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The Beautiful Game—Systems and industrial engineering professor Ricardo Valerdi, left, blows his referee’s whistle as a student-controlled robot puts the ball in the back of the net. The ITESM students around the table were some of the 34 attending The Systems Process, a three-week summer course taught by Valerdi.

International Friendly Match

Barely three weeks after the Mexican

National Football Team was knocked

out of the 2014 World Cup finals in

Brazil, Mexican soccer, or fútbol,

players of a different stripe competed

in a heart-stopping Soccer RoboCup

Junior tournament on July 18 at the

University of Arizona.

Thirty-four industrial engineering and

mechatronics undergraduates from

the Tecnológico de Monterrey Sonora

Norte Campus, or ITESM, participated

in the capstone event of “The Systems

Process,” a three-week course taught by

UA associate professor of systems and

industrial engineering Ricardo Valerdi.

The College of Engineering’s recent international collaborations include an edge-of-the-seat robot soccer tournament, part of a summer systems engineering course for students from Mexico.

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It is a pleasure to come to work every morning and be a part of all that is happening. As we near the end of the 2014 fall semester, I could not be prouder of our students, faculty and staff.

Even with flat or decreasing budgets, we continue to attract the best students and improve the ways in which we educate and support them. This semester we welcomed

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more than 600 of the academically strongest freshmen in Arizona. Our first-year retention rate is 91 percent. We have increased our output of BS, MS, and PhD degrees by more than 10 percent each, and we expect the numbers to keep climbing.

We have so many reasons to celebrate. I hope you were among the 600-plus alumni, friends and supporters who attended the 51st annual Engineers Breakfast during Homecoming. I had the honor of presenting five alumni awards at the breakfast, where UA President Ann Weaver Hart gave opening remarks and Dr. Skip Garcia, UA senior VP of Health Sciences, delivered the keynote address.

The theme of partnerships pervaded the event as President Hart spoke of how the College is critical to achieving the University’s mission, and Skip Garcia talked about the link between engineering and medicine and how we are moving forward with a program to double the number of biomedical engineering faculty.

With Homecoming 2014 now part of the recent past, we can look forward to the fast-approaching collegewide winter commencement. Alan Boeckmann – past

chairman and CEO of engineering and construction company Fluor and a 1973 UA electrical engineering graduate – will be the featured speaker.

The College is constantly looking at how to best educate undergraduates so they

are workforce ready while at the same time preparing some students for graduate school. As a jumping-off point, at our November Industry Partner Board meeting we discussed the book “A Whole New Engineer,” by David E. Goldberg (no relation!) and Mark Somerville. The book describes how to incorporate more design and innovation to better engage engineering students. It was a lively discussion, to say the least.

One of our goals is a program in which all students have faculty research or company internship experiences during their UA careers. The idea of 100 percent engagement goes both ways. It takes the efforts of all of our faculty and industrial friends to guarantee 1,000 student positions every year.

I don’t often give out homework, but today is different. So your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to read “A Whole New Engineer.” Join the conversation, share your comments with the team, and I hope to have a chance to chat with you soon.

Have a great holiday season.

Go Cats and Bear Down!

College students often have several months to prepare for national competitions. The UA chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers had only two, and in March the team went on to win the 2014 NSBE Undergraduate Technical Research Competition at the NSBE 40th Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

UA beat two teams from the University of California, Merced, in the first such contest hosted by the PG&E/NSBE Network. The winning team earned $2,000 and invaluable exposure to industry leaders.

The challenge was to improve inspection of natural gas pipelines. UA’s team of five women and three men conducted research, wrote a technical research paper, and prepared an oral presentation for a panel of PG&E judges.

Utility operators use many technologies to inspect the inside of their pipelines, including battery-operated robotic crawlers. The students’ idea for a self-powering robot was based on the principle by which dynamos on bicycle wheels power bicycle lights. The dynamo system could recharge the robot’s batteries without utility workers having to enter pipelines. It could power additional sensors on the crawlers, such as high-definition cameras, for higher-quality data, and it could be used to locate the robot.

“I thought it was quite ingenious of the students to develop a method that not only improved long-distance telecommunications, but pinpointed the robotic tool’s precise location as they traveled along the pipeline,” said the team’s mentor, Wolfgang Fink, UA associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.

“Dr. Fink helped us understand PG&E’s current methods and approaches to pipeline inspection,” said NSBE chapter president Maryam Abdul-Wahid, an electrical engineering student in the College’s accelerated master’s program.

NSBE Chapter Wins Robotics ContestThe UA student chapter of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration has received the 2014 SME Outstanding Student Chapter Award. This marks the seventh time the Wildcats have won the award – more often than any other chapter since SME started giving it out in 1967. But that’s not all. The UA won two outreach contests sponsored by SME’s Minerals Education Coalition, or MEC.

For the second year in a row, the UA received the MEC 2014 Student Chapter Award for accomplishments in community outreach and mining/mineral education.

The UA chapter is also the first-time winner of a new contest: The International K-12 Outreach Challenge, in which students take MEC’s presentation on the importance of minerals and mining into as many classrooms as possible. Five UA mining engineering students made 27 presentations to 1,600 children in K-12 schools throughout Tucson.

“The children were very inquisitive and excited to learn about rocks and minerals,” said K-12 challenge participant Megan Naff, a senior who first developed her passion for minerals as a volunteer at the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum in Phoenix.

Mary Poulton Receives SME Rahn AwardNot just students were recognized by SME. Mary Poulton, professor and director of the UA Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources, has received the 2015 Ivan B. Rahn Education Award, presented to SME members who have made significant contributions relating to ABET, student affairs, continuing education, professional registration or the Council of Education.

