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VOLUME 36 NUMBER 2

FALL 2013

INSIDE THIS EDITION

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Student Research

Driverless cars and

pathogen detection

Summer Camp Reboot

Major-specic camps a

big hit with students

Homecoming 2013

Eggs are fresh but the

breakfast is 50 years old

Alumni

Where are they and

what are they doing?

College Transformation—Architectural drawings of the new Engineering Innovation Building, the

groundbreaking for which is slated for mid-2014. These views are the east-facing side of the building,

which will be situated east of the aerospace and mechanical engineering building.

Engineering Excellence from the Ground up

Special commentary by

Jeff Goldberg, Dean of the

UA College of Engineering

When the next edition

of this magazine is

published, in May 2014,

we will be well on our

way to breaking ground

for the new Engineering Innovation Building,

or EIB, which will transform engineering

teaching and research at the UA. Before we

look ahead to our bright future, however, let’s

reect on our equally bright recent past.

In August we welcomed more than 700

outstanding new freshmen and transfer

undergraduate students. In September our

research teams were awarded more than $20

million in grants and contracts. In October we

Whichever way you look – to the past or the future – it is clear that deep,

transformative change for the better is afoot in the College of Engineering.

continued on page 2

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The University of Arizona

College of Engineering

P.O. Box 210072

Tucson, AZ 85721-0072

editor/designer

pete brown

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DEAN’S VIEWPOINT

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The University of Arizona is an equal

opportunity, afrmative action institution. The

University prohibits discrimination in its

programs and activities on the basis of race,

color, religion, sex, national origin, age,

disability, veteran status, sexual orientation

or gender identity, and is committed to

maintaining an environment free from sexual

harassment and retaliation.

calculated that our rst-year retention rate was more than 89

percent, our rst year GPA was better than 3.0, and less than

10 percent of our freshmen were on academic probation at the

end of their rst year, versus 25 percent 10 years ago. Most

recently, in November, we welcomed more than 500 guests to

the 50th Engineers Breakfast, where we honored distinguished

alumni and announced a $3 million gift from the Thomas R.

Brown Family Foundations towards the EIB. It has been a

tremendous fall semester for the College!

The EIB planning and design is progressing well. We have

a great team that includes students, staff, and faculty from

the College, architects and engineers from SmithGroup/JJR

and Diebold, and engineers and construction experts from

Sundt Construction. The College website has many more

architectural drawings than we can show here, plus a great

video that describes the purpose and benets of the project

and gives you a feel for the type of facility we are building.

The future is all about interdisciplinary team-based education,

research and innovation, and the EIB will put us in a strong

position to compete successfully for projects and students.

The EIB student area has great work and social spaces that

will house our club programs and all of our competition teams.

The UA is moving forward on the “Never Settle” strategic

plan. Much of the plan is similar to the College’s strategic

plan to focus on building student support and quality,

building our faculty and staff team to compete for research

and top students, and building our personnel and facilities

infrastructures to support our students and faculty. I am

extremely pleased with the position of the College relative to

UA research and student strategies, and it is clear that we

are a valued partner on the campus and in the community.

We invite you to visit the campus and to share the excitement

about our bright future.

Bear Down!

Engineering Excellence from the Ground up

continued from page 1

EIB: Student Innovation Center

EIB: Aerial view looking northeast

Learn more about the Engineering Innovation Building at engr.arizona.edu/engineering-innovation-building

UA College of Engineering/Pete Brown

Google’s experimental driverless cars already are zipping

around California’s Silicon Valley. Automakers like Audi,

Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and BMW are debuting

prototypes of self-driving cars. And undergraduates from

across the country came to UA this summer to do their part to

make autonomous vehicles safe and reliable.

Ten students from Alabama, Ohio, Utah, New York, Arizona,

Massachusetts, West Virginia, Virginia and even as far away

as Puerto Rico took part in a 10-week College of Engineering

summer program focused on advancing the UA’s Cognitive

and Autonomous Test vehicle, or CAT vehicle.

The program, Research Experiences for Undergraduates, was

funded by the National Science Foundation and provided

opportunities for undergraduates to work with faculty

mentors and graduate students at universities throughout

the United States. REU programs, which are geared largely

toward students who otherwise might not have opportunities

to do research, are among the most prestigious summer

programs for undergraduates.

“The goal of the REU program is to broaden the participation

and research much further than it traditionally has been,”

said electrical and computer engineering assistant professor

Jonathan Sprinkle, a recent NSF Career Award winner who

led the 2013 UA REU program. “When the students leave

here, they’ll know what research is, and they’ll know how

interested they are in doing research. It’s an exploration.”

UA Hosts Undergraduate Program

on Cognitive Autonomous Vehicles

STUDENT NEWS

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Jerrie Fairbanks didn’t let rejection stop him. Fairbanks,

a fth-year electrical and computer engineering graduate

student, applied for the Achievement Rewards for College

Scientists program in previous years but never received it.

This year, Fairbanks was one of the 16 UA graduate

students to be named an ARCS scholar. Scholars were

selected from the colleges of science, engineering, optical

sciences and medicine; he was the only one from the

College of Engineering.

Each ARCS scholar receives $7,000 annually for up to

three years, though they must reapply every year. The

Graduate College awarded Fairbanks $2,000 in addition

to the ARCS scholarship. “I couldn’t believe it,” Fairbanks

said of his surprise when he received the award.

Fairbanks is doing research in uorescence spectroscopy,

and was inspired to work in this area by his thesis advisor,

Linda Powers, Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in

Bioengineering and electrical and computer engineering

professor. Fairbanks designs and builds uorescence

spectroscopy instrumentation, including that used by

Powers in her research and defense contracts (see page 8).

“I’m an engineer at heart; I like to build stuff,” said

Fairbanks. “Once you’ve got a working system, there’s a

large sense of accomplishment, especially if it’s going to

be valuable in saving lives and disease detection.”

Wild CAT Vehicle Operators—Joanna De Los Santos, left, from New

York Institute of Technology, and Duc Lam, from the University of Utah,

track the driverless CAT vehicle’s progress around the ECE parking lot

while at the NSF-funded REU summer program.

Grad Student Gets Scholarship

for Fluorescence Research

Kayla Samoy

Determined Scholar—Graduate student Jerrie Fairbanks,

here shown in his lab in ECE, made numerous unsuccessful

applications for ARCS scholarship funding before nally getting

the award in 2013.

AWARDS

ASME Names Vande Geest Best

Young Researcher in Bioengineering

The American Society of Mechanical

Engineering recently honored the UA

College of Engineering’s Jonathan

Vande Geest with its Y.C. Fung Young

Investigator Award, which recognizes

signicant research in bioengineering.

Vande Geest received the award in

June at the 2013 ASME Bioengineering

Conference in Sunriver, Ore.

Vande Geest holds appointments in

biomedical engineering, aerospace

and mechanical engineering, the BIO5

Institute, and the applied mathematics

program. He credits a collaborative

multidisciplinary environment – which

draws together engineering, biology and

medicine – with his success in the eld.

“I have had the opportunity to work

with incredibly intelligent faculty and

students. More so than anything else,

that is why I have been successful,”

he said. “We tackle broad health-care

problems, look at the challenges from

many viewpoints, and devise solutions

that signicantly affect people’s lives.”

Vande Geest heads the College of

Engineering’s Soft Tissue Biomechanics

Laboratory, where researchers study

the structure-function relationship in

soft tissues and use that knowledge to

help develop new technologies for the

treatment of disease.

Among the projects in Vande Geest’s lab

are development of a tissue-engineered

vascular graft for coronary artery bypass

surgery, and a patient-specic device to

treat abdominal aortic aneurysms. “My

dad was a plumber, and my grandpa

was a plumber,” Vande Geest said. “I

think subconsciously I decided I was

Jonathan Vande Geest

going to study the aorta because it is the

largest pipe in our body.” Vande Geest

is also working on research projects

involving the diagnosis of unilateral

vocal fold paralysis and glaucoma.

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Ricardo Sanfelice recently won an

award that puts him among the best in

the world when it comes to the highly

analytical and mathematical design of

control systems, which bring together

disparate aspects of a system and

make them work together.

Sanfelice, an assistant professor

in the aerospace and mechanical

engineering department, received

the Society for Industrial and

Applied Mathematics award for his

contributions to the design of hybrid

dynamical feedback controllers. His

research is centered on smart grids

and renewable energy, and unmanned

aircraft and vehicles.

The SIAM Activity Group on Control

and Systems Theory prize is awarded

internationally every two years to a

junior researcher. Sanfelice received

the award in July 2013 in San Diego

during the biennial SIAM Conference

on Control Theory. “I am very honored

to be recognized by my peers with this

award,” he said.

Hybrid feedback controllers, grounded

in mathematical theory and modeling,

help predict what hybrid systems – for

example, temperature control, car

cruise control, aircraft navigation,

communication systems, and ow

levels in water pumps – will do in

various circumstances, then determine

corrections for the inuences. “Without

feedback control many of the systems

we have these days would be extremely

difcult to operate,” said Sanfelice.

“Feedback control is everywhere.”

Sanfelice and his research team are

modeling ways to improve resiliency to

changes in energy sources, conversion,

load, and usage, thereby increasing

reliability of electric power supply.

Similarly, they are establishing ways to

detect and avoid threats of hacking in

unmanned aerial vehicles.

“I was always intrigued by automation

and excited about getting the systems

to do what I wanted them to do rather

than what they wanted to do,” said

Sanfelice, who coauthored the 2012

book, Hybrid Dynamical Systems:

Modeling, Stability and Robustness.

Sanfelice Wins Global Award

for Control Systems Modeling

Ricardo Sanfelice

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Young-Jun Son, a professor in the systems

and industrial engineering department,

received the 2013 award for Outstanding

Mentor of Graduate/Professional

Students, from the UA Graduate and

Professional Student Council.

One of the things that draws students

to Son is his wide range of research

projects, which are funded by the

National Science Foundation, Air Force

Ofce of Scientic Research, National Institute of Standards

and Technology, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S.

Department of Agriculture, Boeing, and Science Foundation

of Arizona. His research focuses on the development of

advanced computer simulation technologies for large-scale

systems, such as manufacturing enterprises, transportation,

distributed energy networks, mining logistics, social

networks, and unmanned vehicle coordination.

“These research accomplishments would not have been

possible without signicant contributions and all the hard

work of my former and current graduate students,” said Son.

“All of my group members understand how to work as a team

and are willing to help each other, creating a truly healthy

academic environment.”

Three UA Engineering students won the best student

paper award at the 11th Annual Conference on Systems

Engineering Research held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. The

award is given for the paper that makes the most outstanding

research contribution to the eld of systems engineering.

Systems and industrial engineering students Matthew

Dabkowski, Jose Estrada and Ben Reidy won the award

for their paper, Network Science Enabled Cost Estimation

in Support of Model-Based Systems Engineering. This is

a research area of Ricardo Valerdi, associate professor in

the department of systems and industrial engineering, who

nominated the students for the award.

The award-winning paper proposed a method to quantify

how changes in system design affect costs, which requires

a deep understanding of both systems engineering and cost

modeling. As systems become larger, more expensive, and

more complex, it becomes increasingly difcult to calculate

how design changes affect the overall cost of the project,

and engineers need ever more sophisticated tools to track

system costs, schedules and performance.

This is where Valerdi’s research, and the students’

innovative paper, comes in. “We are applying social

network analysis techniques to the design process,”

Valerdi said. “It’s a beautiful merger of social science and

engineering.” Valerdi also noted: “This research project

also demonstrates how students at all levels – bachelor’s,

master’s and doctoral – can contribute to a research

project to produce world-class research results.”

Student Researchers Win

International Best Paper Honors

Networkers—From left: SIE PhD student Matt Dabkowski, SIE

master’s student Ben Reidy, and SIE professor Ricardo Valerdi.

Young-Jun Son

UA Recognizes Young-Jun Son for Mentoring

ASEE Names Eduardo Sáez ‘Outstanding’

University of Arizona Distinguished

Professor Eduardo Sáez’s former

students – engineers, doctors,

environmentalists, and oceanographers

– are testament to his exceptional

teaching career, which recently earned

him the Pacic Southwest American

Society for Engineering Education’s

2013 outstanding teaching award.

In his 15 years at the UA, Sáez has

inspired hundreds of students to pursue degrees and careers in

chemical and environmental engineering. They report back year

after year that Sáez was one of the best professors they ever had

and that they use what he taught them in their work every day.

The basis of Sáez’s teaching philosophy is synthesis –

connecting chemical and environmental engineering

fundamentals to everyday experiences within the realm of

students’ understanding, like using basic cooking concepts to

help students understand heat transfer mechanisms. “I lay out

the basics and show students how they can get to engineering

applications using those fundamentals,” said Sáez.

