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e live in an ever-changing world. And change is complicated. At its onset, it is often unclear whether a given change is good or bad. It is only natural that we often experience the palpable tension of choosing to resist it or embrace it. One thing is clear: technology is changing at an accelerated rate regardless. What is possible today was just science fiction a few decades ago. There may be no limit to what we can innovate. If that is so, then we must be vigilant in asking, What are the implications of our innovation? As we continuously build tomorrow, we have a tremendous responsibility to do so ethically, with a broad worldview and an emphasis on inclusion. As you’ll read in the stories within, technological advancement reverberates through all things, with the potential to alter the status quo of our society. And, if new solutions shape the lives of everyone, then they must be created by everyone. This is why innovation and inclusion are cornerstones of our college.
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In this issue, you will read about the evolution of key technologies and their potential for changing our world. Our diverse community of faculty and students contributes to that forward momentum every day. Things are also evolving in the college. In the following pages, you’ll learn about the progress we have made in the areas of inclusive excellence and student success. And, of course, we share some genuinely remarkable accomplishments from our worldwide community of proud alumni. Thank you for reading. Please enjoy our latest edition of Syracuse Innovator.
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THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE LAUNCHES THE OFFICE OF
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INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE
The Association of American Colleges & Universities defines inclusive excellence as “designed to help colleges and universities integrate diversity, equity, and educational quality efforts into their missions and institutional operations.”
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s part of the College of Engineering and Computer Science’s continued commitment to diversity, inclusion, and student success, Karen Davis ’83, G’91 has been appointed interim assistant dean for inclusive excellence. In this new position, she oversees the college’s newly established Office of Inclusive Excellence, launched on October 1.
K A R E N D A V I S , I N T E R I M A S S I S TA N T D E A N OF INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE
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be informed by research, reporting, and regular assessment. Davis also chairs the college’s Inclusive Excellence (IE) Council. In its first year, the council is charged with completing a diversity audit and with partnering with InterFaith Works CNY to draft and launch a dialogue. InterFaith Works is a long-established organization that builds bridges of understanding to affirm the dignity of all people through education, service, and dialogue.
Under her leadership, the Office of Inclusive Excellence will augment and integrate “I am excited and honored to dedicate diversity, equity, and excellence within myself to enhancing our college’s culture of the college through education, research, diversity, inclusion, and equity,” says Davis. dialogue, policy, and assessment. The office “I ardently believe in the vision of the Office houses programs for student success and of Inclusive Excellence and I am pleased to high-impact experiential programs; it coor- be in a position to move the needle in these dinates training and education for faculty, critical areas.” staff, and students; and its strategies will
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“I am excited and honored to dedicate myself to enhancing our college’s culture of diversity, inclusion, and equity.” Dean Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg announced With guidance from the IE Council, the plans to establish the Office of Inclusive dialogue circles will be piloted and rolled Excellence this past summer. Its structure out over two years to engage more than and programming are to be informed in part 500 faculty, staff, and student leaders by the teachings of the National Inclusive in dialogue—including administrators, Excellence Leadership Academy (NIXLA). teaching assistants, and student leaders. Davis, Dahlberg, and other key college “In establishing the Office of Inclusive leaders participated in NIXLA this past Excellence, it was imperative to appoint a summer in an intensive, five-week session. strong and compassionate leader. Karen is a In its first major initiative, the Office of pillar of our college community and a longInclusive Excellence has developed Inclusive time advocate of diversity in engineering Excellence Leadership Dialogue Circles in and computing education and employment,” partnership with InterFaith Works that use says Dahlberg. “I am pleased that she has dialogue to develop inclusive excellence accepted this vital new role and look forward leadership skills crucial for enhancing to all that the college will accomplish campus climate. Employers also cite these through her leadership.” as essential skills for leadership in today’s global, diverse, and multicultural workforce.
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WITH ALL OUR TECHNOLOGY,
MINOR FAULTS CAN STILL TURN INTO
BIG PROBLEMS
On an average day in India not so long ago, the circuit breakers on a single powerline tripped. hat caused the breakers on another line to go down. Then another. Then another. It happened again and again throughout the power grid, leaving more than 300 million people in the dark for 15 hours. A few years later on a highway in China, construction and a spike in traffic created some congestion heading to Beijing. Fender benders followed. A few cars broke down. The situation descended into a major traffic jam that stretched for 100 kilometers and lasted for 10 days. These scenarios were unrelated, but they had one key thing in common—small ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MAKAN FARDAD ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Fardad’s research focuses on the analysis and optimization of dynamical networks and he teaches courses on control systems and convex optimization. He is the recipient of the ECS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Education and multiple National Science Foundation awards.
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failures snowballed into full-blown catastrophes. In his National Science Foundation CAREER Awardwinning proposal, “A Scalable Optimization-Based Framework for Modeling and Analysis of Cascading Failures,” Associate Professor Makan Fardad is tackling these cascading failures by developing a mathematical framework to expose the fragilities that exist within infrastructure networks so that they can be amended before causing large-scale failures.
With all our technology, how do minor faults turn into such big problems?
Is it fair to say that this “snowball effect” begins with a single “snowflake?”
What motivated you to work on this problem?
“Normally these networks are stable. They “Sometimes, yes. But, there generally is a “I find this type of unexpected behavior in can deal with most disturbances and combinatorial aspect to these problems. systems incredibly intriguing. I also enjoy shocks—even big ones. But, they are still Often, it is multiple weak spots failing tackling these problems from a theoretical vulnerable to some disturbances, shocks, together that cause the larger system to standpoint. Networks that demonstrate and failures. If we know where to look, we fail. My research team is interested in cascading behavior are generally mathecan find fragilities that would allow even finding the most consequential failures in matically challenging to analyze. small shocks to destabilize the network, the network. “I first decided to study this field when I build momentum, and become massively “While individual shocks may never initiate became fascinated by cascading behavior amplified and propagated by the network’s a cascade, if chosen wisely, multiple shocks in social networks, such as the propagation natural dynamics. together will push the network over the edge of social contagion, the spread of rumors and “In India’s blackout and China’s traffic jam, and past the tipping point. But it is not misinformation, and the promotion of posithe initial failures most likely had natural feasible to check all combinations of shock tive social change and collective action. This causes, like weather or human error, which locations in a large network. There are just was before the days of the #MeToo movement, are unavoidable. We can only aim to iden- too many possibilities, so another part of my but I can think of no better example today. tify networks’ weak spots and strengthen research is to devise computationally scal- “Back then, I wondered how the self- them before they create a cascading failure. able optimization algorithms to tackle this.” immolation of a 26-year-old Tunisian street “This is especially important today because vendor sparked protests that led to a wave of technology has also democratized access uprisings that spread across 13 countries in to sensitive infrastructure, and that can North Africa and the Middle East to become allow malicious groups to target our the Arab Spring. networks with the intention of doing harm, “It’s amazing how a single event can snowball for example through cyberattacks.” into something substantial.”
Cascading Failure:
Power Transmission
A process in a system of interconnected parts in which the failure of one or more parts can trigger the failure of other parts.
Computer Networking
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Transportation Systems
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Enhanced Advising Providing a higher level of student support for a more rewarding student experience
FRONT ROW: Malea Perkins Mary Kay Montville ’86 Anna Kramer Sarah Mack G’10
BACK ROW: Anand Samuel LeAnne Shaler G’10 Christopher Maldonado Derek Poole
his fall, Syracuse University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) launched a new advising model to enhance the undergraduate student experience. In this model, every undergraduate student in the college is provided a team of advisors to support and mentor them throughout their undergraduate career. Returning students are assigned a faculty advisor and a career advisor, and first-year students are assigned a student success advisor, a career advisor, and a faculty advisor. To support this new endeavor, the college has hired four new career advisors and three new student success advisors. “Providing this level of support will help ensure that our students can thrive in their respective programs and disciplines, can graduate on time, and are prepared to begin a high-paying career upon graduation,” says Senior Associate Dean Julie Hasenwinkel. “We’re providing a higher level of student support for a more rewarding student experience.” Students engage with the new model through Route 44—a roadmap for students to follow from day one to graduation. Through Route 44, students meet with their advisors at least once per semester and earn points for themselves and for their team as they unlock
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achievements and meet milestones that include attending ECS community events, participating in career fairs, and making the Dean’s List. Periodic prize drawings are held for top point earners. The college’s Student Success Center will also host a year-end celebration for the winning team. Dean Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg says, “This model and the Route 44 programming encourage a new level of student participation in the advising process. It enhances each student’s experience at SU, magnifies the value of their education, and prepares them to seize incredible opportunities throughout their careers. Our investments in this model and in our new staff are truly investments in our students’ future.”
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“THIS MODEL AND THE ROUTE 44 PROGRAMMING ENCOURAGE A NEW LEVEL OF STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN THE ADVISING PROCESS.”
EACH ADVISOR COACHES STUDENTS ON A DIFFERENT BUILDING BLOCK OF SUCCESS
Faculty Advisors Faculty advisors ensure that students understand their discipline and curriculum, assist with course selection, support degree progress, and provide professional development and career advice.
Student Success Advisors Student success advisors focus on the students’ academic success through ongoing outreach, supporting their transition to college, connecting them with resources, and monitoring their progress through mid-semester reports and feedback from faculty.
Career Advisors Career advisors counsel and train students to develop and assess their career skills, ensure job readiness, help them secure internships and jobs, and serve as a liaison to faculty and employers on students’ behalf.
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Using light to “write� composites at the microscale could unleash an incredible new range of beneficial chemical, mechanical, and electrical properties
n the never-ending process of optimizing a solution to a problem, everything matters, particularly the materials one uses to fix the problem. And the more complex the solution, the more advanced the materials. One has to choose materials that are perfectly suited to address the problem at hand. Often, it is useful to employ composite materials, those that combine two or more separate materials to form another, with new and improved properties. Materials like these are used in things like batteries, solar cells, building materials, anti-stick frying pans, and vehicles. The trouble is, they can be difficult and expensive to produce, so companies are always looking for a better way. In his National Science Foundation CAREER Award-winning proposal, “Fabrication of Composite Material Structures Using Light-Induced Self Writing,” Assistant Professor Ian D. Hosein lays out his plans to use light to “write” composites at the microscale. This approach, also known as photocuring, provides faster production and greater control over the arrangement of materials in fabrication of composite material microstructures. Hosein’s method could unleash an incredible new range of beneficial chemical, mechanical, and electrical properties in composites.