“Winning outstanding chapter awards from both SME and its Mineral Education Coalition, and the Ivan Rahn award, demonstrate our students’ and faculty’s extraordinary level of engagement and commitment to the mining engineering program,” said Moe Momayez, associate professor and associate head of mining and geological engineering.

It’s Official: UA Mining Society Chapter Is Winningest Team

Dynamic Trio—From left: Maryam Abdul-Wahid, electrical engineering; Jerri-Lynn Kincade, biomedical engineering; and Iesha Batts, chemical engineering, present the UA team’s winning project at NSBE’s 40th Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

UA Student Chapter of SME

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She arrives toting a backpack loaded with the gear and tools of the miner’s trade – hard hat, safety glasses, orange vest, compass, rock hammer, sample bag, notebook, hand lens – and scatters ore around the playground for students to scoop up, take home, and identify the minerals within. She engages students in educational, hands-on activities, including mining gold, silver and copper beads from birdseed and chocolate chips from cookies. Then she teaches them that in a miner’s world cleaning up during and after mining – reclamation – is very important.

Exhilarating and eye-opening for the students, it’s all in a day’s work for Pam Wilkinson, education outreach coordinator for the UA Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources. Wilkinson received the 2014 Prazen Living Legend Award from the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, which presents the award to individuals and organizations committed to educating the public on the importance of minerals and the mining industry. Wilkinson is only the second individual to receive the award since it was established in 1995.

“Exciting young people about minerals, geology and mining has been the capstone of my career,” Wilkinson said. She accepted her award, a bronze statue of a miner created by renowned sculptor Gary Prazen, at the Hall of Fame’s 27th annual induction banquet on September 13 in Denver.

“With her vast experience in the mining industry and education, and her remarkable ability to captivate young people, Pam Wilkinson is a treasure for the people and state of Arizona,” said Mary Poulton, director of the Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources and former head of the department of mining and geological engineering.

Mining Hall of Fame Honors UA Lowell Institute ‘Living Legend’

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Legendary —Roger Newell, board member of the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, presents Pam Wilkinson with the 2014 Prazen ‘Living Legend’ Award for her education outreach work for the UA Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources.

Yoon Elected President of the Institute of Biological Engineering

Smarter Than the Average Phone—Biosensors Lab director Jeong-Yeol Yoon, left, and biomedical engineering PhD candidate Dustin Harshman work on Yoon’s lab-on-a-chip device, which can analyze pathogens in situ in real time.

Associate professor Jeong-Yeol Yoon holds so many appointments across the UA campus that people often ask him which college he is with and where they can find him. (If they can find him, he jokes.)

“The University has strongly encouraged me in all of my teaching appointments and research activities on campus,” Yoon said. “Many universities ask you to stay in and focus on just one department, but I haven’t seen that here at the UA.”

Yoon is an associate professor in the department of biomedical engineering, the department of agricultural and biosystems engineering, the School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, and the BIO5 Institute. He is director of the UA Biosensors Lab, working on lab-on-a-chip biosensors and biomaterial surface modifications.

Such varied experience will serve Yoon well as the new president of the Institute of Biological Engineering, a professional organization dedicated to integrating engineering principles with the many aspects of life sciences. He is president-elect for 2014, president for 2015, and immediate past president for 2016.

Yoon earned three degrees in chemical engineering from Yonsei University in South Korea and a second PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he worked on lab-on-a-chip technologies and biomaterials before joining the UA faculty in 2004. His courses include Sensors and Controls and Biomaterial-Tissue Interactions. He collaborates with several UA colleges, including medicine, pharmacy, and public health.

Pete Brown/UA EngineeringCourtesy of Pam Wilkinson

Deep Heat —Momayez and his team use modeling software to map and study mine ventilation systems, as shown in this computer-generated image.


R E S E A R C H G R A N T S

News reports describe hackers stealing information from corporate networks, government agencies gathering metadata from personal cell phones, and smartphone manufacturers installing encryption software that law enforcement cannot crack.

Yet many people still feel secure using their laptops or cell phones for, say, banking, sending email, playing video games or accessing medical records.

After all, they’ve taken precautions to keep these activities private.

“People working on their laptops think ‘I am safe. I established a VPN. I have a password. I’m using encryption,’” said Marwan Krunz, UA College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineering. “Well guess what: Very often, they’re not.”

Krunz is the principal investigator on a new research project aimed at developing software and other techniques to protect everyday users of wireless technology from the under-recognized but very real threat of eavesdropping.

In the four-year, $660,000 project funded by the National Science Foundation Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace program, Krunz and co-PI Loukas Lazos, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, are expanding their earlier studies of eavesdropping on military and industrial wireless networks.

“It is up to consumers to recognize their vulnerability and demand better security for wireless products,” Lazos said. “It is up to product developers to demonstrate to customers that they are protected. And it is up to us, the engineers, to create the technologies that protect them.”

Marwan Krunz

Securing Wi-Fi and Shutting Out the Eavesdroppers

Moe Momayez, associate professor and associate head of UA mining and geological engineering, and his research team are working on economical and environmentally sustainable ways to cool deep underground metal mines.

With a five-year, $1.3 million interdisciplinary research project funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, researchers

in the colleges of engineering and public health are forging new technologies to reduce temperatures in mines, better protect workers from exposure to extreme temperatures and save mining companies millions of dollars in energy costs.

“This project will provide solutions that are both economical and environmentally sustainable,” said Momayez, the project’s principal investigator.

In one of the project’s efforts, the engineers are working to transform mine tailings, finely ground leftovers of ore extraction that are stored above ground at

Managing Mine Heat Using Recycled Tailings

mine sites, into insulation to cool the air deep below.

“We are recycling a ubiquitous mine waste byproduct and turning it into something useful,” Momayez said.

