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After his dear wife of 67 years succumbed to Alzheimer's in 2006, Arthur Kohn (BSE ’34) started attending classes in history, art history, and geology at Kent State Geauga University. This has helped him keep his brain working!

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Joyce VanTuyl (BSE ’45) recently retired as the Braille coordinator at the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library. Her specialty is the transcription of math and science into Braille. (2011)

Don Spink (BSE ’45) was a professor at the University of Waterloo for 20 years and retired in 1988. Life is great! He and his wife were blessed with 6 sons, 15 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren so far. He says his golf game is pretty bad but he still walks the course. He and his wife just celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. (2011)

Margaret Frank (BSE ’46) retired from Parke Davis & Taylor in Michigan.
She and her husband are preparing to move into senior housing. Over the years, since returning to Tucson, AZ, they have enjoyed participating in the programs of the University of Michigan Club of Tucson. (2011)

Donald McKee (BSE ’47) is nearing 88 and is still going strong—at least, trying to do so! (2011)

John Porter (MSE ’48) is healthy and is happily enjoying his 29th year in retirement. (2011)

Takeo Shirasawa (BSE ’48) received a master’s degree in public health from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978 in addition to his degree from Michigan. He says he is happy in retirement and has many great memories of his years at Michigan. (2011)

Calvin Cox (BSE '49, MBA '50) retired from BASF in 1986 after 36 years with Dow Chemical, Dow Badische, Badische, BASF, combined.  His health is good and he’s an active golfer, yard man, and conservative!

 

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Raymond Czarnecki (BSE ’50) had a long career as vice president of Chem RID. He was also an adjunct professor in business North Carolina State University. (2011)

Martin E. Gluckstein, PE (BSE '50, MSE '51, PhD '57) who retired as manager of process safety for Ethyl Corporation in 1992, has now retired for a second time as staff consultant for the Center for Chemical Process Safety of the AIChE. Marty and his wife of nearly 55 years, Marjorie (M.Mus. 51), are on the Board of the U of M Club of Milwaukee. He continues to do some consulting. Occasionally, but in his words "not frequently enough," he gets back to Ann Arbor, where two granddaughters are now undergrads, one in Theatre and Asian Studies and the other in the Residential College. Marty's earliest memory of his Ch.E. education at Michigan was from his first day on campus. There was a matter of some transfer credits to straighten out and he had to meet with G.G. Brown to do so. Marty was concerned and awed by G. G.'s reputation. But all ended well after a few minutes. The adjustments were made and Marty was one his way to a near 10-year stint in the department with a handshake, wishes for good luck, and a smile. Another memory was being considered for the Badger Trophy. He did not get the trophy, but recalls that the winner clearly deserved it for something so much more outlandish than his creation. (2006)

Ralph Hillman (BSE ’50, MSE ’53) went to work for Parke Davis & Co. in Detroit as a process development engineer after graduation. After a year, he was reassigned as the midnight shift supervisor for the chloramphenicol production operation. This was the first antibiotic synthetically produced. After receiving his master’s degree in 1953, he applied to the Dow Chemical Co., at the suggestion of Stu Churchill, and began work with them soon after in Midland. During the course of his 33-year career at Dow, he was responsible for the building and start-up of three production plants, concluding his career as a process engineer in 1986. In retirement Ralph was examined and certified as a certified genealogical record specialist in 1986 and eventually as a certified genealogist by the Board for Certification of Genealogists. He has published two genealogical books and written over ten articles in national genealogical journals. (2011)

Don Kory (BSE '50) still keeps in touch with a couple of people from the U-M and occasionally joins the alumni group in south Florida for a football afternoon. Don and his wife have two very young grandchildren, a girl 6 and a boy almost 3. He is still a sailor but has not done much sailing as of late‚ even though he lives in a great place to do it. (2003)

Vincent De Sena (BSE ’51) retired from Exxon in 1986. After retirement he became involved in volunteer work in a variety of projects including winning a seat on the governing body of his former home in Bethlehem Township in New Jersey where he lived for over 32 years. He has recently moved into the Hillview Retirement Community in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Virginia, live near their two daughters, who both have homes within sight of their back deck.  Vincent and his wife enjoy as much time as they can with their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who all live in New Jersey. Other than those visits, at 84 years, he says his travelling days are over. (2011)

Alan Molof (MSE ’51) transferred to environmental engineering in the Civil Engineering Department at Michigan and received an MS and PhD in this new area.  The master’s was in 1953 and the PhD was completed in 1957 but not awarded until 1960 because he had to leave school—he and his wife had one child and another on the way!  Alan joined New York University in 1962 after one year at Dore-Oliver and four years with Lederle Labs of American Cyrnard Co.  He is now professor emeritus of environmental engineering. (2011)

Ralph Schatz (BSE ’51, MSE ’53, PhD ’57) is now fully retired after 31 years of employment and 21 years of consulting with Exxon Mobil Chemical Co. (2011)

Peter Lederman (BSE '53, MS '37, PhD '61) was presented the Award for Service to Society by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). (2012)

Edward Niemiec (BSE ’53) retired from BASF Citing Co. in 1997 after 30-plus years of service. He and his wife have traveled the world many times with the alumni group, and are currently into enjoying their grandchildren. (2011)

Milton Meckler (MSE '55), President, Design Build Systems in Los Angeles, CA and St. Petersburg, FL, collaborated with Dr. Amip Shah, Senior Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA to publish another peer reviewed paper entitled ““A Generalized Exergy-Based Framework for Sustainable Design of IT Systems” which appeared in the  International Journal of Exergy, Vol. 9, No. 2, Interscience Enterprises, Ltd., 2011. (2011)

After retirement, Eugene Praschan (BSE ’55) worked and consulted with the auto trade association on government environmental regulations affecting automotive facilities. (2011)

George Grove (BSE ’57, BS ’57 Chemistry, MSE ’59) practiced patent law for General Motors Corp from 1965-2001, he still does patent work for GM on a part-time basis. George says he has always been grateful for his experience in the chemical engineering program at the University of Michigan. (2011)

George Nersesian (BSE '58) retired in 1995 after a 37-year career with Amoco Chemicals. He moved to Tucson, AZ four years ago. He loves the desert southwest very much. (2004)

William Rose (BSE ’58) retired from General Motors 1993.  He has been married for 52 years, and has two sons and nine grandchildren. He and his wife, Eleanor, enjoy classical music, the many arts in the area, and travelling and playing golf. William tutors twice a week at the church. They live six months in Michigan and six months in Florida during the year.
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Tom Schriber (MSE '58, PhD '64) just finished his 38th year as professor of computer and information systems (CIS) in the University of Michigan's MBA Program. He started Michigan's MBA CIS department in 1966. His research area is discrete-event simulation, a subject for which he produced a five-day course in the U-M Engineering Summer Conferences for 24 years. (2004)

Richard Kott (MSE '59) is retired after a long career in the paper industry and also from his own business in transportation. He is living in Washington state. (2004)

Jim Briggs (BS '59, MS '60, PhD '63) retired at the end 1999 after 37 good years with Chevron. The last seven years were spent abroad with major projects in the UK and Western Australia. He's now living just south of Denver with wife, Tabby. He plays golf, skis, and travels a lot. His last trip was to the North Pole on a nuclear icebreaker and his next will be to India in February 2005. (2004)

Noel de Nevers (PhD ’59), Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah, says being professor emeritus is better than being professor: no meetings, no reports to grade, and no students complaining about their grades. (2011)

David Stanton (BSE ’59) received a great Michigan education that served him well in research at Union Carbide. His team developed one of the top chemical technologies, now the basis of 30+ chemical plants worldwide. When he retired from Union Carbide he was the associate director of R & D. (2011)

Frank Tranzow (BSE '59) moved from his winter abode in Arcadia, CA, to his summer retreat at Red Feather Lakes, CO. The highlight of 2009, so far, was representing the Engineering Class of 1959 at the Engineering graduation exercise. He's looking forward to his 50th reunion and the events on campus homecoming weekend. (2009)

Thomas Vanden Bosch (BSE '59, BS Chemistry '59, MSE '60) Tom Vanden Bosch (BSE '59) retired in 1997 after 36 years in process development, process engineering and plant management. He is currently doing a little consulting in batch chemical manufacturing. Mostly he's enjoying family, hobbies and travel. (2003)

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Irving Miller (BSE '60) returned to Chicago after retiring from academia in 2000 and is now working part time as director of corporate operations at BioTechPlex, a Chicago-based biotech company. The rest of his time is devoted to his family (his retired artist spouse, two adult children, three grandchildren--soon to increase to five), commercial arbitration (American Arbitration Association) and writing poetry (and even getting some published). He would love to hear from old friends (ifmiller@uic.edu). (2004)

Jude Sommerfeld (MSE '60, PhD '63) retired from the faculty of the School of Chemical Engineering at Georgia Tech in August 2002. He served for 32 years on the school's faculty, including 8 years as associate director of the school. (2003)

George Tsao (BSE ’60) retired from Purdue after 32 years, after training 72 PhD students and 63 post docs, writing over 300 papers, receiving 18 patents and doing pioneer research in the field of biofuel and renewable resources. He was the recipient of a renewable energy award from Department of Energy, in addition to other national awards. (2011)

Thomas Cleveland (BSE '61, MSE '63, MBA '63) published his thesis at Stanford University, June 22, 2002 entitled "Comparison of Resampling Methods for Improving Confidence Intervals in Group Sequential Trials on Rare Event Target Populations." (2003)

Roger W. Campbell (BSE ’63) worked in a variety of positions at Marathon Oil. As technical director of Petroliber, Marathon’s Spanish refinery at La Coruna, he was responsible for the design and construction of the first delayed coker, the first cat cracker, the first ammonia burning sulfur plant, and first 4 stage biological effluent water treating plant in Spain. After retiring from Marathon, Roger consulted on design and construction of sulfur recovery plants and tail-gas treating. His last consulting project was on the design and construction of waste motor oil recovery and re-use plants. Unfortunately, all these had to be built in Europe because the US EPA has classified used motor oil as a hazardous waste and doesn’t permit the reuse of used motor oil. (2011)

Eugene Kelly (MSE ’63, PhD ’67) celebrated his 90th birthday on January 18, 2011. (2011)

Rafael Munoz (BSE ’63) lives close to CalTech.  He says that CalTech has a brand new chemistry & chemical engineering building and its labs remind him of the East Engineering and North Campus facilities. (2011)

Warren Seider (MSE ’63, PhD '66) won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' (AIChE) F. J. and Dorothy Van Antwerpen Award for Service. (2012)

Douglas VanDer Voort (BSE ’64) tried to retire last May, but the company hired him back to train two recently graduated ChEs and one mechanical engineer. He is not certain exactly where or when he learned what he knows, but it certainly was not all at the U–M. He thanks the department for the start though. (2011)

Thomas Kraska (BSE ’65, MBA ’66) is now retired from Dow, after some 44 years. He enjoyed many years in Midland as well as some other great locations (Coral Gables, FL, Ludington, MI and Sydney, NSW). Thomas now lives in Chapel Hill, NC most of the year, and has a summer home on Lake Superior in the Keweenaw. He says his Michigan ChE & MBA degrees prepared him for several great assignments in various functions and Dow business units. (2011)

Karl Legatski (BSE ’66, MSE ’68) is semi-retired from Cel Tech, an industrial equipment business he started in 1991 that specializes in electro dialysis cells, ultra-filtration, and reverse osmosis. His son, Eric, is now president and majority owner of the company. (2011)
Also, see article about Karl in the Fayetteville (North Carolina) Observer. Read more >>

