Centennial Fellow No. 21 Fife Fellow No. 82 Fife Fellow No. 84 D. Jason Owens Blake M. Andrews Jeremy B. Dreiling Jason is a chemi- Blake earned his civil Jeremy graduated cal engineering and engineering degree from the architec- mathematics major at Ohio University, tural engineering from the University where he graduated program at Kansas of South Carolina, first in his engineer- State University. He where he had the ing class. He devel- now begins an archi- opportunity to tutor oped an interest in tectural engineering students, individu- teaching while men- dual-degree program ally, teach in front of toring and helping at his alma mater. a class, and perform other students with His initial course- research in three dif- their studies. As he work will include ad- ferent laboratories. This dual interest re- begins graduate school at the University vanced studies in mechanical, electrical, and mains strong as he begins pursuing a Ph.D. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his early plumbing systems design for buildings, with in chemical engineering at the University studies will include finite-element analysis, particular attention to healthcare-related of Minnesota-Twin Cities as an NSF fellow. computer-aided structural design, and dy- design. In addition, he plans to become His research interests are in biomedical namic structural analysis. He will then turn accredited in the leadership in energy and engineering, although his particular area of to research involving positioning remote environmental design (L.E.E.D.) course concentration is unknown. His first semester sensors in members and structures for use in before he graduates. His graduate research will be devoted to routine coursework and real-time monitoring of structural behavior. will include optimization of indoor air qual- becoming familiar with the various research If this research proves to be productive, it ity through efficient design and integration. groups and areas within the department. He will likely become the subject of his thesis During a recent intern experience, Jeremy will also request a teaching position in his work. Graduate school should provide three helped analyze the feasibility of L.E.E.D. first semester. Thereafter, he will explore distinct career paths. If teaching holds his accreditation for a $98.5 million healthcare his dual interests of teaching and research interest, he will pursue a doctorate immedi- project. He then understood the powerful until he completes his Ph.D. program and ately. Second, if research work produces a effect that engineers have on the lives of then will pursue a faculty position at a major viable business opportunity, he would seri- individuals in healthcare facilities. During research institution. A TBP Nagel Scholar, ously consider pursuing that. Third, he may college, he was active in a wide variety of Jason was President of the South Carolina work on a team involved in structural and intramural sports and volunteered for mul- Beta Chapter and vice president of the geotechnical engineering, with the eventual tiple public-service organizations. He served AIChE and Pi Mu Epsilon. He was inducted goal of obtaining his P.E. license. He was as an officer in ASHRAE and A.E.I. He is a into Omega Chi Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa active in Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Lambda Delta, member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Alpha Epsilon, honor societies. and Chi Epsilon honor societies. and Mortar Board.
Fife Fellow No. 81 Fife Fellow No. 83 Fife Fellow No. 85 Cressel D. Anderson Justin T. Brown Kyle A. Frazier A Tau Beta Pi Schol- J u s t i n e a r n e d a Kyle graduated from ar, Cressel completed computer science Mississippi State his electrical engi- degree from Wash- University, where neering degree at the ington University he studied civil en- University of North in St. Louis, where gineering. In gradu- Carolina at Char- he graduated first in ate school at MIT, lotte in the top of his his engineering class. he plans to increase engineering class. His goal is to earn his understanding of He participated in a Ph.D. at his alma structural mechanics robotic competitions mater in the field of and technology and and worked to de- computer science, policy while continu- velop an autonomous “turtle.” He intends specializing in computer vision. He plans ing to develop the skills necessary to assume to pursue a Ph.D. in electrical engineering to devote considerable amounts of time to leadership in professional or academic com- at Georgia Institute of Technology, with a research. As an undergraduate, he used a munities. Another priority is to explore concentration on robotics. His motivation is dimensionality technique on sets of images ways to apply his mechanics, computing, and derived from new NASA initiatives, which to determine the degrees of freedom in the policy interest to less traditional fields of civil are likely to increase the demand for highly scene. He also studied techniques to track engineering, like sustainable