Date Submitted: 11/03/2009
Roman Kononov, '08
Computer Science and Engineering
Software Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Roman joined Cisco approximately a year before graduation and he has been with the company ever since. "I love ever moment of it," he says, and is part of the Physical Security Business Unit of the Emerging Technology Group. At Cisco, he works on "bleeding-edge" technologies such as new high-definition (1080p) surveillance camera systems.

Date Submitted: 07/27/2009
Adam Markowitz, '08
Structural Engineering
Engineer, Materials/Structures, Pratt & Whitney, Rocketdyne

I am performing structural analyses on various rocket engine components, including the Space Shuttle Main Engine's Main Combustion Chamber and the gas generator on NASA's new upper stage J-2X Engine that will be used in the Constellation Program aboard the Ares Rockets.

Date Submitted: 09/04/2009
Michele Barbato, '07
Structural Engineering
Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University and A&M College

Dr. Michele Barbato, assistant professor in structures and mechanics of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Louisiana State university and A&M College, with co-authors Drs. Alessandro Zona and Joel P. Conte, received the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2009 Moisseiff Award for the paper "Nonlinear Seismic Response Analysis of Steel-Concrete Composite Frames", (Journal of Structural Engineering ASCE, 134(6):986-997, June 2008), as an "important contribution to the knowledge of the dynamic response of composite steel-concrete structures." The Moisseiff Award is one of the highest profession-wide recognition of a paper of merit published by ASCE "dealing with the broad field of structural engineering including applied mechanics, theoretical analysis or constructive improvement of engineering structures of any structural material." The award was established in 1947 in recognition of the accomplishments of Leon S. Moisseiff, M. ASCE, a notable contributor to the science and art of structural engineering. Barbato was presented the award at the Structures Congress 2009 in Austin, TX.

Date Submitted: 10/27/2009
Jessica Godinho, '05
Structural Engineering
Project Engineer, Hinman Consulting Engineers

Jessica Godinho graduated with a Masters degree in Earthquake Engineering from University of Pavia, ROSE School, Italy and University of Patras, Greece under the MEEES program in 2007. Since then, she has been working as a project engineer at Hinman Consulting Engineers in San Francisco, CA, specializing in blast resistant design and analysis of structures.

Date Submitted: 07/14/2008
Yan Zheng, '05
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduate Student, UC Santa Barbara

Yan is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in photonics at UCSB. Also, as the program director of Leadership in Team Engineering (LITE), he works to provide students the opportunity to design solutions for the community.

LITE is "a program designed similar to TIES at UCSD", says Yan. More on LITE can be found at http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/lite.

Date Submitted: 05/25/2008
Steven Mintz, '05
Structural Engineering
Technical Consultant, Autodesk

After two years as a Staff Engineer, Steven decided to change up his career. He now works for Autodesk as a Technical Consultant to Structural Engineers across the U.S. and the World. His main focus is to advise engineers on how they can incorporate the emerging BIM technologies to improve designs and facilitate unique buildings.

Steven says, "[I am] impressed with the progress of the SCSE chapter - congratulations to all of you!"

Date Submitted: 04/16/2008
Matt Kyler, '05
Structural Engineering
Staff Engineer, PARADIGM SE

Matt has been living and working in SF for over a year now and he really enjoys it.

Business is booming up there.

Matt says, "all of those looking for jobs, check us out!"

Date Submitted: 09/05/2008
Gary Lac, '04
Computer Science and Engineering
Technical Project Lead/Manager, Cogent Systems.

Gary married his girlfriend, whom he met at UCSD! They got married this October!

Date Submitted: 07/23/2008
Phanat Hean, '04
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Scientist, PETNET Solutions, Inc.

Phanat works with radiopharmaceuticals... pretty soon he "will be bulletproof, gain telekinetic powers, be able to levitate or glow in the dark - not so good when sitting in a movie theater".

Date Submitted: 05/30/2009
Doris Chun, '03
Bioengineering
Post-doc, Hewlett Packard Laboratories

After graduating from UC San Diego in 2003, Doris spent a year as research associate at ActivX Biosciences in La Jolla, before she began her graduate study in organic electronic materials in the chemistry department at UCLA. In 2006, she interned at IBM Almaden Research Center to study self-assembled polymeric nanoparticles. Doris is now a Ph.D. chemist working at Hewlett Packard laboratories in Palo Alto performing ink-related research. She is engaged to Craig Chang, whom she met at UCSD.

Date Submitted: 07/14/2008
Jennie Lou Dao, '03 (maiden name de Quinto)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Senior Product Development Engineer, Intel Corporation

Jennie went to U.S.C. for grad school and got 3 Master of Science degrees: Electrical Engineering (Dec. '04), Engineering Management (May '05) and Biomedical Engineering (Dec. '06). She has been working at Intel in Santa Clara as a product development engineer for nearly 3 years; she is currently working on their newest Xeon server microprocessors.

Jennie married last Nov. ('07) to Kevin Dao (also a UC San Diego alum, Management Science '03). They live in San Jose, CA.

Date Submitted: 07/01/2008
Mihri Ozkan, '01
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside

Mihri's work on "Emerging Nanoelectronic Devices" has been selected for presentation at the '2008 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium' organized by the National Academy of Engineering.

The 2 and 1/2-day event will bring together 82 of the nation's brightest young engineers, ages 30 to 45, who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines.

Only 15 engineers nationwide have been invited to speak at the event.