What does it mean to “write” with light?
Why is it important that this work be done?
What do you hope this work leads to?
“Think of 3D printing. We’re trying to do the “Making microstructured composites currently “I hope that we develop our new method to same thing, only we have a technique that entails multiple laborious, energy-hungry a level at which a wide range of composite transforms light into the ‘nozzle’ through steps, which drive up costs and don’t provide material structures can be produced that which materials are precisely deposited. But enough control over the arrangement of the can significantly impact a broad range of unlike 3D printing, which simply extrudes composite. This has slowed innovation in the applications. I want researchers to see our as single-component resin to write materials, field of materials and the integration of new work and say, ‘We can use that.’ For example, our resin consists of multiple components. products into the market. Our process rapidly I hope to see better battery materials, stronger And we precisely control where each compo- produces materials at a fraction of the cost and lighter construction materials, and nent is located. Our light-writing technique and with unprecedented control. better coatings. I also hope that some of is also much faster than 3D printing, which “This could lead to a revolution in the way these accomplishments lead to commerhas to build a structure layer by layer.” composites are made, allowing new mate- cialization of products. As this is an early rials to reach products and the market career award, I also hope that it advances quicker. The process is also highly versa- my lab to the extent where we continue to do tile. A wider selection of materials can be cutting-edge work that garners recognition used, thereby providing opportunities for from funding agencies, industry, as well as new and advanced materials to reach the our research community.” product level.”
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IAN D. HOSEIN BIOMEDICAL AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Hosein’s research aims to provide materials-based solutions that address critical challenges in clean energy production and storage, environmental remediation and cleanup, and sustain ability. The present focus is on creating new materials from both organic and inorganic systems, with an emphasis on directed self- organization, bio-inspired structures, and enhancing material properties.
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“Think of 3D printing. We’re trying to do the same thing, only we have a technique that transforms light into the ‘nozzle’ through which materials are precisely deposited.”
An Expert in the Field It is a common occurrence to find Professor Charles T. Driscoll knee-deep in an Adirondack stream.
A renowned member of the National Academy of Engineers, he studies how ecosystems respond to pollution in our air and water. Often, that requires collecting water samples to bring back to his state-of-the-art lab—the Center for Environmental Systems Engineering. An ECS faculty member for nearly four decades, Driscoll is one of the top 250 most cited researchers in environmental science and engineering. And he has been called upon to testify on the ecological effects of air
Marykate McHale, Courtney Davis, and Charles T. Driscoll collect water samples in a local stream.
pollution to Senate and House of Representative committees. Driscoll’s work is a shining example of why Syracuse University has become a leading research institution.
A Leader Among Leaders CREATING POSITIVE CHANGE
ombining an engineering degree with a drive to make the world a better place can lead you to amazing opportunities. For Conde Lysa Uwizeyimana ’16, her combination of knowledge and heart brought her face to face with President Barack Obama during the celebration surrounding Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday in July. And, as Obama’s 100 million Twitter followers already know, she has the photograph to prove it.
culminated in an “Ideafest.” The leaders divided into teams and were tasked with developing a solution to a problem facing their communities. Uwizeyimana’s team opted to tackle a topic she understands well— water distribution.
Upon graduating from Syracuse, Uwizeyimana had returned home to Rwanda and quickly found employment as an engineer with Earth Systems, an environmental consulting firm. While working on a water supply study for an agricultural project, she was tasked with doing an inventory of existing boreholes in Bugesera, Representing her home Eastern Province of country of Rwanda, Rwanda. Boreholes Leaders were divided Uwizeyimana is one are ubiquitous ways of of 200 young Africans extracting groundwater into teams and tasked to be selected for the in this rural area as well inaugural class of the in many different parts with developing soluObama Foundation’s of Africa. Uwizeyimana Leaders: Africa program. tions to problems facing found many of the bores The leaders represent in total disrepair and their communities. 44 African countries unfunctional. Worse, she and work to create found the people in positive change in their communities those rural communities desperate for help. through leadership, service, and innovative “They thought we were there to fix the bores new ideas. and were begging us to do so,” she explains. In the days leading up to Mandela Day, “I thought the least we can do is organize the Uwizeyimana participated in the Obama funds to fix the bores that are already there. Foundation’s five-day conference in That was the beginning for me.” Johannesburg. She and her fellow leaders The poor state of drinking water infrastructook part in workshops and activities that ture is prevalent throughout rural Africa.
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to the local distribution and treatment center and have it delivered at their doorstep by bicycle at a very low cost,” says Uwizeyimana. “The bicycle delivery also makes our solution zero-emission and suitable for the resources at hand in many of these rural communities.” The Infrastructure Consortium for Africa estimates more than 300 million people lack access to clean water. Without the necessary resources, the population is forced to rely heavily on unsafe surface water sources.
Her team’s human-centric design impressed the judges and was awarded first place out of the entire field of 40 teams. Elated by the win, the team quickly moved on to the final day of the conference—a service project in support of Mandela Day. Uwizeyimana and her teammates joined an artist in painting a large Mandela mural at the Far North Secondary School in Johannesburg. It was there that a very high-profile Obama Foundation representative came to meet them. It was Obama himself.
Shortly after her experience in Bugesera, Uwizeyimana applied to the Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa program and was quickly accepted. When she arrived at the organization’s conference this past summer, she found herself assigned to a small, diverse group of fellow leaders from Ghana, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, and South “Suddenly there was a bit of activity around us as the conference organizers began to direct Africa to compete in the Ideafest. “We were given two days to come up with a people away from the area where we were human-centered idea that could benefit our painting, and then there he was. President communities. We ended up proposing an Obama walked up and personally congratuUber-like service for potable water distribu- lated us on our win. We spoke with him. We tion. Rural households would place an order asked him questions. He painted with us. It was for water delivery by sending a text message an amazing experience,” says Uwizeyimana.
CONDE LYSA UWIZEYIMANA ’16 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING | HOMETOWN: KIGALI, RWANDA
Resident assistant in Watson Hall. Undergraduate research assistant in Professor Charles T. Driscoll’s lab. Conducted research on identifying how the quality of dissolved organic carbon is closely coupled with the transport and bioaccumulation of total mercury in the Adirondack waters. Sister in Alpha Omega Epsilon. Member of SU’s African Student Union.
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During their visit, a photographer captured to the United States to begin work on her the moment and it was shared by Obama’s master’s in environmental management @BarackObama Twitter handle with the at the Yale School of Forestry. Despite the caption, “Mandela Day is about taking action distance between them, they still have to change the world for the better. In these hopes to move forward their “Uber for young people, I see Madiba’s example of Water” project in Africa. persistence and hope. They are poised to “I’m not satisfied that I have done enough make this world more peaceful, more pros- yet,” she says. “It was such an inspiring perous, and more just.” The message was experience to work alongside other leaders shared broadly—retweeted more than 40,000 who are passionate about bringing Africa times and liked more than 254,000 times by forward. Someday, I hope to use my educaTwitter users from around the world. tion and experiences to achieve more for Following the Obama Foundation confer- the people of Rwanda and Africa.” ence and Mandela Day, Uwizeyimana bid farewell to her teammates and returned 16 | WINTER 2019
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Uwizeyimana and her teammates joined an artist in painting a large Mandela mural at the Far North Secondary School in Johannesburg. It was there that a very high-profile Obama Foundation representative came to meet them —Barack Obama himself.
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Eleva Located in the Tango Foxtrot Lab in Link Hall, the Fidelity MOTUS 622i is one of the most advanced flight simulators available worldwide. The simulator allows students to put theory into practice. Students are able to test their hypotheses from their coursework in the flight simulator and see the impact of their decisions in a real-world scenario. The flight simulator is the result of a generous donation by alumnus William “Ted” Frantz ’80. John F. Dannenhoffer III, associate professor and aerospace engineering program director, instructs students in the flight simulator.
ation AEROSPACE ENGINEERING STUDENTS AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY CAN LEARN TO FLY IN A STATE-OF-THE-ART FLIGHT SIMULATOR AND RECENTLY GAVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY BY TEACHING KIDS TO FLY IN AN ANTIQUE TRAINER
Students Making the M.O.S.T. of National Engineers Week restored Link Flight Trainer, currently on display at the Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) in Syracuse, was donated by the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Known as “blue boxes,” the compact blue mini-planes were designed by Binghamton, New York, engineer Edwin Link in 1929. They were the first commercially available flight simulators. This past spring, aerospace engineering students helped children experience the flight trainer for National Engineers Week.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS ROLE IN OUR FUTURE
A I IS N ’ T J US T
KILLER ROBOTS
ollywood has a boundless imagination for how technology will be the end of us. We could be obliterated by an army of metallic, red-eyed skeletons like in the Terminator films, used as batteries to power the Matrix, or overthrown by worker drones like in iRobot.
innovators to do just that. For the first time this past spring, the college offered Ethics of Machine Learning—a course in which 30 undergraduate and graduate students studied and discussed how AI in all its forms is connected to discrimination, equality of opportunity, advertising, predictive policing, automation of finance, the military, driverless vehicles, and more.
These concerns aren’t limited to the big screen. Type “artificial intelligence” into YouTube and you’ll find countless commentators sounding the alarm about where intelligent machines could lead us. Some commentators are certain that they will be our demise, while others are more optimistic, believing that the benefits of AI outweigh the risks.
In addition to the classic robots-takeover-the world scenario, the class explored fascinating and concerning case studies detailed in Cathy O’Neil’s book Weapons of Math Destruction and articles like “Machine Bias,” by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu, and Lauren Kirchner of ProPublica.
PEOPLE
PUT A LOT OF
TRUST IN ALGORITHMS
In materials like these, a key message is delivered: one cannot assume that bias is removed from the equation when an algorithm helps us reach a decision.
No matter which position you take, one thing seems certain: AI will play a significant role in our future. And, in many ways it already does. “People put a lot of trust in algorithms. They AI isn’t just killer robots; it’s also the machine think that because it is math that it’s just rules, learning and algorithms that influence our that it cannot be biased, but it can. Even if everyday lives—shaping everything from our the programmers have no intention to create television viewing preferences, to whom we biased outcomes, these algorithms are so hear from on social networks, to sentencing complex that they can become hard to predict in criminal prosecution. and can be harmful,” says Soundarajan. There seems to be no limit to what can be For example, in “Machine Bias,” the authors accomplished with AI. Are we prepared to detail the use of a computer algorithm address the ethical implications of this work? developed by a company called Northpointe In Syracuse University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, Assistant Professor Sucheta Soundarajan is preparing tomorrow’s
in predicting the likelihood of recidivism among people who have committed crimes.
