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Most Recent Alumni News Update

(Earlier updates are directly below by graduation year)

Navin Bora (BSE ’07) relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, from Chicago, to join Weaver, Austin, Villeneuve & Sampson, LLP, a boutique intellectual property law firm based in Oakland, CA. He would be very happy to hear from ChE alumni in the Bay Area and looks forward to developing a professional network here. (2017)

Joseph Casler (BSE ’07) has been working as a senior test engineer at Molex Automotive since January 2017. He oversees testing and validation of various connector products for automotive and industrial applications. (2017)

Alex Dowling (BSE ’10) will start a new position in Fall 2017 as an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame. (2017)

Rhonda Germany-Ballintyn (BSE ’79, MBA ’88 Finance) retired on March 31, 2017, from Honeywell where she served as chief strategy officer and chief marketing officer reporting to CEO for 15 years. She says she is now in the “give back” years of her career and has relocated to Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City. Go Blue!! (2017)

After 25+ the years, the longest they’ve ever lived in one place, Marje (M.Mus ’51) and Marty Gluckstein (BSE ’50, MSE ’51, PhD ’57) sold their condo and relocated to Harwood Place, a senior community in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin in November 2016. So far, so good. (2017)

This summer marks the 50th year since Marty Javinsky (MSE ’65, MSE Aero ’66, PhD ’67) completed all of the requirements for his PhD degree, moved to the SF Bay Area, and began his career with Chevron. During the four years with the department, the faculty and staff–as well as his fellow grad students–inspired him in ways that have lasted throughout these 50 years. He extends his best regards to all present and past members of the department. (2017)

Kelvin Lau (BSE ’02, MEng ’03 PharmE) and Grace Lau (BSE ’04 EE) are thrilled to announce the birth of their second child, Johann Chung-Tin Lau. Mom, Dad, and big brother Caleb are all doing well. (2017)

Andrew Long (BSE ’17) lives in Houston, TX and is working at the NASA Johnson Space Center as a project engineer. He is also a part-time University of Houston Law School student. (2017)

Eric Raynal (BSE ’12) graduated from medical school at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine in 2017), and started his residency at Indiana University / Riley Hospital for Children in pediatrics, in Indianapolis. (2017)

Max Rutz (BSE ’10) and his wife had a baby girl, Maria, in February 2017. He has recently moved into a new position at Delta Air Lines as a safety director. (2017)

Bruce Vaughen (BSE ’84) (1989 Ph.D. Vanderbilt 1989) co-authored a book this year with James A. Klein titled “Process Safety: Key Concepts and Practical Approaches.” The text was published by CRC Press. (2017)

1930–39

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!

William M. Saltman (BSE ’38, BSE (Math) ’38, MS ’39) has now been retired for 30 years and doesn’t give much thought to chemistry, much less chemical engineering. He is curious to learn if any of his classmates still flourish or even just survive. He says that he and his wife moved from Akron, OH to San Diego in 1989 and never regretted it. (2013)

1940–49

After nearly 70 years at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. John J. McKetta, Jr. (BSE ’43, MS ’44, PhD ’46) was honored when the school renamed his department the John J. McKetta Jr. Department of Chemical Engineering. This was not the first chemical engineering department named after him though. Fifteen years ago, John McKetta’s undergraduate alma mater, Tri-State University (now Trine University) in Angola, IN named their chemical engineering department after him as well. At 97-years-old, Dr. McKetta says he feels extremely fortunate to have had an exciting and wonderful personal and professional life. His wife, who he met in 1943 while in Ann Arbor, made a fantastic 69-year marriage for him until she passed away in February 2011. In March 2013, Texas alumni selected McKetta as one of their ten “Most Inspiring Professors.”

Note: An article about Dr. McKetta is in our Fall 2013 newsletter.

Paul H. Schwan (BSE ’43) married in 1945 and has one son, born in 1956. After graduation he went to work for Standard Oil Co. (Ind.) /Amoco Oil Co and retired in 1981 after 38 years. Paul’s wife died in 2000.

Starting in 2002, he and his son have traveled extensively, visiting twelve European countries in five trips, also Alaska and the Yukon, did a seven day trek in Peru ending at Machu Picchu , and they just completed a trip to Hawaii. In Hawaii they spent a very emotional day at Pearl Harbor visiting the Arizona Memorial, the Battleship Missouri, on which the Japanese signed the surrender agreement, and the Bowfin, a WW II submarine. With the visit to Hawaii, he has now visited all fifty States.

Most people today do not know that after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 the U.S. government granted automatic deferments, to juniors and above in engineering and medicine, which ended upon graduation. After two six-month deferments, while working for Standard Oil, he failed the eye test for Army service, and thus is not a veteran.

At age 93, he is enjoying good health and stays active in church and community. (2015)

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)

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)

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

Paul Gann (BSE ’47) is retired after 34 years with Monsanto Chemical Co, Solutia. Of course, Monsanto is no longer listed as a chemical company. (2017)

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

Coral L. DePriester (MSE ‘48), author of DePriester Charts, celebrated his 90th birthday last April. (2013)

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!

1950–59

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

Ralph E. Hillman (BS ’50, MS ’53) and his wife celebrated the birth of their eleventh great-grandchild and also celebrated the wedding of their seventh (of nine) grandchild in late May. (2016)

Darwin E. Rhoads (BSE ‘50) moved from Hendersonville, North Carolina to Statesville, North Carolina in December 2012. (2013)

Ralph Robinson (MSE ’50) and his wife, Georgia, are splitting their retirement years between Lincolnshire, IL and Fort Myers, FL. (2014)

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 of Bethlehem Township, 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 traveling days are over. (2011)

Wayne Hamilton (BSE ’51) retired from Lockheed in 1994, and is still enjoying retirement. Singing bass in a barbershop chorus is his favorite activity. (2013)

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)

Cunhao Zhang (MS ’51) was named a member of the China Academy of Science in laser chemistry. He is one of two Chinese scientists who received the top science and technology award in China in 2013. (2014)

Peter Lederman (BSE ’53, PhD ’61 ) has been named the chair of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Foundation. The Foundation Board of Trustees provides the leadership for the charitable donations program of the Institute. (2013)

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 enjoying their grandchildren. (2011)

Jim Ryan (BS ’54) has relocated with his wife, Nicole to Shell Point Retirement Community southwest of Fort Myers, Fl. He retired from Koch Industries (Wichita) in 2000. (2016)

Milton Meckler (MSE ’55), President, Design Build Systems in Los Angeles, California and St. Petersburg, Florida, collaborated with Dr. Amip Shah, Senior Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California 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)

Joseph Ray (BS ’55) is moving to the San Francisco Bay area. (2014)

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)

Manesh Shah (MSE ’57) keeps active in a local AIChE section and is an AIChE representative in Silicon Valley Engineering Council where he was a director last year. He retired from IBM after 32 years of service 21 years ago. (2013)

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, traveling 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. (2011)

Emeritus professor Noel de Nevers (PhD ’59) recently published a book, The Kolob Tragedy, a case study of a canyoneering accident that occurred in July 1993. If you would like to find out more about the book, go to http://www.ronwatters.com/KolobTragedy.html . (2017)

Ivan A. Franson (BS ChE ’59, BS MetE ’59) and his wife, Barbara, celebrated 55 years of marriage with family (all 18 of us) by cruising in the western Caribbean over New Year’s Day weekend. It was an opportunity of a lifetime.

After leaving Michigan, Ivan travelled the metallurgical route, earning an MSc and PhD in metallurgy from Stevens Institute of Technology while working in research for International Nickel Company and Air Reduction Company. Market/product development positions with Airco Vacuum Metal, Titanium Metals Corporation, and Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation (ALCS) followed. Ivan’s position at retirement from ALCS was manager of Stainless and Alloy Metallurgy. His chemical engineering education was put to good use, particularly during the market/product development phase. Assistance with alloy selection for various unique corrosion problems being experienced on equipment in process plants, offshore platforms, etc., was a large part of his job experience.

One of Ivan’s most enjoyable experiences was participating in a bed-and-breakfast business that Barbara started and ran for five years in historic Saxonburg, Pennsylvania. People from many parts of the world stayed at the Main Stay B&B, leaving many fond memories.

