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June, 2013 Alumni Notes
John Burch, Jr., BS ’73 Civil Engineering
Senior Vice President, Knott Realty Group, Timonium, Maryland
Andrew Chamberlin, BS ’06 Mechanical Engineering
Graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and getting his medical degree
Luis Corzo, ME ’05 Engineering
Senior Risk Engineer, Energy, Construction & Engineering, Liberty International Underwriters, Miami, Florida
Timothy Gipe, BS ’82 Chemistry, BS ’83 Chemical Engineering
Engineer, Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration, Washington, D.C.
Ana Luisa Ramirez, BS ’05 Electrical Engineering
Named Woman of the Year by the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation
Justin Schwartz, BS ’10 Fire Protection Engineering
Engineer, Haines Fire & Risk Consulting Corporation, Southampton, New Jersey
Personal Notes
We were saddened to hear the passing of the following alumni:
Winnant C. McGinty, BS ’50 Mechanical Engineering
Alan H. Singleton, BS ’58 Chemical Engineering
May, 2013 Alumni Notes
Abdulmalik Almeheini, BS ’11, Chemical Engineering
Product Executive, SABIC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Adel Al-Wazeer, PhD ’07, Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering Faculty, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai
Pavan Dabade, ME ’08, Fire Protection Engineering
Fire Protection Engineer, AST Fire Protection Company, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
Reza Ghanadan, BS ’88, Physics, Electrical Engineering, MS ’90, Electrical Engineering
Program Manager, DARPA, Arlington, Virginia
April, 2013 Alumni Notes
Timothy Babich, BS ’08, MS ’11 Electrical Engineering
Systems Electrical Engineer, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
Delmar Gillus, Jr., BS ’93 Mechanical Engineering
Recently added as a member of the Black & Latino Achievers (BLA) Board
Zhenya Huang, MS ’00 Mechanical Engineering
Recently joined Fidelity Investments as Vice President, overseeing the quality and improvements in the operations
Andrew Humen, Jr., BS ’81 Electrical Engineering
President, Smiths Microwave, Tampa, Florida
Charles Joyce, BS ’04 Fire Protection Engineering
Director, AKF Group, New York, New York
Matthew Lauver, BS ’09 Fire Protection Engineering
Fire Protection Engineer, NAVFAC, Norfolk, Virginia
Seong Jae Park, MS ’05 Civil Engineering
Assistant, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul, Korea
Chengdong Wang, MS ’04, PhD ’07 Reliability Engineering
Senior Reliability Engineer, Schlumberger, Sugarland, Texas
March, 2013 Alumni Notes
Professional
Daniel Barbieri, BS ’89 Mechanical Engineering
Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA
Nicholas Barrick, BS ’06 Civil Engineering
Recently promoted to Associate at KCI Technologies, Inc., Fulton, MD
Regis Carvalho, MS ’06, PhD ’12 Civil Engineering
Project and Research Engineer, Dynatest Consulting, Inc., Upper Marlboro, MD
Michael A. Cox, BS ’86 Engineering
Joined the Calvert Memorial Hospital Foundation Board of Trustees
Joshua Elvove, BS ’80 Fire Protection and Civil Engineering
Named President of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers
John N. Lauer, BS '63 Chemical Engineering and Distinguished Engineering Alumni '93, will be honored for his efforts on behalf of the Hungarian Heritage Society in Washington on May 8.
Charles Lind, PhD ’94 Aerospace Engineering
Chief of Staff, Program Executive Office, Missiles and Space, Restone Arsenal, AL
Alexey Nikiforov, BS ’11 Aerospace Engineering
Design Engineer, Bell Helicopter, Hurst, TX
Adnan Sahli, MS ’81, PhD ’83 Civil Engineering
Chief Operating Officer, LEAD Development and Project Management, Abu Dhabi UAE
February, 2013 Alumni Notes
Professional
Tim Andreadis (B.S. ’74, physics; M.S. ’77, Ph.D. ’81, nuclear engineering) was recently elected as President of the Board of Directors of the Directed Energy Professional Society. He is also a Fellow of that society.
Allan Chara (B.S. ’01, mechanical engineering) is Global Account Manager at Danfoss in Baltimore, Maryland.