Momayez and co-investigator Krishna Muralidharan, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, are developing a new form of shotcrete to reduce heat transfer from the hard heat-conducting rock in underground metal mines. Shotcrete, a form of liquid concrete sprayed at high velocity to insulate and strengthen surfaces, is used in many industries, but this is the first time it has been created from mine tailings to use for heat management in underground mines.

Moe Momayez

Computing advances are in demand to more efficiently handle big-data tasks such as weather prediction and biological process modeling. So a multi-university research team led by UA is developing new technologies that use optics to increase computing speed and power.

“Digital electronic computing is reaching its limits in cost and capacity,” said UA electrical and computer engineering professor Mark Neifeld, principal investigator on the five-year, $7.5 million

Mark Neifeld

Handling Big Data at the Speed of Light

U.S. Department

of Defense

Multidisciplinary

University Research

Initiative project.

“Optical technology

has the potential to

improve complex

computing in areas

ranging from science and health care to

business and defense.”

Neifeld and his team will create hybrid

computers that combine optical and

electronic technologies, allowing for

more data to be handled at greater speeds.

Courtesy of Moe Momayez


“Dr. Valerdi’s course was as an excellent course that I wish I had taken earlier in my career,” said fourth-year mechatronics student Rodrigo Alonso. “He calls the course The Systems Process, but it should be called Good Engineering. I personally believe every engineer should take it.”

Alonso added, “For me, the most fun part of the class was building the soccer-playing robot. The competition to see who would win the tournament added spice to the whole course, allowing for healthy competition and some heated discussions among students. In all, it was a wonderful experience.”

The summer course, which ended July 18, was offered through an international exchange program run by the UA Office of Global Initiatives in collaboration with the ITESM campus in Hermosillo. “ITESM is the flagship engineering

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institute for higher learning in Mexico, and these are some of the best engineering students in that country,” said Valerdi. “This course was our first collaboration of its kind with them.”

The ITESM exchange program was about more than just systems engineering.

“Being at a U.S. university helped many of us in improving our English and interacting with people from other nations and cultures,” said Rodrigo Alonso. “I met people from Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and, of course, many Mexicans and Americans.”

Mike Proctor, UA vice president of global initiatives, stressed the value of the exchange program. “The UA’s connection with Mexico transcends geography,” he said. “Our respective faculty have been working together for years, and our collaborations with Mexico reflect a critical strategic opportunity. Mexico is one of the United States’ primary trade partners, and Mexico’s economy is one of the most robust in the world. Our universities are uniquely situated, based on their connections with students and industry, to profoundly impact our shared economic future.”

Jim Field Appointed Assistant Dean, Replaced as ChEE Chair by Anthony MuscatProfessor Jim Field is the College’s new assistant dean for graduate education. Anthony Muscat, professor of chemical and environmental engineering, succeeds him as ChEE department chair.

“I cherish this opportunity to expand the College of Engineering master’s and doctoral programs and to further mentor and recruit

graduate students,” said Field, who joined the College’s chemical and environmental engineering department in 2001 and headed it from 2009 until taking the assistant dean position. “Our students have a great energy that I look forward to encountering on a daily basis.”

Field’s major goals are to increase enrollment in the College’s MS and PhD programs and to expand graduate student

funding opportunities such as scholarships, assistantships and fellowships. In efforts to recruit more students from other countries, he draws from experience leading more than a dozen conferences and workshops for faculty and students at universities in Mexico, Brazil, Nicaragua and elsewhere.

Muscat joined ChEE in 1998 as an assistant professor in the Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Benign

Jim Field

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Battle Scar—ITESM students in the RoboCup Junior tournament perform field surgery on an “injured player.”

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Semiconductor Manufacturing, a multi-university center housed in the department. He studies how chemicals interact on surfaces of electronic components used in semiconductors, computer chips and sensors, and how to produce more productive and sustainable devices for communications, energy and medicine.

Muscat is widely recognized for his research and teaching. He has received a

da Vinci Circle Fellowship from the UA College of Engineering, a Career Award from the National Science Foundation, and an APS Professorship from the Arizona Public Service Power Company. As APS Professor, Muscat has taught undergraduate and graduate classes focused on entrepreneurialism in the UA College of Engineering and Eller College of Management.

“We put a lot of time and energy into professional mentoring; telling students exactly what opportunities are out there for chemists, mathematicians and environmental engineers,” said Muscat. “As a professor, I may have up to 60 students in a course. I really take pride in personalizing the experience for all of them and hope to expand that to my new role as chair of the department.”

Anthony Muscat

Homecoming marked the centennials of two UA programs: agricultural and biosystems engineering, and Homecoming itself. It gave 12 alumni from the class of 1964 a chance to reminisce on five decades of being a Wildcat. At a presentation about One World Trade Center, 100 alumni, students and faculty got a rare glimpse into construction of this iconic building. Some 100 AME alumni and guests attended Homecoming, where many reconnected with Professor Emeritus Henry “Skip” Perkins and Dave Hutchens, UA Alumnus of the Year. And Homecoming 2014 gave all attendees a chance to cheer the Wildcats on to victory over Colorado.

University of Arizona President Ann Weaver Hart attended the 51st Engineers Breakfast and lauded the College as a place for “creating serendipity” and for its many partnerships, not only across campus, but also with business and industry leaders. “I believe this College and you, its alumni, are going to have a profound impact on the future,” she said.

Joe G.N. Garcia, UA senior vice president for health sciences and keynote speaker, discussed how scientific breakthroughs like the Human Genome Project have created new opportunities for collaboration between engineers and medical researchers in such areas as telemedicine and big data analytics.

“Bioengineering is transforming medicine,” said Garcia, who noted that the College of Engineering has ties to most departments in the College of Medicine and that engineering students are gaining invaluable training working directly alongside clinicians.

The College launched a new video at the breakfast, Women in Engineering, featuring four students and recent alumnae, who described their desire to help others through engineering and inspire more women to enter the field.

