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Table of Contents
    Front Cover
        Page 1
    Front Matter
        Page 2
    Table of Contents
        Page 3
    Letter from the dean
        Page 4
    News flash
        Page 5
    End of an era, beginning of a legacy
        Page 6
        Page 7
        Page 8
    Who inspires you?
        Page 9
    Educating the engineer
        Page 10
        Page 11
        Page 12
        Page 13
    Are you smarter than a freshman?
        Page 14
    Gettin' dirty early
        Page 15
        Page 16
        Page 17
        Page 18
        Page 19
    Faculty facts
        Page 20
    Alumni updates
        Page 21
        Page 22
        Page 23
    Alumni BBQ
        Page 24
    Friends we'll miss
        Page 25
    Campaigning for education
        Page 26
    By the numbers
        Page 27
    Portrait of the undergraduate
        Page 28
        Page 29
    Letters
        Page 30
        Page 31
    Electroic Deliver of Graduate Engineering program
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JUNE 1, 2007 DEC. 1, 2007
JUNE 1, 2007 DEC. 1, 2007


MUSSEL VS. MAN? AN END TO EPILEPSY?
Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is charging that A team of UF researchers is working on a de-
the cause of some of his state's recent water vice that interprets brain signals
problems may have been caused by wear -- and enables neurons to con-
being allowed to flow to endangered i nect something they
species in Florida, including mussels. 'hope will correct epi-
Environmental Engineering Chair ', lepsy and paralysis. The
JAMES HEANEY commented on water 1 team includes College of
conservation efforts in a Reuters article 'iMedicine assistant pro-
surrounding the controversy. fessor JUSTIN SANCHEZ
(Ph.D. BME '05) and several
Gator Engineering researchers. United Press
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING'S International featured the story on July 25.
FRESH FACE
With nuclear engineering on the brink of a re-
vival, companies are hiring and handsomely INDEPENDENT LIVING
compensating newly-minted college gradu- Thanks to Computer & Information Science &
ates in order to keep the plants operational. Engineering professor SUMI HELAL, there is a
The St. Petersburg Times caught up with Nuclear house that takes your temperature, blood pres-
& Radiological Engineering chair ALIREZA sure and heart rate, then immediately trans-
HAGHIGHAT for this June 10 story. mits the data to your doctor making it pos-
sible for the elderly to live independently. This
research was featured in the Miami Herald and
COUNTING FRUIT BEFORE the Washington Post on July 25.
IT'S PICKED
A team led by Agricultural & Biological
engineer DANIEL LEE is developing a THE PRESSURE IS ON
technology that will allow an electron- The use of a chemical containing arsenic in
ic system to detect and count fruit pressure-treated wood has declined significant-
still on trees. PhysOrg.com, a Web site ly since 2004. Now the problem lies in the dis-
devoted to science, engineering, techno- posal of the pre-2004 lumber. JOHN SCHERT,
logical and nanotechnology news, featured this director of UF's Hinkley Center for Solid and
breakthrough on June 21. Hazardous Waste Management, and environ-
mental engineer TIM TOWNSEND are inves-
tigating the issue. ScienceDaily featured
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HEAVY LOAD
Truck drivers put strain on bridges
by crossing them in spite of exceed-
ing the weight limit. Civil & Coastal
Engineering Chair JOSEPH TEDESCO
weighed in on the topic in an Ocala
Star-Banner article on Oct. 21.

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BUG-EYED DISCOVERY
Chemical engineer PENG JIANG is developing
unusual new anti-reflective and water-repellent
coatings that could make solar cells more ef-
ficient and self-cleaning. He gets his inspira-
tion from insect eyes and wings. United Press
International picked up this story on Oct. 23.


ONE PAINFUL CELL
PHONE BILL
JOHN SCHERT, director of the
Hinkley Center for Solid and
Hazardous Waste Management,
and his team are using a pair of
simulated landfills to determine
if discarded cell phones, computers
and other electronics leak lead into
the Earth. This story was featured on
CBS News on Nov. 10.



WORKING ON SCHOOL
When jobs are hard to find, manypeople turn to
graduate school instead, according to a recent
study by the Florida Board of Governors. College
of Engineering Dean PRAMOD KHARGONEKAR
was interviewed about how this phenomenon
has impacted Gator Engineering in Nov. 21
articles by the Palm Beach Post and the South
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Born the youngest of 11 children in Jamaica, Earle grew up on a
farm where the cows called for milking early every morning. His fa-
ther, a carpenter, always had tools handy, and they fascinated little
Jonathan. He liked to tinker the stamp of the future engineer.
Earle led the student government at his high school in Kingston,
where troublemakers were punished with canings and chapel was
twice a day. For college, he faced a choice: Stay in Jamaica and become
a doctor, or go to the University of London to study engineering?
Looking for an adventure, he chose England.
After graduation he worked for the Thames Water Authority, where
a tea lady pushed a cart by the drafters' desks every morning and af-
ternoon. He took his sketches home so that he could get a new assign-