Through many moves, Ivan and Barbara remained active in church activities, particularly singing in the church choirs. They also enjoyed participating in community choral groups. They have also returned to Ann Arbor for occasional football games with family and former U–M alums. (2016)

Dave Stanton (BSE ’59) says it’s to believe but in June he’ll celebrate 22 years of retirement from a 34-year ChE career with Union Carbide. He and his wife, Pat, remain in their adopted hometown, Charleston WV.  (2015)

Frank Tranzow (BSE ’59) moved from his winter abode in Arcadia, California to his summer retreat at Red Feather Lakes, Colorado. 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)

1960–69

Leonard Bloomfield (BSE ’60) retired on August 29, 2001 and was home recovering from a heart attack when the dramatic events of September 11 occurred.The following spring he got a job at the Chicago Botanic Garden as a Tour Tram guide and narrator, and continues such to this date. He says it is one of the most beautiful places on earth and certainly recommends any tourist visit it when in the Chicagoland area. (2013)

Irv Miller (PhD ’60) and his wife are retired & enjoying life in Evanston, IL. He says, with the exception of the lakefront here, Evanston is a lot like Ann Arbor—one of the reasons they live there. He volunteers as an engagement manager for the Executive Service Corps of Chicago, which provides management consulting services for nonprofits in the greater Chicago area. He also writes poetry, takes classes at Northwestern, and enjoys family (wife, 2 kids & 4 grandkids who are growing up too fast). He would love to hear from his old (you can take that 2 ways) friends—by phone or e-mail, 847-328-8595, ifmiller@sbcglobal.net. (2017)

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)

Jim Wilkes (PhD ’60) has edited and published his grandfather Alfred Oscroft’s manuscript, Place-Names of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The book, 624 pages, 200 illustrations (many in color), hardcover, traces the names of all the villages and towns in Jim’s native county to their origins, mainly Anglo-Saxon. Jim has been named an Honorary Life Member of the English Place-Name Society. He and his wife, Mary Ann, are Joint Patrons of the New Victoria County History of Hampshire project in England. (2015)

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 four-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)

David Hellums (PhD ’61) went directly from Michigan to Rice University where he is now a Professor Emeritus. Over his 54 years at Rice, he has served as Chair of ChE Department, Chair of Bioengineering, and Dean of Engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.(2014)

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

Max Legatski (BS ’61, MS ’63, PhD ’66) is semi-retired in Bartlesville, OK, but still working part time in the Petroleum Engineering business. He and his wife have two sons and two granddaughters. He says he’s glad he’s not old yet and he would like to hear from former classmates at MLegatski@aol.com. (2014)

Rafael V. Muñoz (BSE ‘63) is now retired and has moved north with his wife from San Marino, CA, to a small town, which is 20 miles south of San Francisco and six miles from Half Moon Bay to be close to their daughter. Their house is surrounded by McNee Ranch State Park (625 acres with glorious trails with Pacific Ocean views), Montara State Beach and Gray Whale Cove State Beach is a mile away; too cold for swimming but great for hikes. The town of Montara has no mail delivery to the houses so they have to go to the Post Office to get their mail! In 2012 they were blessed with the birth of their sixth grandchild. In addition to six grandchildren, they have two daughters and one son. (2013)

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 VanDerVoort (BSE ’64) has enjoyed the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s concert for many years. This year he and a colleague from Memmingen, Deutschland attended the concert in Vienna! (2014)

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)

John Garmus (BSE ’66) retired from Du Pont and relocated to Las Vegas. He wife of 40 years passed away five years ago. You can contact John at johngarmus@yahoo.com. (2015)

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)

Since retiring from Kodak in 2001, James Patton (BSE ’66, BS Chemistry ’66) has been busy with travel photography (www.jamespatton.com), volunteering with urban youth education, and club management at The Tennis Club of Rochester. He and Liz VanDyke (BS Chemistry ’66) will celebrate their 48th anniversary this year in Pittsford NY. Classmates can contact James at jpatton@rochester.rr.com. (2015)

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)

Mike Downs (BSE ’67) recently finished a new app for iPhone and Android devices. It is a comprehensive guide to the animals and exhibits at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa. You can download it for free at www.ks7d.com. (2015)

After a 40-year interlude, Peter Parker (MSE ’68, PhD ’74) and Dennis Stover (BSE ’67, MSE ’68, PhD ’75) got together in Oklahoma to recall their days in East Engineering under the respective guidance of Bob Kadlec and Frank Donahue. (2013)

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)

1970–79

Thomas L. Schwenk (BSE ’71; MD ’75) 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)

Thomas L. Gould (PhD ’72) was inducted into the Oregon State University Academy of Distinguished Engineers in February 2013. Gould has been recognized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers with the Ferguson Medal 1975, Distinguished Member 1983, Distinguished Lecturer 1988, Distinguished Author 1989, Forum Chair 1994, and Editorial Technical Review. Gould is currently a senior partner with an international petroleum reservoir consulting firm. (2013)

Robert Harrer (MSE ’72) has fond memories of his time in Ann Arbor. He retired from Chevron Corporation after 36 years with the company and still lives in San Francisco with his wife, Janis. They travel regularly, with trips to France almost annually. He is president of his neighborhood association, which is very involved in city politics. He has also been spending time working on his genealogy, which requires more analytical skills than expected. (2014)

Over the years, Paul Horst (BSE ’72) and his wife, Nancy, have logged over 40,000 miles cruising the world aboard their sailboats. After Paul retired in 1995 from Nematron, an industrial computer company he founded, they went sailing for two years, and then Paul worked five more years as president of DTE Energy Technologies, the alternative energy subsidiary of DTE Energy. More recently Paul has been chairman of Algal Scientific, a biotech company founded by his son and other U–M graduates. (2016)

Tim Donakowski (BSE ’73) retired in December 2015 after careers with the Ford Motor Company, Illinois Institute of Technology, the Minnesota Department of Health, and Minnesota OSHA. (2016)

Bruce Banyai (BSE ’74) is continuing to enjoy consulting for multiple clients in the chemical and biotech field. His five grandchildren keep life exciting! (2015)

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)

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)

After a 40-year interlude, Peter Parker (MSE ’68, PhD ’74) and Dennis Stover (BSE ’67, MSE ’68, PhD ’75) got together in Oklahoma to recall their days in East Engineering under the respective guidance of Bob Kadlec and Frank Donahue. (2013)

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

George Martin (BSE ’76) retired in July 2015 after nearly 38 years of employment with Exxon and ExxonMobil. George and his wife, Jennifer, will remain in Northern Virginia for the time being. (2015)

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)

Brian Mills (BSE ’76) retired after over 38 years with Union Carbide Corporation/The Dow Chemical Company. His career highlights include the design, construction and operation of many new chemical plants in Louisiana, Michigan, Texas, West Virginia and Montreal/Canada; leading a team to startup/operate the only chewing gum base resin facility in North America and; having the pleasure to work with great people over the years, many who also graduated from the University of Michigan. He says he enjoys being back in Michigan with its four seasons, and attending athletic events after spending most of his career out of state. (2015)

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)

1980–89

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)

David Brossard (MSE ’80) retired from Chevron Corporation earlier this year after 33 years. (2013)

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) was named a board member at Caribou Coffee and Einstein Noah Restaurant Group. He also serves on the board of Fusion Education Group. (2015)

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)

In June 2015, Jim Medalie (BSE ’81) joined SIMONA America Inc., as their president. The company is located in Scranton PA and is a manufacturer of plastic semi-finished products. (2016)

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

Deepak Pandya (MSE ’81), based in Singapore since 2008, has been at KBC Advanced Technology for the past five years. He is now the global functional manager for Strategic Consulting and is enjoying his time in Singapore. A few more years to retirement! (2016)

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)

Todd Miller (BSE ’82) retired in January and is splitting his time between Cavanaugh Lake outside Chelsea, MI and New Jersey. He’s keeping very busy with many lifelong hobbies and sports, travel, and U-M football and basketball.(2014)

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)

David B. Harwood (BSE ’83) is the director of DTE Energy’s Renewable Energy organization, which is responsible for project development, regulatory compliance, operation, and purchase power agreements representing almost 1,000 megawatts of renewable energy generating capacity in Michigan. DTE has invested over $1.5 billion in Renewable Energy since 2009 and has 100 megawatts of new renewable capacity currently under construction, including the largest utility owned sole array east of the Mississippi, located in Lapeer, MI. (2016)

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)

James Anderson (BSE ’83) is in his 22nd year as president of A.J. Boggs & Company (19 employees), providing engineering consulting, IT systems, and hosted data services to customers across North America. (2015)

