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Faculty Awardees Honored at School’s Year-End Luncheon
The CUA School of Engineering honored four faculty
members with the 2008–2009 Kaman awards
and Burns faculty fellowships at a year-end
luncheon in May. The annual event was held in
the Anthony T. Scullen Memorial Room. Attendees
included SOE faculty, adjunct faculty, staff, students
and members of the university administration.
Lin-Ching Chang, assistant professor of electrical
engineering and computer science, and Baohong
Yuan, assistant professor of biomedical engineering,
received the Burns Faculty Fellowship. This
award was established by the Robert Burns
family in 2007, to support junior faculty members.
The Charles H. Kaman faculty excellence
awards are presented once a year to faculty
members in two categories: research and teaching.
The Kaman Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award
recipient this year was George Mavroeidis, assistant
professor in civil engineering. This award is
a special honor, because faculty candidates are
nominated directly by their students and their
colleagues.
There were two recipients of the Kaman Faculty
Excellence in Research Award this year, Zhaoyang
Wang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering,
and Baohong Yuan, assistant professor
of biomedical engineering. Wang received the
award for his research involving a broad range of
topics in solid mechanics, optics, nanotechnology,
microelectronics, computer vision and image
processing. Yuan is developing a new imaging
(From left) Professors B. Yuan, L. Chang, G. Mavroeidis, Z. Wang
technique that can potentially improve sensitivity
and specificity of cancer diagnosis, improve the
accuracy of evaluating cancer treatment efficacy,
and enable detection of tumor metastasis via
lymphatic system.
Alumni Career Updates
1950s
Ross B. McMullen, B.A.E. 1955, retired in 1993
from Model Aviation Magazine, where he was
publisher and managing editor.
Jim Mullally, B.M.E. 1959, worked in the aerospace
and nuclear industries for 35 years. Among
his career highlights are working at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. preparing
the Viking Orbiter’s propulsion system; being
selected in 1980 by Westinghouse Electric to manage
mechanical functions of the Waste Isolation
Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, N.M.; and then transferring
in 1985 to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
1960s
Mel P. Oommen, M.C.E. 1963, retired in 1990
as chief engineer in Kerala, India, where he participated
in 2,000 housing projects in Greater
Cochin Kerala from 1964 to 1989.
William M. “Bill” Carey, B.M.E. 1965, Ph.D. 1974,
received the Pioneers of Underwater Acoustics
ASA Silver Medal in 2007. He is a professor in the
College of Engineering at Boston University.
John J. Mecholsky, Jr., B.C.E. 1966, M.C.E.
1968, Ph.D. 1973, was appointed chair of
Faculty Senate at the University of Florida in
May 2009. He is a full professor and associate
chair of the Department of Materials and Science
Engineering.
Donald A. Lamontagne, B.S.E. 1969, retired as
a Lt. Gen. from the United States Air Force in
2004. He is currently the president of Star Mountain
Consulting, Inc.
1970s
Tom Milos, B.C.E. 1971, is the project executive
for Jacobs Engineering in Arlington, Va.
Guillermo Gaunaurd, B.M.E. 1972, retired as a
senior physicist at the Army Research Laboratory
in the Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate
in October 2008. He is presently a private consultant
working on contracts with various organizations
related to the Navy or Army.
Bob Fitzmyer, B.M.E. 1975, sells industrial
pumps for Robert J. Fitzmyer Company, Inc., in
Conshohocken, Pa. The family-owned company
celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2009.
Joe Ricci, B.Ch.E. 1975, retired from federal
service in 2008 and is now a coordinator for a
small nonprofit company in Maryland.
Philip A. Stevens, B.C.E. 1976, spent 40 years
with Philip Stevens & Associates. For the last 10
years, he has been working with his sons under
the new company name of Stevens Builders Inc.
1980s
Santi Tisayakorn, B.M.E. 1980, serves as the
provost of Darunsikkalai School for Innovative
Learning of King Mongkut’s University of Technology
Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand.
Sapre Sudhirkumar, M.C.E. 1981, is a senior
professor with the Faculty of Technology, at CEPT
University in Ahmedabad, India.
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