ment more quickly.
"I was having a
blast," he said.
Earle went back to
school to keep a prom-
ise to himself. But
coincidence brought
him, his wife and
three children to
UF, where he earned
a doctoral degree and
a spot on the faculty
in 1987. He helped
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his interest when his lab assistants kept coming to him for help they
weren't getting from the College.
As associate dean for student affairs, he founded revolutionary
programs such as STEPUP, which provides an intense introduction to
engineering that helps minority students defy drop-out statistics.
"What we have today didn't exist before he started building it piece
by piece," Khargonekar said.
Earle says that his work has never been a burden. His parents
taught him not to do anything he doesn't enjoy.
So it seems irreconcilable that he's ready to retire.
Earle explains with Robert Frost's two roads diverging. He doesn't
yearn for the other path, "The Road Not Taken." Instead, he's learned
to appreciate the present moment.
"I feel very relaxed about it. People keep asking me, 'what are you
going to do when you retire?' I'm going to retire," he says resolutely. "I
believe in being as fulfilled as possible in whatever you're doing."
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TA en Kelly Smith (B.S. CHE '59, MI.S.
'61) reminisces about days at UF,
professor Mack Tynet- B.S. CHE '38.) is the
first thing he talks about.
"He was just a fun teacher- with a vetNry
dry wit," Smith said through a smile.
"He taught in a logical wvay anyone coulld
understand."
Smith said his engineering education -
and being around such good professors
and students was a very valuable thing.
He remembers going to his chemical engi-
neering classes that met in an old World War II
hangar.
And so Smith gave $100,000. Kelly and Ruth
Smith's gift helps today's Gatort Engineets and
honors one of Smith's favorite people by trceat-
ing The Mack Tynet Confertence Room in the new
Chemical Engineering Biutilding expand sion.
Says Smith, "We got to do some-
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Nancy Padron was destined to be an engineer.
e r c a m e e t y ou r It started well enough. Padron's mailbox was stuffed with
I acceptance letters from UF, Baylor and Georgia Tech.
Aeng nee ng 1S She made the wait list at MIT. Her father is a doctor, her
e n g ing mother is a lawyer and her stepfather is a mechanical and
aerospace engineer. She got a B in calculus a notori-
ously difficult class among even the brightest first-year engineering students.
Science and math are tattooed on her DNA.
"I got A's and B's," said Padron, now a sophomore at UF. "It [engineering]
was never a hard thing for me. It was something I was good at. I had the techni-
cal skills for it. I was intelligent enough to comprehend the material."
But in November of her freshman year, Padron decided she would transfer
to the College of Fine Arts and major in sculpture. She said she changed her
major because she "just wanted to wake up happy with what she was doing."
There have been countless articles written and millions of dollars spent on
research all pointing to unprepared students, retention issues, outsourcing and
foreign education. And there's one common denominator: an education system
that no longer propels students into science- and math-related fields.


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"There is a huge problem," said Pramod Khargonekar, dean of the UF College of
Engineering. "A large number of talented students who might have taken a liking in
math or science are turned off pursuing those subjects."
Khargonekar said he believes social pressures and influences, especially on girls,
makes it difficult for children to show an interest in math and sciences.


"Since when has it become

a crime to be smart?"

"The word geek which I take great offense to is a symptom of underly-
ing social forces at work," the dean said. "Since when has it become a crime to be
smart? Why is it socially unacceptable to be good at math? Why is it we don't hold
up these students as great talents, rather than [allowing them to be] sneered at as
geeks? In some sense I think we as a society have simply given up on science and
math. A nation that can put a man on the moon...does not have the same determi-
nation it used to."


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A LIFETIME AGO
Yesterday's Gator
Engineers aren't so
different from current
students.


ike an old family photograph, the determination
of 50 years ago has faded.
"There was a tremendous explosion in
communications technology," Khargonekar said.
"The Internet made it possible to collaborate with people
all over the world in a far more effective manner. The
other thing that changed is a rise in engineering capacity
in other nations, like the availability of computer-aided
design tools which enabled engineers anywhere to do a
higher level of work than was possible before. A person
in India is using the same tools as a person in California;
that was a great equalizer."
The National Science Foundation and the
National Academy of Engineering have the
same prediction: If something isn't done soon "Thi
to better prepare and interest the nation's has
children in science and engineering careers, fre
there will be serious consequences. tea
Perhaps the most alarming statistics come
from a report called Rising Above the Gathering Storm by
the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of
Engineering and Institute of Medicine.
The report calls for initiatives to:
Increase America's talent pool by vastly improving K-12
mathematics and science education.
Sustain and strengthen the nation's commitment to
long-term basic research.
Develop, recruit and retain top students, scientists and
engineers from both the U.S. and abroad.
Ensure that the United States is the premier place in the
world for innovation.
The 2007 report ends with a list of "worrisome
indicators" that include the numbers of engineers being
produced by China, India, Japan and other countries.
The report states that in 2004, China graduated about