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WE HAVE TENDED TO BLINDLY TRUST
THE ALGORITHMS BEHIND THE SCENES,
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BUT IT IS BECOMING APPARENT THAT
THESE ALGORITHMS CAN THEMSELVES
BE BIASED, WITH POTENTIALLY HARMFUL SIDE EFFECTS.
The program—called a risk assessment—analyzes a set of data on the person in question, then produces a score measuring how likely they are to re-offend. ProPublica’s investigation found that this system— commonly used in our nation’s courtrooms—was more likely to label blacks as high risk. While Northpointe disputes ProPublica’s findings, the issue warrants serious ethical consideration. “Even if you don’t include a person’s ethnicity, information like a person’s neighborhood, income, and purchases can paint a picture that ends up revealing their race. The data can reveal the certain protected features even though it is not intended by the humans that are in control. If the human were the one looking at the data, they might be able to realize that this is happening,” says Soundarajan. “To the machine it’s all zeros and ones, but the data 22 | WINTER 2019
that is fed through it isn’t. If data is biased or identifying, then the resulting score will be heavily influenced by that bias.” To be sure, there are also profound benefits to turning over certain tasks to machines. For example, artificial intelligence is very popular in medical applications such as diagnostic imaging. Humans can look at an image and reach a conclusion, but the machine may see patterns or changes that the human mind is unable to detect on its own. Weighing the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence was at the heart of the class’s discussions. They discussed their front-line roles as engineers and computer scientists in developing these technologies responsibly. Soundarajan was heartened by the students response to the class’s topics and their passion for using these technologies responsibly.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SUCHETA SOUNDARAJAN “They are just starting as computer engineers and scientists, and they care and really want to do the right thing,” she says.
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In the future, she hopes to expand this course to students outside of the College of Engineering and Computer Science to include the perspectives of students in other programs, such as law and media. She believes everyone, regardless of their field of study, has something at stake in this conversation. “These technologies have become an incredibly important and pervasive aspect of our society,” says Soundarajan. “We have tended to blindly trust the algorithms behind the scenes, but it is becoming apparent that these algorithms can themselves be biased, with potentially harmful side effects. We need to understand what is happening so that we will be able to fix it.” WINTER 2019 | 23
the
Untapped Power of
Fuel Cells
In recent years, renewable energy has been on the rise in the United States. Still, the overwhelming majority of our energy comes from fossil fuels. nd renewable energy needs to overcome significant limitations and obstacles to contribute a greater share of our overall energy solution. Hydrogen fuel cells may be the key to our sustainable energy future.
Certainly, the technology has improved by leaps and bounds since then. Unfortunately, as with renewables, the world still isn’t completely ready. However, Associate Professor Jeongmin Ahn in Syracuse University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science says that the landscape is changing rapidly and fuel cells may soon emerge as a viable alternative in many applications.
The term “cell” as it relates to energy is most commonly associated with batteries, but a fuel cell is more like an internal combustion engine. That’s because while a battery “Given the genuine obstacles that the implestores energy, highly efficient hydrogen mentation of fuel cells used to face, past fuel cells generate energy using a reverse- policy decisions in the U.S. heavily favored electrolysis chemical reaction. And they are renewable energy and battery-powered environmentally friendly, producing only electric vehicles,” says Ahn. “But today, electricity, water, and heat. things have changed in a way that makes a widespread adoption of fuel cells much So how come they aren’t currently used everywhere? After all, fuel cells have been more feasible.” used in NASA spacecraft since the 1960s.
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Not Without Its
Challenges FUEL CELLS AND HYDROGEN ARE TOO EXPENSIVE.
IT IS DIFFICULT TO STORE HYDROGEN.
THE WORLD IS BUILT FOR FOSSIL FUELS, NOT HYDROGEN.
It has been historically costly to produce
The storage of hydrogen is challenging because
If you drive a gasoline-powered car like most people,
hydrogen, but an increase in U.S. natural
it is a gas. Containing it could take up a lot of
you likely never give much thought to running out
gas production (a major source of hydrogen)
space and require thick, heavy tanks. This is
of fuel. When your gauge shows your tank is low,
has made it less expensive than ever before.
especially a concern for hydrogen-powered vehicles.
there’s a gas station on every corner. If you drive a
Additionally, hydrogen can be produced by
Fortunately, this particular challenge seems to
hydrogen-powered car, you need to be intently aware
breaking down water through electrolysis.
have been almost entirely overcome. Many car
of the nearest hydrogen station.
Most importantly, it has reached a point at
companies have successfully created a system for
It is true that we don’t have a robust hydrogen
which it costs less than gasoline production.
commercial vehicles that transport hydrogen as
infrastructure, but in most developed countries we
Researchers have also uncovered ways to use
ammonia—converting it back to hydrogen gas to
do have a natural gas and water infrastructure. Both
less expensive materials in manufacturing fuel
power the chemical reaction. Toyota has employed
could be tapped as a source to generate hydrogen
cells. At least when it comes to cost, hydrogen
this technology in its fuel-cell-powered Mirai, which
for a cost that is comparable to or less than the
fuel cells can finally compete.
is currently on the road in the United States, Japan,
generation of gasoline. You wouldn’t need tractor-
and Europe, numbering more than 6,000.
trailers to deliver it; it could be generated onsite.
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Those who prioritize other energy solutions over fuel cells have traditionally pointed to a few key problems: hydrogen production is expensive; hydrogen is difficult to store, especially on a vehicle; and there is little existing infrastructure. According to Ahn, these common objections don’t hold up the way they once did.
The industry isn’t the only area in which people have become turned on to the idea. In August, the U.S. Department of Energy broke from tradition and funded $38 million in new projects that support hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, a far cry from its stance just a few years ago. The Energy Department estimates that as many as 40,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will be on American roadways by 2023.
The implementation of fuel cells is much more realistic than ever. Not only that, in many places they have become a reality. In “It takes time, but more and more, people addition to Toyota’s success with the Mirai, are open to using alternative, more environHonda and Hyundai are poised to compete mentally friendly energy solutions,” says in the hydrogen fuel cell automotive industry. Ahn. “No single sustainable option can Companies like Google, Verizon, and AT&T be dominant anytime soon, so we need to use stationary Bloom Energy fuel cell use everything at our disposal to reduce technology to power their facilities. And, the use of fossil fuels. Taking action like the world’s first fuel cell train is operating replacing combustion engines with fuel cell in Germany as of September. Innovators technology would go a long way to reduce are also finding ways to combine fuel cell emissions and solve a range of energy technology with renewable energy sources problems. The future of hydrogen fuel cells to move both solutions forward. These are is bright.”
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JEONGMIN AHN’S COMER LAB The Combustion and Energy Research Laboratory at the Syracuse Center of Excellence advances combustion, fuel cells, new material applications, and power generation.
just some of the many places practical fuel cell technology is emerging.
THE FUTURE OF FUEL CELLS IS BRIGHT
MAJOR
40,000
NASA
COMPANIES USE HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS
HYDROGEN VEHICLES ON THE ROAD
HAS HAD FUEL CELLS IN SPACE FOR DECADES
GOOGLE, AT&T, AND VERIZON USE FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY TO POWER THEIR FACILITIES.
40,000 HYDROGEN FUEL CELL VEHICLES PROJECTED TO BE ON AMERICAN ROADWAYS BY 2023.
HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS HAVE BEEN USED BY NASA TO POWER SPACECRAFT SINCE THE 1960S.
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Small World THE DAWN OF 5G
5G
The new generation of wireless communications is almost here, and it will create an even greater connected world.
At Syracuse University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, Professor M. Cenk Gursoy teaches courses in wireless communications and conducts research on integrating millimeter waves, large-scale multiple-antenna systems, and ultra-reliable low-latency network designs, which will play an integral role in making the 5G network a reality. He and his students explore the opportunities of 5G and all its applications.
t is hard to believe that cell phones were once limited to simple two-way conversations. Smartphones are so ubiquitous today that we often take their capabilities for granted. But as with all technology, we are never satisfied with the status quo. With every new iteration, “The potential for 5G is great, but it won’t we expect our phones to do more and to do be easy to deliver such a powerful network,” it faster. explains Gursoy. “Plus, certain applications Our desire to augment our technology isn’t are going to require something far more limited to phones and tablets. With the reliable than we’ve ever seen. For example, advent of the internet of things, nearly self-driving cars may depend on the wireeverything we touch is getting smarter—our less network. Losing a signal could have dire consequences. With the ambitious vision cars, our homes, our cities. The practicality of living in a smarter world that has been set for 5G, we need to overhinges on connection. To deliver the fast, come some significant limitations.” reliable connectivity that we crave, we need a better wireless network. Enter the 5G network, the fifth generation of wireless. Built on the backs of four previous systems, 5G aims to deliver 1,000 times more data at rates 100 times what is offered by the current 4G network. While 4G provides a 20-millisecond delay, 5G will provide a two-millisecond delay, limited only by the speed of light. 5G will connect billions of devices and enable emerging technologies, including driverless cars, augmented reality, and ultra-high-definition video. The implications of such an advancement would extend beyond the average person as well into health care, industry, and government.
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Everything we do that requires a wireless connection uses the radio wave frequency band, which is on the low end of the electromagnetic spectrum. The problem is that space on the microwave frequency bands is minimal. Gursoy and other 5G pioneers have turned their attention to accessing higher frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum to the millimeter wave frequency band.
The 5G network will rely on a combination of microwave and millimeter wave frequency bands. But microwaves and millimeter waves behave differently, compounding the challenge. Microwaves propagate over long distances from tall, well-spaced antennas high in the hills. Millimeter waves sent from directional antennas act like a laser pointer’s beam. They are powerful, but they can only travel short distances, in a straight line, and they are easily blocked by foliage, weather, and buildings. They need to be tightly grouped and positioned at street level.
4G
5G
10x
20-MILLISECOND DELAY
2-MILLISECOND DELAY
SPEED INCREASE
Energy is also a limitation. The more our devices do, the quicker their batteries are depleted. Streaming a two-hour movie to your phone will kill your battery far quicker than a two-hour phone conversation. And there haven’t been significant improvements to battery life in some time. This is likely to present a challenge for many applications well after 5G has launched. Despite these challenges and audacious goals, the rollout of 5G is just over the horizon. All of the major wireless companies expect to launch it in some form in targeted areas in 2019 and 2020. 5G smartphones and other devices, capable of accessing the new network, are also likely to hit the market in 2019. “If 5G is able to achieve its full potential, it will be a major leap forward that will touch many areas of our lives,” says Gursoy. “It’s a good example of the powerful impact that the work of electrical engineers can have on the world.”