Jerry Wassum (BSE '66) retired in 2001 after 35 years with Marathon Oil and built a retirement home in Boerne, Texas, just north of San Antonio. He and his wife, Mary Beth, usually make it back to A2 for one football game a year and attended the Rose Bowl in January 2005 and the Alamo Bowl in December 2005. Retirement is grand! (2008)

Michael Downs (BSE ’67) is the owner of a small business, ks7d Software, engaged in creating apps for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. (2011)

Marty Javinsky (PhD '67) retired in 2003 after a terrific 35-year career with Chevron. His new challenge is learning how to play golf (much more difficult than transport phenomena). He gives his best regards to all present and past members of the department! (2004)

Dr. Dennis E. Stover (BSE '67, MSE '68, PhD '75) has been named Chief Operating Officer of the Energy Metals Corporation (EMC). Prior to joining EMC in 2005, he led a private consulting firm founded in 2002 that provided technical services to both domestic and international uranium mining ventures. An author of several papers regarding in-situ uranium recovery, he has co-authored three IAEA Guidebooks and Manuals related to both acidic and alkaline uranium ISR technology and has authored six patents relating to ISR technology. (2011)

Anthony Sartor (PhD ’68) has been a commissioner on the board of the Port Authority on New York and New Jersey (PANYNI) since 1999. He is the chair of the World Trade Center Redevelopment Subcommittee, charged with oversight responsibility for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center Site for the agency. (2011)

Barry Hollander (BSE ’69, MSE ’70) is practicing patent law in the Washington DC area at the law firm of Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C., in Reston, VA. (2011)

Robert Sander (BSE ’69) works as a process engineer for INEOS, a polyethylene and polypropylene manufacturer in Houston, TX. (2011)

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G. Jean Hoppert (BSE '71) retired from Masterfoods, USA in October 2004. Now in private practice, Jean and her husband, Herschel, reside in Las Vegas, NV. (2004)

Thomas L. Schwenk (BSE 1971; MD 1975) has been named vice president of the University of Nevada, Reno’s Division of Health Sciences and dean of the University of Nevada School of Medicine. Schwenk was previously professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. He is a member of the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. (2011)

"To solve this problem, start by drawing a box around the operation and carefully label every energy and mass input and output...." John Burleson (BSE ’72) used this basic approach, drummed into his head at East Engineering, throughout his career. He says he became a master sleuth and problem solver in the R&D labs at AC Spark Plug Div, GMC and continuing at the spin-off, Delphi Corporation. While analytical chemistry is about as far as possible from his projected career in pilot plant operation, the engineering skills taught to him at Michigan let him solve many a situation where the rest of the chemists could never even figure out the right questions to be asking! (2011)

Michael L. Surmanian (BSE '72, MBS '76) has founded a new company, Diagnostic Consulting Network, LLC (DCN). DCN markets reagents and chemistries to companies worldwide that manufacture rapid diagnostic test kits such as pregnancy, drugs-of-abuse, and disease detection tests. Mike has also founded four other companies in the past 15 years. He remains a loyal U-M alum in Southern California. (2004)

Bruce Banyai (BSE '74) has been working as business development manager with Novozymes Biologicals, Inc. in Salem, Virginia for the past five years, after almost 28 years with Hercules Inc., in Wilmington, DE. He is also the current president of the Commercial Development and Marketing Association, having made a presentation at the Fall 2007 CDMA National Meeting on "Consumer Views of Natural BioPesticides." (2007)

Dennis Clifford (BSE ’74, MSE ’74, PhD ’76), a former department chair and director of environmental engineering at the University of Houston Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, became the Thomas and Laura Hsu Professor Emeritus in 2010. (2011)

Linda (Marcon) Deschere (BSE '74) is a partner in the law firm of Harness, Dickey & Pierce, one of the country's largest intellectual property law firms. She writes patents for high tech companies, particularly advanced batteries and fuel cells.

Husband, Bruce Deschere (BSE '73) was recently appointed president of University Physician Services, Inc., the management services organization for the 750-physician joint practice of the Wayne State University School of Medicine. He received the Michigan Family Practice Teacher of the Year award from the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians and a College Teaching Award from Wayne State University earlier this year. They have two children. Son Andy is a student at MIT and daughter Cristina is in high school. (2001)

Daniel Holloway (BSE ’74, MSE ’75) retired after 19 years with BASF Corporation and is now working with Miracle Hill Ministries as a volunteer. (2011)

Timothy Nelson (BSE ’74) retired from Chevron after 36 years in November 2010.  He’s playing golf, traveling and enjoying the change in pace. (2011)

Peter E. Parker (PhD ’74) will be retiring this spring after 14 years from the Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging Department at Western Michigan University. He has had the pleasure of helping chaperone the chemical engineering program from its inception in 1998 to its current state of about 180 undergraduates (graduating about 30 ChEs a year).  He received the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Outstanding Educator Award in 2008 and a Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009. He says he owes his success to the mentoring he received from faculty at Michigan, especially from Bob Kadlec, Jim Wilkes, and Brice Carnahan. Retirement plans are in flux, but he does plan to do some traveling and would like to stay involved with the program as an emeritus professor at WMU. (2011)

Thomas T. Sugano (BSE '74) serves on Board of Directors for GANA, Glass Assoc. of North America, Treasurer of SIGMA, Sealed Insulated Glass Manuf. Assoc. Also, Tom enjoys riding his Harley. (1999)

Mike Duncan (BSE '75) was selected by the Carnegie Foundation as New York's Professor of the Year (Official announcement from Cornell University.) Mike's interest in the scholarship of teaching began as an undergraduate at Michigan, particularly under the tutelage of Scott Fogler. Mike says Scott led him to think about how he learned, which improved both his efficiency and his enjoyment of learning. He later continued this to improve his teaching, to understand how students learn. Of course, he adds, he benefited from guidance from the ChemE faculty as a whole, with memorable guidance from Brymer Williams, Brice Carnahan and Donald Katz. (2007)

Doug Vander Molen (BSE 75) started work as a contractor for Matheson Gas, New Johnsonville, Tennessee as the plant engineer in October 2011. (2011)

Robert Miller (BSE ’76) is in his 32nd year with Syngenta, and predecessor companies. After 17 years in plant process engineering and another 14 years in process technology (R & D support for supply chain), he has recently moved to the formulations engineering team at the Greensboro, NC site—so everything is new once again.  He’s currently working in seed care applications. (2011)

James P. Panek (BSE & MSE '76) Genentech, Inc. announced the promotion of James Panek to senior vice president, Product Operations. In this new position, Panek will over the Manufacturing, Process Sciences, Quality, Engineering and Facilities organizations at Genentech.

Panek has been with Genentech for 17 years and has held various positions including development project team leader for human growth hormone, director of Engineering and senior director of Engineering and Facilities. Panek was most recently vice president of Manufacturing, Engineering and Facilities and was responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of all Genentech facilities including Genentech's new manufacturing plant in Vacaville, Calif.

Panek holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Genentech, Panek spent six years with Eli Lilly in a variety of engineering and development positions. (1999)

Scott Roelofs, P.E., (BSE '76) after 20 years of engineering and manufacturing positions at Dow Corning Corporation, he relocated to the Hemlock, Michigan Plant to lead a team making silicone products for the healthcare industry. His son, Jonathan, is a junior in the ChE program at UM. (1999)

Douglas Douthitt (BSE '79) has been named Vice President of Operations for Kay-Flo Services in North Sioux City, South Dakota.  Kay-Flo Services is an agricultural chemical manufacturer providing fertilizer and feed supplements through their Nutra-Flo, Nulex, Ultra-Phos, Kay-Dee, and Nutraferma companies.  Doug is also the CEO and a Director on the Board for Nulex, Inc. (2012)

Steve Pondell (BSE '79) recently assumed the position of director of manufacturing for Encysive Pharmaceuticals in Houston, TX. Encysive is a small biotech firm with no manufacturing capabilities of its own, so his job is to find, develop, and manage third party suppliers in the manufacturing and distribution of new products. He says he will miss the midwest and Big Ten country. However, golfing in December will definitely be a plus! (2004)

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Robin L. Brack (BSE '80) is currently the Environmental, Health and Safety Program Manager for DayStar Technologies, Inc., a publicly traded CIGS solar panel company in San Jose California. (2008)

Steve Hartig (BSE '80), his wife, and their two children (12 and 14) are living in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He's working for DSM, a Dutch company in Materials and Life Sciences. He recently was named president of DSM Neoresins+, a global leader in specialty resins going into the coatings industry. He has been suffering at a distance when he watches Michigan Football these few last years. (2010)

Jim Lee (MSE '80; PhD '85) is professor and head of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department at the National University of Singapore.  He is also a senior principal fellow at the Energy Studies Institute. He is pleased to see so many of his mentors still working in the department – Scott Fogler, Erdogan Gulari, Henry Wang and his advisor, Johannes Schwank. He is using Scott’s text for his undergraduate chemical reaction engineering.  He would also like to add that he is pleased that Rodriquez is no longer coach of the Michigan football team! (2011)

Frank Palazzolo (BSE ’80) is a former mayor of Harper Woods, MI. His daughter, Erika, graduated from U–M in 2005, and his daughter, Lauren, will receive her dental school degree in 2013. (2011)

Dennis Cima (BSE ’81, BS ’81 Chemistry) is process control business improvement network (PC BIN) team leader at Chevron.  As such, he is responsible for leading a standing team that addresses new, developing, and on-going process control opportunities on a global basis by developing strategic plans, provides the basis for sharing information, identifies business improvement/alignment opportunities, and leverages resources and work products across Chevron’s refining system. Dennis currently serves as chairman of the NPRA Plant Automation and Decision Support (PADS) Committees and serves on the board of directors of the AspenTech Advanced Control and Optimization World User Group. He and his wife, Brooks, reside in Katy, Texas.  (2011)

Gary Graves (BSE '81) has been elected to the board of directors for Caribou Coffee (Nasdaq: CBOU), the second largest US-based company-owned gourmet coffeehouse operator. Most recently, he served as president and chief executive officer of La Petite Academy from 2002 until its sale in January 2007 and was responsible for the nation's 2nd largest for-profit preschool educational company. In addition, he has been elected vice chairman of the national board of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. (2007)

Philip Kalson (PhD ’81) is employed the Israel Electric Corporation. He has been dealing with the chemical and environmental aspects of power station operation and design since 1987. (2011)

James Medalie (BSE '81) has been promoted to president of Kleerdex Company. Kleerdex Company, a subsidiary of Sekisui Chemical Ltd. (Japan) is the manufacturer of Kydex® thermoplastic sheet which is a specialty sheet used to make three-dimensional components for a multitude of applications. He lives with his wife Lynn, and his children Susan and Philip in the small town of Bloomsburg in north-central PA. (2003)

Alexander Pamphilis (BSE ’81) had his third child, a son, born on July 30, 2010. (2011)

After completing her degree, Joanne Reid (BSE ’81) went to medical school. Now, she is the medical director at a rural health clinic in Northern California. She never used her ChE education but it’s fun to mention at cocktail parties! (2011)

Sam Reddy (BSE ’81) retired in 2009 from General Motors R & D and started an engineering consulting company, Evaporative Emissions Consulting, Inc. (www.EvapConsulting.com). (2011)

Oncobiologics, Inc. has named Scott Canute (BSE '82), a former president at both Eli Lilly and Genzyme, to its Board of Directors. Over the course of his 30-year career, Mr. Canute played a vital role in leading Eli Lilly's global manufacturing operations.  Most recently, he spent more than a year as President of Global Manufacturing and Corporate Operations for Genzyme, where he led a major turnaround effort. Scott earned a MBA from the Harvard Business School. (2011)