500,000 engineers and India graduated 200,000. America
graduated 70,000.
Vivek Wadhwa, a faculty member at Duke University's
Pratt School of Engineering and co-author of Framing the
Engineering Outsourcing Debate: Placing the United States
on a Level Playing Field with China and India, says those
numbers are fuzzy and nothing more than scare tactics.
"It seems to happen every 10 to 20 years and it turns
out there is no [engineering] shortage," Wadhwa said.
"People are playing with the numbers for their own
reasons.



s is a national problem and
Sto do with how we teach
,shmen as much as with how we
ich high school students."


adhwa reasoned it's cheaper for technologi-
cal executives to hire foreign employees.
Thus, lobbyists hired by technological firms
push for more H-1Bs (temporary worker passes allow-
ing foreigners with the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's
degree into the country), and that means cheaper labor.
Wadhwa also said some foreign engineering degrees are
not equivalent to a degree from an accredited U.S. engi-
neering school.
Still, even if international engineering education
isn't America's enemy, it's possible the nation is its own
enemy.
Science-based organizations have concerns about the
future of science and engineering education. The 2006
National Science Foundation Science and Engineering
Indicators report stated many college freshmen lacked


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science teachers not being qualified
to teach those subjects. The report
goes on to say college graduates who became
teachers have somewhat lower academic skills
on average than those who do not go into
teaching.
"There is a mix of teachers in our schools
who are not prepared to teach science and
math," Khargonekar said.
But he's not complaining. He's not blaming
teachers or the state education system. He sees
a problem that Gator Engineering can help
mend.
The College has a plethora of programs
geared toward retaining students and training
teachers to use hands-on projects in their classrooms.
"We have set off the fire alarms in Weil Hall more
than once demonstrating the principles of physics
[experimenting with heat and pressure] to high schools
teachers and students," said Deb Mayhew, assistant
director of student affairs, who also manages the
College's outreach programs. "We try to connect with
middle and high school kids early on and let them know
that math and science are important. So many things
start to distract them during their adolescence. When
they see things like the SAE [Society of Automotive
Engineers] cars and the wind tunnels, it helps them to
see what engineering is in a practical way."
besides the hands-on-learning clinics the
College offers to high school teachers and
students, Gator Engineering is preparing an
attack on student retention. Nationally, only
about 50 percent of students who enter col-
lege expecting to major in engineering actually graduate
with an engineering degree most of the drop-off hap-
pens in the freshman year. Therefore, seeing engineer-
ing for what it is instead of through the glazed eyes of a
freshman may be the key to keeping kids on track.
"This is a national problem and has to do with how
we teach freshmen as much as with how we teach high
school students," said Cammy Abernathy, associate dean
for academic affairs.
Gator Engineering has tried to address this by
clustering students in engineering-only sections -
including some engineering-women-only sections of
a few fundamental courses, Abernathy said. This helps
the students develop community and helps to keep them
from feeling isolated.
Materials Science & Engineering doctoral student
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for three semesters before the University cut the
program's funding. The program provided a select
group of engineering graduate students with extremely
competitive leadership awards to teach core courses like
chemistry, calculus and physics to first-year engineering
students.
"They wanted to see if matching the young engineers
with Ph.D. students would help the retention rate of
engineering freshmen," said Barnes, whose students
often tell her they hated chemistry and didn't get it until
taking her class. "It was one of the greatest experiences
of my life."
The tragedy lies in the experiences of all the would-
be engineering students who never got the opportunity
to participate in a program like the one Abernathy and
Barnes describe.
Students like Nancy Padron.
The engineering-student-turned-fine-arts-major said
she is confident in her decision to leave engineering, but
she still considers herself an engineer at heart.
"If I had been on the fence about switching majors,"
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I SED TO BE, UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING students
hit the books and graduate students devoted
their time to the lab. But these days, freshmen,
sophomores and upper-division undergraduates
titrate fluids, scrutinize microscopic samples and
work with Fortune 500 companies from one end of
the College of Engineering to the other.


