Steven Tomaszewski is Director of Real Estate and Facilities Operations for General Motors Company. He received a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from Michigan Tech in 1991 and a master’s from Wayne State University. He is one of the founders and past Vice President of the Michigan Tech Chapter of the Society of Environmental Engineers. He has served on Tech’s College of Engineering Advisory Board and the Civil and Environmental Engineering Professional Advisory Committee. Tomaszewski received the Michigan Tech Young Alumni Award in 1999 and was instrumental in GM’s involvement in the Ride the Waves Program. Ride the Waves, which came about when Tomaszewski contacted the University asking what GM could do to help get children involved with water issues, has taken about 2,500 children and adults on Lake Superior aboard the RV Agassiz.