Business and Engineering Centennial Celebration

Celebrate 100 Years of Business and Engineering!

Join fellow alumni and current and former faculty members to commemorate a century of achievement as we mark the 100th anniversary of the Business and Engineering program at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business with a special celebration during Alumni Weekend.

The afternoon includes a celebratory lunch, a retrospective on the program’s history and a look into its future, with remarks by distinguished guests, including Vibhas Madan, PhD, dean and R. John Chapel Jr. Dean’s Chair, Matthew Reindorp, PhD, associate clinical professor and head of the Decision Sciences and MIS department, and the inagural recipeints of the program’s alumni awards:

• Early Career Alumni Achievement Award Recipient: Ian Yamaguchi ’15, a global strategist for Samsung’s Global Strategy Group based in Seoul, South Korea. Since graduating from Drexel, Yamaguchi has worked in various consulting roles for IBM and completed an MBA through INSEAD, an international business graduate school based in France.
• Alumni Career Achievement Award Recipient: William R. Schutt ’67, founder, former owner and chairman of MATCOR, Inc., a global provider of corrosion prevention technologies headquartered in Chalfont, Pa. Schutt is a member of Drexel’s President’s Leadership Council and the Close School of Entrepreneurship’s External Advisory Board, a Golden Dragon Society Award recipient from the Drexel University Alumni Association and a 2019 Drexel 100 inductee.

Launched in 1924 as Commercial Engineering at the Drexel Institute of Technology, the program evolved to Commerce and Engineering before moving to the current name in 2007. Throughout its history, the program has delivered its distinctive blend of curriculum of business education and engineering expertise with its alumni spanning the globe and leading in their fields.

Reconnect with classmates, mentors and friends as we recognize the program’s legacy, the dedication of its faculty and the successes of its alumni.