Department of Mechanical Engineering

Fall 2008 www.engr.colostate.edu/me Volume 11, Number 1

Tom Bradley Joins the ME Faculty s of August 2008, Tom Davis, he worked on continuously systems course and was often a guest Bradley has become the variable transmission (CVT) design lecturer on fuel cell systems as well as Alatest member of Colorado and fabrication. His master’s thesis energy technology and policy. He also State’s mechanical engineering dealt with the dynamic simulation was an active lecturer in surrounding faculty. Bradley comes to us from of such transmissions for purposes high schools. His active research Georgia Tech, where he just finished of design. has served as the basis for a strong his Ph.D. with a dissertation entitled Bradley has not only studied record of journal publications and “Modeling, Design, and Energy and applied these advanced energy conference presentations already Management of Fuel Cell Systems conversion topics in academe but numbering close to 30. for Aircraft.” also has applied them in the real As a teacher, Bradley believes He has worked on alternative world. He provided analysis and strongly in hands-on engineering energy systems beginning with his design input for the Electric Power experiences for student learning. undergraduate work at the University Research Institute (EPRI) dealing He says, “In addition to the fun- of California – Davis, where he worked with PHEVs and he helped Ford damentals of engineering science, Professor Tom Bradley on a Chevy Suburban conversion to with simulation, control system engineering education should be Bradley has come to Colorado a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle design, and fuel economy analy- an education in scientific thinking, State because of the department’s (PHEV) for the 2001 SAE National ses for the prototype of the Ford problem solving, group process- excellent reputation in combustion Future Truck Competition. Escape Hybrid. ing, and individual accountability.” and renewable energy research, During his master’s degree stud- At Georgia Tech, he was active as These are values long held high in the its entrepreneurial spirit, and its ies, completed in March 2003 at Cal a co-instructor of a renewable energy ME curriculum at Colorado State. (continued on Page 3)

Joint CSU-JNC Workshop s part of Colorado State’s ongoing efforts to encourage Athe internationalization of its research and education efforts, several of the University’s senior administrators and faculty visited various institutions of higher learning around the world, including China, India, South America, Europe, New Zealand, and Russia. In India, the primary institution for engineering and science research and education is the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNC), located in Bangalore. Several of CSU-JNC Workshop Participants, April 2-3, 2008 Colorado State’s faculty and admin- Left to right back row: C. Narayana, Michael Elliott, G.U. Kulkarni, Dieter Hochheimer, S. Bhattacharya, istrators visited JNC over a period Amy Prieto, Swapan K. Pati, James Sites, Tony Rappe, Randy Bartels, Matt Shore, K.S. Narayan, of two years. Tony Frank, Colorado U.V. Waghmare, Bryan Willson, and Mani Manivannan. Front row: A.K. Sood, Allan Kirkpatrick, C. N. R. Rao, State’s provost and senior executive William Farland, and Tony Maciejewski. (continued on Page 4) Charles E. Mitchell Passes Away From the Department Head As a professor of mechanical all greetings from the Department of engineering, Mitchell directed the Mechanical Engineering! I hope that research of more than 30 master’s Fyou have had a good summer. Classes and doctoral students in the general are now in full swing, and again the campus is fields of combustion, propulsion, full of new students embarking on their college and gas dynamics. He developed careers. We have a good-sized freshmen class an international reputation in aero- of 124 students. Eighty two percent are from space propulsion and gave invited Colorado, with Littleton (13), Colorado Springs (12), Loveland (8), and Fort Collins (8) being lectures in the Republic of China the top four cities of the freshmen class. We and at the European Space Agency graduated about 120 students in May, so we in The Netherlands. Federal agencies Allan T. Kirkpatrick remain one of the largest ME departments in such as NASA, the Department of the Rocky Mountain West. Energy, and the National Science In this fall newsletter, we have a variety of articles about events in the ME Foundation sponsored his research department that I hope you find interesting. We were successful in hiring a new on rocket engine combustion. In faculty member this year, Tom Bradley, who recently received his Ph.D. from Professor Charles Mitchell addition, he was the principal or