infrastructure adaptable robots. Nature itself provides objects moving through a scene. The process or interdisciplinary fields like biomechan- Cressel with diverse insights for developing of developing and testing untried solutions ics. Kyle worked as a research assistant at new mechanisms—insights he plans to ap- intrigues Justin, and the lack of clear-cut the center for advanced vehicular systems ply when creating autonomous, biologically answers appeals to him. He has taught and, in that time, developed an interest in inspired robots. His previous experience symbolic logic and matrix laboratory classes applying high-performance computing to with robotic competitions and faculty sup- and delights in watching students suddenly complex structural problems. Interested in port have readied him for graduate school. grasp difficult new concepts. While he hopes the effects of public policy on engineering, he His goal as a graduate student is to publish to become a professor, his first priority is will use his master’s program as a gateway his research findings before beginning his to pursue a career in industry. He may join into Ph.D. study after gaining some practi- professional engineering career. His work a company that creates technology that cal, post-master’s professional experience. as co-chair of IEEE contributed directly to would have applications in surveillance and A TBP Nagel Scholar and a congressional an increase in local activity in that group. defense. He is a member of Tau Kappa Ep- intern, he was Vice-President of Tau Beta Cressel has been active in Tau Beta Pi, Eta silon fraternity and Tau Beta Pi and Mortar Pi and active in Chi Epsilon, Mortar Board, Kappa Nu, and Phi Kappa Phi. Board honor societies. and Phi Kappa Phi.
30 SUMMER 2006 THE BENT OF TAU BETA PI Fife Fellow No. 86 Fife Fellow No. 88 Fife Fellow No. 90 Christopher A. Guidry Matthew L. Kocoloski Siu-Ting D. Mak Christopher com- A Tau Beta Pi Schol- Dickson is a civil and pleted the biomedical ar, Matt graduated environmental en- engineering degree from the Univer- gineering graduate program at Louisi- sity of Dayton with of the University of ana Tech University, bachelor degrees in California, Berkeley. working as a research both mechanical en- A professor’s pre- assistant creating ar- gineering and math- sentation ignited his tificial red blood cells. ematics. He plans to interest in bridge The project involved spend the next few structures and in- the encapsulation of years at Carnegie spired him to begin hemoglobin within Mellon University an independent un- polypeptide shells, but he experienced an analytically investigating the large-scale dergraduate research project on self-an- epiphany after observing the work of an implementation of some renewable energy chored suspension bridges. He plans to orthopedic surgeon. The difficult and pre- technologies, with the final goal of obtaining obtain a one-year master’s degree and will cise effort required to perform that type of a Ph.D. He plans to examine these technolo- evaluate his options as the work progresses. surgery seemed to entail as much engineer- gies from engineering, environmental, and He hopes to become a leading engineer in ing as medicine. The benefits that patients economic perspectives, based on both the the area of innovative bridge structural enjoyed as the result of successful surgery current state of the art for these technolo- design. His ambition is to build bridges that impressed Chris. On the strength of this gies and the foreseeable future performance connect Hong Kong, his home city, with the insight, he is moving into a medical-degree of these types of systems. He might examine neighboring Zhujiang River delta in China. track at the University of Texas Health Cen- whether recent advances in solar photovol- The bridges he envisions would architectur- ter at San Antonio. He will undergo a two- taic technology will allow solar power to ally fit into the natural scenery and be en- year immersion in biochemistry, anatomy, meet even more of our future electricity vironmentally friendly during construction. histology, and pathology before spending demands. Or he may study whether the Dickson’s undergraduate work as a physics the second half of his graduate education in efficiency of thermoelectric devices could al- student and tutor helped to reinforce his clinical rotations in specialties. His ultimate low them to play a significant role in remote interest in teaching. He is a member of the goal is to become an orthopedic surgeon. He power generation. As he works through American Society of Civil Engineers and has is a member of Alpha Eta Mu Beta and the his graduate program, he intends to make been an active chamber musician on campus. Biomedical Engineering Society and served significant contributions to the engineering He is the historian for the on-campus society as President of the Louisiana Gamma Chap- community. Matt is a member of Tau Beta of Hong Kong and Chinese affairs. ter of Tau Beta Pi. Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, and Pi Mu Epsilon.