James Li Kiang (MSE ’82) has worked for several well-known multinational companies including Digital Equipment, Sun Microsystems, W. L. Gore and Associates. Currently, he is teaching in a Taiwan-based English Cram School, specializing in preparing students for TOEFL, GRE and GMAT standardized exams. James has been doing this part-time since 1986 and full-time since 2001. Every year, he teaches thousands of students who have the aspiration to study in the US. 
He is going to expand into China this year and is thinking about the possibility of a liaison between U–M and the local market in Taiwan. (2011)

Barry Oakes (BSE ’82) has worked for ConocoPhillips Co. for the last 29 years. Presently he is the manager of lease crude operations for the lower 48, a position he has held nearly five years. He’s responsible for buying and selling approximately 350,000 barrels per day. (2011)

Debra Keirce (BSE ’83) left engineering for a very rewarding career as a fine artist (www.DebKArt.com)! (2011)

Jay Seaton (BS 1982 LSA; BSECH 1982 ENG; MSE 1985 ENG) was named vice president of silicon operations at Netronome. Most recently, Seaton was the founder and managing member of Evolutionary Operations Consulting, a provider of consulting services to the fabless semiconductor industry with an emphasis on start-up and early- to medium-growth phase companies. Jay has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry specializing in process engineering, manufacturing, quality systems, and global supply chain management. (2011)

Jim Pochodylo (BSE '83, MSE '84 ) has been employed by Eastman Kodak and Genencor for 11 years in process development before moving to current position as Manager in Manufacturing Engineering at Ortho - Clinical Diagnostics. He holds a patent on bioconversion process for Ribavirin. In 1991, he lived and worked in Finland. (1999)

Bob Ranger (BSE ’83) has enjoyed serving on the Alumni Board, supporting Chemical Engineering, and learning about all the outstanding things going on in the department. He highly encourages others to look for ways to reconnect with Michigan ChE and ChE alums. It is a win-win for everyone! (2011)

Jeff Sen (BSE '83) took a "growth assignment" in IT Communication Technology at Procter & Gamble doing network remote access security work, after 10 years of process engineering and risk management. During that time P&G sold the IT division he was in to Hewlett-Packard. Now, after 2 years with HP, he is service manager for outsourced support of P&G's corporate intranet portal. The technology is interesting and the work challenging. He misses engineering but likes working from home.

Jeff passed the 20-year milestone in his naval career, which started the day he graduated from U-M in 1983, and has continued through the Navy Reserve today. As a captain, most of the reserve opportunities are on the coasts. So he travels to Washington DC and Norfolk VA for some of his duty. His unit is part of NAVSEA (Naval Sea Systems Command). They perform command effectiveness evaluations using the Malcolm Baldrige criteria.

He traveled to Singapore in November 2005 as part of a global teaming project. Jeff's hobbies continue to include musical performance and "home projects". He recently became licensed in Amateur Radio (HAM). His dogs keep him moving, too. They should be qualified as "personal trainers"! (2006)

Dais Analytic Corporation, a green technology company, announced that Peter J. Termyn (BSE '83, MBA '92) agreed to join the Company's Board of Directors.  Termyn is the President and CEO of Parkinson Technologies Inc., Woonsockett, Rhode Island, a world-wide industry leader for developing, designing and manufacturing of web processing machinery for plastics, nonwovens, paper and specialty materials used in key markets including energy, healthcare, flexible/ridged packaging, automotive, and construction. (2012)

Mark Kay (BSE '84) and his wife, Susan, will celebrate their 25th anniversary on June 2011!  (2010)

Rick Oakley (BSE '84) is working in Dow AgroSciences based in Indianapolis as the Environmental Health and Safety Business Operations Leader. (2011)

Laurie Ramsay (BSE '84 ) is entering her 15th year at Ford Motor Company where she is the Special Vehicle Engineering Global Body Team leader on a new high performance vehicle. She just finished her term as National Vice President of the Society of Women Engineers, and is working on the 2002 National SWE Conference for which she is one of the co-chairs. In her spare time she plays golf along with her 13 year old daughter Monica and is enjoying her new home in Farmington Hills, Michigan. (1999)

Kevin Sobnosky (BSE ’84) is the director of compliance for Partners Environmental Consulting, Inc., in Solon, OH. The company provides environmental, health and safety consulting and sustainable solutions to industrial clients. (2011)

Ed Steins (BSE ’84) is the CEO of a solar panel system engineering and construction company, the Solar Center, based in New Jersey. He and his wife, Carrie, live in Manhattan and are expecting twins in June, their 4th and 5th children! (2011)

Bruce K. Vaughen (BSE '84) (1989 Ph.D. Vanderbilt 1989, 1994 P.E. State of NY) switched careers in 2007 after 17 years with DuPont and completed his nine-month visiting assistant professor position at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in May. He began his new corporate role as a Process Safety Management Leader with Cabot Corporation in June. His supportive family, consisting of his wife, Ann, John (15), Sarah (13), James (9), two cats and one beagle, joined him in Champaign, Illinois in July. (2008)

Frances Lim Eizember (BSE ’85) received her MD in 1997 from Duke University, completed an emergency medicine residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC, and has been practicing emergency medicine in Asheville, NC for over 10 years. (2011)

George Fouras (BSE ’85) was installed as president of the San Francisco Medical Society on January 27, 2011. (2011)

Jim Lee (PhD ’85) is the head of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). (2011)

Catherine Peters (BSE '85) has been appointed to serve a 3-year term on the EPA's Science Advisory Board Environmental Engineering Committee. The Science Advisory board provides scientific advice to the EPA administrator and several Congressional committees. Dr. Peters works in the areas of environmental chemistry and environmental risk assessment. She is an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. (2008)

Paul Theisen (BSE '85) is a supply chain improvement leader for Dow Chemical. He joined Dow in 1986 and works in Midland, MI. He does a lot of traveling in his current role, helping integrate Rohm and Haas locations into Dow. He and his wife, Kristine, have been married for 17 years. They have two daughters, Casey and Jessica. The travel assignment has allowed the family to visit places like Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and the Great Smoky Mountains. Paul always finds time to hit several U–M Football games each fall. (2010)

Last year Greg Poterala (BSE ’86) joined Arkema as the automotive market manager for their Polyamides division, working out of his home office in metro Detroit. He is responsible for growing business for their Rilsan, Pebax, and Orgalloy resins in the North American automotive industry. Coincidentally one of his colleagues is fellow U–M ChE, Todd Rogers! (2010)

Steve Schwendeman (BSE ’86, PhD ’92 Pharmaceutics) was appointed as chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Michigan in January 2011, when he was also named to the first Ara Paul Professorship in Pharmaceutical Sciences based on his outstanding work in exploring the use of mechanistic approaches to microencapsulate and control the release of biomacromolecular drugs and vaccine antigens from biodegradable polymers. (2011)

Ira D. Finkelstein (BSE ’87, JD ’98) is currently employed as senior patent counsel at Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Deerfield, IL. (2011)

After several years of leading BP's relationship with mining sector giant Rio Tinto, Tony Orlando (BSE '87) has recently changed roles. As Vice President of Strategic Cooperation, Tony now has global responsibility for several of BP's largest B2C customers in the retail sector.  Tony also serves on the Alumni Advisory Board of UM's Chemical Engineering department.  He and his wife Mary reside in Winnetka, Illinois, just north of Chicago and recently celebrated the one-year birthday of their daughter Olivia. (2011)

Debbie Feldman Singer (MSE '88; PhD '91) still lives in Southeastern Michigan.  She has three kids, ages 20, 18, and 14.  The oldest are girls and both are at Michigan. One is in the school of architecture and the other is an aspiring freshman engineer. Sadly, she is not a ChE.  They both spend lots of time up on North Campus. Singer owns her own consulting business providing on site training and support for the Apple product line and developing databases.  She says it suits her well as she gets to meet new people all the time and each task is new and exciting. (2011)

David Goldblum (PhD '88) was recently transferred to another office in the Army Headquarters.  He now works in the Army Environmental Programs Division under the Army Chief of Staff for Installation Management (ACSIM) at the Pentagon. (2011)

Somesh Nigam (PhD '88) is the director of enterprise architecture at the pharmaceutical R&D IM organization at Johnson & Johnson. Most recently, Somesh has been active in exploring ways to leverage emerging electronic health records (EHRs) for transforming safety surveillance, clinical trials and outcomes research. Somesh lives with his wife Shefalika, son Vishan (10), and daughter Ruhani (7) in Princeton, New Jersey. (2007)

Carl Shubitowski (BSE ’88) recently started a new job at Stryker Medical in Kalamazoo, MI in February 2011, and is looking forward to a new career in the medical industry. (2011)

Randy Stier (BSE ’88) has been working for the last three years at Valero Energy Corporation in San Antonio as the director of refinery heater best practices. Prior to arriving in San Antonio, he received an MSChE from IIT in Chicago and worked for UOP for 19 years. At the industry level, Randy serves as vice chairman of API’s Subcommittee on Heat Transfer Equipment. (2011)

Divyesh R. Bhakta (BSE '89) graduated from medical school at Michigan State University in 1994. Following graduation he finished an internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship training at University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Divyesh is now in private practice in interventional cardiology with CardioVascular Associates in Louisville, Kentucky. (2003)

Margaret Gilligan (BSE '89) has accepted a position with Dean Foods and will be relocating with herhusband, Abe, to Southern California from Chicago this summer. In hernew capacity, she is the Director of Engineering for the WesternRegion. (2010)

Manos Mavrikakis (MSE '89; MS '93 LSA; PhD 1994 RACK) was one of the  “Top 100 Chemists, 2000-2010” listed in Science Watch (Thompson Reuters) in February 2011. The Top 100 is intended to celebrate the achievements of chemists and chemical engineers whose papers made the highest impact in the discipline published since January 2000.  Professor Johannes Schwank was his doctoral advisor. (2011)

John Rakowicz, (BSE '89), recently completed upgrading the controls on the #6 turbo blower on Zug Island, which feeds one of Motown’s blast furnaces. (2011)

Amy (Rosicky) Waier (BSE '89). See, Steven H. Waier (BSE '89)

Steven H. Waier (BSE '89) has worked at Dow Corning Corporation since graduation. In that time he has held a variety of positions in technical service, process engineering, manufacturing and commercial industry roles. In March 2008, he accepted a new position as the maintenance & reliability manager for the Midland Site, located in Midland, MI. Steve is married to Amy Rosicky (BSE '89), and they have two boys, David (9) and Matthew (7). He is Dow Corning's lead recruiter at the University of Michigan, returns to campus every fall for engineering interviews, and organized a six-sigma workshop for our students this year. (2008)

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David Erfert (BSE '90) is still working for ConocoPhillips, and recently transferred as the operations manager of their refinery just outside of New York City. He is enjoying seeing his 8- and 12-year-old girls grow up. He thinks often of his Michigan chemical engineering experience, and especially of the people that he met there. (2008)

Cynthia Robertson Essenmacher (BSE '90) works at the DuPont Washington Works plant in West Virginia as the lab quality manager. She oversees quality requirements for ISO17025 lab accreditation such as proficiency testing, quality staff meetings, and internal audits, and does statistical reporting for global laboratories. The Washington Works laboratory does molding, physical and chemical testing for nylon engineering polymers and fluoropolymers. Since relocating to West Virginia in 2006, Cynthia, her husband and two children are very active in school and their kids’ activities. Her husband works as a stay-at-home dad. (2009)

