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UCLA
Engineering Alumni News
1970s
Vinton G. Cerf MS
’70, PhD ’72 and Bob Kahn were among those selected to receive a
Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the
United States. In presenting the award, President George W. Bush
noted that, “Dr. Cerf and Dr. Kahn have been at the forefront of
a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication,
and entertainment.” Working together, the pair developed TCP/IP,
a format and procedure for transmitting data that enables computers
on different networks talk to each other.
Rami R. Razouk BS
’75, MS ’75, PhD ’80 has been promoted to senior vice president
of the Engineering and Technology Group of The Aerospace Corporation.
Razouk is responsible for directing more than 1,000 engineers and
scientists, about one half the company’s technical staff, in support
of virtually all national-security space programs and other space
programs in the national interest. He has been with the company
since 1988 when he joined the technical staff specializing in computer
system modeling and analysis.
Josephine Cheng BS
’75, MS ’77 has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering
for "sustained leadership and contributions to relational database
technology and its pervasive applications to a wide range of digital
operational systems."
Kevin Petersen MS
’76, director of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards,
has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics. Petersen, an aerospace engineer, has spent his
entire 32-year career at NASA Dryden.
James T. Reilly MS
’77 has been elected vice president of nuclear engineering and technical
services for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station by Southern
California Edison’s board of directors. Reilly will be responsible
for all the engineering, construction, project management, and decommissioning
activities as well as a number of support services such as site
facilities and warehouse management.
1980s
Ivan A. Gargurevich
MS ’80, PhD ’97 has a successful career in the area of process design
and development, with extensive experience in the area of hydrogen
sulfide treatment. He also serves as a consultant in the area of
combustion and reaction engineering, and recently published “Hydrogen
Sulfide Combustion: Relevant Issues under Claus Furnace Conditions”
in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. He lives in San
Diego and can be reached at ivan_gargurevich@yahoo.com.
Linda Katehi MS ’81,
PhD ’84 has been selected as the next provost at the University
of Illinois. She also has been elected to the National Academy of
Engineering for her “contributions to 3-dimensional integrated circuits
and on-wafer packaging and to engineering education.”
Erik T. Mueller MS
’83, PhD ’87 has published a new book entitled Commonsense Reasoning
that describes how to use mathematical logic to give computers the
capability of commonsense reasoning, or making inferences about
the everyday world similar to those people make.
Robert R. Goodwin
BS ’85 has been appointed president and chief operating officer
of LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company specializing
in immunomodulatory therapeutics and vaccines.
Charlie Wilcoxson
BS ’85 was appointed vice president of marketing and business development
at Sequoia Communications, an RF semiconductor company setting new
benchmarks in multi-mode design and integration. He will lead the
product definition and roadmap, as well as customer acquisition
and strategic partnership activities necessary to deliver product
solutions to handset OEMs and ODMs around the world.
Alison K. Brown PhD
’85, president and CEO of NAVSYS Corp., was named Entrepreneur of
the Year by Celebrate Technology, a nonprofit association that promotes
Colorado’s tech industry. Brown, founder of the global positioning
system firm NAVSYS, holds five patents related to GPS technology,
and has published more than 100 papers.
Vincent Ho BS ’86,
MS ’86, PhD ’90 has been elected the safety specialist committee
chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers. Ho is the corporate
risk manager of Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation in Hong Kong.
Ronaldo Szilard MS
’86, PhD ’92 has been named director of Nuclear Science and Engineering
under Nuclear Prog-rams at Idaho National Laboratory, which is responsible
for developing the tools and codes necessary for simulating performance
and development of future reactors. Szilard has 15 years of private
nuclear industry experience working for General Electric Nuclear
Energy.
Thomas Shay BS ’88
was appointed chief technology officer of Rimini Street, Inc., a
third-party alternative maintenance and support provider for Siebel
software licensees. Shay, previously with Sun Microsystems, will
oversee the development of Rimini Street’s innovative remote support
tools and technology infrastructure. Prior to joining Rimini Street,
Shay oversaw all OEM sales engineering for Sun Microsystems in Asia
Pacific.
Doug Walters BS ’88
was appointed to head the Planning and Engineering Section of the
City of Los Angeles’ Watershed Protection Division. He will be responsible
for planning projects associated with Proposition O funds to reduce
pollution and flooding within the city. Previously, Walters served
as the project engineer for the city’s Landfills and Composting
Facilities.
Michael J. Pazzani
PhD ’88 has accepted the position of vice president for research
and graduate and professional education at Rutgers University. He
was previously director of the Information and Intelligent Systems
Division in the National Science Foundation’s Direc-torate of Computer
and Information Science and Engineering, and a faculty member at
UC Irvine.
1990s
Scott D. Szymanski
BS ’91 has joined March Plasma Systems as Global Semiconductor Market
Manager. In this position, he will expand strategic customer alliances,
strengthen partnerships with material and equipment suppliers, and
develop future plasma product offerings tailored to the semiconductor
market.
Robert M. Abrahamsen
BS ’92 has been elected a shareholder (equivalent to a partner)
at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., one of New England’s largest
intellectual property law firms. A member of the firm’s litigation
group, Abrahamsen has experience enforcing and defending intellectual
property rights. He is also a member of the firm’s electrical and
computer technologies group.
Lih Y. Lin MS ’93,
PhD ’96, an associate professor at the University of Washington,
was honored by the National Academy of Engineering as an Inventive
Young Engineer. One of 88 of the nation’s brightest young engineers
were selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s
11th annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium.
Michael A. Ruby BS
’94 has been named vice president, global sales and marketing of
GlasCraft’s subsidiary. He will direct, coordinate, accelerate the
core business growth of GlasCraft around the world.
Brian K. Dela Barre
MS ’94, PhD ’99 has joined HDR in the company’s Reno location as
water resources project manager.
Julie Asfia PhD ’95
has received the 2005 Woman of Achievement Award from the Amelia
Earhart Society of the Boeing Company. The award is presented to
women who have proven track records of significant achievements
and accomplishments.
2000s
Tzung (John) Hsiai
PhD ’01 has been selected by the University of Southern California
Biomedical Engineering Department to be the first holder of the
Robert G. and Mary G. Lane Early Career Chair, awarded only to the
most outstanding assistant professors.
Catherine Kwan Kraus
BS ’03 and David Kraus
BS ’03 were married in June 2005 in Redondo Beach.
In Memoriam
Our sympathy and thoughts are with the family and friends of our
alumni.
Benjamin Rappoport
BS ’50
Mark Olaf Guldseth
BS ’55
Frank R. Fagerlund
BS ’57, MS ’64
George A. Smith BS ’57
John Edward Stelzried
BS ’61
Merrill Gaines “Jim” Chesnut
MS ’61
John Reynolds Gardiner
BS ’66, MS ’68
Erlando P. San Miguel, Jr.
MS ’05
W. Kenneth Davis,
former professor
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