Eduardo Sáez

RESEARCH

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New Research Center Will

Shape Future of Wireless

The new multi-university Broadband

Wireless Access & Applications

Center, or BWAC, is forging the way

for next-generation wireless. The

center is backed by $1.6 million in

National Science Foundation funding

over the next

ve years and

industry support

of about $4

million.

“NSF support

is a great boost

and gives us a

green light to many 5G-level projects

under consideration within this multi-

university, multi-industry consortium,”

said Tamal Bose, head of the

electrical and computer engineering

department and the director of BWAC.

As an NSF Industry & University

Cooperative Research Center,

BWAC is dedicated to partnering

with industry and government in

development of long-term solutions to

far-reaching technological problems.

In addition to the UA, BWAC’s

founding members include Auburn

University, Virginia Tech, the University

of Virginia, Notre Dame, and about 20

industry partners.

“With several billion mobile users

around the world expected to tap into

unprecedented broadband speeds

and increasingly massive bandwidth

by the end of 2013, managing the

ensuing data onslaught and securing

the airwaves will be chief among the

challenges BWAC tackles,” said Bose.

Tamal Bose

Energy Department Awards UA-Led

Team $8M to Research Algae Biofuel

Can algae farming really supplant oil

and gas drilling over time? That’s the

big question Kimberly Ogden, chemical

and environmental engineering

professor, has been asking of simple

algae, the green stuff with the right stuff

to potentially fuel the future.

The UA is the lead institution for the

Regional Algal Feedstock Testbed, or

RAFT, partnership, which was recently

awarded $8 million over four years by

the Department of Energy to research

how algae can be grown year-round

outdoors in open ponds in different

climates. In addition, other researchers

and companies will collaborate with

the research team to develop harvesting

and conversion processes to produce

biofuels and bioproducts.

“Our job is to gure out how we

take algae and turn it into biofuels,

bioproducts and feed in an economically

sustainable way. We want to make a

biofuels industry in America,” said

Ogden, UA’s primary investigator on

the RAFT project.

Ogden and RAFT researchers from

Pacic Northwest National Laboratory,

New Mexico

State University

and Texas A&M

AgriLife are

optimizing algal

growth systems

to yield more

biomass and

lipids, developing

methods of

recycling and reusing water, and

experimenting with methodologies for

growing various algae strains.

The majority of the research will

be done using UA’s Algal Raceway

Integrated Design, or ARID, system,

which was designed and patented

by Ogden’s research partners Randy

Ryan, of the Arizona Agricultural

Experiment Station, part of the College

of Agriculture and Life Sciences;

Pete Waller and Murat Kacira, of

the department of agricultural and

biosystems engineering; and Perry

Li, of the department of mechanical

and aerospace engineering. The

research team also includes Judy

Brown, a professor in the UA School of

Plant Sciences.

Kim Ogden

Erdogan Madenci Robert Erdmann

UA aerospace

and mechanical

engineering

professor

Erdogan Madenci,

working with assistant professor of

materials science and engineering Robert

Erdmann, will head a new $7.5 million

multidisciplinary university research

initiative to predict damage and failure

of materials used in applications ranging

from microchips to spaceships.

The project will

be funded by the

Air Force Ofce of

Scientic Research

and based on the

emerging theory

of peridynamics,

which involves

modeling of

material fracture

and failure. “Peridynamic theory enables

engineers to better understand how

materials and structures fail,” Madenci

said. “Existing computational methods

are inadequate because the underlying

mathematics breaks down when defects

or aws emerge in materials.”

UA to Lead

$7.5M Air Force

Peridynamics

Project

Ricardo Valerdi, associate professor in

systems and industrial engineering, is

already seeing his Science of Baseball

program hit the big leagues. Thanks

to a partnership with the Arizona

Diamondbacks, Valerdi and his team

of student and alumni volunteers have

taken the show on the road. The middle

school program, which Valerdi started in

2012, uses America’s favorite pastime to

encourage kids to follow education and

careers in the STEM subjects – science,

technology, engineering and math. The

program has grown from one school

in Tucson, Ariz., to dozens of schools

throughout the state, and Valerdi is in

talks with other Major League Baseball

teams to implement similar programs.

“The motivation for the Diamondbacks

Science of Baseball program is to

promote real-world applications of

numeracy – the ability to reason and

apply simple numerical concepts,”

Valerdi said. “Baseball provides a rich

laboratory to apply fundamental math

skills like measurement, geometry,

probability and statistics.”

OUTREACH

D-backs Put Their

Stamp on UA Science

of Baseball Camp

Mining Starts New Major-Specic

Series of Engineering Camps

Future engineers from across the country headed home

from the 2013 UA mining engineering camp in late June with

big ideas about the world of mining and one step closer to

pursuing careers in the industry, a eld in which the current

population of engineers is aging toward retirement.

Eighteen juniors and seniors, eight young women and 10

young men, spent a week above and below ground learning

about mineral exploration and processing, mine operations and

the sustainability of mining, safety procedures and blasting.

Using actual mine data, teams also competed in a Design

a Mine contest at the Sierrita copper mine, about 20 miles

southwest of Tucson. The winners got to keep their hard hats.

The mining engineering camp was the rst in a series of four

weeklong, major-specic engineering camps added this

year to the College of Engineering’s already robust summer

camp lineup. Three other major-focused camps were held

throughout July in addition to the regular Summer Engineering

Academy interdisciplinary sessions. The three other camps

covered the following majors: (1) biomedical engineering,

chemical engineering and materials science and engineering;

(2) electrical and computer engineering, systems and industrial

engineering, and optical sciences and engineering; (3) civil

engineering and aerospace and mechanical engineering.

Mine of Information—Students, parents, and counselors join

Freeport-McMoRan engineers for an insider’s look at the Sierrita mine.

UA College of Engineering/Pete Brown

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Arizona Diamondbacks

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Civil engineering associate professor

Yi-Chang Chiu wants us to rethink

how we are all part of the urban trafc

congestion problem, and how we could

be part of the solution.

The concept is simple: If you have a

exible schedule for your next trip, you

could choose to leave a bit earlier, or

later, or take a less congested route, and

get rewarded for doing so. Those who

don’t have a exible schedule will also

benet from you removing yourself

from rush hour trafc.

This concept is now coming to life

through the mobile app Smartrek, which

works differently than other trafc

navigation apps by actually managing

trafc demand by inuencing driver

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

choice to spread demand over a longer

period of time. Chiu said the secret is in

actively managing trafc demand and

diverting enough drivers away from

congested routes during peak hours to

make the entire system work smoother

and more efciently.

The app uses advanced trafc prediction

and vehicle routing technology,

combined with user rewards, to give

drivers the best suggestions for avoiding

Professor Linda Powers is developing fast, disposable blood

tests for pathogens that cause diseases such as HIV and

hepatitis. The novel technology for rapid pathogen detection

in blood relies on the capture of the pathogens with specially

designed binding mechanisms and the intrinsic uorescent

signatures of the live captured pathogens.

“This will save time, work and expense when detection of

blood-borne disease organisms is needed and other facilities

are not available,” said Powers. “It quickly tells you the

information you must know.”

Powers’ company, MicroBioSystems of Arizona, was recently

awarded two Department of Defense contracts – one for

developing a disposable blood test to detect any pathogens

present; the other to distinguish the specic pathogens,

including viruses that causes HIV and some forms of

hepatitis, prions that can lead to mad cow disease, and

malaria-inducing parasites.

The military has plans to use the technology in the eld: for

example, in remote locations to test for infectious agents in

blood to be used for transfusions. However, disposable blood

tests for diseases such as HIV and hepatitis could also save

countless lives in developing nations and even in remote

areas of the United States.

Powers had the technology but credits College Dean Jeff

Goldberg with making the DOD contracts a reality and

enabling her team to expand on their work.

“He really made this happen,” said Powers. “What an

incredible extension of a hand of friendship to small

businesses in the Valley. He is very supportive of

entrepreneurships and farsighted enough to realize the

opportunity with a new, small company in southern Arizona.”

Hi-Tech Detective—Linda Powers, shown here in the Arctic with one

of her instruments, is taking her portable technology to a new level:

diagnosing blood-borne disease.

DOD Contracts Go to Powers’ Firm

trafc while helping reduce trafc

congestion. “This is more than about

being the best navigation app, it’s

about revolutionizing how drivers and

transportation agencies rethink trafc

congestion and work together to solve

the rising trafc congestion problem right

now, and for the future,” Chiu said.

Smartrek has secured critical key

funding for its development, launch

and operation, and is scheduled to be

up and running in ve cities by the end

of 2013 and in 20 more cities in 2014.

Chiu said the Smartrek mobile app is

a great example of University ofcials

getting behind a University-developed

technology. As soon as a provisional

patent was led in early 2011, the UA

Ofce of Technology Transfer and

ATLAS center offered seed money to

swiftly move Chiu’s invention from idea

to production.

App Unblocks Roads

and Rewards Drivers

Yi-Chang Chiu

Linda Powers

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HOMECOMING

50th Annual Engineers

Breakfast Recognizes

Distinguished Alumni

With a special nod to the class of 1963,

the College of Engineering welcomed

guests and saluted distinguished alumni

at its 2013 Annual Engineers Breakfast

on November 8.

Greg Boyce, Peabody Energy chairman

and CEO, told more than 500 alumni,

faculty, and students at the breakfast

that when he arrived at the University

in 1972 to pursue a BS in mining

engineering he had no way of knowing

how the College of Engineering would

shape his life, including a career

spanning four decades that sent him

around the world and back to the UA

for a 2013 Alumnus of the Year Award.

“The world-class education I received

at the University laid the foundations

for countless professional and personal

milestones,” said Boyce, who serves

on the UA Mining and Geological

Engineering Advisory Council.

Other honorees included Intel Corp.

operations engineer Wendi Fusler

Lane, a 2001 industrial engineering

graduate and founding member of the

Engineering Ambassadors, who won the

Bear Down Award, and Jack McDuff,

a 1951 metallurgical engineering

graduate, who won the Sidney S. Woods

Alumni Service Award. Jerry Hunter,

an industrial engineering alumnus

(BS 1988, MS 1990) and head of the

infrastructure team at Amazon.com,

delivered the keynote address.

During the breakfast, College of

Engineering Dean Jeff Goldberg

thanked the Thomas R. Brown Family

Foundations for a $3 million donation

to help seed the new Engineering

Innovation Building, groundbreaking

for which is slated for mid-2014.

During the Homecoming festivities

College of Engineering faculty took part

in a two presentations as part of the UA

Alumni Association’s Collegiate and

Campus Showcase.

In her talk on critical mineral extraction,

Mary Poulton, head of mining and

geological engineering and director of

the J. David Lowell Institute for Mineral

Resources, described how we are nearing

a shortfall of rare

earth minerals

essential for

our laptops, cell

phones, wind

turbines, and

countless other

technologies.

The shortfall, she

said, arises in part

from our reliance

on uncertain

imports from

other countries

because we have

not developed our own resources due to

social, political and economic roadblocks.

The showcase also featured the 2012

Arizona Public Media video, “Seeking

Water from the Sun,” which chronicles

the plight of the Navajo Nation to get

access to fresh water.

Bob Arnold, a chemical and

environmental engineering professor,

is working on a solar-powered

desalination plant to alleviate the

problem, and sat on a panel that

examined progress to date.

Class of 1963, from left: Henri Guyader, Ronald Weiss, Wayne Dawson.

Alumnus of the year Greg Boyce

College Dean Jeff Goldberg and Bear Down

Award recipient Wendi Fusler Lane

Sidney S. Woods Alumni Service Award

winner Jack McDuff

Keynote speaker Jerry Hunter

Thank You!

These pages list

the companies,

organizations and

individuals who have

contributed to the

College of Engineering

during fiscal year July 1,

2012 to June 30, 2013.

Their support is vital in

providing scholarships,

funding programs and

supporting research.

Without this help, some

students would not

be able to complete

their education.

Many other students

would not have access

to resources that give

UA Engineering a

margin of excellence for

educating tomorrow’s

engineering leaders.

We want to take this

opportunity to say “thank

you” from the students

and faculty who have

benefited so much from

this generous support.

We have made every

effort to list all those

who contributed to the

College and sincerely

apologize if we have

missed anyone.

If you donated to the

College of Engineering

during 2012-2013 and

are not on this list,

please let us know, and

we will include your

name in the next issue of

Arizona Engineer.

$1,000,000 and above

Anonymous*

$500,000–$1,000,000

Estate of Gregory

J. Nazaroff

$250,000–$499,999

Freeport-McMoRan

Copper & Gold

Foundation

$100,000–$249,999

Anonymous*

Anonymous

Estate of

Oscar T. Lyon

General Electric

Foundation –

Matching Gifts

Qualmark Accelerating

Product Reliability

Tucson Electric

Power Co.

$50,000–$99,999

Agilent Technologies

Inc.