David B. Harwood (BSE ’83) recently changed positions at DTE Energy. He was the Director of the Major Enterprise Project Management Office and Nuclear Development for the last 5 years or so. In January 2014, he became the Director of Renewable Energy. DTE has spent ~$2 billion since 2008 building their renewable energy portfolio and plan to spend more in the coming years. By 2015, 10% of their sales will be generated by Michigan-based renewable sources, mainly wind. (2014)

Bob Ranger (BSE ‘83) is finishing up work on the U-M ChE Alumni Board and has just joined the U-M College of Engineering Alumni Board. Bob says the College board will be contacting Michigan Engineering Alumni nationwide to find volunteers to answer questions from high school seniors about Michigan Engineering. They will also be looking for alumni who can provide career counseling to current engineering students. Bob continues to work at Dow Chemical in Midland, MI as an associate director of New Business Development. If you are interested in working at Dow, please contact him at RWRanger@dow.com. (2013)

Mark A. Smith (BSE ’83) has retired from Eli Lilly and Company after 31 years of service. His final position was as Director Technical Services, Vaccine Network. He says it was a privilege to work in the biotechnology field for his entire career, beginning as a chemical engineer from Michigan and Missouri, and through multiple opportunities to bring new medical treatments for people and animals to market.   He retired as of February 1, 2017 and will continue to live in Indianapolis with his wife, Alice Martina Smith. He credits his Michigan education, and particularly Dr. Henry Wang’s biochemical option in chemical engineering in the early 80’s, for providing him a start in an incredible career. He looks forward to more time devoted to travel with his wife and family, pursuit of hobbies (music & sports car restoration), and service. He also expects to continue to provide consulting and project management services to the biopharmaceutical industry. He wishes the best to his Michigan colleagues! (2017)

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)

Julia (Boeker) Pepper (BSE ’84) is enjoying early retirement and working to relocate to Lake Norman, NC, after which she hopes to use all those previously developed corporate skills in the not-for-profit sector! (2016)

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)

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) co-authored a book this year with James A. Klein titled “Process Safety: Key Concepts and Practical Approaches.” The text was published by CRC Press. (2017)

John Zavicar III (BSE ’84) recently retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico after a 15-year career there supporting national security and nuclear safety. He and his wife, Karen (a nurse who also retired from the Lab), are enjoying bike rides, running on the Corpus Christi beach, traveling, and spending time with their 4 children and 7 grandchildren. John is also playing classic rock in a band and starting up another martial arts school in their “Margaritaville” location. He says hello to his Michigan Wolverine family! (2014)

Karen (Cooke) High (BSE ’85) was named associate dean for undergraduate studies in the College of Engineering and Science at Clemson University. (2015)

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 an Operational Excellence Leader at Dow Chemical Michigan Operations in Midland. He joined Dow in March 1986. He and his wife, Kristine, were married in June 1993 and have two daughters, Casey and Jessica. Paul still loves attending most U-M Football games each fall. The family has added two playful cats, Bo and Georgia. Now Paul is outnumbered 5 to 1 by the females in the house :>) (2014)

Ramona Ying (PhD ’85) is celebrating her 30th year at General Motors R&D working on batteries for electrified vehicles. She is proud all her children (Bryan, Derek, and Shaina Kwiatkowski) have graduated with their BS degrees from the University of Michigan, and are off to a great start in their careers. (2015)

Deborah Mielewski (BSE ’86, MSE ’93, and PhD ’98) won a 2014 Detroit Free Press Automotive Leadership award in the green category. When Mieliewski and her biomaterials team at Ford first proposed using new materials that didn’t rely on petroleum over 10 years ago, many in the company were skeptical. In 2008, after oil prices nearly tripled, management started to listen to their ideas. (2014)
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Greg Poterala (BSE ’86) joined Solvay Specialty Polymers in 2012 as a Sales Development Manager in the Automotive Market, based in the Detroit area. In his spare time the last several years he has played trombone with The Five Lakes Silver Band, a British-style all-brass band that won the First Section of the 2013 North American Brass Band Championships. The band performs throughout southeastern Michigan and has recorded 4 CDs. They even have videos on YouTube – check them out! (2013)

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)

Tony Orlando (BSE ’87) was appointed Chairman of the Chemical Engineering Advisory Alumni Board last year. He and his wife just had a new baby (Ella Caroline) on June 5! (2013)

Debbie Feldman Singer (MSE ’88; PhD ’91) daughters are both at Michigan; the oldest is in the School of Architecture and the middle is studying mechanical engineering. Her son is in 9th grade. Debra is no longer a practicing engineer. She worked for DuPont for 10 years and then took a turn as a full time stay-at-home mom and now has her own personal computer training business: Apple a Day. She helps all those who need personal and onsite training. (2012)

David Goldblum (PhD ‘88) recently retired from the Air Force Reserves as a bird colonel, with 25 years of service. (2013)

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) is Valero’s director of Refinery Heater Best Practices, serving as chairman of the API/CRE/Subcommittee on Heat Transfer Equipment (SCHTE), for a three-year term effective January l, 2013. Randy has been an active participant in SCHTE activities as an “operator-user” since he joined Valero in 2008 and was a “general interest” user of the SCHTE standards for 14 of his 19 years at UOP. (2013)

Margaret Gilligan (BSE ’89) is the principal engineer for the Coca-Cola’s Niles, IL facility. The Corporate Engineering Group has been decentralized as Coke sells off all of their bottlers to independent franchises. This September will be her five year anniversary with the company. Her entire 28 year career has been in the food and beverage industry. (2017)

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 with Phillips66 and recently relocated to Houston, TX as manager in Refining Services. His family is good but the hardest thing he’s had to do was sending his daughter to Penn State for her first year! At least Professor Savage is there. (2015)

Cynthia (Robertson) Essenmacher (BSE ’90) is working happily in West Virginia with husband, Phil, and their two school age children. She has achieved a milestone with DuPont of 25 years of service. (2015)

Debra Singer’s (PhD ’91) daughters are both at Michigan; the oldest is in the School of Architecture and the middle is studying mechanical engineering. Her son is in 9th grade. Debra is no longer a practicing engineer. She worked for DuPont for 10 years and then took a turn as a full time stay-at-home mom and now has her own personal computer training business: Apple a Day. She helps all those who need personal and onsite training. (2012)

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)

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)

Brad Foerster (BSE ’92) has been appointed a Taubman Emerging Scholar at the University of Michigan and will receive a 3-year grant from the Taubman Institute. Foerster, an assistant professor of radiology at the medical school, is working to develop a more definitive imaging test for ALS in the hopes that earlier diagnosis will lead to more effective intervention. He also has a clinical practice and evaluates patients with aneurysms, strokes, multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases. The award will allow him to study inflammatory changes in the brains of ALS patients and has the potential to reveal new opportunities for effective treatments. (2013)

Scott Schneider (BSE ’92) and Lori (Barnard) Schneider (BSE ’93) both work for SABIC Innovative Plastics in Charlotte, North Carolina. Scott is a senior supply planning analyst and Lori is a senior project manager. They have two children, ages 16 and 12, and enjoy watching them play their respective sports. They are also both black belts in Tae Kwon Do and enjoy training. (2015)

Ali Siahpush (PhD ’92) is now working at Dendreon at Seattle as vice president of product development.

Liz (Batesole) Hainey (MSE ’85, PhD ’93) just got promoted to the lead systems engineer for her business unit, Tactical Information Systems, and she reports to the director. Her oldest son is graduating from high school and will attend the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas in the fall. He was a four-time All-State Choir member, having served as First Chair the last two years. He is a ranked tennis player as well. (2013)

Doug Olds (BSE ’93) joined EPAY Systems, Inc. in July 2015 as CFO. Based in Chicago, EPAY Systems is a growing SaaS provider of human capital management solutions. (2015)

Lori (Barnard) Schneider (BSE ’93). See, Scott Schneider (BSE ’92)

Sean A. Connors (BSE ’93) passed the Principles and Practice of Engineering Examination (PE Exam) for Chemical Engineering in October 2012 and is now licensed as a Professional Engineer in the State of Illinois. (2013)

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.