Joshua Emmer (B.S. ’11, materials engineering) is Nuclear Reactor Engineer and Operator at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Jonathan Graff (B.S. ’06, aerospace engineering) is Flight Test Engineer at General Atomics Aeronautical System in Poway, California.
Steve Hogan (B.S. ’85, mechanical engineering) is
Sector Vice President and General Manager of the Integrated Logistics & Modernization Division at Northrop Grumman in Herndon, Virginia.
Joseph Park (B.S. ’09, aerospace engineering) is
Survivability Engineer at SURVICE Engineering.
Zachary Rhoad (B.S. ’02, mechanical engineering) is
Project Engineer at Merck Animal Health in Millsboro, Delaware.
John Saams (B.S. ’85, fire protection engineering) is Director of Business Development – Energy Services at Siemens Government Technologies in Arlington, Virginia.
Jeffrey Thien (M.E. ’10, fire protection engineering) is Fire Protection Engineer at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in upstate New York.
December 2012 Alumni Notes
Professional
Steven Acenbrak (M.S. '88, civil engineering) was recently designated a Public Works Leadership Fellow by the American Public Works Association. He is the director of transportation for the city of Roswell, Ga.
Joseph R. Francis (B.S.'04, electrical engineering) is the new regional director for North America at Thuraya Telecommunications Company.
Ming-Teh Hsu (Ph.D. '74, nuclear engineering) received a Special Contribution Award from the president of Tsing-Hua University for his assistance with a fundraising campaign there.
David J. Miller (B.S. '08, civil engineering) is a designer with Degenkolb Engineers in San Francisco, Calif.
Brett O'Donnell (B.S. '80, chemical engineering) is vice president of business development at B3 Solutions in Alexandria, Va.
Sarah Preisel (B.S. '08, mechanical engineering) is an assistant project manager with Whiting-Turner Contracting Company in Baltimore.
Michael J. Scott (B.S. '03, mechanical engineering) is director of STEM initiatives at St. Paul's School in Baltimore.
November 2012 Alumni Notes
Professional
Jacob Epstein (B.S. '10, civil engineering) is a project engineer with Whiting-Turner Contracting Company in Towson, Md.
Farhan Gandhi (M.S. '92 and Ph.D. '95, aerospace engineering) has joined the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as the Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr. Professor of Engineering.
Zhu Han (M.S. '99 and Ph.D. '03, electrical engineering) has received tenure as an associate professor at the University of Houston.
Gani Nayak (M.S. '92, electrical engineering) has been named senior vice president of systems and solutions as Comverse, Inc., in Wakefield, Mass.
Cameron Novak (M.S. '11, fire protection engineering) is a staff engineer with Advance Engineering Investigations Corporation in Littleton, Colo.
Anthony Plummer (B.S. '97, mechanical engineering) is a project engineer with Gapent Construction, LLC, in Upper Marlboro, Md.
William Rivers (B.S. '92, aerospace engineering) has been appointed executive director of the Joint National Committee for Languages -- National Council for Languages and International Studies.
Raymond Streib, P.E. (B.S. '65, civil engineering) is chairman of Development Facilitators, Inc., a civil engineering firm in Maryland. He is president of American Society of Civil Engineers Maryland section and was named Associate of the Year by the American Council of Engineering Companies Maryland.
David L. Vanhoy (M.S. '88, aerospace engineering) has received the 2012 Kelly Johnson Award for excellence and outstanding achievement in flight test engineering from the Society of Flight Test Engineers. He is technical director for the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School.
October 2012 Alumni Notes
Professional
Rajeev Arora (B.S. '00, fire protection engineering) is a senior director of transportation at Tyco in New York City.
Jason Grimes (B.S. '03, fire protection engineering) is a fire protection engineer at Naval Facilities Engineering Command Europe Africa Southwest Asia.
Jeffrey Mann (B.S. '93, electrical engineering) is a senior engineer with Baltimore Gas & Electric Company.
John Quinn (M.S. '86, agricultural engineering) is director of environmental affairs for Constellation Energy in Baltimore.
Jason Schoenbrun (B.S. '06, computer engineering) has relocated to Israel and is a software engineer with RSA.
