Wednesday, May 11, 2016
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THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Congratulates our Spring/Summer 2016 Graduates OUTSTANDING DEPARTMENTAL SENIORS Andrew Granatstein, Aerospace Engineering Tyler Toth, Biomedical Engineering Claire Tritz, Biosystems Engineering *Jeannie Wilkening, Chemical Engineering Luis Valdez, Civil Engineering Nicolas Fajardo, Electrical & Computer Engr. Elizabeth Harris, Engineering Management
Heriberto Bujanda, Industrial Engineering Kayli McArthur, Materials Science & Engineering Eliza Dawson, Mechanical Engineering Mara Erhardt, Mining Engineering Kaitlyn Williams, Optical Sci. & Engineering Ryan Bergsma, Systems Engineering *Recipient of the Outstanding Senior Award for the College of Engineering
OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENTS Timothy Ashcraft, Aerospace Engineering Caitlyn Anne Hall, Agricultural & Biosystems Engr. Molly Keenan, Biomedical Engineering Pablo Mancheno Posso, Chemical Engineering Jaeho Shim, Civil Engr. & Engineering Mechanics Min Liang, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Gwendolyn Woods, Environmental Engineering Lt. Col. Matt Dabkowski, Industrial Engineering Tony Gnanaprakasa, Materials Sci. & Engineering Sahand Sabet, Mechanical Engineering Karen Roth, Mining & Geological Engineering Stephania Vasilieva, Systems Engineering
OUTSTANDING TEACHING ASSISTANTS Samaneh Fooladi, Aerospace & Mechanical Engr. Yile Hu, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Xiankun Xu, Aerospace & Mechanical Engr. Long Cheng, Chemical & Environmental Engr. Anshul Agarwal, Civil Engr. & Engr. Mechanics
Nengyun Zhang, Electrical & Computer Engr. *Magnum Piña, Materials Science & Engineering Pei-Shan Hsieh, Systems & Industrial Engineering Zuoyu Miao, Systems & Industrial Engineering *Recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the College of Engineering
GRADUATING ENGINEERING AMBASSADORS Thank you for volunteering your valuable time and talents to the College of Engineering and the University of Arizona.
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ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR John Olsen teaches his last class in the Emil W. Haury Anthropology building on Tuesday, May 3. Olsen is leaving the UA to complete field work in China.
UA anthropology professor bids his farewell to Tucson BY BAILEY BELLAVANCE The Daily Wildcat
John Olsen, UA regents’ professor of anthropology, will officially retire in May. Olsen graduated from the UA with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and Oriental studies in 1976 and joined the faculty in 1980 after receiving his doctorate in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. During his time at the UA, Olsen was promoted to a professor of anthropology in 1994 and awarded a regents’ professorship in 2005. He has been the head of the UA’s thenDepartment of Anthropology (1994-1995, 1998-2008) and is currently, and will continue to be, the executive director of the Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology. Olsen is retiring to do field work and continue his research in Beijing, but doesn’t see his leave as a retirement. “This whole thing is bittersweet,” Olsen said. “I realize that practically speaking what I’m doing is retiring but I don’t think of it as retirement. I think of it as stepping back from some of the things that I’ve been doing up to this point—admin things and, of course, teaching. And some of that I’m desperately unhappy about— especially the teaching.” While abroad, Olsen plans to continue old research and work on new research. He has dedicated his career to studying
the Stone Age prehistory of Central and Inner Asia. This includes Pleistocene paleoecology, climate change, environmental change and cultural change, especially in Tibet, Mongolia and China. “I see it as a necessary reorientation of my energy, particularly to do field work in areas like Tibet and Mongolia that are physically demanding,” Olsen said of his leave. “I need to invest my time and energy in getting as much of that field work done as I can.” Olsen said he was drawn to the UA because of the Tucson community and the academics that have kept him here for over 30 years. “I think the thing I like about the [UA] specifically is the School of Anthropology,” Olsen said. “Larger than that, to look at the institution as a whole … [it] has been a place that encourages interdisciplinary studies and that’s actually a rare commodity. I think it’s that interdisciplinary thing that kept me happy for all these decades.” Olsen had some last-minute advice for students: “Don’t think about the university as being an experience that is done to you. Rather, it’s an experience that you create and you can get as much out of that experience as you choose.” — Follow Bailey Bellavance @WCbellavance
