Business people Aug 3, 2008
Renshaw, a 1989 mining engineering graduate of University of Alaska Fairbanks, has worked at Usibelli Coal Mine since 1990. He has held a variety of positions including production engineer, exploration, foreman, permitting and regulatory compliance, and chief engineer for mining operations. (Anchorage Daily News)
Simmer down! Jul 30, 2008
Gallery (11 pictures): Jul 29 2008: A gallery chronicling Carol Vorderman's journey from callow 21-year-old engineering graduate on Countdown to national institution. Aug 28 2007. (guardian.co.uk)
West Appoints Chief Operating Officer Jul 29, 2008
He is an engineering graduate of the United States Military Academy and holds an MS in systems management and an MBA. "Steve Ellers has a broad knowledge base to share with Matt and will transfer responsibility for the Company's several business units to him over the next two quarters," said Dr. Morel. "Steve's contributions have been invaluable during his tenure as head of operations, a period of tremendous growth and profitability for West. His leadership in seeing that this transition goes as... (PR Newswire)
Vorderman left Countdown over 90% 'take it or leave it' pay cut Jul 27, 2008
The Cambridge engineering graduate saw off hundreds of hopefuls to win the co-host s role opposite Mr Whiteley, who presented the show from the first episode until his death in 2005. Princess Margaret once told him that Countdown was one of the Queen s favourite programmes. (Daily Mail)
Ugly scenes... Jul 26, 2008
The engineering graduate from eastern China's Anhui province was close to the head of one massive queue and managed to score two seats to one of the hottest event of the Games -- the final of the men's 110m hurdles. Chinese hopes for an athletics gold medal rest on Olympic and world champion Liu Xiang who is defending his 110m hurdles title. (The Drudge Report)
At 17, Chennai boy aces MTech in IIT Jul 23, 2008
CHENNAI: Two years ago, at 15, S Chandrasekar was the youngest engineering graduate in the country. On July 25, he will be the youngest postgraduate from IIT-Madras when he receives his degree at the convocation. (India Times, India)
Hall of Honor inductees, distinguished alumni recipients named Jul 23, 2008
A 1959 civil engineering graduate of Texas A&M University, he worked four years for the Texas Highway Department and 43 for Hunter and Associates, serving as president. He now is self-employed as a profess-ional land surveyor in Marathon. (Odessa American, TX)
Promserv taking its technology to Mideast Jul 22, 2008
Chen is an electrical engineering graduate from Universiti Malaya. He spent eight years developing the Live and Loaded Testing Method for Current Transformer technology, which also has patent protection in China and Singapore. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Virtual World Is Sign Of Future For Scientists, Engineers Jul 19, 2008
The research article was written by mechanical engineering graduate student John Melcher, recently graduated doctoral student Shuiqing Hu and Raman. The nanoHub uses a high-speed fiberoptic network called the Teragrid and is an example of the cyberinfrastructure being developed for researchers. (Science Daily)
Local briefcase Jul 6, 2008
Nate Hagen is a civil engineering graduate of Montana State University with experience on a number of projects across the state ... Robert Kimble is a civil engineering graduate of West Virginia University (bachelor s) and the University of Idaho (master s) with experience in a number of different types of projects. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Tongue Drive system lets persons with disabilities operate powered wheelchairs, computers Jun 30, 2008
Georgia Tech Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate student Xueliang Huo moves his tongue to direct the Tongue Drive system to move the powered wheelchair in a different direction ... Georgia Tech Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate student Xueliang Huo moves his tongue to direct the Tongue Drive system to move the powered wheelchair in a different direction. (EurekAlert!)