Christopher Warth (B.S. '74, civil engineering) is vice president of development for Liberty Property Trust in Philadelphia, Pa.
Suhas Yerra (M.Eng. '95, civil engineering) is managing director for TIAA-CREF in Charlotte, N.C.
September 2012 Alumni Notes
Professional
Harish Bhaskaran (M.S. '02 and Ph.D. '06, mechanical engineering) received the first Fellowship in Manufacturing from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Andrew Breeding (B.S. '09, civil engineering) is an office engineer with the Clark Construction Group, LLC, in Bethesda, Md.
Joseph G. DiCarlo (B.S. '79, civil engineering) is associate in charge of business development at engineering firm Wallace Montgomery in Towson, Md.
Michael Gallagher (B.S. '83, mechanical engineering) is a senior engineer at LMI in McLean, Va.
Kristin Kern (B.S. '12, mechanical engineering) is an engineer I at BGE in Baltimore.
Aya Korine (B.S. '09, electrical engineering, and M.S. '10, information technology) has worked at Motorola Solutions for the past two years and is relocating to Israel.
Ashley Korzun (B.S. '06, aerospace engineering) received her Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech and is working at NASA Langley Research Center on research relevant to planetary entry, descent and landing.
Christopher Lombardo (B.S. '05, electrical engineering and physics) is assistant director for undergraduate studies at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Cambridge, Mass.
James Michael (B.S. '07, aerospace engineering) is a postdoctoral research associate at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
Ali Saleh (B.S. '95, electrical engineering, and M.S. '98, systems engineering) has been appointed president and CEO of GE Healthcare in Saudi Arabia.
Sophoria Westmoreland (M.S. '11 and Ph.D. '12, mechanical engineering) has accepted a position as assistant research professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Personal
Sachin Sinha (M.S. '02, systems engineering) announces the birth of his second son, Rishan, on May 31.
August 2012 Alumni Notes
Professional
DeAnna Allen (B.S. '90, electrical engineering) is a partner at Cooley LLP in Washington, D.C.
Brian Bochicco (B.S. '06, electrical engineering) is a patent strategist with Adapt IP Ventures in Atlanta, Ga.
Jie Chen (Ph.D. '98, electrical engineering) has been promoted to full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).
Yu-Hsin Chen (Ph.D. '11, electrical engineering) received the 2012 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award by the American Physical Society's Division of Plasma Physics.
Carlos Contreras (M.S. '01, reliability engineering) is a principal engineer at Cristal Global in Cockeysville, Md.
Joseph Drayton (B.S. '93, electrical engineering) is a partner at Cooley LLP in New York City.
Peter D. Eitnier (B.S. '12, mechanical engineering) is a mechanical engineer with Wilcoxon Research in Germantown, Md.
Michael Griffin (Ph.D. '77, aerospace engineering) is chairman and chief executive officer of Schafer Corporation in Arlington, Va. He is a former NASA administrator.
Brendan Murphy (B.S. '11, fire protection engineering) is a fire protection engineer at Tri-En Corporation in San Louis Obispo, Calif.
Brenda Piper (B.S. '87, chemical engineering, and MBA '91) has been named to the board of directors of Under Armour, Inc.
Stacy Welch (B.S. '97, fire protection engineering) is senior director of fire life safety at Marriott International, Inc., in Bethesda, Md.
John A. White (B.S. '95, engineering) is executive vice president and chief operating officer of jewelry and clothing design company Fossil, Inc.
Timothy F. Whittie (B.S. '83, civil engineering) is director of public works for Harford County, Md.
Captain James Wink, USN (ret.) (M.S. '98, civil engineering) is assistant office manager and vice president of RBF Consulting in San Diego, Calif. Previously, he was a Navy Civil Engineer Corps officer.
Jack S. Yeh (B.S. '88, electrical engineering) is vice president of sales in China and Taiwan for LED Engin, Inc.
June 2012 Alumni Notes
Professional
James P. Begley (B.S. '96, fire protection engineering) was listed among Consulting-Specifying Engineer's 2012 "40 Under 40."
Carl Hirrlinger (B.S. '82, mechanical engineering) is senior vice president of James G. Davis Construction Company in Rockville, Md.