Ayco Charitable

Foundation

Electro Rent Corp.

James and Therese

Handley

Mining Foundation

of the SW

NEC Laboratories

America Inc.

John Rodgers

Scientek-12

Foundation

SunEdison

Texas Instruments Inc.

W.L. Gore & Associates

$25,000–$49,999

Applied Materials

Arizona Power

Authority

Community

Finance Corp.

Newton Don

E.I. Dupont de

Nemours & Co. Inc.

Freeport-McMoRan

Foundation –

Matching Gifts

IDEMA

Intel Corp.

International

Foundation for

Telemetering

John Deere

Foundation

Lam Research Corp.

Scott and Laura Larson

Mintec Inc.

Peabody

Investments Corp.

Raytheon Company

Salt River Project

Joseph and Catherine

Simmons

The Copper Club Inc.

Tiger Optics LLC

$10,000–$24,999

Airtronics Inc.

Anonymous

Kelly T. Au

AZ Conference of AIME

B/E Aerospace Inc.

Therese (Velasco) Berg

Boeing Company

Herbert and

Sylvia Burton

Caterpillar Inc.

Chevron –

Matching Gifts

Darcy (Wymore) and

Christopher Dixon

East Bay Community

Foundation

Todd Ellermann

Estate of Harold

J. Bonnevie

Fidelity Charitable

Gift Fund

Joseph Gervasio

Jerome and

Jane Glass

Gomez International

Gilbert and Patricia

Gonzales

Hankook Tire Co. Ltd.

Honeywell Aerospace

Daniel and Cynthia

(Tang) Klingberg

Bruce Langone

Dhananjay and

Lalitha Mahajan

Sean McCafferty

Northrop Grumman

Leslie (Wymore) Owen

Monica (Kilcullen) and

Christopher Pastor

RASIRC

Raytheon Company

– Matching Gifts

Rio Tinto Services Inc.

Rosemont Copper

Rosztoczy Foundation

Robert and Ann

Rutherford

Salt River Project

Anonymous

Brice Schuller

Sundt Companies Inc.

TripAdvisor – Matching

Gift Program

UniSource

Energy Corp.

Ventana Medical

Systems Inc

Farrell Wymore

Mel Wymore

ZTE USA Inc.

$5,000–$9,999

AGM Container

Controls Inc.

Arizona Society of

Civil Engineers

BP Foundation –

Matching Gifts

Cliffs Foundation

Continental Automotive

Systems Inc.

Denise Doctor

Edmund Optics

ExxonMobil Corp.

ExxonMobil Foundation

– Matching Gifts

Gemini Foundation

General Electric

Thelma (Anderson)

Goodding

Infrared

Laboratories Inc.

Jeffrey Citron

Brian and Donna Kelly

Lockheed Martin

Frank Manning

Sidney McDuff

MediaMation Inc.

Microsoft – Matching

Gifts and Giving

Campaign

Tomas Owen and

Lindy Cote

QuakeWrap Inc.

R. D. Call

Scholarship Fund

Rain Bird Corp.

David Rhoades

Robert Schafer

Timothy and

Danielle Short

William and

Elizabeth Staples

Sunora Energy

Solutions

Tucson Embedded

Systems Inc.

Frances (Sprawls)

Walker

William and

Christine Wilson

$2,500–$4,999

David and Dede

Areghini

John and

Stephanie Buck

Barbara and William

Champion

Citrix Systems

John Clay Condon

ConocoPhillips –

Matching Gifts

Jake and Beverly Doss

Jeffrey and Donna

Goldberg

Google Inc.

Richard Guthrie and

Patricia Dunford

Ray Haynes

Larry Head

IBM

IBM International

Foundation –

Matching Gifts

Kenneth Jones II

KGHM International

Ltd.

Lockheed Martin

Matching Gifts

Program

M3 Engineering

& Technology

Charles Madison

NACE International

Arizona Section

National Aeronautics &

Space Administration

Ernest and Joanne

Smerdon

Anton and

Carolyn Veirup

VMWare Inc.

Herbert and Diane

Welhener

Wells Fargo Foundation

– Matching Gifts

Ann Wilkey and

Alfredo Baeza

Gary and Bethany

Wonacott

Zuckerman Community

Outreach Foundation

$1,000–$2,499

Anonymous

Arcadis U.S. Inc.

Jose Arce

Arizona Builders’

Alliance

Ashton Company Inc.

Jennifer (Hesketh)

and Enrique Aviles

BAE Systems

Unmanned Aircraft

Programs Inc.

Jennifer and

Andrew Barton

Wylie and Yulon

Bearup

Bechtel Group

Foundation –

Matching Gifts

Barry and Jami Benson

Edwin Biggers

Boeing Company

– Matching Gifts

Leon and Candace

Borduin

Franklin and

Elizabeth Broyles

John and Barbara

Carter

Daniel Chen

Michael and Kathleen

Chowaniec

CH2M Hill Inc.

Michael and

Janice Cise

Richard Crowell

Feng Dai

Dao’s Vietnamese

Restaurant

James and

Elaine Davis

Steven and

Tusiyah Davis

Wayne and Carol

Dawson

Universitat Autònoma

de Barcelona dEIC

Richard Dobes

Dow Chemical

Co. Foundation –

Matching Gifts

William and

Ella Dresher

Tom Edmondson

Sandra (Tanner)

and Karl Elers

Hermann and

Janet Fasel

Barbara (Appelin)

and Frank Filas

Flanagan Research Co.

Foster Wheeler Corp.

Andrew Friedman

Goodwill Golf

Tournament

Granite Construction

Company

Ronald Hanson

Gary and Andrea

Harper

Virginia (Vogel) and

Lawrence Hjalmarson

Mike Hoover

Hughes Federal

Credit Union

John and Gloria Ketterl

Kimberly Gear

and Spline Inc.

Leopold and

Beverly King

James and Krina

Komadina

Kevin and Diana

Lansey

Kenneth Lyle and

Carol Romero

Michael Malvick

Martha (Daugherty)

Marek

John and La

Donna Marietti

Brian Matt

Ingrid (Nelson) and

Bernard McNeil

Dianne and

William Mensch

Ernest and Sally Micek

Michael Baker

Corp. Foundation

Michael P. Chowaniec

Scholarship Fund

Microsoft Global

Finance

James Miletich

Ralph Miller

Larry and Jayne Milner

Gerardo Montano

Theodore and

Sungmi Moon

Morgan Stanley Smith

Barney Global Impact

Funding Trust Inc.

Bruce and Mary

Moreton

National Coal

Transportation

Association

Nordson Corp.

Edward and Patricia

Nowatzki

Nathan and

Karen Palmer

Manuel Perez

Malumbres

Gholam and

Mandi Peyman

Joan (Staudt) Pracy

John and Elke Reagan

Rebrig Paciﬁc

Company

Alex and Barbara

Reynoso

Rincon Research

Corporation

Lisa (Gentry) and

Ross Rulney

Sargent Controls

and Aerospace

Kok Kwai and

Avis See-Tho

Shell Oil Co.

Foundation –

Matching Gifts

Southwest Gas Corp.

Foundation – Matching

Gifts Program

Sovereign

Management

Group Ltd.

George and

Kilcha Spindle

Maurice Stephan

Stewart Foundation

Larry and Kathleen

Stoehr

Hamdaweh Sulemana

Sundt Construction Inc.

Texas Instruments

Foundation –

Matching Gifts

Antoinette

Theriault-Faucette

Stephen and

Lee Thomas

Tomkins Family

Foundation

Spencer Tucker

United Way of

the Bay Area

United Way of Tucson

& Southern Arizona

URS Energy &

Construction Inc.

Andrea Ursillo

Robert and Marjorie

Vaughan

Robert Wicks

William and Elizabeth

Wilkening

Williams Companies

– Matching Gifts

Mark and Guadalupe

Woodson

Paschel Young

$500–$999

Barry and Adrienne

Abbott

Luciano Agostini

Alexander Alshin

Manoj Alwani

Alyeska Pipeline

Service Company

– Matching Gifts

Clarence and Phala

Andressen

Hiroki Arimura

Arizona Section ASME

Hasan Ates

Dale and Samantha

Atkinson

Jeremy Atkinson

Automatic Data

Processing Foundation

Bank of America

Foundation –

Matching Gifts

Hideo Bannai

Brian Beddo

BHP Billiton Matched

Giving Program

Carol Ruth Blocker

James and

Margaret Bly

10 arizona engineer 36:2 fall 2013

2012–2013 Donor Honor Roll

PHILANTHROPY

*Qualiﬁes for the Old Main Society, which represents some of the UA’s most generous and valued supporters, all of

whom have made a commitment to the continued success of the College of Engineering through a charitable estate gift.

Adrian Bolton

Petros Boufounos

Joseph Bucci

Andrew Buddle

Canhui Cai

Thomas Cantrell

Barbara and

John Carter

Mark Casolara

Arthur Charrow

Jianle Chen

Samuel Cheng

Wai Chu

Chitong Chuang

Cornel Constantinescu

Stéphane Coulombe

William Craig

Gary and Barbara

Cropper

Pedro Cuenca

Luis da Silva Cruz

Bryan Dalton

Glenn Davis

Edward DeHoog

Daniel Donegan

Darren Dyk

Gustavo and

Kathryn Escobar

Hui Fang

Lu Fang

Antonio Fariña

Michael Farinech

Markus Flierl

Edouard Francois

Gary and Carole Frere

Barry and Mary

Ganapol

Wen Gao

Mary Garrity

Google Matching

Gifts Program

Irina Gorodnitsky

Ulrich Graef

Green Chip LTD

Martin and Jo

Ann Gronberg

Zongming Guo

Palanivel

Guruvareddiar

Robert Hall

Robert Hammerstein

Kenneth and

Margaret Hartwein

Brett Hawton

Guido Heising

Diogo Henriques

Geoffrey Hill

Jan Holub

Wing Kai Hon

Tomohiro I

Eric and Karen

Jackson

Rebecca (Oniell)

Jackson

Wen Ji

Susan and William

Johnston

Gary and Joan Jones

JustGive

Michael and Robin

Kaiserman

Haruhiko Kaneko

Aaron Kapilivsky

Juha Karkkainen

Timothy Kasse

Louis Kerofsky

Dimitrios Kontopodis

Erdem Koyuncu

Stephen Kuenzli

Susana Ladra

Alessio Langiu

Jesper Larsson

Latitude Engineering

Che-Rung Lee

Christine Leigh

Dunling Li

Louis Liporace

Alexander Loddoch

Paul Mack

Kerry (Ruiz) and

Cullen Magariel

Jose Luis Martinez

Christopher Mattern

Jerry McArthur

Thomas McCormick

Edward Moreno

Ordonez

Giovanni Motta

Anthony and

Lynn Mulligan

Manzur Murshed

Isaac Nelson

Dennis Neumann

Humberto Ochoa

Jan Østergaard

Maciej Pedzisz

Phoenix Analysis

& Design

Technologies Inc.

Theodore and

Eleftheria Polychronis

Paul and Linda

(Oliveira) Prazak

Charles and

Maria Preble

Francisco Quiles

Ananda and

Madhumita Rakhit

Susan (Canatsey) and

Charles Ramsey

Krishnakanth Rapaka

Michael Raulet

Yuriy Reznik

Richard and

June Rhoades

Samuel Rhodes

Tina Rich

Thomas Richter

Antoni Roldan

Jason Rutman

Carlos Salazar

David Sanderson

Ankur Saxena

Nick and Jean Schott

Suvrajeet Sen

Rahul Shah

George and

Dixie Shirley

John Sievers

Paul and Nancy Smith

Stefano Soatto

Southwest Hazard

Control Inc

Steven Spease

Ryszard Stasinski

Gregory and Sibyl

Anne Strimbu

Benjamin Stull

Shai Tahar

Seishi Takamura

Joyce Tang

Technical

Documentation

Consultants of

Arizona, Inc

Kelton and Doris

Thomson

Michael Tok

Janet (Struck) and

Kristofer Tvedt

University of Arizona

Rahul Vanam

Sandra and Paul Varga

Marco Visentini

Scarzanella

VM Ware Inc.

Z. Lance Wang

Albert Wegener

Tsachy Weissman

John Whalen

Richard Wilcox

Wayne Wisdom

Stanley Woolf

Gregory Wornell

Thomas and

Alice Wozniak

Ja-Ling Wu

Hongkai Xiong

Sehoon Yea

Phillip and

Joanna Zinsli

$100–$499

Kevin and Cindy Abreu

Agilent Technologies

Foundation –

Matching Gifts

Praneeth Aketi V. S.