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X-Factor PRO FACEOFF TRAINER
Former Orange lacrosse goalie and mechanical engineering alum Dom Madonna ’18 invented a solo training device for faceoff specialists with his teammates Ben Williams ’17 and Joe DeMarco ’17.
Their product, the X-Factor Real-Rep Pro Faceoff Trainer, holds a lacrosse stick head and mimics an opponent’s stick angle, wrist movement, and resistance during faceoffs. It is strong enough for a Division I lacrosse player, and small and lightweight enough to be portable. Colleges and high school lacrosse programs use the trainer, and it can be purchased on lax.com.
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National Champions A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY TEAM OF SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENTS WON THE 2018 NATIONAL CYBER ANALYST CHALLENGE
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only students vying for national championships. A team of Syracuse University students was awarded first place and $20,000 in the National Cyber Analyst Challenge (NCAC) at Temple University in Philadelphia in April. The team was comprised of cybersecurity graduate students Priyank Thavai G’18 and Sirisha Prakash G’18 from the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) and information management graduate students Anil Agrawal G’18, Michael DiFalco G’18 and Dheeraj Menon G’18 from the School of Information Studies (iSchool). They cite the cross-disciplinary nature of their team as a key advantage in their victory. “Our academic programs prepared us well for this challenge,” says Prakash. “Many of the attacks we uncovered in the competition were ones that we were familiar with from our coursework.”
LEFT TO RIGHT: Sirisha Prakash, Priyank Thavai, and Wenliang Du
At NCAC, students are given six hours and a large set of network traffic data to identify the origins of a cyberattack and its potential damage, and then to make a seven-minute presentation of their findings and recommendations to a panel of C-suite-level judges from industry. This was the final phase of the challenge. The team had previously advanced through an initial phase in which it won $10,000.
This was the second time last academic year that a Syracuse University student team succeeded at a national competition in cybersecurity. In October 2017, the Orange Hackers Association took second place in the CyberSeed Security Competition in Connecticut. The student organization promotes affinity for cybersecurity, continuous learning, and participation in skill-based competitions.
“You have to think like an attacker,” explains Thavai. “If you know what you are looking for, the data can reveal suspicious activity. It’s our job to link it and weed out red herrings.”
Ultimately, the students’ education and participation in competitions like NCAC prepare them for success in the cybersecurity industry—an industry that is consistently seeking skilled employees.
The NCAC win was another notch in the University’s belt for cybersecurity. Syracuse “Participating in a national or regional cyberwas named the top school for cybersecurity security competition like this is a great benefit in the country by Military Times in 2017 to the students and a great way to measure and 2018. Faculty from institutions all the strength of a cybersecurity program,” says over the world rely on security education Du. “Many companies prefer to hire students labs designed by Syracuse professor and with experience in these competitions, and team co-advisor Wenliang Du to expand our students are highly sought after in the their cybersecurity knowledge and teach industry because of their skills.” their students. ECS offers a master’s in cybersecurity, online and on campus, and a cybersecurity semester for undergraduates. The iSchool offers a certificate of advanced study in information security management. “I am proud of our group for this tremendous accomplishment,” says the team’s iSchool co-advisor, Bahram Attaie. “The team leveraged their individual strengths with different cybersecurity toolsets, applied that knowledge to the large data set they were given and came together to present their work in front of the judges, earning the top slot at the competition.”
The NCAC win was another notch in the University’s belt for cybersecurity. Syracuse was named the top school for cybersecurity in the country by Military Times in 2017 and 2018.
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ALUMNI NOTES
1960s
1970s
Alan Willson G’65, Ph.D.’67 (Electrical Engineering), the Charles P. Reames Professor Emeritus in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA, won the 2018 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award in Florence, Italy, at the major annual conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He was also inducted as a Fellow into the National Academy of Inventors in Washington, D.C., last spring.
Captain Russell Danwin ’78 (Aerospace Engineering) became qualified to fly the 787 Dreamliner and flew it from Chicago to Shanghai.
Gerald J. Ratchford G’68, G’77 (Engineering Administration, Industrial Engineering) was recognized by Charlotte SCORE with the chapter’s Emeritus Membership Award for his over 18 years of volunteer service and dedication to the nonprofit group. Charlotte SCORE provides free one-on-one mentoring to business owners and entrepreneurs in the greater Charlotte area. Abdallah Yabroudi ’68, G’79 (Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering) received the 2018 George Arents Award, Syracuse University’s highest alumni honor. He is the chief executive officer of Dubai Contracting Company LLC, which was recently honored as a Top 25 Leading Construction Company by the Middle East Excellence Award Institute.
1980s Anthony “Tony” Manning ’80 (Civil Engineering) was promoted to partner and chief operating officer of Warner Construction Consultants, Inc. Manning is responsible for managing and directing the company and its divisions. Sunil Shenoy G’81 (Computer Engineering) was named vice president of hardware engineering at SiFive, a leader in RISC-V processor intellectual property. Mark Casey ’85 (Electrical Engineering) was appointed general counsel at Mallinckrodt, a leading global specialty pharmaceutical company. Dan Coleman ’85 (Environmental Engineering) joined Greeley and Hansen, a global environmental engineering and consulting firm, as managing director of the South Atlantic Operating Group. He directs business operations and staff in the firm’s South Atlantic offices and works on driving business and strategic growth in the region.
’60s
’70s
’80s
ABDALLAH YABROUDI
CAPTAIN RUSSELL DANWIN
MARK CASEY
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DAN COLEMAN
BOB LORD
1990s Bob Lord ’85 (Industrial Engineering) was appointed to the Williams-Sonoma, Inc. board of directors. Lord has served as chief digital officer of IBM since 2016.
Christopher LaManna ’90 (Civil Engineering) was appointed associate principal at Wendel, a nationally recognized design, construction, and energy services company.
Atish Gude ’86 (Computer Engineering) was appointed chief strategy officer of NetApp, the data authority for hybrid cloud.
Marco Mercader ’91 (Bioengineering) was awarded U.S. patent 9,014,789 for Systems and Methods for Visualizing Ablated Tissue. He is the co-founder of LuxCath, the leader in using fluorescence and optics to view lesions directly during cardiac ablation procedures.
Ramin Younessi G’87 (Electrical Engineering) was selected to be group president of energy and transportation for Caterpillar. Younessi is the former vice president of Caterpillar’s industrial power systems division. Edward Bushey ’88 (Electrical Engineering) joined Tribune Publishing as a senior vice president and general manager of manufacturing and distribution. Bushey previously served as co-publisher of Newsday. Paul E. Jensen ’88 (Mechanical Engineering) was appointed the R. John Chapel Jr. Chair and dean of the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University. Jensen joined Drexel’s economics faculty in 1997.
Evan Cheng G’94 (Computer Science) was named director of engineering, blockchain, at Facebook. He was previously responsible for its programming languages and runtimes. Jennifer Leonardo ’94, G’97 (Civil Engineering) joined Nolen Frisa Associates as a senior structural engineer. She works on a wide range of industrial, commercial, educational, and residential projects. Manish Parashar G’94, Ph.D.’94 (Computer Engineering) was appointed director of the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. Parashar is a distinguished professor at Rutgers and the founding director of the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute and the Applied Software Systems Laboratory.
Saila Kariat ’85, G’88, Ph.D.’90 (Electrical Engineering) produced, wrote, and directed the movie The Valley, exploring the struggle of one family to survive intact amidst a culture in which relationships and human connection are almost impossible to maintain.
’90s ATISH GUDE
RAMIN YOUNESSI
PAUL E. JENSEN
JENNIFER LEONARDO
MANISH PARASHAR
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Heidi Majerik ’95 (Environmental Engineering) was named vice president and general manager of Southern Land Company. Majerik previously led strategic planning and land acquisitions for Wonderland Homes in the Denver, Colorado, area. Mohammad R. Khawer G’95, Ph.D.’15 (Computer Science, Computer & Information Science Engineering) the head of technology innovation at Nokia, has earned the designation of Bell Labs Fellow for “excellence in applied research and technology incubation in shared and unlicensed spectrum, radio platform architecture and product development impact, and relentless energy and drive.” Hillary Lacirignola ’97 (Environmental Engineering) was named vice president of Weston & Sampson, an interdisciplinary design, engineering, and environmental service provider based in Peabody, Massachusetts.
2000s
Jared Green ’01 (Civil Engineering) contributed to a feature article in the February 2018 Civil Engineering magazine highlighting the VIA 57 West building in Manhattan. He worked on the VIA 57 West project for Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, where he is a vice president.
Shantenu Jha ’01, Ph.D.’04 (Computer Science, Physics) was named inaugural chair for the Center for Data-Driven Discovery at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. He has a joint appointment at Rutgers University, as both an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and principal investigator of the Research in Advanced Distributed Cyberinfrastructure and Applications Laboratory. Michael Shepherd G’05 (Computer Science) was elevated to principal attorney at Fish & Richardson in Boston, Massachusetts. Shepherd focuses his practice on client counseling and patent prosecution in the areas of software and other computer-related technologies. Nikhil Bodhankar G’07 (Electrical Engineering) was named the National Society of Professional Engineers 2018 Young Engineer of the Year. Bodhankar also recently appointed associate principal of SMRT, a full-service architecture, engineering, planning, and energy services firm practicing nationwide in the health care, justice, government, education, and science/technology/industry sectors. Natascha Trellinger Buswell ’13 (Aerospace Engineering) has been hired as an assistant professor of teaching in mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Matthew McKee G’15 (Civil Engineering) has been appointed partner at John P. Stopen Engineering LLP.
Dalya Omar ’18 (Aerospace Engineering) was greeted by Richard Branson during one of her first days as a structures engineer at Virgin Orbit.
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DONOR REPORT
We gratefully recognize the following alumni, parents, friends, corporations, and foundations for their generous financial contributions during the 2018 fiscal year.