Part of the reason is the growth of formal pro-
grams providing hands-on experience for under-
graduates. Besides the College's flagship Integrated
Product and Process Design program, dozens of un-
dergraduate engineering students participate in the
University Scholars program each year. Several Gator
Engineering departments have undergraduate re-
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more faculty rely
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ates as volunteer
or paid research


"At this time in their college careers, these kids are
taking chemistry and physics, and they don't know
why yet," Jones said. "If they're working in a lab, they
can see the positive benefits. They will get sold on the
topic."
The program, supplemented for the first time
this summer with a two-week internship at Sandia
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Laboratory,
also helps draw
students to-
ward materials
science and en-
gineering. Says


assistants. For his hurricane research, civil engineer-
ing associate professor Kurt Gurley taps six under-
graduates to build mock-ups of houses, tow wind-
monitoring towers to hurricane landfall sites and
tweak software to better suit his experiments' needs.
"All of our students go out in the field," Gurley
says, "but we also get a good deal of intellectual input
from them."
The benefits cut both ways.
Materials Science & Engineering Chair Kevin
Jones says his Department's Research Experience
in Materials program, designed exclusively for fresh-
men and sophomores, cements students' interest in
engineering.


Jones, "it's sort of a recruiting tool for us."
Many if not most undergraduate engineers
will advance to careers in the private sector rather
than academe or research institutions. But whatever
their fate, their experience as undergraduates will
help.
"Looking back, the biggest thing I got out of it was
the soft skills," said Chris Birdsall, a chemical engi-
neer at a major oil company who was a member of an
IPPD team in the 1995-1996 school year. "The team
building, consensus building, conflict resolution -
nowhere else in the engineering curriculum do you
acquire these skills."


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SUMMER ABROAD



NSF RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE FOR
UNDERGRADUATES
PROGRAM


Materials Science & Engineering freshmen and sophomores 28 of them at the moment work in Currently more than 40 percent of MSE ur
the Department's research labs. Each student works for 10 hours per week and gets paid $10 an hour. working on research projects.
Many of these students will go to Sandia National laboratories to learn about nanotechnology through
the National Initiative for Nano-Engineering, a two-week-immersion experience.


The Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering offers a class called
International Industrial Energy Management Consulting. The course, open to un-
dergraduate and graduate students, analyzes the economics and energy of Latin
America. This year, the class traveled to Santiago, Chile, to perform an energy audit
on an industrial manufacturing facility and report on theirfindings.

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering has a six-year-running undergraduate research
program funded by the National Science Foundation one of the few that has been renewed.


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idergraduates are


This summers trip marked the fourth year in a row for this
program.


It hosts about 10 students every summer.


Studying elephant populations or the genetics of beans may seem like an unusual way for high school "UF Summer Science Program students are an exciting and
SUMMER SCIENCE students to spend their summers, but it was all part of the Summer Science Training Program through motivated group," said assistant professor Greg Kiker, who
5 TRAINING UFs Center for Precollegiate Education and Training. The seven-week program pairs high school stu- teamedwith high school student RohitThummalapalli."This
PROGRAM dents with faculty and emphasizes research participation. Several high school students studied in the opportunity provides a great interaction between biological
Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering. engineering and the next generation of students."


About 140 undergraduates participate in more than two dozen projects per year in the IPPD program. Companies and othersponsors pay $20,000 annuallyto have
INTEGRATED Projects range from industrial processes to factory upgrades to commercial and medical products. team of IPPDstudentsworkon a project.
6 PRODUCT AND Student teams have helped Firehouse Subs engineer a better oven for heating sandwiches.They helped
PROCESS DESIGN Sunbeam build a better coffee maker. They also assisted Dow Chemical with a batch processing chal-
lenge and Medtronic Xomed with packaging for a medical nasal sponge.

Investing time and energy in extra-curricular activities gives undergrads unparalleled experience. Gator "Working in a group with stressful situations and
Engineering offers many opportunities, including the Society of Automotive Engineers, which builds different personalities teaches you how to deal
7 COMPETITIVE racecars for international student competitions; the micro airvehicle team, which builds 4-inch surveil- with real-world problems. To be successful you
S TEAMS lance aircraft; the SubjuGator team, which builds an autonomous underwater vehicle for a U.S. Navy- haveto becompetitive,"said Paul Flury, nowan
sponsored competition; andTeam Gator Nation, which builds autonomous vehicles to compete in a U.S. engineer for Richard Childress Racing, one of
Department of Defense competition. NASCAR's biggest teams.

What betterway to get on-the-job experience than on thejob? Internships and co-ops are a classic op- Internships and co-ops are also a great
S INTERNSHIPS portunity forstudents to explore. Gator Engineering is putting a new spin on an old favorite, though- way for companies to begin recruiting fu-
& CO-OPS we encourage freshmen to get an internship or co-op aftertheirfirst year in college. It helps them con- ture employees. Consider partnering with us to bring Gator
nectwith engineering much soonerthan they might have otherwise. Engineering studentsto your workplace.


