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3 Engineers Week
Students make big
splash on campus

9 ICOSSE Congress
Dire warnings by EPA
science advisor
College of Engineering/Pete Brown

Learning to Fly—Aerospace engineering student David Copp readies an autonomous plane for flight
as part of the autonomous soaring project in the Hybrid Dynamics and Control Laboratory.

Birds and Bees Influence

Design of Unmanned Aircraft
University of Arizona aerospace and mechanical engineers are studying bird
10 Design Day 2011
UAV systems impress
Design Day judges
and bee flight to develop unmanned vehicles that stay aloft longer and cope
with sudden and severe changes in airflow.
The UA College of Engineering’s Hybrid indefinitely. These systems also might be
Dynamics and Control Laboratory is used to safely guide aircraft and automobiles
developing mathematical analysis and design through small openings as they enter
methods that could radically advance the buildings. Or they could help airplanes
STORY capabilities of unmanned and ground vehicles navigate in cluttered
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as well as many other systems that rely on
“What we do here in our lab is mainly theory,”
autonomous decision making.
said Ricardo Sanfelice, an assistant professor
19 Alumni Echoes
Where are they and Researchers in the lab design computer of aerospace and mechanical engineering,
what are they doing? control systems that may one day allow who directs the lab. “We model dynamical
robotic surveillance aircraft to stay aloft CO NT I NUE D O N PA G E 8
DEAN’S VIEWPOINT

Growth and Self-Sufficiency Key to Survival

The quality is good, but financial reality means we must work on upping the quantity
It has been quite an adventure in the
college with the recent major changes
in the campus budget system. As
we become less dependent on state
appropriations, UA colleges will
increasingly finance the majority of
their missions through undergraduate
and graduate student tuition. For UA
Engineering, this means adopting
strategies that increase enrollment and At the graduate level we are developing
boost graduation rates at all levels. master’s degree and certificate
programs that reflect industry needs
We have improved undergraduate
by providing flexible class schedules
quality during the past 5 years and it is
and online distance learning. We will
now time to increase student quantity.
be rolling out programs in engineering
Some of you will remember being lined
management, systems engineering,
up with your fellow freshmen and being
mining engineering, sustainability, solar
asked to look to your left and to look to
energy, and construction management.
your right, and then being told that only
Programs in electrical and computer
one of you would finish. Those days
engineering and aerospace and
are long gone, and we now need to
mechanical engineering are scheduled
look at strategies to support students
for 2012-2013. The goal is to provide
to completion.
a base of programs in a wide range
We are assembling a group of our of engineering disciplines that help
best teaching faculty to work more alumni, professionals, and companies
with freshman and sophomores. enhance their technical skills.
We recently received special tuition
I want to thank you for your continued
authorization for reducing class size,
support. Over the next few years, our
adding more teaching assistants, and
strategy is to grow and become more
increasing tutoring programs. We are
financially self-sufficient. We cannot do
also developing a student innovation
this without the generous support of
center for our student club activities
our alumni and friends.
and for senior design project teams
(more on this new building in Go Cats!
future issues!). If we want the best
students joining the college, then
we need the best facilities and
the best teaching and retention
strategies to go with our jgoldberg@arizona.edu
strong professors and staff. 520.621.6594

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS Engineering management
senior Erika Gibson tries an
unconventional water-delivery
method in an E-Week event
organized by Engineers Without
Borders and based on their
water-supply projects in Africa.

College of Engineering/Pete Brown

E-Week Brings Engineering to Campus and Community

UA Engineers Week was organized by the Engineering
Student Council in February and featured a series of
STORY competitive events run and organized by
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societies within the UA College of Engineering.
Events included spaghetti tower and model aircraft design
competitions, assorted sporting events and quizzes, the i-Expo
career fair, tours and recruitment events, and lots of community
outreach. The week finished with the Western Region Rube
Goldberg Competition and the gala awards night.
“E-Week is a great way for us to support our students’
involvement in extracurricular activities on campus,” said
Kiona Meade, junior engineering student and E-Week
coordinator for the Engineering Student Council.
“It’s a great way to promote engineering to the campus and
the community,” said Jeff Goldberg, dean of the UA College
of Engineering. “E-Week shows that engineers can improve
society and help people, and have some fun while they do it.
And it’s a great opportunity to get kids interested in a career
in engineering.”

College of Engineering/Pete Brown
Rock Stars—Mining engineering students
Nick Carouso, above, and Bree McMaster,
right, winners of the 2011 rock-drilling
competition. Both got dunked in the Old
Main fountain.
Rocks Bored,
Crowd Thrilled
Mining and geological engineering
students drew a large and curious
STORY audience at their
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competition, which required them to
bore into a 20‑ton rock outside Old
Main for 3 minutes to see how deep
they could get.
Mining engineering student Nick
Math and mining engineering student Carouso won the men’s event, which
Bree McMaster won the women’s also earned him a soaking. His
rock‑drilling competition, and in victory was witnessed by his mom,
keeping with tradition was dunked in who competed in the rock-drilling
the Old Main fountain for her prowess. competition about 20 years ago. Both
Such was her confidence, she wore a she and Nick’s dad are UA mining
swimsuit under her rock-drilling clothes. engineering graduates.

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AWARD WINNERS
College of Engineering/Pete Brown
Role Model­­—Erica Corral, left, shows high school students
around her research lab.
‘Exemplary’ UA Engineer is First
Recipient of YWCA Leadership Award
Erica Corral, assistant professor in the UA materials
science and engineering department and BIO5 member,
recently became the first recipient of YWCA Tucson’s
Women on the Move Emerging Leader Award.
YWCA Tucson described Corral as an “exemplary
emerging leader and example of excellence for young
STORY women and girls.” In fact, YWCA Tucson
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model, that the award was created specifically with Corral
in mind as the first recipient.
“I am really honored to be recognized by the YWCA as
a role model for young women to pursue science and
engineering,” Corral said. “It’s a part of the job I really
enjoy doing.”
Corral received her award at the 29th annual Women on
the Move Awards Banquet in February 2011 at the Westin
La Paloma resort in Tucson, Ariz.
“The awards banquet was created to honor and recognize
women who go beyond to enhance the quality of life for
women and for the community,” Corral said. “Leaders at
the YMCA are really dedicated to empowering all women
of all ages.”
YWCA Tucson describes its mission as “eliminating
racism, empowering women, and promoting peace,
justice, freedom and dignity for all.” It was established in
1917 and, despite those initials, welcomes all genders and
has no religious affiliation.
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College of Engineering/Pete Brown
Solar Chefs­­—About 80 teams, including Hannah McNeal, left, and
Erika McMahan, participated in the first Solar Oven Throw Down on
the UA Mall as part of the award-winning Engineering 102 program.
UA’s High School Engineering
Program Wins Education Award
In November 2010, the Arizona Department of Education
awarded a 2010 Spotlight on Success award to the UA College
STORY of Engineering’s pioneering program to teach
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participating schools who take the class earn credit hours
toward an engineering degree at UA.
The Spotlight on Success award recognizes educators, schools,
and programs for their exemplary efforts in providing quality
education to Arizona’s students. The award was made jointly
to the UA College of Engineering and four participating high
schools with career technical education programs: Sabino,
Ironwood Ridge, Flowing Wells, and Marana Mountain View.
“Congratulations on this model program of study,” said Milt
Ericksen, deputy associate superintendent and state director
for career and technical education at the Arizona Department
of Education, in a letter to Jim Baygents, associate dean for
academic affairs at the UA College of Engineering. “It is
the work of initiatives such as this that will propel Arizona
students into a successful future.”
• The Solar Oven Project has been around for more than a decade,
according to Brian Cunningham, ENGR 102 coordinator. “As far as I know
STORY this is the first throw down ever,” he said. “The students
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own class, but this will give them a chance to see up to 80 different
ovens,” Cunningham said. “Every semester we try to do something that
will give the students the opportunity to see the work of their peers.”
Eduardo Saez Named University
Distinguished Professor
Eduardo Sáez of the department
of chemical and environmental
engineering has been named University
Distinguished Professor for 2011.
Only one faculty member per year is
selected for this honor, which will be
presented to Sáez by the Arizona Board
of Regents in a special ceremony in
Eduardo Sáez December 2011.
“The ChEE department is proud of Dr. Sáez on this
recognition for providing a high level of teaching excellence
STORY for many years,” said Jim Field, chemical and
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“The students are very appreciative of Dr. Sáez’s extra effort
in making difficult subject matter understandable, and for his
efforts in engaging students in research.”
Sáez is the third recipient of the award from the UA College of
Engineering in as many years. Mary Poulton, head of mining
and geological engineering, was honored in 2010 and Jerzy
Rozenblit, head of the department of electrical and computer
engineering, was inducted in 2009.
Distinguished professors have demonstrated outstanding
commitment to undergraduate education in several
ways. At least half of their teaching assignments include
undergraduate teaching, using the highest standards
in the classroom combined with effective advising and
mentoring of undergraduates. Distinguished professors also
have a record of strong research that has been applied in
undergraduate classrooms.
Women Engineers Shine at Innovation
Day Showcasing UA Research
Two of the five faculty chosen for “UA at
the Leading Edge” awards at this year’s UA
Innovation Day were College of Engineering
female faculty.
Mary Poulton was selected for her work with
the Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources,
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Mary Poulton
and policy to ensure responsible stewardship
and development of the Earth’s mineral resources. And Erica Corral was
chosen for her research on high‑temperature materials for use in extreme
environmental applications, such as spacecraft.
Ringing Endorsement—Professor Supapan Seraphin, left, with
Ben’s Bells co-founder Jeanette Maré.
Ben’s Bell Award for Seraphin
Professor Supapan Seraphin of the UA department of
materials science and engineering received a Ben’s Bells
award in January. She received her Ben’s Bell while
she was in the kitchen of UA’s Maricopa residence hall
preparing her famous Thai lunch for students.
As students and guests bustled around the kitchen,
helping prepare more than 60 pounds of rice, chicken, tofu
STORY and veggies, and Seraphin stirred a giant
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Jeanette Maré walked in and presented Seraphin with
the bell in recognition of the care and kindness Seraphin
brings to her students and colleagues.
Seraphin said she was “super surprised” by the
unexpected honor. “I’m extremely happy and grateful for
the recognition of what I do for fun,” she said. “I am happy
when students eat healthy and enjoy a little community.”
Seraphin’s Thai lunches are something of a legend on
the UA campus, and she uses the lunch gathering as
an opportunity to discuss academic concerns with
her students. It also allows engineering students from
different disciplines to mingle and discover more about
the academic interests they share. “These lunches make a
connection between students,” she said.
She has been organizing the lunches for 10 years. At one
point they became so popular that hundreds of students
lined up around the block for a bowl of curry or pad thai.