Kim (Gors) Frazier (BSE ’93) is nearly retired! She and her husband, George, both retired in 2012; Kim from ND Industries, Inc. (her first employer after graduation) in Troy, MI, and George, from United States Gypsum (USG) in River Rouge. They moved to Mikado in northeast Lower Michigan, near Oscoda, and started a consulting and managing business, and are working on projects, mainly environmental ones so far, for the USG quarry facility in Alabaster, Michigan. Last year, they created wetlands on the property, and started a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) water project. This year, they are removing a marine bin from Lake Huron that has been there since 1929. The huge rectangular structure and building way out in the lake is visible to anyone who has driven US 23 in the Tawas area. There used to be towers on the structure, with a trolley system that conveyed gypsum rock to the bin, to be loaded on ships. (2014)

Jonathan Lanfear (BSE ’93, MS ’95) is a licensing and business development executive in the pharmaceutical industry. He and his family recently relocated from the East Coast (working for Pfizer Inc. in NY) to join Takeda Pharmaceuticals in the Chicago area. The Lanfears (wife, Sarah, along with sons, Jude and James) have enjoyed the move back to the Midwest, reconnecting with friends, and especially their renewed access to football Saturdays in Ann Arbor. (2013)

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)

In June 2014, Michael Pisarczyk (BSE ’93) was appointed Treasurer and Finance Director for the Hemlock Semiconductor Group. Hemlock is a majority owned joint venture of Dow Corning Corporation where Michael has worked since 2009. He continues to reside in Midland, MI with his wife, Jennifer, and their three children. (2014)

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)

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)

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)

Jim Cleland (BSE ’94) moved back to Ann Arbor several years ago from Chicago and is practicing intellectual property law as a partner in the firm of Brinks Gilson & Lione. He and his wife of 17 years have three kids; sons ages 12 and 10, and a daughter who is 6. They love Ann Arbor and are actively involved in the community. (2015)

Matt Gdowski (BSE ’94) is in his 20th year with the Parker Hannifin Corporation, currently as a continuous improvement manager based out of Metamora, OH. This coming fall his oldest son, Zachary, will be attending the University of Michigan to study engineering. (2016)

Jeff Gray (BSE ’94), Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at at Johns Hopkins, was this year’s recipient of the AIChE’s David Himmelblau Award for Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering Education. Jeff was recognized for creating the PyRosetta biomolecular modeling and design platform and its teaching materials, including interactive workshops, videos and support material. (2017)

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)

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)

Manos Mavrikakis (PhD ’94) was appointed the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Wisconsin and was also elected chair of Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. (2015)

Pete Valianatos (BSE ’94) attended the 2016 National Inventors Hall of Fame in Washington, DC when the founders of E Ink were inducted into the hall as transformative innovators of electronic paper displays (invent.org). He has also been named as acting associate vice president of development at E Ink. (2016)

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)

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)

Ken Benjamin (BSE ’95, PhD ’04) has been promoted to associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. (2013)

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)

Christopher W. Jones (BSE ’95) was recently recognized with the 2016 Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering by AIChE. One of the ‘big three’ AIChE Awards, he was recognized for his research on supported molecular catalysts, CO2 capture and sequestration, and his leadership of the journal ACS Catalysis. Jones is a member of the U-M ChE Alumni Board, and works at Georgia Tech where is a Love Family Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and the Associate Vice President for Research. (2016)

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 solutionsto 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)

Jim Waldecker (BSE ’95; PhD ’00) has been doing hydrogen fuel cell research at Ford Motor Company for seven years, and has recently been promoted to the position of Technical Expert – Fuel Cell Systems with an emphasis on membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs). Before coming to Ford, he worked at both ExxonMobil and NASA Glenn Research Center. He spent two years as the industry co-chair on the FreedomCAR Fuel Cell Tech Team, working with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the other American automotive OEMs to set research targets and evaluate projects funded by the DOE.

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)

Kevin Fok (BSE ’96, MBA ’02) is sales manager at LG Chem. He has over 17 years of business and engineering experience in renewable and alternative energy. Kevin is responsible for energy storage solutions for electric grid applications, ranging from residential systems up through utility-scale systems. He led the efforts to secure the Tehachapi Wind Energy Storage Project with Southern California Edison (SCE) for North America’s largest battery energy storage system. He is currently the local project manager. Kevin also secured a project with Southern California Edison for its Irvine Smart Grid Demonstration project and successfully led a team in delivering residential energy storage units to SCE. (2013)

Tanya (Manson) Sullivan (BSE ’96) and her husband, Tom, welcomed daughter, Sophia Elizabeth Sullivan, on March 10, 2016. Sophia has two big sisters, Amelia (6), and Alexandra (4). (2016)

Dieter Schweiss (MSE ’96) and his family moved from Wisconsin to Ohio nearly four years ago when he joined TriHealth, a Cincinnati-based healthcare system. As a lead programmer/analyst for their electronic medical record software, he specializes in providing custom solutions for enterprise-wide projects. Thankfully, his wife and sons have more modest expectations of him, and they’re happy to call the Cincinnati area home. (2014)

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)

Domenic DeCaria (BSE ’97) is living in the Cleveland area (Beat Ohio!!) and has been with Lubrizol Advanced Materials for 13 years, most recently in a global business development role. He has a strong interest in finding new and challenging separations applications, and would invite anyone who shares that interest to contact him or connect with him on social media. After all, separations can truly bring us together… . He says his wife and daughters (7 and 14) would cringe if they saw that in print. Go Blue!! (2017)

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 >>

In early 2012, Anish Goel (BSE ’97) and his wife left Washington, DC and moved out to “bonny” Seattle, where he now works for the Boeing Company. They both love thePacific Northwest, and say it’s been great to meet so many other Michigan alums at Boeing. (2013)

Tommy Golczynski (BSE ’97) was named one of the “40 under 40” young professionals in 2014 in the Houston area by the Houston Business Journal. All honorees have started their own companies or successful charities and are “setting the bar high for young professionals across the nation with their job creation and impact on society.” Tommy is the owner and managing partner of Assured Flow Solutions LLC. (2014)

Honesty Johnson (BSE ’97) has been working at Amcor Rigid Plastics for 15 years as an injection tooling engineer. (2016)

Nikolaos K. Kazantzis (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)

Ellen Schwab (BSE ’97) married John Rospierski on November 7, 2015. Ellen is a patent attorney with Quinn IP Law and John is a residential homebuilder and owner of Edwin Anthony Homes. John and Ellen honeymooned in Hawaii and make their home in Royal Oak, Michigan. (2017)

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)

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

Erin Cavusgil (PhD ’98) is teaching marketing at the University of Michigan-Flint, after working in the pharmaceutical industry as a chemical engineering for many years. She was recently promoted to associate professor with tenure.

Sarah (Cunningham) Kusisto (BSE ’98) accepted a new position this year within Pfizer, moving from an API production engineering role to a combination engineering and management role in environmental operations. This new role offers new challenges, learning a new set of regulations and a new aspect of doing business in pharmaceutical manufacturing. (2017)

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).

Stephanie (Schultz) Coleman (BSE ’98) was recently promoted last year to Quality Control Supervisor in the IT department at Ford Motor Company. She has been with the company for over 11 years and has made business trips to Germany, China, and just recently to India. (2014)

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)

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)

Matt Liening (BSE ’99) is employed by Caterpillar as an engineering supervisor with the Application Fluid Lines Design Team. He and his wife, Lisa, and kids, Grace and Tommy, live in Peoria, IL.

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)

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)

Johanna E. Rovira (MS ’99) is working for Eli Lilly (Lilly del Caribe) in sunny Puerto Rico. Drop her a line at johannar@umich.edu or on LinkedIn. (2015)

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)

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.

Megan (Taack) Raines (BSE ’99, MS ’99) was recently promoted to global director – safety and training for Dresser-Rand, and was also named one of the Rising Stars of Safety by the National Safety Council. She has been published in Professional Safety and will be a presenter at the National Safety Council Congress and Expo later this year. Megan, along with her husband Jonathan and 11-year-old son, Austin, just relocated to northwestern Georgia. (2015)

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)

2000–09

Eric Bernath (BSE ’00) has recently decided to depart Los Angeles and embark on a 20,000-mile motorcycle journey from Alaska to Patagonia. Along the way, he intends to engage with local health clinics to champion innovative approaches to healthcare delivery in the developing world. His adventure will be posted on TwoWheelsOneJourney.com and on Instagram @twowheelsonejourney.
(2016)

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).