co- Georgia Tech. He will strengthen our new initiatives in the energy systems area investigator on projects funded by the with his interests in hybridized fuel cells and analysis of energy systems. More harles E. Mitchell, professor Colorado Energy Research Institute, information about him is given in the article on Page 1. In other news, our senior design teams performed at a very high level at the of mechanical engineering, the Air Force Office of Scientific national competitions. Two competition groups deserve special recognition. passed away on Saturday, Research (AFOSR), and the National C The CSU SAE Aero Design West Team placed second in the open class, lifted 55 March 8, 2008, of a heart attack. Renewable Energy Laboratory. pounds, and won the Design Innovation Award for their takeoff assist system. Mitchell was 66 years old. He is A memorial tree honoring The ASME Human-Powered Vehicle Team placed first in the utility event and survived by his wife, Veta, and three Mitchell will be planted just outside second overall with their tadpole design. Please refer to the photos of the groups children, Charlie, Lynn, and Darla. the mechanical engineering depart- throughout this newsletter. Your continuing support of our students, particularly Mitchell was a highly respected ment office. A fellowship is also the Senior Design students, makes our participation in these events possible. educator and researcher. planned to honor Mitchell. Thank you, and best wishes for the fall. Mitchell joined Colorado State For more information or to University in 1967 as an assistant make a donation to the fellowship, professor of mechanical engineering. please contact Shannon Mosness, Allan Kirkpatrick A Princeton University alumnus, [email protected], he earned a bachelor’s degree in (970) 491-7028. aeronautical engineering in 1963 and master’s (1965) and Ph.D. (1967) degrees in aerospace and mechanical engineering. He was considered an outstanding teacher and adviser by his colleagues and students. Over the course of his career, he taught a broad range of undergraduate courses in thermodynamics and engineer- ing principles and developed new courses in aerospace propulsion and compressible fluids. At the graduate level, he created and directed several new courses, including mechanics and thermodynamics of propulsion, combustion, and wave propagation. SAE Aero Design West Team ASME Human-Powered Vehicle Team Fort Worth, Texas Reno, Nevada April 2008 April 2008

Student Competitions Oct. 10 COE 50th and Prior Reunion Breakfast Calendar of Events (dates and locations to be announced): Internet Café/Engineering Building • SAE Aero Design West Oct. 10 MEAP Board Meeting, Lory Student • ASME Human-Powered Vehicle Center 214-216 • SAE Formula Hybrid Competition Dec. 20 Fall Undergraduate Commencement LSC Main Ballroom • Formula SAE Race Car Competition Mar. 28 Alumni and Friends Awards Dinner ME/College of Engineering/ LSC Cherokee Park University Events: Apr. 17 Engineering Days/ME Senior Design Practicum Project Demos 2007-2008 Robotic Eagle Lure Oct. 9 Annual 50th and Prior Reunion Dinner Senior Design Team Fort Collins Hilton Apr. 17 MEAP Board Meeting, LSC 214-216

2 Phillip Gibson Receives Distinguished Alumni Award hil Gibson (B.S.M.E. 1963) choice among his classmates and was awarded the Mechanical because the mechanical engineering PEngineering Distinguished department fit his interests very well. Alumni Award in April 2008. The After leaving Colorado State, he College of Engineering alumni headed to Northwestern University awards recognize former students for graduate study. whose accomplishments in their After he left Northwestern, Gibson careers, their service to industry was hired at Battelle-Columbus and the public, and/or their volun- in Ohio to work in their research teer efforts have brought honor to labs. He worked on a project to test that individual, to the College of cables for marine applications. He Engineering, and to Colorado State then moved with Battelle to a testing University. facility located in Long Beach, Calif. Gibson is president of TMT Labs Gibson’s engineering team came to in Huntington Beach, Calif., a busi- have a reputation for being experts ness he started that conducts testing at testing cables, and, as a result, they of wire rope and large cables for began to have an increasing number bridges, marine towing applications, of repeat customers. Business was Phillip Gibson received the Distinguished Alumni Award. structures, off-shore drilling rigs, and booming. Gibson and his engineers many other similar applications. decided to launch their own com- a Russian submarine. Gibson now deal with the performance of wire Before starting at Colorado State, pany to do this work as a private owns and runs several different rope