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cuaengineer 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. 18 | cuaengineer
Alumni Career Updates cont. Jim Giglio, B.M.E. 1982, joined Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., as a senior packaging engineer in August 2008. Carlos Ostria, M.S.E. 1983, is the senior vice president for Loiederman Soltesz Associates, Inc., in Rockville, Md. Larry Schuette, B.E.E. 1983, M.E.E. 1985, Ph.D. 1995, has been the director of innovation for the Office of Naval Research since July 2007. He is also an adjunct professor in the School of Engineering at CUA. Col. Efren V.M. Garcia, B.C.E. 1984, is assigned to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Security Administration as the executive director for nuclear safety and operations, within the Office of Defense Programs. Buncha Rajtboriraks, B.S.C.S. 1986, owns An Xiem jsc. Export Worldwide, based in Vietnam. Mark Giarratana, B.M.E. 1987, is currently partner at McCarter & English LLP in Hartford, Conn. He specializes in intellectual property law. 1990s Dave and Sheila (Carmody) Palmer, B.M.E. 1990, received their Ph.D.s from Georgia Tech in 1995. Dave is the manager of the Technical Support Group at Simulia (formerly Abaqus), and Sheila teaches math and science at Barrington Christian Academy. Azuki Bin Tahir, B.E.E. 1990, started with Penang Seagate in Oct. 1992. He is now a senior manager of the R&D Engineering Team. Mamoun Alaoui, B.M.E. 1993, M.M.E. 1995, is the director and designer of the Forensic Acoustics Laboratory, with the Royal Gendarmerie, in the Kingdom of Morocco. Sarah Kamal Hagi, B.B.E. 1995, is an assistant professor in the College of Medical Physics, at King Abdulaziz University. Matt Kaness, B.M.E. 1995, is director of business development and strategy for Urban Outfitters, Inc. Alvaro Lizarraga, B.M.E. 1995, is a service manager at Liebher Iberica, in Madrid, Spain. John Durcan, B.C.E. 1996, currently works at Gilbane, Inc. Bryan Walsh, B.M.E. 1997, works full-time for Duke Energy Corporation as technical manager of the Marshall Steam Station. He also works part-time as an engineering consultant for Technology Inc. Patrick Hatch, B.C.E. 1999, manages his own immigration law office in Durham, N.C. 2000s Carissa Debra Tudryn, B.M.E. 2000, is presently working at NASA Ames Research Center. She applied for the first time to the 2009 Astronaut Corps Class, and was given the honor of making the “highly qualified round.” Melissa (Currie) Impastato, B.C.E. 2002, of Clark Construction Company, is now the project manager of an office building on Andrews Air Force Base. John Ting Myauo, B.M.E. 2002, is employed by the Parsons Corp., and is currently the supervising engineer for the Department of Homeland Security’s Advanced Spectroscopic Portal-Cargo Variant Project. Chris Teddy, B.C.E. 2003, currently is a project manager for JEDunn Construction. He married Jessica (Cisper) Teddy, B.B.E. 2003, a lab technician at Stowers Medical Research Institute. Adam Spisak, B.M.E. 2006, of Lockheed Martin, was just accepted into the Operations Leadership Development Program. Christopher Ratto, B.E.E. 2007, completed his master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering at Duke University in May 2009, and is continuing studies towards his Ph.D. Azuki Bin Tahir, B.E.E. 1990 and his family in January 2009. cuaengineer Col. Efren V.M. Garcia, B.C.E. 1984 and his wife, Carmen “Dominguez” Garcia B.A. 1984, at the CUA 2009 Sweethearts Reception. Dave and Sheila (Carmody) Palmer, B.M.E. 1990. John Ting Myauo, B.M.E. 2002 and his wife, Michele Lynn-Moore Myauo. fall2009 | 19
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