'We lose so much knowledge' Jun 28, 2008
- Mandan native Norbert Hoffman, a 1959 chemical engineering graduate of UND, who has given 2 million to the university department that educated him. He worked in the aerospace industry and founded, and later sold, a company that worked on military systems. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Boiling Water: Nano Technique Boosts Efficiency Jun 27, 2008
Along with Koratkar, co-authors of the paper include Rensselaer MANE Associate Professor Yoav Peles; Rensselaer mechanical engineering graduate student Zuankai Wang; Rensselaer Center for Integrated Electronics Research Associate Pei-I Wang; University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor and former Rensselaer Provost G.P. Bud Peterson; and UC-Boulder Assistant Research Professor Chen Li. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation. (Science Daily)
Cedar Park First United Methodist welcomes new pastor Jun 21, 2008
As a civil engineering graduate, Harris spent 20 years working in the engineering field. I like to build things; it's the part of my scientific mind, he said. (Cedar Park Hill Country News Weekender, TX)
Gateway to Wall Street Jun 20, 2008
Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette Sona Avetisian a civil engineering graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, will be working at Goldman Sachs in New Jersey ... At CMU, the larger numbers of engineering graduates taking jobs in the financial services industry isn't confined to females, said career counselors. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Jerome H. King Jr., at 88; was commander in Vietnam Jun 19, 2008
Jerome Henry King Jr. was a native of Youngstown, Ohio, and a 1941 engineering graduate of Yale University, where he was in the Navy ROTC program. He received a master's degree in nuclear physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951 and became an authority on the effects of nuclear weapons. (Boston Globe)
Egyptian Pleads Guilty to Terrorist Aid Jun 19, 2008
Mohamed was a civil engineering graduate student who came to USF in January 2007 on a student visa. Megahed is a permanent U.S. resident who lives in Tampa with his family. (Time.com)
Post the First Comment Jun 18, 2008
Vijayaramalingam Periasamy, an electrical engineering graduate student chose to be Hindu because he was born into it and his ancestors are all Hindu. Atheist Aggies said they have their reasons for choosing to not believe. (The Battalion, TX)
Engineer Develops Detergent To Promote Peripheral Nerve Healing Jun 16, 2008
Christine Schmidt, a biomedical engineering professor, developed the detergent solution in her lab with Terry Hudson and Curt Deister, chemical engineering graduate students at the time, who are now with Genentech in California and with AxoGen, respectively. Surgeons are reporting some early successes, she says. (Science Daily)
Mercury rising Jun 15, 2008
Environmental engineering graduate student Chris Holp and chemical and petroleum engineering professor M.P Sharma have been at work for the past nine months investigating the companys newly installed mercury removal method to be used on the new WyGen II plant commissioned in January and the soon to be built WyGen III plant now under construction. Heres why: With the new Clean Air Act mercury regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2005, the two power plants are... (Gillette News-Record, WY)
USU dedicates new building Jun 14, 2008
One of Sant s newest projects is the Sant Fellowship, which provides an engineering graduate student with a tuition waiver, 25,000 stipend, 10,000 for a future project and 5,000 for their faculty mentor. After the dedication, Sant said he was thinking of funding another scholarship for an undergrad researcher who would work with one of the high-tech corporate sponsors that helped fund the building and will bring researchers to it. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Epping High School names top 10 seniors Jun 13, 2008
Brian also attended St. Paul's Advanced Studies Program last summer where he was an Introduction to Engineering graduate. Brian is president of the senior class, was captain of the varsity soccer team (played four years on varsity), was president of Junior Statesmen and participated in Youth and Government. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Stanford students make silent cars noisy May 31, 2008
Everett Meyer, a medical student, and engineering graduate student Bryan Bai formed a company, Enhanced Vehicle Acoustics, and developed a prototype of a speaker system for hybrid or electric cars. The two met during last year's Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Graduate School of Business. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Global Industries Names John M. Katok as Vice President, Middle East/Mediterranean May 30, 2008
He is an engineering graduate of West Virginia University where he holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering. "The Middle East is the largest oil and gas producing region in the world and I am very pleased that John Katok has joined Global to lead our efforts to expand operations in this important market," said B.K. Chin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. (PR Newswire)
Turning heads May 29, 2008
