ALUMNI: CLASS NOTES
Kobbe Farwick (EE, ’17)
2010s
Eugene Robinson (AERO, ’55)
1950s Eugene (Gene) Robinson (Aerospace Engineering, ’55), now retired, had an extensive career as a propulsion test engineer for Douglas Aircraft/McDonnell-Douglas; Sacramento Test Center general manager; project manager for Legislative Aide Water Resources and Ground Water Contamination for the Sacramento Metropolitan Water Authority; and as a contributor with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for Sacramento’s Moon Rocket and Sacramento Rocket Man by Alan Lawrie.
1960s Robert Garlow (Architectural Engineering, ’66) retired as a U.S. Air Force civil engineering officer in 1986. He then spent 10 years with the city of North Las Vegas as an engineering design and construction project manager for Capital Improvement Program Facilities and Utilities.
1980s Louis Garcia (Electrical Engineering, ’80) retired as the director of engineering at Cadence Design Systems. 42 SUMMER 2020 CENG.CALPOLY.EDU
Valeria Salazar (AERO, ’19)
1990s Rob Christensen (Civil Engineering, ’99) works at VVH Consulting Engineers in Modesto, California, as a senior civil engineer, where he is lead engineer and manager for multiple public and private infrastructure projects.
2000s Sofie Leon (Civil Engineering, ’08) is the director of the Diversity Initiative and Resource Centers at Cal State Fullerton. Fresh off her doctorate, she went to Paris to work as the scientific coordinator at the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity. After two years, she moved to Caltech and discovered that diversity inclusion work was what she wanted to do. At Caltech, she helped create a number of programs, including unconscious bias training in the graduate admissions process for faculty as well as a program to recruit rising junior and senior women to campus and encourage them to continue their education and go on to graduate school.
Valeria Salazar (Aerospace Engineering, ’19) is a system engineer working on the Europa Clipper mission at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is part of the system testbed team, performing system-level tests of nonflight hardware and flight software to ensure the spacecraft will work as expected. Kobbe Farwick (Electrical Engineering, ’17) is a software engineer at Garmin. After graduating from Cal Poly, he started work as an embedded software engineer at Garmin in Kansas City. He is the lead developer for the integration of Garmin’s advanced flight deck in a supersonic Northrop F-5 aircraft. In this role, he manages the configuration of this installation and uses his electrical engineering knowledge to assist in troubleshooting of legacy analog and modern digital sensor solutions, including capacitive fuel probes, DC Selsyn position sensors and limit switches. He also developed leadingedge engine/aircraft system displays and crew-alerting system messages for the modern fighter pilot. Jacob Reiter (Manufacturing Engineering, ’10) is an application engineer at Mazak. Harvir Humpal (Biomedical Engineering, ’18) received his 4+1 master’s degree