Mohammed Alghanim

David and Gay Allais

Russell and

Johanna Alley

Ben Allinder

Raymond Allis

Amedeton Simplice

Alissou

Amgen Foundation

Chris Angleman

Anonymous

Bruce Armitage

James Attebery

Joanna Autino

Charles and

Judith Backus

Lihui Bai

Thomas Bail

Ross Baldick

Craig and Janet Baldon

Todd Balls

John and Brigitta

Barberii

Michael Barclay

Darlene (Crawford)

Barlow

Christina Barth

Hussam Batshon

Bradley Bauer

Laucretia (Begay)

Baum

Mary Bayless

Richard Beal

Jeffrey and

Kathleen Berg

Robert Best

Puneet Bhardwaj

Sarvesh and Mini

Bhardwaj

Kiran Bhumana

Vicki Bier

Anne (Moses) Bingham

Amalia (Lopez) Black

David Blackburn

Brent and Lynn Blevins

Stephen and

Kathleen Boerigter

Rosanna Bolin

Gregory Boner

Virginia (Taylor) and

David Bonsall

Bert Bras

Laszlo Braun

Janet Brelin-Fornari

Steven and Gale Brock

Barry and Shirley

Brown

Chappy Brown

Peter and Elizabeth

Brown

Robert Bruant

Randall Brummett

Nathan Brunelle

Jaim Bucay

Carl and Kathleen

Bueter

Kevin Bukata

Edward Bukoski

Frank Burstrom

Richard Bushroe

Butler Family

Dental PC

Michael and

Karen Butler

Salvatore and

Cyndy Caccavale

Marilyn (Cunningham)

and Walter Calhoon

Calportland

Cement Company

CPC Southwest

Materials Inc.

Cameo Cleaners

Scottsdale LLC

Dyer and Sheila

Campbell

Jonathan Campbell

Karen (Spaniol)

Campbell and

Mark Tylutki

Joseph Cannavino

Christine (Barlow)

and Jaime Carbajal

Rodrigo and

DoraLuz Carneiro

Richard Carr

James Cashin

Francis and Janice

Castrichini

Robbin and Rico Castro

Seth and Susan

Chalmers

Kathleen Chavez

Brian and Dorothy

Chavez-Dolan

Anvesh Cherukupally

Wayne Chin-Duncan

Dinesh Chobey

Charlene Chowaniec

Peggy Christenson

John Christian

Zygmunt Cielak

David Clapp

William Clarke

Scott and Sue Clemans

Eugene and Joan Cliff

John Clymer

Nicolas Cocavessis

Connie and

Thomas Cole

Cornell and

Carole Collins

Colon & Rectal

Center of AZ

Contract Support

Services Inc.

Edward Conway

Anne Cooper

David and Michele

Cooper

Irail and David

Cortinas Lopez

David and Elizabeth

Crouthamel

Robert and Greta

Cummings

Christopher

Cunningham

Randolph Currin

Kristen Curry

Paul and Amanda

Curto

G. Damico

Kirk Damron

James Dancho

Richard Daniels

Hoda Daou

James Davidson

Kelly Davis

Robert and

Donnine Davis

Guillermo de Bernardo

Dell – Matching Gifts

Steven Den-Baars

36:2 fall 2013 arizona engineer 11

continued on page 12

Fraternal Funding—Paul Mather, left, and Peter Mather, right,

receive the McIntosh Engineering Scholarship from Sandy Watson,

Stantec US and International Mining vice president.

UA College of Engineering/Pete Brown

Brothers Share $10K Scholarship

Mining engineering brothers Peter and Paul Mather won the

2013 $10,000 McIntosh Engineering Scholarship in recognition

of their passion for underground mining and exceptional

scholastic potential. The scholarship was established by

McIntosh Engineering, which was acquired in 2008 by Stantec.

“We feel Peter and Paul Mather hold great promise in the

mining engineering eld,” said Sandy Watson, Stantec US

and International Mining vice president, at the presentation

of the award, which was held during the annual College of

Engineering scholarship reception.

“There is no one else I would rather split the scholarship

with, and no one who has worked so hard to get it,” said

Peter Mather, the older of the bothers by 16 months. “This

scholarship will go a long way toward helping us both

accomplish our goals.”

12 arizona engineer 36:2 fall 201312 arizona engineer 36:2 fall 2013

Robert Deppe

John and

Candace

Derickson

Desert Analytical

Services

Deutsche

Bank Americas

Foundation –

Matching Gifts

Dibble &

Associates

Rinaldo DiCenzo

Gregory Dion

William and

Deborah Dixon

Ivan Doliani

Ildefonso

Dominguez

Rhett Donald

Tanya (Nolen)

and Tad Donohue

Lewis Dove

William Dowling

Roland Downs

Rand and

Barbara Drake

David Dratler

Pengwei Du

David and

Stephanie

Dummeyer

Patricia and

Richard Dunford

Elsa Dupraz

Akashnil Dutta

John Edwards

Ren Egawa

Jules and

Melinda Ellingboe

Kenneth and

Mary Eme

Engineering

Student Council

Louis and

Patricia Enloe

Frank Ensign

Richard and

Betty Enz

Anthony

Ephremides

Marko Esche

Marc Eskinazi

Gerald Evans

Gregory Ewing

Jan Falkenhagen

Lingling Fan

Marianne and

Christopher

Fernandez

Robert Feugate

Roxanne and

Donald Fickett

Nicholas Fifer

Lisa and Roy

Firestone

First Watch of

Arizona Inc.

Craig Fischer

Michael and

Julie Fleming

John Flores

FLSmidth Krebs

Edward and

Linda Flynn

Jerry Fossum

Victor Foulk

Michele and Dale

Fraps-Hays

Catherine

(Levinson)

Freeman

Freeport

McMoRan

Copper &

Gold Inc.

George

Freshwaters

Marianne and

Andrew Friedman

George and

Susan Frondorf

Marino Fuentes

Stanley Furman

Charles and

Patricia Gajda

Harsha

Gangammanavar

Javier

Garcia-Frias

Kevin Gardner

Michael

Garrabrants

Joseph and

Constance Gates

Clarence Gauldin

Joseph Genchi

Georgios

Georgiadis

John Germain

Russell Gilbert

Donald and

Jean Gilliam

Bipin Giri

George and

Dixie Glenday

Jeffrey Glover

Jason Godinez

Ryan Goebel

John and

Jacquelyn

Goedert

Eric and Ellen

Goldin

Stephen Gomez

Otis Gorley

Keisuke Goto

Richard and

Susan Gray

Christopher

Green

Robert Green

Mark Gregory

Sheila Gressner

William Grizzell

Jacob Gulotta

Henri Guyader

H. & R. Sales

Ban Ha Bang

Douglas Haag

Moeed

Haghnevis

William and

Frances Haidler

Robert Haines

Samuel Lee and

Chizuko Halliday

Robert Hamilton

Erika Hanson

Stanley and

Carole Harbour

Mary (Baack)

Hardt

Harter &

Associates LLC

Mark Hawthorne

Ronald Haxby

Qing He

Michael

Henningsen

Charles and

Amy Henry

Mary (Green) and

William Henry

William and

Mary Henry

Frank and

Leslie Henson-

Grochocki

George and

Roberta Herlihy

Michael and

Arlene Herrick

Brian Hewitt

Walter Higgins

Janis and

Daryl Hild

Marian and

Ronald Hill

William Hirt

Ian Hiskens

Christine (Quinn)

and Philip Hodder

Robert and

Debbie Hollyer

Howard Holman

Honeywell

Aerospace

Honeywell

International

Charity Matching

Robert Hoover

Jane (Osburn)

and R. Stanley

Howard

R. Stanley and

Jane Howard

Ziyu Huang

Mary and Jobie

Hubbard

Amir Ingber

Intel Foundation

– Matching Gifts

Bennett and

Allison Irwin

Jack Davis &

Associates

Jim Click

Nissan Inc.

Jesus Jimenez

Rudy Jimenez

Tongdan Jin

Philip Joggerst

Donald Johnson

John and Betty

Johnson

Judith Johnson

William Johnson

Albert and

Stephanie Jordan

Eric Kalivoda

Agnes (Cordis)

and Laveen

Kanal

Kariscom LLC

James Kasner

Kenneth Katsma

John and

Pamela Keffer

Bernard and

Barbara Kenny

Prajwal Khadgi

Michael Kiefer

Rockwell King

Wayne King

Matthew

Kinnaman

Sally (Dunshee)

and Lawton Kizer

Leonard Klastow

Michael Kleinrock

Henry and Diana

Knoepﬂe

Lee Knuppel

Michael and

Susan Koerner

Chris and

Eric Koglin

Karl and Joan

Kohlhoff

Robert and

Marianne

Kondziolka

Roberto Konow

Jerome and

Geraldine Koupal

Barry Kriegsfeld

Teresa and

Kenneth Krisa

Balamurugan

Krishnan

Jason Kronholm

Emily

(Dearhamer)

Kubovchik

Sadik Kucuksari

Mary (Lynch)

Kurz

John LaBorde

Haricharan

Lakshman

Jordan

Landwerlen

Larry and Louise

Laughlin

Erin Lauterbach

Craig Laux

Charles Lavarini

Gary and

Sally Lech

Charles and

Glenda Lee

Eduardo Lee-Eng

Sue and Charles

Leichner

Pamela Lemme

Robert Lepore

Micah Lesmeister

Mark Levine

Francis and

Sara Leyva

Francisco Leyva

Jingquan Li

Xiaofang and

Pingzhong Li

Zhe Li

John and

Regina Linert

Jane (Taylor)

Linkswiler

Du Liu

Tingyang Liu

Xianming Liu

Laura Lohner

Paul and Sherri

Lomayesva

James Lonergan

Barbara (Norman)

Longley-Cook

Gregory Lorton

Walter Love

Steven Low

Lonnie Lucas

Charles Lynch

John and

Paula Macek

James and

Ann Madson

Thomas and

Brenda Mahoney

Kristine Maine

Ankur Mani

Keith and Diane

Manlove

Donna and

Timothy Mann

Earl Manns

Clifford and

Elizabeth

Mansﬁeld

Michael Marcellin

Mark R. Allen PC

Alan Marshak

Joshua Martin

Frank and Anne

Martinjak

Sheila (Stafford)

and Ellis

Mascareno

George and

Emily Maseeh

Michael Massaro

Hunter Mcanally

Anne McBride

Daniel McBride

Michael and

Kathryn McCabe

Travis and

Shannon

McCarthy

Margaret and

Robert McCaskey

Lynn (Saltzman)

and William

McClary

Carolyn (Sutter)

and Kirk McClure

Thomas and

Lorene McGovern

James McGrath

George and

Anastasia

McInnis

Bruce McLaren

Dennis and Sally

McLaughlin

Elliott McMaster

Brian McMorrow

2012–2013 Donor Honor Roll

continued from page 11

SCHOLARSHIPS

Leah Herlihy could have been a

model. At 17, ink barely dry on her

high school diploma, she went to

Paris, France, to take part in modeling

tryouts. The very next day she was

offered a one-way ticket to Milan to

begin her modeling career.

It sounds like a dream come true, but

Herlihy was torn. She had been accepted

by the UA College of Engineering and

orientation was just a week away. “I

think you all know what decision I

made,” she said to the audience at

a 2013 UA Engineering scholarship

reception. “I made a promise to myself

that day: You will graduate in four

years with an engineering degree.

You will change the world. And most

importantly, you will pay mom and dad

back for this trip.”

Herlihy was addressing the audience

at the 2013 UA College of Engineering

scholarship reception held April 2 at

the Tucson Marriott University Park.

The annual reception is an opportunity

for students and the College to thank

donors, and to get scholarship donors

together with the students who have

beneted in so many different ways

from their generosity.

Herlihy was born and raised in Tucson

and went to Sahuaro High School, and

she always knew she wanted to be a

Wildcat. But money was tight at home.

Neither of her parents went to college

and her dad was unemployed when

she started at UA. Even when her father

did nd a job, any spare money went to

paying down debts.

“This is where my donors came

in to save the day,” she said. “The

scholarships I have received through the

College have helped me in tremendous

ways, and I am forever appreciative

of my donors. You were the answer I

needed in a rough time.”

Herlihy is now a senior, majoring in

materials science and engineering with

Turning Uncertainty into Success

Leah Herlihy

36:2 fall 2013 arizona engineer 13

Wellington Meier

William and

Dianne Mensch

Nirav and Alpa

Merchant

Katherine and

Richard Milakovich

Coleman Miller

Gail (Rolle) and

Robert Miller

Pamela (Dorn)

and Jeffrey Miller

Kris Milster

Nancy and

William Mitchell

Robert Mitchell

Sumit Mitra

Nicholas Monath

Frederick Monk

Thomas and

Teresa Moore

Jaime Moreno

Henry and

Suzanne Morgen

Akihito Mori

Mary Ann and

Gorden Moses

Motorola Inc.