and cables in many applications Gibson had lived in many locations company. companies, though TMT is the from high-strength steel cables to around the Midwest and attended Much of their equipment was largest. It has more than 20 engineers copper. In the proud tradition of several schools. His father worked donated by an initial investor, and on staff and about 40 employees. His Colorado State mechanical engineer- in sales for Studebaker, and they they were able to use it as collateral to daughter, Kristen, is vice president. ing graduates, Gibson has clearly had been in Denver for only a year acquire more startup funds. Gibson To find more information about been a success. Congratulations are before Gibson began his studies at bought much of his testing supplies TMT, see www.tmtlabs.com. TMT due to Phil Gibson for receiving Colorado State. He chose Colorado from an entrepreneur who was is a successful company offering a the 2008 Mechanical Engineering State ME because it was a popular trying to do marine work to recover wide range of testing services that Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Tom Bradley Submit Nominations for 2009 (continued from Page 1) Distinguished Alumni Awards emphasis on practical engineering such as PHEV systems. Such analyses with real-world applications. He will are broad in scope including not only The College of Engineering is accepting nominations for outstanding collaborate with ME faculty Bryan the complex technologies involved in awards from each of the five academic departments as well as to one Willson at the Engines and Energy the systems but also aspects such as engineering science alumnus and one collegewide honoree. Recipients Conversion Laboratory and with environmental impact, economics, of these awards are former students who, by their distinguished career Professors Fitzhorn and Radford manufacturing, and practicality and service to the college, University, state, nation, or world, have brought of the Motorsports Engineering from the perspective of, for example, honor to the College of Engineering, Colorado State University, and Research Center (MERC). With automobile manufacturers. A cur- themselves. Willson, Bradley is interested in rent interest is hybridized fuel cell- Submit your nomination for these awards online at: examining the production processes powered aircraft – an example in www.engr.colostate.edu (click on “Alumni & Friends”) for biofuels. In the motorsports pro- which fuel cells along with batteries by December 31, 2008 gram, he hopes to become involved would be used to power aircraft. You may also submit the following information by e-mail or regular with the new formula hybrid project This fall, Bradley will be teaching mail to the address below: in the design practicum. He also ME 324, a mechanical design course • Designate the department for which you are submitting the plans to develop a dynamometer that focuses on mechanisms and nomination (mechanical engineering, engineering science, etc.). laboratory and a fuel cell power kinematics. He is interested in the • List the name of the nominee, along with his/her home address and laboratory at the MERC located at senior design practicum course and phone number; business name, address, phone, and title; e-mail the Foothills Campus. would like to start a new course address; and a very brief statement regarding why you believe this He hopes to develop funded dealing with a systems engineering nominee deserves this award. research programs in vehicle design, approach to renewable energy. • If you are nominating another individual (i.e., this is not a integrated energy management and Bradley’s wife, Kimberly Catton, self-nomination), please also include your name, home address, control in aerospace and automotive is in the final stages of completing a and phone number; business name, address, phone, and title; and systems, and experiments and valida- Ph.D. in civil engineering at Georgia e-mail address. tion of simulations with applications. Tech and will be joining Colorado Shannon Mosness ([email protected]) In general, his interest is in systems State’s civil and environmental engi- College of Engineering, 1301 Campus Delivery analysis of complex energy systems neering faculty in 2009. Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1301

