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2011 Oregon Stater Engineering Awards

Friday, February 25, 2011CH2M HILL Alumni Center - Corvallis

Celebrating the impact of OSU Engineering leadership on the global community

Meyer Proudly Congratulates

Stanley Cheng, Chairman and CEO,

as a recipient of the

2011 Oregon Stater Award

Engineering Hall of Fame

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2011 Oregon Stater Engineering Awards College of Engineering Oregon State University 3

Welcome to the 2011 Oregon Stater Engineering Awards

By Edward J. Ray, President Oregon State University

Oregon State University has become increasingly recognized in recent years for its excellence and outstanding performance in many disciplines, from accounting to zoology. But time and again, the work of our College of Engineering has drawn the attention and admi-ration of the many constituents we serve, whether through boosting our economy with growing num-bers of spinoff businesses, leading the way in development of wave, solar and nuclear energy or creat-ing international accords that put its research in sustainable engi-neering practices to work around the world.

As those of you gathered this evening for the Oregon Stater Awards are well aware, the college has been on an upward trajec-tory for years. Its performance in 2010, however, set a new standard. Engineering faculty, for instance, landed research grants and con-tracts totaling nearly $37 million, improving their performance by

some $12 million over the previ-ous year and helping to propel the university overall to another record-breaking year. Likewise, companies spun off from college research earned more than half of the venture funding attracted by all Oregon businesses in the first half of 2010 – more than $57 mil-lion in all. In both achievements, the college made valuable con-tributions to an Oregon economy working to rebound from the chal-lenges of the past two years.

The foundation for such achieve-ment lies within the excellent faculty and outstanding students who comprise the college. They were recognized as such in 2010 by organizations ranging from the National Science Foundation to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Its outstanding students often become high-achieving alumni, a point driven home in June, when NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, a 1978 chemical engineering graduate currently preparing for another mission aboard the International Space Station, delivered OSU’s com-mencement address.

By your presence here this eve-ning, you show that you share the regard for the college that is grow-ing so rapidly around our state and in engineering circles around the United States and beyond. It is through such support for its educational programs, scholarship and research that the college will scale greater heights this year. Thank you for your belief in the College of Engineering and for being a valuable part of its ongo-ing ascent to the upper echelon of academic engineering excellence.

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3 Welcome to the 2011 Oregon Stater Engineering Awards Edward J. Ray, President, Oregon State University

4 A Proud Moment for Oregon State Ronald L. Adams, Dean, College of Engineering

Hall of Fame6 StAnlEy K.S. ChEng BS Mechanical Engineering ’716 ElMOnd dECKEr BS Electrical Engineering ’516 dr. rudOlPh J. FrAnK MS Electrical Engineering ’70, PhD Electrical Engineering ’727 lEWiS A. FrEdEriCKSOn BS Chemical Engineering ’577 dAn KEutEr BA Nuclear Engineering ’737 BErt lOughMillEr BS Civil Engineering ’648 MOrSE FAMily: Bill MOrSE Friend of OSU 8 FrAnK MOrSE MA General Studies ’70 8 JOnAthAn MOrSE BS Construction Engineering Management ‘708 dr. rOBErt W. thrEShEr Colorado State University, PhD, Mechanical Engineering ’70 Michigan Tech University, MS, Mechanical Engineering ’67 Michigan Tech University, BS, Mechanical Engineering ’62

Academy of Distinguished Engineers8 JEFFrEy K. BlAnK BS Mechanical Engineering ’909 VAlEriE BrOWn BS Chemical Engineering ’809 dr. hOSung ChAng MS Electrical Engineering ’85, PhD Electrical Engineering ’939 grEgOry K. dElWiChE MS Civil Engineering ’8310 duAnE KEnAgy BS Civil Engineering ’7910 MArK g. lyMAn BS Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering ’8110 C. JOhn MEAghEr BS Construction Engineering Management ’7811 COE MilES BS Electrical Engineering ’8411 dr. BAhrAM nASSErShAriF BS Mathematics ’80, PhD Nuclear Engineering ’8211 gAry A. PiEtrOK BS Construction Engineering Management ’8412 dr. KAtE rEMlEy BS Electrical Engineering ’92, MS Electrical & Computer Engineering ’96 PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering ’9912 JAMES “JAKE” VAndErZAndEn BS Mechanical Engineering ’8712 dr. tOdd WArEing BS Nuclear Engineering ’87

Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers13 AndrEW dyKEMAn BS Construction Engineering Management ’97, BS Business Administration ’9713 JEFF FrEEMAn BS Construction Engineering Management ’97, BS Business Administration ’9713 dr. yuntEng huAng PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering ’9714 dr. yOung KiM MS Environmental Engineering ’96, PhD Environmental Engineering ’0014 dr. thAnA SOrnChAMni MS Chemical Engineering ’01, PhD Chemical Engineering ’0414 dr. KEnt B. WEltEr MS Nuclear Engineering ’01, PhD Nuclear Engineering ’03

4 Oregon State University College of Engineering 2011 Oregon Stater Engineering Awards

By Ronald L. Adams, DeanOregon State UniversityCollege of Engineering

Tonight we are proud to honor 29 College of Engineering alumni and friends who are literally changing the world. As you will observe from the range of accomplishments demon-strated by these honorees, an engi-neering degree from Oregon State pro-vides a solid foundation for success in many areas.

For example, Hosung Chang (Ph.D. ’93) came to Corvallis to obtain an advanced degree in electrical engineering before returning home to South Korea, where he eventu-ally became president of Dankook University. Stanley Cheng (BSME ’71) revolutionized the cookware industry by inventing and patenting the first nonstick, hard anodized cookware, then went on to become chairman and chief executive officer of the world’s largest cookware company, Meyer Corporation, and owner of the prestigious Hestan Vineyards in Napa,

Calif. Valerie Brown (BSCE ’80) spent several years as an environmental and process exploration engineer with Chevron before establishing a distin-guished career in the financial sector. Her last position was chief executive officer of ING Advisors Network. You can read more about these dynamic alumni and the rest of our honorees in this publication.

At the College of Engineering, we work closely with industry to turn research results into new companies and products that create jobs while helping people to lead better lives. For instance, people who require kidney dialysis may soon have a more

Blount International, Inc. would like to congratulate our own

Jake VanderZandena 1987 Oregon State University graduate

and honored as the

Distinguished Young Business Professional

A Proud Moment for Oregon State

OregOn State UniverSity FOUndatiOn

Congratulations, OSU Engineers The OSU Foundation salutes the winners of the 2011 Oregon Stater Engineering Awards and thanks the 5,957 engineering alumni who are supporting The Campaign for OSU. Your innovation, generosity, and leadership are making Oregon – and the world – a better place.

With a goal of $850 million, the Campaign for OSU is transforming our campus. donors have created 37 endowed faculty positions, provided over $100 million for scholarships, and launched more than a dozen construction projects.

OSU FOUndAtiOn 541-737-4218 Corvallis503-553-3400 PortlandCampaignforOSU.org

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convenient way to receive treatment, thanks to microtechnology developed by Goran Jovanovic’s research team. A company called Home Dialysis Plus, Ltd., founded in 2003, has exclusively licensed their patented technology to develop a dialysis system that allows patients to experience treatment in the comfort and privacy of their own homes.

Some basic research may seem to have less tangible outcomes, but is no less critical for human health. For example, the use of nanomaterials has exploded in recent years, mak-ing it important to understand the implications for public health. Stacey Harper is exploring the relationships among nanomaterial exposure, dose, and toxicity to maximize the benefits of nanotechnology while preventing possible adverse consequences.

As we have worked harder in recent years to move new College of Engineering technologies into the marketplace through commercializa-tion, we are helping to strengthen the economy in Oregon and beyond while providing hands-on learning experi-ences for our students. A decade ago, we saw one or two companies spin out from our research every five years. Today, we are seeing 15 spin-outs

every five years. Each of those spin-outs used innovative technology to solve a problem and created jobs in the process.

We are also making huge forward strides in the area of environmental sustainability. At the national level, for instance, our researchers are working day and night to seek ways to imple-ment alternate energy sources such as wave, solar, and wind. Other research-ers in fundamental materials science are inventing new environmentally friendly and biocompatible alterna-tives to hazardous, lead-containing substances currently used in elec-tronic devices.

At the global level, a recent agree-ment with the Iraq Ministry of Higher Education will ensure that sustain-able engineering practices developed at Oregon State benefit Iraq’s efforts to rebuild its engineering higher education, reconstruct its infrastruc-ture, and foster mutually supportive partnerships among Iraq’s 23 univer-sities and our students and faculty. In addition, college representatives are helping Qatar to develop and imple-ment advanced agricultural systems and new technologies that promise to help the country re-establish their local food supply system and reduce

foreign imports.One of the best things that could

come out of tonight’s celebration is that our students will walk away newly inspired and motivated because they see the potential for their own career trajectories. As you can see, our graduates and faculty are already driving social, environmental, and economic prosperity in the 21st cen-tury, and we expect nothing less from our current students. Our commit-ment to experiential learning and col-laborative innovation means that our students don’t have to wait until they graduate to start making a difference. By emphasizing authentic engineering experiences within our curriculum, we’re committed to equipping them with the knowledge, skills, and pas-sion to advance innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

To say that we are proud of our alumni is an understatement. The power of our engineering program is demonstrated through tonight’s hon-orees, but they represent only the tip of the iceberg. Every day, our College of Engineering students, faculty, and alumni are making a real difference. We invite your continued partnership with us as we strive to achieve even greater things in the coming years.

School of Civil and Construction Engineering

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Get ahead of the competition. Earn an MBE from Oregon State University!Now accepting applications. Flexible class schedule to accommodate working professionals and traditional students.Info: cce.oregonstate.edu/cem/grad/htmlContact: Prof. David Sillars 541.737.8058

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Elmond Decker is an engineer, an inventor, and a science educator. A 1944 graduate of Salem

High School, Decker was raised by parents who guided him in achieving his fullest potential. They even built him a laboratory in their home for electri-cal systems and amateur radio equipment.