Foundation

Lynette

(KenKnight)

Moughton

Theodore and

Cari Moulin

William and

Patria Carmen

Moya Espinal

Matthew and

Nancy Mullen

Jack Mumbo

Sean and Ann

Murphy

Travis Murray

Creighton

Murrieta

Jack Myers

Susan (Couillard)

and Michael

Nativi

Lance Nelson

William and

Dianne Nelson

Network for Good

Richard and Mary

Jane Newell

Donald and

Charlyn Newman

Newmont Mining

Corporation –

Matching Gifts

Charles Norman

Northrop

Grumman

Foundation –

Matching Gifts

Paul Ocansey

Stephanie

(Carroll) Ogle

Mark and

Melinda

Oksenhendler

Alberto Ordóñez

Pereira

Martin and Carol

O’Sullivan

Steven Pageau

P. Roger and

Elizabeth Pankey

David Paredes

Chase Parker

Charles Parkes

Jeffrey Patterson

David Paullin

Peabody Energy

Corporation –

Matching Gifts

Kristy Pearson

James and

Carol Peng

Robert and

Margaret Perry

L. Rolf Peterson

Robert

Petrucciani

PG&E Corp.

Foundation

Charles and

Katherine Philips

Del Pilcher

Russell and

Teresa Pittman

Raymond and

Donna Plock

Matthew Ploor

Breanna Poe

Edward and

Tish Pohl

Michael Potter

Guy Potucek

Mary (Makaus)

and William

Poulton

Kevin Pounds

Roger Powell

Joseph Pranulis

Robert Prescott

Prestige Realty

Kyle and

Ginny Price

Scott and

Janine Scott

Prost-Domasky

Xiao Qin

RSG Enterprises

Inc.

Christine

(Coffer) and

David Raasch

David Rabb

Rudolph Radau

William and

Karen Rankin

Gregory

and Eltrude

Rasmussen

Claudia Rawn

Joseph Raynak

Sandra Reel

John and Mary

Reinhardt

C. LaRon and

Peggy Reynolds

George Richard

Rick Hobbs State

Farm Insurance

George Ring

Peggy and Phillip

Robidoux

David and Mary

Jane Roden

Toni (Johnson)

Rogero

Thomas Rohrer

Robert and

Laura Roscoe

Kay Rose

Kevin and

Christy Ross

Robert Ruocco

Jesse Saar

Thomas Salem

Jorge Sanchez

Adam Sandifer

Hugh and

Alona Sardoff

Hirohito

Sasakawa

Susan Schima

Thomas and

Jonelle Schmitt

Richard

Schroeder

George and

Nelda Schuler

Michael Schurr

Randy Schurr

Michael

Schwager

John Schwartz

Wayne and

Janet Seames

Sedgwick Family

Charitable Trust

Sunil Seepuri

Allen Sehloff

Gary and Billie

Seiberling

Daniel Seif

Kei Sekine

Paul and Ruth

Seppala

Vicki Seppala

Herman

Serignese

Sara Seuberling

Virginia (Terry)

Severinghaus

Lisa (Tank) and

Todd Severnak

Osborn

Shackelford

Narendra Shah

Joseph and

Sandra Shea

Leonard and

Beverly Shenﬁeld

Marie Shepherd

Daniel and Cara

Sherwood

Steven and

Mary Short

Shane and Leigh

Shovestull

Julian Shun

Brian Sichter

Robert Sigfridson

Elliot and Nancy

Silverston

James and

Kathryn Simms

Robert and

Glenda Simpson

Greg and

Lois Sims

Brandon Skalsky

Joanne and

Ernest Smerdon

Jack Smith

Scott Smith

Janice and

Dennis Snelling

Lawrence Snyder

Ruth (Pullen)

Soklow

Gene and

Hyun Sonu

Lee and Ann

Sousley

Marion and

Joseph Spagnolo

James Spinhirne

Vincent Spucces

Sputtering

Components Inc.

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Stanley and Jodi

Stachowiak

Jerry Stafford

Leah Stanley

Paul and

Deborah Stauffer

William Stephens

Larry Sternaman

John Stevens

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Douglas and

Cathine Sticht

Sherry and Vern

Stoneback

Robert Stott

Eric and Colleen

Stouffer

Ruth (Kurr)

Stouffer

Tallentyre and

Lois Sturdivant

Jim Su

Idith Suarez-

Castro

Mark Sullivan

Mary and James

Sullivan

Scott and Faye

Sundahl

Thomas and

Gladine Swartz

Seyed Tabatabaei

Yazdi

William Taft

Agendia Taku

Yuya Tamakoshi

Stephen Tan

Toshiya Tanaka

TE Connectivity

Matching Gift

Program

John Terrell

The Boeing

Company

The Turner

Corporation –

Matching Gifts

The U.S.

Charitable

Gift Trust

Richard and

Phoebe Therrien

Joseph and

Rita Titus

Marylyn

(Schumann) and

Gene Tobey

Marilynn (Miller)

and Lamar Todd

Steven and

Sallie Tofel

Phillip Toussaint

Joseph Trinh

Brian Tuohy

Troy and

Brooke Turley

Matthew Turner

University of

Arizona Society

of Civil Engineers

Austin Urton

USG Foundation

Inc. – Matching

Gifts

Vanderbilt

University

Bob Vargas

Pablo Vasquez

Anthony and

Louise Verbout

John Verdugo

R. Vick

Richard and

Janet Vitales

Charles and

Geraldine

Waitman

Jeffery and

Karen Wallace

Teng-I Wang

Xi Wang

John Ward

Christopher

Warner

Joan Weinberg

Michael and

Stephani

Weinstein

Robin West

Electra and

Robert Weyker

Justin Wheeler

James Wickham

Julianne Wiegand

Garrett Williams

Matthew Wilson

Phyllis (Fisher)

and John Wilson

Terril and

Esther Wilson

Ralph and M

Kathleen Wood

Jessa Wright

Xingqiang Wu

Susan and

Thomas Yang

Jessica Yeh

Jonathan Yeh

Satoshi Yoshida

Gordon Zaft

Dave Zaleski

Zavis Zavodni

Bo Zeng

Guangyao Zhang

Jian Zhang

Lamei Zhang

Rui Zhong

Hua Zhu

Barry and

Ellen Zilin

Jeffrey and

Kathleen Zubel

Jonas Zukas

a minor in mathematics. She has had

multiple jobs on campus, including

being a math tutor for UA athletes

and a student coordinator for Cubs

to Wildcats, which encourages K-8

students to go to college. She has been

involved in several clubs and societies

and is an Engineering Ambassador. She

has also done undergraduate research

with Erica Corral in the materials

science and engineering department.

She recently completed an internship

at Honeywell Aerospace and hopes to

join the company full-time when she

graduates. “In the future,” she told

her benefactors and fellow students, “I

would like to get a master’s degree in

engineering management from none

other than the U of A.”

Turning uncertainty into success is not

just Herlihy’s story. The UA College

of Engineering awards about $800,000

every year in private scholarships to

approximately 350 students.

Another scholarship recipient, math

and mechanical engineering double

major Ina Kundu, told the audience how

a scholarship frees students from the

shackles of nancial stress and allows

them to develop fully. “I have loved almost

every moment of my college days,” she

said. “Partly because I could take part in

numerous activities without ever worrying

about the cost of education.”

Kundu said that community service and

campus activities enriched her college

experience. She was president of Tau

Beta Pi, the engineering honor society,

and president of the UA student chapter

of ASME, the American Society of

Mechanical Engineers. “While these are

enjoyable activities,” she said, “they do

not pay for books or lab fees.”

Kundu recently began her PhD at MIT.

“I will continue my quest to help society

by specializing in biomechanics,” she

said. “My fellow classmates will follow

suit as they join graduate programs

or get jobs or conduct research in

pursuit of bettering society. All these

opportunities remain possible by your

generous scholarships.”

Ina Kundu

2012–2013 Alumni Donors by Class

1940

John Andreas

1941

Robert Svob

1942

Therese

(Velasco) Berg

1947

Phyllis (Blake)

Larson

1948

Jane (Osburn)

Howard

Richard Rhoades

1949

Ildefonso

Dominguez

Richard Enz

Clarence Gauldin

Robert Hall

1950

Jules Ellingboe

Rudy Jimenez

Ralph Montijo

Larry Schmich

John Stevens

1951

James Attebery

Roy Hansen

Clark Hay

William Holderby

S. Jack McDuff

William Parks

Del Pilcher

R. Stanley Howard

Joseph Titus

Harry Valentine

R. Vick

1952

Dyer Campbell

Lawrence Dreyer

Raymond Huebner

Donald Reppert

Jack Smith

Maurice Stephan

Patricia (Hill) Tolley

James Wickham

1953

Russell Gilbert

Douglas Haag

Kenneth Hartwein

Charles Philips

James Stevens

1954

David Allais

Agnes (Cordis)

Kanal

Edwin Walker

1955

Lorraine (McCollum)

Drachman

Louis Enloe

Donald Foss

Donald Gilliam

Richard Guthrie

1956

Josef Gartner

Karl Kohlhoff

Jerome Koupal

Charles Preble

John Schwartz

Frances (Sprawls)

Walker

1957

Craig Berge

Jake Doss

George Freshwaters

Joseph Gervasio

William Henry

Martin O’Sullivan

James Patrick

Bruce Riggs

John Sheehey

Tallentyre

Sturdivant

1958

Charles Aiello

John Britton

Richard Bushroe

Gary Cooper

Randolph Currin

Edward Flynn

James Harvey

John Kaminsky

Peter Kerwin

Ralph Miller

John Picone

Raymond Plock

Richard Schroeder

David Troupe

Paschel Young

1959

Ben Allinder

Herbert Burton

Kim Fox

Glen Hiscox

August Jaxel

William Milam

John Reinhardt

Alex Richards

James Simms

Arthur Takemoto

Richard Therrien

James Uhler

Richard Vitales

Robert Wicks

1960

John Benson

Gary Cropper

Frank Ensign

George Glenday

Ronald Hanson

Conrad Hernandez

Donald Johnson

Anthony Jones

Richard Lapkin

John Marietti

Gilbert Saltzman

Robert Sigfridson

Tim Tomko

Trinidad Valentin

Walter Wilcox

1961

Charles Backus

Richard Carr

James Cashin

Edward Conway

John Edwards

Henry Frauenfelder

Joseph Genchi

John La Bar

Ellis Mascareno

Barry Meisels

Theodore

Polychronis

Joseph Redmond

Narendra Shah

Gerald Smith

Jack Sykes

Marylyn

(Schumann) Tobey

Torao Yoshida

1962

Raymond Bahm

Robert Eaglet

Sandra (Tanner)

Elers

James Elliott

Michael Elzey

Rolfe Erickson

Jan Falkenhagen

Samuel Lee

Halliday

Franklin

Hungerford

Milton Johnson

Kenneth Katsma

Bernard Kenny

Thomas McCormick

Bruce McLaren

Kalman Miller

Robert Petrucciani

Ralph Wood

1963

Wayne Dawson

Ronald Fenelon

Henri Guyader

Gunnar Johanson

Kok Kwai See-Tho

Francis Leyva

Ward Stevens

1964

David Areghini

David Brod

Gary Case

John Christian

James Forthman

Marino Fuentes

William Haidler

Walter Higgins

Vijayendra Kumar

Donald McGraw

John Pass

L. Rolf Peterson

Joseph Shea

Jerry Stafford

Thomas Swartz

Steven Tofel

Kenneth Workman

1965

Cornell Collins

Michael Herrick

Janis (Tremble)

Nelson

Budd Parrish

George Shirley

1966

Steven Brock

Jerry Fossum

John Groh

Ronald Haxby

Ray Haynes

Charles Lee

Sylvia (Searcy)

McCown

George McInnis

Clyde McLennan

Frederick Monk

Edward Nowatzki

Robert Pfammatter

Michael Potter

Susan (Canatsey)

Ramsey

Leonard Shenﬁeld

Kelton Thomson

William Whitty

1967

Edwin Aguanno

Leon Borduin

Raj Daniel

Duane Dietrich

Michael Fleming

Ronald Franquero

Michael Kaiserman

Edwin Konrath

Walter Love

Paul Miller

James Peng

James Ramos

John Scoﬁeld

Joseph Spitler

Douglas Sticht

Ronald Thompson

Harvey Voss

1968

Russell Alley

Craig Baldon

James Bly

Edward Bower

Franklin Broyles

Karen (Spaniol)

Campbell

Eugene Cliff

Russell Davis

Newton Don

Gary Frere

Elmer Grubbs

Ernest Honig

J. Mercer Johnson

Michael Kleinrock

Paul Larmour

David Mooberry

Chimanbhai Patel

Jesse Saar

George Spindle

Charles Waitman

Gary Wonacott

1969

Richard Anderson

John Belt

John Bernal

Sandra Bidwell

Daniel Chilton

William Clarke

Paul Curto

James Erwin

Ronald Frobel

George Frondorf

Barbara (Norman)

Longley-Cook

Alan Marshak

James Miletich

Jack Myers

Gregory Rasmussen

Edward Rovey

Roger Schoenherr

Paul Smith

Thomas Strong

Kristin (Larson) Teran

Humberto Teran

John Verdugo

Zavis Zavodni

1970

Scott Clemans

Richard Crowell

Reay Dick

John Flores

Jerry Gay

Lee Knuppel

John Macek

John Ward

1971

Raymond Allis

Stanley Beaver

Bruce Boyum

Zygmunt Cielak

Michael Cise

Eric Goldin

Gary Harper

John Johnson

William Johnson

Gregory Lorton

Michael McAnnis

Michael McCabe

James McGrath

William Mensch

Donald Newman

Mark Oksenhendler

P. Roger Pankey

Gale Perry

Paul Rihs

Maiden names are in parentheses. 14 arizona engineer 36:2 fall 2013

DONOR PROFILE

John Rodgers

University of Arizona Engineering

alumnus John Rodgers recently

established a perpetual scholarship

in honor of Tom Morris, former head

of the UA department of mining

and metallurgy.