A mechanical engineering graduate of Tuskegee Institute, Payne founded Wainscott Finch in 1991 after stints in the military (as a captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and at The (as a group manager for Pampers and Luvs). He derived much from the posts. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)
Startup implants RFID in operating room May 20, 2008
The company got its start when Fleck, a biomedical engineering graduate at Carnegie Mellon University, was doing some research while pursuing an MBA in early 2004. "I came across the patents for this system and talked to the inventors," he said. (EETimes)
Hidden Meanings: Keith Winstein May 17, 2008
THE EFFECT ON HIS CAREER: Winstein was accepted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, after graduation, continued his studies there in the computer science and electrical engineering graduate programs. After hunting through the text of U.S. copyright law, he landed in for helping M.I.T. launch a service that allowed students to (legally) access music over the university's cable television network. (Scientific American)
Still standing Rupert native survives quake May 15, 2008
The College of Southern Idaho software engineering graduate teaches computer classes and helps students prepare to take entrance exams for universities in the U.S.. In her free time Elizabeth sometimes tours the country who wouldn t but she insists on the road less traveled. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Testbed streamlines RFID development May 15, 2008
Georgia Tech engineering graduate students Anil Rohatgi and Joshua Griffin conducted the research. eeProductCenter Launches SpecSearch, New Parametric Parts Search Engine In our continuing effort to enhance our site, eeProductCenter introduces SpecSearch powered by GlobalSpec. (EETimes)
Job search done May 11, 2008
Levi Briese, a 22-year-old Tech petroleum engineering graduate accepted a job with ConocoPhillips in Alaska. He previously interned with the company and accepted the employment offer last September. (Montana Standard, MT)
Has ATL builder built fraud case against itself? May 11, 2008
He described Moultrie, a Georgia Tech civil engineering graduate from the small town of Woodbury, as "warm and gregarious" although "not a hail fellow well met.". "He's ambitious. He knows he has to be in charities, in politics and community events," said Clay, who has had campaign fund-raisers at Moultrie's home. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Cable Driven Robot Assists Patients With Neurological Disorders May 10, 2008
Inventors, Dr. Oren Masory, chair and professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, and Melissa Morris, FAU engineering graduate student, designed and built the device to aid physical therapists and their patients to retrain injured muscles ... enlarge Co-inventor Melissa Morris, an FAU engineering graduate student, designed and built the device pictured above to aid physical therapists and their patients to retrain injured muscles. (Science Daily)
William R. Brody May 6, 2008
Construction magnate Clark giving $10M to Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore Business Journal. Members: Not Registered. (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)
Students savour more green content May 5, 2008
One might expect to find a civil engineering graduate helping a city go green, rather than a computer engineer ... Mr. Topalovic may not be a typical engineering graduate, but he thinks he is starting to represent a change in attitude in engineering. (Globe and Mail)
Getting to the root May 3, 2008
Jain, an engineering graduate from Dnyaneschwar University in India, works with his father and four brothers in the family business. In India, the company works with thousands of farmers whose acreage ranges from 1 to 2 acres. (Fresno Bee)
OSU forestry program receives $3.6M donation Apr 20, 2008
Over the last 25 years Strachan has spearheaded a series of major gifts to the College of Forestry, including the Lee Harris Memorial Forest Management Fund, the Larry Hoffman Scholarship in Wildfire and Ecosystem Health, and the Richard Strachan Forest Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Related Industry News. (The Business Journal of Portland, OR)
Sharp business plan Apr 18, 2008
During a nine-month European soul-searching trip in the mid-1970s with his wife, Leatherman, an Oregon State University mechanical engineering graduate, found his old Scout knife was fine for slicing bread but wanting when it came to car repairs. On a slip of paper he kept in his pocket for ideas, Leatherman wrote, Put a pair of pliers on a pocketknife. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Oudea takes the pole in SocGen succession race Apr 18, 2008
After attending the prestigious Louis-Le-Grand high school near the Sorbonne, he moved to Polytechnique engineering graduate school, a source of brainpower and exotic mathematical skills that made SocGen a world leader in complex derivatives. Known simply as X after a mathematical variable, the elite Polytechnique has provided SocGen with many of the traders at its derivatives unit, formerly the crown jewel of the bank which was left reeling and humiliated by the Kerviel scandal. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
One year later, students look back Apr 16, 2008