Nancy (Siambis) Koultourides (BSE '90) has been with BP Amoco for 17 years. She has held several positions, including refinery process engineer, operations engineer, optimization engineer, planning and economics specialist, pricing analyst, market planning manager and most recently ethanol supply coordinator. Nancy is married and has two children. (2007)

Ben Maxey (BSE ’91) and his family have returned from Ethiopia after successfully completing a six-month global fellowship with the Atlanta-based International Trachoma Initiative. (2011)

Alex Packard (BSE '91) has been with Abbott Laboratories (Chicagoland area) since graduation and is currently in pharmaceutical manufacturing. He is married and has two children-the oldest will be starting kindergarten in the fall. (2003)

Gina Shreve (PhD ’91) has been on the chemical engineering faculty at Wayne State University for 15 years. (2011)

Karsten E. Thompson (MSE '91; PhD '96) is the new chairman for the Craft and Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering (PETE) at Louisiana State University. Thompson, the Lowe Professional Development Professor, is also on the faculty of the Cain Department of Chemical Engineering. Professor Scott Fogler was his doctoral advisor. (2011)

Anne Bork (BSE '92, MBA '98) is the director of investor relations for Lear Corporation in Southfield, Michigan. (2004)

Atisa Sioshansi (BSE '92, MBA '98) just completed her MBA at U-M Business School and began her new career as a marketing manager for Baxter Healthcare in Chicago after returning from a language immersion program in China this summer. She's part of the marketing development program and will rotate through three positions over the next couple of years. (2004)

Michael Ferrante (BSE '93, MBA '98) recently moved back to New Jersey from Tokyo, Japan, where he was leading R&D operations for Banyu Pharmaceuticals (Merck's Japan subsidiary) for two years. In his role at Merck, he will be the senior director for business integration in the research division. Wife, Deanna, and children, Emilia and Andrew, enjoyed exploring Japanese culture and food, as well as meeting many U-M alumni in Japan.

Nikolaos K. Kazantzis (MS '92, MSE '93, PhD '97) has been promoted to full professor of chemical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. An internationally recognized authority on the nonlinear control of dynamical systems, Kazantzis has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and presented his research around the world through many invited talks. His work has applications in the sustainable design and control of chemical processes, environmental and energy systems (including fuel cells), and process safety and chemical risk analysis. (2012)

Jonathan Lanfear (BSE '93, MS BioEngineering '95). After completing his MBA at Washington University in 2000, Jonathan took employment as an Equity Analyst covering the Biotechnology sector for AG Edwards. He continues in this capacity today and his team was recently honored by Fortune Magazine for their stock picking in the wake of the bursting of the "biotech bubble". (2003)

Jeff Lawrence (BSE '93) and his wife Karen are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter Molly, who was born on 11/4/10 after 27(!!!) hours of labor. Lucy (7) and Jack (5) are thrilled to have a new baby sister.  
Jeff is currently employed at Jenoptik Optical Systems in Huntsville, AL, where he is a process engineer for the fabrication of micro-optical and MEMS devices. (2010)

Casey Logan (BSE '93) has joined Anaphore's senior management team. Casey will work with senior management to execute Anaphore's strategic business plans, including securing additional partnerships and potential future fundraising activities. He previously worked at Anadys Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly and Company. (2011)

Michael Pisarczyk, (BSE ’93) has worked for Dow Corning Corporation in Midland for almost two years.  He works in Treasury as the manager of pensions and investments. Prior to Dow Corning, he was with Dow Chemical Co. for almost 11 years. At Dow Chemical, he was also in finance after earning an MBA from Carnegie Mellon in 1998. (2011)

Saroja Ramanujan (BSE '93) still lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband, Ananth Kadambi. Their son, Arjun (born in December 2006), is now a full-fledged toddler. She is an associate director at Entelos, Inc, and is very involved in the application of mathematical modeling and simulation in the biomedical/pharmaceutical industry. (2008)

Michael Schultz (BSE ’93) recently took a position with Lanza Tech, outside of Chicago. His 2- and 4-year-old sons keep him happily busy in his free time. (2011)

Kevin Seibert (MSE '93, PhD '96) was promoted to Senior Engineering Advisor in October at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Indiana. He also won the AIChE Award "Outstanding Contribution to Quality by Design for Drug Substance" in 2010. (2010)

Homer Sun (BSE ’93, JD ’96) leads the investing business in China for Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia. (2011)

After graduating from Michigan, Victor Thomas (BSE ’93) went to Wayne State for medical school and did his residency in ophthalmology in Pittsburgh.  After residency, he moved to Orlando where he has been since. He has not been back to A2 since medical school. (2011)

Deanna Thompson (BSE '93) finished a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and is now an assistant professor in biomedical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). To make her life more interesting, she spent the summer traveling with her fiancé in Alaska on an eight-week road trip. They were married in Michigan in August. (2004)

Scott Adams (BSE '94, MBA '05) and his family moved to Brazil in August 2009.  He's still at Eaton working in the Light Duty and Off-Highway transmission business. They will be in Brazil through the middle of 2011.  It has been a great experience both personally and professionally for Scott.  His two children, Will (6) and Katie (4), are attending the international school and have learned some Portuguese and picked up on many of the Brazilian cultures.  They particularly love the birthday parties which are comparable to a wedding in the US, but focused on the munchkins.  While we look forward to returning to the U.S. next year we will miss the friends (and weather) in Brazil. (2010)

Michael Africa (BSE '94) and his wife, Chris, are expecting their first child in December. Mike has been the computer systems administrator in the U-M Chemical Engineering Department since 1994. (2005)

Kari Andrews (BSE '94, MSEnvtEng '96) and her husband, Kyle, welcomed a new member to their family this past spring, a lovely daughter, Kelsey Grace, who was born on May 29, 2003 at U-M Hospital. Kelsey is their first! Kari and her family are living in Ann Arbor and she is currently on maternity leave from her job as an environmental engineering specialist at Ford Motor Company. She says hello and best wishes to all ChE alumni and especially to the class of 1994! Go Blue! (2003)

Matt Birchmeier (BSE '94) and his wife, Amy, welcomed their third child, Eli, to their family in December 2010. (2011)

Jeremy Bjork (BSE '94) and his wife, Adriana, have moved to Mexico. Jeremy remains with PepsiCo but switches divisions from Frito Lay in Dallas, TX to Sabritas in Mexico City. He assumed the role of marketing director for Doritos and Tostitos. If you know any U-M grads in Mexico City, let Jeremy know as he is looking for fellow maize and blue folks to watch football with. (2008)

Christopher Fletcher (BSE '94) has been with the same chemical company since graduation, IRMCO in Evanston, IL. He is technical service & engineering director, where he directs technical engineers in the field and assists trade partners around the world. Additions to his family include, Matthew, who was born in June, and his older siblings: Abigail, 3, Jacob, 5, and Caleb, 8. Chris and his family are currently residing in Fenton, MI. (2004)

Kristin Gross (BSE '94) is still working as a Sales Manager for Chr. Hansen, a Danish company. She married John Henry Nicewick last year. They just had a baby boy, Henry Walker Nicewick born on April 7, 2006. They are still happily living in Chicago, IL and enjoy getting together with ChEs all over the globe. (2006)

Chris Hermanson (BSE ’94) along with his wife (and dog) moved from San Diego, CA to Raleigh, NC in September 2011. Chris is now employed at Cree where he works in the RF Product Development group as a packaging engineer. (2011)

Serena Hung (BSE '94) recently moved from academics to industry.  She is now working for Biogen Idec (a biotech company) in Cambridge, MA as an associate medical director, working on multiple sclerosis drug development. Although she is no longer seeing patients on a regular basis, she will be looking for opportunities to provide free care to patients with Huntington's disease. She would love to meet up with fellow ChEs in New England. (2011)

Javier Jasinski (BSE '94) and his wife had a son, Federico, on March 27, 2005, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Their daughter, Florencia, is almost three years old now. Javier is currently commercializing pharmaceutical active ingredients for the Latin American market. (2005)

Jennifer (Johnson) Princing (BSE '94) is still happily living in Saginaw and working at Dow Corning. She recently took a new role leading projects as a Six Sigma Black Belt. Jennifer and her husband, Chris, stay busy racing their sailboat and raising Jenna, their little "Wolverine." (2008)

Concetta (Tina) Maltese (BSE '94) gave birth to Annamaria Sophia DeCamp on March 11, 2005. Tina and her husband have moved back to the Cleveland area and are enjoying parenthood! . (2005)

Peter Valianatos (BSE '94) was promoted to director of Process Development at E Ink Corporation in May 2011. E Ink is the technology behind the Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook e-readers.  He and his wife, Tricia, celebrated their 10-year wedding anniversary in September 2011. He welcomes any ChE's in the Boston area to get in touch (pvalianatos@gmail.com)! (2011)

Michelle (Zimmerman) D’Couto (BSE ’94) and her husband, Chris, just welcomed their second child, Danielle.  They also have a 4-year-old son, Lucas. After 15 years working in the Silicon Valley, Michelle now runs a successful small patent firm.  She is studying to take the patent bar and would then work as a patent agent performing patent prosecution work with the US Patent and Trademark Office. Most of their clients are small to midsize technology companies so her engineering degree comes in handy! (2011)

Akhil Agrawal (PhD '95) transitioned to a position in research planning and integration at Merck after working on a team focused on the launch of the Gardasil vaccine. Nancy (Berry) Agrawal (PhD '96) is continuing her role as director of pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics in clinical drug metabolism at Merck. Akhil and Nancy live in Audubon, PA and have a four-year-old son, Dillon. (2007)

Ryan Aguirre (BSE ’95) has been married almost six years and has a 4-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter.  He received his MBA in supply chain management from Arizona State University in 2001 and has been working in procurement at MillerCoors for the last five years in Golden, CO, managing packaging materials suppliers. (2011)

David A. Beuther (BSE ’95, MD ’99) is an assistant professor of medicine, and director of biomedical informatics at National Jewish Health He is also pursuing a PhD in clinical sciences, health information technology track, at the University of Colorado in Denver. David is married, has a 3-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter. (2011)

Kendrick Curry (PhD ’95) is enjoying his job as a pastor in Washington, DC. (2011)

Eric Hunsanger (BSE '95) received his MEng in automotive engineering from the University of Michigan in April of 2004. He is employed as a car & truck certification engineer at the Ford Motor Company. He can usually be found tailgating at the golf course prior to home football games with fellow ChE alums, Alan Bell ('95), Paul Gross ('96), and Darius Harrison ('99). (2004)

Steve Hurley (BSE '95) is married and has two daughters and is currently working for GE Plastics in Southfield. (2002)

N'Jeri (Jones) Laird (BSE ’95) is married and the mother of four children.  She is a community and ministry leader, and is board secretary and treasurer of Bradford Academy Schools. (2011)

Jeff Lievense (BSE ’95) is senior vice president, process development & manufacturing, at Amyris, a renewable chemicals and fuels company. Thanks to U-M's bio-option of chemical engineering, he has realized his undergraduate vision to develop solutions to global problems in energy, food, and pollution through the application of biochemistry and engineering. (2011)

Tracy Onufer (BSE '95) was selected for a feature story, "Women on Top", in the magazine Marie Claire in their October 20, 2011 online issue. Tracy is in the Air Force Special Ops and is only the second woman operational commander.  (2012)

Michele Pfeiffer (BSE '95) moved from GE Lighting, Cleveland in 1999 and is currently working at GE Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati as a leader for Material Services Demand Planning. She gets to make her way up to Ann Arbor a few times a year to participate in recruiting for GE and the Industrial Cluster for the Minority Engineering Program Office (MEPO). She says it's amazing to see how much North Campus has changed! (2002)