3 Joint Workshop 2008-2009 ME Scholarship Recipients (continued from Page 1) Scholarship Name Recipient A. J. Parfet Kevin E. Walters Advanced Energy-Hollis Caswell Joseph C. Kennedy Laura M. Ruff Allen Porter Mowry Memorial Bradley M. Carr Laura M. Ruff Amy and John Lawton Nathan A. Miller Douglas C. Paxton C. Byron and Donna T. Winn Andrew J. Craig Claude W. Wood John B. Coughlin Seth L. Davies Laura J. Davis Austin L. Jurgensmeyer Bruce A. Mayberry Rodney A. Pace Nathan J. Petter Shawn D. Salisbury Delano F. Scott Timothy M. Campbell Dr. Omnia El-Hakim Diversity Jennifer N. Serrao Engineering Scholars Bradley M. Carr Ryan J. Kindt Jennifer N. Serrao CSU President Larry Edward Penley and Professor C. N. R. Rao. Nicholas R. Walker Kevin M. Wills vice president, led a delegation of The mission of the workshop has George T. Abell Nicholas P. Echter Colorado State faculty to India in been to develop stronger relation- Jeffrey H. Gabel November 2006, in part to sign a ships between faculty and students Graham W. Howard Memorial Dustin J. Ragusa formal agreement with the Indian at JNC and Colorado State; to set the Ival V. Goslin Torres A. Neuhoff Space Research Organization (ISRO) stage for joint CSU/JNC proposals in J. T. Strate Educational Adam J. Hutchinson in Bangalore. The agreement calls for advanced materials and other related Johannes and Seraina Gessler Laura M. Ruff Mechanical Engineering Alumni/Faculty Kolby Leitch interaction between ISRO’s Radar areas; to discuss shared experimental Matthew J. Wenger Development Unit and Colorado and computational facility usage; Micro Motion Engineering Erin E. Bickley State relating to dual-polarized and to discuss collaborative edu- Eric S. Dischinger Doppler weather radar and the cational activities. More than 20 Eric R. Mowrer Virtual CHILL concept for Doppler research presentations were made Philip M. Tucker weather radar systems. by Colorado State and JNC partici­ NCPE Theodore L. Catlin Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs, pants, including a lecture by Nicholas Angelopulos John K. Avery Peter Dorhout, and two mechanical Pro­fes­sor C. N. R. Rao, chief adviser Robert L. and Bonnie J. Walker Steven A. DeHerrara Kelly D. Fagerstone engineering faculty, Allan Kirkpatrick to the prime minister of India for Amanda N. Marchiani and Mani Manivannan, made a science and technology, on the chem- Ryan J. Slinger follow-up trip to the Nehru Centre istry of nanomaterials. Robert Mock Memorial Matthew L. Ellis in 2007. In January 2008, seven It is hoped that these interactions Zach R. Glueckert faculty members from the College will encourage future faculty and Sjostrom Family Syndi Nettles-Anderson of Engineering and the College student collaboration, joint funding Vorhees Family Jennifer E. Lee of Natural Sciences visited JNC, of proposals, and a formal institu- Walery Richard Gawronski Memorial Kevin E. Walters attending the first of two scientific tional link between Colorado State Walter Scott, Jr. Gregory J. Broughton workshops. The second workshop and the Nehru Centre for Advanced Joseph D. Gerdom James W. Howland was held at Colorado State University Scientific Research. Zachary D. Simson on April 2-3, 2008.

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2007-2008 Single-Axis PV Tracker Senior Design Team 2007-2008 Formula SAE Senior Design Team 4 Fall 2008 Department of Mechanical Engineering

Class Notes Frank Pless (’61) is retired and Methodist Church in Coolidge, Ariz., Labs in Albuquerque, N.M. He has T. Daniel Lebel (’84) is a mission enjoying life in Greeley, Colo. Most of for 10 years. As a registered mechanical just completed the launch assessment manager for United Launch Alliance his work was in seismic exploration, and electrical engineer in Arizona and of the Mars Science Laboratory for in Colorado. He and wife, Karen, have with 10 years in Venezuela, Saudi Colorado, he does consulting work for the President’s review and approval. two daughters, ages 14 and 15. Arabia, Libya, and Niger, and about 15 various for-profit and not-for-profit The Mars Science Laboratory will be P. McCoy Smith (’84) is now years in Alaska, the Gulf Coast, and the organizations. launched in September 2009. Robinson intellectual property practice group western United States. Tom Nycum (’68) retired from has been asked by the Department of director at Intel Corporation in Frank M Knafelc (’62) retired Colorado College in Colorado Defense to be embedded with a small, Hillsboro, Ore. on Nov. 1, 2007, as director of engi- Springs on June 30, 2008, ending a military multinational task force Harvey Mamich (’85) is currently neering of The Clorox Company. 