Alumni News Tory Garcia CM ’02 is working as a project manager for Probst Electric, a transmission and distribution contractor in Heber, Utah. Her current project is a 200 plus mile transmission line running from Montana to Canada. Matthew Leslie ECE ‘03 is entering his fifth year with Marvell Semiconductor in Boise. As Senior Engineer, his primary responsibility is signal integrity analysis. He is pictured with first child, Elizabeth Grace Leslie, born on May 12, 2011.
Dry Lake Wind project, which was the first commercial project for the state of Arizona. The Dry Lake I project was 63MW and the second phase, Dry Lake II, was 65.1MW. Both projects were Suzlon S88 2.1MW Wind Turbines. Overall, he has been involved in the Engineering, Permitting and Construction of over 1,200MW of Wind Energy in the western US. So far, Blattner has employed him in Washington, Oregon, Montana, Minnesota, Arizona and California.
She got married in April 2010 and went from Shannon Penrod to Shannon Shaffer, and had her second son in Nov 2010. Rebecca Ahern, ME ‘ 09, married Brent Ludwig, July 9th, 2011, aboard the Royal Argosy in Seattle, WA .
Mo Nguyen, ME ’10, is working as a Mechanical Engineer for Wylie Labs at the Johnson Space Center. Mo had previously served as an intern for NASA in Langley, VA during summer 2009.
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Maria Tracy Meeks , CE ’04, took the College of Engineering international in October when she set up a COEN booth at a college night at Ramstein Air Base in Germany where she works as an SRM Programmer in the Asset Management program. The event introduced military family dependents, mainly graduating students from Kaiserslautern High School, who are looking at universities in the United States. T.J. Bird, CE , ‘06 is working as a Site Manager for Blattner Energy. Since graduating from the Boise State Civil Engineering Program, he worked his way up from a Field Engineer to Site Manager which is Blattner’s term for a Project Superintendent. As a Site Manager, he has overseen the construction of two wind projects in northeast Arizona and is currently overseeing the construction of a 189MW Wind Project 13 miles west of Rosamond, CA. He received the Carpe Ventum award from the Department of Energy Wind Powering America in 2009 for the
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Chris Raymes, EE ’07, is working as a Senior Systems Engineer with Apex Manufacturing Solutions in Boise. He lives in Eagle with wife Rachel, daughter Lily (3yr), and son Ethan (2yr).
John Katzenberger, ME ’09 has been working at Rain For Rent in Dickinson, North Dakota for the past year as a project manager. His work involves special projects for pumping water for oilfield hydrofracturing processes, flood remediation in the Minot, ND, area, and creating heating solutions for water transfer in freezing conditions. He is pictured on a recent family outing at Crazyhorse National Monument near Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota.
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Shannon Shaffer (Penrod) CM ’07 started working for ACHD in November as a contract technician.
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DNA machinery, materials for energy applications, biomaterials, materials characterization and materials modeling. The doctoral program will begin in August 2012 and initially enroll approximately six students, growing to about 50 students in six years.
become the gold standard in diagnosing diseases, especially where medical equipment and resources are rare.”
Boise State’s materials science and engineering department has grown rapidly since its creation in 2004 into one of the largest MSE departments in the region, with more than 110 students. University officials say the establishment of an MSE doctoral program will support the growing need of local industries such as Micron Technology Inc., as well as regional organizations such as the Idaho National Laboratory, by creating more opportunities for handson participation in advanced and applied research.
The detection of lung cancer will be the initial research focus. Now in the early stages of research, the team is operating synthetic molecular machines in human blood and serum. The motivation is to learn how to stabilize DNAbased chemical reaction networks in bodily fluids.
Recognizing the need for a stronger foundation in materials science in the area, the Micron Technology Foundation has generously donated $13 million, the largest gift in Boise State history, to help start the new MSE doctoral program.
“The great thing about the W.M. Keck Foundation is that their risk appetite encourages big science Hughes said. “So far we are working towards creating the first synthetic molecular machines designed to perform mechanical and chemical work inside human blood and serum.”
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Christian Gellert, ME ‘06 passed his Professional Engineers Exam in Mechanical Engineering. He is employed at DC Engineering in Meridian, Idaho.
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Darryl Butt, chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was featured in a front-page Idaho Statesman photo and story about Gov. Butch Otter’s proposal to fund tech research in order to create Idaho jobs. Called IGEM (Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission), the program also was featured in a KTVB Channel 7 story that featured Butt and Amy Moll, interim dean of the College of Engineering.
In addition to the interdisciplinary faculty team conducting the research, there are also two fulltime graduate students and two undergraduate students providing support. Hughes said he is currently looking for additional graduate students.
Amy Moll, Interim Dean of the College of Engineering, was featured in the Beyond the Blue Podcast: Living in a Materials World. In this podcast, Dr. Moll explains how everyday objects are made of materials designed to have specific properties and performance. Michelle Sabick, Interim Chair and Associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering was featured in the Beyone the Blue Podast: Human Engineering: The Basics of Joint Replacement. In this podcast, Dr. Sabick outlines how engineers overcome those challenges to make joint replacement an increasingly common and usually successful procedure that improves the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of people every year. A journal paper written by Gang-Ryung Uh, professor of computer science, was published in the IEEE Computer Architecture Letters.
Cheryl Jorcyk, Bernard Yurke, Will Hughes, Elton Graugnard and Jeunghoon Lee.
Mandar Khanal, associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, presented a paper titled “Sustainable Transport Development for Kathmandu Valley” at the International Conference on Sustainable Development of Transport System held in Kathmandu, Nepal, Oct. 19-22. John Chiasson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named a 2012 IEEE Fellow, one of the association’s most prestigious honors. Chiasson’s research is in areas related to systems and controls. Elisa Barney Smith, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, was the keynote speaker at Hewlett Packard’s corporate-wide conference on image processing. She discussed techniques and current practices to “clean up” digital images and pictures. Amit Jain, associate professor of computer science, was quoted in a KTVB story about the demand for computer software engineering graduates. Jain said that in order to meet the need, Idaho’s universities need resources to grow. Arvin Farid, professor of civil engineering, presented at the ninth International Environmental Geotechnics Symposium at Kyoto University and was part of a group of 12 professors who traveled to Japan to meet with the Japanese counterparts in the second U.S. Japan Geoenvironmental Engineering Workshop.
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