Virginia Engineering Magazine, Fall 2004 Class Notes

Virginia Engineering
Fall 2004, Volume 17, No. 1

class notes & in memoriam

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1950s

Robert L. Sackheim, (ChE '59) assistant center director and chief engineer for space propulsion at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been awarded a 2003 Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executives - one of the highest honors for government service work. He was among a group of federal senior executives recently honored in Washington.

The Presidential Rank Award is a prestigious honor given to a select group of senior federal executives who have provided exceptional service to the American people over an extended period of time.

Executives who have demonstrated strength, integrity, industry and commitment to the public trust are nominated for the award by the head of their agencies. A panel of private citizens evaluates the candidates, selecting only those who, through their personal conduct and results-oriented leadership, qualify for referral to the President, who makes the final designation.

1960s

Michael N. Bishara (Aero '69) retired from the service with the State of Virginia. He is actively involved with aviation and aviation history.

David A. Kettler (EE '67, '70, '71) was awarded a 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Virginia Engineering Foundation.

James M. Trice Jr. (ChE '63), the first African-American to earn a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, is a member of President John T. Casteen's Commission on Diversity and Equity, an entity convened this summer to assess the quality of the student experience with special attention to the experiences of women and minorities. Trice was once the Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor in ChE and a visiting lecturer in STS and he also served as minority adviser to the dean and on the Virginia Engineering Foundation board.

VEF Honors Graduates and Others at Annual Award Ceremony
Several alumni, faculty, and staff were honored at the October 2004 Thornton Society Dinner with VEF Awards.
Distinguished Alumni Award Jill S. Tietjen (Applied Math '76) David A. Kettler (EE '67, '70, '71) Distinguished Faculty Award Michael J. Demetsky (CE) Distinguished Service Award Lisa E. Meadows (Office of the Dean) Distinguished Service Award William A. Jesser (MSE) Outstanding Young Engineering Graduate Award Leland D. Melvin (MSE '91)

William C. Putnam (CE '66) is an associate in the law firm of Burgess & Niple in Chantilly, Va.

1970s
Lt. Gen. Robert Flowers (CE '76) who served as chief of engineers and commanding general of the

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has been named CEO of Washington-based HNTB Federal Services Corp., a new subsidiary of The HNTB Companies. The company will seek to address "the government's facility, infrastructure and security needs."

Douglas E. Jackson (Nuc '72) merged his patent law practice with the law firm of Stitles & Harbison, a Southeast regional business and litigation firm.

1980s
Loren D. Bloomberg (SIE '89) is a senior transportation engineer at CH2M Hill. He and his wife and two children live in El Cerrito, Calif.

Thomas F. P. Enochs (ME '86) has been named vice president of professional services by Seattle-based Qpass, which describes itself as "the preferred provider of mobile commerce software."

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Charles Romine (Applied Math '86) works in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) as the DOE Representative of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). His work centers on information technology, with emphasis on high-end computing and cybersecurity.

Mark J. Sykes (ChE '85) is a special agent for the FBI's Richmond division. He serves as the program coordinator for the Richmond division's cybercrime, violent crime, drug and organized crime and undercover programs and the division's evidence response team and computer analysis response team.

Charles D. Tereck (ChE '85) is vice president and a member of the board of directors of Katzen International Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company licenses process technology and provides engineering services worldwide in the area of ethanol production.

David J. Williamson Jr. (CS '82) is president and co-founder of the Southwest Virginia chapter of the Project Management

Jill S. Tietjen (Applied Math '76) was awarded a 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Virginia Engineering Foundation in honor of the work she does encouraging young people, especially women, to pursue engineering. She also recently received the 2004 Tau Beta Pi Distinguished Alumna award, given in recognition of an alumnus who demonstrates adherence to the ideals of Tau Beta Pi (integrity, breadth of interest, adaptability, and unselfish activity) and to fostering a spirit of liberal culture on local, national, and international scales.

Institute. He teaches CIS and project management at Mary Baldwin College and Virginia Western Community College.

1990s
Barry Adams (ME '96) works for the Department of Defense Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, developing national security satellite sensors and launch vehicles.

Adriane Davis (SIE '99) is a 2004 recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program fellowship. She is a doctoral student in computer information systems at Georgia State University, researching brain-computer interfaces.

Robert L. Finnegan (SIE '91) is vice president of the Small Business

Credit Card division with Capital One Financial Corporation.

John Kros (SIE '97) is an assistant professor of decision sciences in the College of Business at East Carolina University.

Leland D. Melvin (MSE '91) was awarded the 2004 Young Engineering Graduate Award from the Virginia Engineering Foundation.

Kirsten Oleson (CE '96) is enrolled at Stanford University's Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. Her research centers on the environmental linkages of macroeconomic policy reforms.