Powerful PartnershipsBiomedicine partnerships, women in engineering and One World Trade Center are Homecoming hot topics.

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BEAR DOWN AWARD Patrick Marcus BS Electrical 1999 PhD Biomedical 2006

ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR AWARD Dave Hutchens BS Aerospace 1988 MBA Finance 1999

CITIZEN OF THE YEAR AWARD Chuck Huckelberry BS Mining 1972 MS Civil 1976

SIDNEY S. WOODS ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD Mel Green BS Civil 1960

ADVOCACY AWARD Darcy Anderson MS Hydrology 2000

HOMECOMING AWARD WINNERS

Breakfast Style—About 600 Engineering alumni and friends kicked off Homecoming 2014 with the 51st annual Engineers Breakfast, at which University of Arizona President Ann Weaver Hart gave opening remarks.

“I believe this College and you, its alumni, are going to have a profound impact on the future.” – UA President Ann Weaver Hart

Jeff Goldberg (left) presents the Bear Down Award to a jubilant Patrick Marcus.


Building a Symbol of Resilience

The civil engineering centennial lecture was given by Yoram Eilon, one of the key engineers behind the One World Trade Center. Yoram said the building, which sits on the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, symbolizes for him the ideals of the effort. He is from Israel; the partner in charge of the project is from Iran. “As engineers, we focus on the end users. But in the case of One World Trade Center, we were very sensitive to the circumstances of the project and keenly aware of what it represents,” Eilon said. “Not just for our clients, but for the world.” He described the challenges of building to code, and how the project required collaboration between dozens of engineers and architects, government agencies and law enforcement. “We had to adhere to so many building codes: New York City codes, local codes and codes that we had to anticipate, because they were not yet written,” he said.

Yoram Eilon

All photos: UA Engineering/Pete Brown

D E A N ’ S V I E W P O I N T

Thank You!These pages list the companies, organizations and individuals who have contributed to the College of Engineering during fiscal year July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014.

Their support is vital in providing scholarships, funding programs and supporting research. Without this help, some students would not be able to complete their education.

Many other students would not have access to resources that give UA Engineering a margin of excellence for educating tomorrow’s engineering leaders.

We want to take this opportunity to say “thank you” from the students and faculty who have benefited so much from this generous support.

We have made every effort to list all those who contributed to the College and sincerely apologize if we have missed anyone.

If you donated to the College of Engineering during 2013–2014 and are not on this list, please let us know, and we will include your name in the next issue of Arizona Engineer.

$5,000,000 and above

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Lam Research Corp.

Ralph Miller*

Newmont Mining Corp.

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Tucson Electric Power Co.

Linda Turner

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Ayco Charitable Foundation

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Cisco Systems Inc.

Community Finance Corp.

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International Foundation for Telemetering

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Intel Foundation

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Newmont Mining Corp.

Peabody Investments Corp.

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W. L. Gore & Associates

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Anonymous

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ExxonMobil Corp.

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Robert Hall

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Samuel Holland

Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios

Intel

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NEUROMetrix

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Rain Bird Corp.

Raytheon Company

Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration Tucson Section

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SunEdison

Sunora Energy Solutions

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TRAX International Corp.

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Veolia Water North America

ViaSat

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Acoustic Emission Consulting Inc.

American Society of Civil Engineers Southern Arizona Chapter

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NACE International Arizona Section

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Lockheed Martin Matching Gifts Program

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MindPlay Inc.

Mining Foundation of the SW

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Stewart Foundation

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United Way of Tucson & Southern Arizona

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Robert Wicks

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Budd Parrish’s engineering education at the University of Arizona helped him learn technical skills and the value of efficiency and productivity. But it was his adaptability, persistence and cross-cultural understanding that set him apart and set the stage for some of the best experiences of his life.

Now retired, Parrish, who earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering in 1965, is looking to help other UA Engineering students succeed.

“I want to give scholarships to students who

are working hard and achieving results,” he

said. “That is what life is about.”

Parrish and his wife, Linda, have

established a substantial endowed

scholarship fund that promises for

years to come to give high-achieving

Engineering students opportunities they

might otherwise miss.

“Many deserving students depend

on scholarships,” said UA College of

Engineering Dean Jeff Goldberg. “This

generous estate gift from Budd and Linda

Parrish will help numerous undergraduates

pursue their passions.”

Parrish graduated from Tucson’s Catalina

High School in 1958. Then, taking

advantage of academic scholarships, he

attended the University of Arizona for a

short time before joining the U.S. Navy.

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Budd Parrish

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Henri Guyader

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Janice (Haxton) and Eugene Zimmerman

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“It would have been difficult to get started without those scholarships,” he said of his enrollment in the University of Arizona, adding that a healthy dose of life experience before settling down to the rigors of college helped him chart his course.

Parrish served as a communications technician in the Navy for more than two years – seven months in Germany and 19 months in Japan. At a small base on the Sea of Japan, he immersed himself in the culture, learning to read and write Japanese and volunteering to teach English at a local school. And he came to love Japan.

“It never left,” he said. “I have always had a spot in my heart for Japan.”

After military service, Parrish returned to Tucson to continue at the University. He took classes through the summers and graduated in three short years.