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RESEARCH

UA and Local DOT Test

Smart Traffic Systems
UA researchers have teamed up with
the Maricopa County Department of
Transportation, or MCDOT, to create
a system that will make intersections
safer for emergency responders and
the general public.
They are
installing a
prototype at six
intersections
in Maricopa
County and
will test it
this summer,
Larry Head
according College of Engineering/Pete Brown

to Larry Head of the systems and
industrial engineering department,
and Faisal Saleem, MCDOT
Intelligent Transportation Systems
branch manager.
Their efforts are part of a national
push to create smart vehicles that
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with traffic control systems. In 2013,
the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration may require every
vehicle sold in the United States to
be equipped with this technology.
The system being installed in
Maricopa County could be one of the
first steps in deploying a smart-vehicle
system throughout the country, Head
said. “There’s the question of which
comes first, the intelligent cars or
the infrastructure to support them,”
he said. “If we install a system for
emergency vehicles, it could be the
core infrastructure and the pathway
to deployment. As the nation’s public
and private vehicle fleets are renewed,
this system could lead the way in
making intersections safer.”
Pet Scan­­—At the UA-Zonge test site in the Sonoran Desert near Tucson, Moe Momayez,
associate professor of mining and geological engineering at the UA Lowell Institute for Mineral
Resources, prepares to unleash Blue while a Zonge engineer monitors how the dog’s movement
shows up on the Helios system.
Lowell Minerals Institute and Tucson Engineering
Firm Test Underground Border Security System
A unique underground surveillance
system tested by UA researchers could
be used to watch the entire US–Mexico
border continuously.
The border-monitoring system, known
as Helios, consists of laser pulses
STORY transmitted through
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buried in the ground that respond to
movements on the surface above. A
detector at one or both ends of the cable
analyzes these responses.
Helios is sensitive enough to detect
a dog and can discriminate between
people, horses and trucks. The system
can be set to avoid being triggered by
small animals, and can also tell if people
are running or walking, or digging, and
in which direction.
Zonge, a geophysical engineering
company based in Tucson, Ariz.,
installed a Helios test system in the
desert near Tucson. The UA’s Lowell
Institute for Mineral Resources led the
project to evaluate Helios as a tool for
border surveillance, assisted by the UA
National Center for Border Security
and Immigration.
The resolution of the cable can be set
to one-meter intervals, which means
the location of a cut cable, or people, or
vehicles, can be pinpointed instantly
to within one meter along a section of
cable up to 50 kilometers long.
Moe Momayez, associate professor of
mining and geological engineering at
the UA Lowell Institute for Mineral
Resources, co-authored a report of the
Helios tests. “We can install cables up
to 50 kilometers in length with only one
Helios detector,” he said. “Because the
50-nanosecond laser pulses travel at the
speed of light, we can detect any event
virtually instantaneously and deploy the
appropriate resources to that location.”

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Deep Breaths­­—The new director of the Western Mining Safety and Health Training
Resource, Ros Hill, left, helps mining engineering junior Allison Hagerman get into a mine
rescue breathing apparatus at the San Xavier mining lab. The Drager BG-4 mine rescue
rebreathers were a gift to the mine from Barrick, a global gold mining company.
NIOSH Awards UA $1.6M for Mine Safety Center
A consortium of three UA colleges has
received a three-year grant of $1.6 million
to set up the Western Mining Safety and
Health Training Resource Center.
The grant was awarded by the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health, which is part of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
The lead researchers on the project are
Mary Poulton, head of the department
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of the Lowell Institute for Mineral
Resources; Jeff Burgess, director of the
community, environment and policy
division at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman
College of Public Health; and Patty
Anders of the department of teaching,
learning and sociocultural studies at the
College of Education.
The resource center will be directed
by Ros Hill, a professor of practice
in the department of mining and
geological engineering and director of
College of Engineering/Pete Brown
the San Xavier Underground Mining
Laboratory. The center will cover the
U.S. west of the Mississippi.
“The training center will address those
mining safety and health training issues
which could be considered unique to the
West,” Hill said. “Our focus is more on
metal mining and sand, gravel and stone,
as opposed to the coal focus in the East.”
An objective of the center will be the
development of new methods and
materials to make mine safety training
more effective.
“Our goal is for the UA to be a center
of excellence in mine health and safety
and this grant continues to grow our
national prominence,” said Poulton.
“We have a unique facility at our San
Xavier Mine and recent infrastructure
improvements at the mine, funded
by Science Foundation Arizona and
Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold,
have allowed us to expand the scope of
our research and training.”
UA Engineering Leads
Haiti Earthquake Survey
A team led by UA earthquake
engineer Robert B. Fleischman,
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of civil engineering and engineering
mechanics, traveled to Haiti in 2010
to examine earthquake damage to
buildings in Port-Au-Prince.
The magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck
Haiti around 5 p.m. on Jan. 12, 2010.
In just 30 seconds, nearly a quarter
of a million people died. A further
300,000 were injured, and more than
a million people were displaced. The
primary cause of loss of life was the
collapse of nearly 100,000 buildings
constructed mostly of reinforced
concrete or unreinforced masonry.
Fleischman’s team consisted of
UA faculty and graduate students,
and engineers from Rutherford
& Chekene, a San Francisco
earthquake engineering firm. The
trip was funded by the National
Science Foundation under its
Rapid Response Program to gather
perishable data in the period directly
after a natural disaster.
The team documented engineered
structures in Port-Au-Prince that
suffered heavy damage but did not
collapse. The term “engineered”
refers to construction that involved
engineers or architects, as opposed
to construction carried out by
building owners or community
members. “Most residential homes
in Haiti fall into this latter category,”
Fleischman said.
The team also evaluated techniques
for seismic assessment of vulnerable
structures, and recommended
improvements to building practices
in Haiti.
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COVER STORY

Birds and Bees Influence Design

C O N TIN U ED F R O M PA G E 1
systems, analyze them mathematically,
devise ways to control them, test them in
simulations and, when possible, validate
them in our test bed.”
Sanfelice and his students currently are
studying ways to extract energy from
wind gusts and thermals to gain altitude
without using power, just like birds do
when soaring to greater altitudes. “This
is very different from traditional control
system design, where you want to
nullify the effects of perturbations. Here,
we’re exploiting them,” he said.
Creating the Internet of Everything
Autonomous cars on our streets driving
better than we do. Intelligent wallpaper
in our houses measuring temperature,
moisture and vibration. Smart dust
scattered in our hospitals tracking
patients or detecting toxins.
Imagine networking all the above
together to create an internet of
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myriad processes that run silently and
anonymously in our backgrounds.

One project involves autonomous This mostly invisible mesh of wired

soaring in which the computer “pilot”
actively searches for thermals (areas
of rapidly rising air) that might occur
when sunlight warms a plowed field or
stretch of asphalt.
In the lab, fans and wind tunnels
generate these mock thermals and wind
gusts. “If the plane detects a change
in altitude that wasn’t created by the
navigation system, the computer begins
to explore that area to find the thermal,”
Sanfelice said. If the lift occurs off the
left wing, for instance, the computer will
turn the plane to the left, but if it doesn’t
find the thermal during this turn, it will
change direction and cut the area at a
different angle.
Designing the computer software
and other parts of the systems
is math-intensive, centering on
differential equations and difference
equations. Differential equations
and wireless sensor networks that
coats our existence is at the heart of
“cyber-physical systems,” a rapidly
growing area of systems engineering.
The UA College of Engineering’s
Hybrid Dynamics and Controls
Laboratory recently hosted the
First Southwest Workshop on
Theory and Applications of Cyber-
Physical Systems. The event, and
its 20 speakers, attracted almost 60
researchers from industry, government
and about 10 Southwestern colleges.
Ricardo Sanfelice, director of the
Hybrid Dynamics and Control
describe the continuous motion of
vehicles. Meanwhile, the controllers
may introduce abrupt changes,
known as “discontinuities” in the
math world, that are best described
by difference equations.
This is where the term “hybrid” fits into
the lab’s title, meaning analysis of both
continuous and discontinuous motion.
A ball bouncing on the ground offers
a simple example, Sanfelice said. The
ball exhibits a smooth motion between
impacts. This can be described by
differential equations. But at impacts,
Ricardo Sanfelice
Laboratory and an assistant professor
in the aerospace and mechanical
engineering department, organized
the workshop. The National Science
Foundation sponsored the event,
which took place in March 2011 at
the Four Points by Sheraton hotel in
Tucson, Ariz.
Sanfelice noted that the Southwest is
active in this area of research. He said
this workshop, the first in an ongoing
series, “will strengthen much-needed
collaboration between universities and
laboratories within the region.”
there is an almost instantaneous change
in velocity, and difference equations are
best suited to modeling it.
A similar discontinuity occurs in another
area of the lab’s research – flying a
model airplane through a window from
outdoors to indoors. Bees do this when
flying back into a hive, and Sanfelice is
recording their motions to see how they
do it. “From a control point of view, we
may want to mimic the maneuvers the
bees are executing, in particular, the
maneuvers they use to cope with the
discontinuity in the airflow,” he said.

