| Burd
Hikes, Class of '49
Mr. Burd Hikes, a 1949 civil engineering
graduate of Michigan Tech, is the retired president of Lakeside
Equipment Corporation. Burd began his career as a sanitary
engineer with the Pacific Flush Tank Company. In 1959, he
became vice president of Lakeside Engineering Corporation
and was elected president in 1970, a position he has held
until his recent retirement. He is a member of ASCE, the Water
Environment Federation, the Western Society of Engineers,
and the Inter-American Association of Sanitary Engineering.
He received MTU's Silver Medal Award in 1975. Burd has been
an active supporter of Michigan Tech, serving on the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Professional Advisory
Board, the Alumni Association's Board of Directors, the Michigan
Tech Fund's Board of Trustees, and a Volunteer for the Century
II Campaign. |
