2015 CoE Alumni Awards Three graduates of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering were honored at the Georgia Tech College of Engineering Alumni Awards in April 2015. They are: • John E. Nobles, ChE 1974, who was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame. He is the retired group president and board member of Burns & McDonnell. • John T. Hammond, ChE 1972, MS IE 1975, Academy of Distinguished Alumni. He is president and chief executive officer of Hammond Electronics. • Arthur D. Barfield, ChBE 2011, Council of Outstanding Young Alumni. He works as a project engineer for 3M.
John E. Nobles (above)
John T. Hammond (above center), with College of Engineering Dean Gary S. May (left) and Georgia Tech President Emeritus G. Wayne Clough
Arthur D. Barfield (left)
alumni news & updates Decie Autin, ChE 1980, is a new member of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees. A project executive with ExxonMobil in Houston, Texas, she is also a member of the Strategic Energy Institute’s Advisory Board. Donald B. Bivens, MS 1963, PhD 1966, is the 2015 chair of the research administration committee of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and AirConditioning Engineers. Shannon Capps, PhD 2012, will begin a faculty position in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at Drexel University in fall 2016. Louis Darrouzet, BS 2005, is vice president of business development at cycleWood Solutions, a startup biodegradable and compostable plastics company. Hugh R. Gaston, BS 1998, was promoted to vice president of operations of Acumen
Physician Services, which develops and delivers intuitive software tools to assist nephrologists in the practice of medicine. Paula T. Hammond, MS 1988, was named the new head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the first woman and person of color appointed to the post. Lee Hanson, BS 1984, founder of the Hanson Group, developed the Guardian Cap, a soft-shell cover for football helmets that reduces the impact of collisions by 33 percent to prevent concussions. More than 300 teams have adopted the cap, and 20,000 players now wear one. Richard Moore, PhD 2011, accepted a civil servant position at NASA Langley. These highly coveted positions are given to only a small fraction of NASA employees who are considered strategically important to NASA's mission and goals. Moore got this position after serving in a two-year postdoctoral position at NASA.
Max Nguyen, BS 2014, was granted a Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship opportunity to work at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois, in summer 2015. He is now a master’s student at Cornell University. Vicky Polashock, BS 1990, PhD 1995, was recognized by Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine for her leadership of the Georgia Tech North Metro alumni network. She has “brought new, young leaders to the group, led improvements to the network’s scholarship activities and created new events while enhancing established ones,” the magazine noted. Naechul Shin, PhD 2013, has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Inha University in Incheon, South Korea.
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