After high school, Decker joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. Because of his amateur radio background and his Morse code speed, he became a radio opera-tor on B-24 bombers and logged more than 300 hours in flight before receiving an honorable dis-charge. He returned home to study electrical engi-neering at Oregon State on the G.I. Bill.

“Oregon State gave me hands-on experience with a broad diversity of electrical systems,” says Decker. “At gradu-ation, I was recruited by RCA for their global Field Engineering Support Program to the United States Air Force.” Decker helped install power distribution, radar maintenance, and com-munications systems in Japan, Korea, and Europe.

Decker was asked as a civil servant to join what has now become the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). In the post-Korean War era, Decker was given free reign by the Air Force to do the technical research and engineer an over-the-horizon radar system to better monitor Russian missile launches. “At the time, there was a global challenge requiring highly technical and classified work in 20 countries, which was rewarding and remains highly classified,” says Decker.

Upon his retirement from NASIC, Decker worked through the Dayton, Ohio, Engineering and Science Foundation to develop 91 Waves Science Kits and books for school systems around the world, includ-ing the Salem Public Schools.

Stanley Cheng grew up in Hong Kong, where his family owned a manufacturing business. He

came to the United States for a business education at the University of Oregon, but within his first two years the Cultural Revolution overtook China and Cheng changed directions. “I decided I had better get an engineering degree so I could get a job any-where,” says Cheng. He trans-ferred to Oregon State University.

“The engineering education I received at OSU was a great help to my career, and I had a wonder-ful time there,” says Cheng. “It was academically rewarding and socially stimulating.”

As an undergraduate, Cheng began planning a manufacturing strat-egy that would change the course of his fam-ily’s company. “I began leading the company in a new field of busi-ness—nonstick cook-ware,” he says. “I helped with design and machinery acquisition for the Hong Kong plant. Without my engineering background, it would have been nearly impossible to begin an entirely new business from scratch, and design our products and our production facilities.”

Today, the family business—Meyer Corporation—is the largest cookware manufacturer in the United States and second in the global marketplace. Company headquarters are in California, but manufacturing occurs in England, Italy, China and Thailand, where its largest plant produces an aver-age of 100,000 pieces of cookware per day.

“Students should have the courage to chase after their dreams and the commitment to not give up,” says Cheng. “One of the greatest strengths of the American culture is that the creative spirit is stron-ger here than anywhere else.”

Since leaving Oregon State University with mas-ter’s and PhD degrees in electrical engineering,

Rudy Frank has led a life of professional and per-sonal achievement and contribution, both at home in the United States and internationally.

Frank, who retired in 2001 as vice president of optical networks for Lucent Technologies, introduced telecommunica-tions transmission products in Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, India, and South Africa. Prior to that, he served as president of Cincinnati Bell Information System’s international group, overseeing the firm’s international business operations. He also served as senior vice president of technolo-gy and network servic-es for Cincinnati Bell and as technical direc-tor and manager with AT &T’s Bell Laboratories.

But optical network technology and international communications were not Frank’s only passion. As a business executive, he served as the creator and director of BEST—Building Enthusiasm for Science and Technology, as a member of a White House sci-ence and technology advisory committee on black colleges and universities, and on the board of gover-nors of the Communications Society of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE).

Frank is well recognized as a national commu-nity, social, and educational leader. He served on the Sloan Advisory Board for the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and as an advi-sory board member for the National Urban League’s Black Executive Exchange Program.

Along the way, Frank says he lived his life abiding by the motto, “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize.” Frank now makes his home in Seattle. He and his wife, Jolene, have seven children and 13 grandchildren.

hall of FameSTANLEY K.S. CHENG BS Mechanical Engineering ’71

hall of FameELMOND DECKER BS Electrical Engineering ’51

hall of FameDR. RUDOLPH J. FRANK MS Electrical Engineering ’70Phd Electrical Engineering ’72

of optical networks for Lucent Technologies,

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“The engineering education I received at OSU was a great help to my career, and I had a wonderful time there.”

the National Air and Space Intelligence Center

“Oregon State gave me hands-on experience with a broad diversity of electrical systems.”

tor and manager with AT &T’s Bell Laboratories.

Along the way, Frank says he lived his life abiding by the motto, “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize.”

“Oregon State gave me hands-on experience with

National Air and Space Intelligence Center (Retired)Wright-Patterson Air Force Base – Dayton, Ohio Vice President, Optical Networks (Retired)

Lucent Technologies – Murray Hill, New Jersey

Chairman & Chief Executive Offi cerMeyer Corporation – Vallejo, California


Lew Frederickson grew up in Klamath Falls, Ore. “I had an absolutely great childhood

there,” he says. “A fishing pole in one hand and a shotgun in another—I loved the outdoors.” As he finished his high school career, Frederickson was a finalist in the Westinghouse National Science Contest and was selected for a Bechtel Scholarship. He took his promise to Oregon State University.

“The thing I was most proud of when I went to Chevron out of college was that I was thrown right away into a process design engineering group with graduates from MIT, Carnegie Tech, and Michigan State,” Frederickson says. “But my education from Oregon State allowed me to compete against them very nicely in the kind of work we were doing.”’

Frederickson went on to work around the world on Chevron projects and refiner-ies. He returned to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1986 to take on responsibilities as Chevron’s cor-porate specialist for its fluid catalytic cracking and delayed coking facilities. During that time, he participated in upgrading all six of the fluid catalytic cracking units in Chevron’s domestic refineries, and served on global expert panels for the National Petroleum Refinery Association.

Looking back on his life, Frederickson feels sat-isfied. “I was an Eagle Scout, got good grades in school and the career recognition I was looking for,” he says. “And I was always proud that after my freshman year, I was able to pay my own way through Oregon State.”

Dan Keuter was part of an emerging technology when he became one of the first graduates in

nuclear engineering at Oregon State University. “It was the field to go into at the time,” says Keuter, who was an Albany, Ore., student athlete attending Oregon State on a wrestling scholarship.

Keuter’s knee gave out after three years on the mat, but his academic desire continued. “The thing I liked about Oregon State was the hands-on experi-ence,” he says. “The nuclear reactor was on campus. There weren’t that many students, so there was a lot of individual attention.”

After graduation, Keuter went straight to Portland General Electric as an engineer at the Trojan Nuclear Plant. His first job was fol-lowed by operations positions with the Rancho Seco Nuclear Plant in Northern California and the Tennessee Valley Authority. In 1995, Keuter started a 15-year career with Entergy Nuclear Corporation, where he made an impact on company earn-ings and the nuclear regulatory industry.

“I am most proud of my involve-ment in Entergy’s purchase of six existing nuclear plants between 1999 and 2005, which accounted for more than half the earnings of the company,” he says. Keuter also had a pivotal role in getting the 2005 Energy Act passed, which allowed nuclear plants to once again be built in the United States.

Today, Keuter serves on the advisory board for Oregon State’s School of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics, and is enjoying his “retirement” career with CH2M Hill: helping coun-tries to develop nuclear energy programs. “My pas-sion is developing small reactors for the production of electricity and hydrogen to replace fossil fuels,” he says.

BBert Loughmiller’s father survived the Great Depression by building bridges across the

prairie gulches of eastern Colorado for the Work Projects Administration, a New Deal program that funded public works projects. He moved his family to Oregon to give his children a better life.

“Oregon State University gave substance to my father’s dream by giving me a scholarship,” says Loughmiller. “From his early bridge building days, my father saw civil engineer-ing as a high calling. I adopted that view.”

Loughmiller’s degree from Oregon State was soon complemented by an MBA from University of Oregon and he began a successful business career that combined the best of both disciplines.

“I had the opportunity to participate in the startup of RapidFAX and its successful development and manufacture of the first commercial high-speed digi-tal facsimile machine,” says Loughmiller. After the startup’s acquisition, he became a principal in APM, Inc., a specialty supplier to the electronics and aero-space industry. He helped transition the company as it became the leading supplier of specialty packaging for wine and gourmet foods.

Throughout his career and after his retirement, Loughmiller has had a strong passion and com-mitment to give back by helping his employees better their lives, founding the Los Altos Education Foundation, advising small businesses, mentoring and tutoring young people, and acting as trustee for the Oregon State University Foundation.

“Aside from my family, a call to community service has been a major part of my life,” says Loughmiller. “I have tried to put into practice a great life lesson learned from my father—to give someone of modest beginnings the opportunity to have a better life.”

“But my education from Oregon State allowed me to compete against them very nicely in the kind of work we were doing.”

the 2005 Energy Act passed, which allowed nuclear

“The thing I liked about Oregon State was the hands-on experience.”

“Oregon State University gave sub-stance to my father’s dream by giving me a scholarship.”

hall of FameBERT LOUGHMILLER BS Civil Engineering ’64

hall of FameDAN KEUTER BA nuclear Engineering ’73

hall of FameLEWIS A. FREDERICKSON BS Chemical Engineering ’57

Corporate Fluid Catalytic Cracking Specialist (Retired)Chevron Corporation – Oakland, California

Vice President, Commercial Nuclear ProjectsCH2M Hill – Madison, Mississippi

President & Principal (Retired)Automatic Plastic Moulding, Inc. – Benicia, California


IIn 1941, Joe Morse asked his brother Forrest to join him the sand and gravel business in

Harrisburg, Ore. Their brother, Bill, joined them in 1943, and Morse Bros., Inc. was formed.

“As kids, the second generation grew up togeth-er riding our bikes around the gravel yards,” says Jon Morse, son of founder Joe Morse. Jon’s broth-er Frank, cousins Mike and Steve (Forrest’s sons) and Greg and Ray (Bill’s sons) joined the business in turn.

Jon and Frank’s Oregon State education served them well. “Besides learning engineering fun-damentals, there was the practical side of con-struction industry interaction and application to problem solving,” says Jon, who became asset manager and oversaw the maintenance divi-sion and agency inter-actions.

Frank became president of the com-pany in 1980. “I am extremely proud of the success of our family business—the transition from the first generation to nine members of the second generation and all the complexities that come with family ownership,” says Frank.

