Last month the Alpha Gamma Chapter of Epsilon Mu Eta (EMH) made its debut at WMU by initiating 44 members, including professors, alumni, and students. Among the new members were alumni Herb Everss (’65), former automotive supplier executive and now CEO of Global EMERGENT, INC., and Peter Karadjoff (’86), CEO of Mercy Hospital in Port Huron, who addressed the group and shared secrets of their successful careers.
From left: David Lyth, Larry Mallak, and Herb Everss
EMH is the engineering management society. It was established at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., in 2003. At WMU the Engineering Management Research Laboratory is one of the founding members. IME’s Dr. David Lyth and Dr. Larry Mallak are charter members.
According to a letter written by William R. Peterson, EMH president and founder, the society’s goal is “to recognize academic achievements of students in engineering management programs” and its distinguished academic leaders and practitioners.
Peter Karadjoff
Among the initiates were three generations of engineering management. “Before it became engineering management, it was manufacturing administration, and before that it was industrial supervision,” Lyth said.
Lyth noted that Everss was a gradu-ate of industrial supervision; Karadjoff, of manufacturing administration.
Both speakers reviewed their careers, connected their successes to their educations, and offered advice to students and recent grads.
Everss told them to find and enhance “the gifts [they] bring to business and industry,” to “do more than what is expected,” and not to underestimate the value of communication. “Focus as much on communication as you do on the technical side because one without the other doesn’t go,” he said. “If you can’t sell your technical strength, how do you make the point that you have the answer to the problem?”
Karadjoff told them to develop techniques to work with people who are not in their fields, to network by asking for advice on “how to approach” the search, and to be detail oriented. “You’ll get more opportunity if you prove your ability to do a good job at the small ones,” he said.
Alumni initiates from the Engineering Management MS program include Peter Battey, Mike Bosscher, Vincent Dutter, Juhani Engelberg, Terri Estkowski, Tod Grams, William Koepf, Brent Ladd, Kenneth Lee, Michelle Leiterman, Sundaresan Narayanan, Rahul Shah, and Greg Williams.
Alumni initiates from the Engineering Management Technology BS program were Nolen Akerman, Aric Carlisle, Michael Gaddes, Bradley Glessner, Joshua Maes, James McEachen, David Smith, and Nick Yambura.
Current initiates from the MS program are Dzinyo Asamoa-Tutu, Chad Beebe, Stewart Gulliver, Aaron Keller, Carlos Tejada Medina, Janna Muller, Peter Oosting, Geoffry Twietmeyer, and Max Wettlaufer.
Current initiates from the BS program include Zachary Armstrong, Ryan Linenfelser, Andrew Nowak, Kevin Ortbals, Melissa Saltzman, Thomas Saville, Joshua Schilling, Kyle Swanson, and Quentin Witkowski.
CEAS Dean Dr. Tim Greene and IME Chair Dr. Paul Engelmann, and IME emeritus professor Dr. Frank Scott, whom Everss’ said had been his “favorite professor,” welcomed and celebrated the new society.
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