Fife Fellow No. 87 Fife Fellow No. 89 Fife Fellow No. 91 Joseph A. Harper Francis D. Lagor Jr. Evan R. Neal Tony is a computer Frank graduated Evan earned his engineering gradu- from Villanova Uni- B.S.E.E. from the ate of the University versity with a de- University of Utah, of Louisville’s Speed gree in mechanical graduating first in School of Engineer- engineering. Teach- his engineering class. ing. A former co-op ing and research He plans to obtain student, he plans to dominate his plans as both a master’s de- study computer sci- he begins graduate gree and a Ph.D. in ence and computer studies at the Uni- electrical engineer- engineering in the versity of Pennsyl- ing at Stanford Uni- graduate program vania. While serving versity, followed by at U.L. His particular areas of interest as an undergraduate tutor, he experienced a research professorship in academia. include internet applications and internet the steep challenges and breakthroughs He has direct experience with those who frameworks because technology and market involved in teaching others. This inspired suffer disorders such as schizophrenia, bi- forces appear to be heading in those direc- him to work toward joining the faculty at polar disorder, heart disease, deafness, and tions. During graduate school, he plans to a top engineering school. To prepare, he blindness. His intimate knowledge of these explore hypertext and multimedia, internet recognizes the need to perform extensive illnesses triggered his interest in finding application design and development, data research and coursework. As a lab assistant, ways that electronic instruments might me- mining, and advanced databases/data ware- he studied fluid mechanics as applied to the diate anomalies in various human systems. housing. He hopes to combine this course- movement of insulation debris in the emer- A principle challenge is developing efficient work with a project that would benefit the gency core cooling system of a pressurized instruments for measuring and interpreting community. For example, he might help water reactor. He learned to combine heat the brain’s signals, because current instru- local transit customers navigate among the transfer and fluid mechanics during indepen- ments are inefficient, large, and consume roughly 100 bus lines throughout Louisville. dent research. To develop his teaching and considerable power. Evan hopes to work Information about each individual bus route research skills fully, he expects to pursue a on the development of a small, low-power is freely available; however, Tony envisions Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. A mem- chip that can operate on the same level as web-based software that would help riders ber of Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, and Phi the instruments currently being used. He transfer between routes. Tony’s professors Kappa Phi honor societies, Frank tutored has volunteered in a retirement center and praised his dedication to rigorous academic extensively, played intramural basketball homeless clothing drive. A TBP Scholar, he work and his good-natured rapport with and baseball, and founded an all-male a was Vice President of the Utah Alpha Chap- others. He is a member of ACM. cappella group. ter and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi.
SUMMER 2006 THE BENT OF TAU BETA PI 31 Fife Fellow No. 92 King Fellow No. 45 Stark Fellow No. 29 Michael D. Sadowitz Rachel S. Marullo Michael S. McDonald Mike is a graduate Rachel is a gradu- M i k e g r a d u a t e d of the electrical en- ate of Northeastern from the University gineering program University’s chemi- of Michigan with a at the University of c a l e n g i n e e r i n g dual degree in aero- Nevada, Las Vegas, program. She will space engineering where he plans to begin her master’s and engineering pursue his gradu- program at the Uni- physics. He will en- ate studies with an versity of California, ter an aerospace en- emphasis on solid- Santa Barbara. After gineering doctoral state materials and exploring and then program at his alma devices. His thesis eliminating manufac- mater, where he will topic involves the modeling, simulation, and turing as an interest, Rachel settled on per- specialize in propulsion systems like the fabrication of sub-100 nm solid-state devic- forming research and contributing to new Hall thruster and plasma physics. He was es. He hopes to augment his research with findings. This interest grew as she attended intrigued to learn that an advanced electric- non-engineering coursework, including an four conferences of the American Institute propulsion system weighing as much as a introductory Chinese language course. With of Chemical Engineers and reviewed the loaf of bread could carry the same payload an NSF summer research grant at UNLV, research presentations. A subsequent job to Jupiter as a chemical rocket weighing the he not only worked in the nanotechnology dealing with industrial fabrics and coat- same as a 747 jumbo jet. He signed up for laboratory, but also helped to construct ings with Albany International Research non-required courses in gas kinetic theory it. He was involved in the installation and Company sparked her interest in polymer and the physics of electric propulsion to maintenance of a field-emission scanning science. Her interest eventually turned to prepare himself for his thesis research electron microscope, nanocluster deposition applications in biological engineering. She on Hall thrusters. These connect several machine, and a laboratory electromagnet. coupled that with her fondness of fluid dy- thrusters in parallel to increase drive force He conducted experiments and published a namics and mass transfer and began review- without increasing power input per thruster. paper at the 2005 American Nuclear Society ing current articles about drug delivery. Mike gained experience working on sensi- conference. He helped start a high-school She is a member of Tau Beta Pi and was tive fluid-flow devices while working as an outreach program and volunteered with the president of her American Institute of intern. He was an active tutor in college and Habitat for Humanity and Meals on Wheels. Chemical Engineers chapter; her group won volunteered in science-related programs A TBP Scholar and President of the Nevada back-to-back outstanding chapter awards, working with elementary-school students. Beta Chapter, Mike is a member of the and she was heavily involved in planning and He plays soccer, hockey, and intramural IEEE and Phi Kappa Phi. executing its regional conference. broomball.