In 1998, Morse Bros., Inc., was purchased by MDU Resources Group and merged with its subsidiary Knife River Corporation. At the time, Morse Bros. was the largest construction com-pany in Oregon.

“To be able to be in business with our father, uncles, brothers, sisters, cousins—it is a treasure not offered to just anybody, and a pleasure that few can experience,” says Frank.

Robert Thresher is a pioneer in modern wind energy technology. He has more than 40 years of research,

development, engineering and management experience in wind technology, plant engineering, and aerospace systems. As a professor at Oregon State University from 1970 to 1984, he worked with the Department of Energy to develop early modern wind technologies.

“Just after the 1974 oil embargo, the university was contacted by Eugene Water and Electric Board about the prospect of using wind on the Oregon Coast to generate energy,” says Thresher. “The atmospheric sci-ences department collected money from neighboring coastal utility districts to monitor wind levels on the coast. That was my introduction to wind energy.”

With innovation and a nose for funding, Thresher helped develop a wind energy program at Oregon State. “It was a coalescence of synergies,” he says. “We worked primarily with people in mechani-cal engineering to understand wind turbines.”

Thresher left Oregon State to become a prin-cipal scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, overseeing a program to prove the ability to pre-dict performance and loads for wind turbines and the effects of atmospheric turbulence.

With numerous global accolades on his resume, Thresher received the Pioneer Award at the World Renewable Energy Congress and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Wind Energy Society.

Currently Thresher is moving from wind to wave technology and has directed his research interests at NREL to ocean energy systems. “We have developed a cooperative research and development agreement between Oregon State and the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center to study wave and tidal energy,” he says.

Jeff Blank is an engineer who obtained a busi-ness degree to widen his skill set. A native of

Beaverton, Ore., Blank went on from Oregon State University to earn a Master’s of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Portland.

“Oregon State has a fantastic engineering school and I was pre-pared with a sense of discipline and great engineering knowl-edge,” says Blank. “Equally impor-tant, Oregon State prepared me to work in teams—to communicate, make decisions, and recognize the people side of projects.”

Immediately after graduating from Oregon State, Blank joined the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., where he became the lead mechanical engineer on several nuclear weapon sys-tem design teams. After five years at Sandia, Blank wanted to bring his family back to the Northwest and joined the Tektronix division purchased by Xerox.

“At Xerox, I run the part of our organization that delivers ‘solid ink’ products—a unique technology,” says Blank. “I am most proud of our Color Qube 9200 series—a cartridge-free technology with solid ink sticks that is very sustainable, providing 90% less waste than cartridge ink.” Blank is a part of a succes-sion of Oregon State involvement in Xerox, including Ron Adams and Jim Rice.

Blank’s advice to engineering students is three-fold: “Do not underestimate the importance of communication in your field,” says Blank. “Make sure what you are engineering can be manufac-tured cost-effectively in a global marketplace, and understand the life cycle of your design from con-cept to sustainability.”

hall of FameDR. ROBERT WALLACE THRESHERProfessor, Mechanical Engineering, 1970-1984

Academy of distinguished EngineersJEFFREY K. BLANK BS Mechanical Engineering ’90

“Besides learning engineering fundamentals, there was the practical side of construction industry interaction and application to problem solving.” – Jon Morse

dict performance and loads for wind turbines and the

“We worked primarily with people in mechanical engineering to understand wind turbines.”

in Livermore, Calif., where he became the lead

“Oregon State has a fantastic engineer-ing school and I was prepared with a sense of discipline and great engineer-ing knowledge.”

coast. That was my introduction to wind energy.”

Wind Energy Research FellowNational Renewable Energy Laboratory – Golden, Colorado

Vice President, Product DevelopmentXerox Corporation – Wilsonville, Oregon

BILL MORSE FRANK MORSE JONATHAN MORSE

hall of FameMORSE FAMILY: BILL MORSE Friend of OSu STATE SENATORFRANK MORSE MA general Studies ‘70

JONATHAN MORSE BS Construction Engineering Management ‘70

Morse Bros Inc, Oregon

Oregon State University College of Engineering Previous Oregon Stater Engineering Award winners A

Award Winner Year of Induction Award Winner Year of Induction Award Winner Year of Induction

Engineering Hall of FameAl Hundere (BSME 1938) 1998Arthur E. Hitsman (MSME 1950) 1998Bruce E. Hofer (BSEE 1970) 1998Cecil W. Drinkward 1998Chih H. Wang (PhD 1950) 1998Conde B. McCullough 1998Craig Wohlgemuth 1998Dale Pence 1998Donald S. Trent (BSAE 1962, MSME 1964, PhD ME 1972) 1998Douglas C. Engelbart (BSEE 1948) 1998Edward C. Lynch 1998Edwin Hunt (MSME 1946) 1998Eugene C. Starr (BSEE 1923) 1998Fred Merryfield (BSCE 1923) 1998Fredrick J. Burgess, 5th Dean (BSCE 1950) 1998George Kenneth Austin (BSIE 1954) 1998George W. Gleeson, Fourth Dean (MSChE 1934) 1998Glenn W. Holcomb (MSCE 1931) 1998Grant A. Covell, First Dean 1998H. A. “Andy” Andersen 1998Harry S. Rogers, Second Dean 1998Holly A. Cornell (BSCE 1938) 1998Jack E. Thomas (BSME 1954) 1998James C. Howland (BSCE 1938) 1998James S. Marsh (BSCE 1937) 1998James W. Poirot (BSCE 1953) 1998Jerry Franciscovich (BSEE 1952) 1998John A. Young (BS 1953) 1998John Owen, Sixth Dean 1998John R. Holmquist (BSEE 1951) 1998Kazuyoshi Kawata (BSCE 1949) 1998Larry Chalfan (MSEE 1969) 1998Linus C. Pauling (BS ChE 1922) 1998Marion E. Carl (BSME 1938) 1998Marion T. Weatherford (BSIA 1930, MSIA 1938) 1998Mark K. Miller (BSME 1948) 1998Martin N. Kelley (BSCE 1950) 1998Milosh Popovich (BSChE 1939, MSME 1941) 1998

Milton Harris (BSChE 1926) 1998Natale B. Giustina (BSME 1941) 1998Octave Levenspiel (MSChE, 1949, PhD ChE 1952) 1998Richard H. Dearborn, Third Dean 1998Richard W. Boubel (MSME 1954) 1998Robert C. Wilson (BSCE 1950) 1998Robert D. Cess (BSME 1955) 1998Robert S. Proctor (BSME 1947, MSME 1949) 1998Robert W. Lundeen (BSChE 1942) 1998Rudolf S. Engelbrecht (PhD, EE 1979) 1998Samuel H. Graf (BSEE 1907, BSME 1908, MSEE 1908, MSME 1909) 1998Thomas Burke Hayes (BSEE 1938) 1998W. Bruce Morrison (BSME 1934) 1998Waldo G. Magnuson (PhD, EE 1966) 1998Wayne W. Bostad (BSME 1959) 1998William A. Mittelstadt (BSEE 1966, MSEE 1968) 1998William T. Peckham (BSCE 1948) 1998Alexander Kent Davidson (BSME 1957) 1999Andrew V. Smith (BSEE 1950) 1999Charles E. Wicks (BSChE 1950) 1999Darrell W. (Chuck) Halligan (BSCE 1952) 1999Donald F. Hays (MSME 1952) 1999Earl C. Reynolds Jr. (BSCE 1947) 1999Edwin J. Stastny (BS Ag Engr 1938) 1999Howard D. Eberhart (BSCE 1933, MSCE 1935) 1999Jack L. Kerrebrock (BSME 1950) 1999Jackson Graham (BSCE 1936) 1999James G. Knudsen (PhD, ChE 1950, Michigan) 1999James L. Riggs (MSME 1958, PhD ME 1962) 1999James R. Kuse (BSChE 1955) 1999James R. Welty (BSME 1954, MSME 1959, PhD ChE 1962) 1999John D. Caplan (BSChE 1949) 1999John Harrison Belknap (BSEE 1912) 1999Miles Lowell Edwards (BSEE 1924) 1999Percy H. McGauhey (BSCE 1927) 1999Perry Walter Pratt (BSME 1936) 1999

Ralph S. Gens (BSEE 1949) 1999Rex A. Elder (MSCE 1942) 1999Richard S. Nichols (BSEE 1949) 1999Robert Adams (BSCE 1948) 1999Robert L. Polvi (BS 1956, MS 1958) 1999Ronald T. Miller (BSME 1942) 1999Stephen Oswald Rice (BSEE 1929) 1999Wanda Munn (BSNE 1977) 1999Wilfrid Estill Johnson (BSME 1930, MSME 1939) 1999William E. Cooper (BSME 1947, MSME 1948) 1999William H. Huggins (BSEE 1941, MSEE 1942) 1999Zed J. Atlee (BSEE 1929) 1999Charles C. Bayles (BSCE 1936) 2000Eugene F. Grant (BSEE 1941, MSEE 1942) 2000James D. Nordahl (BSIE 1949) 2000Jean McGlenn Richardson (BSCE 1949) 2000John A. “Jack” Talbott (BSME 1949) 2000John H. Lienhard IV (BSME 1951) 2000LaMont Matthews (BSME 1956) 2000Milton R. Smith (MSEE 1969) 2000Sidney S. Lasswell Jr. (BSCE 1949) 2000Carl L. Urben (BSME 1958) 2001Henry W. Schuette (BSME 1950) 2001J. Jack Watson (BSIA 1950) 2001Lee S. Ting (BSEE 1965) 2001Lee W. Kearney (BSCE, 1963) 2001Lewis N. Spencer (BSCE 1949) 2001Paul H. Emmett (BSChE 1922) 2001Ralph I. Larsen (BSCE 1950) 2001Robert B. Johnson (BSEE 1968) 2001Robert C. Alton (BSME 1964) 2001Tommy W. Ambrose (PhD, ChE 1957) 2001Douglas P. Daniels (BSCE 1960) 2003H. Dean Papé (BSME 1943) 2003James B. Johnson 2003James R. Street 2003John A. Schnautz (PhD, ChE 1958) 2003Orin F. Zimmerman (BSEE 1947) 2003Paul I. Anderson (BSME 1956) 2003Robert E. Barber (BSME 1957) 2003Ronald K. Hanson (BSME 1961) 2003