BENEFACTORS ($1000+)
Jose A. Cruz ’99
Andreas Acrivos ’50, ’93 & Juana V. Acrivos
Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg
Mussadiq Akram ’10 & Noor Iqbal
Yi Dai G’92
Amin Al-Ahmad ’92 & Rola Al-Halawani
Douglas D. Danforth ’47, ’99*
Charles Alaimo ’64 & Carol S. Alaimo
Eugene C. Delsener ’76, G’78 & Brenda A. Delsener
Janet J. Allyn ’60 & William F. Allyn G’03 Paulette Altmaier G’79 & Richard Altmaier R. Anand G’90 & Nina Anand Edward J. Antonio III ’87 & Maysa P. Antonio ’87 William K. Arnold G’73 Kent N. Backus ’67 Charles T. Badlato ’81 & Julia M. Badlato Rajeev Badrinath G’90 Gerard A. Baxter II ’02 Justin M. Blount ’93
Thank you FOR YOUR GIFTS TO SUPPORT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY’S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE The following lists reflect gifts received from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2018. We greatly appreciate each gift given in support of the College of Engineering and Computer Science and have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this listing. Please notify us of any errors or omissions at engineer@syr.edu.
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Lee A. Brathwaite ’82 & Laura R. Brathwaite John E. Breyer & Patricia A. Breyer
Nicholas M. Donofrio G’71, Ph.D.’11 & Anita M. Donofrio Philippe Dorante ’88 & Lisa M. Perard ’93 Richard Dulude ’54* Jean Dulude David G. Edelstein ’78 Ahmad M. El-Hindi ’52 & Elizabeth El-Hindi George Ely Daniel K. Emadi ’81, G’84 & Teresa M. Emadi Brenda G. Engbretson Gustav & A. Engbretson Nurul-Amin K. Eusufzai ’89
Bridget A. Budwey ’12
Elaine M. Falvo, In memory of Louis A. Falvo Jr. ’59
Gar Wood N. Burwell ’50
Lisa B. Feltrin ’85
Edward J. Cettina ’87 & Erin G. Cettina ’87
Ewald F. Fischer ’52, G’61
John R. Chawner ’84 & Cathy L. Chawner
Harold G. Fisher ’61
Richard H. Chazen P.E. ’75
Louis Framarini Jr. ’83, G’18 & Priscilla A. Framarini
Wen-Ching Chen G’76 & Chung-Yen Chen Shiu-Kai Chin ’75, G’78, Ph.D.’86 & Linda M. Milosky
William T. Frantz ’80 & Geri H. Frantz
Carolyn J. Clemence & Samuel P. Clemence
Ray Freiwirth ’75 & Malgorzata Freiwirth
Patrick O. Coffey ’07
Hua Y. Gao G’98 & Bing Li Ph.D.’98
Dominick Conte ’68, G’75 & Maureen V. Conte
Diana M. Frederick & Timothy Frederick
*Deceased
William M. Halpin Jr. ’88, G’95, Ph.D.’05 & Hollie C. Halpin
Richard McFee G’49 & Joan E. McFee G’68
Jerrold A. Heller ’63
Anthony McGraw ’83 & Deborah S. McGraw
Robert W. Hinkley ’58, G’67
Nancy J. McKeon ’74 & Paul McKeon
Allen F. Horn III ’79 & Susan P. Horn G’80
Robert A. McMillen ’68
Linda E. Jennett G’80 & J. Charles Jennett
Alvin S. Meltzer ’57 & Cathy Meltzer
Helen N. Joerger & Robert E. Joerger
Hao Meng G’12
Brian K. Jones ’88 & Terri L. Jones
Adam M. Mitchneck ’10
Donald M. Josephson ’73, G’74 & Susan L. Josephson
Patrick T. Murphy ’88 & Lindalee Murphy
Hsiang Lan Ke, In memory of Jeng-Shyong Ke ’69
Avi M. Nash G’77
Xin Ke G’88 & Jianhong Lin G’88, G’90 Karen C. Keenan & Robert Keenan
Smita Narayan G’00 Robert L. Nevin G’72, Ph.D.’76 & Elaine F. Nevin
Klaus Schroder
Philip S. Wexler ’49*
Richard J. Schulman ’67 & Nancy A. Schulman ’73
Priscilla T. Williams ’86, In memory of Shirley R. Tyree
William J. Sheeran ’60, G’63, Ph.D.’66 & Deborah L. Pearce
Daryl A. Wolf ’78 & Julie Wolf Edward S. Zuranski ’75 & Mary Zuranski
Ehtisham U. Siddiqui G’76, Ph.D.’79 & Sadia Siddiqui
ASSOCIATES ($500–$999)
Robert L. Silver G’68, Ph.D.’72 & Joanne F. Silver
Stephen C. Arnold
John H. Simonds Jr.
Camille Batarekh G’87, Ph.D.’89
Harris E. Sokoloff ’07
Aaron S. Berman ’96
Michael P. Sorvillo ’05 & Melissa Sorvillo
Richard G. Berns G’69
James A. Spearot ’67 & Rebecca M. Spearot
John E. Campbell ’60, G’65, Ph.D.’69 & Martha L. Campbell
Barbara J. Spigel ’79 Karl Spingarn ’57
Joan M. Casanova, In memory of Gilbert F. Casanova & Roger L. Casanova ’69 & in honor of Scott Casanova ’99 & Todd C. Casanova ’01
Shadia Khalifa G’95 & H. Ezzat Khalifa
Amy T. Noji & David K. Noji, In memory of Donald G. Hutchinson
Robert H. Killius ’59
Raymond E. Peart G’79 & Pamela J. Koch
Ann Stevenson III ’52
Daniel P. Kowalski ’79 & Shelly A. Kowalski
David G. Perkins ’82, G’85 & Debra J. Perkins G’85
John N. Stewart ’91, G’92 & Rhonda H. Stewart
Chia-Lun Chou G’94
Friends of Joseph J. Petosa, In memory of Joseph J. Petosa
David E. Suuronen ’69, ’70 & Lynne E. Suuronen
James M. Cornacchia ’86
Garrett L. Szczarba ’78 & Susan C. Szczarba
Virginia C. Pettengill
James P. Costello ’72
Aaron C. Tersteeg ’95, G’96 & Jessica A. Vasi ’96
Patricia Powers,* In memory of John H. Powers
Gregory B. Cypes ’99 & Jacqueline Iseman
Reid W. Thomas ’02 & Victoria K. Thomas ’02
Cliff I. Davidson & Megan Davidson
Raul A. Torres ’80 & Ileana M. Lopez-Balboa
Rajive Dhar G’90 & Anita Chowdhry
Joan Tydings, In memory of Francis W. Wischmeyer
William W. Drosendahl ’87
Haden A. Land G’91 & Cathy J. Land Marian J. Langdon Michael J. Lazar ’65, G’67 & Abby Lazar Deborah R. Leone ’86, G’87 & Louis D. Leone ’87 Ying Lin G’06, Ph.D.’07 & Haizhi Xu Ph.D.’06 Richard M. Loewenstein Jr. ’78, ’79, G’80 & Regina W. Loewenstein ’80 John D. Longwell ’76
Michael M. Ransom Latisha F. Rourke ’87, G’94 & Thomas E. Rourke Jr.
A. Douglas Steinberg Jr. ’84 & Kristi L. Steinberg
Andrew H. Cohen ’84, G’86
Philip L. Varghese G’77
Jon W. Drosendahl ’61 & Aileen D. Drosendahl ’63
Michael R. Venutolo ’77 & Kim Venutolo
Ira T. Ellis Jr. G’64
Matthew V. Lyons ’86
Mark Z. Salvador ’90 & Rebecca Measday-Salvador
George R. Marks ’57
Michael L. Schein ’87 & Jacqui Schein
Leslie W. Vielbig ’57
Alan Feit G’71
Richard F. Schneider ’53, In memory of Shirley E. Schneider
Nancy J. Wedlake ’70, G’71 & Raymond A. Wedlake ’73
Richard C. Flaherty ’61 & Dona J. Flaherty
Thomas N. McCausland ’64 & Linda P. McCausland ’65
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DONOR REPORT CONTINUED ASSOCIATES ($500–$999)
Frank J. Petsche G’82
CONTRIBUTORS (UP TO $499)
Julie M. Barsalona & Michael J. Barsalona
CONTINUED
Barbara H. Pierce ’79 & Daniel Pierce Jr. ’81
Stephen T. Abbe G’99
Michael A. Barsalona ’18
Richard S. Fleisher ’72, G’85
Karen L. Prykull & Kevin P. Prykull
David J. Abrahamian ’76 & Lynn M. Abrahamian
Emily L. Bartos ’18
Mary-Helen Foster G’63, G’83 & Garth H. Foster Ph.D.’66
Wangchan Qin ’16
Scott F. Adams G’93
Michael J. Querino ’75
Alfred G. Adler, In honor of Robin L. Adler ’88
Patricia J. Baskinger G’78 & Louis G. Baskinger G’80
John H. Gaura ’72 & Virginia M. DeJohn-Gaura Jill Gradner & Mokarram H. Jafri Robert I. Gray ’52 & Elise N. Gray Terry P. Grummitt ’65, G’68 Matthew D. Grzelak ’07, G’09 Emily M. Hall Steven B. Harvey ’91 Dan E. Hasenwinkel & Julie M. Hasenwinkel Alexander E. Holstein Jr. ’45, G’48 & Charlotte G. Holstein ’15 Dennis E. Hrabchak ’67 Frederick L. Hunter Jr. ’51 Jill M. Jobbins ’83 & Richard M. Jobbins Ph.D.’78 Charles A. Keenan ’53 Bruce E. Kurtz ’57, Ph.D.’67 Hsiu-Wen Lai G’88 & Haw-Huei Liaw G’88 Joseph A. LeBlanc ’79 Donald H. Lenhert G’58 Paul H. Longchamps & Karen A. Longchamps Eric M. Lui Kathleen A. Luvisi G’88 Carla J. Manning ’98, G’01 Margaret E. McMillan & Robert G. McMillan Laurence B. McNabb ’65 & Cherry M. McNabb Joel S. Mooney ’79, G’81 & Jeanne R. Mooney ’81 William R. Naumann G’93 John F. Olson ’63, ’65 Michael C. Orlovsky G’88 & Donna Orlovsky Paul J. Ossenbruggen ’63 & Catherine A. Burns Robert E. Papsco ’52 & Carol-Noel G. Papsco G’50
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Devanandu U. Reddy G’94 & Kirthiga U. Reddy G’95
Christine M. Bassani & Russ Bassani