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1942Therese (Velasco)Berg

1946L. Osborne

1947John DobsonHerbert Vail

1948Joan (Gegg) FornaraJane (Osburn) HowardRichard RhoadesArthur Short

1949Robert HallRichard EnzIldefonso Dominguez

1950Arve MichelsenRudy JimenezRalph Montijo

1951S. Jack McDuffJames HessJoseph TitusJohn LingafelterDavid EvansFrederick SargentMelvin Redden

Joseph AdamsWarren TravisClark HayHarry ValentineWilliam Holderby

1952Patricia (Hill) TolleyDonald HammerRaymond HuebnerJack SmithBrice SchullerWilliam HardtLawrence DreyerSamuel FallJames WickhamMaurice StephanDyer Campbell

1953William HoelkeCharles PhilipsHobart Bauhan

1954Agnes (Cordis) KanalNancy (Rand) RoyHoward KennedyEdwin WalkerDavid AllaisRobert PrebleWilliam Wolfson

1955Richard Guthrie

William CorbinJ. Mel AllenDonald GilliamDonald Foss

1956Frances (Sprawls) WalkerCharles PrebleKarl KohlhoffRalph HeinzeRonald StilesJerome KoupalJohn SchwartzPeter MayerHoward Main

1957Patricia (Dawson) EnloeBetty (Doerrer) DonelsonCarolyn (Roseberry) MarkleGerald RutledgeIrving StudebakerJohn SheeheyMartin KuhnsWilliam HenryCharles De LeuwJake DossJoseph GervasioCraig Berge

1958Carmen MessinaRichard Schroeder

Thomas HendersonCharles MountRalph MillerRandolph CurrinRaymond PlockJohn MulchayDavid TroupeRichard BushroeJohn KaminskyGary CooperPaschel YoungPeter KerwinEdward FlynnJohn BrittonWilliam Houston

1959Andrea (Lott) MalmbergAugust JaxelBen AllinderHerbert BurtonJames MalmbergJohn BallaArthur TakemotoRichard VitalesRichard TherrienErnest SchoopWilliam MilamKim FoxKarl Van HorneRobert WicksJohn ReinhardtJames SimmsWilliam LynchEdward BunnellJoseph PalaisGlen HiscoxAlex Richards

1960Gilbert SaltzmanKarl ElersJames DeaderickJohn MariettiGeorge GlendayAnthony HuffmanRobert SigfridsonArvin KolzJohn McLeanGary CropperFrank EnsignJohn WilsonAnthony JonesRonald HansonTim TomkoJohn Benson

1961Marylyn (Schumann) TobeyM. James BarberRichard CarrHoward GoldsteinJames SealJon HartmannRudy RogersJohn EdwardsLee WilliamsEdward ConwayMatthew McDoleEllis MascarenoRonald DeweyJohn La BarTheodore PolychronisBarry MeiselsJames Cashin

Donald SwindleNarendra Shah

1962Betty (Stewart) DetweilerSandra (Tanner) ElersRobert EagletKalman MillerJay LehrSamuel Lee HallidayFranklin HungerfordKenneth KatsmaWilliam McClaryThomas McCormickDavid JohnsMichael MonsegurJohn FirestoneBruce McLarenRalph WoodJames ElliottKenneth Detweiler

1963Richard De SchutterKok Kwai See-ThoOscar FerrellFrancis LeyvaHenri GuyaderWayne DawsonRonald FenelonGunnar JohansonFarrell Kenimer

1964Sallie (Siegelman) TofelL. Rolf Peterson

David AreghiniWalter HigginsJoseph SheaThomas SwartzWalter ArmerRichard TofelMarino FuentesJames ForthmanCharles HoweyJerome UchiyamaZoltan RosztoczyRichard PotterJerry StaffordJohn PassDavid Brod

1965William AhrensGeorge ShirleyArthur WithopKa FoggCornell CollinsDaniel SablichJames AshcraftMichael HerrickRalph Porter

1966John GrohEdward NowatzkiKelton ThomsonJerry FossumCharles LeeWalter CalhoonWilliam WhittyGeorge McInnisMichael Potter

Leonard ShenfieldTed Weber

1967Edwin KonrathEugene ZimmermanJames MarumMelvin CallabresiAjeet SinghMichael KaisermanJames PengJoseph SpitlerJimmy NaylorAllan Fusler

1968Jacquelyn (Hatch) SchmidleKaren (Spaniol) CampbellR. Raymond RogersFrederick KrauseJames BlyStephen DavisNewton DonFranklin BroylesJoseph DialEugene CliffGary WonacottMichael KleinrockDavid MooberryRussell AlleyCharles WaitmanCraig BaldonJesse SaarEdward BowerGary FrereTimothy Conklin

George SpindleJ. Mercer Johnson

1969Janice (Haxton) ZimmermanGregory RasmussenJohn BernalThomas StrongPaul SmithWilliam HardingAntonio DurandoWilliam ClarkeKenneth SchmidtJames MiletichZavis ZavodniJack PollinDonald CooperRoger SchoenherrAlan MarshakDaniel ChiltonJohn BoyerSandra Bidwell

1970Reay DickDon DillonThomas RumneyDwight LindJerry GayWai ChenRichard CrowellDonald SpongJohn WardMary HabeebLang LawrenceJohn FloresJohn PattonScott Clemans

1971John JohnsonDavid RezinEric GoldinMichael McCabeGregory LortonDonald NewmanGregory HillBruce BoyumZygmunt CielakWilliam BeecroftJames ClemonsDouglas WrightGary LovingWilliam JohnsonRandolph RogersP. Roger PankeyPaul RihsLarry SternamanGary HarperFrancis CastrichiniJames McGrath

1972Patricia (Germann) Beattie KemplJanet (Osburn) LangPatricia (Taylor) AndersonBelle TomKenneth RenardJoseph GatesJohn RodgersThomas O’NeilCharles LavariniRobert DeppeThomas CoolidgeDaniel White

Maiden names are in parentheses.

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“Earning my engineering degree was the toughest thing I’ve ever done,” he said.

Today, international borders have become increasingly blurred, and engineering students’ cross-cultural experiences are seen as beneficial. But in the early 1960s, Parrish’s desire to continue studying Japanese language and literature while majoring in engineering did not win him many supporters. Undeterred, he used elective courses to further his knowledge of Japan and graduated with an engineering degree and an enhanced understanding of Japanese culture.