Previous AwArd winners


B Previous Oregon Stater Engineering Award winners Oregon State University College of Engineering

Seichi Konno (BSCE 1953) 2003Adam Heineman (BSCE 1949) 2004August D. Benz (BSChE 1954) 2004Chun Chiu (MSEE 1969) 2004Fred M. Briggs (BSEE 1971) 2004Galen Ho (BSEE 1968) 2004Harold D. “Hal” Pritchett (BSCE 1957, MSCE 1961) 2004Jack Meredith (BSME 1961, BS Mathematics 1961) 2004Kenneth M. Wightman II (BS Forest Engineering 1968) 2004Pala Sookawesh (MSIE 1969) 2004Raymond E. Southwell (BSChE 1950) 2004Richard S. Reid (BSME 1962, MSME 1965) 2004Robert E. Wilson (BSME 1955, PhD ME 1963) 2004Robert W. Morrison, Jr. (BSME 1968) 2004Stephen A.D. Meek III (BSEE 1950) 2004Theron M. Bradley, Jr. (BS Physics 1967, BS Mathematics 1969) 2004Thomas M. West ( PhD IE 1976) 2004Donald E. Guinn (BSCE 1954) 2005Elizabeth Juckeland Carrell (BSME 1959) 2005Frank E. Block (BSChE 1949 2005Henry Oman (BSEE 1940, MSEE 1951) 2005Louis L. Mace (BSCE 1959) 2005Niels Reimers (BS BA ME 1956) 2005Peter E. Johnson (BSChE 1955) 2005Phillip L. Cole (BSCE 1947) 2005Ralph R. Peterson (BSCE 1969) 2005Raymond K. Asbury (BS Physics 1974) 2005Raymond L. Chalker (BSCE 1954; MSCE 1955) 2005Walter Plywaski (BSEE 1957) 2005Bernard A. “Bud” Ossey (BSCE 1943) 2006Chao Chen Mai (MSEE 1964) 2006Frank Biasca (BSChE 1941) 2006George B. Cox (MS Ed 1940) 2006George Reed (BSAE 1968) 2006Hiro Moriyasu (BSME 1958, MSEE 1969) 2006John Loosley (BSCE 1949) 2006Paul Lorenzini (PhDME 1970) 2006Rex Smith (BSEE 1971) 2006Dale R. Laurance (BSChE 1967) 2007David Schlegel (BSAE 1950) 2007

Donald B. Maussharddt (BSCE 1959, MSCE 1960) 2007Dwayne L. Foley (BSME 1967) 2007Jay A. Mackie (BSChE 1961) 2007Keith K. Slack (BSEE 1963) 2007Kenneth F. Durant (BSCE 1961) 2007Michael S. Inoue (MSIE 1954, PhD 1967) 2007Steven J. Campbell (BSEE 1963) 2007William M. Jabs (BSCE 1969) 2007Charles W. Lacey (BSCE 1951) 2008Edward J. Swenson (MSEE 1967) 2008Greggory L. Nesbitt (BSME 1958) 2008James C. DeBroekert (BSEE 1952) 2008Jerry E. Swiggett (PhDChE 1968) 2008Michael A. Sharp (BSChE 1974) 2008Michael R. Gaulke (BSEE 1968) 2008Norm McKibben BSCE 1959) 2008Richard B. Evans (BSIME 1969) 2008Richard B. Stout (PhD NE 1972) 2008Rodney M. Boucher (BSEE 1965) 2008Roger Gohrband (BSChE 1951) 2008Terry W. Baker (BSME 1963) 2008Carroll E. Page (BSIE 1950) 2009Darry Callahan (BSChE 1964) 2009Frank J. Dudek (MSCE 1976) 2009Greg P. Merten (BSEE 1968) 2009Jackson Wong (BSME 1958; MSME 1959 2009Jean Watson (BSChE 1971) 2009Junku Yuh (MSME 1982; PhD ME 1986) 2009Larry Watson (BSChE 1971) 2009Pat J. Connolly (BSME 1968) 2009Ramesh C. Malhotra (BSCE 1956) 2009Robert M. Bonney (BSCE 1941) 2009Ronald D. Arps (MSEE 1963) 2009Christopher I. Grimes (BSNE 1971) 2010Husnu M. Ozyegin (BSCE 1967) 2010Max J. Clausen (BSNE 1970) 2010Robert C. Hall (BSCEM 1971) 2010Robert F. Olsen (BSCE 1971) 2010Roy L. Rogers (BSEE 1956) 2010Timothy W. Tong (BSME 1976) 2010William “Bill” H. Tebeau (BSChE 1948) 2010

Academy of Distinguished EngineersDuane Wallace (BSIE 1979) 1998Edward J. Swenson (MSEE 1967) 1998

Gary L. Yancey (BSEE 1967) 1998Harry R. Anderson (MSEE 1985) 1998James R. Plasker (MSCE 1973) 1998Jay N. Wilt (BSIE 1975) 1998Jean C. Watson (BS ChE 1971) 1998Jeffrey D. Peace (BSME 1973) 1998M. Craig McKibben (BSCS 1969) 1998Mark S. Childs (BSIME 1978) 1998Paul G. Lorenzini (PhD NE 1970) 1998Peter E. Johnson (BSChE 1955) 1998Ralph R. Peterson (BS 1969) 1998Richard B. Stout (PhD NE 1972) 1998Richard Kaplan (BSCS 1985) 1998Walter W. Laity (PhD ME 1977) 1998William D. Byers (BSChE 1973) 1998William L. Reiersgaard (BSME 1960) 1998William M. Jabs (BSCE 1969) 1998Amir Faghri (BSME 1973) 1999Andrew D. Bartmess (BSIME 1982) 1999Brian T. Laine (BSCS 1975) 1999Dale R. Laurance (BSChE 1967) 1999Darald (Darry) Callahan (BS ChE 1964) 1999David P. Nicoli (BSCE1979) 1999Donald R. Pettit (BSChE 1978) 1999Gregory P. Merten (BSEE 1968) 1999Louis A. Licht (MS Ag Engr 1978) 1999Mark A. Lasswell (BSCS 1976, MSCS 1978) 1999Marvin E. LaVoie (BSEE 1974) 1999Randy McCourt (BSCE 1978) 1999Richard K. Gardner (BSIE 1979) 1999Robin L. Feuerbacher (BSNE 1974) 1999Thomas C. Madsen (BSME 1969) 1999Thomas D. McGaw (BSME1972) 1999Timothy S. Leatherman (BSME 1970) 1999Dan R. Keuter (BSNE 1973) 2000David E. Isett (BSIE 1978) 2000Gary S. Nuss (BS AgEngr 1980, MS AgEgr 1982) 2000Giuseppe Cerbone (PhD CS 1992) 2000Jack Hurt (BSME 1971; MSME 1972) 2000Jeffrey A. Coe (BSChE 1974) 2000Jeffrey B. Bradley (BSCE 1975; MSCE 1977) 2000Keith C. Kullberg (BSEE 1978) 2000Lane C. Wickwire (BSME 1961) 2000Lori A. Craven (BSCS 1979) 2000


Oregon State University College of Engineering Previous Oregon Stater Engineering Award winners C

Maurice E. Gunderson (BSME 1974, MSME 1976) 2000Max J. Clausen (BSNE 1970) 2000Robert M. “Mike” Phelps (BSCE 1976) 2000Ronald K. Hanson (BS 1961) 2000Alfred J. McSwain (BSME 1964) 2001Cleora F. Raulerson (BSCS 1976) 2001David Hackleman (BSEE 1973) 2001DeQian Wang (MS AgEngr 1987; PhD ME 1990) 2001Gary Hall (BSChE 1969) 2001Jack W. Lentsch, (BS 1965, Chemistry; MS 1966, Radiation Physics) 2001Jen-Hsun Huang (BSEE 1984) 2001Michael J. Schaer (MSChE 1962, PhD ChE 1965) 2001Patrick R. O’Brien, (BSCEM 1973) 2001Richard B. Evans (BSIE 1969) 2001Robert G. Jossis (BSCE 1970) 2001Timothy W. Tong (BSME 1976) 2001Chane C. Cullens (MSCS 1984) 2003Dale K. Atkinson (BSNE 1978) 2003David R. Hatch (BSCE 1976, MSCE 1978) 2003Gary Kaleta 2003Gary W. McNair (BS, MS, PhD, NE 1983) 2003Gregory E. DiLoreto (BSCE 1976) 2003John T. Myers III (BSME 1970) 2003Jon S. DeVaan (BSCS 1985) 2003Landis D. Kannberg (PhD ME 1976) 2003Mark A. Christensen (BSIE 1982) 2003Michael A. Van Buskirk (BSEE 1977) 2003Michael D. Brady (PhD, ChE 1968) 2003Michael G. West (BSEE 1980) 2003Randal Conrads (BSIE 1972) 2003Ronald A. Dilbeck (BSEE 1975) 2003Terry C. Valenzano (BSCE 1967) 2003Catherine M. Nelson (BSCE 1982) 2004David J. Brown (MSEE 1983) 2004Huei Liang (William) Chang (BSEE 1981) 2004J. Craig Dutton (MSME 1975) 2004James A. Johnson (BSIE 1984) 2004James L. Buelt (BSChE 1975) 2004Jeffrey E. Klemann (BSME 1984) 2004Kyle Doyel (BSChE 1980, BS Business Administration 1980) 2004Michael W. Cappiello (BSNE 1974) 2004

