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Shidler College of Business. Highlights during that time included a three-week trip to Asia—with visits to Korea, China, Vietnam and Thailand—and getting to know the other students, all excellent managers and leaders throughout Hawaii. Scot finished in May and remains in Hawaii (“longer than anywhere else in my life”), contemplating his next move. As of July, he became associate director for development at Gemini Observatory. He’s traded his water ski in for a surfboard and scuba gear, and his daughter, born in Hawaii, is now “ruling the universe at only 4 years of age.” Visit Scot’s blog at astromanager.net.
1988 In the Electronic Design article “A Look Behind the Mask of Multi-Patterning,” Michael White explores the various MP approaches, how they differ by technology node and where the IC manufacturing/ IP/EDA ecosystems are in the delivery of solutions. Michael, director of product marketing for Calibre Physical Verification products at Mentor Graphics, has held various product marketing, strategic marketing and program management roles for Applied Materials, Etec Systems and the Lockheed Skunk Works. An engineering graduate, he also received an M.S. in engineering management from the University of Southern California. Find the article at electronicdesign.com/eda/look-behind
1990 | Reunion Year
article “ Something Electric in Bellevue: The History of Sucker Punch” by IGN Middle East. The company’s latest game is inFAMOUS First Light for PS4, featuring re-playable battle arenas with worldwide leader board support. bit.ly/11RbXhb
Kelly Beck was named interim track and field coach this past August. A longtime assistant coach, Kelly is in his 25th year coaching track and field and cross country at CMS, and this is his 29th year with the program. He was a four-year member of both the track and field and cross country teams. His track coaching duties over the years have included work with the distance teams, and he coached the sprinters from 1995–2010. He has coached 18 individuals and six relays who have achieved 35 All-American titles, including one NCAA national champion. An engineering graduate, Kelly started coaching at CMS after HMC. In 1992, he earned a master’s degree from the U.S. Sports Academy in sports management. The assistant coach for both cross country teams in the fall, Kelly also serves as the sports information director for CMS Athletics.
This fall, Tony Gnecco—the “Red Rocket”—was inducted into the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) track and field champion Hall of Fame. The anchor on the 4×400 meter relay team that qualified the Stags for the NCAA Championships three out of four straight seasons, Tony was named Harvey Mudd’s Athlete of the Year as a junior. He was a two-time SCIAC
This year, Robert Knop joined the faculty of Westminster College (Pennsylvania) as associate professor of physics. A Harvey Mudd physics graduate, Robert earned his master’s degree and PhD in physics from the California Institute of Technology. Knop’s interests are cosmology, galaxy evolution, and interacting and active galaxies, as well as numerical and computational astrophysics. Recent
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1989 Brian Fleming was featured in the Sept. 12, 2014,
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champion (4×400 in 1988, 400 in 1989) and a twotime All-American (4×400 in 1988 [2nd], 4×400 in 1989 [8th]). In 1986, Gnecco set the record for first years in the 400 meter at 49.22. The relay team’s 4×400 meter time from the 1988 NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships still holds at 3:12.60. Gnecco is still fifth all-time among CMS runners in the 400 meter (48.46), and the 4×400 meter teams he anchored are still first, sixth and seventh all-time (they were first, second and third when he graduated). Tony, an engineering major, was active on campus, serving as sports editor for The Muddraker, as a member of the campus Christian Fellowship and as a proctor of South during his senior year. After Mudd, Tony went on to a career in software development in Livermore, California, where he lives with his wife, son and daughter. Though his running days are behind him, he says, he coaches his daughter’s soccer and track teams and frequently plays golf with his son, who is a member of the middle school squad.
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projects with students have included building simulation software for “physics 1”-type systems (rods, balls, springs and gravity) and morphological classification of interacting galaxies imaged with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, comparing morphological features with spectroscopic signatures of star formation.
1991 In July 2014, Bruce Hinds moved to the University of Washington MSE department, where he is the Campbell Professor of Materials Science & Engineering. His research group is trying to produce nano-scale materials that can mimic natural process for applications ranging from health care, energy storage/generation and water purification. After Harvey Mudd (chemistry), Bruce completed PhD work on the MOCVD growth of high-temperature superconductors at Northwestern University. He went on to postdoctoral physics research at North Carolina State to study the interface states in the Si/ SiO2 system, then received an NSF-JSPS fellowship to work with nano-scale fabrication of single electron floating gate memory at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 2001, he joined the faculty of the University of Kentucky to start a research program for functional materials at the nm-scale. He received an NSF Early Career Award, Presidential Early Career Award and a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellowship from the National Academy of Science.
1993 Tas Dienes is CTO of SmartAction, a provider of
artificial intelligence voice self-service. The company received CUSTOMER Magazine’s 2014 Speech Technology Excellence Award for its Intelligent Voice Automation (IVA) technology, which helps businesses deliver faster, more accurate self-service in their call centers.
1998 Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Program Manager Allison Barto received the Women in Aerospace Achievement Award at the annual Women in Aerospace Awards ceremony on Oct. 29. The WIA award is given annually for noteworthy achievement or contributions to a single aerospace project or program that represents a breakthrough or milestone in the aerospace field. Allison was recognized for her outstanding contributions as Ball’s