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Salute to Alumni A Remarkable Success Story Over the Decades The circle of influence of the College of Engineering and Applied Science is amazingly broad when you consider the impact our graduates are having on the world. Alumni of the college can be found among the leadership of the world's top corporations, at the help of research programs that are pushing the boundaries of knowledge, and in businesses that are bringing new technology to the marketplace to improve our lives. We couldn't be prouder of our alumni, who have grown to number more than 25,000. Following is but a sampling of their success stories.
The son of an Air Force chaplain, George Sissel yearned to go on active duty, earning his engineering degree as preparation to enter the U.S. Navy. Though his career has taken some different turns—first into law and then into business—he says his engineering know-how has served him well through it all. More
When Mort Mortenson, Jr. joined his father's Minneapolis construction business in 1960, the small, three-person office could have been called a "start-up" in today's vocabulary. Forty years later, M.A. Mortenson Co. is one of the largest and most progressive construction contractors in the United States, topping $1 billion in sales last year. More
Robby the Robot. Sputnik. The Van Allen Radiation Belts. JoAnn Joselyn grew up during a period of amazing firsts—advances in science and space exploration that captured the imagination of people around the world. "Sputnik was launched on my 14th birthday, and I knew then I was destined for space work," says Joselyn, who has had a 30-year career studying space weather. More
Strong encouragement from her parents coupled with a natural aptitude in math and science has propelled Linda Capuano to greater and greater heights. After starting her career as a chemical engineer with IBM, she has held a variety of management positions, co-founded a telecommunications superconductive electronics company, Conductus, and led new business development efforts for AlliedSignal and Honeywell. More
Michael Francis has spent most of his career trying to be on the cutting edge. With the help of the U.S. Air Force, he has been able to do just that for most of the last 27 years. A pioneer in aerospace research and development, Francis helped develop the first integrated air-space defense information architecture for the Office of the Pentagon. He also directed numerous research initiatives for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as program manager in the early 1990s. More
David Parish spun a childhood fascination with remote-controlled cars into a multi-million dollar business in unmanned military and commercial vehicles that has also put him in the national spotlight for helping to save lives in Bosnia. More
A chemical engineering major at CU-Boulder, Chris Kitze started his career in the oil business. But it was the Internet where he found his main opportunity. Today, Kitze is among the top leaders of NBC Internet, a global integrated media company founded in November 1999. More
From the first time they worked together on a student project at CU-Boulder through the last nine years they've worked at XOR Network Engineering, Inc., Herb Morreale and Trent Hein have found they make good partners. "Either by will or by fate, we found out we were effective working together," Hein says. Morreale and Hein formed XOR as a networking company years before the Internet came on the scene. More
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George
Sissel
M.A.
"Mort" Mortenson, Jr.
JoAnn
Joselyn
Linda
Capuano
Michael
Francis
David
Parish
Chris
Kitze
Trent
Hein and Merb Morreale