Jennifer (Tipa) Beedon (BSE '95) graduated from Harvard Business School on June 6, 2002, with a master's degree in business administration. She and her husband relocated to California this summer, as Jennifer has accepted a job as a manager of business development with Guidant Corporation. (2002)

Shawn Way, P.E., (BSE '95) now resides in Houston, Texas. His primary occupation is husband and father, to his wife (Inna Pereverzeva) of 3 years and their two lively children, Lisa and Alex, respectively. His other job is at Tanox, Inc. where he is Engineering Manager for operations, overseeing the maintenance and engineering of clinical facilities and generally harassing quality assurance. (2003)

Kim Wicklund (BSE '95) graduated with her Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley's Chemical Engineering Department in May 2001. She spent a year working as a research scientist, then moved to a sales/applications scientist position at a digital imaging/systems engineering company that specializes in fluorescence microscopy applications. Kim's based in San Francisco, so if anyone is in the area, drop her a line! (2003)

Nicole Woltschlaeger (BSE '95) and her husband, Erik Zamirowski (BSE ME 95), are the proud parents of their second daughter, Amanda. She was born on April 17, 2007 and joins big sister Kirsten. (2008)

Walter D Carlson (BSE '96, MBA '03) was working at GM Lansing Car Assembly when it closed last May. Two days after leaving GM Lansing Car Assembly he started with the team at GM Lansing Delta Township. The plant has been under construction for the past 26 months. On May 26, 2006 they rolled out the first Saturn Outlook. Walter is currently working in the paint shop as a group leader managing the Topcoat Review and EOL Areas. He has started racing ASA Late Models and is in his third year of driving the Vitroco Chevy (2006)

Kevin Fok (BSE '96, MBA '02) is manager of marketing at Ovonic Fuel Cell Company and is responsible for marketing, business development and fuel cell systems integration. He recently led a team in exhibiting an operating fuel cell system at the National Hydrogen Association Annual Hydrogen Conference 2007 in San Antonio, TX. (2007)

Venu Ghanta (BSE '96) is currently serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Janakpur, Nepal. He is a secondary school science teacher and hopes to have a water and sanitation engineering focus for his secondary project. You can contact him at venug22@yahoo.com. (2003)

Tanya (Manson) Sullivan (BSE ’96) and her husband, Tom, had a daughter, Amelia, in May 2010. (2011)

Dieter Schweiss (MSE '96) married Leila Ann Grubby on March 22, 2002, and on November 18, 2002, their son, Devin Peter Schweiss, was born. He is currently working as a Technical Services Engineer at Epic Systems Corporation in Madison, WI. (2005)

Robert Solem (BSE '96) and Marie Wiescinski Solem (BSE '96) recently received MBAs from the Kellogg School of Management. They are both consultants with the Chicago office of The Boston Consulting Group and recently moved from Evanston to Chicago. Marie and Rob can be reached at msolem2003, and rsolem2004, @kellogg.northwestern.edu. (2005)

Marie (Wiescinski) Solem (BSE '96). See, Robert Solem (BSE '96)

Ellyne (Buckingham) Prodoehl (BSE '97) is still at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati and is a technology department manager in the Tissue/Towel Division. She and her husband, Mike, welcomed boy/girl twins, Royce and Evelyn, in December 2006. After taking a year off from work, she now spends her days working full time and evenings chasing toddlers! (2008)

Sean Connors (BSE '97) was recently promoted to engineering manager for Avon's Morton Grove site and is in an MBA program at Northwestern University. (2007)

Dom DeCaria (BSE '97) just started a new job at Noveon, Inc., in Avon Lake, Ohio, just west of Cleveland. He'll be a process engineer for a facility that makes thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). His e-mail address is dom_decaria@yahoo.com. (2003)

Ryan Gilbert (BSE '97), assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Read more >>

Anish Goel (BSE ’97) is working for the federal government on South Asia foreign policy. He says it is a bit unconventional after engineering but it is constantly fascinating and fun. (2011)

Tommy Golczynski (BSE '97) worked initially for Stone & Webster doing oil refinery/petrochemical plant design in Houston, TX. He left to join a start-up consulting company in Houston for the offshore oil industry, Multiphase Solutions. He is general manager and has authored/presented papers throughout the world, most recently in Southeast Asia and Africa. (2004)

Jonah Klein (BSE '97) is working as a process engineer for Degussa Corporation, where he is part of a technology & process group that supports manufacturing sites in North America. Jonah graduated with an MS in BiomedE and a PhD in ChE from the University of Florida, where he also met his wife, Monica Sung. They live in Mobile, AL, where Monica attends medical school at the University of South Alabama. Monica and Jonah were married in June, 2004. (2005)

Kim Snodgrass (BSE '97) and Jeff Draper (BSE '98) left Chicago and Abbott Laboratories to relocate in Butte, MT in February 2005. Jeff is developing acoustic mixing equipment for bioreactors at a small R&D company. Kim completed a master's degree in environmental engineering in May 2007. They both are enjoying the outdoor opportunities of living in the mountains. (2007)

Sam Wall (BSE '97) is going back to school for an advanced degree, after working as a development engineer at a Bay Area biotech for the last four years, This fall he will be starting a joint Ph.D. program between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco in bioengineering. In addition, Sam recently became engaged to fellow Michigan graduate, Brita Graham, and they plan to marry next year. (2002)

Amanda (Uhrick) Reinfeld (BSE '97) has been working with BP/Amoco for 11 years. She has held several positions, including research engineer, optimization engineer, commercial analyst, business development analyst, feedstock scheduler, project implementation coordinator and currently, global commercial projects business advisor. Amanda resides in Boston, MA. She is married, has a two-year old daughter and is expecting another child in September 2008. (2008)

Carrie Worthen (BSE '97) has been working for DuPont since graduation and recently was working as a safety manager and quality engineer at the DuPont Holographics site in Logan, Utah. She's decided to stay in Utah and is now working as a health and safety services coordinator for the University of Utah Environmental Health and Safety Department. She got married in January 2004 in Las Vegas and is living in Kaysville, Utah. (2004)

Lisa Blount (BSE ’98) is currently working for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, in the Environmental Protection Division. (2011)

After completing his PhD in bioengineering at Rice University, Jeremy Blum (BSE '98) worked in Northern Iraq as a medical education and research consultant for an international relief and development organization from March 2004 to February 2005. The focus of his work was supporting and implementing projects in higher education at the local universities with a specific focus in the area of biotechnology. Jeremy also taught a graduate course on the scientific method and on the engineering approach to problem solving (many were concepts taken from ChE 230). Jeremy is starting a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical engineering at Yale University. (2005)

Andrea Brown (BSE '98) is a project management associate at Eli Lilly and Company and campus recruiter for Lilly engineering recruiting. She plans to marry Michael Ferguson (UIUC engineering grad) on September 6, 2003, in Indianapolis, IN. (2003)

Sam Catalano (BSE '98) and Andrea Vitiello were married on November 18, 2006. Sam was also recently appointed technical service engineer for the Crude/Vacuum Unit at Marathon Petroleum Company's 105,000 BPD Refinery in Detroit. (2007)

Sarah (Cunningham) Kusisto (BSE '98) and her husband, Brendan, welcomed twins to their family on December 8, 2007. They were born about 2 months premature, but did wonderfully, needing very little medical help. They came home with Sarah and Brendan on January 1, 2008 (a great start to the new year!) Leah was 3 lb., 5 oz., and 16 1/8 inches long, and Jacob was 4 lb., 11 oz., and 17 3/8 inches long. They are a true joy! (2008)

Matt Daily (BSE '98) wife, Roni, gave birth to their son, Hunter, on Valentine's Day. He's growing fast and learning new things every day. They moved to Syracuse, NY in June, where he has started medical school at Upstate Medical University Syracuse. (2005)

Mathieu Delahaye (MSE '98) is doing fine in France, where he is in charge of research and development of new water treatment processes (drinking water and waste water) in several countries (France, Italy, Spain). He is working for SAUR, which is the fourth largest water treatment company in the world. (2002)

Jeff Draper (BSE '98) see Kim Snodgrass (BSE '97)

Steve Gray (BSE '98) married Emily Sayers, his college sweetheart, the summer after graduation. He began pursuing a degree in dentistry at UM in fall 1998. Steve graduated in April 2002 with a D.D.S. Last fall Steve and his wife had their first child, a boy named Ezekiel ("Zeke") David Gray. Zeke was 8 lb.,15oz., 22.5 inches long- a big boy! He and mom are doing well. (2002)

Don Gualdoni (BSE '98) graduated with his MBA in marketing and strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in June. He accepted a position as an associate with McKinsey & Co., based out of the Miami office. (2003)

Helen (Hennighausen) Schiavone (BSE '98) has been enjoying life raising her three children on Whidbey Island, just north of Seattle. Katya (2) and Gabriel (4) helped welcome their newest sibling, Joël Arthur, into the family on February 20, 2008. (2008)

Lisa Ingall (BSE '98) and her husband, Amit Saha, welcomed their son, Devin Ramsey Saha, to the family on June 7, 2010.  Devin shares his birthday with his aunt Casey Parrotte (BA History '08), and he's actively working on his first words: "Go Blue!  (2010)

After receiving a bachelor’s and master’s at U–M, Loui Chen Kou (BSE ’98, MSE BME ’99) worked for eight years at Terumo Cardiovascular Systems in Ann Arbor as a quality engineer. Along the way, she got married and now has two children (Xavier, 3-1/2 years and Lexie, 8 months). They have settled down in the San Francisco bay area and plan on being there permanently. She is a stay-at-home mom and is enjoying her time with her children. (2010)

Blia (Kue) Ramirez (BSE '98) and her husband, Tele, live in Gaithersburg, Maryland, just 20 minutes outside of DC. Blia works as an Applications Architect for CapitalSource, a lending firm. They are busy raising their two children, Luca (9) and Lola (4).

Sujata Naik (BSE '98) spent two years in Peace Corps Madagascar doing health education after graduation. She is now a process development engineer for the Hair Care Unit in Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati. (2002)

Rachael Schmedlen (BSE '98) is entering the fifth year of a Ph.D. program in bioengineering at Rice University, where she has been working on the development of elastic hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineered vascular grafts. If all goes well, she will be Dr. Schmedlen by May or August of 2003! Following graduation, she hopes to find a job in the biotech industry. (2002)

Stephanie (Schultz) Coleman (BSE '98) and her husband, Ray, and welcomed their first baby, Joseph Ray, on October 17th, 2004. Joseph weighed 9 lbs, 10 oz. Stephanie is currently work at Ford Motor Company and taking eight months off to care for the new little one. (2004)

Michael Sproule (BSE '98) has worked for Ford Motor Company/Visteon Corporation for seven years. He most recently joined Visteon's advanced materials department supporting research and development of polymers for automotive interior applications. Michael wed Diahann Pearson in the fall of 2003. (2004)

Tom Warren (BSE ’98) and Marianne (Hindelang) Warren (BSE ’99) live in Hinsdale, IL. Tom is still with INEOS and Marianne recently "retired" from BASF.  They have three boys—born in 2008, 2009, and 2010—and a very active household! (2011)

Alex Wozniak (BSE '98) moved to Richmond, VA in January with wife, Amy (BSE AOSS '97) and 2-year-old son Matthew (U-M Class of 2028 ). Their second son, Timothy, was born in June. Alex is still working for Capital One Financial Corp and making regular trips to Ann Arbor for analyst recruiting. (2008)

Isaac Yue (BSE '98) graduated from Harvard School of Dental Medicine on June 6, 2002, cum laude. He will be attending the University of Illinois at Chicago in September for a post-doctoral residency in orthodontics. (2002)

Naoko Akiya (MSE '99, PhD '01) has been working for Dow Chemical in Freeport, Texas, in the Research Assignment Program, a rotation program for new hires in R&D since the end of June 2001. She will be done with the program by mid-August, at which point she will join the Reaction Engineering discipline in Corporate R&D. Naoko and her husband are moving into a house in a suburb of Houston, which they are building in July of this year. They thoroughly enjoy being back in Texas! (2002)

Suzanne (Barber) Balko (BSE ’99) recently finished a Fulbright Research Scholar grant in France and, a few years before that had a Chateaubriand Fellowship, a fellowship offered by the French government for Americans to perform research in France. (2011)

Andrea (Bologna) Barringer (BSE '99) has a new baby boy, Jonathon Thomas Barringer, born March 22. Andrea is still working as a sales account manager at Lear Corporation. (2004)
(2003)

Jennifer Braganza (BSE '99, IOE '01) relocated to Hanover, Germany with Continental AG, an automotive supplier, in January 2004. She currently works in Portfolio Management for the Passenger and Light Truck Division. The past two years have been filled with making new friends from all over the world and travelling around Europe. The summer will be filled with lots of excitement as Germany hosts the World Cup.