Good grades helped Parrish land his first job out of college with Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. At the time, Bell Labs was the research and development arm of AT&T.

Parrish then earned an MSEE from Rutgers and became a site manager with

General Electric at Lockheed Aircraft in

Burbank, California. While working on a

GE project in 1968 at Tinker Air Force Base

in Oklahoma City, he met his wife, Linda.

They have been married for 44 years.

Budd and Linda Parrish spent the best

years of their lives in Japan, from 1988

through 1990. He directed AT&T Japan’s

manufacturing and quality division; she

managed technical support.

“The assignment with AT&T Japan was

a truly wonderful experience for Linda

and me,” said Parrish, an avid amateur

photographer. “From our Tokyo base, we

were well positioned to travel over much of

Asia.” Throughout their lives, the couple has

visited 32 countries in Europe and Asia.

The Budd and Linda Parrish Endowed

Engineering Scholarship Fund will

provide scholarships for outstanding

undergraduates in the College of

Engineering who demonstrate high

academic achievement and financial

need. The scholarship awards will be

available through an estate bequest.

“Remembering the help scholarships

provided me when I entered the UA, Linda

and I are delighted to be able to provide

endowed scholarships to undergraduate

engineering students at the UA,” said

Budd Parrish. “We wish them success in

their professional careers.”

Linda and Budd Parrish in China

Desmond KearnsMichael ArnoldFrederick DotenHans TeesChris AnglemanVincent GinCosimo DeMasiLarry HansenMark DanielsDaniel DoneganRonald WattsHonho LiuShu-Tsu LuAndrew GildonStephen ThomasRobert MitchellFrank MartinjakDavid CrawfordIrving MindesJohn Whalen

1973Mary (Boice) MoretonBarry AbbottJanet FertigPeter HartGilbert GonzalesSalvatore CaccavaleThomas McLeanRobert SimpsonThomas McGovernBruce MoretonWayne KingHerbert WelhenerPatrick KellerJ. Mark RichardsonDavid BrownAlan BoeckmannJohn KetterlAndrew GaudielleKwang Baek

1974William RankinJoseph AlvarezJohn BrabsonJames SpinhirneWilliam ChampionTomas OwenThomas YangDonald KoterwasKenneth SimpsonDavid FreelandJohn HigdonCraig SmithDonald GinStephen TenczaMoon HomArthur CharrowMichael NelsonZiaullah YazdaniRobert SoggeJack TouseullRobert FeugateWilliam Assenmacher

1975Susan (Brice) KotchouIfiyenia KececiogluGeorge Coppus

David AcklamTheodore MoulinGlenn HarbourFabricio DuranLarry StoehrJames EkmannJohn Derickson

1976Lois (Buck) SimsBarbara (Whitley) Krebs YuillRobin WestKevin KinkadeGregory HillDavid SoukupGary LechDavid StegmanBryan DaltonRobert CaccavaleNicolas CocavessisJohn FennSteven JimenezNicholas MardesichJames AngelGerald MyersThomas Bolles

1977Erika (Muller) CrockettRichard VercilloRobert GreenMichael MackowskiBruce PattyRobert BestGeorge SchulerSam MatthewsJeffrey GloverGregg St. ClairDaniel McBrideWilliam WilsonGary DederaClinton GlassPaul Hom

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1979Cherie (Ledbetter) Hallin

Magdalena (Martinez) CozzettiDiana (Reckart) MilesKimberley (Schuber) RossbachBarbara (Shaw) GuarinoMark WoodsonBrian KellyGary HemphillWayne SeamesPaul FlintRobert DavisPaul StaufferChenHuei ChiangLen Manleung WongHenry RosoffRinly GecosalaChristian EllefsonWilliam StaplesWerner WeckLarry OwsowitzDavid ClappRichard BeyakArthur PrastJohn WadeTina SisleyPat MarumWilliam Downey

1980Katherine (Hine) SementilliKathleen ChavezPam ReinkeAl GrahamRinaldo DiCenzoMichael BarclayAllan PatchEric KinderPhillip RobidouxJames CollinsLiangruey ChangWilliam RaymondJames WillinghamDennis McLaughlinT. LalumiaMichael CeaseCharles LynchGreg SimsRobert SchaferRaymond Hierling

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1982Anne (Campbell) HierlingMary (Gerhardt) ThomasKaren (Ryck) RiefferElizabeth (Villaescusa) WilkeningFrank DeakinLucien KlejbukTheodore GelberAlonso PeraltaJohn ClymerColeman MillerSeth ChalmersDenise DoctorRichard MilakovichJames DavisElizabeth KirbyCarlos NavarretteTerrence ScaliHolly CorbinGregory CordPatrick MaynardWilliam ElowitzPeter HushekNicholas WebbBruce Campbell

1983Dorothy (Chavez) DolanJeannine (Critchley) LeverenzCharlotte (Gunrud) OrtGreta (Mattson) CummingsGail (Paterson) AmesCarolyn (Sutter) McClureDeborah (Witkowski) RundeKevin McNeillRay FinleyRobert HooverSteven ShortThomas MooreMartin GronbergJohn DavisEric KalivodaSteven PageauRodney SmithHarry PattonDaniel ChenMarla PetersonG. Michael HooverJames DavidsonHoward NebeckRandall ThomasKevin GardnerDorothy ArbiterMark Fleming

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1984Patricia (Burns) ThomsonJoanna (Faulkner) TravisLeAnn (Lomeland) VaughnAnne (Moses) BinghamAmy (Phillips) GauthierPaula (Siegel) MacKenzieJohn HillmanWellington MeierAnn WilkeySteven Den-BaarsDwayne ElliottCatherine JablonskyAmos TsaiMark CasolaraMichael RundeRaghavan KalkunteMark PhillipsRobert CavinJoseph CannavinoDavid JacquesJohn LaBordeGregory GunterDavid TravisJoseph HelakTony FreimanBryan Dougherty