Spencer Fellow No. 51 Sigma Tau Fellow No. 33 Williams Fellow No. 27 Jason J. Hallman Jennifer A. Pazour Marissa A. Miracolo Jason is a mechanical Jen graduated with Marissa graduated engineering graduate an industrial engi- from the Cooper of Valparaiso Univer- neering degree from Union School of En- sity. His research in- the South Dakota gineering. Having terests center around School of Mines and completed her me- the biomechanics of Technology. She will chanical engineering human motion as attend graduate degree there, she will well as quantitative school at the Uni- enter the graduate analysis of human versity of Arkansas, program at Carnegie injury. Eventually, he Fayetteville, and, Mellon University. would like to become work toward a Ph.D. She anticipates that a researcher in automotive safety and acci- in industrial engineering. She will pursue the world will transition to sustainable ener- dent reconstruction. Obtaining professional internships at larger companies to gain gy sources such as solar-energy generation, engineering licensure and earning a Ph.D. familiarity with their logistics systems. and she aims to develop coursework and lead are important elements of his plans. He is Of particular interest to her is the area of research toward this goal. Her senior-thesis beginning his master’s work at Marquette operations research, which allows her to project focused on combining photovoltaic University, one of the few injury-biomechan- apply mathematic and engineering concepts energy generation and solar thermal wa- ics facilities in the nation. He first became to solve complex, real-world problems. Jen ter heating. After obtaining her doctoral interested in biomechanics through co-op plans on studying linear programming, degree, she plans to conduct research and work at Biomet Orthopedics, a sponsor he production planning, and optimization teach at the university level. She wants to sought to ensure that his engineering work theory. Then, she hopes to combine academic help reduce pollution and utilize waste en- would directly benefit the lives of others. research with industry trends to create ergy in order to minimize the environmental There, he gained experience in experimen- mathematical models that would apply in impact of engineering systems. As president tal engineering as applied to the kinetics of one or more specific industries. Eventually, of the New York Iota Chapter of Tau Beta human articulations. As an undergraduate, she intends to teach at the college level. She Pi, she co-founded a volunteer peer-to-peer he served on the honors council and enjoyed was an officer in the Institute of Industrial tutoring service on campus. Encouraging a variety of music-related pursuits. A TBP Engineers, Student Association, and the women to enter a career in engineering Scholar, Jason is a member of the Society of Student Alumni Connection, as well as se- is an ongoing interest for her. Marissa is a Automotive Engineers and the ASME and nior class president and homecoming queen. member of Pi Tau Sigma, ASME, and SWE served as the President of Tau Beta Pi’s A TBP Scholar, she is a member of Phi Eta and served as vice president of a Habitat for Indiana Delta Chapter. Sigma, Alpha Pi Mu, and SWE. Humanity club.