Brij N. Agrawal Ph.D.’70
Jeffrey L. Bauman ’73 & Susan Bauman
David W. Aha ’83, G’85
Gene K. Baxter G’66, Ph.D.’71
Mary F. Aldrich & Raymond Aldrich
Harold L. Becker Jr. ’72
Everett E. Aldridge ’55
Michael P. Bergamo ’85
Leo L. Allison G’69
Gail L. Bergersen & William M. Bergersen
V. Mohan Krishna Alluri G’08
Eric E. Bergested
James M. Showalter G’79
Michael A. Aloi G’96 & Terese M. Aloi
Jeffrey L. Bernard ’79, ’80 & Janis L. Bernard
James A. Shurtleff P.E. G’69 & Marilyn L. Shurtleff
Melissa Alva ’18, In memory of Amanda Alva
Constance P. Bertucci ’81
Donald J. Spiegel ’76
Axel G. Amaya ’82
Shobha K. Bhatia & Tej Bhatia
John M. Stengrevics ’71 & Susan S. Stengrevics
Stephen W. Anagnost G’89 & Susan E. Anagnost
Michael D. Biblis ’14
Rangachari Anand Ph.D.’92
David C. Stolp ’67 & Kimberly P. Stolp
Thomas D. Bickley ’77
Arthur H. Anderson Jr. ’83
Cynthia A. Thomas ’64 & Alan R. Thomas
Christopher D. Bieter ’07 & Maggie Bieter
Craig E. Anderson ’68
Richard C. Tremblay ’78 & Sandra Tremblay
Billy B. Biggs ’49
Thomas E. Troast ’03, G’07
Harold A. Anderson Jr. Ph.D.’72 & Carolyn B. Anderson
Donald K. Bigsby ’62 & Marie A. Bigsby
Kevin C. Trott G’80
David F. Aniolek ’83 & Nancy H. Aniolek
Ralph T. Urich Jr. ’59
Daniel Aquilino ’82
William T. Vecere ’62
Lea R. Archacki ’06 & Chris F. Koehnken ’06
Margaret S. Bock, In memory of Richard F. Bock
Guy A. Wadsworth ’80
Steven J. Armenia ’74
Timothy F. Boland ’72, ’73
Mark D. Weber
Saadi Aswad ’18
Richard D. Bomba ’81
Milton A. Weigand ’56
Mohammed Aziz & Romana Hasan
Ursula Bongiovanni ’85 & Michael Bongiovanni
Volker Weiss G’55, Ph.D.’57
Gail Babcock ’65 & Elkanah A. Babcock G’66
Jacob R. Boyce ’18
Roberta L. Weston ’86
Priscilla Babilonia ’82, ’02, G’06
Alphonse M. Bracco G’70 & Elizabeth A. Bracco
James M. Whitaker ’00
Oronde K. Baird ’04
Susan M. Bracy ’86 & Robert K. Bracy
Jerry R. Whitaker ’72 & Mary F. Whitaker
David L. Baker G’01 & Diane F. Baker
Carl E. Braestrup ’09
Denis E. Wickham G’79
Paul F. Bala ’62 & Maureen T. Bala
Fred E. Brandstadt ’59
Charles J. Willis Jr. ’90
Sree Ram Bala G’06
Richard W. Bratt ’53
Sheng-Mou Yu G’05
Kris A. Balch ’72
David C. Briggs ’53
Man Zhang Ph.D.’05
Kenneth R. Baldwin ’45*
Thomas W. Bristol Ph.D.’68 & Kathleen Bristol
David A. Barkley Sr. ’70
Jerome M. Brophy ’76
Jeffrey A. Barrett
Charlotte C. Brown ’50
Virginia L. Register ’65 & Charles Russell R. Register G’66 Ajay G. Sadhwani ’92 & Rachel E. Sadhwani ’92 John P. Sekas ’84 & Darcy L. Sekas
Aloke S. Bhandia G’81
Karen B. Bilynsky ’92, ’96 & Walter M. Bilynsky ’92
*Deceased
Douglas F. Brown ’79 Frederick D. Brown Megan E. Brown ’14 David R. Bruins ’65 & Barbara D. Bruins Gerald W. Bruyette ’50 John C. Bruzinski ’82
George D. Chandler ’70 & Marie C. Chandler
Judith A. Crawford & John P. Hassett
Howard J. Douglas ’68
Rudolph W. Creteur Jr. ’67
Walter R. Dressel Jr. ’71, ’72
Keith R. Chandler G’83 & Ellen P. Chandler
Michael J. Criscione ’67 John R. D’Amaro ’18
Kimberley M. Driscoll G’91 & Charles T. Driscoll Jr.
Michael M. Dach ’61
Brian F. Drula ’00
Lawrence D. Daley ’49*
Jeannine Dugas
Lenworth A. Daley ’84
Georgina A. Dulak ’75 & John J. Dulak
John H. Chaney ’60 Singhuey Chang G’90
Betsy A. Buchanan ’54
Asis Chatterjee & Souma Chatterjee In memory of Saraswati Chatterjee
Randy C. Budzinski ’89, G’94 & Kelly L. Budzinski
Tapan K. Chatterjee Ph.D.’78
Jennifer T. Dandrea ’05 Chenlang Dang G’17
William A. Dykas ’82
Robert J. Bugiada ’79 & Jenean L. Bugiad
Abhijeet V. Chavan G’89 & Sagarika A. Chavan G’91
Joan V. Dannenhoffer & John F. Dannenhoffer III
Nancy L. Ebner ’76 & Wallace F. Ebner Jr. ’76
Cecilie A. Bulcha ’77 & Bisrat Bulcha G’76
Arun D. Chawan ’00
Joseph M. Dawley ’86
William W. Ebner ’70 & Kathleen M. Ebner
K. Wayne Bunn ’67
Hui Chen G’87
Debra L. Deas ’89
Linda B. Edelson-Slocum G’76
Ann Burke, In memory of Joseph J. Petosa
Jingjing Chen ’15
Stephen J. DeBonis ’13
John D. Edmunds ’77
Limin Chen G’01, Ph.D.’04
John M. Decker ’69, G’76 & Patricia M. Decker
Christina Eggert G’83, G’88
Xiang Chen G’12 & Ruo Jia G’12
Philip A. Dee ’53
Richard J. Eksterowicz ’65, ’66
Gang Cheng G’04
William S. DeLaurier ’70, G’78
Carl W. Eller P.E. ’73, G’75 & Janet P. Eller
Sabah J. Choueiri ’80, G’81 & Kathleen Choueiri
Samuel E. DenDanto ’18
Brandon Ellis ’18
Tatiana V. Choulika & Jeffrey S. Poor
William K. Denson G’89
Stephen G. Engle G’72, G’87 & Janice Engle
Richard E. Church Jr. ’84
Stephen C. DeSalvo ’14
Leonard L. Epstein ’62
Richard F. Chuska ’56
Carmel J. DeSpirito ’83 & James DeSpirito ’83
Richard Epstein ’73 & Janet Epstein
Ronald R. Clark Ph.D.’63
Deepak Devicharan G’06
Richard A. Erich G’93
Jon Cohen & Renee Cohen
Michael J. Dewey ’73
David J. Erickson II ’62
Daniel R. Colasanti Sr. ’64, G’72
Debashis Dhar G’95
Richard E. Ertinger ’65
Joan E. Cole
Hemant N. Dhulla G’91
Barry M. Esteves & Melinda A. Esteves
Daniel G. Coleman ’85
Annemarie DiCola & Frank DiCola, In memory of Joseph J. Petosa
A. Maurice Etheredge ’85
Anthony J. DiMaso & Joanne M. DiMaso, In honor of Amanda J. DiMaso ’05
Youran Fang G’14
Russell J. Dinatale ’87
Oleg V. Fedoroff ’61
Paul H. Divjak ’64, G’67 & Susan F. Divjak ’67
James Feng ’12
Brian E. Dix ’92 & Suzanne L. Dix
Mary B. Fennell ’82 & Jack E. Fennell
Renee S. Doktorczyk William T. Donegan Jr. G’76
Timothy R. Fensterer ’18, In honor of David Buell
Ting Dong ’16
Dirk Ferguson & Kristina Ferguson
Robert S. Donnelly ’83 & Laura J. Donnelly
Anna T. Ferraiuolo & Philip P. Ferraiuolo
Jose F. Cortell G’85
Sean P. Donnelly ’88, G’90 & Amy Louise Donnelly
Gary M. Fey G’70, G’72
William C. Cox ’67, G’70 & Diane M. Cox
Bradley R. Dorfman ’83
Joseph J. Buschynski ’71, ’72 Cheryl A. Butler & Timothy P. Butler Paul F. Byrne ’73 Andrew J. Cabal ’79, G’86 John F. Cain G’68 Richard A. Callahan ’65 Jialu Cao ’18 Ronald B. Capelli G’94 Eugene P. Cappello ’63 & Andrea Cappello R. William Card G’87 Stuart W. Card G’90, Ph.D.’11 S.H. K. Cardakli Ph.D.’96 Gary J. Cardamone ’70 Patrick M. Carguello ’69 Bradley S. Carlson G’89, Ph.D.’91 Matthew P. Carrano ’79 James R. Carroll ’63 Roger L. Casanova ’69, G’74* Colleen Cassidy ’18 James F. Cassidy & Susan M. Cassidy Katelyn M. Caza ’17 Dean P. Chaffe & Michele H. Chaffe John Chalecky G’86
Donald E. Coling ’75, G’80 & Dianne Vertes Robert D. Conine II ’51, G’67 & Joan F. Conine Richard H. Connelly G’83, Ph.D.’90 Edward T. Cooper P.E. ’69, G’69 Elizabeth Cooper ’17 Joseph L. Cooper ’89 & Joelle D. Cooper G’77 H. Allen Corbin Jr. ’66 Brian W. Corcoran G’93 Diego L. Cordero ’18 Connie S. Corey ’87 & Jeffrey L. Corey
Jeffrey J. Dulzo G’88
Yong Fan Charles D. Farmer ’07
Vincent J. Filingeri ’62
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Jael E. Gatling ’80
Kenneth A. Hall ’64 & Connie M. Hall
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William M. Halpin Sr. ’60 & Patricia A. Halpin
Pentti A. Honkanen G’62 & Jeanne F. Honkanen
John A. Fillo Jr. ’59, G’62, Ph.D.’66
Solomon S. Gbondo-Tugbawa G’97, Ph.D.’00, G’01
Althea K. Hamilton ’60 & Edward A. Hamilton
Todd E. Horowitz ’79 & Carol S. Levine ’79
Ruth Fillo*
George R. Gearn ’54
James D. Hannon ’77
Paul W. Horstmann Ph.D.’83
Victor A. Fischer G’69
Jean R. Gebman ’67
Don J. Hanrahan G’84 & Teresa R. Hanrahan
John D. Flanagan G’87 & Angela M. Flanagan
Sally A. Gedney, In memory of Ralph F. James
Ejvind R. Hansen G’69
Afzal Hossain G’89, Ph.D.’02 & Nasima Parveen G’91
Robert B. Fletcher ’63, G’66 Robert G. Flieger ’93 Richard Flores Paul Floroff ’05 Veronika J. Folz ’92