Carmita (Burnette) Vaughan (BSE '99) was appointed the chief executive officer of CURE (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy) in Chicago, IL.  CURE, founded in 1998, is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to finding a cure for epilepsy by raising funds for research and by increasing awareness of the prevalence and devastation of this disease. Carmita's mother passed away 9 years ago after suffering seizures and she's thrilled to have come full circle and now be heading an organization whose mission is so inextricably linked to her own personal narrative. (2010)

Dustin Clinard (BSE '99) is moving to Wisconsin to work for BASF. He filed a patent application within the first six months of graduation. Very exciting! (2001)

Jamey Condevaux (BSE '99) is still working in the world of combustion and propulsion (mostly air and space) in Michigan. He and his wife just welcomed twin boys, Luc and Teo, into the world in Fall 2006! (2007)

Marcos Delgado (BSE ’99) and Sapphire Energy are working to turn algae into biofuel. (2011)

Marianne (Hindelang) Warren (BSE '99). See, Tom Warren (BSE '98)

Tom Kaminski (BSE '99) and his wife, Suzanne, had their first child, Jack Thomas Kaminski, on November 10, 2010.  Tom is working for the Duke Clinical Research Institute leading business strategy and business development projects. (2010)

Benita (Kuo) Comeau (BSE '99) graduated from Georgia Tech in December 2007, with a PhD in chemical engineering. She has moved since to the Boston area, and in January 2008 she and her husband, Jon Comeau (MS EE '99), celebrated the birth of their first child, Parker. They are excited to be new parents and can't wait to bring their young son to visit U-M! (2008)

Charley Lloyd (BSE '99) married Malcolm Eaton on July 21, 2007 in a small, family ceremony in Warren, Michigan. Charley received a promotion in 2006 to assistant director for diversity for the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland and most recently was appointed acting director for the same unit. (2007)

Jenny Ma (BSE '99) is working as a process engineer at 3M in Cottage Grove, MN. She married Chris Harvey on June 28, 2003, in Michigan. Chris and Jenny met at 3M in 1998. They plan on staying in the Saint Paul area . . . for now (2003)

LaRuth McAfee (BSE '99) received Dr. Martin Luther King Leadership Awards at MIT in February 2004. LaRuth, a doctoral student in chemical engineering, is treasurer of the Graduate Student Council (GSC) and co-chair of the Black Graduate Students Association. While serving as chair of the GSC's Orientation Committee, she put together a graduate student volunteer day, which is now a regular part of orientation. In addition to her work on campus, McAfee tutors children in math and science on Saturday mornings in a Cambridge church. (2004)

Andrea Messmer (BSE '99) is based in Poi Pet, Cambodia where she is a technical advisor for the government of Cambodia on a program that returns and reintegrates victims of child-trafficking from Thailand. In her spare time, she runs a children's library and coordinates small-scale development projects around Poi Pet. (2007)

Elizabeth (Peckham) Stavens (BSE '99) graduated in August 2001 from Purdue University with an M.S. in chemical engineering and joined the ExxonMobil Process Research Labs (EMPR) in Baton Rouge, LA. She recently got married (September 2001) to Kevin Stavens. Liz and her husband met at Purdue during a summer internship in 1998 and he also now works at EMPR. (2002)

In September 2009, Andrew Rusiniak (BSE ’99, MEng ’01) is now in his tenth year working at Eli Lilly in bioproduct development.  Andy recently received the LRL president's award for his development and technical transfer of a commercial cell culture process to manufacture a monoclonal antibody to treat Alzheimer's disease.  Andy enjoys spending time with his wife and two year old son, who likes to point out the letter "M" on the television during football games. (2011)

Matt Skindzier (BSE '99) had been living in Chicago, IL since graduation. Matt graduated from the manufacturing professional development program at Abbott Laboratories in 2003 and spent the last year as a materials management supervisor in Abbott's Hospital Products Division. Matt was recently accepted to the MBA program and the Tauber Manufacturing Institute program (TMI) at Michigan, and returned to Ann Arbor this summer. (2004)

Megan Peplinski (BSE '99) is working as a Six Sigma Black Belt at the DuPont Belle Plant in Belle, WV. She is pursuing her master's in business administration from Indiana University, and she is expecting to graduate in the fall of 2003. Megan plans to marry Kevin Reehling in October 2002. (2002)

Cynthia (Postema) Frayman (BSE '99) married her high school sweetheart, Chuck Frayman, in 1999 and now resides in Mundelein, IL (a suburb of Chicago). She works at Abbott Laboratories in North Chicago as a senior controls engineer. (2003)

Kelly (Ries) Westerfield (BSE '99) and her husband, Aaron, welcomed Shawn Michael Westerfield into their family on November 23, 2004. Kelly has returned to work at Procter and Gamble as a senior engineer in skin care product development. (2005)

Aisha Rengan (BSE '99) completed a professional master of science degree in industrial mathematics at Michigan State in December 2001 and is now working at Guidant in Santa Clara, CA, as a quality/process engineer. She got married on April 7, 2002. During the summer of 2001 she worked at Guidant in California where she spent a lot of time with Benita Kuo who was working in the area. (2002)

Johanna E. Rovira (MSE '99) is in her native Puerto Rico working with Eli Lilly in MS&T / Technical Services. You can keep in touch with her in Facebook or MySpace - her email is johannar@umich.edu. (2009)

Matt Skindzier (BSE '99) has been living in Chicago, IL since graduation. Matt graduated from the MPDP (Manufacturing Professional Development Program) at Abbott Laboratories in 2003 and has spent the last year as a Materials Management Supervisor in Abbott's Hospital Products Division. Matt was recently accepted to the MBA and TMI programs at Michigan, and will be returning to Ann Arbor this summer.

Kristen (Walkush) Yeh (BSE '99) and her husband, Elbert, welcomed Kyle Pei-Ran Yeh into their family on September 14th, 2010.  He was a whopping 9 lbs. 6 oz. and 21 inches long.  His big brothers Nathan, Andrew and Evan are excited to teach him all things "boy". (2010)

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Eric Bernath (BSE '00) just completed his third corporate relocation as part of the Commercial Leadership Program at the biotechnology company, Amgen, and moved from Malibu, CA to join Amgen's health policy team in Washington, DC. In addition, 2011 brought four new stamps in the passport with his 46th country visited during his years of post-Michigan travel abroad (all them with a lucky Maize & Blue t-shirt). (2011)

Kelvin Chan (BSE '00) completed his PhD in chemical engineering at MIT in August. His research focused on making structurally well-defined polymeric thin films for biological and microelectronic applications using chemical vapor deposition. (2005)

Jennifer (Chen) Morikawa (BSE '00) received the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Distinguished New Engineer Award in 2008 for her work at General Motors and involvement with SWE on the local, regional, and national level, including supporting the collegiate section at U-M. The award was presented at the SWE National Conference in Baltimore, MD. (2009)

Neel Chokshi (BSE ’00, MBA ’05, MD ’05) did a residency in internal medicine at New York University, after completing his graduate studies at Michigan (MD/MBA). He joined the faculty in Internal Medicine at NYU before recently returning to further specialize in cardiology. (2011)

Kay (Chow) Timbers (BSE '00). See, Jon Timbers (BSE '00).

Darren Golomb (BSE ’00), a senior engineering associate with Novartis, has worked nearly 10 years in the biopharmaceutical industry.  He also works at Anheuser Busch’s Fairfield brewery as a weekend quality assurance. (2011)

Kalyan Handique's (PhD '00) new startup company, DeNovo Sciences, which is developing an improved system for cancer detection that is an alternative to traditional biopsies, won first prize overall and $500,000 recently in the Accelerate Michigan Competition. (2012)

Nick Ortiz (BSE '00) and his wife recently welcomed their first child, Samuel Nicolas Stern Ortiz.  He was born on October 27, 2011 and, at two-weeks-old, he already starts smiling when he hears The Victors. (2011)

Mike Paczas (BSE '00) completed his MD at the University of Michigan Medical School in 2004. He did a residency in orthopaedic surgery at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, OH in 2009. He is currently completing a surgical fellowship in hand surgery in Cincinnati, OH, and plans to return (2010)

Kim Sarquis (BSE '00) continues to work for Genentech as a process engineer. She relocated to Singapore in June 2008. She will be there for one year as she starts up a new manufacturing facility. (2008)

Jon Timbers (BSE '00) was recently named production leader and site leader for the Americas Styrenics production facility in Joliet, IL. Americas Styrenics is a newly formed 50/50 joint venture between The Dow Chemical Company and Chevron Phillips Chemical, and is the leader in styrenics in the Americas. Jon is still happily married to Kay (Chow) Timbers (BSE '00). After working for Dow for seven years, Kay has decided to leave Dow and return to school to study medicine. (2008)

Mayur Valanju (BSE '00,  MSE '01, MBA '06 BUS) has started a new job at TetraVitae Biosciences as Director of Business Development. Mayur and his wife, Graciela, are expecting twins in November. (2010)

Sameena N. Ahmed (BSE '01) and Jason J. Akbar (LS&A BS '01) were married on July 27, 2002 and welcomed their first child, Amir Jamal Akbar, on August 3, 2005 at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. The couple recently brought their son to visit the university where his parents met eight years ago, on their first day on campus as freshmen! They look forward to many more wonderful visits to Ann Arbor. Sameena is a project engineer for L'Oréal USA and Jason is completing his residency in radiology at the University of Cincinnati.