Katie Gilhool (BSE ’00) got married to Matthew Dolliver on June 25, 2016. He attended the University of Florida. (2017)

Darren Golomb (BSE ’00) married Kelly Hooi Lyn Quah, an alumna of Western Michigan University, on June 26, 2014 in Calistoga, CA. Both are excited to embark on life’s journey together beginning with home visits to Detroit, MI in August and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February 2015. (2014)

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)

Dan Merenda (BSE ’00) has accepted the position of resident office manager for Orbital ATK at NASA’s Marshal Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama. He is in the process of relocating from their facility in Northern Utah. Orbital ATK is NASA’s prime contractor for building the solid rocket boosters used on the Space Launch System (SLS). SLS is the vehicle that will lead the nation into a new generation of deep space exploration! (2016)

Julie (Messacar) Rivard (BSE ’00, MBA (CMU) ’03) and her husband, Todd, and daughter, Jocelyn (3), welcomed twins to their family in May. She continues to work at Dow Corning, in Midland, MI, supporting the specialty chemicals business as a business evaluator/portfolio manager. (2012)

Nick Ortiz (BSE ’00) and his wife welcomed their second child, Xavier Ortiz, on June 12, 2014. Mom, Dad, big brother Sam, and Xavier are all doing great! (2014)

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 completinga surgical fellowship in hand surgery in Cincinnati, OH, and plans to return(2010)

Matt Ross (BSE ’00) completed his PhD at Wayne State University, moved to Kalamazoo, and accepted a tenure-track position as an assistant professor of finance at Western Michigan University. Go Broncos! Go Blue! (2014)

Kimberly Sarquis (BSE ‘00) married Kenny Mejia on September 8, 2012. Kim continues to live in San Francisco and work at Genentech as a senior engineer in the Global Biologics Manufacturing Science and Technology group. (2013)

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)

Carly Bosco (BSChE ’01) and her husband, Jacob, and big sister, Celia, welcomed a new daughter to the Bosco Family, Maria Susannah, who was born July 3, 2015. The Boscos remain in Hampton Roads, VA, where Carly works as a research director for NASA Langley Research Center. (2016)

Brandon (BT) Cesul (ChE ’01, MEngSpSys ’02) and his wife, Karen, welcomed their third child into the world, Lianna Marie, in February. She joins her two siblings, Ella & Cazzie, and is excited to be the first Cesul child not only made of Michigan parts, but born in Michigan as well! BT is continuing to work at his new employer, Integrity Applications Incorporated, as a senior scientist out of their Ann Arbor office. He and his family moved into their newly built house in Saline in August. (2016)

Julie Champion (BSE ’01) was promoted to associate professor with tenure in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She and her husband, Kevin Boulware, also welcomed their son, Cooper Vic Boulware, into the world just a few hours after watching U–M win the 2016 Citrus Bowl. (2016)

Rosabel Chang (BSE ’01), see David Moler (BSE ’02)

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)

Liz (Fernandez) Kamali (BSE ’01) was married in November2010. She and her husband, Ashkan,currently reside in Boston where she works in environmental, health and safety at Merck pharmaceutical. They welcomed a baby boy, Kamron, in October 2011. (2012)

Darren N. Goetz (BSE ’01, MSE MEng ’06) recently transitioned into the role of Global Manufacturing Operations Manager (MOM) for 3M’s Automotive Division, and will be based in St. Paul. Previously he had been Manufacturing Operations Manager for the 3M PC Touch Solutions business, based in St. Paul and Singapore, working on spreading new touchscreen technology throughout the world. Nice to be grounded (literally) for a change! (2014)

Nate Hoffman (BSE ’01) and his wife had twins on December 11, 2011–a boy and a girl. (2012)

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)

Carl Lenker (BSE ’01) and his wife, Alyssa Beach, are looking forward to the birth of their baby boy in June 2013! (2013)

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

Palencia Mobley, P.E. (BSE ’01, MS Civil Eng, Wayne State) was awarded the 2014 Emerging Leader Award by the University’s Detroit Center this July. She was honored for her extensive volunteer work and leadership in various organizations to improve the conditions of her fellow Detroiters. In September she received Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program’s (DAPCEP) Chairman’s Award for her commitment to the qualities inherent in DAPCEP programming and her investment in the community that DAPCEP serves. (2014)

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)

Brian Teller (BSE ’01) has recently completed his MBA and MS finance degree at the Kelley Business School. He has taken a new position at ITW as the category manager for films & chemicals. He and his family are relocating to the Chicago area. (2016)

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)

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) and her husband, Dan Hodge, welcomed their second child, a son on Christmas 2012. Michelle continues to work at Ximedica, a medical device design, development, and manufacturing service provider as the head of quality. They live in Providence, RI. (2013)

Kenneth “K.C.” Chomistek (BSE ’02, MSE ’06) and his wife, Andrea, celebrated the birth of their third daughter on August 30, 2016. Her name is Eva Marie Chomistek. She and everyone else at home seems to be doing well despite a significant increase in entropy. (2017)

Philip Dooley (BSE ’02, MD ’07) has been named program director of the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita Family Medicine Residency at Via Christi. He and his wife, Joia, have lived in Wichita with their three children since July 2014. (2016)

Anne (Ehrenberger) Ballard (BSE ’02) recently became a technical sales representative for HunterLab in the Great Lakes Region. She lives between Cincinnati and Dayton with her husband and three step boys. Despite living in the Buckeye state, she is still a true Wolverine! (2015)

Laura (Komjathy) Dellal (BSE ’02, MEng ’03) spent her summer traveling around Spain, Portugal, and Morocco, and attending the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. She and her husband, Shlomo (PhD ’08), left Los Angeles and now live on the Upper East Side in New York City. Laura is the senior patent attorney for Kohn & Associate’s New York City office. (2013)

Kelvin Lau (BSE ’02, MEng ’03 PharmE) and Grace Lau (BSE ’04 EE) are thrilled to announce the birth of their second child, Johann Chung-Tin Lau. Mom, Dad, and big brother Caleb are all doing well. (2017)

In January 2013, Tracy (Matson) Brusewitz (BSE ’02) and her husband Andy welcomed their first child, Natalie Grace Brusewitz! Tracy says that Natalie has been a blessing! Tracy was also recently promoted to the Category Operations Leader for Materials Supply Management for the Paper sector of Procter & Gamble. Tracy, Andy and Natalie are still located in the Cincinnati, OH area. (2013)

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

Jessica (Motyl) Gilliam (BSE ’02) is celebrating her 5-year anniversary as a supply chain program manager at HP. She and her husband, Troy, welcomed daughter, Maeve, on January 30, 2014. The family spends their free time enjoying the La Jolla, CA coast. (2015)

Aaron Napier (BSE ’02) started a new job as a measurement engineer with Chesapeake Energy (Oklahoma City) in October 2012. He and his wife, Cheryl had their fourth daughter (yeah that’s right, number four) on October 15, 2013! Their other daughters are: Olivia (5), Emma (4), and Aubrey (1). (2014)

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)

Adam Wilson’s (BSE ’02, MSE PharmEng ’06) website, BioPharmGuy.com, received its one-millionth unique visitor in April 2015, In October 2014, he and his wife, Kelly, who has a 2002 bachelors degree from U-M in psychology and communications, welcomed their third daughter, Arbor Wilson. (2015)

Tamika L. (Young) Banks (BSE ’02) completed her MS in engineering management from Eastern Michigan University in April 2015. She is currently employed at Toyota Technical Center in York Township (Saline) as a project engineer. She and her husband, Terrence, are raising their four very active future Wolverines, Takima (11), Terrence, Jr. (8), Tamia (5) and Tiana (3) in Ypsilanti. In her spare time, Tamika serves as a baseball/softball mom, football mom, cheer coach and Girl Scout troop leader. (2015)

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) Henning (BSE ’03) has recently received a promotion to engineering supervisor. She will be responsible for her team and business development to support their client, NextEra Energy, at the northern three of their five nuclear energy sites. She will also be relocating from metro Atlanta to the Washington, DC area. (2016)

Cathy (Ehehalt) Way (BSE ’03)completed herMaster’s in business and administrationfrom St Bonaventure University in May 2011. She recently accepted an operations engineer position for BASF in Michigan so she and her husband, Lucas Way (CSE ’03) and son, Andrew, have relocated from Allegany, NY back to Michigan. (2012)

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)

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) is living in Chicago and he and his wife welcomed their first child in June 2016, a baby girl named Zara. He remains in the strategy consulting field but recently switched firms and is now a principal at Bain & Company. (2017)

Sara (Rickson) Haas (BSE ’03) was made partner at McGarry Bair, a law firm specializing in intellectual property law. She and her husband, Brian, welcomed daughter Ella on 1/24/2014 and are expecting a second baby girl in July of 2015. Go Blue! (2015)

