Joseph (Joe) M. Shuster of New Prague, Minnesota, has passed away at the age of 83. Readers of gasworld will remember Shuster as one of the founders Minnesota Valley Engineering (MVE)/Chart Industries.
Joe was a chemical engineer and proud alumnus of the University of Minnesota. He was a savvy entrepreneur and businessman who spent his career in engineering and management roles in diverse technically oriented companies. Joe founded/co-founded 10 companies, most notably MVE)/Chart Industries, an international leader in cryogenics, and Teltech Resource Network (now Sopheon), a technical knowledge consulting company. It is conservatively estimated that these 10 companies provide over 10,000 jobs today.
Energy-focused
Joe was intensely interested in energy issues and wrote an energy alert paper for the US Congress in 1971, accurately predicting the oil embargo of 1973. He gave testimony before the House and Senate Committees on a Technology Transfer Program that led to positive legislation. Later, disgusted with government inaction to create effective energy policies, Joe wrote Beyond Fossil Fools (2008), a tutorial on energy sources and issues.
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