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.TIM ANDERSON /

i Anderson received AIChE's Warren K. Lewis award for scholarly
Contributions to engineering education research and innovation,
dedication to career development of new engineering faculty, and
Stewardship of chemical engineering education.


.. ANTHONY BRENNAN / ssor i

Brennan received the 2007 Florida Blue Key Distinguished
SFaculty Award. This award, bestowed by Florida's oldest and most
Prestigious leadership honor society, has recognized outstanding
educators at UF for more than 50 years.


JOE BREWER / &

Brewer was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
SElectronic Engineers for contributions to nonvolatile memory
integrated circuit technology and digital signal-processor
"architecture.


JENNIFER S. CURTIS /

Curtis won the 2007 AIChE Lectureship Awardin Fluidization for
scientific and technical research contributions impacting the field
offluidization and fluid-particle flow systems.



I JONATHAN F.K. EARLE/Asso aor

Earle received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science,
Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. This is the first time a
UF faculty member has won this award. See page 8 for more.



SYUGUANG "MIKE" FANG / E

SFang was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
SElectronic Engineers for contributions to wireless networks and
mobile computing systems.



-. HUABEI JIANG/
SJiang was selected as a Fellow of the American Institute for
SMedical and Biological Engineering for creative and pioneering
work in the imaging and detection of breast cancer and other
S debilitating diseases.


.. MARK LAW / hi o Eeric

M RlL Law was elected by Iowa State University to receive the
\ Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering, or PACE award,
Sfor his clear prominence in engineering.



S T V.. STEVE PEARTON / r i

Pearton won the 2007 IEEE Electron Devices Society J.J. Ebers
Award for developing advanced compound-semiconductor
processing techniques and clarifying the roles of defects and
Simpurities in compound-semiconductor devices.


WIN PHILLIPS /

Phillips was elected chair of the Washington Accord. The accord
Sis a multinational, mutual recognition agreement and is the
equivalent of an international engineering accreditation system.



FAN REN/
Ren was selected by the Electrochemical Society to receive the
2008 Electronics and Photonics Division Award for sustained
and pioneering contributions to the development of high-speed
compound-semiconductor electronic devices.



^.'' '.. VERNON P. ROAN / Em; &

SRoan was selected as a Fellow of the Society of Automotive
.Engineers for more than 35 years of improving efficiency and
reducing emissions through pioneering research, development
.. .' and demonstration of hybrid-electric and fuel-cell vehicles.
...........'


K. CLINT SLATTON / P o &

Slatton won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and
: Engineers for his work on improving estimations of indirect
sensing applications. The PECASE award is among the most
prestigious national awards a young researcher can receive.


LIUQING YANG /Al &

Yang received a Young Investigator Program Award from the
Office of Naval Research. Her research proposes to take a systems-
oriented exploration on the self-configuration, self-optimization
and self-adaptation issues of wireless cooperative networks.

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NEW FACE,
OLD THEME
The addition to the south
side of theJ. Wayne Reitz
Union came in the form
of a welcome center and
a new bookstore. It was
completed in 2003.


1936
JOHN W. PERLOFF, B.S. CHE, is retired.
1949
CHARLES H. SAIN, B.S. CE, has been
elected to the Alabama Engineering Hall of
Fame. He founded Sain Associates Inc.
1951
ROBERT SHELLEY RUSS, B.S. CE,
is retired from the Florida Department of
Transportation.

JOHNNY B. SMITH, B.S. CE, owned
the eponymous John B. Smith Eng. Inc. from
1968-2000. He is now retired.

1952
DAVID W. TENNANT, B.S. IE, tried
retirement fora couple of years, only to discover
that working is better! He works mornings now
at Sensor Systems LLC.

1955
MARTIN J. ESSICK, B.S. CHE, has retired
but still tutors high school students in math,
chemistry and physics.
PARK B. MELTER, B.S. ME, is retired.


1956
CARL E. VANN, B.S. EE, has retired from
Martin Marietta.

1957
RONALD F. YORK, B.S. CE, retired in
2005 after 48 years of active practice.
1959
GEORGE H. SHIPLEY, B.S. EE, is retired
and is now a world traveler, having made his
way to every continent.
1960
MARVIN J. LOPEZ, B.S. IE, has retired
from his position at Raytheon Engineers and
Constructors, where he served as a senior
mechanical engineer.
1961
JACK SEIBERT, B.S. IE, M.S. MSE, has
enjoyed an illustrious career. He spent 25 years
as an engineer for the U.S. Army Airborne
Division before working as a project manager
for Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake. He co-
founded the Exploring Engineering Academy
at Georgia Tech and is currently a senior project
manager for CH2M HILL Inc. in Atlanta.
1963
DAVID JOHNSON THIGPEN, B.S. CE,
has retired from Lockheed Martin, where he
was a chief test pilot.