Eric Roeder (BSE ’03) and Hilary Alpert Roeder (BS ’03, MD ’07) moved to San Diego, CA in 2011. Eric is working in manufacturing strategy for Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Hilary is completing her fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at UC San Diego. Eric and Hilary are proud to announce the arrival of their son, Calvin Daniel Roeder, born on September 10, 2013! Calvin made his first trip back to Michigan in December for his baptism, the Christmas holiday, and to see some snow! (2014)

Erik F Schroeppel (BSE ’03) has accepted a promotion with Eli Lilly and Company. His new role is with the Clinical Trial Supply Chain organization in Indianapolis as a molecule-planning consultant. (2014)

Since graduating in 2003, Tawnya Sowerwine has worked as a quality or process engineer in various manufacturing environments; from die-casting to food and beverage to automotive hose production and has recently found a home in medical device and laboratory equipment at Thermo Fisher Scientific (TFS). She and her husband have relocated from Madison, WI to Asheville, NC, where they spend a lot of time hiking in the mountains, visiting local breweries with friends, and vegetable gardening. Tawnya misses their friends back in Madison, but she loves their new home and her new work family at TFS. (2016)

Doug Urquhart (BSE ’03, MSE ’04) and his wife had a baby in February, Wesley James Urquhart, who is growing up fast in Blacksburg, Virginia. Doug is working at CHA Consulting as a project engineer in the water/wastewater group. (2013)

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

Jeff Baxter (BSE ’04, MSE ’04) moved to Los Angeles in December to start a new position as vice president of engineering and business development with World Oil Marketing Corporation. He and his wife will celebrate their 5-year anniversary in October and their son will turn 2-years-old later that month. (2015)

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.

Mike Doornbos (BSE ’04, MSE BME ’05) recently completed his 9th year at Dow Corning in Midland, MI. Earlier this year, he moved from his role as a manufacturing team leader to the finance department as a corporate economic evaluator. On June 19, Mike and his wife, Amy, welcomed their third child, Nolan Michael, who joins their twin sons, Andrew and Myles. (2014)

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

Jessica Mattis (BSE ’04) received a Society of Women Engineers’ (SWE) Distinguished New Engineer Award. She will be recognized at the Awards Banquet at the WE13 National Conference for Women Engineers in October in Baltimore, Maryland. She was selected based on her technical achievements, SWE participation, and her community involvement over the past nine years for SWE. (2013)

Ali Mohraz (PhD ’04) spent a four-month sabbatical in Barcelona, Spain, where he enjoyed amazing food and went to exciting soccer games at the Camp Nou. He also reunited with Chris Lorenz (BSE ’97, PhD ’02) during a visit to King’s College London, where Dr. Lorenz is doing cutting edge research, teaching, and looking like a physicist. (2016)

Bob Morgan (BSE ’04) is now in his 12th year with L’Oréal, where he has held various positions within operations including manufacturing, supply chain, and purchasing. He is now the director of purchasing and is responsible for the integration of new acquisitions. After eight years in New Jersey, he had the opportunity to move back to the Midwest in 2015 and now lives in the Cleveland area with his wife, Katie-Lynn, and their two children, Henry (4) and Emily (1). (2016)

Adam Redstone (BSE ’04, MEng ’05) completed 3 years at IBM in the Strategy & Analytics consulting practice on April 30 and moved to Ernst & Young to join their Life Sciences Strategy consulting practice on June 15. (2015)

Terrence Rindler (’04) has recently joined a new Seattle-based biotech company, Juno Therapeutics, where he is the associate director of validation engineering. Even more recently, he and his wife, Lindsay, had their first child, Lena Evelyn, who was born on May 4, 2015. (2015)

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)

Though not currently in the engineering profession, Jonathan West (BSE ’04) has been active in entertainment, working on independent films and commercials, in theatre in Michigan and New York, and regional commercials and print advertisements. He’s living in the Bronx, NY, but active in the Midwest as well, where his twelve-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter live in Allen Park, MI. (2014)

Karen Andrews (BSE ’05) is an operations leader at Dow Chemical, working in Houston, TX. She and husband, Greg, welcomed their son, Christopher, on September 12, 2015. (2016)

Nicole (Arnold) Bartlett (BSE ’05) and her husband Joshua (BSE CE, EE ’04) proudly announce the birth of their second son, Colin Paul on January 6, 2015. He was welcomed home by big brother Cameron. Nikki resides in Essexville, Michigan with her family and continues to work for SC Johnson, where she is a production manager for a film and Ziploc plant in Bay City. (2015)

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)

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, PhD ’11) welcomed their first son, Zachary Richard Getsoian, on  May 6, 2014. Look for him to be part of the University of Michigan  Chemical Engineering graduating class of 2036! (2014)

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

Eric Jankowski (BSE ’05, MSE ’06, PhD ’12) will be starting as an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State University in January 2015. (2014)

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

Nikki Little (BSE ’05) is an intellectual property attorney at the Chicago IP boutique of Fitch Even Tabin and Flannery, focusing on patent litigation and advertising, branding and marketing law, among other areas. She and her husband, Matthew, (BS ’03) welcomed a daughter, Kenzie Irene Burns, on July 12, 2014. Nikki was also recently appointed to be a board member on the U of M Club of Greater Chicago. (2015)

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 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) Trimmer (BSE ’05) married Scott Trimmer in Sept 2013. They currently live in Findlay, OH. Andrea is busy growing her business, The Midwest Open Rhythm Exchange, which promotes tap dance in the Midwest (tapdancingengineer.blogspot.com) and teaching tap dance at multiple dance studios in the area. She also writes a snarky science/engineering/tap dance blog: midwestopenrhythmexchange.weebly.com. (2014)

Mike Szoke (BSE ’05) and his wife, Abby, welcomed their second child, Olivia, last September. Mike resides in Portage, Michigan and works for Allnex, where he is the site manager of a 70 Mlbs methylated amino resins plant in Kalamazoo. (2016)

André Taylor (PhD ’05) has been promoted to Associate Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering at Yale University. (2013)

Karis (White) Faust (BSE ’05) and her husband, Randy (BS ’04), just had their second child, Mark Iver Faust, born January 8th, 2013 at 5:59 a.m.; 8 lb., 2 oz.; 21 inches. He was welcomed home by big sister, Cammy. (2013)

Katherine (Adler) Cook (BSE ‘06) got married on October 27, 2012! (2013)

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) completed his PhD in chemical engineering at the end of 2016 at UT-Austin and currently is a postdoctoral fellow with Seattle Children’s Research Institute at the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research. (2017)

Carrie (Christensen) Lykowski (BSE 06) is pleased to announce that she and her husband, Joe, welcomed their first child, a son, into the family on May 25, 2012. Lucas Joseph has been a non-stop joy and blessing, and they had an especially memorable first Christmas with him. Carrie and Joe continue to work at Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan, where Joe is in I/S as a service manager and she is a process engineer in the Dow AgroSciences Technology Center. (2013)

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)

Chereese Foster (BSE ’06) recently completed an MS in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester. (2013)

Brian Gilan (BSE ’06) graduated from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business with a master’s degree in business administration, concentrating in health sector management, product management, and market analysis & strategy. He now works for Medtronic in Los Angeles, CA in a global marketing role, as a member of their Leadership Development Rotational Program. (2014)

After 6 years working for Dow Chemical, Bobby Glied (BSE ’06, MSE ’07) left at the end of July 2012 and relocated to Chicago, IL to take a position with McKinsey & Co. in September. (2013)

Seth W. Kahle (’06) launched CGK Consulting Group, Inc, a technical consulting and engineering group based in San Diego, CA with satellite offices in Phoenix, and Chicago. CGK focuses on chemical process engineering, process control automation systems, and custom software solutions for engineering and manufacturing. July marks the second anniversary of incorporation, and they are excited to see what the next year brings. (2015)

Evan Kostishak (BSE ’06) has been working at Dow Chemical for four years as a process engineer. Two years ago, he married his lovely wife, Claire. They live in Midland, MI. (2015)

Carrie (Lykowski) Christensen (BSE ’06) and her husband, Joe, welcomed their second son on April 23, Noah Douglas. Big brother, Lucas, loves his baby brother and enjoys helping take care of him. (2016)

Ashley (Phillips) Walton (BSE ’06) recently started as a manufacturing engineer with JAC Products in Saline Michigan in January of this year. She works in the assembly unit assembling roof racks for SUVs. (2015)

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) moved back to Michigan this year with wife (and dog) to raise their new baby girl, now 4 months old. He is now paid by the state to offer guidance to MI-based tech startups. (2015)

