea Fischer Newman, Ann Arbor
S. Martin Taylor, Grosse Pointe Farms
Katherine E. White, Ann Arbor
Mary Sue Coleman, ex officio