Rebecca Aron (BSE '01) completed her master's degree in biomedical engineering from U-M in 2002 and has been working for Guidant Corporation, a large medical device company, in St. Paul, MN for the past two years. This fall she's back in Ann Arbor to continue her education in medical school. (2004)

A busy 2010 keeps on going for BT Cesul (BSE '01, MEng Space Systems '02). He was awarded the 2009 NASIC Civilian of the Year, Cat 3 for second time since starting in 2002 and passed the  prospectus defense of his PhD program at the Air Force Institute of Technology in May 2010. He also taught his 8-month-old daughter, Ella, how to raise hand at Hail! in "The Victors." (2010)

Julie Champion (BSE ’01) and her husband, Kevin, have recently moved to Atlanta, GA where Julie is an assistant professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. (2011)

Prerna Chaudhry (BSE '01) and Aashish Maheshwari (BSE '01, MENG '02) were recently engaged, in a traditional Indian ceremony! They were honored that Professor Wilkes and his wife, Mary Ann, were able to make it for the engagement festivities! Prerna and Aashish are excited about their upcoming wedding, which will be in India this December. They are both very thankful to the ChE Department, as this is where they met! Prerna works for General Mills in Minneapolis and Aashish works for Amgen in California. (2005)

Mark Dettling (BSE '01) completed his master's degree in natural resources at Cornell University in May 2005. He plans to pursue a career in wetlands ecology. (2005)

Jeff Dowell (BSE '01, MSE '01) worked in BASF's PDP rotation program after graduating in 2001. He now is working in Toyota's Materials Engineering Department at their Ann Arbor location. (2003)

In September, after returning from a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt rotation in China with 3M Optical Systems, Darren Goetz (BSE 2001, AB 2001 LSA, MENG 2006) assumed the role of operations manager within the Traffic Safety Systems Division (TSSD), based out of Menomonie, WI.  He is  adjusting to life in rural Wisconsin. (2010)

Darrick Gross (BSE '01) moved to Philadelphia after graduation to work as an assistant director for a non-profit organization working on environmental campaigns, such as fighting to save the national wildlife refuge in Alaska. His next job was as a lab manager for a cancer biology laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania where he was coauthor for a publication in Science. Now Darrick is working towards a PhD in chemistry, investigating transport across the nuclear membrane using electrochemical techniques. (2005)

Nathan Hoffman (BSE '01) is still working for GE as a production engineer but relocated to the Albany, NY area. He was recently engaged and will get married in May 2007. (2006)

Nadia Ismail (BSE '01, MSE '02) is a facilities engineer with ExxonMobil Malaysia in the Upstream Production Company and gets to visit offshore oil and gas platforms every month. She and her husband, Hafeiz, welcomed their son, Noah Azlan, into the world last October. They both miss Ann Arbor and its people very much and hope to visit Ann Arbor again. Nadia says she still enjoys reading Harry Potter books! (2005)

Mike Iwaniw (BSE '01). See, Regina (Staniszewski) Iwaniw (BSE '02).

Efy Karagiannis (BSE '01) joined GE Plastics after graduation and settled in upstate NY, just outside of Albany. She's recently become a manager in a small manufacturing operation and bought a small cottage on a lake in the country.

Irene Kokkinos (BSE '01) has been living in Green Bay, WI since graduation. She is a process engineer for Procter and Gamble at a paper products manufacturing site. She says to tell everyone to buy Puffs tissues! (2003)

Rachel Latvala (BSE '01) is repairing restaurant equipment while pursuing a massage certificate at the Ann Arbor Institute for Massage Therapy. Next year she plans to apply for a teaching position in Japan where, in addition to learning Japanese, she hopes to learn acupuncture. (2003)

Aashish Maheshwari (BSE '01, MENG '02) see Prerna Chaudhry (BSE '01)

Janette Nunn (BSE ‘01, MBA ‘08) recently moved from Singapore to Perth for Chevron. She is wrapping up her last rotation on the Leadership Development Program and enjoying life in Australia.(2010)

Ken Qian (BSE '01) and his wife, Chelsea Wang, moved to Manchester, CT, where he has begun working on a PhD in pharmaceutics at the University of Connecticut. They love the summer in New England. (2006)

Terri Stewart (PhD '01) was named to lead Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Environmental Biomarkers Initiative. Through this initiative, researchers will discover and use biomarkers to transform environmental science. Terri's role is to implement the technical program, recruit new capabilities and staff, and develop the initiative's business strategy.
(2005)

Brian Teller’s (BSE '01) son, Ethan Christopher Teller, was born on April, 11, 2011 in Newburgh, IN.  Brian still works for Sabic Innovative Plastics. (2011)

Andy Valiquett (BSE '01) received his master's in pharmaceutical engineering from U-M in 2002 and is working at Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis. He is working in the technical service and process engineering departments in dry product manufacturing, specifically for the validation and launch of Cymbalta and Cialis. Andy was married in May of 2002. (2004)

Dan Viaches (BSE '01) and his wife, Laura (BBA '01), have recently moved to Boston to attend Harvard Business School, where they are pursuing their MBAs together. (2006)

After completing his MBA at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, Ben Wong (BSE '01; MSE '03 IOE) started working as a management consultant at BASF at their headquarters in Ludwigshafen, Germany. (2011)

Michelle Wu (BSE '01) is the director of Quality Services at Ximedica, a medical and healthcare product development company.  She lives in Providence, RI with her husband and 11-month-old daughter.  She visited the department at Homecoming this year and encourages more people to come back! (2011)

Philip Dooley (BSE '02) joined the Air Force (as 2nd Lt) in April 2003. In September 2004 he married Joia Woodford and this year they had their first child, Keenan Lawrence, on March 10. Phillip graduated from U-M medical school in 2007. He was promoted to captain when he graduated and moved to Eglin Air Force Base, FL to begin a family medicine residency program that will last until 2010. (2007)

Kelvin Lau (BSE '02) is betrothed to Grace Yeung (BSE EE '04) as of September 2007. He proposed to her at the Bryce Canyon National Park They will marry on December 27, 2008 in Hong Kong. (2008)

Tracy (Matson) Brusewitz (BSE '02) has moved into a new role at Procter & Gamble as the site materials supply manager at the Green Bay plant. She is also the vice-chair on the United Way Emerging Leaders Society board in Brown County. She and her husband, Andy, got married in September 2008 at Lambeau field, and they have been enjoying married life while spending a lot of time traveling! (2010)

Laura (Mendricks) Afflerbaugh (BSE '02, MENG '03) married another U-M alumnus, Todd Afflerbaugh (Architecture), in September 2005. She moved from Seattle to San Francisco in March of this year to work for Genentech in their Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Sciences Program. Her new position involves creating formulations for small molecule oncology drugs. (2007)

David Moler (BSE ’02) and Rosabel Chang (BSE ’01) got married in June 2007 and son, Miles, was born July 2010. (2011)

Jessica Motyl (BSE '02) recently completed GE's operations management leadership program and is now working as a process engineer for GE infrastructure, water and process technologies. She resides in Oceanside, CA and spends her free time training for and competing in triathlons. (2004)

Aaron Napier (BSE '02) began working at Severstal Dearborn in January 2011 as a process engineer.  They will be starting up the largest hot dip galvanizing line in North America in December.  He and his wife have two girls now, Emma (2) and Olivia (3), and are expecting their third child on May 4, 2012.  They moved to Ypsilanti Twp, MI in August. (2011)

After working for three years and travelling to China with Lexmark International, Decker Ringo (BSE '02, BSEME '02) plans to return to school this fall. He will be pursuing a master's degree with the Technology and Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2006)

Adarsh Radadia (BSE '02) is in the ChE PhD program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He married his better half, Deepa Vasoya, December 2006 in India. He is developing MEMS-based gas chromatograph for the Department of Defense in his research work at UIUC. (2007)

Laura (Shannon) Dellal (BSE ’02, MEng ’03) is a senior patent attorney working out of Los Angeles for Kohn & Associates of Farmington Hills, MI.  She is married to Shlomo Dellal (PhD ’08 Neuroscience), and spends her free time surfing in Southern California and traveling the world. In the last two years she has been to India, Israel, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Peru. (2011)

Regina (Staniszewski) Iwaniw (BSE '02) and Mike Iwaniw (BSE '01) and their two children (Rachel, 4, and Jacob, 2) moved from Freeland MI to Torrance CA in February 2010. They both left the Dow Chemical Company to join Arkema, Inc.--a smaller chemical company headquartered in France. Regina is working as a production engineer for the Arkema Emulsion Systems facility in Torrance where they produce latex used in paints and other coatings. Mike is now the Supply Chain Planning Leader for the AES North America business. They are adjusting quite well to their new life in California and are enjoying spending lots of time outside hiking, going to the beach, and taking the kids to the many parks in the area. (2010)

Last September Barry Wolf (PhD '02) and his family moved to Menlo Park, California so he could join PDL BioPharm's cell culture process development group, headed by Amit Varma (PhD '94), located in Fremont, CA. Barry and his wife, Sarah Jacobson, a dermatologist, have a new family member, Abigail Elsie, who was born last October. (2007)

Tamika L. (Young) Banks (BSE '02) has been working at Masco Corporation in Taylor, MI for the past 2 1/2 years as a corporate environmental engineer. She and her husband, Terrence, welcomed second child, Terrence James, Jr., in October 2006. Tamika is pursuing a master's degree in industrial and manufacturing engineering at the U-M, Dearborn. (2007)

Paul Albertus (BSE ’03) finished his PhD in chemical engineering in 2009 at UC-Berkeley. He joined the Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, CA after graduation, where he continues to work on modeling and experiments on advanced batteries for transportation and grid-scale storage applications.  Also in 2009, he married a fellow Berkeley student, and has been happily enjoying his first few years of marriage.  Paul’s been acclimating to the California weather now for about six and a half years, but his brother and parents are still in Michigan, so he does get to hear about the lovely Michigan winters!  He says he does miss spring  in Michigan, though. (2011)

Jennifer Brand (BSE '03) moved to Raleigh, NC in December 2006 in search of employment. She was hired by the engineering design firm, Technical Associates of Georgia in February 2007, and is now working as a process engineer for TA and living outside of Atlanta. She's also getting married on October 25! (2008)

Thanks to the cooperation of Chemistry Professor Brian Coppola, and chemistry laboratory manager Jack Novodoff, Leroy Covington (BSE '03) got engaged to long-time friend and Michigan alumnus, Janicca Buggs (LSA Psych '01), June 2006 in 1640 Chemistry Building. The romantic proposal, which included a bed of roses and lavender scented candles, took place exactly 2825 days after they met in that room as Chemistry 130 students in Fall 1998. (2006)

Catherine (Ehehalt) Way (BSE ’03) and Lucas Way (BSECompE ’03) welcomed a son, Andrew John, on October 9, 2010. (2011)

Matt Gessford (BSE ’03) and wife, Stephanie (BS ’04 LSA), and their two children recently relocated to Texas for a new opportunity with Dow Chemical. They are looking forward to the mild winters, but not the hot, humid summers. (2011)

Angela Harris (BSE ’03, MSE '08)  was selected for a feature story, "Women on Top", in the magazine Marie Claire in their October 20, 2011 online issue.  Angela is a research engineer at Ford and pioneered the creation of the "EnviroSeat," with soy-foam cushions. Angela has recently been on campus, presenting at a Society of Women Engineers regional conference and at a Omega Chi Epsilon meeting. (2012)

S. Kelvin Lau (BSE '03) moved to Worcester, MA after graduation in April 2003 to take a job at Abbott Bioresearch Center. He provides technical support for downstream purification of a monoclonal antibody manufacturing process. (2004)

After graduating in 2003, Yiping Lim moved back to Singapore to spend 2.5 years in the army. Subsequently he embarked on a PhD with Imperial College in London in 2006 focusing on biotechnology, and has just completed his studies there. He has taken a job at Lonza Biologics in Singapore in their Manufacturing Sciences & Technology group. He got married in 2009 and he and his wife have an 11-month-old son! (2010)

Amit Nagar (BSE '03) graduated from Columbia Business School this past May and rejoined his former employer (Booz & Company) in New York City. (2011)

In May 2007, Eric Roeder (BSE '03) married Hilary Alpert (BS ’03, MD ’07) and the couple moved to Durham, NC. After working as a Process Engineer for Wyeth in Sanford, NC for two years, Eric left the workforce to pursue his MBA at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Last summer, he worked as an MBA intern for Novartis Vaccines in their Global Manufacturing Strategy group.
(2010)

