University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering Diploma Ceremony program

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Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
Engineering was established in 1984 which marked the start of a period of extraordinary development and
growth. The name of Howard R. Hughes first became associated with engineering at the university in 1985
in honor of the creative and innovative engineering of the late Mr. Hughes. The facilities of the college have
Complex early in 1989. The college is engaged in a continuing program to recruit outstanding faculty and to
mission of the college. The College of Engineering was recently given approval by the Board of Regents to
College Diploma Ceremony Committee
Ms. Debra
Ft Dr. John Minor, III
I )r. Edward Neumann
Dr.
Dr. William Wells
James, Reader^
COLLEGE DIPLOMA CEREMONY
Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering • University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Saturday, May 13,1995
3:00 p.m.
PROCESSIONAL: Romp Elgar Lillian Kollar
Organist
“AMERICA, THE Greschner
Soloist
INVOCATION Gretchen
WELCOME and INTRODUCTION OF PLATFORM GUESTS .....________William R Wells. Dean
UNIVERSITY GREETING .WWWWWW W. Smith
® In^efinf Senior VMe President
FRIENDS OF THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Nevada Power
FACULTY Walter C. Vodrazka, Associate pean
Distingm^ed Teaching Award - Drs. Brendan O’Toole and Peter Stubbenld
MESSAGE FROM THE 1995 GRADUATES Zahniser
DIPLOMA CEREMONY ADDRESS Dr. Eleanor Baum
RECOGNITION OF GRADUATES*.....^^D^M8D^^^^^W... William R. Wells, Dean
FAREWELL ADDRESS TO GRADUATES R. Wells, Dean
RECESSIONAL*: Benedetto Marcello Lillian Kollar
Organist
the ceremony, please honoring the graduates in the patio of the Thomas
T. Beam Engineering Complex.
GRAND MARSHALL
JK Mr. Herbert
GRADUATE MARSHALL
Dr. Moses Karakouzian
UNDERGRADUATE MARSHALL
Dr. Rama Venkat ■"
* It is requested thatM^Mremain in their seats until the is concluded.
CEREMONY SPEAKER
DR. ELEANOR BAUM
Eleanor Baum t^me^KsfdEneineerine Cooper
Union in is also Executive Director
WW the ColmleBSBon Research Foundation. She is an
whor^^iVTeia tier PhlD. from
Polytechnic WSSRdtv and her undergraduate education
at worked in the
industry and now for both
w&vem menfiand industry. In addition, she is a Fellow M
rks Institute IWWMLal Engineers (IEEE), the Society
of Women sSWE) and the Accreditation Board
fotyEngiriSeff^g and Technology (ABET). She is the
author of^wer 50 journals.
Dr. Baum has been engineering education
and research for many yeajfii. She is PresidenVE^^^^
the American Engineering Education and is
National Engineering Deans ^Council,
a member of the Board of Directors of the Accreditation
Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and is
a leader mn^cruimTent and retention efforts to increase
the number an J minorities in the engineering
*profession.
Dr. Baum chaired the Committee^Examiners fo^me Graduate Record Examination and has served
on the Board cffGovemors Order of the Engineers and As Board pKSovemors
of the member of the National Rese^^hXCburicil ’s Board on
Engineering Education anayffSmjxlpzaaI was on the Advisory (Jommittee^ffi the NationahScience
Dr. Baum has received many awards: an from
As Outstanding Women award in 1992from AWIS, the Dean’s Medallion from Michigan
zn 2992, r/re Upward Mobility Award from theSwtftff^f Women I^’meens in 1990,
and the Woman of Distinction Award from the National A^ssociatid^^'f Students Leaders in 1990. She
was the national winner of the 1988 Emily Warren Roebling Award presented by the National Women’s
Hall of Fame. She received the Engineering Achievement Award the Long Island Federation
ttalecnittmwwtLIFT), the Outstanding Alumnus Achievement Awaras^o^botfa^Wi^nd from
Polytechnic Universtty^in
Dr. Baum has been National Science Foundation effort to explore areas of cooperation
between un t/re formetyfftyfietyRepublic, and American a
National Research Council U.S._Japan Bilateral on Engineering Education. She has been on a
national taskforce dealing with mutual recognition of credentials between the and the People’s
Republic of China. .1
FACULTY AWARDS
Each year an award is reward the outstanding perfomance faculty
in the 1995 Award
DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD
Dr. Brendan O’Toole
Brendan O’Toole has received three degrees from the
degree in Mechanical and
an M.S. degree (1989)
and Ph.D. degree (1992fin Mechanical Engineering. He
has Department of Mechanical Engineering
at Las Vegas $ing&1992. He has
tauehffiMlSKmthe undergraduate and graduate
znaterMsWsLMr,
manufacturing, experimental mechanics, dynamics, and
energy methods in solid mechanics and has received several
yffachi^^wards. His current research in^mesf/ie design
an d failinSm^^^of structures, with a particular interest
wrel^w^it&mdterials and composites manufacturing. He
dsdhe treasurer of the Silver State Chapter of the American
the
studemsseGttSwf th ekasL&tSSbf Automotive Engineering,
and a the Advancement of
Material and Process Ewmmpng, the American Institute
wffAetvnautics and Astronautics, the American Society for
Education, and the Americai^McRdwSmr
Composites.
DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD
Dr. Peter Stubberud
Peter A. Stubbef^. B.S.E.E., M.S. andPh.D.
degrees from thev^mSw/^^uifomia. Los Angeles in
and 1990, 991, he has been
Department of V^ctrical and
Computer Engineering at the Las
989 to 1991, he work^fftbr the Radar Systems
Group at Aircraft where he was awarded a Howard
Hughes Doctoral Fellowshipf He has
f/wa-A w?/L>/n/ emational. Ford Aerospace and Western
Digital. His research interests include signal processing,
raaapt^^si^^^md VLSI.
CANDIDATES FOR THE MASTER’S DEGREE
Master of Science in Computer Science
LUIS BLANDO
JOSEPH CHACKO
ALLEN SUTHERLAND CONDIT
DAVID E.
srinivaMeWL
FREDERICK JOHN HAAB
BLAINE KE HAGSTROM
PADMA INAPARTHY
YUCHENG LIU
VIRUTHAGIRINATARA JAN
SAI PRASAD VENKAT P®W“1
VINATHA PATTISAPU
THOMAS WILLIAM PIKE
RAJESH VISWANATHAN SAMUEL K.
Master of Science in Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering MICHAEL JME BAGSTAD JAMES JOSEPH
ANIL KUMAR CHAGARI
SHASHIDHAR S. CHANNARAYAPATNA YUPING HUANG
WILLIAM HUDYMA SATYAKALA JARUGUMILLI
KALAKUNTLA ANAND KANJERLA RAJSEKHAR R. KONA MARK ALAN LEONARD BAHMAN PURKHOSROW RICHARD THOMAS ROMER MANN. TRUONG MELISSA JA^fE WELLS
CHRISTOPHER ROBERT WENER
Electrical Engineering VENKATASUBRAMAN BANUNARAYAkMs STEVEN MICHAEL DIONISI RAMESH REDDY BALA GAJJALA
JOSEPH GUARRELLA MOHAN INGUVA JIANZHONG JIANG ROBERT THOMAS MIZEREK RAMAS WAM Y WARAMAKRISHNAN
Mechanical Engineering
SARATH ABAYAWEERA RAVEEEJ. KUMAR R. ABHISHETTY JAMES FLETCHER ALEXANDER AKSHAY BHARGAVA.
BRYAN DUNLAP
ABDULLATIFIZZELDIN
YAOM.LEI
SUNEETA MOHANSINGH CR^G MICHAEL MOIOLA PRABHANJAN MYSORE MICHAEL JAMES NALLEY JAMES WILLIAM PORRAZZO
EDWARD W. PORTA
MICHAEL ANTHONY SCHWOB CHENGjTSU SHIH AMRITRAJ B. SINGH
XIAOLEI TENG
RAJITHA THALLURI WEN BO ZENG
CANDIDATES FOR THE BACHELOR’S DEGREE Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bachelor of Science
JOSE ANTONIO ALCOCER
BARTON TODD ANDERSON
STEVEN V. BUSKEVICIUS
JUAN FRANCISCO CHAVEZ
TINA LEA CLOSE
JOHN ANTHONYDAMO
TIMOTHY DAVID jXOUGLAS
LISA MARIE ERE^TONE
DUAINED. HARRIS
THOMAS RANDALL HEATH
HENDERSON
ALBERT J. JANKOWIAK, III
PHYLLIS MAXINE JARAMILLO
JEFFERY J. JENSEN
MATHEW KEARNS LAWSON
DAN MH
SCOTT LEE
DENISE MARIE LEMOINE
MARTIN LEE LONG
WILLIAMD. MCKAY
JODIE. MCMILLIN
DANIEL WILLIAM MUIRHEAD (SUMMA CUM LAUDE)
TRACI RENEE NEWTON
KIMBERLY DAWN OWENSBY ORTIZ H
DIEU GIA PHAN
ERIKA KATA PRATLEY
BROOKE PACE PRESCIA
BRENT THOMAS RENDAHL
MERRILL GENE SCHWEPPE
JOSEPH STEPHEN
DAVID CHRISTOPHER SWALLOWM
BARRY RAY THOMPSON
WALTER C. VODRAZKA, JR.