32 SUMMER 2006 THE BENT OF TAU BETA PI Deuchler Fellow No. 27 Nagel Fellow No. 9 Anderson Fellow No. 2 Jasmine R. Galjour David C. Gomez Michelle L. Bash Jasmine has received Tau Beta Pi Nagel Michelle received her a civil engineering Scholar No. 18, David B.S.E.E. from Ohio degree from the is a graduate of the Northern University. University of Loui- petroleum engineer- Her co-op work at siana at Lafayette. ing program at the American Electric H e r i m m e d i a t e University of Loui- Power became one plans include begin- siana at Lafayette. of her most forma- ning graduate work His graduate work tive and challenging at the University of at his alma mater college experienc- Texas at Austin with will focus on drill- es—troubleshoot- a concentration in ing engineering. His ing equipment or environmental engineering. Her specific research and development will be on the schemes that were not working. These interest is in the treatment of contaminated topic of using heavy foam as a drilling fluid real-world experiences tested both her soil, air, groundwater, or hazardous waste. in deep-water drilling. As petroleum drill- engineering skills and her critical-think- She plans to deepen her knowledge through ing moves to waters exceeding 1,000 feet ing abilities. During her schoolwork she research and coursework before becoming in depth, there is increasing demand for discovered another application for her involved in a more intensive, ground-break- technologies that are well-suited for high- analytical skills; computer programming, ing research project. Her goal is to earn a temperature, low-formation fracture gradi- which she adopted as a minor. She plans to Ph.D. in environmental engineering and ents, and especially high pressure. David’s attend Purdue University and pursue an become a professional civil engineer, either research/development goal is to formulate a M.S.E.E., with a concentration in power at a university or a private company. Tau deep-water drilling fluid in the form of heavy electronics, and doctoral studies. To prepare Beta Pi Record Scholar No. 91, Jasmine was foam. An internship at Stone Energy solidi- herself, she participated in a NASA-spon- President of Tau Beta Pi’s Louisiana Delta fied his decision to become an operations / sored senior-design project that involves Chapter, the Society of Women Engineers, well-planning drilling engineer. He is a mem- an electronic system to power and control a and the Louisiana Engineering Society. She ber of Tau Beta Pi, Pi Epsilon Tau, Louisiana display. President of the Ohio Iota Chapter held offices in Chi Epsilon and the ASCE. Engineering Society, Student Society of of Tau Beta Pi, Michelle received the ECCS She organized and directed volunteer ef- Petroleum Engineers, Latin America Stu- Kingenberger scholarship two times. She forts to paint, clean, and landscape the dent Association, and the American Society was involved with Habitat for Humanity engineering building and actively supported of Petroleum Engineers. during five successive years. a safer campus for all.
Matthews Fellow No. 9 Astronaut Fellow No. 6 Tau Beta Pi Fellow No. 734 Lisa J. Lindquist Justin L.R. Langlois Tondra De Lisa graduated from Justin studied aero- Tondra earned bach- the civil engineer- space engineering elor’s degrees in elec- ing program at Ohio at the United States trical engineering Northern University. Naval Academy, and in mathematics She will pursue an graduating at the top at the University of M.S.C.E. in the struc- of his class. During Nevada, Las Vegas. tural engineering and his senior year, he did Her greatest inter- mechanics discipline research involving est lies in making the at the Georgia Insti- a dynamic computer teaching and learn- tute of Technology model of a space pow- ing of science, tech- with expectation of er system consisting nology, engineering, extending into a Ph.D. program. Her aim of a nuclear reactor and Stirling power and math more effective and inclusive. As is to aid design of a reliable infrastructure converters. The reactor portion involved an undergraduate, she undertook numer- system using available resources effectively working with naval reactors in department ous extracurricular research activities, in developing countries. She tailored her of energy converters, and the Stirling power including NSF-funded summer work. She undergraduate education to complete a converters involved NASA. He is convinced taught an honors freshman class as well Spanish major, including study abroad in that nuclear energy is the next step required as ethnographic studies. She completed a Gunajuato, Mexico. Through organizations to increase the capability of space explora- two-year summer internship performing such as Engineers Without Borders, she tion and provide greater returns on space statistical analysis and survey research at hopes to gain practical international ex- investments. In graduate school at the Bechtel-SAIC. In her doctoral program at perience. As a senior, she helped the Ohio University of Michigan, he would like to the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Transportation in designing continue research in the dynamic modeling Tondra will study the design of learn- a bridge to replace one that was function- of space power or space-propulsion systems ing technologies that aid learning among ally obsolete. Her experiences solidified for the purpose of deep-space exploration. underrepresented groups in engineering. her interest in structural engineering. Her He hopes to become a Navy SEAL, where Advanced coursework will prepare her for volunteer activities included ONU Circle K his technical background and leadership ex- a dissertation in web-based learning. She Club, relay for life, and Habitat for Human- periences can be put to good use. A member is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa ity. A member of Tau Beta Pi, Mortar Board, of Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi, Justin Phi, Phi Eta Sigma, the Society of Women Phi Kappa Phi, and the ASCE, Lisa was on served as a regimental commander in charge Engineers, and the Institute of Electrical the varsity track and field team throughout of approximately 2,000 midshipmen. and Electronics Engineers. She received college. an NSF fellowship.