Mingyan Liu (M.S. '97 and Ph.D. '00, electrical engineering) has been promoted to full professor at the University of Michigan.
James D. Smith (B.S. '83, electrical engineering) is a chief administrative patent judge at the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Edward St. John (B.S. '61, electrical engineering) received an Honorary Doctor of Public Service degree at the UMD commencement ceremony last month.
Richard E. Stamper (Ph.D. '97, mechanical engineering) is interim dean of faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Zachary Walters (B.S. '05, electrical engineering) is a scheduler with MCC Construction Corporation in Shavano Park, Texas.
Carol Wong (B.S. '08, mechanical engineering) is a volunteer with the Chesapeake Conservation Corps at South River Foundation. She will attend Stanford in the fall where she has an NSF fellowship towards a master's degree in environmental engineering.
May 2012 Alumni Notes
Professional
Jeffrey Amateau (B.S. '88, civil engineering) was promoted to vice president at VIKA Incorporated in Germantown, Md.
Sean Andersson (Ph.D. '03, electrical engineering) has been promoted to associate professor with tenure at Boston University.
Cathleen Childers (B.S. '10, fire protection engineering) is a fire/life safety designer at Aroro Engineers, Inc. in Newark, N.J.
Phillip Friday (M.S. '00, fire protection engineering) wrote a chapter on hazardous materials for the latest edition of The Fire and Life Safety Inspection Manual.
Casey Grant (B.S. '81, fire protection engineering) has been named a "Fellow in the Institution" by the Institution of Fire Engineers.
Robert F. Houghland (B.S. '77, civil engineering) is president of HPC Medx, a manufacturer of medical devices.
Patricia Gonzales Hurtado (B.S. '03 and Ph.D. '09, chemical engineering) is a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Rockville, Md.
Robert D. Leonard (B.S. '99, chemical engineering) was elected a shareholder of Volpe and Koenig, P.C., an intellectual property law firm in Philadelphia.
Leo Li (Ph.D. '91, electrical engineering) has been appointed to the board of directors of Global Semiconductor Alliance in San Josey, Calif.
Aswin Sankaranarayanan (M.S. '08 and Ph.D. '09, electrical engineering) will become an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University in 2013.
Stewart Wilson (B.S. '91 and M.S. '95, electrical engineering) was promoted to vice president of semiconductor technology at Palomar Medical Technologies in Burlington, Mass.
Personal
Kevin Yue (B.S. '02, chemical engineering) announced the birth of a daughter, Elena Charlotte, in September.
April 2012 Alumni Notes
Professional
Kuldeep Amarnath (Ph.D. '06, electrical engineering) was elected vice chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry Puducherry State Council for 2012-13.
John F. Bender (B.S. '69, fire protection engineering) was inducted into the Aberdeen High School Hall of Fame.
David Curtis (M.S. '75, civil engineering) was appointed to a three-year term on the California Department of Water Resources Climate Change Technical Advisory Group.
Mounya Elhilali (M.S. '03 and Ph.D. '04, electrical engineering) has been named an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator for her work in neuroscience. She is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Allen G. Lim (B.S. '84, mechanical engineering) is the 2012 Asian American Engineer of the Year, as named by the Chinese Institute of Engineers -- USA.
Michelle Lynne Mazurek (B.S. '04, electrical engineering) has received a Facebook Fellowship for her work in creating effective and secure forms of content sharing. She is a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University.
Peter H. Michael (B.S. '66, electrical engineering) has published Remembering John Hanson, a biography of the first president under the Articles of Confederation.
Daniel Pino (B.S. '82, civil engineering) was named director of engineering at Axiom Engineering and Design in Columbia, Md.
Adam Reese (B.S. '08, aerospace engineering) received a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University and completed GE Aviation's Advanced Course in Engineering program.
John Tighe (B.S. '82, civil engineering) was appointed president and CEO of ZipLine Medical, a medical device company in Campbell, Calif.
Jon H. Tung (B.S. '94, civil engineering) was named a Professional Engineer. He is an associate at Keast & Hood Co., a structural engineering firm in Washington, D.C.
March 2012 Alumni Notes
Professional
Paul G. Cavanaugh (B.S. '94, civil engineering) is general manager and director of engineering for Development Design Consultants, Inc., a construction consulting firm in Westminster, Md.
