A Michigan developer, a Ford Motor Company auto safety design researcher, a structural consulting engineer, the U.S. Army TARDEC research director, and two former vice presidents of Visteon and Medtronic, Inc. have been named to the Wayne State College of Engineering Hall of Fame.

They will join a prestigious group of 94 Engineering alumni with outstanding professional accomplishments when they are inducted at Night of the Stars, the college’s annual celebration of achievement at the Detroit Science Center November 17. 

The new inductees are West Bloomfield developer Lushman Grewal; Ford research engineer Priyaranjan Prasad; Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers Vice President Athanacios Nasr; U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) Research Director Grace Bochenek; retired Visteon Vice President of Glass Systems Division Paul Gill; and former Medtronic Vice President and CFO Robert Ryan.

Wayne State University is a premier institution of higher education, offering more than 350 academic programs through 11 schools and colleges to more than 33,000 students in metropolitan Detroit. Its College of Engineering, with more than 2,600 undergraduate and graduate students, offers a wide range of fully accredited engineering disciplines. Its well-respected graduates represent a large force in Michigan industry and the engineering field.