Susanna M. Laszlo (BSCE 1983, BS Forest Engineering 1983) 2004William A. “Bill” Sundermeier (BSCS 1985) 2004Barry J. Winstead (BSME 1980) 2005Denise J. Ecklund (PhD CS 1987) 2005Edward A. Froese (BSEE 1972) 2005J. Scott Carr (BSCS 1984) 2005James W. Pond Jr. (MSIME 1971) 2005Jay L. McQuillen Jr. (MSCE 1986) 2005Jeffrey A. Benjamin (BSNE 1985) 2005Kay E. Altman (BSChE 1987) 2005Norkun Sitthiphong (MSME 1977; PhD ME 1981) 2005Randall L. Smith (BSCE 1977) 2005Richard R. Duncombe (BSEE 1981) 2005Roger M. Nielsen (BSIME 1983) 2005Thomas R. McKinney (BSChE 1973) 2005Walter R. Gamble (BSCEM 1969) 2005Abhi Y. Talwalkar (BSEE 1986) 2006Ahmed Abdel-Warith (PhD 1990) 2006Chaur-Fong Chen (MSAE 1989, PhD CE 1992) 2006David Allstot (MSEE 1974) 2006David Browning (BSME 1986) 2006J. Gary Lanthrum (BSNE 1975, MSNE 1978) 2006Manuk Colakyan (MSChE 1980, PhD 1985) 2006Mary Mollison Coucher (BSChE 1984) 2006Maryam Aghamirzadeh (BSEE 1981) 2006Mo Jamshidi (BSEE 1977) 2006Sadanand Patil (MSChE 1981) 2006Scott Williams (BSCEM 1974) 2006Stephen Mara (BSCE 1982) 2006Tony S. Keller (BSGE 1978) 2006Anton T. Skoro (BSCEM 1981) 2007Barry Rahimian (BSME 1986) 2007Carmen Tseng (BSEE 1983) 2007Catherine Mater (MSCE 1984) 2007Craig L. Overhage (MSEE 1989) 2007David F. Skillern (BS Bus & Tech 1976) 2007Douglas J. Tindall (BSCE 1978) 2007James D. Rise (BSME 1986) 2007Joseph P. Danko (MSChE 1985) 2007Kevin W. Clarke (BSEE 1988) 2007Michael C. Park (BSCS 1980) 2007

Parke D. Ball (BSCET 1977) 2007Pradip Banerjee (MSEE 1983) 2007Roderick J. Ray Jr. (BSChE 1979) 2007Steven L. Stockton (BSCE 1971) 2007Timothy A. Dunn (BSEE 1988) 2007Timothy L. Weber (BSME 1986, PhD 1991) 2007W. Louis Peterson (BSNE 1984) 2007William J. Roesch (BSEE 1981) 2007William O. Nicholson (BSNE 1980) 2007Allen G. Crouch (BSCS 1986) 2008David G. Rynders (MSRHP 1997) 2008Direk Lavansiri (PhDCE 1977) 2008George D. Rose (MS Math 1972,PhD 1976) 2008Grant M. Yoshihara (BSNE 1978,MSNE 1980) 2008Janet L. Redmond (BSAE 1985) 2008Jay C. Eisenlohr (BSME 1977) 2008John E. Macnab (BASE 1975,MSAE 1976) 2008Kheng-Joo Khaw (BSECE 1982) 2008Loren K. Brown (BSCEM 1977) 2008Mohammad Faghri (PhDME 1973) 2008Paula J. Hammond (BSCE 1979) 2008Randy L. Schussler (BSIE 1987) 2008Saeed A. Kazmi (MSEE 1976) 2008Scott A. Stevenson (BSChE 1982) 2008Shane D. Wall (BSCpE 1988) 2008Ajit G. Rode (MSEE 1976; PhD EE 1978) 2009Andly LaFrazia (BSIME 1987) 2009Cheryl L. Britton (BSCS 1977 2009Christopher Gesh (BSNE 1988) 2009Dan L. Kavanaugh (BSCEM 1982) 2009Darrell A. Teegarden (BSChE 1980) 2009Donald R. Chambers (BS Engineering Physics 1973) 2009Gayle D. Harley (BSCE 1973) 2009Howard C. Yang (MSEE 1987; PhD EE 1990) 2009Jay C. Compton (BSCEM 1979) 2009Jeff Ammon (BSNE 2001) 2009John Barneson (BSIME 1998 2009Kelton M. Peery (BSME 1972) 2009Mark Frank Madison (BSAE 1979) 2009Michael D. Miles PE (BSME 1980) 2009Mitch Nichols (MS Industrial Education 1981) 2009Nivruti Rai (MSIE 1993) 2009Robert Lee Cheatham (BSEE 1978) 2009


D Previous Oregon Stater Engineering Award winners Oregon State University College of Engineering

Suzanne Townsen (BSCE 1977, MSCE 1986) 2009Taymoor Arshi (PhD CS 1982) 2009William R. McHolick (BSChE 1980) 2009Abdulla A. Al-Joaib (BSCE 1989, MSCE 1990, PhDCE 1994) 2010Daniel J. Brose (BSChE 1984) 2010David A. Brockman (BSGen. Sci. 1986) 2010Douglas M. Carmean ( BSEE 1985) 2010Douglas W. Fisher (BSEE 1985) 2010John S. Uczekaj (BSEE 1981) 2010Michael B. Stowell (BSME 1980) 2010Nabilah M. Al-Tunisi (MSECE 1982) 2010Paul M. Sakamoto (BSEE 1977) 2010Richard J. Sander (BSIME 1983) 2010Stanley C. Lynch (BSNE 1973) 2010Stephen H. McDonald (BSChE 1978) 2010Tod A. Laursen (BSME 1986) 2010Tony Kingsbury (BSChE 1983) 2010Walter G. Kortschak (BSChE 1981) 2010

Council of Outstanding Early Career EngineersCurt A. Nilsen (BSEE 1987) 1998Darcy J. McCallum (MSCS 1993) 1998Jake VanderZanden (BSME 1987) 1998Jay C. Compton (BSCE 1979) 1998Jeffry L. Duncan (BSChE 1980) 1998Joan O. Heaberlin (PhD NE 1997) 1998Mark A. Christensen (BSIME 1982) 1998Richard P. Tolvstad (BSCEM 1987) 1998Roger M. Nielsen (BSIE 1983) 1998Scott A. Ashford (BSCE 1983) 1998Timothy L. Weber (PhD, ME 1991) 1998Tod A. Laursen (BSME 1986) 1998Tung X. Bui (BSEE 1988) 1998Christopher M. Carpenter (BSME 1985) 1999Debra Walt Johnson (BSEE1995) 1999Eric Johnson (BSCS 1984) 1999Galen E. McGill (BSEE 1987) 1999James A. Johnson (BS 1984) 1999Janet G. McFadden (BSNE 1992) 1999Peter Oosterhof (BSCS1987) 1999Richard K. Tenneson (BSCEM 1985) 1999Steven C. Lovejoy (BSME 1987; MSME 1989) 1999Allan A. Douglas (MSEE 1993) 2000

Brent J. Kerr (BSCE 1983) 2000Brian J. Cox (BMES 1981) 2000Byung-Oh Cho (MSNE 1988; PhD NE 1991) 2000Herschel P. Weeks (MSAgE 1983) 2000Jay L. McQuillen Jr. (MSCE 1986) 2000John G. Robinson (BSME 1983) 2000Junku Yuh (MSME 1982; PhDME 1986) 2000Lori M. Strong (BSIME 1986) 2000Richard D. Braatz Jr. (BSChE 1988) 2000Shane D. Wall (BSECE1988) 2000Steven R. Van Arsdale (BSIME 1984) 2000William A. Oefelein (BSEE 1988) 2000Abhijit Y. Talwalkar (BSEE 1986) 2001Andy P. Pihl (BSIE 1984) 2001Howard C. Yang (MSECE 1987, PhD ECE 1990) 2001James D. Rise (BSME 1986) 2001Janet Gulley (BSME 1986) 2001Jerry Abdie (BSCS 1986) 2001Jim S. Gruher (BSIE 1983) 2001Richard W. Latta (BSChE 1987) 2001Ronald G. Olshausen (BSCS 1985) 2001Scott C. Franz (MSNE 1994, PhD NE 1997) 2001Todd A. Wareing (BSNE 1987) 2001William L. Drinkward (BSCE 1990) 2001Bryan R. Lewis (BSNE 1986; MSNE 1992) 2003Donald M. Whitehead (BSCE 1988) 2003Guojin Liang (PhD ECE 1991) 2003Jonathan J. “JJ” Cadiz (BSCS 1997) 2003Marcus H. Wilcox (MSME 1989) 2003Robert J. Crawford (BSIE 1985) 2003Salvador M. Aceves (PhD ME 1990) 2003W. Scott Hoodenpyle (BSCEM 1989) 2003Denis Burger, Jr. (BSCS 1987) 2004Gregg V. Thompson (BSCE 1992) 2004Jatila Ranasinghe (MSME 1986, PhD ME 1989) 2004John F. McKibben (BSChE 1984) 2004Kent Boden (BSCEM 1988) 2004L. Eric Smith (BSNE 1994) 2004Patrick Jensen (BSEE 1989) 2004Sterling L. Smith (BSEE 1990) 2004Craig M. Marianno (PhDRHP 2000) 2005Harish Pillay (BSCS 1988; MSEE 1990) 2005