Rodgers graduated from UA in 1972

with a bachelor’s in metallurgical

engineering, and in 1974 with a master’s

in the same.

Rodgers describes his former professor

and department head as “one of the

greatest gentlemen I’ve ever met.” Tom

Morris died in 1994 at age 78, and the

metallurgical engineering major no

longer exists, but both made an indelible

impression on Rodgers as a Prescott

High School senior in 1967.

Rodgers said that in high school he was

uncertain about his career direction

but had an interest in metallurgy, so

he visited Morris on senior day in the

spring of 1967. “He sat me down and

explained all the ways he could help

me nancially through the course

of my undergraduate education,”

Rodgers said. “Tom cared a lot about

his students.”

“I had no money, and neither did

my parents. I survived college on

scholarships and summer work in

mines that Tom helped me secure,”

Rodgers said. “Regardless of your

background or where you came from,

Tom was a very caring department

head and teacher, and he did a lot

for me and for many others. I’m

establishing the scholarship to pass on

the opportunity he gave me.”

After graduating from Columbia

University, Morris worked in mining

and served in the Navy as an executive

lieutenant rst class from 1944 to 1946.

He then taught at Missouri School of

Mines and got his PhD in 1950, and

in 1959 he was invited to become

head of the department of mining and

metallurgy at UA, where he stayed until

his retirement in 1981.

Over the years, metallurgical

engineering has morphed into materials

science and engineering, or MSE, and

“We need to help

young people stay in

school and graduate

without overly

burdensome debt.”

Randolph Rogers

Nick Schott

Larry Sternaman

C. Gregory Strickler

1972

Chris Angleman

David Crawford

Mark Daniels

Robert Deppe

Daniel Donegan

Frederick Doten

Joseph Gates

Charles Lavarini

Honho Liu

Clifford Mansﬁeld

Frank Martinjak

Robert Mitchell

David Newton

Thomas O’Neil

Kenneth Renard

John Rodgers

William Sheldon

Steven Spease

Stephen Thomas

Belle Tom

Ronald Watts

John Whalen

Thomas Wozniak

Barry Zilin

1973

Barry Abbott

David Brown

Michael Butler

Salvatore Caccavale

John da Cunha

Janet Fertig

Gilbert Gonzales

Timothy Kasse

John Ketterl

Wayne King

Thomas McGovern

Bruce Moreton

Sean Murphy

J. Mark Richardson

Robert Simpson

Joseph Tylutki

Herbert Welhener

Farrell Wymore

Jonas Zukas

1974

Michael Bradley

William Champion

Arthur Charrow

David Clark

Robert Feugate

Donald Gin

Darrel Harriman

Michael Henningsen

Donald Koterwas

Tomas Owen

William Rankin

Alex Reynoso

Kenneth Simpson

Teddy Simpson

Robert Sogge

Gene Sonu

James Spinhirne

Anton Veirup

William Ward

Thomas Yang

Ziaullah Yazdani

Benny Young

1975

David Acklam

Michael Bartlett

Chappy Brown

John Derickson

Kenneth Dobbs

James Ekmann

Jerome Glass

Ronald Gorr

Glenn Harbour

Kenneth Heames

Theodore Moulin

David Naccarati

Joseph Pranulis

Diane Quinn

Larry Stoehr

1976

Wylie Bearup

Nicolas Cocavessis

Robert Cummings

Bryan Dalton

Steven Davis

Lesley (Coombs)

Gaudielle

Gregory Hill

Gary Lech

Addison Looney

David Marsh

James Nelson

Perry Powell

Lester Snow

David Soukup

John Stutz

Robin West

1977

Robert Best

Fred DePorter

Jeffrey Glover

Robert Green

Charles Henry

Gary Jones

Maura (Phillips)

Mackowski

Michael Mackowski

Thomas Mahoney

Daniel McBride

Henry Morgen

William Moya

Espinal

Jeffrey Park

Babajan Sarkis

George Schuler

Gregg St. Clair

William Wilson

1978

Victor Bafaro

Mark Baker

Darlene (Crawford)

Barlow

Kathleen (Johnson)

Borhauer

Peter Brown

Lawrence Bruskin

Michael Bunch

Rodrigo Carneiro

John Dangremond

William Dixon

Barbara

(Appelin) Filas

David Gebauer

John Geyer

Robert

Hammerstein

William Hirt

Judith (Botsford) Hume

James Komadina

Victor Miller

Dennis Neumann

Richard Newell

Mary (Nugent) Obee

Ignacio Orozco-

Martinez

Rudolph Radau

David Roden

Robert Roscoe

Robert Rutherford

William Smith

Anthony Verbout

1979

Dennis Angelo

David Clapp

Robert Davis

Peter De Mars

Christian Ellefson

Ali Fermawi

Stanley Harbour

Brian Kelly

Sally (Dunshee) Kizer

Louis Meschede

Diana (Reckart) Miles

Nina Ossanna

Larry Owsowitz

Monica (Kilcullen)

Pastor

Steven Regis

Wayne Seames

William Staples

Paul Stauffer

William Taft

Mark Woodson

1980

John Barberii

Michael Barclay

Michael Cease

Mark Chalmers

Liangruey Chang

Kathleen Chavez

Rinaldo DiCenzo

Robert Hamilton

Robert Hollyer

Robert Kondziolka

Dennis McLaughlin

Diane (Kusovska)

Osgood

Willis Sawyer

Robert Schafer

Michael Schurr

Shane Shovestull

Greg Sims

James Willingham

1981

Karl Allmendinger

Barry Brown

Scott Caldwell

Earl Cumming

Renee (Dudro)

Enders

Catherine

(Levinson) Freeman

David Irish

Matthew Mullen

Yong (McHenry)

Murphy

Timothy Nipper

Gonzalo Romero

Andrew Schaffer

Elliot Silverston

Wayne Stensrud

Prior Thwaits

Sarah Wolfe

1982

Marybeth

(Manchenton) Andree

Charles Botsford

Scott Bulau

Seth Chalmers

John Clymer

Richard Daniels

James Davis

Denise Doctor

Lewis Dove

Rand Drake

Martha (Daugherty)

Marek

Lori (Thornton)

Masucci

Donald McGough

Richard Milakovich

Coleman Miller

Carlos Navarrette

Roger Powell

Kyle Price

Manuel Rodriguez

Luis Rodriguez

Henry Seipt

Alan Tinseth

Nicholas Webb

1983

Dorothy

Chavez-Dolan

Daniel Chen

Mark Cross

James Davidson

John Davis

Darcy (Wymore)

Dixon

Joseph Drozd

Mark Fleming

Kevin Gardner

Martin Gronberg

Kenneth Head

Robert Hoover

Laura Jacobsen

William Jensen

Eric Kalivoda

John Linert

James Lonergan

Floyd Marsh

Carolyn (Sutter)

McClure

Theodore Moon

Thomas Moore

Lynette (KenKnight)

Moughton

Charlotte

(Gunrud) Ort

Steven Pageau

Harry Patton

Marla Peterson

Steven Rothstein

Robert Schulte

Steven Short

Robert Stott

Kenneth Stumpe

Randall Thomas

Steven Tomkins

Robert Weyker

1984

Anne (Moses)

Bingham

Jeffrey Bool

Joseph Cannavino

Mark Casolara

Steven Den-Baars

David Dummeyer

Buu Duong

Dwayne Elliott

Irmgard Flaschka

Tony Freiman

Alireza

Gholiekhamseh

Christopher Gypton

Raghavan Kalkunte

John LaBorde

Pamela Lemme

Robert Loftus

Anne McBride

Wellington Meier

Mark Phillips

Russell Pittman

Leslie (Arthur)

Porter

Mary (Makaus)

Poulton

Samuel Rhodes

Scott Rudin

Michael Runde

Eduardo Saavedra

Wayne Schwab

David Scott

Stanley Stachowiak

Kevin Talverdian

John Terrell

Ann Wilkey

Mel Wymore

Dave Zaleski

Roderick Zastrow

1985

Muhannad

Abdulhamid

Kevin Abreu

Machelle (Foster)

Aseron

Brian Aviles

Laura (Fulton)

Bennett

David Blackburn

Frank Burstrom

continued on page 16

36:2 fall 2013 arizona engineer 15

Rodgers has set up the Thomas M.

Morris Memorial Scholarship to benet

underclassmen in the UA College of

Engineering’s MSE department.

Rodgers is president of Acoustic

Emission Consulting Inc., based in

Sacramento, Calif. He was introduced to

acoustic emission while serving in the

Air Force from 1974 to 1979, and rened

his expertise working for Acoustic

Emission Technology Corp. from 1979 to

1991. Rodgers said that when he started

his own company in 1991, specializing in

using acoustic emission to detect cracks

and defects in power plant pipes, he did

so “with a great deal of trepidation.”

He was 43 at the time with no job and

a pregnant wife. “It’s never too late to

become an entrepreneur,” he said.

After building up his business for 22

years, Rodgers said he has reached a

point of nancial solvency that enables

him to give back to the University in

his professor’s name. He also wants to

convey a sense of obligation to current

UA Engineering students. “You’re the

best and the brightest, and you’ve got

people willing to help you get through

life and your education,” he said to the

assembled students.

Rodgers hopes his scholarship will

inspire others and is seeking additional

donors to the Thomas M. Morris

Memorial Scholarship. “As I near the end

of my working career, thoughts about the

plight of current and future students play

on my conscience,” he said.

“The need for skilled engineers in

materials science and engineering is

growing, and we need to help young

people stay in school and graduate

without overly burdensome debt.”

Passing on Opportunity—John Rodgers

addresses students at a College scholarship

reception. “I got to the point where I can

give back to the University, and I’d like to

convey that sense of obligation to all of

you,” he told his audience.

UA College of Engineering/Pete Brown

16 arizona engineer 36:2 fall 2013

John Coggins

Peter Davidson

Kelly Davis

Richard Dobes

Kenneth Eme

Gustavo Escobar

Thomas Fagan

William Geary

Beth Gottschall

Richard Gray

Pirooz Hojabri

Nancy (Hudon)

Hudon

Rebecca (Oniell)

Jackson

Scott Johnsen

Steven Komerska

Bruce Langone

Paul Lomayesva

Kenneth Lyle

George Maseeh

H. Erik McNair

John Michaud

Jason Nolander

Claire (Wheatley)

Place

Robert Prescott

Christine (Coffer)

Raasch

David Rhoades

Allen Sehloff

John Sternitzke

William Stevens

Janet (Struck)

Tvedt

Gordon Zaft

Gregory Zeihen

1986

Ricardo Arenas

Dale Atkinson

Brian Benard

Amalia (Lopez)

Black

Stephen Boerigter

Christine

(Barlow) Carbajal

Gustavo Castillo

George

Davenport

Roland Downs

William Grizzell

David Gubbels

Robert Haines

David Heisley

Matthew Hinkey

Keith Jackson

John Keffer

Kanth Krishnan

David LaRoche

Michael Malvick

Frank Manning

Donna (Simek)

McCarthy

Marc Orman

Lindsey Philpott

Scott Prost-

Domasky

Sandra Reel

David Robinson

William Russum

David Stacy

Christopher

Warner

Wayne Wisdom

1987

Joseph Alﬁeri

Garcia

Kelly Au

James Cannon

Jaime Carbajal

Tanya (Nolen)

Donohue

William Dowling

Prasad Erabelli

Donald Gee

Maribeth

(Engelhardt)

Greenslade

Andrew Harris

Charles Johnson

Mark Kozik

Stuart Longgood

Emeline

(Germain)

Maddern

Hadi

Mohammady

Donald Pool

Clarissa (Jacinto)