Patricia T. Waugh (Aero '90) is a senior engineer with Boeing.

Engineering Alum is NASA's Newest Astronaut Candidate

Thomas H. Marshburn (Engr. Physics '84) is one of NASA's newest astronaut candidates. Marshburn, a physician, worked as a flight surgeon at NASA's Johnson Space Center. The 43-year-old was born in North Carolina and has two master's degrees - one from U.Va. and another from the University of Texas Medical Branch. He received his doctorate degree from Wake Forest University and has since served as the lead crew surgeon for the seventh expedition to the International Space Station.

2000s
Matthew Axtell (LAW '02) won the Levinson Prize from the Society for the History of Technology for "the best unpublished work by a new entrant to the field" of history of technology. His paper is on the James River and Kanawha Canal. The prize was awarded at the Society for the History of Technology meeting in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Axtell wrote the first draft of the paper while he was a student at U.Va., studying the history of technology and environment with Professor Edmund Russell. He now works for the Army Corps of Engineers as an attorney.

Russell Holt (CE '03) works as a civil engineer in the traffic design section of the Rhode Island Department

of Transportation. He serves on the membership committee of the Intelligent Transportation Society of Rhode Island.

Satish C. Kartha (SIE '03) is working for Applied Materials as a test engineer.

Steven Sklad (CE '00) works for Applied Biosystems, a biotech company.

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in memoriam

1930s

Paul B. Krebs (CE '30)
died in June. He was retired from Paul B. Krebs & Associates Inc., a Birmingham, Ala., architectural/engineering firm where he was owner and then president for almost 40 years. A native of Birmingham, he received his B.S. degree in civil engineering in 1930 and was a member of the Theta Tau and Tau Beta Pi national engineering scholastic honor societies.

He was a strong advocate of technical competence by those who offer consulting services in the water and wastewater field. He served on an Engineering School scholarship committee and established and funded an academic scholarship at the School for aspiring young engineering students. During his life he received many honors and recognition for his contributions to the field of civil engineering.At U.Va., he was a member of the Raven Society and the Jefferson Society.

Neal O. Wade Jr. (CE '49) died in July. He was an Engineering School student in 1942 before leaving school to join the Army where he entered combat in France. He earned three battle stars, the Bronze Star and the Combat Infantry Badge. Following discharge he returned to school where he served as student president, a member of the Honor Committee, a member of the Beta Fraternity, president of the "V" Club and president of his graduating class.

He was also voted to a number of All-Star baseball teams and was awarded the Billy Ward baseball trophy in his senior year. Following graduation he was a member of the 13 Society, Raven Society and the Secret 7 Society. He served on the Board of Visitors and was president of the Alumni Association, and he won the Virginia Engineering Foundation Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award in 1992.

Edwin E. Andrews (Engr. '30) of Richmond, Va., died in July.

William T. Temple (CE '33) of Irvington, Va., died in May.

1940s

Andrew B. Bolton Jr. (ME '49) of Charlottesville, Va., died in December 2003. He was a marine products sales manager for Sperry Marine and retired as president of Monticello Home Builders. He was a member of the Charlottesville City Planning Commission.

William H. McCoy (ChE '42) of Greenville, Del., died in January.

Keith A. Rogers (Engr. '49) of Federal Way, Wash., died in September 2003. He worked on the Gemini B/Manned Orbital Laboratory Program at McDonnell Douglas and as an aerospace engineer for Boeing and a chief systems troubleshooter for NASA's Space Shuttle orbital launch system.

1950s

James L. Dooley (ME '50) of Charlottesville, Va., died in October 2003. He was a partner with the patent and trademark law firm of Cushman, Darby & Cushman in Washington, D.C., before he retired in 1994.

Jerome A. Isear (EE '51) of Salisbury, Md., died in March. He was founder of Cavalier Energy Co., one of the largest Exxon distributors on the Eastern Shore.

Edward J. Szczebak Sr. (EE '51) of Plano, Texas, died in July.

1970s

Michael S. Kearney (Nuc '73) of Carlsbad, N.M., died in May 2003. He was a program manager and consultant for Weston Solutions Inc. He is survived by his daughter, Elisabeth R. Kearney '06.

1980s

Thomas R. Sutter (CE '81) of Newport News, Va., died in September 2003. He was a project manager with NASA for 20 years and a commander of the U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Reserve Unit.

Matthew J. Anderson (SIE '89) of Fairfax, Va., died in November 2003. He was a partner in the federal government client group of Accenture Corp.

1990s

Andrew T. Hatch (CS '93) of Boynton Beach Fla., died in October 2003. He worked at Fidelity Federal Bank.