Indiana Institute of Technology - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Josh Judy, Major League Baseball pitcher
• Jesse Hoover, Minor League Baseball pitcher
• Brandon Alger, Minor League Baseball pitcher
• S. Thomas Wong, Responsible for creation of Shake N Bake
• Lowell G. Krandell, Designed Indiana's first fiber optics system
• Stanley John Puskarz, Invented the pop-top lid and the screw off bottle cap
• Young Jung Paik, Founder and Chairman of Paco Steel and Engineering Corporation, the nation's largest producer of patented light-steel I-beams; Named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999 by Ernst & Young
• Adolf Vartanian, Senior member of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. Incorporated by Congress in 1908
• Joseph J. Foster III, LT. Col. USAF (Retired) - logged 5,750 hours in 19 different prop, turbo-prop and jet aircraft and flew 1,165 combat support sorties in Vietnam from 1966 to 1967
• Clarence "Casey" Forrest, Bell Aircraft - He worked on the X-1 and completed his career as senior vice president at Textron in charge of flight test for LCAC (Land Craft Air Cushion) vehicles used by United States Marines. He was inducted into the Niagara Frontier Aviation Hall of Fame.
• Walter T. Weller, Responsible for calibrating the instruments on the first plane to break the sound barrier and worked in “Little Joe” capsules that later became part of the Mercury space program
• Stanley Clemenz, 61 years in telecommunications engineering (satellites, manned spacecraft, network sites), aerospace (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo), shipbuilding (cruisers, destroyers, amphibious warfare ships), automobile production (Ford), subway systems (BART, Metrorail), oceanography (sonar, atomic bomb testing). He was also a LT. (JG) in the Navy during WWII
• H. Robert Gill, Quickly moved up the ranks at Magnavox, eventually overseeing the $50 million international marine electronics division; became president of the Ball Corporation’s Industrial Systems Division where he created a new industrial instruments and systems business and grew it to $21 million in sales worldwide; chairman of the board for the Boulder Innovation Center and chairman emeritus of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado; sought-after adviser/consultant
• James R. Bard, Co-Owner Bard Manufacturing which, over the past 40 years, has grown to be the largest U.S. manufacturer of wall-mounted HVAC products; 2001 Northwest Ohio Entrepreneur of the Year; 2004 Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute lifetime achievement award
• Frank Oropeza, Founded Transpo, an automotive voltage regulator manufacturing company that started in his garage and grew to 700 employees with an annual revenue in excess of $100 million
• Ronald A. Ostrowski, Worked for Boeing and was instrumental in the design and development of numerous aircraft, including the 737, 747, 757, 767, and 777; 1995 Collier Trophy Team Award for design and introduction of the 777; Aviation and Space Technology’s Laureates Hall of Fame for Aeronautics and Propulsion in 1996; and the Daniel Guggenheim Medal for Achievement in the Advancement of Aeronautics in 1998
• Robert R. Featheringham, Highly successful, 40-year career with defense contracting companies in the Washington, D.C. area where he worked on multi-million dollar contracts and billion-dollar projects; later established Two Feathers Consulting to provide business development and management consulting services to the United States Army
• Rear Admiral David J. Nash, 33-year career in the Navy; served as Resident Officer in Charge of Construction at naval installations in Argentina, Newfoundland, and Point Mugu, California, before shipping overseas to Vietnam, where he served until 1970; by 1995, served as Commander, Pacific Division Naval Facilities Command, responsible for the Navy's facilities across eleven time zones in the Pacific Command region, including command of the Third Naval Construction Brigade in Pearl Harbor; named chief of civil engineers, he ascended to the top of the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps as Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command and Organization; served as Director of Iraq Program Management Office (PMO) under Coalition Provisional Authority and later, as Director of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office (IRMO) under the U.S. State Department; continues to serve the private sector since retiring from the U.S. Navy in 1998