2012 Hall of Fame: Volker Petersen - Smooth Sailing to Success

Printing wasn't on Petersen's radar when he earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in 1984. Wanting to discover a world outside of Germany, he attended Iowa State and received an MS degree and PhD in industrial engineering in 1988.

"When I came to the states, I wanted to get another perspective on life, to see what life in other cultures was like," Petersen notes. Ironically, he would interview with a German firm, then take a job based in the states.