Jack H. Kulp ('63, Mechanical Engineering)

Jack H. Kulp

President, TrafFix Devices Incorporated

BS Mechanical Engineering, Cal Poly Pomona, 1963

Jack H. Kulp and his wife, Sue, founded TrafFix Devices Incorporated, a producer of traffic control and safety products, out of their home in 1986. Today, the company’s products are sold to barricade rental yards, traffic control companies, highway contractors, state government departments, cities and counties around the world.

“My Cal Poly Pomona experience provided me with a solid, practical education and helped me to look for simple, practical and cost-efficient solutions to complex and difficult-to-solve product design problems,” Jack says. “It has worked for the past 50 years of my professional building career.”

Jack began his career working at Vard Incorporated as a design engineer, designing a cutting and welding machine to weld in and remove control rod mechanisms for nuclear submarine reactors. He later worked in sales for the Dairy Industry Company, as a sales engineer for Terra Tires & Wheels, as a sales engineer for Royal Industries and as president for the signal division of Lear Siegler Incorporated.