Distinguished Engineering Alumnus
Award Recipient
Michael D. Killian — 2000
This active alumnus is vice president and general manager of Ashland Specialty Chemical Company's Foundry Products Division.
A native of Waynesville, North Carolina, he earned a BS degree in chemical engineering from NC State in 1968 and an MBA from Tulane in 1974.
He joined Ashland Chemical Company in 1974 and transferred to Ashland Inc. in 1976. In 1981 he was promoted to administrative vice president of Ashland Inc.'s APAC division. He returned to Ashland Chemical in 1983. In 1989 he was appointed vice president and general manager of the Petrochemical Division and was named vice president and general manager of the Foundry Products Division in 1996.
He is a member of several University associations, is on the board of directors of the Engineering Foundation, and is a key member of Chemical Engineering's alumni industrial advisory board, where he was instrumental in the establishment and success of a five-year fundraising campaign to renovate Riddick Laboratories. He also is a member of the American Foundrymen's Society and the Institute of British Foundrymen.
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Michael D. Killian