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Special Recognition of the Graduates for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering AEROSPACE ENGINEERING Matthew Aaserud Ivan Almirudis Nicholas Bley Ethan Burnett Pengcheng Cai John Casey Gabrielle Debbins Kenneth Decker Parisa Footohi Alberto Garner Andrew Granatstein Julie Imbornoni Jacob Kaplan Conner LaMont Dustin Leighty Daoyang Liu John Meersman Nicholas Merendo Brielle Munsch Tynan Newman Luis Pichardo Rolland Prempeh Tierra Roller Cameron Vissers Salvatore Vitale BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Czarina Aguilar Eze Ahanonu Alexandra Barbosa Thomas Bello Alyssa Benjamin Elisa Calabrese Kristin Calahan Kendall Carpenter Andrew D’Arcangelis Hailey Davenport Christopher Gallo Michelle Gary Collin Gilchrist Xaviere Giroud Nicolas Guzman Jamie Hernandez Caitlin Howard Nathaniel Husband Mykella Jones Brandon Konieczny Christopher Larkin Melissa Lee Christina Lee Brooke Lindsay Cory Luke Corina MacIsaac David Maestas Jr. Reine Mager Emily Masterson Mary McIntosh Joel Mintz Daniel Palomares Kathryn Pflueger Yaroslav Pilipenko Victoria Raught Sasikanth Ravi Cecilia Read Kristina Rivera Nicholas Schott Blake Stacy Mackenzie Steinbach Harrison Stovall Tyler Toth Joshua Uhlorn Breanna Wang Alexandria Yetter Sepideh Zakikhani Setareh Zakikhani BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING Maya Aldaghi Riley Anderson Ella Anguiano Perla Ballesteros Nicole Bui Vicki Chu Brooke Conrardy Alexandra Downs Ashley Hanno Kenneth Hickman Victoria Karlsson Michael Lopez Qianwen Luo Marko Obradov Haley Odom Claire Tritz Bailey Warner CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Tyler Alanis Ari Auerbach Matthew Bahr Brian Balch Jacqueline Barrow Iesha Batts Michael Bauman Phillip Befus John Bernal Owen Bertelsen William Blair Aidan Blum Hanah Boles Sarah Brunswick Zhewei Cai Lauren Chon-Lopez Daniel Diaz Ryan Dormond Austin Dougless Ning Du Jonathan Dwyer Christpher Escalante Solomon Figueroa Michael Flammia Matthew Fry Ismael Garcia Jason Green Tucker Hair Christopher Hawkins Christopher Jabczynski Scott Jauch Jazmin Jurkiewicz Ali Khaghani Dylan Kline Israel De La Cruz Kate LaRue Hannah Ling David Lopez Paola Lopez Dillon Manzanares Fausto Mares-Davila Benjamin Mendiaz Karla Murrieta
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Ian O’Malley-Keyes Toluwani Omotinugbon Diana Pantoja Erik Pastor Austin Pudwill Austin Pyrek Katherine Reynolds Martin Rubio Juan Sandoval Adam Schmitt Sarina Sedwick Jasper Sia Jared Souza Cali Squire Kendra Staggs Connor Swensen Jazryc Tatum Jun Terashima Tate Tolson Gavan Turner Gabrielle Ambrosio Brenna Wagner Jeannie Wilkening Raphael Woolley Ben Wu Luke Yarnall Sheng-Shuan Yeh Rodney Zinyemba CIVIL ENGINEERING Armando Aguirre Ivan Arrizon Ali B.S. Mostafawi Sr. Batyrzhan Bakenov Rebecca Bunker Carlos Bunzira Haley Cubbage Abby Davidson John Evans Joe Griffin Alan Hatch II Megan Hoke Mitchell Jensen Katherine Kelly Tobin Kopp Kyle Lehto Nicholas Long Jesus Lozolla Carter Miles Abdullah Mostafawi Xieyu Qin Benjamin Sanders Nicolas Santiago Jonathan Schmidt Nicholas Trandai Joel Turk Luis Valdez Soto Rafael Vila Lizmov Alina Vo Haiwen Zuo ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING Maryam Abdul-Wahid Tamara Alani Jonathan Avila Eugene Balaguer Rubi Ballesteros Matthew Barragan Christian Becerra Whit Bennett Julian Bostick Cody Briner Matthew Burger Ian Carmichael Jesus Chavolla Kade Gigliotti Michael Comeau Paul Cross Moslin Cruz-Castellanos Gregory Depaul Timothy Ebinger Arminda Estrada Nicolas Fajardo Xinran Fang Krystian Flores Miguel Garcia Duran Uriel Garcia John Gentry Phillip Gotobed Jonathan Hawkins Luis Hernandez David Contreras II Steven Murrell Solomon Jackman Yuyue Jiang Chang Jin Atta Kashmiri Colin Lasharr Spencer Lee Kaiqi Li Kevin Lin Angel Lopez Murey Luna Torres Joseph Mardesich Thomas May Timothy Ni Megan Pritchard Nikitha Ramohalli Andres Rebeil Yiming Shi Phillip Showers Junwha Song Brett Spradling Mengtao Tang Kyle Walker Jiaxiang Wang Ray Weaver Adam Williams Steven Wirth Guanghan Wu Junfeng Xu Kaishen Xu jingwei yuan Qidi Zhai Yi Zhang Michael Ziccarelli ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT Gregory Burleson Eric Espinosa Erin Evangelist Valeria Fuerte
ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT Huilong Gao Kevin Garrick Ricky Gonzalez Elizabeth Harris Nicholas Hinsberg Matthew Kirk Edward Mackay Jr. Brian Nicodemus Olivia Poettmann Jason Teich Erik Traulsen INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Sultan Alghufaili Helal Almazrouei Tareq Alsalem Butti Alshamsi Ivanna Barcelo Alberto Becerra Lindsey Bergquist Santiago Burrola Sarah Caro Daniel Chen Jose Escobedo Matthew Foley Abdullah Haidar Stephannie Okimura Heriberto Bujanda Preciado Mohammad Rabata Carl Reusser MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING Kati Alcantara Anfal Alobeidli Sean Arnold Lautaro Civetta Samuel Cotter Nicholas Didato Teri Elwood Kristina Farrell Tarlton Ferrin Zackary Fortuno Eric Gabriel Benjamin Geller Patrick Horrocks Caser Johnson Austin Lancaster Andy Luc Dakota Luepke Kevin Luke Cole Lumsden Kayli McArthur Brandon McCraw Don Nguyen Kyle Nguyen Ryan O’Connell April Proft Taylor Rhoades Jacob Rochester Melanie Sanez Garrett Tinderholt Moses Wangusi Lou-Anne Wegrzyniak MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Shaurya Aggrawal Mohammed Alrashed Scott Appleby Levin Atondo Shayla Austin Aiman Aween James Bartley Jennifer Battista Benjamin Bell Andrew Bitzko Benjamin Bossler Walker Bowman V Callie Branyan Jonathan Carson John Codde Kyle Daughenbaugh Eliza Dawson Alex De La Rosa Gabrielle Debbins Matthew Dieterich Hunter Dixon Jordan Driggs David Duperre Oscar Escarcega Bradley Esquibel Xiuquan Fang Ricardo Felix Zachary Fier Michael Gardiner James Gilles Justin Gray Michelle Gutierrez Evan Hastings David Hoang Ian Hoffman Qichao Hu Reed Hubbell Dustin Huynh Han-Jay Huynh Patt Intarakamhang Tyler James Stephen Jewell Romeo Judeh Benjamin Kaufman Weston Keller Nicole Kreger Alan Lamadrid Joseph Lamont David Leister Quincy Levien Chenmu Li Yanjun Liu Jeremy Loo Joseph Lucero Brandon Mahoney Megan Marquiss Austin Masterson Michael McDermott Christopher McEvoy Connor McGreal Gabriel Mercado Jose Migueles Raul Mishiyev Cody Mitts Carmelo Moraila Diego Morales Scott Morrison
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Jeffrey Mrkonich Brielle Munsch Ahmed Mustafawi Austin Nawrocki Ian Nettleton Kyle Nguyen Taylor Parot Antonio Pena Andrew Porter Rolland Prempeh Matthew Prevallet Thomas Reid Abdulaziz S Al Moaigel Savannah Sanchez Kaitlyn Sandford Andrew Sharpe Tao Shen Andrew Siemens Jeremy Smith Jack Speelman Kathleen Stack Ryan Stelzer Derek Strickland Aiva Teskey James Thayne Craig Thompson Brandon Toland Juldis Trakanthaloengsak Lilly Truong Joel Turnblade Tanya Turner Jacob Vigil Dean Whitman Nicholas Wilcox Parker Williams Trevor Woodhouse Weibin Wu Zhengting Wu Bo Xiao Tao Yu Corey Zammit Alisa Zukova MINING ENGINEERING Mark Anderson Brian Anthis Bryce Ayers Christa Boon Jingqing Chang Taylor Dawn Dakota Doyle Mara Erhardt Ethan Gluck Paul Mather Peter Mather John Miller Mario Munoz Richard Murdick Patrick Oneill Jose Pulido Rogelio Quintero Eric Rothweiler Cody Rowley Jacob Sauceda Nicholas Shea Pablo Mosqueira Sr. Sydney Stauffer Mark Stethem Daryn Stickler Daniel Strickler Ericka Tucker Damian Watson Yafeng Zhang OPTICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING Jaden Bankhead Cory Boone Ian Carr Xander Deputy Alex Erstad Olivia Fehlberg Stephanie Guzman Kyle Hawkins Timothy Hefferan Emily Hunting Shawn Iles Dana Kralicek David Lopez Nicholas Lyons Ariel Munoz Ramon Orozco Krysta Pavlica Weslin Pullen Travis Sawyer Oliver Spires Maryam Tanbal Jacob Tevik Fabian Wildenstein Kaitlyn Williams SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Erik Baker Erika Balbas Karla Beas Ryan Bergsma Matthew Britton Allison Bronstein Christian-Gardner Brown Lindsey Carlson Annastasia Debolt Ryan Grady Nicole Grisamore Nicholas Hand Melesio Hernandez Jr. Clayton Jeanette Matthew Linnaus Jordan Lo Hieu Luong Ricardo Matty Christopher Meyer Brian Ngo Casey Odom Ryan Province Ethan Rickert David Rico Lindsay Small Matthew Sybrant Alfie Tsang Hang Van Edward Vergara III Danton Whittier Alexander Yudkovitz Daniel Zavala Note: This list does not include students who applied for graduation late or who were updated from a previous term.