Stephen H. George ’75 Glen C. Gerhard ’56 & Gwenyth G. Gerhard David Gibbons ’84 Lisa A. Gibbs ’81 & Lyndon S. Gibbs ’82
Scott D. Hansen ’88 Frederick W. Hardt G’69 James G. Harris Ph.D.’68 & Margery J. Harris Janis Harris ’18
Alyson Housley, In memory of Joseph J. Petosa Diane O. Howard G’90 & Donald T. Howard Louise Hoyle Fengmin Hu G’95
John P. Gibson & Karen H. Gibson
Gerald F. Healey III G’87 & Linda F. D’Antonio G’89
Robert A. Gibson G’91
Michael L. Heck ’71 & Susan P. Heck
Duane C. Hughes G’85
Herbert Gish ’62
Brian A. Heckman ’17
Erin L. Hunter ’08
Deborah R. Fowler ’73, G’74 & Perry E. Fowler G’02
Scott E. Glennon ’84
Robert J. Heins ’64
William S. Hurley ’85
Jason T. Gomez ’92
N. Carl Hellman ’50 & Marilyn K. Hellman
George R. Huson ’50
James H. Franson ’72
Rafael A. Gomez ’85 & May A. Gomez
Roy B. Henderson ’69
John P. Huss G’55 & Madeline C. Huss
Linda A. Franz ’78 & Stephen L. Franz G’76
Donald J. Gondek ’67, G’74 & Marie Gondek Bradford W. Gould G’76
James E. Hennessy ’55, G’68 & Barbara H. Hennessy
Peter W. Hussey ’94
Joseph C. Franzone ’88 Norman L. Frederick Jr. G’90
Stephen J. Grabarits G’90
John F. Hennessy II ’73, G’75
Kenneth R. Hutton ’69 & Jeanne Hutton
Richard J. Freedland ’73 & Nanette A. Freedland
Kim M. Graham
John P. Heslop ’73 & Elizabeth H. Chapman
Michael J. Iati ’16
Robert S. Graziano G’72
Adam L. Hess ’12
Peter P. Ilacqua ’65, G’69
Diana Greco & Michael J. Greco
Deborah L. Hess
Jennifer S. Imbro ’15
Elliot A. Greenwald ’16
Leanne M. Hess & Richard H. Hess
Megan A. Ingram ’17
John M. Gregory ’07
Daniel P. Heyman G’62
Joseph G. Inserra G’86
Maj. Donald W. Fritz G’82
Bonnie Griffin & John K. Griffin
Ronald N. Hill ’69, ’70
Mohammed S. Islam Ph.D.’93
Keith R. Fuhrhop ’00
John P. Gromniak G’73
Robert G. Hiller ’59, G’61
Arun V. Iyer G’04
Brett W. Fuller G’89
Amy S. Gullotta
Kazuhiro Hirasawa Ph.D.’71
Leona B. Jackson, ’80
Jinxuan Gai G’16
Murat K. Gungor G’01, Ph.D.’06, In honor of James W. Fawcett G’71
William C. Hirsh ’83, G’94
Peter F. Jardieu ’71, ’72
John G. Hiss Jr. ’56
Paul D. Jasiewicz ’70
Bing Guo G’04 & Jianshun Zhang
Marialyce K. Hiss ’51*
Thomas W. Jeffrey G’80 & Marie Jeffrey
James F. Gutmann G’69 & Barbara L. Gutmann
Richard L. Hockenbrock G’77
Herbert V. Jene & Lynn F. Jene
Marc C. Hahn G’96
Milton T. Hodgins & Susan K. Hodgins
Julia K. Jesse ’18
Keith A. Hala ’08
Dale E. Hoffman & Vicki E. Hoffman
Min Ji G’02, Ph.D.’08 & Xuemei Wang G’05
Walter A. Halbig ’69
Chenrui Jin G’10 & Xiang Sheng G’10, Ph.D.’15
Harold D. Hale Jr. ’50*
Diane M. Hohensee G’72, G’74 & Reinhard Hohensee G’72
Kathleen V. Hale
Robert J. Holbrook ’55 & Joyce Holbrook
Andrew K. Johnston ’95
Timothy R. Fortnam ’06 Donna A. Fossaceca G’90 & John M. Fossaceca G’92
Kevin P. Freeman G’07 Jesse C. Friedland ’11 Susan T. Frisina ’79 & Robert D. Frisina Ph.D.’83, In memory of Richard Taylor G’77
Douglas P. Gallagher ’92 & Vikkilyn Gallagher Rushabh Ravindra Gandhi G’10 Eric J. Gang & Marykate Gang Charles J. Gannon ’76 Edward T. Gardiner ’85 & Margaret B. Gardiner Robert E. Gardinier Sr. ’62 Gerald A. Garry ’55, G’62
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Ryan C. Hudson ’95, G’97
Donald C. Hutchins ’56
David W. Johnson ’65
*Deceased
Robert P. Jones ’70 & Margaret E. Jones
Ryan W. Knapp ’08
Michael R. Leathem ’99
Gang Lu G’98
Vernon D. Jones G’66
Norman C. Koester G’92
Chung M. Lee ’85
Yi Lu Ph.D.’91 & Julia H. Lu G’95
Pierre Joseph ’62*
Peter M. Kogge G’70 & Mary E. Kogge
Craig C. Lee Ph.D.’86 & Joanna Y. Lee
Karolina A. Lubecka ’15
Justin C. Joslin ’02
Lt. Col. Walter Koozin Jr., USAF Ret.
Jay K. Lee & Young H. Lee
Joseph F. Ludford G’67 & Linda S. Ludford
Kathleen M. Joyce ’92, G’97
Rudolph J. Korbler Jr. ’82
Steve Lee G’80
Jurrie Lulofs ’84
John H. Judge ’86 & Paulette M. Gaynor
Zoltanne Kotis, In honor of Bence Mihaly Kotis ’18
Bernard Leeds ’84
Edwin T. Lurcott ’52
David M. Leight ’75
Raymond K. Lyau G’69
James C. Junk ’69 Alvin A. Kahn ’51
Walter J. Kozub ’73
Gunnar G. Leinberg ’87
Hugh D. Lynch ’67 & Sharon Lynch
Deepak M. Kamath G’78 & Vinita Kamath
Kenneth R. Kraemer G’70
Judith S. Leithner ’67
Tao Ma G’15
Naga Suresh V. Kandula G’98
Clif Kranish ’74
Brad D. Leonard G’06
Xiaoyan Ma G’12 & Yicong Xiong G’13
Deborah M. Kapfer ’74 & Thomas J. Kapfer ’74
Steven R. Krauszer ’66
Gerald J. LePage G’87
Bruce J. MacMullen & Martha P. MacMullen
Douglas J. Kaputa G’74 & Nancy L. Kaputa G’91
Nancy M. Krawczuk & Stanley J. Krawczuk
Peter G. Lersch ’11
Michael J. Mack ’84
Subramaniam Karthik G’89
John F. Kruse G’70
Eric J. Letvin ’92, G’94 & Nicole Letvin
Col. Ronald F. Mack ’65 & Marcia H. Mack
Walter Katuschenko G’65 & Jacquelynn S. Katuschenko
Deborah J. Kummer & Peter Kummer
Annette Q. LeVan G’88
Theodore M. Madzy G’73
Albert S. Kuo Ph.D.’76
Joshua A. Levi ’05
Shannon Magari ’92
Julian A. Katz ’50 & Rabbi Gila J. Katz
John E. Kuras G’75
Leland D. Lewis ’49
Emily Mahana ’18
Sheryl L. Keeler-Phillips ’88 & James E. Phillips ’88
George H. Kyanka ’62, G’67, Ph.D.’76
Meredith M. Lewis, In memory of Richard W. Lewis
James T. Mallen ’76
James C. Kyle Jr. G’67, Ph.D.’71
Eric M. Kelce ’03
Leslie T. Kyser G’68
Bei Li G’14
Bruce D. Keller G’69
Janet H. La Bella & Larry A. La Bella
Chaobo Li Ph.D.’15
Paul E. Kelly ’58 & Frances M. Kelly
Neil F. LaBrake Jr. G’99 & Marie L. LaBrake
Xin Li G’13
William T. Mandeville G’74 & Karen A. Mandeville
Richard R. Kemmerer G’73 & Rebecca D. Kemmerer
Joseph W. Ladd Jr. ’70
Kimberly A. Ling
Ken R. Mannetta
Lalere A. Ladeji ’68
Lowell E. Lingo III ’00 & Ekin Senlet G’08, L’08
James F. Marquardt ’49 & Nancy F. Marquardt
Anjani Ladhar ’17
Frank Liparoto & Lidia Liparoto
Robert J. Marsey ’55 & Myra J. Marsey
Kathleen S. Lahr G’92
Gerard D. Lipton ’59, ’60, G’68
Robert L. Landon Jr., ’69
Samuel T. Liss ’80
Rudolph J. Marshall III G’82, G’87 & Lorraine M. Marshall
Mark R. Lang G’81 & Susan Lang
Chang Liu G’12
Suzanne LaScalza ’98, In memory of Karen M. Hiiemae
Yapan Liu G’18
Daniel A. Mastropietro ’59 & Carol R. Mastropietro
Zijia Liu ’18
Lisa G. Lattimore ’91 & Todd V. Lattimore
Rajendra K. Mathur G’69 & Hanna Mathur
Mark E. Livesey & Nancy H. Livesey
James V. Lauricella ’58
Keith A. Matlick
Melvin P. Livingston ’59, G’65
Warren T. Lavery ’67
John D. Maurillo ’72 & Marjorie Maurillo
Edward R. Locke ’70 & Linda W. Locke ’70
Giuseppe Laviano ’93, G’95
Thomas A. Maxner Jr. ’11
Sejal Lohiya G’15
Michael D. Lavin ’84
Kenneth B. Maynard G’69
Serene H. Longsworth ’01
Richard J. Laws ’50*
Rodney K. McDowell G’74
Paul A. Loomis ’90, G’92
Daniel Le Porin & Sandra J. Le Porin
Karen M. McGlynn ’93
Dane E. Lopes ’95 & Shari Lopes ’95
German Leal & Ruth Leal
David A. Lower ’65 & Janet D. Lower
Georgia McGoldrick & Don McGoldrick, In memory of Joseph J. Petosa
Stephen J. Kenny ’97, G’99 Pradnya L. Khalate G’15 & Nikhil Shelke Mary Alice Kiah G’99, G’00 Pruthvi Kilaru ’18 Cliff B. Kim ’11 & Elizabeth Y. Lee ’12 Jean M. Kimber ’65, G’88 & Michael B. Kimber G’70 Howard E. Kimpton ’76 & Virginia L. Kimpton Jeanine Kinahan & Michael T. Kinahan Robert D. King G’72 Richard R. Kinsey G’61 Laurie B. Kirsch ’79 & Stephen H. Kirsch Harry J. Kit ’60 & Maxine J. Brizes Kit Rex C. Klopfenstein G’63 Herbert W. Klumpe III G’95
Ernest L. Manchin ’69 & Barbara J. Manchin G’88
Tracy L. Martellotta ’97
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Mary K. Murphy G’05
Eric J. Pariseau ’96
Sib S. Ray G’71
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Robert S. Mydzian ’85
Janet F. Park & Jeffrey M. Park
John D. Reale ’51, G’56
Patricia S. McGrath G’74 & Thomas J. McGrath Jr.