1965
MICHAEL LIFLAND, B.S., M.S., retired
in 2006 after spending the previous 16 years
as a professor of industrial technology at
Eastern Kentucky and as an adjunct professor
in materials engineering at the University of
Kentucky. He previously worked as a product
engineer for IBM and as a plant manager for
National Metal.

1966
In the previous issue of The Florida Engineer,
CHRISTIAN BAUER's degree years were
misidentified. He received a B.S. in industrial
engineering in 1966, a master's in 1967 and a
Ph.D. in civil engineering in 1975. He is currently
serving on the Florida Board of Professional
Engineers.

ROY ALLEN BROWN, B.S. CE, is the
owner of Gator Engineering Construction.

BRAD ROBERTS, B.S. EE, was recently
elected chairman of the
Electricity Storage .. .
Association during its
annual meeting. He
is the power quality
systems director of
S&C Electric Co. in
Chicago.


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1967
DOUGLAS M. DARDEN, B.S. CE, M.S. ME'68,
is the founder of D.M. Darden Inc., a consulting and
project management firm.

1968
In the previous issue of The Florida Engineer,
THOMAS N. ROBERTS' degree was
erroneously listed as a B.S. ISE. His degree is actually
in systems engineering.

1969
PEDRO GIRALT, B.S. ME, won one of four
national product design awards from the National
Society of Professional Engineers for the aluminum
picket handrail developed by Giralt Enterprises
Inc. of Miami. The handrail was designed to meet
the American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials criteria for sidewalks, bridge
approaches and retaining walls.

GARY WILLIAM KUHL, B.S. IE, M.S. EES
'78, is the current chairman of the Florida Engineers
Management Corp.

CHARLES ELLIS PHILLIPS, B.S. EE, is
an aircraft training equipment design engineer for
Boeing.

1974
STEPHEN SIERENS, B.S. ME, M.S. ME'76, is an
engineering manager with Pall Corp.

1982
JEAN ANN HALE-CORBIN, B.S. ECE, tests
and integrates SW applications for Integrated Space
Situational Awareness for Air Force Space Command.
She is an IIST certified SW test professional and test
manager.


1983
AARON ARNOLD, B.S. ME, is a senior engineer
for ASG Medical Systems and mentors his son on
Jupiter High's robotics team.

STEVEN BUCKLEY, B.S. MAE, is working for
the U.S. Air Force developing low-cost responsive
space launch vehicles.

DAVID BRUCE MARTIN, B.S. ISE, was
recently named manager of procurement metrics,
processes and controls at Lenovo Corp. in Morrisville,
N.C.

1986
JAMES HARDY JR., B.S. IE, has been promoted
to executive vice president of product supply for
ConAgra Foods.

DIANE STEWART, B.S. ME, is a senior engineer
at Entergy.

1987
MICHAEL ROBERT BARNETT, M.E. COE, is
the bureau chief of the Bureau of Beaches and Coastal
Systems for the Florida Department of Environmental
Protection.

RAFAEL LORENZO-LUACES, B.S. MAE, is a
senior manufacturing engineering manager at United
Launch Alliance Harlingen Operations in Harlingen,
Texas. ULA is a joint venture between Lockheed
Martin and Boeing combining two of the world's
premier launch vehicles, Atlas and Delta. In addition,
he has previously worked on Athena and Titan launch
vehicles and F-16 fighter programs.

KEVIN A. VANNOY, B.S. CE, was promoted to
director of market services for Midwest Independent
Transmission System Operator.


1988
ANDREA CANECEK CARVILL, B.S. CHE,
is a math and science teacher in the Pinellas County
School District. She won the Teach for Excellence
Grant from Progress Energy in order to fund her
school's entry into a statewide hydrogen-powered-
car race. Her students were victorious and competed
in an international competition in San Antonio this
October.

SEAN L. JERSEY, B.S. MAE, recently graduated
from the Uniformed Services Academy with an M.D.
He is currently surgical intern at David Grant Medical
Center.

1989
STEPHEN LEE, B.S. ECE, recently returned
from his third recall to active duty with the U.S. Navy
as chief engineer of a 12-boat squadron. He was
deployed to Kuwait.

1990 .......
KIRBY MCCRARY, '
B.S. CE, has been named .
director of debris services i
with iParametrics LLC of \
Alpharetta, Ga.

1991
SCOTT PHILIP D'ANTONI, B.S.
CE, is currently deployed with the 816 Expeditionary
Airlift Squadron at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, where
he flies a C-17 Globemaster III and works as the
assistant director of operations.

CHRISTOPHER PAUL METER, B.S. CE,
M.S. CE '94, is the geotechnical services manager
and vice president at Geotechnical & Environmental
Consultants Inc. in Orlando.