36-year career in higher education as the civilian technical adviser in the navigation lead for NASA’s new His engineering career spanned 26 administration. He held engineer- Afghanistan. His responsibilities are Orion manned spacecraft that will years with Clorox and 20 years with ing administrative positions at the focused on counter-IED and include return astronauts to the moon in 2020. Colgate. During his career, he was the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, structural analysis of new counter- He is responsible for design, develop- recipient of 14 patents. The Clorox the University of Florida, and the IED designs, social networking of ment, and testing of all absolute and Company recognized Knafelc by University of California-Berkeley. In terrorist networks, and risk analysis of relative navigation sensors and soft- presenting him with the company’s 1986, he moved to the University of operational plans. He will return to the ware on Orion. Mamich completed Engineering Excellence Award. Knafelc California-Riverside as vice chancellor United States in Spring 2009. an M.S. in mechanical engineering at resides in Lafayette, Calif., with Janice, for administration and in 1992 moved Clarke Chambellan (’79) received Arizona State University in 1990. He his wife and lifelong sweetheart. to the University of Utah as vice his master’s in mechanical engineer- worked for Motorola in Phoenix, Ariz., They have four children and nine president for administrative services. ing from Denver University in June for four years before returning to his grandchildren. He finished his career at Colorado 2007. After 17 years working for the home state of Colorado in 1990. He Roger A Lewis (’65) was commis- College, moving to Colorado Springs National Center for Atmospheric has now been with Lockheed Martin in sioned a second lieutenant, spending in 2000 as vice president for business Research, he is starting an engineering Denver, Colo., for more than 18 years four years flying KC135s in the Air and finance/treasurer. His mechanical services company, 2C Engineering, and has worked navigation, controls, Force. He flew for World Air Ways for engineering training was invaluable LLC. Chambellan is married with and software on numerous launch one year after leaving the Air Force and not only in engineering administrative two children. His wife, Collette, works vehicle and satellite programs. was hired by Delta Air Lines in October positions but also during his time as as an archeologist. Their daughter, Ron Hink (’86) is a design-build 1972. He was the flying captain on the chief business officer for higher Megan, just returned from Thailand manager at the Blue Grass Chemical Boeing 767-400 to Hawaii at the time education institutions. after spending 10 months on a student Agent Destruction Project located in of his retirement from Delta Air Lines Robert (Bob) Steffes (’69) exchange. She will be attending Fort Richmond, Ky. in October 2002. While with Delta Air retired from the Iowa Department of Lewis College this fall. Their son, Mark Hartwell (’87) has been Lines, he flew the Convair 880, DC9, Transportation Materials Research in Adrien, has been attending Fort Lewis employed 21years by The Boeing DC8, Boeing 727,757/767, MD88, 1993 and began managing the National College and is preparing to spend his Company in Everett, Wash. He is a MD90, and L1011. He was based in Concrete Pavement Technology junior year in Germany as an exchange Level 4 engineer currently involved in Dallas for most of his career but also Center’s research laboratory at Iowa student. the main deck cargo lighting design flew out of Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, State University. He and wife, Rache, Kevin Dickson (’79) owns and for the new minor model 777 freighter and Los Angeles. Lewis’s children are live in Ames, Iowa, and enjoy visits operates Dickson Redevelopment, airplane. He works closely with other Amber, Gerrit, Katie, and Rebecca. from their five children and seven LLC, in Denver, Colo., a profes- groups, such as avionics, to incorpo- James Demlow (’67) worked for grandchildren. sional property and redevelopment rate related systems, such as the main Martin Marietta Corporation, now Ronald Beethe (’71) operates RLB organization. deck alert system. He has also worked known as Lockheed Martin, for six CIH, LLC, in Albuquerque, N.M., Jim Mueller (’80) retired from in payloads engineering for galleys, years. While at Lockheed Martin, he along with Jean Beethe, and Robert ConocoPhillips in September 2007 customer engineering as an option attended law school at the University and Michelle Measles. The firm is and now resides with his wife, Cindy manager, service engineering for the of Denver. After practicing law for five an environmental health and safety (M.B.A. 2000), in Grand Lake, Colo. enhanced security flight deck door, years, he was appointed to the bench consulting company that provides Their son, Michael, is working on his and now in systems engineering for in Jefferson County, Colo. He plans to services to a wide range of clients. Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at electrical subsystems. For the last 14 retire in January 2009, after serving 30 Typical services include indoor air Stanford University, and son Chris years, his immediate family has been years and 11 months on the bench. He quality investigations, inspection and recently graduated from the University involved with rental property in the and his wife, Delsa, have 14 grandchil- sampling for mold, testing of form of Texas with a B.S. in computer Everett and Fort Collins areas. For the dren and one great-granddaughter. He clandestine drug labs, health and safety science and is working for TimeGate last 15 years, he has volunteered as a hopes to be accepted into the senior training, and development of health Studios in Houston, Texas. Little League baseball umpire, which judge program in Colorado and may and safety programs. Beethe finds his Lisa (Gaskill) Johannsen (’83) is good exercise for a person with a travel around the state trying cases in Colorado State engineering education and her husband, Tom Johannsen, desk job. Since graduation, he has been other jurisdictions. James and Delsa helpful in all aspects of the business. own a small product design firm in fortunate to visit 19 foreign countries enjoy their two black Labs and the David Robinson (’77) received Centennial, Colo. Johannsen, Sorwick, both for business and pleasure. During deer and elk running through their his master’s in system engineering at & Associates, Inc., provides industrial the last six years, he has visited South property in Evergreen, Colo. AFIT in 1981 and his Ph.D. at Arizona design and mechanical packaging Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe for Ed Denham (’67) has been a in 1986. He is currently a distinguished engineering to the medical product hunting and photographic safaris. pastor at the Spirit of Joy United member of the technical staff at Sandia industry. (continued on back) Fall 2008 Department of Mechanical Engineering

Class Notes (continued from other side) Andy Walker (’91) is currently Company (joint venture with Qatar new machines for specialty manufac- disease process. Her husband, Dan senior engineer at the National Petroleum and ExxonMobil) in Doha, turing applications. Schmidt (’06), works for Boeing and Renewable Energy Laboratory, where Qatar. He and his wife and three child­ Jeremy Nelson (’05) has been currently oversees the oxygen system he recently developed a method to ren really enjoy living in Qatar and with CPP, Inc., in Fort Collins since and upper deck sidewall installations determine the combination of renew- have had the opportunity to travel to graduation. He is working towards for 747-400 passenger planes being able energy technologies (photovolta- Egypt, United Arab Emirate, Bahrain, his P.E. license and got married converted to freighters. After meet- ics, wind, solar water heating, solar Spain, and Italy over the last year. Last Feb. 1, 2008. ing at Colorado State, Zuehlsdorff ventilation air preheating, parabolic fall, he was accepted into the Ph.D. Dennis Schmitt (’05) filled a and Schmidt were married on June troughs for heat and power, biomass program in reliability engineering at new position within EnCana as the 29, 2008. The two reside in Seattle, for heat and power, and daylighting) the University of Maryland. Carnahan rotating equipment engineer for all Wash. that minimizes life-cycle cost for a facil- is looking forward to some Colorado of the U.S. Rockies assets. He provides Dawn Dalangin (’07) completed ity. He has piloted the method for Frito State Ram football victories. engineering support to their existing her second degree, a B.M. in piano Lay factories; Anheuser-Busch brewer- Canaan Manley (’99) is currently compression assets and provides performance, in 2008. She became ies; the Town of Greensburg, Kan.; working in the trim/chassis engineer- strategic planning and engineering a finalist in several national piano a high school in Idaho; the National ing department of Nissan located in design for all future compressor assets competitions and has also been a Zoo in Washington, D.C.; a naval Canton, Mo. Her responsibility is in in the Rockies. recipient of numerous engineering base in California; and agricultural new model development for the new Adam Biegen (’06) has been a and music awards, including winning research stations in Texas. In 2008, he North American light commercial mechanical design engineer with first place at the 2006 Colorado State presented his research to the National vehicle division that Nissan has begun. Conmed Electrosurgery since June University Concerto Competition. Academy of Sciences in Washington, She recently spent three weeks in Japan 2006. He designs electrosurgical While at Colorado State, Dalangin was D.C. He is active in ASME, organizing building a prototype frame and chassis products that are used by doctors and working part-time as a piano teacher two conferences in 2008 and starting for a new program to start in 2010. nurses in the operating room. He has with more than 40 