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SUSTAINABILITY

EPA Speaker Describes

Our ‘Tragic Trajectory’
Speaking at the recent ICOSSE-11
conference on sustainability, EPA
science advisor Paul Anastas said
civilization is on a “tragic trajectory.”
Anastas, who is known as the “father
of green chemistry,” was speaking at
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International Congress on Sustainability
Science and Engineering, hosted by the
UA College of Engineering Jan. 9-13
at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort in
Tucson, Ariz.
Addressing the assembled conference College of Engineering/Pete Brown
delegates over dinner, Anastas said:
Looking to the Future­—EPA Science Advisor Paul Anastas warns of ecological collapse
“Everyone in this room has dedicated while silhouetted against the ICOSSE website projection during his speech at the
their professional lives and their personal sustainability engineering conference hosted by the College of Engineering.
lives to ensuring that things do not
ecological collapse. Getting off this every aspect of “whatever your widget
continue on the tragic trajectory that we
unsustainable trajectory, Anastas said, is is ... whatever your production process
are on as a civilization.”
all about leadership in recognizing the is.” Otherwise, he said, efforts to achieve
He was referring to unsustainable “absurdity” of our current reality. The true sustainability would be “tweaking
methods of energy and materials main thrust of Anastas’ talk was that around the edges to make something
usage, and to the potential for sustainability should be integrated into slightly less bad.”

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Solar collectors and wind generators
hold so much promise for clean
energy, but they have a major flaw:
they produce no power when the sun
doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow.
“If all we had to do was to generate
power when the sun is shining, we
would actually be in good shape
right now,” said Ben Sternberg, a
researcher in the University of Arizona’s
Compressed Air Energy Storage, or
CAES, program. “The crucial issue
now is finding economical ways to
store energy for large-scale use, either
home‑by-home over the entire country,
or utility scale.”
Energy from compressed air
stored underground is cheap,
clean and renewable. Researchers
at the UA’s School of Sustainable
Engineered Systems are designing
systems that will run fridges,
buildings or power plants.
Batteries have traditionally been
used to store energy, but they’re
expensive, have a limited number of
charge‑discharge cycles, and pose
resource and disposal problems.
The CAES group is developing
cost‑competitive energy-storage
systems based on compressing air and
storing it in man-made containers or
below ground in natural reservoirs.
When solar panels shut down and
wind generators stop, the compressed
air is warmed and released to drive
turbines that generate electricity. The
compressed air also can be released
directly to drive mechanical systems
without being converted to electricity.
UA’s CAES research team is working on
three projects that range from systems
that might power a single air conditioner
or refrigerator to building-wide systems,
as well as massive storage sites that
could store utility-scale energy.

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STUDENT PR OJECTS: ENGINEERING DESIGN DAY 2011
UAV Systems Impress Judges
at Engineering Design Day 2011
Unmanned aerial vehicle systems place first and second
for best overall design at annual UA Engineering showcase
The award for best overall design went
to LAARK, or Low-Altitude Aerial
Reconnaissance Kit, at this year’s
Engineering Design Day May 3.
The UA Aerial Robotics Club, or ARC,
sponsored the project because it needed
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Avatar UAV. The LAARK design team
consisted of aerospace and mechanical
engineer Malcolm Gibson, electrical
engineers Hans Hony and Elliott
Liggett, systems engineer James Dianics,
and optics engineer Michael Palmer
ARC itself won the best engineering
analysis award, sponsored by Raytheon,
for its Avatar UAV. ARC will integrate
the LAARK system into Avatar
before it competes in the Association
for Unmanned Vehicle Systems
International student UAS competition
in June 2011.
ARC describes Avatar as its most
advanced UAS airframe design yet,
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and says the integration of LAARK will
create one of the most capable student-
built avionics systems in the country.
Second place in the best overall design
category went to Project Shrike,
sponsored by Raytheon Missile Systems.
The Project Shrike team designed a
low-cost, gimbal-less UAV camera
system that can provide a stable
video stream that compensates for the
movement of the UAV as it pitches and
rolls in flight.
Project Shrike team members were
optical engineers Sean Keller, Jeff
Knafelc, Steven Haim and Alex Marty,
mechanical engineer Paul Shickling,
and Keoki Kimzin from the engineering
management program.
These projects were just a few among
almost 60 designed by UA engineering
students and shown at Engineering
Design Day, the UA College of
Engineering’s premier showcase of
student design. Design Day is organized by the college’s
Interdisciplinary Design Program,
Engineering 498, and sponsored by BAE
Systems and the college.
In a surprise announcement during
the awards ceremony, Greg Waterfall
of Texas Instruments said that the
company was awarding two first prizes
of $1,500 for best analog design. One
of the winners, the human-powered
vehicle team, will travel to Dallas to
Rube Cubes­­—Young students study the
Rube Goldberg machine on display at
Design Day 2011. The contraption was
sponsored by Texas Instruments, who want
to take it to trade shows to demonstrate
onboard TI chips and microcontrollers.
The machine won the prize for best use of
prototyping, sponsored by PADT.

College of Engineering/Pete Brown
Not Larking About­­—Electrical engineer
Elliott Liggett demonstrates the LAARK
avionics system, which won the best overall
design award. The glass dome contains
dual gimbaled machine-vision cameras that
can acquire 20-megapixel images at three
frames per second.
collect their prize and compete in a
nationwide competition for the $10,000
Engibous prize, named for TI chairman
emeritus Tom Engibous. The portable
brain wave monitor project, which
debuted at UA Design Day 2010, went
on to win the second prize of $7,500 in
last year’s national TI competition.
Seniors competed for almost $11,000 in
prize money during Design Day 2011,
which this year returned to the Student
Union Memorial Center.
Prize Winners
Best Overall Design, First Place • $1000
Low-altitude aerial reconnaissance kit
(LAARK) for integration into an unmanned
aerial system
Design team: Malcolm Gibson, Hans Hony,
Elliott Liggett, James Dianics, Michael
Palmer
Project sponsor: UA Aerial Robotics Club
Prize sponsor: BAE Systems
Best Overall Design, Second Place • $750
Project Shrike low cost UAV gimbal-less
camera system
Design team: Sean Keller, Jeff Knafelc, Paul
Shickling, Steven Haim, Keoki Kimzin, Alex
Marty
Project sponsor: Raytheon Missile Systems
Prize sponsors: BAE Systems
Best Analog Design 1 • $1500
Solar panel power monitoring system
Design team: Robert Benjamin, Alan France,
Gautam Hari, Brianna Heersink, Suman
Maharjan, Joel Marquez, Ajay Shrestha
Project sponsor: Texas Instruments
Prize sponsor: Texas Instruments
Best Analog Design 2 • $1500
ASME human powered vehicle: utility class
Design team: Andrew Laverty, Roy Green,
Christian Schultz, Josh Kaliszewski
Project sponsor: UA ASME club
Prize sponsor: Texas Instruments
Best Computer Modeling/Analysis • $1000
Trench volume measurement tool
Design team: Justin Mamer, Andrew
Davenport, Bryan Boone, Jorge Sanchez,
Colton Noble
Project sponsor: Caterpillar Inc.
Prize sponsor: Hydronalix
Best Use of Off-the-Shelf Components • $750
Development of a modular unmanned
underwater vehicle
Design team: Ammar Al Raisi, Arturo Armijo,
Collin Reynolds, Eduardo Moreno, Erick
Johnson, Ryan Maish
Project sponsor: Eduardo Moreno, Industrial
Tool Die & Engineering, Intel, Pololu, CH
Robotics
Prize sponsor: Edmund Optics
Best Use of Prototyping • $750
TI sensor-based monitoring & control system
Design team: Aidan Garza, Christopher
Kemsley, Chris Featherstone, Andrew
Weatherly, David Mares, Sheng-Hann
“Leo” Yang
Project sponsor: Texas Instruments
Prize sponsor: PADT
Best Engineering Analysis • $750
AVATAR – aerial vehicle for autonomous
target acquisition and recognition
Design team: Malcolm Gibson, Jun Li,
Christopher Poole, James Powell, Joshua
Tolliver, Dimitri Ververelli
Project sponsor: UA Aerial Robotics Club
Prize sponsor: Raytheon
Best Presentation • $750
Self-stabilizing helicopter landing platform
Design team: Scott McCall, Phillip Puentes,
Mark Jankauski, Diego Gil-Azamar, Logan
Rivas
Project sponsor: Boeing Rotorcraft Mesa
Prize sponsor: Rincon Research
Best Design Documentation • $750
Precious gem classifier
Design team: Gabriel Brewer, Joseph
Brewer, Mona Eskandari, Julia Harden,
Craig Oliver, Monica Rainey
Project sponsor: Alternative Vision Corp.
Prize sponsor: Technical Documentation
Consultants of Arizona
Best Team Leadership 1 • $250
CUVOPS IV: cooperative unmanned vehicle
operations planning system
Design team: Elizabeth Gyek-Li (winner),
Mitchell Kim, Paul Vazquez, Brent
McFarland, Richard Phillips, David Warnes
Project sponsor: BAE Systems San Diego
Prize sponsor: Honeywell
Best Team Leadership 2 • $250
Precious gem classifier
Design team: Gabriel Brewer (winner),
Joseph Brewer, Mona Eskandari, Julia
Harden, Craig Oliver, Monica Rainey
Project sponsor: Alternative Vision Corp.
Prize sponsor: Honeywell
Excellence in Testing and Validation • $500
UA Baja drivetrain
Design team: Josh Spivey, Andrew Sims,
Harrison Roberts, Ahmed Al-Binali,
Alexandra Hartz, Cade Wilson, Aaron
Saint-Amour
Project sponsor: UA Baja Racing
Prize sponsor: Sargent Aerospace & Defense
Fish Out of Water, First Place • $250
Precious gem classifier
Design team: Julia Harden (winner), Gabriel
Brewer, Joseph Brewer, Mona Eskandari,
Craig Oliver, Monica Rainey
Project sponsor: Alternative Vision Corp.
Prize sponsor: Kristy Pearson
Fish Out of Water, Second Place • $150
Device for measuring the center of gravity
of large industrial equipment
Design team: Paul Gastreich and Katherine
Palazzo (winners), Kevin Maghran, Mike
Malin, Jared Wagoner
Project sponsor: Bruker Corp.
Prize sponsor: Kristy Pearson
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Thank You!
These pages list the companies,
organizations and individuals
who have contributed to the
College of Engineering during
fiscal year July 1, 2009 to
June 30, 2010.
Their support is vital in providing College of Engineering/Pete Brown