1996
JASON SCHMIDT, B.S. ME, is an automation
sales engineer for HPE Automation.

1998
STEFAN H. PHARLES, B.S. CISE, is working
for Google in Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to Google, he
spent seven years working for Microsoft, where he
filed eight patents.

1999
CHRISTINA BRYANT, B.S
ABE, M.S. ABE '02, has been
named as ombudsman
for the Environmental
Protection Commission
of Hillsborough County,
Wetlands Division. She had
already been serving as an .... ..
engineer within the Division.

NATHAN R. COLLINS, B.S. MAE, is the owner
of Georgia Watersports.

2000
MICHAEL DAVID WILSON, B.S. ISE, is an
operations research analyst for Northrop Grumman
Corp.

2002
DONNA FAYE WARD-WATSON, B.S. CISE,
is a senior software consultant for Progressive System
Solutions, Inc.

2003
ERRICK EGELAND, B.S. ME, is glad that the
Sales Engineering program at UF helped him get into
technical sales with the Lee Co.

NAVIN MANJOORAN, M.S. MSE, received
numerous awards while pursuing his doctorate at
Virginia Tech. He was named an Outstanding Student
Leader in 2007, Outstanding Graduate Student in the
VT College of Engineering in 2006, and was presented
with the Outstanding Graduate Student Service
Award in 2006. He now works for Siemens AG.

2004
TUAN TA, B.S. EE, worked in France after
graduation and is currently a product manager at
Schneider Electric in Tennessee.


2005
CHRISTINE ELIZABETH AMWAKE, B.S.
EE, is an engineer for Boeing's Satellite Division.

ADRIANA FUENTES, B.S. EE, works as a
product development engineer for the Ford Motor
Co. in Michigan.

JENNIFER GUSTETIC, B.S. MAE, is a
program analyst for the Transportation Security
Administration.

BONNIE SERINA, B.S. CCE, /
a project manager at Miller Legg, I
has been named Young Engineer 1
of the Year by the Palm Beach
Branch of the American Society of
Civil Engineers. She is currently the ....
community service chair for the ASCE
Palm Beach Branch Young Members Group.


2006
ERIC KNUDSEN, Ph.D. MAE, is currently
working for Northrop Grumman and is conducting
fracture experiments with the underseas division.

2007
SIMON B. HO, M.S. ISE, spent a month in China
before beginning his job as a business risk consultant
for Protiviti.


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GATOR TRADITION
Lorenz Simpkin (B.S. EE '62) speaks with Scott Payne, a mechanical engineering doctoral student,
about the small satellite design club. The retired engineer's interest comes from 33 years of work-
ing for NASA at Kennedy Space Center. His son, Patrick, is now director of engineering at the center.
The annual homecoming alumni barbecue was held on Saturday, Nov. 3, in the O'Connell Center.
Harris Corp. sponsored free tickets for Gator Engineering alumni, family and friends.






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REMEMBER WHEN...
Pete and Shirleen Wait, foreground, listen to a fellow Gator Engineer reminisce at the Grand Guard
Luncheon on Nov. 16 about his experience as a student in the College. Pete Wait graduated in the class
of 1957 with a degree in electrical engineering. He and his wife now live in Atlantic Beach.


BEEN BUILDING THE GATOR NATION
Henry Weisenburger (B.S. AE '51), left, and Freeman Good (B.S. ME'53) swap stories about the
several years they worked together for the same company.The two did not know each other when
they were students but became friends when they were co-workers."Can you believe that we
ended up working for the same company?"Good said."We were two buildings apart."


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DEVELOPMENT


CAMPAIGNING
.for eaicatum
Florida Tomorrow: The Campaign for the University of Florida kicked off Sept. 28. Events were
held around campus and concluded with an evening gala at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center. The
University aims to raise $1.5 billion, of which $544,221,343 has already been raised.


S llege- O be-quest \bi-
Engineerings west\ noun:
I you are kind
2fla n a l n Ienough to re-
l n member UF
D iction ai r in your will.
dictionary There's no need
to wait until
death do us part,
I I .,! however-through
certain planned giv-
ing programs you and UF
can enjoy your investment while you're still of
strong mind and body.
campaign \kam-pan\ noun: a prolonged effort
to raise money for UF. The campaign is vital to
the University's health, making our teaching, re-
search and service possible.
endowment \in-dau-mant\ noun: think of it as
a big savings account, big enough that you can
live off the interest without touching the actual
balance. UF's endowment topped $1 billion for
the first time this year. Seeing that balance grow
even more is of great interest to the University
because it broadens the scope of what we can do
for our students, faculty and you.
fellowship \fe-la-ship\ noun: similar to a schol-
arship, it helps graduate students with their ad-
vanced studies and research.
match-ing gift \mach-ing gift\ noun : an easy way
to double or even triple your gift's value. Many
employers have programs in which they give dol-
lar-for-dollar to the charity of your choice (in-
cluding UF). At higher money levels, the state has
a similar program for donations to universities.
pro-fes-sor-ship \pra-fe-sar-ship\ noun : a major
kudo for a UF faculty member to receive, provid-
ing them with money for research and program
development.
stew.ard-ship \sti-ard-ship\ noun: a fancy word
to say we're responsible with money. We promise
to invest your money wisely and spend it in accor-
dance with your wishes. We'll be good stewards.

