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Electrical Engineering professor emeritus Walt Anderson is flanked by Michigan Tech president Glenn Mroz and Jean Anderson, Mechanical Engineering professor emeritus at the 2007 Alumni picnic.

Jon Soper, Walt Anderson, Teo Babun, and Dennis Wiitanen

Below: Photos of Walt Anderson through the years as a Michigan Tech professor

 

 

Walt Anderson to receive Board of Control Silver Medal

Professor Emeritus Electrical Engineering Walt Anderson will receive the Board of Control Silver Medal. He graduated from the University in 1943 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and soon went to work on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tenn. After the Second World War, he returned to Michigan Tech to earn a master's degree and in 1954 came back to begin a long and productive career in the electrical engineering department and with the School of Technology, retiring in 1988.

Anderson earned a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1957, was assistant head of the electrical engineering department for 14 years, and served as its acting head three different times. In 1984 he became director of the School of Technology.

He served on the state licensure commission and was a leader in the National Council of Engineering Examiners, which honored him with a distinguished service award and an award of merit. The Michigan Society of Professional Engineers named Anderson Engineer of the Year in 1971 and a fellow in 1994.

"Michigan Tech and the Manhattan Project" featuring Electrical Engineering professor emeritus Walt Anderson

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Michigan Tech alumnus and faculty emeritus Walter Anderson brings World War II into the high school classroom, telling his personal stories about the development of the atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy.”

The Manhattan Project was cloaked in secrecy, hidden even from most of the scientists involved. But Walter Anderson and other curious engineers at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, calculated that the mysterious substance they were producing was the rare isotope uranium 235. A few years later, U-235 from Oak Ridge would fuel the bomb that leveled Hiroshima. Their equations, scribbled on paper, are seen on the cover.

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