students. Last a term on the executive committee. Gavin Haverstick (’01) was also designed injection-molded plastic September, she decided to open her Walker’s three sons are Josh, 17, who recently promoted to the position of parts, thermoform parts, sheet metal own piano school, the Amadeus Piano won a contest to sit on the board of lead acoustical engineer at Auralex parts, and metal injection molded Academy in Fort Collins. In its second a soft-drink company; Alex, 13, who Acoustics in Indianapolis, Ind. He parts. The best part of his job is using year, she continues to be director and was on the football team that won the has been with the company since CAD (ProE) almost everyday. He has head instructor. She is continuing her 2007 Colorado state championship; graduation. His responsibilities include become extremely proficient in ProE music education this fall with a Master and Kirby, 4, who shows promise with acoustical design and modeling of and has been able to learn most of the of Music in piano performance. Dawn finger paint. Andy often helps his wife, recording studios, home theaters, many modules. lives in Windsor, Colo., with Matthew Renee, with her company, Ambient houses of worship, auditoriums, Cam DeCoster (’06) currently Bartell (’06), who also owns his own Energy, Inc., which provides energy conference rooms, arenas, and new works for Ball Corporation in successful business, and their three modeling and sustainability ratings product research and development. Broomfield, Colo., as a project engi- dogs. for large commercial buildings across Jason Jonkman (’01) recently neer in the plastics packaging division. Douglas Brooke (’07) is a manu- the country. earned a Ph.D. in aerospace engineer- He helps manage projects to create facturing engineer at Lanx, LLC, in Tim Moore (’93) and wife, ing sciences from the University of and commercialize PET beverage Broomfield, Colo. Michelle, welcomed the birth of a Colorado at Boulder. He is employed containers (such as a 20-ounce soda Brandon Lucero (’07) is a certi- son, Josiah Douglas, on Nov. 12, 2007. as a senior engineer researching wind bottle or Gatorade bottle). He plans fication engineer at Recaro located in Tim is a program manager for TSG energy at the National Renewable to be married in May 2009 to Leslie Fort Worth, Texas. ESS Linus OpenSource Lab. Energy Laboratory near Boulder. Hill, a Colorado State graduate in Shaun Onorato (’07) is a mechan- Keith Davis (’95) is a senior Jordan P. Smith (’01) was pro- environmental health and safety. ical/design engineer with ProTerra, project engineer at FuelCell Energy, moted to senior design engineer at Jonathan Reynolds (’06) is work- LCC, located in Golden, Colo. located in Danbury, Conn. Cameron Compression Systems in ing at Woodward as a test engineer. He Joseph Pault (’07) is a biomechan- Tobin Booth (’97) is CEO of May 2008. He celebrated seven years is starting a side business with Brian ical engineer at Steadman Hawkins Blue Oak Energy based in Davis, of service with Cameron on July Gray (’07), building electric cars. Research Foundation Biomechanics Calif. His company is a solar electric 2, 2008. He and his wife, Lindsay, Their first car should be completed Laboratory in Vail, Colo. design, engineering, and installation welcomed their first child, son Syd, by September (see progress at http:// Adam York (’07) accepted a firm. Tobin and his wife, Janie, have into the world on Feb. 8, 2008. They jabEV.com). Reynolds and his wife mechanical engineering position one daughter, Alexandra, who is 18 reside in Houston, Texas. are expecting their first child this with Lockheed Martin Space System months old. Michael Schultze (’04) is a December. Company in Littleton, Colo., working Roby DeManche (’98) finished his mechanical engineer in the piping Kelly Zuehlsdorff (’06) is work- on the military support programs M.B.A. at UC Berkeley Haas School of department of the Washington ing on her master’s in mechanical and performing structures design. Business in Spring 2008 and is now a Division of URS Corporation located engineering from the University of His current plans include beginning global supply manager at Apple, Inc. in Denver, Colo. Washington. With an emphasis in a Master of Science in mechatronic DeManche resides in San Francisco, Ken deAlmeida (’05) lives in biomechanics, she is studying the systems at the University of Denver Calif. North Conway, N.H., and works material properties of foot and ankle beginning next year. Kyle Carnahan (’99) currently for Dearborn Precision Tubular ligaments and how the properties Peter Fox (’08) lives in Littleton, works as technical manager for RasGas Products. He designs and fabricates change with age and the diabetic Colo., and works as an energy auditor for McKinstry in Conifer, Colo.