Ann McElwain
Senior Director of Development
330Weil Hall/P.O. Box 116575
Gainesville, FL 32611
P. 352-392-6795 / F. 352-846-0138
amcel@eng.ufl.edu
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LORIDA TOMORROW STIRS IN THE HEARTS OF TODAY'S GATOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS.
They are the teachers, the scientists, the entrepreneurs, the doctors and the leaders. They are
the dreamers, they are the problem-solvers, they are the innovators. They are empowered by the
generosity of Gator Engineering investors. Because of these heroes, we can use tangible rewards
to attract and keep the very best faculty. Because of their contributions, we can enhance our un-
dergraduate experience with instant access to industry and state-of-the-art research and teach-
ing facilities. Because of their gifts, in our lifetime we will see products, devices and technologies
emerge from UF and change the world. Florida Tomorrow depends on the heart of today's Gator
Engineering supporters.



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LETTERS


WE HAVE A WINNER
Brianna Sylvester, 10, is the winner of the Great Car Contest.
Brianna answered the call for entries from Quark's Engineering
Adventure. The children's activity book was mailed with
the summer 2007 issue of The Florida Eng --.,
Brianna's dad, Sean, is a Gator Engineer (B.S.
EE'05, MS '07). Congratulations, Brianna.


DEAR FLORIDA

ENGINEER...


FOND MEMORIES
In the summer issue of The Florida Engineer I
came across "Friends We'll Miss." From the 1958
class, I read John W. Sanwald's name. John and
I were close friends and graduated from high
school together. After we both served time in
the armed services, John talked me into going
to UF. His wife introduced me to the girl that
became my wife 48 years ago. Thank you for
bringing back fond memories.
Theodore M. Hillyer (B.S. CE'59)

QUARK ROCKS!
Since my son, Travis, is Gator Engineering
graduate, we receive your magazine. The recent
issue included "Quark," an activity book for
children. I am very impressed the engineering
college would take the time to introduce our
children to engineering and physics. I think this
supplement will encourage our children to be
engineers. We all know just how great it is to be
a Gator Engineer Travis has shown us.
Thank you,
Iris Ruth

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HEY, YOU
Your latest issue got my attention. It's quite
a change from the typography of the 1950's.
Keep up the good work.
Fred R. Sias (B.S. EE'54, M.S. EE'59)
Editor, The Florida Engineer
1951-1952


FROM 349


WEILHALL
Pop culture often portrays college life as frothy
and salacious. Movies like Animal House are
amusing, and perhaps you once donned a toga
in honor of Bluto Blutarsky. News stories publicize the
/ brash aspects of college life, like the Duke University
' i./ rape case and the now infamous "Don't Tase me, Bro,"
incident at UF. Even The Princeton Review ranks the
university of Florida as the No. 4 party school, No. 12 for
'their students (almost) never study,' No. 9 for beer and
is the No. 3 jock school.
Don't get me wrong I'm sure Gator Engineers
have participated in toga-parties. Good for them.
But the other side of Gator Engineering really
flips our skirts even when we wear pants.
For example, students from UF's Engineers
Without Borders chapter are raising money
so they can go to Cambodia. They plan to
install a sanitation system and train rural
Cambodians to run it. The micro air vehicle, a
4-1/2-inch surveillance plane, and the SubjuGator,
ijr autonomous submarine created by UF engineer-
iri.j ilitIrai., are more examples of how Gator Engineering
,i, ...m.arirently win international competitions. Materials
..' r, i fnigineering undergraduates swarmed the depart-
iniri[rm I ior a chance to spend two weeks
r1 riia di I Itional Laboratories learning
about nanotechnology.
Undergraduates have always been
the backbone of universities. And our
College knows this. We cultivate it.
Dean Pramod Khargonekar taught
Information Technology and Society in the
fall of 2006. The class was for freshmen. The
Integrated Product & Process Design course for se-
niors has sponsors like NASA, Procter & Gamble, BIC and the U.S.
Army that pay $20,000 to have our students -undergraduate
students make their products or designs better.
A Gator Engineer is a great thing to be, especially an under-
graduate engineer- even in a toga.

S M...........................
NICOLE CISNEROS McKEEN, Editor


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