Among the lives lost was Penn State alumnus Jeremy Herbstritt, who was a civil engineering graduate student at Virginia Tech. Herbstritt's father, Michael, who works at Penn State's Office of Physical Plant, declined in an e-mail to discuss the anniversary. (Daily Collegian, PA)
VA Tech Students Lobby to Carry Guns Apr 16, 2008
"A lot of people don't understand the aspect of carrying for self defense," said Ken Stanton, a 30-year-old engineering graduate student at Virginia Tech, and the head of the Vermont chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. University policy prohibits students or employees, except campus police, from carrying concealed weapons, though visitors who have a valid permit are allowed to keep their guns. (ABC News)
General: Communications key to war Apr 15, 2008
Gen. Edward Cardon, a U.S. Military academy engineering graduate. During a phone interview from his overseas post, the brigadier general, an El Paso, Texas, native, praised both American and Iraqi military personnel for the job they are doing. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Robot Sets Record For Distance Walking Apr 12, 2008
Accompanying the Ranger are, from left, engineering graduate students Andrey Turovsky and Greg Stiesberg; Jason Cortell, manager of the Biorobotics and Locomotion Lab; and Bram Hendriksen, a visiting graduate student from the Netherlands. (Credit: Lindsay France/University Photography). (Science Daily)
Olympics come to ASU Apr 7, 2008
" Bearat, a first-year bioengineering graduate student, joined the Coalition when it was formed in 2004. "I just love people especially different cultures and people from around the world," she said. Chetan Patel, also a first-year bioengineering graduate student, started volunteering for the club two years ago and joined as the events coordinator this year. Getting the Olympics event together starts with sending out e-mails to all ASU's international students and posting flyers. Students then... (Web Devil, AZ)
Veishea 2008 map Apr 6, 2008
93 Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Organization, E4. 95 and 96 College of Engineering, E4. (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
IPICO announces senior management appointments Apr 4, 2008
An electronic engineering graduate and resident of South Africa, he most recently was Executive Director of Worldwide Capital Private Equity, one of IPICO's original investors. Prior to his involvement with Worldwide and IPICO, Mr. Human built his own telecommunications business internationally and earned a listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1998. (Canada Newswire)
Honda appoints new president and VP Apr 2, 2008
A chemical engineering graduate of Indiana State University in the US, Azman started his career in the banking industry. After spending five years at one of the country's premier banks, he made his foray into the automotive industry in 1995 with Usahasama Proton & Diversified Resources Bhd. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
U.S. 10th District House of Representatives Steve Ivester Apr 1, 2008
I am an engineering graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used my VA education benefits to obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School. Editor's note: All candidate profiles are published as they were received and were not edited by the News-Topic. (Lenoir News Topic, NC)
Bidding for a bigger piece of the pie Mar 28, 2008
During the past decade, he evolved from a University of Toronto computer engineering graduate and founder of a telecom upstart in 1997 to the head of a company that took home $125-million in revenue last year. Taking on the big phone boys has become a way of life for Mr. Lacavera. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
The Amazing Race Mar 27, 2008
Nii Armar, 23, is an MIT aerospace engineering graduate student who, along with undergrads Robyn Allen and Anna Jaffe and 2007 grad Jonathan Krones, runs an international open-source project of students trying to build a 200-mpg car. "Anna and Robyn had the original idea: They went to the 2005 World Solar Challenge, where teams build cars to cross Australia, and saw 40 very similar vehicles. They thought, Maybe we could get these people together to collaborate. Vehicle Design Summit 1.0 brought... (FastCompany)
Fueled by opportunities: Triad has key roles in state's drive for alternative fuels Mar 22, 2008
D. (left), program director, North Carolina A T State University biological engineering, works with environmental engineering graduate student James Croonenberghs in the lab. Croonenberghs project is transforming duckweed into biofuels like ethanol, biodiesel and heavy oil using cellulosic ethanol technology, lipid extraction techniques, and thermochemical liquefaction. (Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area)
Stanford researchers developing 3-D camera with 12,616 lenses Mar 20, 2008
But what if your digital camera saw the world through thousands of tiny lenses, each a miniature camera unto itself" Youd get a 2-D photo, but youd also get something potentially more valuable: an electronic depth map containing the distance from the camera to every object in the picture, a kind of super 3-D. Stanford electronics researchers, lead by electrical engineering Professor Abbas El Gamal, are developing such a camera, built around their multi-aperture image sensor. Theyve shrunk... (EurekAlert!)
