Milwaukee School of Engineering is honored to announce the 2026 Alumni Wall of Distinction inductees are Randy Crump ’77, Gary J. Vroman ’91 and Terrell “Terry” Williams ’67. The MSOE Alumni Wall of Distinction Award is the most prestigious honor MSOE alumni can receive. This award is presented to MSOE alumni who have become distinguished in their communities and fields of endeavor.

To be eligible for the Wall of Distinction, the individual must have an outstanding professional record, demonstrate outstanding character and community service, and present themselves as outstanding role models for current MSOE students.

The inductees will be honored at a private ceremony in November. Learn more about the honorees and their accomplishments below.

Randy Crump ’77
While studying electrical engineering at MSOE, Randy Crump worked to support his young family, earn strong grades and pursue research and development. After graduation, he became a national award-winning sales engineer, working with fabricators, engineers and facility managers across eastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. He founded a business in Milwaukee’s central city that trained more than three dozen underemployed residents to build and install advanced control systems. His team supported major projects, including the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s Milorganite process, the U.S. Pettit National Ice Center’s refrigeration controls and first-generation GPS systems on more than 700 buses in Milwaukee and Hennepin County.

Crump later founded Prism Technical Management and Marketing Services, LLC to help real estate developers and general contractors successfully engage with smaller, underutilized workers and businesses with large, fast-track construction projects. He and his wife worked through their church to create Dream Chasing where they mentored 107 teens from 1999 to 2009, exposing them to professionals and careers in engineering, construction, law and law enforcement, healthcare and more. They took teens to visit colleges within 100 miles of Milwaukee and lead a 3,000-mile cross-country trip. At least three participants later graduated from MSOE and are now thriving in their own careers.

Crump and his wife, Joann, have one son, Lafayette, and four grandchildren.

 Terrell “Terry” Williams ’67
Terrell “Terry” Williams is an inventor, biomedical pioneer and advocate whose career transformed modern cardiac pacing technology. After graduating from MSOE with an electrical engineering degree, he began his career at 3M developing industrial sensor instrumentation. A pivotal turning point arrived when his newborn son was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. Moving past his comfort zone into the budding field of biomedical engineering, Williams redirected his focus toward medical technology to address unmet cardiac needs. He joined Medtronic in 1971, embarking on a 41-year tenure as a Technical Fellow, product development program manager and advanced concepts lab manager. During his career at Medtronic, Williams earned 50 U.S. patents, including the ground-breaking Medtronic Model 3830 lead and delivery catheter systems which saves thousands of lives annually.

Since retiring from Medtronic, Williams continues to work as a freelance inventor and has earned seven additional post-retirement patents. He serves as president of the Pacemaker Patient Advocacy Group, leads The Future of Pacing LLC and serves on the executive committee for the “Left vs. Left” clinical trial.

A recipient of MSOE’s 2022 Alumni Achievement Award and Minnesota’s Proclamation Honored Inventor award, Williams attributes his lifelong innovation to solid academic training, spiritual contemplation and the steadfast support of his wife of 63 years, Betty.

Gary J. Vroman ’91
Gary J. Vroman was the president and CEO of Ladish Co., Inc., and is currently a trustee of the Ladish Co. Foundation. He joined Ladish as an associate sales engineer in 1982. In 1985 he was promoted to sales engineer for the General Electric Aircraft Engines account. He was named a senior sales engineer in 1988 and served as a marketing analyst for the Ladish Forging aerospace and jet engine accounts. In 1992 he became the product sales manager for the aerospace, missile and rocket group, selling to customers such as NASA, Boeing and Sikorsky. He was appointed general sales manager in 1994 and then became vice president of sales and marketing for Ladish Forging in 1996. In 2007 he was promoted to president of Ladish Forging. In 2009, he was named president and CEO of Ladish Co., Inc., a member of the board of directors and became a trustee of the in the Ladish Co. Foundation. Ladish merged with ATI Metals in 2011 and Vroman retired in 2013.

Vroman received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1982 and his master’s in engineering management from MSOE in 1991.

Vroman and his wife of 43 years, Julie, have two daughters, Jennifer and Sarah, and two grandchildren, Jack and Theo. He is an avid fisherman and enjoys reading, golf and travel.