Entergy Corporation board member and former president Donald C. Hintz (BS '66) received the Platts Lifetime Achievement Award at the prestigious Platts Global Energy Awards held in New York City in December 2004.
Joseph Sargent (MS '02) was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy as a Civil Engineer Corps officer.
Following officer school, he will be stationed in Great Lakes, Illinois, as an assistant resident officer in charge of construction for Midwest engineering field activity.
Robin T. Mathews (BS '88) is licensed as a land surveyor in Wisconsin and Minnesota and recently became the Pine County, Minnesota, land surveyor.
Amadeus International has named Valarie King-Bailey (BS '82) its vice president of marketing responsible for developing, implementing and managing the company's worldwide marketing operations. She previously was chief marketing officer for QUMAS, an Irish-based company.
Ace World Companies, Fort Worth, Texas, which manufactures overhead material-handling equipment, has promoted Gary J. Davis (BS '79) to chief engineer.
Last year, when SpaceShipOne flew into space and won the $10 million X Prize as the first privately developed spacecraft, the ship contained a piece of audio-control equipment that was the brainchild of Mark Scheuer (BS '82), president and owner of PS Engineering Inc. The IntelliVOX enables the pilot, co-pilot and passengers to talk with each other; to listen to air-traffic controllers, the weather and music; and to watch DVDs without interference from engine and wind noise.
Jim Pazaris (BS '72, MS '74) has accepted the position of director of engineering at International Rectifier's HiRel Division in Leominster, Massachusetts. Prior to his move, Pazaris was director of engineering and director of quality at Rockwell Automation.
In its New Year's edition, the Turkish magazine, Hürriyet, recognized Osman Yasar (MSNE '88, PhDNE '89) as one of the top-30 most successful Turks in the world. An international leader in supercomputing, computational fluid and particle dynamics, and high-performance computing, Yasar is professor and chair of the Department of Computational Sciences at SUNY College at Brockport.
The Sandia Corporation Board of Directors named Thomas O. Hunter (MS '76, PhD '78) president of Sandia Corporation and Director of Sandia National Laboratories, effective April 29. Hunter most recently served as Sandia's senior vice president for defense programs, overseeing its nuclear weapons programs.
After teaching in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame for more than 37 years, Raymond M. Brach (PhDEM '65) is now a professor emeritus. He is a fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers and co-authored his third book, Vehicle Accident Analysis and Reconstruction Methods, this year.
Nadeem Sheikh (BS '99) recently received a Robert Bosch Fellowship. The program selects 20 American master's and PhD students each year for executive-level internships in Germany's federal government and private sector. Sheikh, who completed his MBA at the University of California-Berkeley this spring, will work in Berlin in the German Foreign Office. Following the fellowship, he will begin working as a consultant with McKinsey & Co., San Francisco.
Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) has promoted Michael Yadgar (BS '92) from manager to partner.
O. Marcelo Suarez (PhD '00), a professor at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayageüz, is part of a $2.7 million NSF-funded initiative with UW-Madison researchers to create richer educational and research opportunities for Hispanic students in materials science and engineering. The project also will create a strong research underpinning for the first Puerto Rican graduate degree in the field.
Professional Boatbuilder magazine published a story, "CNC for Hire," about David L. Jansen (BS '78). A licensed professional engineer, Jansen recently moved his company, Janseneering LLC, to a new facility in Topsham, Maine.
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