scholarships, funding programs Richard G. Guthrie Scholarship recipient, mechanical engineering senior
Zachary Raves, between Dick Guthrie (BS/ME 1955), left, and Pat Dunford.
and supporting research.
Without this help, some
students would not be able 2009–2010 Donor Honor Roll
to complete their education. $2,000,000 and Above
Many other students would not J. David and Edith Lowell
have access to resources that $250,000–$499,999
give UA Engineering a margin Apollo Group Inc.
of excellence for educating
$200,000–$249,999
tomorrow’s engineering leaders. Tucson Electric Power Co.
We want to take this opportunity $100,000–$199,999
to say “thank you” from the Intel Corporation
Lockheed Martin Corp.
students and faculty who have Community Foundation
benefited so much from this for Southern Arizona
The Denver Foundation
generous support.
$50,000–$99,999
We have made every effort to list
Northrop Grumman
all those who contributed to the SMEF
college and sincerely apologize Ventana Medical Systems Inc.
Raytheon Company
if we have missed anyone. Ayco Charitable Foundation
Freeport-McMoRan Copper
If you donated to UA & Gold Foundation
Engineering during 2009-2010 International Foundation
for Telemetering
and are not on this list, please Arizona Public Service
let us know, and we will list NEC Laboratories America Inc.
your name in the next issue of $25,000–$49,999
Arizona Engineer. Kim and Corinne Fox
General Electric Foundation Analog Devices Inc.
- Matching Gifts
Air Products and
Information Storage Chemicals Inc.
Industry Consortium AZ Conference of AIME
Douglas and Cynthia Loy
Arizona Power Authority
GLHN Architects &
Engineers Inc.
Estate of Grace Rupkey
Anonymous $5,000–$9,999
BAE Systems Rincon Research Corporation
Peabody Investments Corp. Rain Bird Corporation
Alternative Vision Corporation
$10,000–$24,999 AGM Container Controls Inc.
Boeing Company Bioptics
Therese Berg (Velasco) Achen-Gardner
East Bay Community Construction LLC
Foundation Chevron
IBM Fluor Enterprises Inc.
Sean McCafferty Pegasus Technical Services
H. J. Bonnevie Trust University of Cincinnati
Arizona Society of Scientek-12 Inc.
Civil Engineers
Leston and Thelma
ExxonMobil Corp. Goodding (Anderson)
Hankook Tire Co. Ltd. National Space Grant Foundation
Texas Instruments Inc. Veikko and Elizabeth
Joseph Gervasio Kanto (Mayshal)
S. Jack McDuff GE Global Research
QuakeWrap Inc. Infrared Laboratories Inc.
AMD
Honeywell Aerospace
Product Systems Inc. Estate of Robert Ageton
Mintec Inc. Illinois Institute of Technology
Robert and Emma Finnegan Henderson
J. Whitenack Farabow Garrett & Dunner

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$1,000–$4,999 Sarianne Rittenhouse Steven Spease
I.R.W. Consulting Sundt Construction Inc. Ralph Miller
Brian and Donna Kelly Dale Hays and Michele Richard and June Rhoades
Fraps-Hays NACE International,
D. Alan and Lenise
Smith (Mincks) Lawrence and Virginia Arizona Section
Hjalmarson Matthew Treglia
Paragon Space
Development Corp Norman Soloway Ruth Ulmen
University Of Texas Stewart Foundation Kenneth Schmidt
Richard Guthrie and Sara McCoy (Meinert) Suvrajeet Sen
Patricia Dunford Sunpower of Arizona Inc. Michael and Kathleen
J.R. Filanc Construction Katherine Myers Chowaniec
Co. Inc.
Karl and Sandra Peter Rau
Arizona Builders’ Alliance Elers (Tanner) David and Brenda Randall
Cleveland-Cliffs P&H Mining Equipment
Foundation Frank Effland
Wayne and Carol Dawson John and Gloria Ketterl
Google Inc.
Sport Dimensions Inc. Campus Research Corp.
Tucson Embedded
Systems Inc. Matthew and Amanda Dennis Neumann
Kaufmann
Lindy Coté and Bruce and Peggy Flocken
Thomas Owen Sergey and Natallya College of Engineering/Pete Brown
Shkarayev Eric and Karen Jackson
CH2M Hill Inc. Gary and Carole Frere
William and Ella Dresher da Vinci Circle lifetime members and UA alums Craig Berge (BS/ME
B/E Aerospace Inc. Barry and Adrienne Abbott
Vieno Rukkila 1957), left, and Nancy Berge (BA/Edu, 1958), center, with Engineering
Emerald Coast Emerson Electric Company
RBF Consulting Foundation
Chapter AUVSU - Matching Gifts Dean Jeff Goldberg at a reception for da Vinci Circle members.
Engineering William and Dianne
Mensch Antoinette Theriault-
Student Council Faucette
American Institute of Robert and Shirley
Barksdale Michael and Robin Richard and Janet Vitales ConocoPhillips - Charles Lynch
Chemical Engineering Kaiserman Matching Gifts
Robert and Laura Roscoe Edward Baker
Ernest and Joanne Robert Suarez $100–$499 Mathieu Engineering Corp. Scott and Janine
Smerdon Ross and Aida Harvison Torao and Ferne Yoshida Christopher Warner
Gammage & Burnham PLC Vistaprint USA Inc. Prost-Domasky (Prost)
The Wachovia Wells John and La Mark Casolara Ara Philipossian
Ralph and M. Michael Totherow Marie Shepherd
Fargo Foundation - Donna Marietti Kathleen Wood Walter Love Jules and Melinda
Matching Gifts Thomas and Lorene McGovern Harter and Associates LLC Ellingboe
E. Smerdon Jr. William Elowitz Omaha Community
The Powell Foundation Paul and Sandra Flint Foundation Chelsie Morales William and Deborah Dixon
Don and Diane Dillon Kristy Pearson
Leopold and Beverly King Michael and Betsy Reader William and Patsy Wright Kevin Lansey Henry and Diana Knoepfle
George Cermak Rudolf Jimenez
M3 Engineering & Raphael Chen Kenneth Trout Jennifer and Shira Wolf
Jeffrey and Donna Stephen and Carol Hartz Andrew Barton
Technology Goldberg Maurice Stephan Tony Werner Sherry Hardine
Newton Don Deborah Miller (Tate) R. Raymond and Mary
John Reagan Reid and Kathryn Sheila Keyes Terra Michaels
William and Charles Massieon Carole Rogers
Gary Smerdon Royball (Miller) Fowl Investments Inc.
Elizabeth Staples Kirk Damron Michael Garrabrants
John Christian Matthew Diethelm
Justin Elliott Sherry and Vern Stoneback Ousmane Goumandakoye
Anthony and Lynn Mulligan Charles and Barbara Gilson Larry and Jean Young
Donald and Sharon Paul and Nancy Smith Yuanzhi Cheng
Jake and Beverly Doss Jesse Saar Raymond and Donna Plock Ruth Pullen-Soklow
Steinwachs Robert and Marianne Raffi Mesrobian
Attiya Darensburg Guangshun Chen Kondziolka Len Manleung Wong Michael and Susan Ingram
Franklin and Kenneth Katsma
HVF West LLC Elizabeth Broyles William and Richard Dobes Wayne King Leigh and Igor Austin
Amanda Fessler Marian J. Hill Martin and Jo
National Coal James and Krina Komadina William and Patricia Corbin JVB Inc. Ann Gronberg
Transportation Association Joy Mining Machinery Osborn Shackelford Theodore Gelber Richard and Janice Harper John Terrell Thomas Teague
Schlumberger Charles and Maria Preble Eleanor and Milford Suida Randolph Lungren Ted Wilson
Oilfield Services Jacobs Associates Manzer Masud
Caterpillar Foundation Terracon Leah Stanley Richard and Mary - Matching Gifts
Stacie Gibbins Obee (Nugent) Richard Ray
GeoAdvice Engineering Inc. Mark Levine Paul and Betty Alan Marshak
Matthew and William Taft Mary and CJ Leach
Charles and Jane Simpson Marilyn Curry Neuenschwander Henry and Suzanne
Andrea Shelor Scott Larson
United Way of Tucson Robert Hoover Robert Mills Morgen
Mining Foundation Sheri and Robert Lee
of the SW & Southern Arizona Robert Simpson Toni Rogero Carol Pedersen
$500–$999 Vantage West Credit Union Archibald and Laura Brown Sun Microsystems David and Christine Michael and Catherine
Enrique and Jennifer Monsegur
Aviles (Hesketh) United Way of the Bay Area Southwest Gas Billie Boone Raasch (Coffer)
Eric Noda Robert and Ann Rutherford
Herbert and Diane Technical Documentation Corp. Foundation - Barbara Longley- Galen Jokipii
Consultants of Arizona Inc. Matching Gifts Goodrich Foundation Robert Lepore
Welhener - Matching Gifts Cook (Norman) David and Elizabeth
Ernest and Sally Micek Joan Pracy (Staudt) Structual Grace John Edwards Crouthamel Neal and Susan
Jon Thomas O’Shaughnessy (Wolf)
Henry and Beverly Salt River Project Lawrence McVeigh Douglas Haag Allen Sehloff
Daniel McBride Rand and Barbara Drake
Grundstedt Ronald and Dena Rich Teng-I Wang David and Constance Joseph and
James McGrath Ruth Severnak
Goodwill Golf Tournament SmithGroup Inc. William Schlesinger Gildersleeve Constance Gates
Gil and Karen Deguzman Virginia and David
City of Tucson, Ward 3 Phoenix Analysis & Design Andrew and Julie Cole Donald and Jean Gilliam Charles Lavarini
George and Dixie Glenday Bonsall (Taylor)
David and Frances Areghini Technologies Inc. George and Dixie Shirley Edward and Judith Bunnell Debra Herrera
John Pins Kermit and Elaine Whitt
Andrew and Gary and Barbara Cropper Balanced Physical Brian Jepperson Therese and Kevin Lane
Stephanie Harris Therapy Inc. Francis Zoltowski Ronald and Carolyn Stott
Gervasio & Assoc. Inc. Albertson’s LLC/ Alan Curtis
Shell Oil Co. Foundation Charles and Geraldine George and Elizabeth Gritt SuperValu Inc. Katherine and Richard
Edmund Optics Inc. Benny and Bobbie Young Milakovich
- Matching Gifts Waitman James and Gail Collins
John and Barbara Carter George and Emily Maseeh Matthew Karam
John Miller and Lorraine Barrick Gold Corporation Woodson Engineering Inc. Samuel Lee Halliday
Drachman (McCollum) Darcy Anderson Forest Lyford Gorden and Mary
Black & Veatch Motorola Inc. Foundation Patrick and
Richard Crowell Johann Demmel Ann Moses Gretchen Brown
Kenneth and Jamie Head Robert Wortman Joshua and
Edmond and Ellen Beck Andrew and Gina Ross Elliot Montgomery Kimberly and John
Syrgis Holdings Inc. The Scholarship Christina Orosco
James and Margaret Bly John Schmidt Martin and Carol O’Sullivan Dangremond (Liechty)
Edward and Patricia Foundation for Lockheed Lon Huber
Nowatzki Terry and Barnes Parker Martin Corporation Clare Byrne John and Erika Wade Paul and Amanda Curto
Tucson Festival of Books
Paul and Linda Prazak McLellan Dixon Carol and Alex Miramontez Denise Doctor Edward Conway Robert Best
Richard and Phoebe
Steven and Tusiyah Davis Steven Komerska Zelen Environmental Therrien Chappy Brown Dennis McLaughlin continued on page 14