Schreeder

Ruth (Pullen)

Soklow

Antoinette

Theriault-

Faucette

Steven

Vankouteren

Neal Wilkins

1988

Jeffrey Boner

Lizzie Cheung

Peggy Christenson

Chitong Chuang

Thomas Cole

David Cooper

David Dratler

Randall Fink

Truco Fuhst

Lynne Gignac

John Goedert

Randall Harris

Craig Henden

Laura (Schlegel)

Kagle

Rebecca

(Shannon) Kirby

Cynthia (Tang)

Klingberg

Susan Knittel

Miguel Lukau

Timothy Mann

Anthony Mulligan

Leslie (Wymore)

Owen

Carol Romero

David Paredes

Charles Parkes

Derek Reaban

Michael Sandford

Eric Stouffer

1989

Joanna Autino

Jianming Chen

John Cox

David Crouthamel

Joshua Goldowitz

Gerald Jalkanen

Imad Karam

Jennifer

(Kares) Klein

Thomas Long

Praful Madhani

Mark McKinstry

Larry Milner

George Richard

Thomas Rohrer

Kevin Ross

Maher Salah

Ronald Semel

Howard

Sobelman

Robert Stone

William Vanarsdell

Paul Woolard

1990

Bridget

(Dudek) Barr

Brent Blevins

Thomas Cantrell

Lee Cheung

Tracy (Hunter)

Cracchiolo

Ren Egawa

Lisa Firestone

Jennifer (Kersey)

Furrier

Ilya Glinsky

Cecil Honnas

Rachel (Jordan)

Huppenthal

Eric Jackson

Paul John

Thomas McGuire

Jennifer (Chang) Ng

Charles Norman

Robert Perry

Marie Shepherd

Benjamin White

Branda (Baker)

Wilhoite

James Wurth

1991

Mark Albertson

Anthony Bowler

Kirk Damron

Qiping Dong

William Easton

Karen (Robinson)

Goodkin

Brian Hewitt

Kathryn Hughes

Mark Kahn

Stavros Kalafatis

Abhijit Kudrimoti

Janet (Loriz) Mayer

Susan (Couillard)

Nativi

David Paullin

Susan Sparrold

1992

Gregory Boner

Monica (Chacon)

Gamez

George Gritt

Eric Hoyt

Teri (Breault)

Kowalski

Mark Levine

Douglas Merrill

Thomas Schmitt

Daniel Sherwood

Todd Smith

William Stephens

William Stewart

Gregory Strimbu

Aamer Syed

David Trager

Trang Van Camp

Christopher

Whitehead

David Wittwer

Todd Zuercher

1993

Jose Arce

Bruce Armitage

Shayne Aytes

Edward Bukoski

Grant Cameron

Jiurong Cheng

Kristen Curry

Christopher Green

Daryl Hild

Daniel Klingberg

Henry Knoepﬂe

Sherri (Kreppel)

Lomayesva

Dhananjay

Mahajan

Guillermo Orrantia

Hernandez

Edward Pohl

Bruce Rechichar

Ronald Seager

Jim Su

Mark Sullivan

Francis

Taglianetti

Brian Tuohy

1994

Jeffrey Berg

James Dancho

Gary Degeronimo

Emily

(Dearhamer)

Kubovchik

Cherie (McKay)

Lewis

David Maher

Nirav Merchant

William Molina

Christine Peters

Matthew Ploor

William

Rasmussen

Susan Schima

Vicki Seppala

Lisa (Tank)

Severnak

Mark Smiley

Lee Sousley

Richard Te

Joseph Trinh

William Wilkening

Xingqiang Wu

Wei Yang

1995

Iftekhar Ahmed

Ernesto Cholo

Paul Englehart

Otis Gorley

Jason Hinman

James Kasner

Rockwell King

Michael Koerner

Mary (Lynch)

Kurz

Scott Leska

Francisco Leyva

Keith Nelson

Paul Ocansey

Boyd Pendleton

Lance Peterson

Guy Potucek

Claudia Rawn

Alfonso Rodriguez

Teng-I Wang

Dong Wang

Michael

Weinstein

Matthew Wilson

1996

Dawn Collins

Craig Fischer

Glenn Gannon

Erika Hanson

Jessica Hogan

Caprice Krachmer

Sasko Kurciski

Ingrid (Nelson)

McNeil

Huy Nguyen

Toni (Johnson)

Rogero

Michael Ronayne

Mina (Stafford)

Stafford

Gregory

Trangmoe

Paul Travis

Troy Turley

1997

Shih Chieh

Huang

Ouatfa Chuffe-

Moscoso

Dov Citron

Gregory Ewing

Marianne

Fernandez

Michael

Garrabrants

Mary Garrity

Rene Gonzales

Kevin Harris

Craig Laux

Joaquin

Magallanez

Keshaw Mallick

Michael Massaro

Greta Orris

Jeffrey Patterson

Andrea Ursillo

1998

Janet Brelin-

Fornari

Carl Bueter

Anne Cooper

Todd Ellermann

Esteban Flores

Dongshan Guo

Leslie Henson-

Grochocki

Rita Martinez

Travis McCarthy

Mary Pierce

Carter Romero

Emil Rudolph

Brian Sichter

Jennifer Sinchak

1999

Brian Debnam

Ivan Doliani

Rhett Donald

Jonathan Dunnigan

Valerie

(Menzer) Fox

Charles Gajda

Ryan Goebel

Edward Gomez

Marc Greenberg

Ziyu Huang

2012–2013 Alumni Donors by Class

continued from page 15

DONOR PROFILE

Pete Hushek

“Financial assistance is simply a vehicle

to transport dreams to a place of

fruition,” said Pete Hushek, president of

Phoenix Heat Treating.

Hushek recently established the Charles

J. Hushek Scholarship in memory of

his father, Charles “Chuck” Hushek,

who founded Phoenix Heat Treating

in 1963. The younger Hushek’s

major – metallurgical engineering – no

longer exists at UA, and the endowed

scholarship will support undergraduate

students in the materials science and

engineering department.

Longtime Phoenix resident Pete

Hushek was born in Phoenix less than

a year after his parents moved from

Milwaukee, Wis., and comes from

a family that has been in the metals

business for almost a century. His

own involvement in the industry goes

back nearly 40 years to long before his

graduation from the UA.

“My UA education has beneted me

greatly,” Hushek said. “On any given

day I use the breadth of experience

that my education in the classroom

established, and which my practical plant

oor expanded upon, to help me solve

processing problems for a wide range of

industrial markets.” These two streams

of knowledge – theoretical and practical

– work hand in hand, Hushek said, to

help him make prudent decisions.

During a two-year hiatus between his

sophomore and junior years at UA,

Hushek worked on the shop oor at

his father’s company, where he saw

rst-hand the need for theoretical

knowledge to supplement his practical

experience. “Working the oor at PHT

enriched my vision of how, where,

when and why my studies would be of

benet,” he said.

Hushek said he established the

scholarship because his experiences

following graduation made him

realize that engineering was crucial to

society, and that it should have a more

prominent position in the economy. “We

can’t have full employment in nancial

services alone,” he noted.

“The economy needs manufacturing,”

Hushek said. “If students have a desire

“Financial assistance

is simply a vehicle to

transport dreams to a

place of fruition.”

36:2 fall 2013 arizona engineer 17

Bennett Irwin

Philip Joggerst

Brent Knezacek

Pingzhong Li

Tingyang Liu

Patrick Marcus

Carrol Rosado

Paul Seppala

Idith Suarez-Castro

Manuel Teran

Chia Torgeson

Hua Zhu

Jeffrey Zubel

2000

Said Ahmad

Kaleem Beg

Robert Bruant

Hummann

Fargadmand

Steven Franks

Mark Hawthorne

Cade King

Stephen Kuenzli

Christopher Lee

Laura Lohner

Claudia Lopez

Lance Nelson

Scott Sayles

Michael Schwager

Daniel Seif

Hao Sun

Chad Van Liere

2001

Adrian Arvizo

Kiran Bhumana

Laszlo Braun

Chi-Fu Chen

Lindy Cote

Galen Jokipii

Jingquan Li

Amber Morris

Christopher Pfeiff

Sara Seuberling

Somnath

Shahapurkar

Jennifer

(Brady) Smith

Ricardo Solis

Scott Sundahl

Luis Tapia

Jessa Wright

Yuka Yoshioka

2002

Alejandro Angel

Thomas Bail

Tara Burke

Nicholas Fifer

Mark Hamel

Eric Hein

Geoffrey Hill

Marisa (Zamora)

Jacquez

Susan Leonetti

Micah Lesmeister

Michael Machino

Hugo (Sesteaga)

McBride

Gary Newson

Stephanie

(Carroll) Ogle

Scott Smith

Jones Tembo

2003

Sarvesh

Bhardwaj

Joseph Chase

John Germain

Jason Godinez

David Hazelman

Mahesh Indran

Wende Kong

Balamurugan

Krishnan

Gilbert Lucero

Heath MacDowell

Joshua Martin

Nathan Palmer

Karunakar

Pedagani

Aswin

Ramakrishnam

Henry Sarmiento

Ross Teske

Phat Tran

John Wallace

Douglas Westra

Justin Wheeler

Nathan Whigham

2004

Laucretia

(Begay) Baum

Irail Cortinas

Lopez

Christopher

Cunningham

Daniel Czupryna

Richard Damron

Sridhar Dasika

Cassandra

Herrera

Wen Huang

Timothy Juvera

Patrick Kelly

Michael Kiefer

Brian McMorrow

Eric Miller

Brett Miller

Andrew Osbrink

Federico

Pennacchini

Alberto Ramos

Zachary Smith

Arsen Tonoyan

Kevin Zingale

2005

Brian Alden

Joseph Augustine

Willis Begay

Kurt Bishop

Kevin Bukata

Jonathan

Campbell

John Condon

Hector Coronado

Brian Cox

Gregory Dion

Judd Dyer

Matthew Gledhill

Ann Hoang

Brian Hogan

Jeffrey Kissinger

Joshua Koch

Jack Mumbo

Creighton

Murrieta

Kevin Opalka

Kristy Pearson

Austin Potter

Eric Rosenwald

James

Siritaranukul

Kurt

Sonnenberg

2006

Debora Anjos

Eric Bette

Karthik

Chandrasekharan

James Gifford

Seth Ginter

Stephen Guzzo

Laura Hernandez

Jacob Holmstrom

Albert Jordan

Dominic Maes

Kerry (Ruiz)

Magariel

Colin Mckenzie

Kyle Nath

Esteban Rios

Matthew Rounds

David Schaller

Marco Trujillo

Silva

Pablo Vasquez

Jessica Yeh

Zhen Zhou

2007

Hussam Batshon

Cody Bliss

Gilbert Caballero

Richard Cook

Matthew

Dabkowski

Joseph Fico

Victor Foulk

Shannon

(Hoblitzell) Green

Ryan Holloway

David Kraemer

Christopher

Leatham

Eduardo Lee-Eng

Adrian Leon

Dominic Leone

Lonnie Lucas

Bharani Malladi

Kyle Marr

Alastair

Rasquinha

Jose Rodriguez-

leal

William Salus

Adam Sandifer

Walter

Schumacher

Ryan Sessions

Garrett Woods

Stanley

Yellowhair

Matthew Zerull

2008

Ahmad Abou

Adas

Avinash

Ayyalaso-

mayajula

William Baker

Aaron Boyd

Kyle Clary

John Dorso

Andrea Gains-

Germain

Logan Gaither

Jacob Gulotta

David Hahs

Jeffrey Hunt

Matthew

Kinnaman

Amit Kumar

Juan Mena-

Gonzalez

Rachel Popp

Tremaine Powell

Adam Ritter

Rhiannon Scott

Sunil Seepuri

Patrick Spencer

Andrew Stevens

Geoffrey Steward

Bradley Stilley

Hamdaweh

Sulemana

Christopher

Swanson

Ian Tilford

David Todd

Spencer Tucker

Manuel Vasquez

Narendhran

Vijayakumar

Garrett Williams

Kemei Zhao

2009

Jonathan

Alexander

Anthony Alfonso

Michael

Balthazar

Rosanna Bolin

Jason Brockbank

Alicia Brown

Anvesh

Cherukupally

Jeremy Coleman

Nathan Decker

Edward DeHoog

James Donovan

Jeffrey Egan

Garrett Ellis

Jennifer Elster

Andrew Friedman

Jesus Garcia

Leonard Klastow

Samuel Larson

Phuong Le

Hunter Mcanally

Kris Milster

Michael Moore

Desiree (Polson)

Schaub

Andrew Shroads

Kevin Spencer

Phillip Toussaint

Kyle Van

Renterghem

James Williams

Phillip Zinsli

2010

Sandeep Ahuja

John Ashton

Moussa Bari

Brandi Barraza

S. Beard

Stephen Beck

Andrew Bozzi

Joshua Breitung

Jaim Bucay

William Casson

Laura-Ann Chin

Wayne Chin-

Duncan

Mellissa Cordova

Eleonora Demaria

Miguel Gaytan

Stephen Gomez

Troy Grossarth

Qing He

Alexander

Herrera

Erica Hoang

Brian Hochheim

Blake Koomar

Ryan Larsen

Chase Parker

Sergio Pesqueira

Ravi

Raghavendra

Austin

Scheidemantel

Eric Stratton

Michael Sunday

Agendia Taku

Cynthia Tay

2011

Marco Alatorre

Ryan Badilla

Jay Chakkera

Danielle Craig

Bradley Dyal

Richard Ely

Michael Gaas

Kyle Johnston

Aaron Kapilivsky

Alexander Klauss

Robert Koven

Zhe Li

Eduardo Moreno

Kevin Pounds

William Radican

Collin Reynolds

Jorge Sanchez

Shailendra

Simkhada

Brandon Skalsky

Thomas Soukup

Josh Spivey

Nick Stylianos

Ryan Tatro

Austin Urton

Louis Woofenden

Jonathan Yeh

2012

Puneet Bhardwaj

Erik Christenson

Christopher

Dunlop

Jordan

Landwerlen

Erin Lauterbach

Michael

Lesnewski

Joseph Levy

Edward Lira

David Maynard

Jose Monreal

Eric Prewitt

Zulima Rhodes

Stephen Tan

2013

Todd Balls

Brian Franz

Ravi Garg

Mark Gregory

Garrett Hawes

Sean Henderson

Kelsey Hoyt

Cameron Kingsley

Matthew Nipper

Oscar Rico

Nicole (Montalvo)

Rojas

Tyler Stibrich

Shanna Tune

Jeffrey Uhlorn

to understand at a core level more

about how things work, they should

be able to pursue an education without

accumulating debt.”