After 2-1/2 years as a post-doc at the U-M College of Pharmacy, Kurt Seefeldt (PhD '03) started a new position at Schering-Plough in New Jersey in August 2005. Kurt is a senior scientist in the Analytical Development Division, characterizing solid-state pharmaceutical materials. He still enjoys photography when he finds time between the demands of his dog (Emma), wife (Teresa), and children (Max and Alexa). (2005)

Tawnya Sowerwine's (BSE '03) work history includes ME Elecmetal, Inc. in Tempe, AZ as a process engineer for a steel castings foundry, and Kraft Foods Oscar Mayer in Madison,  WI. She currently works for  MillerCoors Watertown Hops Company in Watertown, WI as a process engineer and resource chemist, where she analyzes and ensures control during the process of separating CO2 liquid extracted hops into their components, which are used in both Miller and Coors brand products for flavoring profiles. She and her husband, Matt, have been married since May 2004 and live in downtown Madison. (2010)

Brett Acker (BSE ’04) and his wife, Elizabeth, welcomed their first child, Byron William, on March 1, 2011. (2011)

Daniel Burlingame (BSE '04, MSE '05) recently joined General Electric in Minneapolis, MN working on RO/NF membrane research as a lead engineer. This comes after working at Intel as a Lithography Process Engineer in Portland, OR. He and his wife have a boy (2) and a girl (4). (2010)

Adam Cole (BSE '04) married his girlfriend of four years, Amanda Newman. Amanda graduated in 2008 from U-M with a degree in psychology and is now in her final year of law school at Wayne State. Adam is graduating next semester with his PhD in pharmaceutical sciences. He worked on magnetically targeting nanoparticles to brain tumors and plans to pursue a postdoctoral position so that he can continue his quest to become a faculty member.  Adam is not sure yet where he will do his postdoc.

Michael Doornbos (BSE '04) was engaged to Amy Cappo in April 2005 and they were married in their hometown of Midland, MI on July 28, 2007. Michael works at Dow Corning Corporation in Midland, MI as a process engineer. (2007)

Elizabeth (Elsner) Nahavandi (BSE ’04) had a baby girl, Aria Rayne, on December 13, 2010. (2011)

Jessica Mattis (BSE '04) was promoted to assistant superintendent of production in Paint at Flint Assembly at General Motors.  Previously she has worked at GM as a supervisor, a senior process engineer at Pontiac Assembly, and most recently was the VLT Launch Coordinator for the Orion Small Car Program. (2011)

After about a year and a half of postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois, Ali Mohraz (PhD '04) joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of California- Irvine as an assistant professor last year. He was looking forward to teaching his own course and starting his research program at UCI. He still finds time to play his musical instruments. (2007)

Jason VanRoeyen (BSE ’04) is living in Louisiana with his wife and working for Motiva (Shell/Saudi Aramco joint venture). He supports the day-to-day operation of a 120 MBPD FCCIE and gasoline hydrotreater. (2011)

Mark Barbieri (BSE '05) and his wife had their first child on October 17 at 11:17am!  Julius Mark Barbieri was 7lbs, 1oz and 19 inches long. (2010)

Gary Chia (BSE' 05) just finished his PhD in chemical engineering at MIT in May 2011, and just started a master’s program in classical composition at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. (2011)

K.C. Chomistek (BSE ’05) and his wife, Andrea, celebrated the birth of their child, Anna Elizabeth, in May 2010. (2011)

Ryan Dunn (BSE ’05) received a master’s in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University in May 2010. (2011)

Andrew (Bean) Getsoian (BSE '05, MSE '07) and Elizabeth Ranney Getsoian (BSE '06; MSE '08; PhD '11) were married in June 2011. They now live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Liz is working for an engineering software firm, and Bean is finishing his Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley. (2011)

Lin Ho (BSE '05) is currently living in Australia and doing a post-doc at the University of Melbourne. (2011)

Heidi Knickerbocker (BSE '05). See, Brian Reger (BSE '05)

Sanjeev Mullick (MSE ’05) is working at AspenTech in Houston as the director of industry marketing for their engineering solutions. (2011)

Catherine (Reesman) Doyle (BSE ’05) is working as a power plant engineer on water treatment and air quality control systems for two 677MW coal-fired supercritical boilers in Oak Creek, WI. (2011)

On April 19, 2008, Brian Reger (BSE '05) and Heidi Knickerbocker (BSE '05) were married in Ann Arbor. They have recently moved to Denver, CO where Heidi is working at Halliburton and Brian is working at Forest Oil. (2008)

Marc Schneidkraut (BSE '05) is relocated to ExxonMobil's Joliet Refinery (Joliet, IL) in June 2008, after completing two assignments at the Central Engineering Office in Fairfax, VA. Marc started with ExxonMobil in the summer of 2005, and this will begin his first field assignment. (2008)

Sara (Scott) Richardson (BSE '05) was recently married to TomRichardson in San Antonio, TX. In addition, she is enjoying her job asa sales engineer for Nalco Chemical Company. Her current assignment issolving problems in ethylene plants. (2008)

After completing her BSE in 2005, Suchita Shah Suchita Shah moved to Southern California to work on the Xience Drug Eluting Stent with Guidant Corporation/Abbott Laboratories in a manufacturing role. After three years of work and two product launches, she decided to get an MBA at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated in May 2010 and headed to Chicago, IL to be a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in a generalist role with hopes of working in the healthcare and non-profit sectors. (2010)

Andrea Sterling (BSE '05) works at Toyota in Ann Arbor. Andrea is in Japan with the "Nagoya Fish" in the photo above. The fish is a replica of one perched on top of the Nagoya Castle. The castle, and the fish, have become known in Japan as a symbol of Nagoya. (2007)

André Taylor (PhD ’05) was selected to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Taylor, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Yale University, was honored for “outstanding research on sustainable biofuels technologies, and for educational and outreach activities that inspire high school and university students, including students from underrepresented groups, to pursue careers in sustainable energy,” the National Science Foundation said. Professor Levi Thompson was his doctoral advisor. (2011)

Karis (White) Faust (BSE ’05) had a baby girl, Cameron (Cammy) Ann, on January 7, 2011. (2011)

Kyle Allison (BSE '06), currently a graduate student at Boston University, won first place and a $15,000 prize in the annual Collegiate Inventors Competition.  He received the prize for discovering a simple and inexpensive therapy for persistent infections, "Metabolite-Mediated Elimination of Bacterial Persisters."  (2012)

Joseph Cheng (BSE '06; MSE '08) left Genentech in July 2011 after 4 years to pursue his PhD in ChE at the University of Texas at Austin (almost done with one semester!), and joined the Alper group at UT.  He says they have a nice stadium at UT Austin... but it's no Big House! (2011)

Elizabeth Fiorani (BSE '06) is living in San Jose, CA working for Abbott Vascular on their exciting new bioresorbable vascular scaffold - ABSORB(TM).  She is engaged to Christopher Thoma, who is unfortunately a Spartan! (2011)

Bobby Glied (BSE '06, MSE '07) was working as a production engineer for Dow AgroSciences in Midland, MI from November 2007 to October  2010.  He relocated to Boston, MA in October 2010 to work for Dow's Electronic Materials division as a project manufacturing representative and improvement engineer. (2010)

After graduating in December, Akiya Jones (BSE '06) moved to Chicago and began employment with Avery Dennison at the Performance Film Division. She is a process engineer in the metalure department, working with the metalizer application. Their customers include Dove, Cover Girl Cosmetics, and Mercedes. (2007)

Elizabeth Ranney Getsoian (BSE '06; MSE '08; PhD '11) see Andrew (Bean) Getsoian (BSE '05; MSE '07)

Bruce Schiamberg (PhD ’06) has been working as an independent consultant. His work focuses on evaluating new technologies in alternative energy and life sciences. (2011)

Karlene Soltesz (BSE ’06, MBA ’10) recently became engaged to Marc Kaplan (BSECE ’05, MSE, BME ’05, JD ’10) and relocated to Chicago to take a position in Pricing Intelligence with Walgreens. Karlene says she enjoys hearing about what is going on in the department and appreciates the frequent communications. (2011)

Scott Taylor (MSE '06) spent the past year and a half surfing and kiteboarding in the Dominican Republic. While there, he started a company which has developed a vitamin supplement that helps keep mosquitoes from biting, www.Bite-amins.com. He is also part of an early stage start-up company that is developing a new application of GPS technology. (2010)

Maurice Telesford (BSE '06) has been awarded a Fulbright Student Fellowship. He will be teaching English language and American studies to elementary school students in Spain for one year beginning in September 2007. (2007)

Ashley Walton (BSE ’06) is a working wife and mom and is enjoying the benefits of attending U–M! Go Blue! (2011)

Jeffrey Carey (BSE '07) has been working as a research technologist at the University of Chicago Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology since 2008.  In fall 2010 he will be relocating to Philadelphia and entering the University of Pennsylvania's VMD-PhD program. (2010)

Joe Casler (BSE '07) and his wife, Dawn, got married in 2009.  They are expecting their first child, Juliana, in late December.  He is still working for First Solar based in Toledo, OH but now as a reliability engineer. (2011)

George Cater (BSE ’07, MSE’08) is a fourth year medical student at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.  He would like to thank Dr. Montgomery and the ChE Faculty for their part in his undergraduate education. (2011)

Erin Knight (BSE '07) recently moved to Seattle. She is looking forward to hiking, kayaking and of course meeting alumni in the area. (2010)

Ashley (Sullivan) Velez (BSE '08) got married on June 4th 2011! (2011)

Christina Conlin (BSE ’09) says Dr. Montgomery and the entire ChE faculty prepared her well for handling the “real world”.  She thanks them all for running a great program at the best University in the world! (2011)

Robert Damitz (BSE ’09) will be attending graduate school in Fall 2011 to work on a doctoral degree in chemical engineering. (2011)

Anthony (Tony) J. Lachawiec Jr., (PhD ’09) will be getting married this summer to Claudia Torres Garibay, who was a post-doc in the Materials Science & Engineering Department at Michigan while Tony was working on his PhD. They will settle in Hillsboro, OR. He is still with Intel Corporation, working as a gas systems process engineer, and Claudia is an assistant professor at Oregon Institute of Technology in their renewable energy engineering program. (2011)

Sarah Ledford (BSE ’09) finished her work for the State of Michigan, Attorney General Office and is now using her engineering knowledge in the private sector at a private investment firm in Grand Rapids. She is also in elected leadership with the Michigan Republican Party as Youth Chair, Statewide. (2011)

Hayley Smithkort (BSE ’09) finished a co-op at Genentech in South San Francisco in July and returned to Michigan with her fiancé for their August wedding, after eight years of dating. In September she will begin a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at U-M and will likely focus on drug targeting and delivery. (2010)

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Daniel Byrd (BSE '10) has been volunteering in the penguin colony at the New England Aquarium for a few months now. He is also working for Dow Chemical in Marlborough, MA, but that's obviously less exciting than "playing" with penguins every week. (2011)

Kathryn Siuniak (BSE '10) was sworn in as a Peace Corps volunteer on August 29 in Burkina Faso. (2010)

Arshat Xembayev (BSE '10) is working for TengizChevrOil (TCO, a Chevron subsidiary) in Kazakhstan as a process engineer. On a volunteer basis, he is also involved with a non-profit foundation in Kazakhstan aimed at bringing high- quality education to rural areas and good medical/rehabilitation services to disabled children. (2011)

 

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