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Brown Foundations
Award 19 Scholarships
The UA College of Engineering, the
Eller College of Management, and the
Thomas R. Brown Foundations recently
announced 19 new recipients of Thomas
R. Brown distinguished scholarships.
Speaking at a recent luncheon to honor
the Brown scholars and professors,
STORY foundation president
Ae FULL
Number 213 Sarah Brown Smallhouse
described the scholarship recipients
as, “An amazing group of students for
us to help on their path.” She added,
“Education is something we can’t skimp College of Engineering/Pete Brown

on... especially economic education.”
The foundations were established in
honor of Tom Brown, who in 2001 was
named technology executive of the year
at the Technology and Management
Awards, a collaboration between UA’s
College of Engineering and the Eller
College of Management to recognize
leaders at the intersection of business
and technology.
Solid Foundation­—Brown Foundations trustee Mary Brown Bernal, right, with UA Engineering
scholarship recipients, left to right, Lisa Guay, Sumana Veeravelli and Elizabeth Greene.
Two students, one from each college, Chris Utter, who aims to graduate in
described to the luncheon audience May 2011 with a dual major in math and
how the scholarships affected them systems engineering, made the point that
personally. “These gifts allow us to carry many of his peers held down part-time,
on and give back to the community,” even full-time, jobs while they sought
said Eller MBA student Jenny Yang. “We degrees. “Thanks to the foundation,
are honored to join in this partnership being an engineering student has been
that is changing the world.” my full-time job,” he said.

Martha Marek (Daugherty) Kariscom LLC Gary Seiss Joseph and Sandra Palais Douglas and Cathine Sticht
2009–2010 Donor Honor Roll
continued from page 13 Tao Wu Rinaldo DiCenzo John and Phyllis Chris Angleman David and Jennie Gossett
Michael Campillo R. Vick Wilson (Fisher) Del Pilcher Arrow Electronics Inc.
Laura Lohner Kymberly Wilson An Tran Donald Bruyere
Larry and Judy Griffin Steven Pageau Burbank Engineering LLC
Kristofer and Janet Linda Stevenson Gail and Sergio James and Luz
Moog Inc. - Matching Gifts Theodore and Cari Moulin Blacutt (Sawyer) John and Mary Reinhardt
Tvedt (Struck) Ronald and Lori Semel Van Coevering
Stanley Rice Steven Schmidt Arvin Kolz Hoi Lam
Michael Kleinrock Terril and Esther Wilson Christy and John Michaud
Travis and Shannon Sandra Reel Vincent and Susan Ross Bruce and Mary James and Patricia John and Sheila Boggs
McCarthy Lawrence Matthews Marino Fuentes Moreton (Boice)
Philip and Christine Tolley (Hill) Coleman Miller
Stefan and Beth Gottschall Thomas and Keith Milly Lierman Bechtel Group Foundation
Hodder (Quinn) (Robison) Donald Giacomini John Hemler
Laurence and Jessica Jonelle Schmitt - Matching Gifts
Michael Gabbay Yi Torng James Davey & I. and Louise Kinnie
Rasmussen Paul Hsieh Ann Riordan Associates Inc.
William and Susan Paul Woolard Cesar and Laura
Paul and Elena Joggerst Thomas Edwards Johnston James Davidson Gregory and
Kathleen Katt (Harris) Elizabeth Lorton Cheng-Guajardo
Rao Shoaib Paul Reese Walter Higgins Charles Niederhaus
Robert Stott James Hinkle A. Damico
Stephen and Ruth Fienhold Thomas Rohrer William Clarke Janet Brelin-
Richard and Sylvia Fornari (Brelin) Gregory and Eltrude Jose Villegas
Kenneth and Margaret William Wolfson Russell and Teresa Pittman
Hartwein Rickard (Garcia) Geoffrey and Erin Rasmussen Contract Support
Tingdong Zhou William Jensen Hutton (Garner) Services Inc.
Stephen English David Rose James West
Maria Gonzales Richard and Jeffrey Glover
Walter and Stephanie Heather Mackey Eric and Chris Koglin Barbara Burden Joseph and June Adams
Tony and Dorah Walls James and Trudy George and Anastasia
Witkowski Rose Marie and Jeffery and Karen Wallace Craig and Janet Baldon
Zhiming Lu Bedessem McInnis
Steven and Gale Brock Frank Lenahan Harbour & Associates Joseph and Sandra Shea
Richard Deatley Douglas Gapp Eric Kalivoda
Sedgwick Family Rockwell King Jeffrey and Kathleen Berg Craig Savage
Charitable Trust Susan Hoines Fred Rubi Anthony Krauss
Salvatore and Cyndy Bill and Diane Bain Joseph Raynak
Nai-Hsiang Liu Truda Stevens Caccavale Charles and Judith Backus John and Kathleen
Cameo Cleaners
Larry Sternaman Daniel and Twila Sandblom Woodruff C. LaRon and
Richard Hyde Michael Henningsen Scottsdale LLC
Cheng-Tsu Fu Peggy Reynolds
William and Lynn Louise and Anthony Verbout TG&F LLC Charles and Ellis and Sheila
Katherine Philips David Curry Mascareno (Stafford) Andrew and Beth Schaffer
McClary (Saltzman) Peggy Walter William and Pamela Milam
James Miletich George and Nelda Schuler David and Danielle Zaleski Daniel and Kathleen White
Zoltan and Nancy Rosztoczy Ramon Hopkins Ka Fogg
Ronald and Claudia Douglas Harter Jon Traw Claris and Betty Donelson Henri Guyader
Tallentyre and Lois William and Patricia
Pritchard Sturdivant Gardner (McMillan) Ben Allinder George Richard Joan Weinberg CJ and Mary Leach

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Therese Velasco Berg together, and how helpful and personal