Echoing his own time on the shop oor

as a student, Hushek also provides

engineering undergraduates with

practical experience through an intern

program at Phoenix Heat Treating.

“They do fantastic work, and I am very

lucky to work with them,” he said.

“These students get to see the wonderful

world of manufacturing, where their

basic learning can provide them a path

to a satisfying career limited only by

their dreams and desires.”

Hushek described his father as “a third-

generation heat-treater and promoter

of all things possible in people.” Chuck

Hushek used to say that as an employer

all he could do was provide employees

with a piece of rope each day. The rope

was his metaphor for an opportunity to

do something good or to simply waste it

through inaction.

“I am glad that I have been able to

fashion my scraps of rope into a bridge

to a better place for our employees and

my family,” Hushak said, adding that

it is now time for him to extend the

piece of rope outside the connes of

his business in Phoenix. “I am hopeful

that the scholarship committee will

nd worthy candidates who will use

this nancial rope to haul in a great UA

Engineering education. This scholarship

will provide someone assistance, as my

parents did for me many years ago.”

Hushek will supplement his generous

initial gift of $40,000 with $5,000

annually during the rst two years

while the endowment grows.

A Century of Mettle—Pete Hushek (BS/

Metallurgical Engineering 1982) stands in

his shop at Phoenix Heat Treating. He has

established an endowed scholarship in

memory of his father, Chuck Hushek.

Pete Hushek

ALUMNI

Donn Silberman

Light Fantastic —Donn Silberman, aka “Dr. Don, Wizard of Light,”

gives a presentation called “Optricks/Artricks” at a family event at the

UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology in November 2010.

Donn Silberman

BS/Engr. Physics 1983

Donn Silberman, aka

“Dr. Donn, the Wizard of

Light,” has garnered a

few accolades recently. In

November 2012 he received

the UC Irvine Extension

dean’s Outstanding Service

Award for his efforts founding

and implementing the

optical engineering and

instrument design certicate

programs. A month later

he won the 2012-2013 UA

Honors College Advocate for

Education Award and gave

the keynote address at the

College’s precommencement

ceremony. More recently,

SPIE Professional magazine

published his article, Optics

Outreach Evolves, about

his OptoBotics program

at the Optics Institute of

Southern California that

combines optics, photonics

and robotics to encourage

high school students to get

into the optics-photonics

eld. “The past year has

been extraordinary for me

personally as many good

things have happened,” said

Silberman, who founded

the nonprot OISC in 2003

18 arizona engineer 36:2 fall 2013

The da Vinci Circle is a leadership

annual giving society that recognizes

the generosity of alumni, corporate

partners and friends who make

unrestricted contributions of $1,000

or more to the College of Engineering

or greater than $5,000 to a specific

department or program.

individuals ⋅

Ifeyinwa Amene ⋅ Barbara (Hicks) Amos ⋅ Anton Anderson ⋅ Clarence and Phala

Andressen ⋅ Jose Arce ⋅ David and Dede Areghini ⋅ Mike and Kathy Arnold ⋅ Therese

(Velasco) Berg ⋅ Craig and Nancy Berge ⋅ Mary (Brown) and Raymond Bernal ⋅ Edwin

Biggers ⋅ James and Margaret Bly ⋅ Alan and Lisa Boeckmann ⋅ Boeing Company ⋅

Sandra (Clendennen) Brown ⋅ Franklin and Elizabeth Broyles ⋅ Herbert and Sylvia Burton

⋅ Elaine Burton-Resnick ⋅ John and Barbara Carter ⋅ Mark Casolara ⋅ Daniel Chen ⋅

Michael and Janice Cise ⋅ John Condon ⋅ Debra (Garland) and Thomas Corbett ⋅ Gary

and Barbara Cropper ⋅ Louis Demer ⋅ Don and Diane Dillon ⋅ Joseph and Rita DiMatteo

⋅ Christopher and Darcy Dixon ⋅ Denise Doctor ⋅ Newton Don ⋅ Jake and Beverly Doss

⋅ William and Ella Dresher ⋅ Karl and Sandra (Tanner) Elers ⋅ Todd Ellermann ⋅ Ernest

& Sally Micek Family Foundation ⋅ Robert and Amy Ewing ⋅ LeRoy and Jean Farmer ⋅

Hermann and Janet Fasel ⋅ Barbara (Appelin) and Frank Filas ⋅ Shirley Fisher ⋅ Kim and

Corinne Fox ⋅ Roger and Evelyn Gallagher ⋅ Joseph Gervasio ⋅ Jerome and Jane Glass

⋅ Jeffrey and Donna Goldberg ⋅ Gilbert and Patricia Gonzales ⋅ Leston Goodding ⋅ Belle

(Kulick) and Gary Griffiths ⋅ Henry Grundstedt ⋅ Richard and Patricia Guthrie ⋅ Ronald

Hanson ⋅ George Harper ⋅ James and Maria Hess ⋅ Lawrence and Virginia Hjalmarson

⋅ Helmut and Ellen Hof ⋅ Samuel Holland

⋅ Mike Hoover ⋅ Edward Jucevic ⋅ Ryan

Kanto ⋅ Maria Keonjian ⋅ Lee and Beverly King ⋅ Karl and Joan Kohlhoff ⋅ Pinnaduwa

Kulatilake ⋅ Bruce Langone ⋅ Delbert and Sharron Lewis ⋅ Linda (Robinson) and Robert

Lohse ⋅ J. David and Edith Lowell ⋅ Kenneth Lyle and Carol Romero ⋅ Daniel and Cynthia

(Tang) Klingberg ⋅ Oscar Lyon ⋅ Charles Madison ⋅ John and La Donna Marietti ⋅ Sean

McCafferty ⋅ Susan and Michael McDonald ⋅ Sidney McDuff ⋅ Scott and Kim McIntosh

⋅ William and Dianne Mensch ⋅ Ernest and Sally Micek ⋅ Larry and Jayne Milner ⋅ David

and Magdalena Mooberry ⋅ Genevieve (Atwood) Morrill ⋅ Richard and Jeanne Norling ⋅

Edward and Patricia Nowatzki ⋅ Thomas and Margaret O’Neil ⋅ Leslie (Wymore) Owen ⋅

Tomas Owen and Lindy Cote ⋅ Monica (Kilcullen) and Christopher Pastor ⋅ Charles and

Maria Preble ⋅ John and Elke Reagan ⋅ Carol Romero and Kenneth Lyle ⋅ Lisa (Gentry)

and Ross Rulney ⋅ Robert and Ann Rutherford ⋅ Peter and Nancy Salter ⋅ Roger and Jane

Schoenherr ⋅ Brice Schuller ⋅ Timothy and Danielle Short ⋅ Douglas and Dawna Silver

⋅ Joseph and Catherine Simmons ⋅ Sarah (Brown) and David Smallhouse ⋅ Ernest and

Joanne Smerdon ⋅ Lenise (Mincks) and D. Alan Smith ⋅ Mitchell and Magali Smith ⋅

Timothy and Rhonda Snider ⋅ George and Kilcha Spindle ⋅ William and Elizabeth Staples

⋅ Marjorie and Edwin Thomas ⋅ Jack and Linda Thompson ⋅ David and Joanna Travis ⋅

David Turner ⋅ Andrea Ursillo ⋅ Frances (Sprawls) Walker ⋅ Herbert and Diane Welhener

⋅ Emma Whitenack ⋅ Robert Wicks ⋅ Ann Wilkey and Alfredo Baeza ⋅ Gary and Bethany

Wonacott ⋅ Farrell Wymore

⋅ Mel Wymore ⋅ Paschel Young

corporations

Achen-Gardner Construction LLC ⋅ Agilent Technologies Inc. ⋅ AGM Container

Controls Inc. ⋅ Airtronics Inc. ⋅ Arizona Builders’ Alliance ⋅ Association for Computing

Machinery Inc. ⋅ B/E Aerospace Inc. ⋅ Barrick Gold US ⋅ C.A.B. Produce LLC ⋅ Calixtro

Distributing Company Inc. ⋅ Caterpillar Inc. ⋅ CIC Resources Inc. ⋅ Community Finance

Corp. ⋅ Continental Automotive Systems Inc. ⋅ DXP Enterprises ⋅ Edmund Optics Inc.

⋅ ExxonMobil Corp. ⋅ Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. ⋅ GaN Corp. ⋅ Gemini

Foundation ⋅ General Electric ⋅ Gomez International ⋅ Goodwill Golf Tournament ⋅

Hankook Tire Co. Ltd. ⋅ Honeywell Aerospace ⋅ HP Labs ⋅ IBM ⋅ IDEMA ⋅ Infinera

Corp. ⋅ Infrared Laboratories Inc. ⋅ Intel Foundation ⋅ International Foundation for

Telemetering ⋅ John Wesley Miller Companies ⋅ Lam Research Corp. ⋅ Lockheed Martin

⋅ M3 Engineering & Technology ⋅ Media Connections Inc. ⋅ Microsoft Global Finance

⋅ Mining Foundation of the SW ⋅ Mintec Inc. ⋅ MIT Lincoln Laboratory ⋅ NeuroMetrix

⋅ Neustar Inc. ⋅ Newmont Mining Corp. ⋅ Nextgen Aeronautics Inc. ⋅ NMode Solutions

Inc. ⋅ Northrop Grumman ⋅ Oracle Mining Corp. ⋅ P&H Mining Equipment ⋅ Peabody

Investments Corp. ⋅ QuakeWrap Inc. ⋅ Quick Mount PV ⋅ R. D. Call Scholarship Fund

⋅ Rain Bird Corp. ⋅ RASIRC ⋅ Raytheon Company ⋅ Rio Tinto Services Inc. ⋅ Rosemont

Copper ⋅ Rosztoczy Foundation ⋅ Salt River Project

⋅ Sargent Controls and Aerospace ⋅

Scientek-12 Inc. ⋅ Sensintel Inc. ⋅ Sundt Companies Inc. ⋅ SunEdison ⋅ Sunora Energy

Solutions ⋅ Suntricity Corp. ⋅ Texas Instruments Inc. ⋅ The Boeing Company ⋅ The

Copper Club Inc. ⋅ Trojan UV ⋅ Tucson Electric Power Co. ⋅ Tucson Embedded Systems

Inc. ⋅ UniSource Energy Corp. ⋅ Ventana Medical Systems Inc. ⋅ VirtualTourist.com ⋅

VM Ware Inc. ⋅ W. L. Gore & Associates Inc.

C I R C L E

Members of the da Vinci Circle play a vital role in strengthening our long tradition of

engineering excellence by supporting annual scholarships to our brightest students,

providing faculty support to our top scholars, and allocating much-needed unrestricted

funds to meet the demands of today’s educational environment.

Contact the da Vinci Circle at

520.621.8051 • [email protected]ona.edu

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Nicole Rojas

BS/ME 2013

After graduation, Nicole

Rojas joined ExxonMobil

as a drilling engineer in

the company’s Worldwide

Ventures Unconventional

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