SUMMER 2006 THE BENT OF TAU BETA PI 33 Tau Beta Pi Fellow No. 735 Tau Beta Pi Fellow No. 737 Tau Beta Pi Fellow No. 739 Amit Y. Desai Hoda M. Eydgahi Rachel L. Husfeld Amit is a materials Hoda graduated Rachel completed science and engi- from Virginia Com- her B.S.C.E. at Val- neering graduate of monwealth Univer- paraiso University. North Carolina State sity with a bachelor’s As a graduate stu- University, where he degree in biomedi- dent at Texas A&M graduated first in his cal engineering. She University, she will entire class. He views plans to pursue an pursue an M.S.C.E. a master’s degree M.S.E.E. at MIT and with a specialization in materials science to obtain her Ph.D. in structural engi- as a necessary step soon thereafter. neering. She will in- toward reaching a Through this plan, vestigate methods position of meaningful leadership within his she will fulfill her goal of entering academia for minimizing displacements and accelera- field and will attend Cambridge University as a university professor and conduct tions that act upon concrete and brick low- this fall. In college, he participated in two research in the field of engineering with income housing units during earthquakes summer research experiences. At North- applications in medicine. She views profes- in Chile. She hopes to counteract lower western, he gained experience with cut- sorship as an opportunity to both teach and intensity structural motions that can cause ting-edge analytical instrumentations and learn from her future students. In school, nausea among building occupants. She will witnessed the ingenuity required to modify she developed an interest in medicine, signal perform numerical simulations and plans that equipment to suit special situations. He processing, instrumentation, and robotics. to test laboratory models on a shake table was one of 15 undergraduates selected by Hoda would like to work on interdisciplin- at the University of Chile. She hopes to the NSF to participate in ongoing research ary projects such as smart instruments to obtain funding from the Chilean Ministry at MIT. There, he investigated the potential be used in surgery or devices used to benefit of Housing for the construction of full-size use of titanium nitride as an adhesion layer the deaf. She has conducted research con- experimental buildings. She was president and diffusion barrier in thin film ceramics. cerning the knockdown of the Werner Syn- of her Engineers Without Borders chapter Amit is a volleyball player and performed in drome protein using a lentiviral system and and helped lead a three-year clean-water the Raleigh Civic Symphony as a violinist. A presented the results at six symposiums. initiative in Nakor, Kenya. Named to the member of Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi, Active in Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, and USA Today 2005 college academic all-star he also won a congressionally funded Barry the Biomedical Engineering Society, she first team and a member of the ASCE and M. Goldwater scholarship. has volunteered for a variety of tasks at SWE, Rachel was inducted into Tau Beta Pi Peninsula Regional Medical Center. and Alpha Lambda Delta.