John S. Anttonen (BSME 1989) 2005Patricia A. McDonald (BSChE 1987) 2005Steven D. Townsen (BSCE 1994) 2005Ben Wahlstrom (BSME 1996) 2006David Y. Young (BSEE 1989; MSEE 1992) 2006Keith A. Pauley (BSNE 1988, MSNE 1995) 2006Keith A. Pauley (BSNE 1988, MSNE 1995) 2006Marc A. Leslie (BSChE 1993) 2006Steve Malany (BSCEM 1991) 2006Tiffany Adams (BSCE 1995) 2006Bradley T. Hogan (BSIME 1991) 2007Eric K. Rockett (BSNE 1993) 2007Matt Boyd (MSBRE 1997) 2007Michael J. Baker (BSCE 1991) 2007Ryan Fujimoto (BSChE 1996) 2007Sanjay Vancheeswaran (MSCE, Chemistry 1999) 2007Scott C. Kveton (BSCS 1997) 2007Brian K. Wilson Jr. (BSCS 1989,BSEP1990) 2008Charla Triplett ( MSBE 2000) 2008Dan D. Euhus (BSChE 1999) 2008Dawn Lesley (MSBioE1993) 2008Jennifer A. Rosales (BSCE 1995) 2008Jon J. Amack (BSEE 1992) 2008Paul D. Stull III (BSCE 1993, MSCE 2004) 2008Ryan Dow (BSCE 2000) 2008Adam King (BSChE 1993) 2009Adi Kusma (BSIME 1998) 2009Angie L. Cook (BSME 2003) 2009Brian M. Davis (PhD CE, 2003) 2009Jason Smesrud (MSBE 1998) 2009John H. Weisner (BSCEM 1995) 2009Peter Koonce (BSCE 1995) 2009Seth M. Sproul (BSNE 1997) 2009Yui-Luen Jeremy Ho (BSEE 1990; MSEE 1992) 2009Eric G. Hulbert (BSCS 1999) 2010Kathryn M. Brock (MS Env. Health 1999) 2010Kelsy M. Ausland (BSCE 2002, BACE 2002) 2010Lisa J. Graham (BSChE 1996, PhDChE 1999) 2010Timothy N. Bergler (BSIME 19997) 2010


Valerie Brown leveraged her engineering educa-tion into the world of business with a chemical

engineering degree from Oregon State University and an MBA from Stanford University. She worked as a co-op student for Chevron Oil Company in the San Francisco Bay Area during her undergraduate years and went back after graduating to work as a process engineer and an environ-mental lobbyist.

“Oregon State prepared me extraordinarily well,” says Brown. “Although I have not done engineering-specific work since the 80s, my engineering education taught me to solve problems, crunch numbers, and drive to results—what it takes to run a business.”

After four years at Chevron, Brown was ready to move out of technical applications and into management. With a Stanford MBA in her portfolio, she worked in strategy management consulting with Bain and Company, as vice president of marketing for Taco Bell, as chief executive officer of ING Advisors Network, and spun off into her current position heading Cetera Financial Group.

“Taking Cetera private was a very challeng-ing, interesting and amazing time,” says Brown. “Getting there was my dream and I get to live it now, so that is good.” Brown is also living the dream personally with her husband of 31 years, Don Baker, and their sons Hyatt, 25, an asset-backed security trader on Wall Street, and Christian, 21, a business major at the University of Michigan.

“An engineering undergraduate degree prepares a person to go many ways,” says Brown. “And Oregon State’s engineering program is doing so many innovative things in the major disciplines. I am just proud to be from that school.”

Hosung Chang serves as president of Dankook University—Korea’s first four-year private uni-

versity. It was founded in 1947 by Chang’s grandfa-ther, Beomjeong Hyung Chang, and later led by his father, Dr. Chungsik Chang.

Chang’s journey to serving as president of Dankook University began with college studies in electronic engineering at Sogang University and a tour of duty in the South Korean military. He earned a master’s and a PhD in electronic engi-neering from Oregon State University.

Upon returning to Korea after graduation, Chang was awarded a professorship in electron-ics and electrical engineering at Hanyang University. In 2000, he joined Dankook University and later became its president. The university features 20 under-graduate colleges and has an enrollment of 26,000 students on two campuses.

Chang is a noted author and a prolific researcher in the field of electronic engi-neering. His doctoral thesis from Oregon State was entitled “Analysis of linear and nonlinear coupled dielectric waveguides” and he has conducted extended research in the fields of optical electromagnetic and micro-wave engineering.

As a South Korean leader, Chang promotes the growth of Korean youth sports and the overall development of sports in Korea, Asia, and other countries. He embodies new age globalization by stressing Dankook University’s motto: “challenge and creation.”

Greg Delwiche has spent his entire professional career working in resource management roles

associated with the mighty Columbia River—a pas-sion and interest lit when he visited the West from his native New York as teenager.

Although Delwiche earned his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the University of Florida, he returned to the West for his post-graduate studies at Oregon State University.

“My Florida classmates found jobs with oil companies along the Gulf Coast. I yearned for the outdoors and wanted to special-ize in water resources and environmental engineering,” says Delwiche. “I was inter-ested in programs that were more practical and real-world in their focus, and Oregon State was a perfect fit for me.”

Delwiche began his career working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, planning Columbia and Willamette river reservoir systems. In 1992, he moved to the Bonneville Power Administration to manage power operations planning, and is most proud of his role in the successful negotiation of the historic Columbia Basic Fish Accords in 2008. The agreement among four Northwest tribes and two states created a partnership in salmon and steelhead restoration in the Columbia River watershed.

“Oregon State could not have prepared me better for my career,” says Delwiche. “The coursework and vigorous classroom dialogue about water resources, environmental engineering, natural resource man-agement, fish and wildlife, and ecosystem manage-ment all prepared me for a professional career that has been a natural progression of my interests. I guess you could say that both professionally and personally, I have been ‘living the dream’.”

Academy of distinguished EngineersVALERIE BROWN BS Chemical Engineering ’80

Academy of distinguished EngineersDR. HOSUNG CHANG MS Electrical Engineering ’85Phd Electrical Engineering ’93

Academy of distinguished EngineersGREGORY K. DELWICHE MS Civil Engineering ’83

degree in civil engineering from the University of

education taught me to solve

“An engineering undergraduate degree prepares a person to go many ways.”

Chang is a noted author and a pro-lific researcher in the field of electronic engineering. His doctoral thesis from Oregon State was entitled “Analysis of linear and nonlin-ear coupled dielec-tric waveguides”

State was a perfect fit for me.”

“I guess you could say that both professionally and personally, I have been ‘living the dream’.”

Chief Executive Offi cerCetera Financial Group – Los Angeles, California President, Dankook University

Republic of South Korea

Senior Vice President, Power ServicesBonneville Power Administration – Portland, Oregon


Duane Kenagy grew up in Albany, Ore., where he picked beans and strawberries during the

summers of his early years. After graduating from Albany Union High School (now West Albany) and completing his first year of college, he took a summer job at the Oregon State Highway Division in 1973. He was hooked. He returned to Oregon State University as a civil engineering major.

“Oregon State gave me a strong work ethic and a practical approach to problem solving,” says Kenagy. “My degree required a pretty diverse set of classes, which prepared me to take on a lot of new interesting things in my career and avoided me being pigeon-holed in a nar-row skill area.”

Kenagy has man-aged and directed major highway, bridge, rail, and other multi-disciplinary public works projects in the United States and overseas. He recently served as program manager and director of engineering for the award-winning, $2.5 billion Alameda Corridor in Los Angeles, and is devel-oping major projects for Southern California, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Barcelona, Spain. He currently directs Moffatt & Nichol’s Project Development Group and the firm’s transportation practice area.

Kenagy continues his involvement with Oregon State, where he helped to start up a fellowship for civil engineering and supports the rugby club.

“It took me quite a while to understand that the most difficult engineering challenges are usually not technical—they are usually political, social, or financial,” says Kenagy. “Communication skills and sensitivity to people make the difference. The best career advice I ever got was that job is always bigger than the in-box.”

Mark Lyman’s family history is related to machinery manufacturing in the Willamette Valley. His great

grandfather, German immigrant Carl Gerlinger, found-ed and built Gerlinger Carrier Co. in Dallas, Ore.

Although the parent company was sold and eventu-ally merged with Caterpillar, Lyman’s grandfather and father retained a spin-off called West Salem Machinery. Today, the company designs, engineers, and manufactures heavy machinery and processing sys-tems to convert fiber products and recyclable material into value-added products.

Following through with the thought of returning to his family-owned business, Lyman transferred from University of Oregon, where he was major-ing in business, to Oregon State University. He earned a degree in industrial and manufacturing engi-neering from Oregon State.

“My degree prepared me well for my career,” says Lyman. “The engi-neering coursework at Oregon State incor-porated business and accounting principles and practical training in facility layout, inventory control, work flow, and manu-facturing processes.”

Lyman is proud to say that his company has grown from 25 to 90 employees in the past decade. “I am proud that I have been able to grow the business, be a good contributor to the community, and have been able to employ an engineering staff and skilled machinists in family wage jobs,” says Lyman. “If I can make my people successful, our company will be successful.”

Lyman sees a need for more engineers. “The world continues to be a more technical place, and there is a need for quality engineers,” he says. “We are heavy equipment manufacturer competing well in a world marketplace, but we need the talent from which to draw our employees.”

While growing up in Beaverton, Ore., John Meagher was always a builder. He graduated

from building tree forts to holding summer jobs in construction for local remodelers. “I wanted to be a builder and a contractor, and Oregon State had a perfect program,” says Meagher. “Construction engineering management was a great professional preparation—a mixture of business and technology.”

Meagher graduated and headed straight to Riedel International in Portland to become a project manager in the United States and then overseas for more than a decade. He moved to California and eventually landed at Traylor Bros., Inc., to continue a success-ful career, working on some of the largest construction projects in the world.

“I’ve been very for-tunate to have been involved in many once-in-a-lifetime construc-tion opportunities,” says Meagher. “I’ve worked on the largest double-track lift span railroad bridge in the free world in Portland, the world’s largest sub-sonic wind tunnel at Moffit Field in California, and right now I’m working on the West Closure Complex in Louisiana, the largest pump station that has ever been built.”

With other major construction projects too numer-ous to mention on his resume, Meagher finds time to continue to recruit civil engineers and construc-tion majors from Oregon State. “If you want to be a contractor and build ‘big things,’ the Oregon State program remains especially viable,” he says. “The OSU construction management program still has a very strong core engineering curriculum that allows grads to obtain their professional engineer license. That is a very strong selling point for the Oregon State program.”