Second man arrested in killing of UNC student Mar 18, 2008
He has also been charged in the Jan. 18 shooting of Abhijit Mahato, a Duke engineering graduate student who was found dead in his apartment at The Anderson Apartments. But Lovett had not previously been named as a suspect in that murder. (East Tennessean, TN)
Running on empty, and then some Mar 17, 2008
Jones is an electrical and computer engineering graduate student. Page 1 of 1. (The Daily Texan, TX)
Hacking research noticed Mar 15, 2008
Manufacturers and governments recently have begun to take notice of a University Engineering graduate student's research that cracked the encryption code on radio frequency identification chips, commonly used in wireless security passes and subway cards ... David Evans, who is Engineering graduate student Karsten Nohl'sfaculty adviser, said Nohl and two German collaborators hoped that "by understanding why systems fail, people will learn how to build more secured systems.". (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
News Bytes of the Week—Flooding the Grand Canyon to Save a Fish Mar 8, 2008
The idea of using the steel to generate power came from one of Swansea's engineering graduate students, who was looking into how sunlight interacts with titanium dioxide, often found in paints and dyes. The team realized that if they used solar cells made from titanium dioxide dyes, which were first created by Michael Graetzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, such cells could coat steel and generate electricity. (Scientific American)
Study traces tech link to radical '70s groups Mar 8, 2008
Ahmed Mohamed, an engineering graduate and teaching assistant at the University of South Florida, and Youssef Megahed, an engineering student, were indicted on federal charges of carrying explosives across state lines. On Sept. 5, three men were arrested for allegedly planning attacks against Americans and U.S. military facilities in Germany. (EETimes)
Time to Look Feb 29, 2008
Instead of being applicants for jobs, the NIU electrical engineering graduate student alumni were the interviewers. We don't understand why we were so nervous last year, Shrotriya said. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Next-best Thing To Being On Mars Feb 29, 2008
Engineering graduate students Zahra Khan and Phillip Cunio, from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, began their stay at the Utah facility late Sunday, Feb. 17. Cunio is working on a project to develop a "smart" carrier to be used for research fieldwork in remote expeditions such as planetary exploration. (Science Daily)
Griggs-Jany Engagement Feb 28, 2008
The future groom is an engineering graduate from Mizzou and is employed by MoDOT in Jefferson City. He is the son of Russ and Jacky Jany of Union. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
More news reports... Feb 27, 2008
Petroleum engineering graduate student Fizza Aliyeva talks with Traci Wilson, class of 2002, about her country, Azerbaijan. . (The Battalion, TX)
Officer 'could have been saved' Feb 27, 2008
Fencing champion Lt Douglas was a high flying former public schoolgirl and engineering graduate from Newcastle University who dreamed of reaching the highest rank in the navy. She went to sea to follow in the footsteps of her father Christopher, a merchant navy officer who was drowned in a shipwreck when she was 13. (BBC News)
Frank Piasecki, 88; pioneered the tandem-rotor helicopter Feb 25, 2008
Piasecki was a 1940 aeronautical engineering graduate of New York University and that same year cofounded a company, P-V Engineering Forum, near Philadelphia. He chose the name, he told The New York Times, "because if you used the word helicopter, people thought you were absolutely nuts.". (Boston Globe)
Daytona win cleared out cobwebs for Penske team Feb 25, 2008
No one questions the fact that the 30-year-old engineering graduate from Purdue University is fast. Newman already ranks 11th on the all-time list of Sprint Cup pole winners with 42. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Sports)
Ogden's middle school takes third at Iowa Championship at ISU Feb 23, 2008
The Power Pirates were sponsored by the Iowa Society of Women Engineers, coached by Mona Satre and Mary Kuil and mentored by Jerry Stoner, ISU engineering graduate student. The Ogden Reporter 2008. (Ogden Reporter, IA)
A hemisphere away, students reach out to fix water problems Feb 22, 2008
AMAZON-ING: Research assistant and civil engineering graduate student Michal Ziv-El is pictured in front of the Biodesign building Wednesday evening. Ziv-El will be traveling to Ecuador with a few other ASU students to help design infrastructure to improve sanitation in a remote village. (Web Devil, AZ)