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

After 3 years in consulting, Andrew Wang (BSE ’06) moved to Hong Kong to do two years in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and has recently been working in private equity in Asia focusing on the China market. He’s still utilizing the toolset he learned at Michigan and, more often than expected, he fields questions about chemistry and chemical engineering. (2013)

Samih Zaman (BSE ’06) married Kiran Lodhie in June 2014. They reside in the Twin Cities metro area where Samih works for General Mills. (2014)

Navin Bora(BSE ’07) relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, from Chicago, to join Weaver, Austin, Villeneuve & Sampson, LLP, a boutique intellectual property law firm based in Oakland, CA. He would be very happy to hear from ChE alumni in the Bay Area and looks forward to developing a professional network here. (2017)

Jeffrey Carey (BSE ’07) got engaged to Michael O’Brien on June 14, 2015. They currently reside in Philadelphia, PA, where Jeffrey is pursuing his PhD and veterinary degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. He presented a portion of his dissertation work on aerobic metabolism of trimethylamine oxide by E. coli at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting in Madison, WI in August. (2015)

Joe Casler (BSE ’07) has been working as a senior test engineer at Molex Automotive since January 2017. He oversees testing and validation of various connector products for automotive and industrial applications. (2017)

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)

After working for Schlumberger in Australia and the Middle East, Rob Chockley (BSE ’07), has joined Halliburton, back in the US. For both oilfield service companies, he has been performing reservoir evaluation on wireline. He says it’s been an adventure, and anyone interested in an exciting career can feel free to contact him about opportunities. (2014)

Halley Crast (BSE ’07) recently joined a startup called Sila Nanotechnologies located in Alameda, CA as a development operations manager. She was recruited for the job by a U–M alum! Sila focuses on making materials that will dramatically improve energy storage. (2017)

Stephanie (Fraley) Goodell (BSE ’07) recently joined General Motors as a senior analyst. Stephanie lives in her hometown of St. Clair, MI with her husband, Justin, and their two children, Evelyn (3) and Carter (1). (2016)

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

Andy MacMillan (BSE ’07) is celebrating his 5th year anniversary at Rogers Corporation as a senior process engineer. He is living in suburban Chicago with his wife of five years, Karri, with whom he recently welcomed daughter, Mia, on April 14, 2015. (2015)

Justine (Tesch) Madonna (’07) married another U-M engineering student (CSE) right after graduation in 2007 whom she met her freshman year at Bursley Hall. She initially worked at an engineering consulting firm near Ann Arbor. After she obtained her P.E., she took a job as a project manager for the Wyandotte Engineering Department at BASF where she has managed projects up to$15million to date. (2012)

Irene Brockman (’08) and her fiancé, Brandon Reizman, both recently completed their PhDs in chemical engineering at MIT and are looking forward to celebrating their marriage in June. (2015)

Anthony Campbell (BSE ‘08) recently moved to California to pursue a cosmetic consulting career for Levlad, LLC. He consults with personal care companies about the best ways to manufacture their cosmetic products. He says this is a career change for him from his time at Johnson & Johnson where he working on product development. (2013)

Nikki and Kyle Goszyk (BSE ’08) were married on March 10, 2012. (2012)

Semant Jain (PhD ’08) started a Quant Hedge Fund in August 2014, which was invited to the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Oct 2014. He was in the Forbes 30 Under 30 issue in January 2015. (2015)

Laura (BA ’08, MPH ’10) and Stephen Kerns (BSE ’08 & MSE ’09) welcomed a future little Wolverine Benjamin to our family on Feb 6th 2017!

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)

Rob Damitz (BSE ’09) recently started a company (aqUV) with two fellow graduate students at University of Florida to address the over 780 million people across the globe without regular access to clean drinking water. They have developed a water purification device that is powered completely by hand for use not only in developing nations and for disaster relief but also for military and outdoors enthusiasts. In May, aqUV was selected as winners of UF’s “Next Big Idea” business plan competition with an award of $25,000 in startup funding. The award funding will help them implement their beta prototypes in Haiti by 2015. (2014)

Danielle (Kapala) Williams (BSE ’09) and Matt Williams (BSE ME ’09) welcomed their first son, Judah Nathaniel Williams, on April 2, 2014. (2014)

Stuart Krueger (BSE ’09) and Abby (Vonck) Krueger (BSE ’09) had a baby girl, Emma, on Dec 26, 2011. (2012)

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 ChE ’09), now Sarah Targosz, was married in December 2014 and recently moved to the Dallas-Ft. Worth area from Michigan. She is the owner of SLK Company, LLC, a government affairs, IT, and political consulting firm and is an activist for sustainable electronics and CFL bulb recycling, particularly safe toxic chemicals disposal. (2016)

Ryan McKee (BSE ’09) is finishing his first year in the full-time MBA program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he’s specializing in marketing, entertainment, and technology. This summer, he will be interning at Blizzard Entertainment as a brand manager for World of Warcraft. (2015)

Drew Ross (BSE ’09) was married to Tiffany Pong (LS&A ’08) on July 25th, 2015 in northern California. They reside in the Berkeley, CA, where Drew works to improve the state of food process technology. (2016)

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)

Abby (Vonck) Krueger (BSE ’09). See, Stuart Krueger (BSE ’09)

Sara Yacob (BSE ’09) got married in August of 2014 to Charles Carr. They live in Chicago, IL. (2015)

2010–

Abdullah Awamleh (BSE ’10) took a new job within his company, AbbVie. He was a project engineer at AbbVie in Wyandotte, MI and is currently a senior process engineer at AbbVie in North Chicago, IL. (2014)

Jon Bauer (BS ’10) proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Amanda McAdams (LSA ’09). Jon proposed on New Year’s Eve while the two were traveling in Iceland. They currently live in Philadelphia with their cats while Jon is finishing his PhD at the University of Delaware. Jon & Amanda are in Iceland in the photo, after Jon proposed. (2014)

Derrick Boroski (BSE ’10) and Nicole Lesnau (BSE ’10) were married on June 14, 2014. (2014)

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)

Christine Curran (BSE ’10) was recently engaged to fellow Exxonmobil chemical engineer, David Maher. (2015)

Michael D’Hondt (DDS Dentistry ’13) is now a dentist. Read Dental Economics article about how he started a dental implant clinic. (2017)

Alex Dowling (BSE ’10) will start a new position in Fall 2017 as an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame. (2017)

Ted Farrand (BSE ’10) is a first year medical student at UC San Diego. He hasn’t decided which specialty he wants to go into yet. (2016)

On May 13, Alexander “Alec” Harris (BSE ’10) graduated from medical school. He will spend a year as an intern at Michigan State University on the Grand Rapids campus before he heads out to do his residency in radiation oncology at Loyola University in Chicago. (2016)

Jessica Ho (BSE ’10) and Galen Kragas were married on April 9, 2016. They currently reside in Houston, where they both work for Shell Oil. (2016)

After working as a contract engineer in pharma for the last couple years, Joe Janiak (BSE ’10) joined Kellogg’s R&D as a food technologist last fall. (2015)

Katherine (Koterba) Pacynski (BSE ’10) went to law school after graduating from Michigan, and she is an associate patent attorney for the Dobrusin Law Firm in Pontiac, Michigan. She and her husband, Steve (BA ’06), were married in December 2013, and return to the Big House every homecoming to relive their Michigan Varsity Cheerleading days. (2014)

Nicole Lesnau (BSE ’10) and Derrick Boroski (BSE ’10) were married on June 14, 2014. (2014)

Alon Mandel (BSE ’10) has relocated from Israel to Denver to work at Noble Energy as an environmental engineer, where he will be fighting fugitive leakages from oil well production in their air pollution group, He returned to Israel after graduation to complete his army service. (2014)

Dustin Meldrum (BSE ’10, MSE ’11) left his job working for Equatorial Guinea Reservoir Engineering with ExxonMobil, to take a job as business development coordinator for Murphy Exploration & Production Company. (2014)

David Mui (BSE ’10) has been married for 1.5 years to Hayley Mui and they are residing in Houston, TX. He recently was promoted to technology manager for Air Liquide Healthcare. (2015)

Stephanus “Oscar” Oscar (ChE ’10) lives in Indonesia and works for a data center company. He is getting married in September 2016. (2016)

Jessica (Rilly) Schmitz (BSE ’10) works as a chemical engineer at Terumo Cardiovascular Systems in Ann Arbor. She got married in April 2015 and she and her husband, Greg, just bought a house on the west side of Ann Arbor. They love walking downtown and being able to attend Michigan football and basketball games! (2015)