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1985Christine (Coffer) RaaschLaura (Fulton) BennettMary (Hjalmarson) KittredgeDiana (Swasey) WilcoxBeth GottschallPaul LomayesvaGregory KonickeSteven KomerskaBrian AvilesDavid RandallLeslie FooAlfie LewKenneth LyleWilliam GearyMark CoolbaughRobert PrescottDavid BlackburnGregory FleischmanScott MunroJohn MorganGeorge MaseehKenneth EmeMichael LovernBruce RothRichard DobesJess TriasGregory ZeihenBarbara WassonKevin AbreuGustavo EscobarThomas Fagan

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1988Suzanne ( Jacobus) FreundAlexandra (Lind) OglesbyLaura (Schlegel) KagleLeslie (Skinner) WelborneCynthia (Tang) KlingbergCraig HendenJohn GoedertBrian GobleJerry Hunter

Jeffrey BonerDavid CooperMichael SandfordRobert FloriCarlosjose PinedaBrian GerenEric StoufferCharles ParkesKeith ManloveDavid ParedesDerek ReabanPeggy ChristensonRandall HarrisWilliam StevensRobert Bloom

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Dean Emeritus of the UA College of Engineering, Ernest “Ernie” Thomas

Smerdon, died Aug. 11, 2014, at age 84. He was dean of the College from

1988 to 1997, after which he spent three years directing engineering

education programs at the National Science Foundation. He served as

vice provost at UA and retired from the University in 2003.

“In addition to having a distinguished reputation in research,” said

current UA Engineering Dean Jeff Goldberg, “Ernie was a strong

advocate for engineering education.”

Smerdon dedicated his life to improving engineering higher education

while making significant contributions to research in water resources

and global environmental issues. He was elected to the National

Academy of Engineering in 1986 and served as president of the

American Society for Engineering Education.

During his term at ASEE, Smerdon emphasized international

programs for engineering students, the inclusion of business and

social science content in engineering programs, and the notion

A Life of Service Dedicated to Engineering Education and Research

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Michael NativiIhor KukurbaSusan AndersonPaul MureikoBrian HewittChristopher ThomasDavid PaullinSubramania SudharsananKirk Damron

1992Meredith (Arbuthnot) CurleyGeorgina (Suarez) AhumadaDilli SharmaGregory BonerJordan GertonAlicia KohnerJames TofelRobert CoffanChristopher Whitehead

1993Kelly (Biller) TwitchellShelley (Ratliff) McLaughlinEdward PohlDaryl HildBruce RechicharCheng-Tsu FuRonald SeagerCha Thai HuangJoe FultonDoug CrawfordHenry KnoepfleJose ArceMark Sullivan

1994Janice (Plado) DalagerLisa (Tank) SevernakAnne Marie (Trujillo) VelosaShelly (Vogt) BensonMatthew PloorVicki SeppalaDan YuanHal McGinnisMark SmileyGary DegeronimoJeffrey KimJeffrey BergWei YangWilliam Wilkening

1995Robert DanielsMichael KoernerJayesh RamsinghaniJohn LewisTravis HigginsHeath LewallenCurtis BrunsDarren SimsDavid RandolphDavid PellinenWan-Hsin TangPaul EnglehartJose LoperaMichael ZelnickWilliam Johnson

1996Dawn (Gladish) Graffam

Toni ( Johnson) RogeroHeather (Muir) WoodwardIngrid (Nelson) McNeilTom ZhongElena SanwickChristopher FallYung-lin LinKris AkreMichael YockeyKeith Lierman

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1998Michelle (Langmaid) CunninghamDennis MooneyJosh NiesDaniel SandblomTravis McCarthyScott BrickerDiemthuy NgoBrian SichterMichael MoatsCarter RomeroCarl Bueter

Timothy ChristophersonJames EntwistleKeith Ballou

1999Deborah (Gill) GrossMichael DoCharles GajdaMarc GreenbergHua ZhuZiyu HuangJeffrey ZubelBrian DebnamIvan DolianiAdam GilbertRyan GoebelCharles ScrogginsManuel TeranCesar Cheng-GuajardoSteven WayneTingyang LiuMarco Gardner

2000Shiraj MamunVictor LingSaul MoraStephen KuenzliTawnie HarrisonScott SaylesMichael WongSutirtha KabirJody CongerLucinda WilliamsLeah StanleySaid AhmadLaura Lohner

2001Anita (Chapin) McGuireJoon Pyo LeeJing-Quan LiJohn BuehlerGalen JokipiiJessa WrightErin LyonsSuman DhakalPaul DrobnyJeremy CarlsonLindy Cote

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2003Claire LubertNathan PalmerMatthew BaileyPrasad Gabbur

Bo ZhaoAmarpreet ChawlaBalamurugan KrishnanSarvesh BhardwajJoshua MartinWalter LopezJason GodinezKweku Ansah Obiri

2004Laucretia (Begay) BaumJuan LopezAndrew OsbrinkEvan LytleMuzaffar EusuffArsen TonoyanRoberto BringasAllison BascheFaisal El AzzouziWen Huang

2005John CondonRobert StirlingDonald SwansonGregory DionJoshua KochPirahas BalasingamVignesh KrishnasamyBharat SukhwaniBrian AldenKristy PearsonBrett YeaterAnn HoangJoseph Augustine

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2007Shannon (Hoblitzell) GreenStephanie (Sara) JordanJoseph FicoRyan KemmetRyan KantoJames RozzoniStanley YellowhairAdam SandiferBix BeiderbeckeWilliam SalusAlexis AlvarezJeffrey CalhounDevin WhippleDavid KraemerAnnapoorna KrishnaswamyMatthew Zerull

