Pat Artis, ESM Graduate, Named Engineering College's Distinguished Alumnus by Lynn Nystrom
When Pat Artis was a youngster, he built and launched a rocket, promptly blowing a hole in the family's truck window. His unlikely cohort in the crime - his father more...
ESM alumna Professor Helen Reed (EM MS'80, PhD'82) inducted into Virginia Tech Academy of Engineering Excellence by Lynn Nystrom
On Helen Reed's web page, under her photo, are the words: "Currently Teaching / My Hours: Open Door." She may be the only engineering department head in the more...
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