Alumni will share memories and activities throughout Alumni Weekend 2007 and, as always, the highlight of the weekend will be the Alumni Society Awards Dinner, which will honor those alumni who personify Michigan Engineering's tradition of excellence and who have achieved significant accomplishments in their professional lives. The 2007 awards recipients are, as in past years, quintessential Michigan Engineering alumni.

2007 Alumni Society Medal

James McDivitt (BSE AA '59, ScD Hon. '65), brigadier general, U.S. Air Force; vice president (ret.), Rockwell International Corporation 

2007 Recent Engineering Graduate Award

Alan Steremberg (BSE CompE '94), president, Weather Underground

2007 Distinguished Service Award

James Fausone (BS AOS, BS Env. '76), attorney/partner, Fausone Bohn, LLP

2007 Alumni Society Merit Award Recipients

Departmental committees selected the following individuals to receive Merit Awards in recognition of significant accomplishments in their professional lives.

• Karen Albrecht (AERO '72), engineering site director, Lockheed Martin
• Greg Jenkins (AOSS '89), chair, associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University
• Spencer BeMent (BioEng '67), professor emeritus, U-M Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• James Street (ChE '59), group research co-ordinator (ret.), Shell International Petroleum Co. Ltd.
• Bruce Dorfman (CEE '82), principal, Thompson Dorfman
• Lee Boysel (EECS '62), founder, FourPhaseSystems
• Nancy Benovich Gilby (CSE '85), vice president, Engineering, Asurion Mobile Applications
• Mary Petrovich (IOE '85), CEO, Axle Tech International
• Richard Heglin (ME '59), president/mgmt. consultant, R.T. Heglin, PE, LLC
• Jody Hall (MSE '84), engineering group manager, Global Die Standards & Materials Applications, General Motors
• Harry Benford (NAME '39), professor emeritus, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
• Keith Cooley (NERS '67), director, State of Michigan Dept. of Labor and Economic Growth