2008Jacob GulottaAvinash AyyalasomayajulaLogan GaitherSatyajeet AhujaRachel PoppMehul PatelNarendhran VijayakumarMatthew KinnamanJeffrey HuntDonald BruyereGeoffrey StewardAdam Ritter

2009Joanna (Emerson) ZinsliRegina ReedAbhinav JhaJesus GarciaMargaret HowardAnvesh CherukupallyKyle Van RenterghemAdam WagnerKris MilsterMichael BalthazarNathan DeckerAndrew FriedmanGene MechlerLily GharibPatrick Edwards

2010William CassonWayne Chin-DuncanAndrew BozziRuben Romero

Michelle GuardadoRavi Raghavendra

2011Myra TobarRyan BadillaJesse CampbellMarcelo SalazarShailendra SimkhadaJohn KurzCorey CrosbyAndrew BrownKyle WollschlagerScott KetterJosh SpiveySoufiane MdaghriAaron KapilivskyBrandon SkalskyHans HonyBenjamin Hobson

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2013Juan MariscalDevin RaymondPooja RajguruDavid AshtonKevin ForbesCody Wood-HromidkoJohn FeatherDaniel LizarragaNichole Miller

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that the first professional engineering degree should be a master’s degree.

“All of these eventually became part of the national debate on how to educate engineers,” Goldberg said.

Smerdon graduated from the University of Missouri with a BS in engineering in 1951 and served four years in the U.S. Air Force, then returned to his alma mater for his MS and PhD. He went on to hold the Janet S. Cockrell

Centennial Chair in the civil engineering department at the University of Texas, Austin, and the Bess Harris Jones Centennial Professorship in Natural Resource Policy Studies at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He was vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Texas system from 1976 to 1982.

His numerous honors include the American Society of

Civil Engineers’ Royce J. Tipton Award, the 2006 Golden

Vector Award from the Pan-American Union of Engineering

Associations, the 2005 John C. Park Outstanding Civil

Engineer Award from ASCE’s Arizona section, and the 2002

Lifetime Achievement Award by the ASCE Environmental and

Water Resources Institute. The Arizona Society of Professional

Engineers named him Engineer of the Year in Education.

Smerdon credited his Missouri Ozarks upbringing for his

strong work ethic and family values, and has been quoted as

saying: “I was surrounded by dairy cattle and crops. I learned

early on that hard work was good for you, and I learned that I

didn’t want to be a farmer.”

His wife of 63 years, Joanne Duck Smerdon, survives him,

as do their three children, 10 grandchildren, two great

grandchildren, and his sister and brother.

Donations can be made in his memory to the Ernest

and Joanne Smerdon Endowed Scholarship to support

outstanding undergraduate students at the University of

Arizona College of Engineering.

Ernie Smerdon

A L U M N I

Fun Time to Prime Time—Karen Christensen (right in TV screen photo of contestants on the set of “Wheel of Fortune”) organizes an annual STEM-focused summer camp for middle school girls from low-income areas of Tucson. The summer 2014 camp was held at the UA Flandrau Science Center and attended by 35 girls, shown above posing for a group photo.

Elizabeth (Sees) Bowe BS/IE 2004

Since graduating, Bowe has been a government contractor in San Diego, working in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, software testing and program management. She married fellow engineer David Bowe in 2007 (they have two daughters), and recently started her own company (bowebaby.com). As a professional systems and industrial engineer, Bowe says she has always had a passion for improvement, which is why she set up bowebaby.com. “As a busy mom I was constantly on the go,” she said. “I often had my two girls in tow, but I hated dragging my cumbersome diaper bag in with me from place to place.” Bowe’s motivation in launching her company was to find a way to store essential baby items right on the infant car seat, freeing up a much-needed hand. “That’s when I came up with the idea for a diaper bag that can attach to a car seat,” Bowe said. “At the time, I couldn’t even sew a button! So with lots of glue, pins and fabric strewn across my dining room table in the wee hours of the night, I made my first prototype. I’ve since hired real manufacturers and I’m excited to be growing my new business.”

Karen Christensen BS/AE 1990

Christensen is senior systems engineer at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona. She has a son at Pima Community College and her daughter is a junior at Catalina Foothills High School. When she’s not busy leading a team of six engineers at Raytheon, where she has worked for 13 years, she can be found winning piles of cash on national television: In 2013 she was a contestant on “Wheel of Fortune,” where she won $62,550, including $50,000 in the bonus round. “I was extremely nervous but I settled down after a few minutes and had a fantastic time,” Christensen said. “Most of the money went into my daughter’s college account; hopefully she will soon be at the UA.” Away from prime time, Christensen plays softball (first base) for one of Raytheon’s company teams and runs an annual STEM-focused summer camp for middle school girls from low-income areas of Tucson. The summer 2014 camp was held at the UA Flandrau Science Center and attended by 35 girls

from four different schools. “They had a fantastic time learning about careers in scientific and technical fields through hands-on experiences,” Christensen said.

Jerry Kaufman BS/Metallurgical Engineering 1958

Following terms as a municipal judge for the City of Las Vegas and as a short-trial judge in the district court, Jerry Kaufman was appointed to the Supreme Court of Nevada in 1998 and recently appointed for another term as a settlement judge. Kaufman has taught law-related subjects at Nevada Southern University and at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He was recently a visiting professor at the Center for International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria. He’ll be 80 in 2015 and still enjoys snow skiing, golf and tennis. He says “hello” to all his friends in Tucson and Phoenix. When he practiced law, Kaufman represented internationally renowned entertainers and was honored last year to be inducted and enshrined into the Fans’ Entertainment Hall of Fame.


Elizabeth Bowe and Bowe baby

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