RES President's Message

Dear Fellow Engineers,

As we approach the end of the new year, please do not forget the professional awards and scholarships that are available through the RES! We have already received a number of applications for both, but there is still time to recognize your colleague or apply for a scholarship! We will formally announce the recipients of both the scholarships and professional awards at the RES Gala on April 2nd .

I would like to welcome MKS Instruments as the newest Enterprise Corporate member of the RES! MKS is a local leader in the Semiconductor, Industrial, Life and Health Sciences, Research and Defense markets. I couldn’t be happier to have them on board as a new Enterprise Corporate member! I greatly look forward to reading about more of their endeavors in a future magazine issue.

We also hope that you enjoy this issue of the Rochester Engineer! This month we continue our new article series on RES Scholarship Alumni. This month we highlight the accomplishments of Marie Revekant, the recipient of the 2011 Susan L. Costa Memorial Scholarship. It is great to see our alumni doing well working within the Rochester area. Please check out her accomplishments on pg18!

The cover article (pg. 12) describes the history of the Outer Loop project in the Rochester area. We take much of the outer loop for granted today, but the article nicely documents the numerous hurdles that had to be overcome to make it even possible. I’d like to thank Howard Ressel for the wonderful article documenting this work. I’d also like to thank our friends at L3 Harris Technologies Inc. for some of the recent aerial shots of the outer loop! Finally, congratulations to Bergmann on finalizing its agreement to join Colliers Engineering & Design (pg. 23). Bergmann has supported the RES as an Enterprise member for decades. It is great to see them expanding as Colliers Engineering & Design! There is no doubt this will result in greater employment opportunities and projects in the Rochester area and beyond.

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All my best, Greg Gdowski, PhD President, RES