Academy of distinguished EngineersDUANE KENAGY BS Civil Engineering ’79

Academy of distinguished EngineersMARK G. LYMAN BS industrial & Manufacturing Engineering ’81

Academy of distinguished EngineersC. JOHN MEAGHER BS Construction Engineering Management ’78

“Oregon State gave me a strong work ethic and a

“Oregon State gave me a strong work ethic and a practical approach to problem solving.”

“The world continues to be a more technical place, and there is a need for quality engineers.”

“If you want to be a contractor and build ‘big things,’ the Oregon State pro-gram remains espe-cially viable.”

Following through with the thought of returning

Senior Vice PresidentMoffat & Nichol – Long Beach, California

PresidentWest Salem Machinery Co., Inc. – Salem, Oregon

Vice President, Division ManagerTraylor Bros, Inc. – Long Beach, California


Once a year, the Kiwanis Club in Molalla, Ore., rounded up kids and took them to an Oregon

State football game. Coe Miles was a lucky participant in those field trips. It’s no wonder that he returned to the Beaver Nation to begin his college education.

“From the time I was in grade school, I only wanted to be an engineer,” he says. “My classes were incred-ible, my professors were excellent; I got up every morning wanting to go to class.”

Miles’ journey from Oregon State to Houston is testimony to a man who loves to learn. “At Oregon State, I discovered I really like to learn new things, and I was taught how to learn,” says Miles. “Those two tenets have been the mainstay of my career, which has changed quite a bit.”

After earning a bach-elor’s degree in electri-cal engineering at Oregon State, Miles went on to earn a master’s in computer science and PhD in computer engineering from Santa Clara University. He married Ellen Ochoa, former astronaut and deputy director of the Johnson Space Center, whom he met while on con-tract with NASA’s Ames Research Center, where he worked in the Intelligent Systems Technology branch.

After his experience with NASA, Miles went to McDonnell Douglas. Then, in a career about-face, he attended Baylor College of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow, conducting research in the Department of Neurology. Then another big shift—Miles headed to law school, with a singular intent to study patent law as it pertains to emerging technologies. Today, Miles is a respected patent attorney.

“Always choose a job that is interesting,” says Miles. “I followed my passions and took jobs for lower pay. That eventually led me to patent law, and now I have the best of both worlds.”

Bahram Nassersharif left Tehran, Iran, at the age of 17 to begin his nuclear engineering stud-

ies at Oregon State University. He completed his undergraduate degree in mathematics in three years and walked as the youngest graduate of the class of 1980. Nassersharif completed his PhD program and defended his dissertation in 1982, becoming one of the four youngest doctoral candidates in engineer-ing in the country.

“The most memorable aspect of my education at Oregon State was having great professors with a genuine interest in my success,” says Nassersharif. “I have maintained contact with my professors throughout my professional career. Learning from them and building on the knowl-edge they provided gave me the foundation for my achievements.”

Nassersharif taught briefly at Oregon State before becoming a scientific staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He then resumed teaching, taking on professorships and directorships at Texas A & M University and New Mexico State University. He eventu-ally became dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Rhode Island.

“My most recent career accomplishment is starting a new nuclear engineering program at the University of Rhode Island last year,” says Nassersharif. “I am very proud of my students—they won first place in the national American Nuclear Society student design competition last November.”

With his skills at mentoring young nuclear engi-neers, Nassersharif is quick to give advice: “Get to know your professors and your classmates,” he says. “These friendships will serve you well throughout your career and life.”

Gary Pietrok has not wandered far from the educational and professional foundation

established at Oregon State University.Pietrok’s construction management career

actually began in 1983— one year before his graduation in construction engineering manage-ment from Oregon State—with a summer intern-ship at Peter Kiewit Sons’ Inc. Since that beginning, when he worked on a pipeline project in Washington state, Pietrok has been with Kiewit.

Over the years, he contrib-uted to and led the construc-tion of a variety of noted projects, including work along San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf and major bridge and highway proj-ects in Oregon and California. Since 2004, Pietrok has served as a Kiewit district manager in Omaha, Neb., where he is in charge of Kiewit Engineering Co.’s engi-neering and estimate activities. The position has required him to focus on design and geotechnical matters.

“To be successful at Kiewit, you have to have a passion for construction and want to be a prob-lem solver,” Pietrok said when he was named manager of Kiewit Engineering. “With estimating, there’s always something different. You can come at it from a different angle—look at things in a different way to help deliver a client’s project on time and within budget.

“The real challenge for (Kiewit Engineering) going forward is to continue to deliver tangible added value by providing high quality, cost effec-tive, and timely services to our operating dis-tricts,” Pietrok said in 2004.

Academy of distinguished EngineersDR. COE F. MILES BS Electrical Engineering ’84

Academy of distinguished EngineersGARY A. PIETROK BS Construction Engineering Management ’84

ment from Oregon State—with a summer intern-

“My classes were incredible, my pro-fessors were excel-lent; I got up every morning wanting to go to class.”

“The most memo-rable aspect of my education at Oregon State was having great professors with a genuine interest in my success.”

California. Since 2004, Pietrok has served as a

“To be successful at Kiewit, you have to have a passion for construction and want to be a problem solver.”

throughout my professional career. Learning from

PartnerWong, Cabello Lutsch Rutherford & Brucculeri – Houston, Texas

Distinguished University ProfessorDepartment of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems EngineeringUniversity of Rhode Island – Kingston, Rhode Island

PresidentKiewit Engineering Co. – Omaha, Nebraska

Academy of distinguished EngineersDR. BAHRAM NASSERSHARIFBS Mathematics ’80Phd nuclear Engineering ’82


Kate Remley’s father was a television broadcast engineer who conceived electronics projects

with his daughter as she grew up in Ann Arbor, Mich. “When I was 20, I got some wanderlust,” she says.

“I ended up in Eugene, went to Lane Community College to become an electronic technician, and was hired as a radio station broadcast engineer.”

After working until she was 28, Remley realized she wanted to become an electri-cal and computer engineer. She enrolled in Oregon State and com-pleted her Bachelor of Science degree magna cum laude. Remley fell in love with school and stayed on in Corvallis to finish a master’s and PhD.

“Having worked before I came to school, I knew that the University was really different than the world of work,” she says. “OSU prepared me to explore new options and taught me funda-mentals behind wire-less communications, which was always my interest and is now my career.”

She left Oregon for the U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology, where she develops measurement meth-ods and provides technical support for industry and the public safety sector.

“I am very proud to work for the government as a civil servant,” Remley says. “I am most proud of the standards developed for the public safety communi-ty. It’s important to know their technology is going to operate reliably in their situations because their lives could depend upon it.”

Remley also serves as the editor of Microwave Magazine, the professional periodical for IEEE. “I sometimes include anecdotes of my days at Oregon State in my editorials,” she chuckles.

Jake VanderZanden grew up on a farm in Banks, Ore. “Farm life was the most single-handed influ-

ence in my life in terms of teaching me problem-solv-ing skills,” he says. “In fact, that farm experience led me to select engineering as a possible career path.”

Oregon State was his first choice because of its beautiful campus and high-quality engineering program, says VanderZanden. As a mechanical engi-neering major, he graduated with honors while serv-ing as president of his fraternity, taking an active role in two honoraries, and serving in leadership positions at the Memorial Union.

“My technical education at Oregon State taught me discipline and rigor and the importance of com-pleting things,” he says. “It’s been a real benefit in business to have a technical background—no one can buffalo you. I owe the univer-sity a great deal for that.”

VanderZanden joined Blount International in Portland after graduation and served in various engineer-ing, management, and marketing develop-ment capacities in the Oregon Group. In 1992, he co-founded ICS, Blount’s brand and strategic business division. Today, he serves as the president of the new venture construction products division.

“Founding ICS and growing it into a very profit-able business with lots of associated jobs gives me a lot of pride,” says VanderZanden. “But I am probably most proud of growing new technical and business leaders in the field—that is why I come to work every day.”

VanderZanden served on Oregon State’s Mechanical Engineering Industry Advisory Board and works with student projects sponsored by his company.

Todd Wareing wasn’t very interested in study-ing in high school. He drove a hot rod Camaro

and took a gap year after graduation. “My dad said I was too smart to stay out of college,” he says. So he started on his basics at Idaho State University, and then learned about the accredited nuclear engineer-ing program at Oregon State.

“I absolutely loved it in Corvallis—the beauty of the uni-versity, the depth of the program I was in,” says Wareing. “Basically, Oregon State gave me the strong passion for nuclear engineering and the foundation for everything I do in the field.”

Wareing went on to earn his doctorate in nuclear engineering and scientific comput-ing from the University of Michigan, and then to the Transport Methods Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he became rec-ognized as an international leader in methods devel-opment for deterministic solutions of the radiation transport equation.

Los Alamos gave Wareing a three-year entrepre-neurial leave to form the start-up Transpire, Inc. “The lab gave us the safety net to take technology we developed—a radiation transport code—license it, and market it to customers around the world,” he says. “Oregon State has the university license to our code—it’s still a very symbiotic relationship.”

Transpire recently teamed with Varian Medical to develop new software for calculation of radiation doses in radiotherapy, bringing a fast and precise calculation method to the radiation oncology field.

“If you go to Oregon State for engineering, you can’t go wrong,” says Wareing. “You will get the fun-damentals and will have the skills to work and com-pete for jobs anywhere.”

Academy of distinguished EngineersDR. KATE REMLEY BS Electrical Engineering ’92MS Electrical & Computer Engineering ’96Phd Electrical & Computer Engineering ’99

Academy of distinguished EngineersJAMES “JAKE” VANDERZANDEN BS Mechanical Engineering ’87

Academy of distinguished EngineersDR. TODD A. WAREING BS nuclear Engineering ’87

“OSU prepared me to explore new options and taught me fundamentals behind wireless communications, which was always my interest and is now my career.”

strategic business division. Today, he serves as the

“My technical educa-tion at Oregon State taught me discipline and rigor and the importance of com-pleting things.”