Therese Berg taught in the Arizona
public school system for more than
20 years, was a counselor at Tucson’s
Salpointe High for 13 years, and holds
bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
education. She retired from teaching but
returned to work after the passing of her
husband, Robert Berg, for whom she has
named an education trust.
Berg is a graduate of Tucson High
and the University of Arizona, and
agreed to answer a few questions for
Arizona Engineer.
How has your UA education
benefitted you?
My UA education prepared me for a
life-long career in education.
What are your favorite memories
from your time at UA?
My time at UA as an undergraduate
student was from 1937 to 1942. That’s
about 70 years ago! I remember the
friends I made, the good times we had
most of my professors were.
What are your reasons for
supporting UA financially?
I believe in the wonderful work being
done in this fantastic research university,
and I appreciate being able to contribute
in memory of my loved ones and
myself through the instruments of gift
annuities, so that even when I’m no
longer on this earth, the good work will College of Engineering/Pete Brown
continue. The following trusts have been
Wildcat Since 1937­—Therese Berg, left, with
established: Whitney Shiba, a recipient of the the Hinman
The Charles Clifford Hinman Merit Award in Aerospace Merit Award in Aerospace Engineering.
Engineering, UA College of Engineering The Therese Velasco Berg Endowment Merit Award
The Robert L. Berg Fellowship Endowment for for Arizona Public Media.
Research in the Cancer Biology Doctoral Program at
Tell us about your hobbies and pastimes.
the Arizona Cancer Center, College of Medicine
Now that I’m 91 years old my activities
The Therese S. and Charles Velasco and Marie are fewer; however, I still swim
Schreiner Fellowship in Cardiovascular Research at regularly, play Scrabble with friends,
the Sarver Heart Center, College of Medicine
and enjoy my luncheons: once a month
The Charles Clifford Hinman Research Fellowship in with Pima County Retired Teachers,
Environmental Health, College of Public Health once a week with Community and
The Therese Velasco Berg Endowment for the College Concern (a senior citizen group) and, of
of Education, post graduate initial teachers’ fund course, just with my friends.

1958 I. G. Kinnie Jay H. Lehr 1965

2009–2010 Alumni Donors by Class Billie D. Boone John H. Wilson Joseph F. Riccio Daniel J. Sablich
David C. Troupe John J. Marietti Kenneth R. Katsma* Gail A. Buick (Foster)
Maiden names are in parentheses. An asterisk indicates 10 or Gary L. Cooper John P. Benson Michael J. Monsegur George E. Shirley
more consecutive years of giving to the College of Engineering. James R. Harvey John V. Hemler Nagubandi Pundari Ka C. Fogg
John J. Kaminsky Laurence G. Rasmussen Ralph B. Wood Mitchell G. Allen
Peter F. Kerwin Peter A. Rau Samuel Lee Halliday Thomas R. Buick
1940 Herbert H. Hotchkiss Kenneth J. Hartwein Ralph B. Miller Richard A. Greene Sandra T. Elers (Tanner) Thomas T. Teague
Harry J. Garrett Jules K. Ellingboe Leonard M. Snyder Raymond S. Plock Tim J. Tomko William S. McClary
Rudolf A. Jimenez William R. Shoemaker 1966
1942 Richard G. Bushroe William E. Rodman 1963 Bill R. Bain
John B. Marx 1951 1954 Robert P. Barksdale William R. Brierley Clarence P. James Craig F. Bohren
Robert W. Ageton Del L. Pilcher Roger W. Melton Salvador Espana 1961 Frank C. Lenahan Donald E. McDonald
Therese V. Berg (Velasco)* Harry J. Valentine William C. Gardner 1959 Charles E. Backus Henri W. Guyader Edward A. Nowatzki
Henry G. Grundstedt William F. Wolfson Alex A. Richards Edward A. Conway Oscar L. Ferrell Edward G. Preston
1944
James G. Hess Ben L. Allinder Ellis B. Mascareno Patrick L. Brown George N. McInnis
Sanford A. Shuler 1955
James S. Tolley Edward B. Bunnell Franklin H. Lee Ronald H. Fenelon Leonard R. Shenfield
1946 Joseph T. Adams Donald W. Gilliam
Lorraine M. Drachman Ernest R. Schoop Fred A. Rubi Tommy R. Hooten Ralph Wege
Fred D. Ritter Kenneth P. Worcester
(McCollum) Glen R. Hiscox George B. Broome Wayne E. Dawson Richard G. Carrizosa
L. D. Osborne R L. Vick Jeff D. Hardin H. Roger Frauenfelder Ronald A. Stott
S. Jack McDuff Richard G. Guthrie 1964
1947 Roland M. Beneteau John C. Reinhardt James G. McCray Charles R. Horton Steven B. Brock
Myron L. Petersen Thomas R. Edwards John H. Myers John R. Edwards Steven M. Hindall
William T. Corbin David G. Areghini
1948 1952 William W. Chapin Joseph C. Palais Joseph D. Genchi Gretchen A. Brown 1967
Richard E. Rhoades Dyer H. Campbell Kenneth J. Trout Joseph F. Redmond (Gagnon) Archibald M. Brown
Fred G. Warner 1956 Kenneth S. Ahmie Karl E. Elers
Robert C. Mills Charles G. Preble James E. Watring Douglas A. Slingerland
James F. Wickham Kim M. Fox Kermit W. Whitt John M. Christian Douglas J. Sticht
1949 Lawrence M. Dreyer Howard V. Main Mary G. Benson (Gonzalez) Larry J. Webb Joseph D. Shea James R. Ramos
J. David Lowell Maurice C. Stephan John C. Prator Richard J. Vitales Raphael M. Chen L. Rolf Peterson John P. Hicks
Lionel G. Blair Patricia H. Tolley (Hill) Josef K. Gartner Richard L. Therrien Russell E. Rogers Lamar S. Todd Jon S. Traw
Robert C. Hall Patricia M. Gardner 1957 William G. Milam Torao Yoshida Marino M. Fuentes* Larry D. Griffin
Leston E. Goodding* (McMillan) Claris L. Donelson William J. Olson
1960 Richard M. Tofel Lawrence E. Matthews
1950 1953 Jake T. Doss* Anthony Jones 1962 Sallie S. Tofel (Siegelman) McLellan Dixon
Charles D. Gilson Charles E. Philips Joseph A. Gervasio Arvin L. Kolz Bruce S. McLaren Steven L.Tofel Michael D. Peters
Charles W. Tandy Douglas C. Haag Martin J. O’Sullivan George A. Glenday Buel W. Woolverton Walter T. Higgins Michael J. Kaiserman*
Harry H. Haaversen Fred E. Ruppert Tallentyre B. Sturdivant Gilbert A. Saltzman James E. Marr Zoltan R. Rosztoczy Walter G. Love
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D O N O R PROFILE

Sidney “Jack” McDuff
Sidney “Jack” McDuff has served as
president of UA alumni clubs in San
Francisco, New York and Houston.
He’s the recipient of the UA Alumni
Association’s A.L. Slonaker Service
Award and is a past president of the
Bobcat Alumni Association.
He’s also served on the UA Alumni
Association’s board of directors, where
he chaired the fundraising campaign to
name the Alumni Foundation Building
in honor of his longtime friend, Marvin
D. “Swede” Johnson. He also volunteers
for the Sigma Chi fraternity and the
YMCA of Southern Arizona.
McDuff was born in September 1926
in Cold Springs, Okla. He moved west
to Marana, Ariz., with his family in
1937. His father was the builder and
operator of one of the first cotton gins
in Southern Arizona. McDuff enrolled
at the UA immediately after graduating
from Marana High School in 1944, but
his studies were interrupted when he
joined the U.S. Navy later that year.
He served for 21 months and attained
the rank of Electronics Technician Mate
Second Class before returning to the UA
in September 1946, graduating in 1951
with a BS in metallurgical engineering.
McDuff slowed down from his
current duties at the YMCA, the UA
President’s Club and the UA College of
Engineering’s da Vinci Circle board of
advisors long enough to answer a few
questions for Arizona Engineer.
What are your favorite memories
from your time at UA?
The five years I spent at the UA were
probably the best and most enjoyable of
my life. I received a good education and
graduated with a BS in metallurgical
engineering. It’s where I met and
courted my first wife, Lorena DeSanctis
McDuff, who also graduated from UA.
I also met and interacted with numerous
fellow students who have since
become lifelong friends. I pledged and
initiated into the Sigma Chi fraternity,
where I’ve maintained an active and
lifelong involvement.
It helped launch my career with Johns-
Manville Sales Corporation, where I
rose to the position of division general
manager and vice president.

