Alan Kennedy
BSME '69
Kennedy was previously employed as a design engineer at GE Appliances and as a patent attorney at Xerox, U.S. Army and NASA. He was the first Black student to graduate with a mechanical engineering co-op at Purdue University. He served as director of the NASA Patent Infringement Division in Washington, D.C. and led NASA trademark compliance initiatives including films such as Apollo 13 and Armageddon.
Purdue experience
Completed a co-op with Haynes Stellite