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Thad Sauvain, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Current job and employer: Chief Operations Officer, Chevron Lummus Global Current city: San Rafael, California Professional background Upon receiving a BS in chemical engineering from CU in 1991, Thad Sauvain embarked on a...

Mike McCue, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Current Employer: Accu-Precision Current city: Boulder, CO Professional background Michael ("Mike") McCue is president of Accu-Precision, a contract manufacturing company that he owns and operates. Early in his career, he worked at Chevron...

Briana Santa Ana, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Current job and employer: Graduate Engineer, Development Review for the City of Mesquite Current city: Dallas, TX Professional background Briana Santa Ana earned her BS degree in civil engineering at CU Boulder,...

Jonathan Haines, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Title and employer: Director, Embedded Software, Western Digital Current city: Boulder, Colorado Professional background Jonathan Haines earned his BS in electrical and computer engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo...

Ben Finan, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Employer and title: Keysight Technologies, New Product Introduction Program Manager Current city: Colorado Springs, CO Professional background Ben Finan is a 2022 graduate of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, having completed...

Avinash Ratnavel, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Current job and employer: Software Engineer at Arista Networks Current city: San Jose, CA Professional background Avinash Ratnavel graduated with an MS in computer science in 2018. During his time at CU, he...

Dale Farrand, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Current Job and Employer: Senior Program Manager, Connected Logistics Current City: Washington, D.C. Professional Background Dale Farrand graduated from CU in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering. Attending school on an...

Denzil Bilson, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Current Job and Employer: Graduate Research Assistant at CU Boulder Current City: Boulder, CO Professional Background Denzil is a current GRAD CSEN-MS student and a long-time student of the BOLD Center. His journey...

Sabre Duren, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Current Job and Employer: Freelance Educational Writer and Editor Current City: Lyons, Colorado Background Sabre Duren earned her BA, MS and PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) in Environmental Studies and...

PhD student played key role on NASA’s DART Mission Alex Meyer is an astrodynamics expert, engineer, PhD student, and now, a part of the night sky. The International Astronomical Union has officially named an asteroid after him. Asteroid 2000 ND17 is now (33974) Alexmeyer. “It’s pretty cool and quite an...