Bruce D. Moreton Jeffrey P. Walser* William C. Dixon James G. Hansen Eric I. Kalivoda
2009–2010 Alumni Donors by Class Dean M. Shough Manzer Masud William Hollman Mehrdad M. Ghanooni James R. Davidson
continued from page 15
Ernest P. Schloss Michael P. Ingram 1979 Patricia M. Curl Jan Podlesny (Aubin)
Frank L. Effland Nancy J. Norem Barbara Ann L. Klensin Paul W. Reese Jeffrey M. Cohen
1968 John R. Ward* Herbert E. Welhener Robin G. West Brian J. Kelly Reid K. Royball Jo Ann M. Gronberg*
Albert D. Tarcola Larry S. Young J. Mark Richardson Steven C. Davis Ross S. Harvison Kenneth L. Head
Deborah T. Miller (Tate)
Charles S. Waitman Richard E. Crowell* John A. Ketterl 1977 Soronnadi Nnaji Laura B. Jacobsen
Edmond A. Beck
Craig Baldon Richard V. Harper Mary B. Moreton (Boice) Babajan Sarkis Susan A. O’Shaughnessy Martin L. Gronberg*
Francis B. Zoltowski
Donald M. Steinwachs Sandra K. Ruhl (King) Paul R. Prazak Daniel L. McBride* (Wolf) Paul A. Hsieh
John D. Wade
Forest P. Lyford* Thomas A. Liebert Peter J. Hart George K. Schuler Thomas A. Ladd Paul D. Thorne
Len Manleung Wong
Franklin L. Broyles Phillip M. Hodder* Gregg W. St. Clair Thomas C. Pollock Robert A. Stott
1971 M. J. Demetras
Gary R. Frere Richard M. Hyde Henry J. Morgen 1982 Robert L. Hoover
Barry S. Cossel Paul A. Flint
James F. Bly Robert W. Simpson* Jeffrey B. Glover Andrew P. Ross Roger J. Allen
David B. Hackman Steven R. Schmidt
Jesse L. Saar Salvatore E. Caccavale Jon B. Thomas Coleman C. Miller Ronald W. Fillman
David T. Rabb Wayne S. Seames
John H. Gray Sean T. Murphy Larry M. Altuna Colleen K. Vance (Kelly) Steven R. Pageau
Eric M. Goldin William L. Staples Steven W. Rothstein
Michael H. Kleinrock Stephen W. Hartz Lawrence G. Hjalmarson Denise D. Doctor
Frederic C. Scofield William R. Taft Thomas F. Gerard
Newton Don Thomas P. McGovern Michael Gabbay James T. Hinkle
R. Raymond Rogers Gregory A. Lorton 1980 Tony R. Walls
Wayne D. King Richard L. Bartholomew Jane M. Hunter (McDonell)
Stanley M. Rice James T. McGrath Aida Harvison (Schmidt) Truda E. Stevens
Larry D. Sternaman 1974 Robert W. Best* Katherine A. Mathieu
Sam W. Matthews Charles J. Lynch (Knickerbocker) William E. Jensen
1969 Lawrence J. McVeigh Benny J. Young
Thomas G. Carr David J. Gildersleeve Ligia B. Lluria (Bastida) 1984
Alan H. Marshak Randolph M. Rogers George J. Eliopulos
Barbara A. Longley-Cook William Moya Espinal Dennis J. Kennelly Lucien W. Klejbuk Ann M. Eisentraut
Randolph W. Lungren Jack A. Touseull Dennis K. McKeen
(Norman) Richard P. Ray James D. Spinhirne 1978 Martha A. Marek Ann T. Wilkey
Barnes R. Parker Dennis P. McLaughlin (Daugherty) Chris Osterman
Sam W. Swan John S. Higdon Anthony P. Verbout Greg S. Sims
Douglas L. Williams Thomas A. Bennett Kenneth O. Simpson Barbara A. Filas (Appelin) Marybeth M. Andree David M. Zaleski
George Frondorf James F. Collins (Manchenton) Douglas E. Gapp
William D. Mensch Linda M. Mayro Conrad W. Schneiker James M. Willingham
Gregory K. Rasmussen Michael L. Bradley Dennis J. Neumann Rand F. Drake Eric N. Koglin
Jack E. Myers 1972 John M. Boggs Rebecca E. Schoenfeld Irmgard M. Flaschka
Michael M. Henningsen Donald C. Barrett Kathleen M. Chavez
Jack M. Pollin Armando F. Fimbres (Baldwin) John C. Terrell
Robert J. Feugate Donald J. Ditter Michael E. Cease
James P. Miletich Belle K. Tom Richard J. Milakovich John M. Pins
Thomas S. Yang Gerald R. Owens Michael E. Mathieu
John M. Bernal Charles F. Lavarini Ronald J. Rich John O. Walker
James J. Komadina
Kenneth D. Schmidt Chris E. Angleman 1975 Myoung G. Jin Tam M. Tran John W. Woodruff
John G. Lucey
Lenise M. Smith (Mincks) Daniel H. White Carl D. Sterling Randy J. Alstadt Theodore J. Gelber Kymberly A. Wilson
John R. Dangremond
Miles F. Friedman Douglass J. Sims Chappy D. Brown Raul Krivoy Thomas M. Allred Mark A. Casolara
Kathleen M. Borhauer
Paul A. Curto Frederick S. Doten Fabricio Duran Rinaldo DiCenzo William J. Elowitz Pamela A. Lemme
(Johnson)
Paul F. Smith Joseph S. Gates Ifiyenia Kececioglu Robert E. Kondziolka Russell G. Pittman
Lawrence J. Bruskin 1983
Richard V. Anderson Kenneth G. Renard James R. Carlson Roger W. Walter Scott R. Rudin
Marshall C. Guth Cathy A. Maldonado
Stephen C. Fienhold Kenneth R. Guenzi Kenneth E. Dobbs Roy S. Knight Stephanie I. Witkowski*
Mary J. Obee (Nugent) (Heffernan)
William E. Wright Shu-Tsu Lu Paul W. Gardanier Vern W. Stoneback Steven C. Warren
Michael Greenslade Charles E. Frankenberger
William H. Clarke Stephen W. Thomas Robert M. Suarez 1981 Steven H. Cook
Pamela J. Ross Charles E. Simpson
Steven J. Spease Theodore W. Moulin Andrew Schaffer Walter R. Witkowski*
1970 Richard G. Newell Charlotte L. Ort (Gunrud)*
Bernard L. Ruhl Thomas H. Coolidge 1976 Robert H. Rutherford Christopher Riordan Cynthia L. Lingg Wellington R. Meier *
Don E. Dillon Thomas J. O’Neil Bruce L. Trumbo Robert W. Roscoe David P. Woollen (Lockwood) 1985
James Van Coevering 1973 David J. Soukup Rudolph E. Radau Eric A. Thomson Douglas A. Loy Alan D. Forrest
John E. Flores Barry J. Abbott David R. Gossett Thomas C. Owen Gonzalo M. Romero Douglas E. Speck Allen P. Sehloff

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What are your reasons for supporting
the UA financially?
The five years that I spent at the
University of Arizona formed the basis
for all I have earned and accomplished
throughout my life, so why wouldn’t
I want to give back? In doing so, I
like to focus on giving to those who
have the opportunity to grow and
develop… and hopefully will, in turn,
give back to others when they have the
capacity to do so. For me, giving help
fills up my emotional tank, and when
it is full, I feel good about life, myself
and the future. College of Engineering/Pete Brown

What are your hopes for the future
of UA?
As we move to a more privately funded
university, I’m most hopeful our alumni
will come forward and support higher
Wildcat Since 1944­—Jack McDuff, center, with Chris Utter, left, a recipient of the S. Jack
McDuff scholarship, and Jessica Rimsza, a recipient of the Thomas G. Chapman Scholarship.
education here at the University of on this need, and their obligation to
Arizona. I believe it is also most critical support and fund the future needs of
that incoming students are indoctrinated the university.

