Alumni Newsletter - Summer 2010

Chuck Wardman (AeroEngr ’46) is retired from 40 years in the oil and construction business and living in Bixby, Oklahoma. He founded the Immortality Club and is an active author writing about healthy living.

Robert McBrayer (ChemEngr ’55) has been appointed to a two-year term as a member of the Archidocesan Pastoral Council, the primary consultative body for pastoral to the Archbishop of Detroit. He is retired from BASF Corp. and living in Lincoln Park, Michigan.

Ronald Yabroff (ChemEngr ’59) is an instructor at the Academy of Lifelong Learning at the University of Delaware in Wilmington. He earned his PhD at Cornell University and worked at DuPont for 36 years in research and development, patents, marketing, and manufacturing technical support.

Jerry Chapman (MechEngr/Bus ’60) is retired from Dupont and active in volunteer activities in Seaford, Delaware. He volunteers to assist disabled veterans, the Seaford Historical Society, Meals on Wheels, and the Nanticoke River Yacht Club.

Adel Al-Taweel (previously El-Tawil) (MS ChemEngr ’66, PhD CivEngr ‘69) is professor and director of the Natural Gas Research Institute of the Americas at the University of Trinidad and Tobago.

David Hunter (ChemEngr/Bus ’72) is chief clerk at the Montana House of Representatives in Helena, Montana.

Richard Zollars (MS ChemEngr ’72, PhD ’74) is a professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.

Gary Allen (MS Telecom ’78) is a project manager with the Department of the Army in Orlando, Florida, and was recently selected for a professional development position as an associate director with the DOD Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office in Washington, D.C.

Steve Dowis (ChemEngr ’78) is retired from Intel and living in Beaverton, Oregon.

Dale Cantwell (ChemEngr ’78) is a self-employed consulting engineer in Denver.

Doug Dickmann (AeroEngr ’79) is a pilot with U.S. Airways, living in Exton, Pennsylvania.

John Blakney (ChemEngr ’81) is vice president for midstream at CH2M HILL and lives in Centennial, Colorado.

Richard Nelson (CivEngr ’81) was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is assistant director of the Nevada Department of Transportation and lives in Minden, Nevada.

Fred Kitson (PhD ElecCompEngr ‘81) was appointed executive vice president and chief technology officer at DTS, Inc., a leading audio technology company headquartered in Calabasas, California. Kitson was corporate vice president and head of R&D for Motorola from 2005 to 2008.

Dan Reed (ChemEngr ’83) is an account manager at Baker Hughes in Benicia, California.

Ben Nelson (CivEngr ’84, MS ’88) is a principal at Martin/Martin, Inc. in Arvada, Colorado.

David Gupta (ArchEngr ’85) is the president/CEO of System Development.Integration, LLC, a Chicago-based IT systems integration firm offering specialized products and services to state and local government, utilities, and real estate owners.

George Alameddin (ChemEngr ’87) is a programmer and analyst with Xcel Energy in Golden, Colorado.

Nancy Thonen (ChemEngr ’88) is director of product supply and refinery sales at Suncor Energy in Thornton, Colorado.

Youssef Fakhreddine (MS MechEngr ’87, PhD ‘91) is a business development specialist at Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia.

Victor Gurule (CompSci ’90) is a controls project manager at Petrobras in Caracas, Venezuela.

Daniel Sanchez-Bustamante (ArchEngr ’93) is a mission deputy director for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Michael Woods (MechEngr ’94) is a husband and father of two children living in Allen, Texas, where he works as intellectual property counsel to the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group.

Christopher Champagne (MS AeroEngr ’99) is an aerospace engineer with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, California.

Michael Detamore (ChemEngr ’00) is an associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He earned his PhD in bioengineering at Rice University.

David Bryson Gaboury (ArchEngr ’03) and a small group of engineers have launched a new engineering and construction consulting firm focused on infrastructure projects throughout the developing world. Called Advancing Engineering Consultants, the firm uses a social business model developed after years of volunteer work with Engineers Without Borders, he says. The team has been working in Cambodia for the last year finalizing the business plan while working on temple restoration and slowly building the business.

Michelle Zeles-Hahn (ChemEngr ’04) and her husband Andrew Hahn (EngrPhys ’05) are proud to introduce their daughter, Audrey Elaiane Hahn, born May 27.

Bryon Hartzog (MS Telecomm ’06) was recently promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and will be reporting to Ft. Meade, Maryland, in July to work with the U.S. Cyber Command.

Jason Bara (PhD ChemEngr ’07) started a position as assistant professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Alabama in June.

Max Colice (PhD ElecEngr ’07) has been promoted to patent agent at the intellectual property law firm of Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds in Concord, Massachusetts. He assists the firm in patent preparation and prosecution in the area of lasers, optics, electronics, software, and telecommunications.

Jesse Lyman (CivEngr ’09) is a civil engineer with the Federal Aviation Administration in Aurora, Colorado.