“Basically, Oregon State gave me the strong passion for nuclear engineering and the foundation for everything I do in the field.”

me discipline and rigor and the importance of com-

Leader, Metrology for Wireless Systems ProjectNational Institute of Standards and Technology – Boulder, Colorado

Senior Vice President, Business DevelopmentPresident, ICSBlount International Inc. – Portland, Oregon

Owner, Co-founder, Chief Technical Offi cerTranspire, Inc. – Gig Harbor, Washington


Andy Dykeman grew up in a linear-thinking household, with a mother who was an accoun-

tant and a father who owned a car repair shop and espoused the philosophy that there wasn’t anything out there that couldn’t be fixed. Dykeman attended Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland, where he took a pre-engineering curriculum. Oregon State University was a natural fit.

“One of the great things about the construction engineering management program at Oregon State is the strong bond and con-nection to the industry,” says Dykeman. “Those professional links were strong while I was there and just as strong today in giving students a sense of real life expe-riences and the value of their chosen field.”

Today, Dykeman is an authority in sustain-able construction and an expert in mechani-cal, electrical, and plumbing systems coordination as he serves as a project manager for Portland general contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis, a company where he completed an internship while in college.

As a young graduate, Dykeman remains intensely involved in Oregon State, serving as a mentor, speaker, and advisor at his alma mater. “Working with young engineers in our industry is something from which I get a tremendous amount of satisfac-tion,” he says. “I enjoy mentoring, helping them to learn and grow and become strong contributors to our industry.”

Dykeman served on the Governor’s Energy Performance Scores Task Force, a panel to study the use of energy scores and the labeling of com-mercial and residential buildings. He is active in Associated General Contractors and cur-rently serves as vice chair of the Construction Management Education Council.

Born the youngest of nine children, Jeff Freeman’s life as a young boy in Sweet Home, Ore., revolved

around the outdoors—hunting, fishing, hiking, and camping. He was drawn to knives for their beauty and utility, and began collecting them at the age of 10.

Freeman’s college studies were interrupted when he enlisted in the United States Army in 1989 at the onset of Operation Desert Storm. “After basic train-ing and machinist school, I was shipped off for a 36-month tour in Panama,” says Freeman. “I was the sole machinist and toolmaker for a 1,500-person heli-copter aviation maintenance brigade.”

When Freeman returned, he completed his general engineering courses at Central Oregon Community College and transferred to Oregon State to tackle an industrial and manufacturing engineering degree and participating in the Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program (MECOP).

“I learned fluids, thermo, dynamics, and all the rest, but most impor-tantly I learned how to learn,” says Freeman. “The problem-solving skills I picked up at Oregon State have been invaluable as I approach tasks in my career.”

After graduation, Freeman started his dream job as a manufacturing engineer at Gerber Legendary Blades, one of the most respected knife and tool manufacturers in the world. Today, he holds seven design patents and numerous product awards, but he is most proud of the products he designs for the United States military.

“When I get emails from our servicemen and women describing how they use the product that I designed to either do their work or save lives, it makes me feel good to know I played a part in that,” says Freeman.

Yunteng Huang grew up in China and earned a BS in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong

University in 1991. “In semiconductor circuit design, we look to American universities as a prime place to get further education,” says Huang. “Gabor Temes, a professor at Oregon State, was very well known in his field and I wanted to study under him.”

In spite of struggling with language fluency when he first arrived, Huang found Oregon State an ideal place to study. “From the beginning I encoun-tered great professors who shaped my education and began long-term relation-ships, which benefit everything I do in our industry,” he says. “OSU provided the right mix of minimal distraction plus the opportunity to develop close working relationships with companies which had shaped many of the industry trends.”

Huang began work with Newport Communications developing high-speed mixed sig-nal circuits. He joined Silicon Laboratories, based in Austin, Texas, where he has held various engineer-ing and management positions. Huang also led the start up of SourceCore Technologies in Shenzhen, China, which was later acquired by Silicon Labs.

“I am proud that I have been able to use my knowledge in engineering to develop a product line that has made our company stronger,” says Huang. “And I am fortunate to have been involved with the company in its early stages and helped it grow to 900 employees.”

As the current director of research and develop-ment at Silicon Labs, Huang focuses on the compa-ny’s strategic development in new product vectors. Huang has authored and co-authored over a dozen IEEE journal and conference papers and holds 28 U.S. patents.

Council of Outstanding Early Career EngineersANDREW DYKEMAN BS Construction Engineering Management ’97BS Business Administration ’97

Council of Outstanding Early Career EngineersJEFF FREEMAN BS Construction Engineering Management ’97BS Business Administration ’97

Council of Outstanding Early Career EngineersDR. YUNTENG HUANG Phd Electrical & Computer Engineering ’97

his field and I wanted to study under him.”

“Working with young engineers in our industry is something from which I get a tremendous amount of satisfaction.” “The problem-

solving skills I picked up at Oregon State have been invaluable as I approach tasks in my career.”

close working relationships with companies which

“Gabor Temes, a professor at Oregon State, was very well known in his field and I wanted to study under him.”

Project ManagerLease Crutcher Lewis – Portland, Oregon

Knife Innovation Manager & Lead Design EngineerGerber Legendary Blades – Tigard, Oregon

Director of Research & DevelopmentSilicon Laboratories, Inc. – Sunnyvale, California


Young Kim was born in Yeo-soo, Korea, and attended undergraduate school on full scholar-

ship. He earned a bachelor’s in civil engineering in 1988 and master’s in civil and environmental engi-neering in 1990—both from Korea University.

“Environmental engineering definitely sparked my interest,” says Kim. “I wanted to study further under a leader in that field and that search led me to Dr. Lewis Semprini at Oregon State University.”

As a young teaching assistant and research associate, Kim quickly earned his master’s and doctoral degrees at Oregon State while participating in research and stud-ies on the topic about which he is most pas-sionate. “As I worked to earn my PhD at OSU, I conducted many stud-ies and went through many discussions with my peers and professors,” says Kim. “These pro-cesses have become a firm stepping stone for all the research I am now conducting.”

Kim returned to Korea University as an environ-mental engineering professor. He receives great sat-isfaction mentoring students the way he was men-tored at Oregon State. “I feel the most accomplished when my students succeed and continue in careers of their own, expanding on what I have taught them,” he says. “Thinking critically and logically is a key to survival in this world.”

Kim’s vita lists hundreds of presentations and published papers with global reach—an impressive accomplishment for such a young professional. He continues to work with Dr. Semprini, his Oregon State thesis advisor. The two are now collaborating on a research project involving the United States and Korea.

When Thana Sornchamni was a small boy growing up in Chonburi province, south of

Bangkok, Thailand, he remembers seeing an adver-tisement on television showing a chemical engineer working for an oil company. “I thought it was really cool and looked very smart to be an engineer in a petrochemical plant,” he says. “That is when I decid-ed what I wanted to be in the future.”

Sornchamni went on to earn his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. “Some of my professors at CU had graduated from Oregon State University and several of my senior colleagues planned to attend for their post graduate studies,” he says. “After some research, I was con-vinced, and my experience in Corvallis was exceptional.”

Thailand has a strong need for chemical engineers in the petroleum and petrochemical sectors, and this convinced Sornchamni to pursue his advanced degrees in the field. “At Oregon State, I was trained to be a person who thinks outside the box and with some imagi-nation. Of course, the imagination needs to be backed up with good rationale,” he says.

Today, Sornchamni works as a researcher at PTT Public Company Limited—the privatization of the Petroleum Authority of Thailand. His current research focuses on microchannel-based gas to liq-uids technology for flared gas and small to medium-stranded gas reserves.

“PTT is now the first and only company in Thailand to adopt and focus research and develop-ment on microchannel-based technology,” says Sornchamni. “This technology is something I learned while a graduate student at Oregon State University.”

A home-schooled boy from Oakridge, Ore., Kent Welter was lucky to have parents who pro-

vided an environment for learning for their self-starting son. At the age of 14, Welter began classes at Lane Community College. He transferred to Oregon Institute of Technology to earn his under-graduate degree in mechanical engineering, and then earned advanced degrees at Oregon State.

“I really fell into nuclear engi-neering at Oregon State because I wanted to stay in Oregon for my post-graduate studies,” says Welter. “The program gave me very hands-on practi-cal design and test-ing experience in the nuclear field.”

This practical knowl-edge served Welter well as he headed east to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where he led a branch that worked in partnership with univer-sities, laboratories, and other national and interna-tional research centers involved in the development of software for analyzing nuclear reactor safety.

In 2008, Welter returned to Corvallis to join NuScale Power, Inc., a spin-off company that is a collaboration of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Idaho National Environment and Engineering Laboratory, and Oregon State University. The NuScale nuclear reactor is a small nuclear power plant using new technologies developed at Oregon State. With technology approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it is hopeful the compact power plants will come on line in 2012.

The skills, experience, and practical approach Welter learned at Oregon State serve him well as he works on the team to bring this new product to frui-tion. “When we began to develop the new company, we took existing technology and worked to apply it cheaply, safely, and practically,” Welter says.

Council of Outstanding Early Career EngineersDR. YOUNG KIM MS Environmental Engineering ’96Phd Environmental Engineering ’00

Council of Outstanding Early Career EngineersDR. THANA SORNCHAMNI MS Chemical Engineering ’01Phd Chemical Engineering ’04

Council of Outstanding Early Career EngineersDR. KENT B. WELTER MS nuclear Engineering ’01Phd nuclear Engineering ’03

graduate degree in mechanical engineering, and

doctoral degrees at Oregon State

“I feel the most accomplished when my students succeed and continue in careers of their own, expanding on what I have taught them.” “At Oregon State,

I was trained to be a person who thinks outside the box and with some imagination.”

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where he

“The program gave me very hands-on practical design and testing experience in the nuclear field.”

attend for their post graduate studies,” he says.

Director of Research & BusinessProfessor, Department of Environmental EngineeringKorea University–Sejong – Seoul, Korea

Researcher, Process Technology Research DepartmentPTT Public Company Limited – Sanubtup, Wangnoi, Ayuttaya, Thailand

Senior Safety Analysis ManagerNuScale Power, Inc. – Corvallis, Oregon


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