Beth L. Gottschall Donald V. Penners Ronald R. Semel Mark L. Levine Dongchang Yu Joshua T. Knepper Arthur K. Kuehl
Brian N. Aviles Douglas G. Blanchard Thomas R. Rohrer Ramon L. Hopkins Erika M. Hanson Lance A. Nelson Brandon J. Swinteck
Bruce L. Roth Elizabeth D. Behl Yuanzhi Cheng Raymond A. Bobbitt Guangshun Chen Laura V. Lohner Jun Yan
Christine C. Raasch Gail S. Blacutt (Sawyer) 1990 Thomas J. Schmitt Keith R. Lierman Leah C. Stanley Stacie L. Gibbins
(Coffer) Hugh M. Sardoff Brent A. Blevins Zhengwei Zhao Matthew E. Kehret Wing S. Sy 2007
Claire L. Conti (Plache) Jeffry M. Porter Bridget M. Barr (Dudek) 1993 Patrick A. Hernandez Zhiming Lu Chi P. Chan
David A. Randall Karen M. Wallace Cecil T. Honnas Andrea S. Berens Sasko Kurciski David J. Kraemer
2001
David A. Sams (Knudsen) Eric A. Jackson (Fernandez) Toni L. Rogero (Johnson) James A. West
Andrea C. Marafino
David J. Raasch Kent R. Johnejack Gordon W. Wittmeyer Carl T. Larson 1997 John N. Hatch
Erika L. Brin
David R. Blackburn Maribeth E. Greenslade James M. Bedessem Cheng-Tsu R. Fu Brian K. Ip Joseph E. Fico
Galen A. Jokipii
Elizabeth N. Bauer (Engelhardt) Joe O. Omojola Daryl R. Hild Jerry James Kellen A. Chase
Lindy A. Cote
Felix E. Armendariz Mark J. Kozik Jonathan K. Brown Lesley Frame
Gregory M. Hart Jinhan Choi Marcia L. Brey
Gary R. Walter Mark J. Seksinsky Karen D. Christensen Lieschen N. Hatch (Choate)
Henry R. Knoepfle Joshua F. Orosco Rachel Paul
George P. Maseeh Matthew J. Wozniak Kelly A. Moylan Matthew A. Treglia
Joe M. Fulton Matthew S. Shelor Scott A. Sundahl
H. Erik McNair Rambabu Bavirisetty Klaus P. Albertin Matthew P. Zerull
Michael C. Totherow Michael S. Garrabrants
Janet E. Tvedt (Struck) Ruth G. Pullen-Soklow Marie S. Shepherd 2002 Sarah A. Mckenney
Michael N. Patterson Paul J. Joggerst
John P. Michaud Stefan L. Myslicki (Shepherd) Anthony B. Krauss Shannon M. Hoblitzell
Milly L. Lierman (Robison) Ryan V. Pine
Justin H. Thompson Stephen J. English Paul S. John Arun K. Ravi Stephanie L. Jordan (Sara)
Sara C. McCoy (Meinert)* 1998
Kathleen H. Katt (Harris) Stuart E. Longgood Peter G. Knaggs Emmanuel Mkandawire Theodore S. Burhans
Shayne D. Aytes Bryn A. Enright
Kristofer Tvedt Tanya S. Donohue Sheri A. Lee Jeremy A. Cohn William J. Salus
Sherry X. Qin Carl E. Bueter
Laura F. Bennett (Fulton) Thomas C. Richardson Susan M. Hoines John M. Pai
Thomas A. Rios Christina M. Orosco 2008
Michael D. Reader Thomas L. Johnson Terry W. Meier Lihua Yu
1994 Craig O. Savage Clay B. Carroll
Philip J. Golden Vincent N. Ross Tingdong Zhou
1991 Gary J. Degeronimo Daniel D. Stanton Donald P. Bruyere
Richard D. Deatley Yi T. Torng 2003
Abhijit S. Kudrimoti James C. Washburne Daniel V. Sandblom Edwin A. Gutierrez Palma
Richard S. Dobes 1988 An T. Tran
Brian P. Jepperson Jeffrey R. Berg Eugene Siu Huihong Kuang
Robert D. King Andrew P. Cole Jane Lash
Christopher Patti William D. Schlesinger Janet M. Brelin-Fornari Ian A. Tilford
Robert L. White Anthony C. Mulligan Justin S. Wheeler
David G. Christiana Robert R. Futch Joseph A. Hawkins
Steven E. Komerska Bruce D. Smith 1995 Leah M. Wolf Martin
Erin E. Hutton (Garner) Sheng-Wen Seow Michael B. Park
1986 Catherine D. Warren (Oder) Geoffrey D. Hutton Charles E. Niederhaus Nguyet K. Tran Monserrat D. Chairez
Gil A. Deguzman Stacy M. Gottesman
Christopher M. Warner Charles E. Parkes Johann G. Demmel Rick Huang Llamas
Iftekhar Ahmed Travis J. McCarthy
Jeffery N. Wallace David S. Cooper Kirk A. Damron Sarvesh Bhardwaj Spencer S. Tucker
Jodi L. Hoskinson (Taylor) Debra S. Herrera Matthew V. Kaufmann Igor Wojewoda 1999 Scott J. Coughlin 2009
Jonathan G. Baker Madhav V. Apte Paul J. Bontempi Kathleen Berg (Bibbens) Cesar M. Cheng-Guajardo
2004 Austin T. Rios
Kristen L. McClellen Michael A. Sandford Paul M. Ochs Lance C. Peterson Charles E. Gajda
Andrew M. Osbrink Christopher M. Limbach
Lindsey Philpott Nathan S. Moyer Peter M. Brown Laura B. Dinitz Javier E. Garcia
Christopher T. Robb David Y. Burbank
Marc E. Orman Zaki F. Alherz Qiping P. Dong* Leigh E. Austin Laura J. Cheng-Guajardo
Federico Pennacchini Eric J. Noda
Sandra C. Reel 1989 Steven A. Thompson Lisa L. Fuller Tao Wu
Joseph M. Torrano Gerardo I. Pedrego
Sarianne R. Rittenhouse David R. Crouthamel Tony L. Werner Matthew R. Danner Thomas Meixner
Shaojing Li Hiram E. Lopez
Scott A. Prost-Domasky George H. Richard Paul S. Englehart Yarisa Jaroch (Gonzalez)
1992 James R. Vaughn
Wayne N. Wisdom John A. Rykala Richard P. Mackey 2000 2005
Charles C. Massieon Jason H. Brockbank
1987 Kenneth G. Pill Rockwell A. King Barret T. Hartman Kevin A. Opalka
David Hsieh Jill A. Burchell
Andrew M. Harris Larry F. Milner Teng-I J. Wang Darcy J. Anderson Kristy D. Pearson
George B. Gritt Juan C. Lopez
Antoinette Theriault- Michael F. Campillo Hoi Lam Thomas Pyzdek Hummann Fargadmand Neema K. Shetty Lon M. Huber
Faucette Paul A. Woolard John C. Podlesny 1996 Jason R. Petty 2006 Sudib K. Mishra
Craig E. Daley Rao M. Shoaib Lawrence H. Aron Amy L. Jones (Sinclair) Jeremiah E. McNeil Albert R. Jordan Tyler J. Ebbitt

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LEADERS
Systems Engineering
Pioneer Dies at 84
Professor Emeritus Wayne Wymore,
who in 1960 founded the world’s first
academic department of systems
engineering at the University of
Arizona, died Feb. 24, 2010, age 84.
Wymore
graduated
from Ames
High School in
Iowa in 1944
and after a few
months working
on a surveying
Wayne Wymore crew, enlisted
in the Army Air Force. World War II
was ending and Wymore never got to
complete flight training. Instead, he
was assigned for duty in Panama and
Peru, studying and observing weather.
After his discharge in 1947, he
attended Iowa State University,
STORY where he selected
Ae FULL
Number 254 civil engineering as
his major. In an autobiographical
perspective published in International
Journal of General Systems in
2004, Wymore said the engineering
curriculum was “not very exciting.”
He changed his major to
mathematics with minors in physics,
statistics and psychology, and left
Iowa State with bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in mathematics.
In 1957, he accepted the position of
director of the Numerical Analysis
Laboratory and professor of electrical
engineering at UA, and stayed
at UA until he retired in 1987. In
1960, at the request of College of
Engineering Dean Thomas Martin,
Wymore established and headed the
world’s first academic department of
systems engineering.
18 arizona engineer 34:1 spring 2011
UA Engineering
Alum Tipped for
AZ Leadership
Engineering alum Patrick Marcus has
been selected as a future civic leader in
the state of Arizona.
The Phoenix-based Arizona Center for
Civic Leadership announced March 2
STORY that Marcus is one
Ae FULL
Number 257 of 25 fellows in the
inaugural class of the Flinn-Brown Civic
Leadership Academy, which is sponsored
by the Flinn Foundation and the Thomas
R. Brown Foundations.
The Flinn and Brown foundations
created the statewide civic leadership
center because, although Arizona has
local and regional organizations that College of Engineering/Pete Brown
train civic leaders, the foundations
Leading Light­—Patrick Marcus and his
perceived no such organizations at the Skyburst light sculpture in Tucson.
state level.
interactive, computer-controlled
Marcus graduated from UA in 2006 with public sculptures.
a doctorate in biomedical engineering,
Public installations include Skyburst
with a minor in neurosciences. He
also got his bachelor’s in electrical 2 at Plaza Colonial in Tucson, Ariz. As
engineering from UA, and is a graduate people approach Skyburst, a motion
of the Eller College McGuire Center for detector sets off rapidly flashing
Entrepreneurship. light-emitting diodes to grab their
attention. Marcus designed and built
He is currently vice president of the electronics and wrote the computer
engineering at Tucson-based MC Power program that operates the motion
Systems, which he recently spun off detector and controls the LEDs. Fairfield
from parent company General Plasma, came up with the original concept and
which is also based in Tucson. MC Power built the physical structure.
Systems designs plasma power supplies
for the solar, architectural glass, and Marcus has incorporated his
liquid crystal display industries. neuroscience expertise into the light
sculptures, in the form of psychophysical
“I grew up here, and Tucson and the UA algorithms that conserve energy while
are very dear to me,” Marcus said. “I’d creating the intense optical effects.
love to contribute and make a difference
“It has actually been a pretty exciting
to Arizona’s future.”
month,” Marcus said. “In addition to
When he’s not managing multiple being selected as a civic fellow, my art
solar manufacturing installations, he’s partner and I received two sculpture
working as part of an organization commissions: one for the Glendale Jazz
called Solar Sculptures with artist and Blues festival and another for a big
partner Stephen Fairfield on creating river underpass project in Green Bay.”
ALUMNI ECHOES

James “Jay” Gomes Jr.

BS/CE 2004
Gomes is a resident engineer in
highway construction at the Arizona
Department of Transportation, which
recently completed the Twin Peaks
Traffic Interchange Project on I-10 in
Marana, Ariz. The $50.5 million project
included four major concrete bridges.
“There was over 1 million yards of
roadway excavation and borrow, 14
box culverts, and over 5,000 feet of
mechanically stabilized earth-retaining
walls,” Gomes said, and added that
the big challenges of this project were
overcome by “major coordination efforts
between the town of Marana, ADOT, the
contractor, Union Pacific Railroad, and
major utility companies.”

Courtesy of Cynthia Tay

Jumbo Jet­—While traveling in Southeast Asia, Cynthia Tay visited Luang Prabang, Laos,
where she spent some time washing and riding elephants.

Courtesy of Jay Gomes
Handsome Twosome­—The Twin Peaks
Road rammed earth median artwork is in
the median of Twin Peaks Road between
the Santa Cruz River Bridge and Tiffany
Loop Road. Solar panels on the top of each
tower power LED lights around the base
at night. Each structure has a concrete
foundation and metal panels inscribed with
cottonwood tree leaf and branch motifs. It
was designed by Wheat Scharf Associates.
Cynthia Tay
BA/EM 2010
After she graduated, Tay traveled far
and wide in Southeast Asia and Europe.
“I have visited many different countries,
some on my own, and others with
friends and family,” Tay said. “I was
fortunate enough to have 3 months
off before I started work for Procter &
Gamble in April.” Even though it’s only
a few months since she graduated, Tay
said, “I’m finished with my travels for
now and just entered the working world.
Thanks for keeping alums in the loop. It
feels good to still be connected!”
Follow Tay’s travels on her blog at
http://ctaytravels.tumblr.com/archive.

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