Tau Beta Pi Fellow No. 736 Tau Beta Pi Fellow No. 738 Tau Beta Pi Fellow No. 740 Ryan G. Dobie David L. Henann Krenar Komoni
Ryan graduated from David graduated Krenar graduated the U.S. Naval Acad- from State Univer- from Norwich Uni- emy with a degree in sity of New York at versity with bache- mechanical engineer- Binghamton with a lor’s degrees in com- ing and a Spanish degree in mechani- puter engineering minor. He will pursue cal engineering. He and mathematics. At a graduate degree will attend graduate age six, he wanted at the University of school at MIT where to know all about Pennsylvania. His he will concentrate the smallest circuit goal is to become an on nanotechnology components inside a intelligence officer related to mechanical computer, and, today, in the U.S. Navy, a position not available engineering. His ultimate goal is to do doc- that fascination has not changed. That life- directly from the academy. The ability to en- toral and post-doctoral work before joining long curiosity about computer engineering, ter this field is based upon experience. The an engineering faculty. His current interests mathematics, and computer science has pre- field requires applying analytical skills to are in nanotechnology, mechanical behavior pared him for graduate-level studies at Tufts intelligence information in situations where of materials, and computational mechanics. University. He hopes someday to design en- “learning by experience” often means risk- He gained a background in these subjects ergy efficient and adaptive radio-frequency ing lives. Faced with this responsibility, after undergraduate work in areas such integrated circuits for various wireless Ryan will study how to analyze situations, as solid mechanics, continuum mechanics, applications, develop higher-performance minimize risks, maximize success, and computational methods, and finite-ele- processors, or improve simulation and mod- ensure that he upholds the trust that is ment analysis. His research interest lies in eling techniques for integrated circuits. His placed in him. Through studies in operations nanomechanics and nanomechanical testing ultimate goal is to succeed as an entrepre- research, he intends to acquire the skills which he experienced while at the National neur and still contribute to academia in some necessary to make real-time decisions with- Institute of Standards and Technology. He way. During college, he worked on a project out hesitation and to gain the confidence of plans to develop and design a novel mechani- funded by the National Security Agency those with whom he serves. He commanded cal testing method for nano-scale materials and later worked as a systems engineer for 600 midshipmen and was given the respon- and structures, because these pose special BitWave Semiconductor, Inc. Krenar was sibility of investigating honor violations in problems compared with conventional President of the Vermont Beta Chapter of his senior year. An academic all-American materials testing. David was a member of Tau Beta Pi and is a member of IEEE and member of the club-sport hockey team, the university wind ensemble, orchestra, Eta Kappa Nu. He developed and updated he was a member of Phi Sigma Iota and and brass quintet. He is a member of Tau a website for Direct Aid International, a Vice President of Tau Beta Pi’s Maryland Beta Pi, Phi Eta Sigma, and Pi Tau Sigma nonprofit group that builds schools, wells, Gamma Chapter. honor societies. and libraries in Afghanistan.
34 SUMMER 2006 THE BENT OF TAU BETA PI Tau Beta Pi Fellow No. 741 Tau Beta Pi Fellow No. 743 Tau Beta Pi Fellow No. 745 Matthew R.Y. Loh S. Farshid Moussavia-Harami Himani Suhag Matthew holds a Farshid graduated Himani obtained her bachelor’s degree in from the Univer- electrical, computer, electrical engineer- sity of Iowa with a and systems engi- ing from Lafayette bachelor’s degree in neering degree at College. His goal is to biomedical engineer- Rensselaer Polytech- perform cutting-edge ing. He has been ac- nic Institute, finish- research in the areas cepted into the M.S. ing first in her class. of high-frequency fast-track program She was involved in radio-frequency and in the department of the CenSSIS scholars optical-interconnect biomedical engineer- program, the honor- design, and he plans ing at his school. The seminar program, to pursue a Ph.D. at Columbia University. goal of his master’s project is the develop- and the undergraduate research program, After foundational coursework, he will be- ment of imaging tools for the automation of held at the Pennsylvania State University. come involved in research work. During Mankin analysis, which is a semi-quantita- She plans to earn her master’s and Ph.D. his undergraduate work, he discovered tive method used to analyze osteoarthritis degrees in nanoelectronics at the University a passion for analog integrated-circuit severity in cartilage histological sections. of Albany. In preparation, she interned with design. He designed a Gilbert-cell analog Upon completion of his master’s