Tech to Award Two Silver Medals at Commencement
HOUGHTON--Michigan Technological
University will present Board of Control Silver Medals to two distinguished
alumni, Patrick Horvath and Harold Wiens, at Spring Commencement May 11.
The Silver Medal honors personal and professional achievement.
Horvath, a native of Stephenson,
received a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from Michigan
Tech in 1967. He also studied at California State University, Long Beach,
where he earned a master's degree in business administration in 1973.
Horvath worked nine years as
a metallurgist for Wyman-Gordon Company, first in Massachusetts and then
in California. He spent three more years at an independent materials testing
facility.
In 1979, he founded Accurate
Metallurgical Services, Inc., a firm that tested metals and composites.
Two years later, Horvath founded H&H Heat Treating, Inc., which also
served the metals industry. He served as president of both corporations,
which he sold several years ago when he retired. He spends his winters
in Whittier, Calif., and summers in Stephenson.
His professional associations
include membership in the American Society for Metals and the American
Institute of Mining Engineers.
A member of Tau Beta Pi Honorary
Society while at Tech, he is a life trustee of the Michigan Tech Fund
Board of Trustees and a member of the McNair Society, the Presidents Society
and the Dillman Society. In 1998, he was inducted into the University's
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Academy.
Wiens graduated from Michigan
Tech with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1968 and started
work at the 3M Company.
Wiens has had managerial responsibilities
since 1980, including six years with 3M Europe and three years as head
of 3M's largest international company in Japan. As 3M Company's executive
vice president of industrial markets, Wiens leads many of 3M's strongest
and most innovative businesses from its St. Paul, Minn., headquarters.
He is a board member of the
National Association of Manufacturers, including serving as chair of the
group's Trade and Technology Committee. He also is a member of QIC, an
industry consortium specializing in standards for networking memory backup
devices.
Wiens is a member of Michigan
Tech's National Advisory Board. He also has been inducted into MTU's Academy
of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, which recognizes the
department's outstanding graduates.
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