Reggie Rogers (BSE ’10) has been on the tenure-track as an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology since 2012. He received the 2015 James N. Cannon Award in Chemical Engineering from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers. Last spring, he was selected as the 2016 Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost’s Award winner for Excellence in Teaching. This award highlights the teaching and leadership of one tenure-track faculty member across RIT’s campus. He was also chosen to be the featured faculty for the College of Engineering in RIT’s Faculty Scholarship Report (2016)

Max Rutz (BSE ’10) and his wife had a baby girl, Maria, in February 2017. He has recently moved into a new position at Delta Air Lines as a safety director. (2017)

Huey Shann Sue (BSE ’10, MSE ’11) recently celebrated her three-year anniversary as an environmental consultant at Trinity Consultants in Chicago, IL. She got married recently and her husband will be graduating from the PhD program in Microbiology and Immunology at Michigan! (2015)

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)

Cassie Cooke (BSE ’11). See Brian Weeden (BSE ’11) (2017)

James DeRosier (BSE ’11) and Dana Weimar (BSE ’11) were married on August 9, 2014. They are living in Midland, Michigan and are both employed as manufacturing engineers at Hemlock Semicondutor Corporation. (2014)

Danielle Mai (BSE ’11) married Jonathan San (BSE ME ’10) in October 2015 and held the reception at the Michigan Stadium! Danielle also recently completed a PhD from the University of Illinois and will begin conducting postdoctoral research at MIT this fall. (2016)

Chris Rausch (BSE ’11) completed the PDP (Professional Development Program) rotational program for BASF Chemical Company and accepted a position in the corporate innovation group as facility and operations coordinator at our Chemical Engineering and Technology Complex in Wyandotte, MI. Chris is responsible for the day-to-day issues in the facility and supervises the small scale and specialty production area, which is a service group for BASF North America that mainly deals with new products and product development. He lives in Royal Oak, MI. (2013)

Amanda Whalen (BSE ’11) recently started a new position as a business analyst within her company, Air Liquide. She moved to Dallas, TX and bought her first home. (2014)

Brian Weeden (BSE ’11) and Cassie Cooke (BSE ’11) were recently engaged and are getting married in August 2017! They are both living in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Brian works at Chevron and Cassie works at The Clorox Company. (2017)

In November, Jessica Ho (BSE ‘12) finished her time as a production engineer on the reservoir performance team for Shell’s Haynesville shale asset in Northwest Louisiana. She is now a production engineer on the surveillance and technical team for Shell’s Delaware basin asset in West Texas. She continues to be based in Houston, but makes frequent trips out to the Midland/Odessa area. She is currently serving as the social director for the U-M Alumni Club of Houston. (2013)

Joshua Lumley (BSE ’12) is in his second year in Teach For America, teaching and coaching cross country and track at IDEA Frontier College Prep, located two miles from the southern tip of Texas. He is teaching chemistry, advanced chemistry, computer programming and problem-solving this year.

Alex Wang (BSE ’12, MS ’12) got married to a fellow Wolverine, Sarah Raby, on June 14th! She was vital in getting Alex through all those long nights of working on ChE classes and they couldn’t be happier about spending the rest of our lives together. (2015)

After working for Intel Corp. in Arizona for about three years, Avi Wolf (BSE ’12) relocated to the East Coast to begin graduate school at Princeton University. He has just completed his first year of doctoral studies in the Tissue Morphodynamics Laboratory, advised by Professor Celeste Nelson from the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering. (2016)

Ted Zaroff III (MSE ’12) accepted a new job in technical services with Epic Systems, a healthcare software company. (2016)

Sarah Chronister (BSE ’13) has enjoyed exploring new cities while in BASF’s Professional Development Program. Sarah started the program in Florham Park, NJ and is currently living in Charlotte, NC. Sarah has enjoyed connecting with local Michigan alumni through the U–M Alumni Association. (2014)

Meredith Citkowski (BSE ’13) was a finalist in Ford’s brand-new Thirty Under 30 program. It’s an opportunity for her to enroll in a ‘hands-on’ course in leadership/community engagement, learning about corporate/non-profit relationships, and helping partnering non-profits assess and strengthen their current operations. (2016)

Betsy Gast (BSE ’13) recently graduated from Wayne State University with her master’s in chemical engineering from the Process Engineering and Project Management Program. She is moving to Davenport, IA to start her career with Nestle Purina PetCare as a production management trainee. (2016)

Rachel Mallinger (BSE ’13) has spent the last year working with Air Liquide as a participant of the ALLEX Program. In this time she has relocated from Ann Arbor, to Albany, NY, and to Houston, Texas, where she worked as a Project Engineer. She moved to Paris in August for her next role and is looking forward to exploring new opportunities abroad. (2014)

Eric Robbins (BSE ’13) is an improvement engineer at Dow Chemical in New Orleans, LA. (2016)

Since graduation, Spencer Scolnick (BSE ’13) has been fulfilling his dreams of being a ski bum. After moving back home to Colorado, he spent three months skiing at Vail nearly every weekday. For the next three months he went backpacking in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Peru, culminating with a 4-day, 3-night hike on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Soon, he will travel to New Orleans, where he will begin work as a completion and well intervention engineer at Shell Oil. (2014)

Carolyn Yarina’s (BSE ’13) start-up company, Sisu Global Health, was a finalist in the Saving Lives at Birth Grant and presented at the DevelopmentxChange in Washington DC on August 1, where they won a $250,000 seed grant from the organization. You can visit the her company’s website at www.sisuglobalhealth.com for more information. (2014)

Molly Adolph (BSE ’14) is excited to announce that she got engaged on vacation in San Diego in December and will be getting married in October 2018! (2017)

Amanda Ashworth (BSE ’14) moved to Dallas, TX to start her job as a technical sales manager. She manages all accounts in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas (as they call it TOLA) for color and additives into the plastics industry. She works under one of the business units for PolyOne, which has come to the campus a few times for career fairs. She hopes to be there this fall, only on the other side of the tables! (2015)

Isabel Cosnahan (BSE ’14) was recently engaged to, Craig Brissman. He is a 2012 Purdue graduate and they both work for P&G in the Cincinnati area. (2017)

Ryan Moody (BSE ’14) and fellow 2014 ChE alumna, Liz Lippie, travelled around Hawaii, where Liz, as a former ROTC member, has been stationed since graduation. Liz is off to Nuclear Power School with the Navy and Ryan will be backpacking in South America before she joins Shell on an oil platform somewhere near the Gulf of Mexico. (2016)

Jack Poberezny (BSE ’14) and Erica (Tiedeman) Poberezny (BSE ’14) were married on September 4, 2016 in Michigan. They currently live in Reston, VA and both work at Bechtel. (2017)

Jackie Reimann (BSE ’14) was engaged to William Snyder this past summer and will be getting married in September 2017. (2017)

An Shi (BSE ’14) moved to LA to work for Originclear in September 2015. (2015)

Erica (Tiedeman) Poberezny (BSE ’14). See, Jack Poberezny (BSE ’14)

Amanda Walsh (BSE ’14) moved to Cleveland, OH in the summer of 2015. Around the same time, she began a new job working as a product development engineer for a contract pharmaceutical company. (2016)

Emily Enzerra (BSE ’15) is currently working for Michelin NA in Greenville, SC as a quality engineer. (2016)

After Mahesh Ganesan (PhD ’15) received his doctoral degree, he worked as a post doc with Professor Mike Solomon. Since March 2016, he has been working as a research scientist with Avery Dennison in their performance tapes business division. He is heavily involved in studying rheology of polymer adhesives, their glass transition behaviors, their ability to dampen vibrations etc. So, the work he did at U-M and the coursework he did with Professor Ron Larson and others are all being used in his job! He is living in Cleveland, OH and got married in September 2015. His wife is a machine-learning, computer-vision graduate student at Case Western. Mahesh is proud that his days at Michigan taught him so many things about handling stress, decision making, multitasking etc., that he is able to share with his wife as she is going through grad school. (2017)

Delfina Sitar (BSE ’15) received her master’s degree in engineering design innovation in December from Northwestern and is moving to San Francisco to accept a position at SAP. (2017)

Andrew Long (BSE ’17) lives in Houston, TX and is working at the NASA Johnson Space Center as a project engineer. He is also a part-time University of Houston Law School student. (2017)

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Chemical Engineering

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