studies, he IBM’s microelectronics division, where she multiplier using a low-cost BiCMOS process, hopes to continue his graduate work in the was introduced to numerous industry-based which was later presented at the National field of biomedical imaging and cell biology. tools and explored the stages of product Conference for Undergraduate Research. For three years, he has been conducting development. Her interest in microelectron- During his senior year, Matthew designed research in the department of orthopaedic ics and nanoelectronics were deepened, as a a successive-approximation, bipolar 8-bit surgery and rehabilitation cell biology result. She perceives growing opportunities A/D converter based on a hybrid charge- laboratory. Results of his research were in nanotechnology, particularly in the area of scaling/resistor-string D/A technique. He published in the Iowa Orthopaedic Journal nanoelectronics. Himani has been recognized served as a research assistant for a project and presented at the annual Orthopaedic for her work in the Society of Women Engi- in circulatory system modeling, which led to Research Society meeting. Farshid was neers and worked extensively in the campus an undergraduate thesis and presentation at the Treasurer of Tau Beta Pi’s Iowa Beta mentor program for women. A member of several national conferences. He is a mem- Chapter and president of the Persian Stu- Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu, she donated ber of IEEE, the Biomedical Engineering dent Organization. He was a Tau Beta Pi 40 inches of her hair to Locks of Love. Society, Tau Beta Pi, and Pi Mu Epsilon. Record Scholar in 2005.
Tau Beta Pi Fellow No. 742 Tau Beta Pi Fellow No. 744 Jessy J. Moinnes Geoffrey M. Oxberry PLANNED GIVING
Jessy received a Geoffrey is a chemi- Tau Beta Pi’s updated 26-page bachelor’s degree in c a l e n g i n e e r i n g guide to planned-giving opportuni- bioengineering from graduate of the Uni- ties shows how your support can the University of versity of Delaware. benefit both our Association and Illinois at Chicago He plans to attend your financial situation. and plans to attend graduate school at Topics include: graduate school at MIT, specializing • Gifts of cash, stock, real estate, Northwestern Uni- in systems biology. and life insurance, versity. Her goal is Having established • Charitable lead trusts, and to complete a Ph.D., a strong chemistry • Charitable remainder trusts. become a highly qual- foundation at college, ified research engineer, and develop new he is interested in quantifying the behavior To obtain a copy, please email: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan- of the human body for the purpose of finding [email protected] or write: ners for a large company such as Siemens effective treatments for chronic illnesses. Tau Beta Pi, P.O. Box 2697, Knox- or General Electric. As an undergraduate, By modeling the underlying biochemistry of ville, TN 37901-2697. she performed research into stimulating an illness, he hopes to develop a microfluidic Tau Beta Pi is classified as an the growth of tissue-engineered bone with device that can personalize the treatment educational not-for-profit corpora- ultrasound and monitoring the process using of the illness. His coursework will include tion under Section 501(c) (3) (not MRI. She gained experience using the high- quantitative subjects such as molecular biol- private) of the U.S. Internal Rev- field (11.75 T) Bruker magnet to image small ogy, genetics, and advanced biochemistry. enue Code. biological samples and determine different He will also take such courses as computa- The proper form of a bequest parameters characterizing biological tissues. tional systems biology, bioinformatics, and is: “I give, devise, and bequeath to She co-authored a paper on research into the computational genomics. Ideally, all of the The Tau Beta Pi Association, Inc., mapping of magnetic resonance parameters coursework would culminate in a doctoral a corporation existing under and for different stages of diseased articular dissertation on the modeling and effective by virtue of a charter granted by cartilage. Jessy spent two semesters design- management of chronic disease. Beyond the State of Tennessee and with ing, fabricating, testing, and implementing that, his broad goal is to develop a device an artifact-suppression electronic circuit to that will maximize therapeutic treatment its Headquarters in the City of be part of an electrophysiology station. She and minimize harmful side effects. Geoff Knoxville, in said state, $ . . . (or, is a member of the International Society for is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa the following described property, or Pharmaceutical Engineering, the Society of Phi honor societies, enjoys extracurricular securities).” Women Engineers, and the International So- activities, and has received numerous aca- ciety for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. demic awards and honors.
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