Shuk Yin Chuk (B.S. '08, electrical engineering, and M.Eng. '11, sustainable energy engineering) is an engineer II at Pepco Holdings, Inc., in Washington, D.C.
Michael Frame (Ph.D. '98, aerospace engineering) joined the Division of Research at UMD as director for strategic corporate partnerships and the UMD-Lockheed Martin Strategic Partnership.
Elliot Gittleman (B.S. '74, fire protection engineering) and his company ESH Consultants in San Francisco are working with a local water department to analyze the effects of installing reduced pressure back flow preventers on existing fire protection sprinkler systems.
Shyam Kuttikkad (M.S. '94 and Ph.D. '98, electrical engineering) is vice president of engineering at 33Across, creators of brand graph technology, in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Mark Lawrence (M.S. '02, telecommunications) was named among Innovate Prince George's Forty Under 40: 2012 Honorees (Prince George's County, Md.).
David Molinaro (M.S. '89, civil engineering) has been promoted to site/civil division manager for Pennoni Associates in their Wilkes-Barre, Pa., office.
Ali Rangwala (M.S. '02, fire protection engineering) has been promoted to associate professor of fire protection engineering and granted tenure at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Jon H. Tung (B.S. '94, civil engineering) has been named an associate of Keast & Hood Co., a structural engineering firm in Washington, D.C.
Andrew Wolfe (B.S. '08 and M.S. '09, fire protection engineering) is a fire protection engineer at Hughes Associates, Inc., in Baltimore.
Personal
Rob Ballister (M.S. '03, civil engineering) has published a book, God Does Have a Sense of Humor.
January-February 2012 Alumni Notes
Professional
Robert Briskman (M.S. '61, electrical engineering) is the new president of the North American Broadcasters Association.
James Buchanan (M.S. '73, electrical engineering) has retired from Northrop Grumman after more than 45 years with the company. He received their Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Engineering in 2004.
Shohel Chowdhury (M.S. '11, telecommunications) is a radio frequency engineer with AT&T Mobility in Raleigh, N.C.
Tolga Girici (Ph.D. '07, electrical engineering) is an assistant professor at Türkiye Odalar ve Borsalar Birliği University of Economics and Technology in Anakara, Turkey.
Stephen D. Hogan (B.S. '85, mechanical engineering) is the new vice president of Northrop Grumman's F/A 18 program in Bethpage, NY.
Christopher T. Jones (Ph.D. '97, aerospace engineering) has been named a Black Engineer of the Year for his career achievements. He is a vice president at Northrop Grumman.
Richard L. Moore (B.S. '84, engineering) was promoted to chief scientific officer at OpGen, Inc., a genome analysis company in Gaithersburg, Md.
Wahid Nawabi (B.S. '92, electrical engineering) has been named senior vice president and general manager of efficient energy systems at AeroVironment in Monrovia, Calif.
Michael A. Nelson (B.S. '00, mechanical engineering) is chief of force protection and sustainment systems for the U.S. Army in Aberdeen, Md.
Robert Stoll (B.S. '79, chemical engineering), former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Commissioner for Patents, has been hired by Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in Philadelphia for its IP practice.
Jacob Ulrich (B.S. '75, applied sciences engineering, mechanical engineering, and business and management) is the new non-executive director of Mediterranean Oil & Gas PLC in Rome, Italy.
Phil Wiser (B.S. '90, electrical engineering) is the new CTO of Hearst Corporation.
Jackson Yang (B.S. '58, mechanical engineering, M.A. '62 and Ph.D. '64, mathematics) was named Maryland's Clean Energy Entrepreneur of the Year.
Vicky Zhao (M.S. '03 and Ph.D. '04, electrical engineering) received tenure at the University of Alberta, where she is an associate professor.
Personal
Matthew Krutar (B.S. '04, computer engineering) married Leticia Iniguez in Lakewood, Wash. They live in Stuttgart, Germany.
Katherine M. Lambertson (B.S. '09, civil engineering) is engaged to Andrew K. O'Brien.
Rebecca Roehmer (B.S. '10, chemical engineering) was named 2011 Volunteer of the Year by the Pennsylvania District 28 and KAU Little League.