ARJUNA DAHRSHAKA WERAGODA
WENDY A. ZAHNISER
Department of Computer Science
Bachelor of Arts
JEANNE BERRY
STEPHANIE M. BROWN
MARIA N. RUSSELL (UNIVERSITY HONORS, MAGNA CUMLAUDE) MARTIN JOHN SMIHULA
Bachelor of Science
RICHARD WARD AMICK
BRENDA E BRATTON
MICHAEL KENNETH DOSENBACH
DAVID ALEXANDER ENCE
MICHAEL SEAN EVANS
PETER G. KOHLER
DAVID ALAN MOORE
TAMARA PHUONG PHAN
JUSTIN L. POLLARD
SHAWN DAVID SMITH
ERIC STOFSKY (MAGNA CUM LAUDE)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bachelor of Science
Electrical Engineering
OMOLOLU AKINYINKA ADUBIFA
BRIAN ROBERT ALLEN
ROBERT TOGADO ALSUA, JR.
THOMAS M. ANDERSON
KEVIN CHRISTOPHER BONNET
MICHAEL H. BUSCH
RICHARD JOSEPH CARSWELL
PERRY OLLIE COBB
PATRICK LEE COOK
BRIAN DAVID CRISS
INIGO DE GUEZALA
DANA JULIAN HEATH
SANG MO PARK HONG
BRIAN MICHAEL HUEY
MUHAMMED ARIF JAWADI
WON KWANG KIM
VINCENT B. MABANDOS
GERARDO MARTINEZ
JULIA B. MIX (CUM LAUDE)
KEITH EDWARD SMITH
ROBERT S. THORSON
DINH-YEN TRINH TRAN (UNIVERSITY HONORS, MAGNA CUM LAUDE)
JOHN THOMAS WOOTEN
YING YANG
YOUNG WOOK YI
UMAR YOUNAS (UNIVERSITY HONORS)
Computer Engineering
KARI CHENEY DUESLER LONCHAR JOHN F. PELLETIER
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Bachelor of Science
IAN AGUIRRE
CURTIS T. ATTEBERY (CUM LAUDE)
ERIC J. CHRISTENSEN
BRADFORD ALLEN COLTON
DONALD L. COREY
JOHNNIE A. DORNAK
ANTHONY W HILLS
GREGORY THOMAS HJELSTROM (CUM LAUDE)
MARK DAVID JONES
BENTON BENJAMIN MARSHALL
TIMOTHY LEWIS MITCHELL
BILL N. MOUNTJOY
LUIS NICHOLS PALOR
BENTON RACEL (POSTHUMOUSLY)
J. PAUL SELLERS
JENNIFER ERIN SMITH
CHRISTOPHER K. SOLECKI
DANIEL IRA SOUTH
JONATHAN CARL SPARKS
JASON K. STEIN (UNIVERSITY HONORS, MAGNA CUM LAUDE)
NICHOLAS DEAN SUDAN (MAGNA CUM LAUDE)
QUYEN DAI TONG
ALEJANDRO M. VILLAROSA
HOWARD R. HUGHES COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Administration
William R. Wells, Dean Walter C. Vodrazka, Associate Dean
Staff
Debra Duddlesten
Tracy Guinn
Faculty
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Computer Science
Edward Neumann, Chair James Cardie William Culbreth Gerald Frederick David James Moses Karakouzian Mohamed Kaseko Samaan Ladkany Shashi Sathisan Walter Vodrazka Herbert Wells Maggie Kross, Staff Penni FitzGerald, Staff Allen Sampson, Staff
Lawrence Larmore, Chair Yonina Cooper Ajoy Datta
Lax mi Gewali
Junichi Kanai
Kia Makki
John Minor
Lee Misch
Thomas Nartker
Roy Ogawa
Kazem Taghva Evangelos Yfantis Barbara Drake, Staff Jay Nietling, Staff Greg Wohletz, Staff
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Yahia Baghzouz, Chair William Brogan Richard Hermsen Ashok Iyer Rahim Khoie Shahram Latifi Eugene McGaugh Ramon Martinez Robert Schill Sahjendra Singh Peter Stubberud Rama Venkat Doreen Martinez, Staff David Good, Staff
Robert Boehm, Chair Georg Mauer Samir Moujaes Bahram Nassersharif Brendan O’Toole Darrell Pepper Douglas Reynolds Robert Skaggs Mohamed Trabia William Wells Woosoon Yim June Darrow, Staff John Morrissey, Staff
ON LIVING
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coining to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one’s self: “The work is done.” But just as one says that, the answer comes: “The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains.” The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living.
Justice OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, radio address, March 8, 1931.