Glenford J. Myers G’72
Douglas J. Pavone ’70
Wayne Redlich ’65
Manu Nandakumar ’17
Brian P. Pawlus G’90
Brittany E. Reed ’18
Alma S. Nann ’57 & Norbert A. Nann ’57
Joseph I. Peck ’65
Seth Reed
Richard L. Neal
Dawn E. Penniman P.E. ’90, G’97
Nandlal S. Reejhsinghani Ph.D.’67
Ira Nemeroff ’53 & Marjorie F. Nemeroff
David Perel G’66, Ph.D.’76 & Phyllis Koenig
Irvin D. Reichley G’66
Ruth E. Nester ’88
Cindy Reilly & John W. Reilly
Marvin S. Neuman ’68
Benjamin Perelman ’75 & Rosa B. de Perelman, In memory of Marcos & Golda Perelman
Jeanette C. Newell ’51
Jeffrey J. Perkins ’78 & Margaret K. Perkins
Timothy M. Reith Ph.D.’80
Albert V. Nguyen ’05
Lauren M. Pernick ’18
Esperanza P. Renard & Remi H. Renard
Thomas P. Nicholas ’80
John J. Petosa L’95 & Jennifer T. Petosa, In memory of Joseph J. Petosa
Richard H. Repka G’86
Maria R. McGuire ’81 & Mark R. McGuire ’81 Janet L. McHugh G’73 & Leo J. McHugh Robert A. McKie G’72 & Nancy L. McKie Bruce K. McLeish ’83 Rama T. Mehrotra G’82 & Kishan G. Mehrotra Carol Melling ’64 Beverley L. Meyers & Jeffery M. Meyers Donald G. Michaud & Maria J. Michaud Jeffrey A. Mieth ’86, G’88 & Patricia R. Mieth ’86, G’88
Thomas W. Nolan ’83, G’85
James A. Migliaccio ’87, G’91, Ph.D.’97 & Sharon L. Migliaccio
Michael A. Norato ’91, G’94, Ph.D.’99
Michael Mikolay ’67
Greg O’Neill ’07
William R. Miles ’73
Amani Obaidalla
Gary I. Miller ’69 & Heather Miller
Mayur Oberoi G’04
Eileen D. Millett ’71, L’74 & Ronald P. Heksch
Maj. Richard A. Oddo ’86 & Nancy A. Oddo
Elizabeth P. Molina ’87
Julienne Oldfield ’91
Carol Mone G’79 & Roger E. Choplin
Grace I. Omo Lamai & Virtue A. Omo Lamai
Medarda C. Monje Larry G. Monroe ’54 & Rosemary P. Monroe
Robert F. Nordin ’52 & Barbara C. Nordin
Amy L. Phillips ’01 & Michael L. Phillips ’02 Glen E. Phillips ’71 & Dilys J. Phillips John Pickelhaupt Jr. ’83 Edward S. Pierson ’58 Russell J. Pike ’84 Vijayaraghavan Pitchumani G’77, Ph.D.’81
Meghan E. Reilly ’12, G’13
Yezully E. Retana Moran Juan C. Reyes & Viviana Reyes Ann R. Rice ’78 Kristin M. Rice ’09 & Brian Rice J. Matthew Richards G’00 Alberto G. Rivera ’16
Dennis S. Poe ’78 & Milja Hakosalo
La Toya Rivers, In memory of Ernest R. Davis
Mukund J. Prajapati G’86 & Smita M. Prajapati
Robert T. Rizika & Danielle Z. Rizika
Eimei M. Onaga ’74 & Yoko S. Onaga
Steven J. Pratt ’88, G’92, Ph.D.’95 & Lisa M. Pratt G’94
Eric A. Rodebaugh ’03
Serena J. Pruitt G’01
Peter S. Morelli ’74, G’80 & Diane Morelli
Carl P. Oppenheimer ’77 & Sarah P. Oppenheimer ’78
John P. Morrell ’59
Thomas I. Osborn G’64
James S. Morris ’73
John C. Ostapovich Jr. ’97 & Linda Ostapovich
Margot B. Morrison ’54
David P. Owen ’72 & Dianne J. Owen
Angela M. Puza & Christopher J. Puza
Frank Morrow Jr. & Martha Morrow
Jane H. Oyugi ’87
Haidong Qiao G’00
Andrew J. Romano ’80 & Gail M. Romano
Evangeline M. Morse ’49
James A. Paige ’61, G’69
Lizeng Qin
Christopher R. Roper ’85
Allen L. Mossman ’49
Nicholas E. Palmer ’90
Jeffrey R. Quay G’88
Ivette H. Rosa & Ismael G. Segarra
Randall L. Mosten G’80
Xiaomei Pan G’96
Kobby Quayenortey ’00, G’01
Raymond E. Rosenberger ’66
Zaher M. Moussa Ph.D.’75 & Barbara A. Moussa
Christine A. Pangborn ’63 & Jon B. Pangborn ’63, Ph.D.’67
Dana M. Radcliffe Ph.D.’96 & Karen Low
Jolanta Roslan & Piotr Roslan
Louis J. Ragonese ’56, G’58 & Joan L. Ragonese
Nicole A. Roslan
John Raiti G’02
Andrew M. Rotunno ’82, G’95
Suruliappan Rajamanickam G’71
Ian Z. Rubinstein ’69
Rajeev R. Raje G’94, Ph.D.’94 & Anjali R. Raje
Kenneth C. Rubinwitch ’51
Sanjithaj Rao G’98
William J. Rugg ’51
William W. Moyer Jr. G’69 Paul A. Moynihan ’59 Ali Muhammad G’77, G’84 Bruce C. Murdock ’67 Rachel E. Murello ’18
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Brian P. Papszycki ’97 & Ruth M. Papszycki Christine M. Pardini & Lawrence A. Pardini Nicholas L. Pardini ’16 Kirit R. Parekh P.E. G’67
Cory J. Prykull ’15 Emily Pujadas ’18
Stephen C. Roe ’67, G’71 William D. Roe ’70 & Mary N. Roe Daniel F. Rogers G’98 Claudine M. Rolfe & Steven J. Rolfe Joseph S. Roma ’55
*Deceased
Nelson E. Russom ’10
Mary E. Sexton G’88
David A. Stevenson G’71
Augustine F. Ubaldi ’70
Ernest W. Russom III & Lynn A. Russom
Gaurav Sharma G’06
Colin Ulen ’04
Robert D. Ruth G’71 & Donna M. Ruth
Rajanikanth S. Shastri G’78
Norman Stoller ’63 & Shirley M. Stoller
Vincent D. Ustach ’08
Elliot F. Sachs PE, BCEE G’78
Donald P. Shaver ’68, G’70, Ph.D.’73 & Isabelle Shaver
Gaylord A. Stopen & John P. Stopen, In memory of Joseph J. Petosa
Mamoud Sadre ’59, G’61 & Patricia A. Sadre
Cynthia D. Shaw ’89
Edward L. Storrs Jr. ’81 & Mary C. Storrs
Joseph M. Salvati ’83
Huitao Sheng Ph.D.’11
John Story & Lisa Story
Sunil R. Shenoy G’81
Daniel T. Sullivan ’99
Linda Santanam G’96 & Suresh Santanam
Richard G. Sherman ’90
Kimberly M. Svetin & Todd Svetin
Paramesh Santanam G’93
Parul C. Sheth ’94 & Arti Patel
Frederick M. Swed Jr. ’81
John G. Santoni G’87
Haoyi Shi G’16
Janusz Szela & Malgorzata M. Szela
Samantha M. Santoni
Mei-Ling Shih G’93
Jessica A. Szela ’18
Savvas Vasileiadis G’90 & Zoe Ziaka-Vasileiadou G’90
Alicia L. Sardar ’97
Richard W. Shirk G’63 & Ann B. Shirk
Ronald R. Szmerda ’73
William B. Vecsey III G’02
George M. Sarkis ’81, G’84
Nancy G. Shreve ’67
Colin E. Tack ’14
Krishna P. Vemuri G’65
Renato Sarti G’90
Sandeep Shroff G’91
Zhewen Tang ’18
Robin L. Vieyra G’70 & Eileen M. Vieyra
P. Anthony Sarubbi Jr. ’48
Douglas Shuck G’83
Paul W. Taylor G’75
Marc J. Viggiano G’80 & Susan Viggiano
George C. Savvides G’88 & Joanna A. Savvides
Mark E. Simmons ’84
Matthew T. Teitelbaum ’14
Stephen D. Scalzetti ’84, G’87 & Lia Scalzetti
Edward W. Sirgany ’86
Jesenia Tejeda ’18
Anthony J. Vinciquerra ’00, G’02 & Elizabeth M. Vinciquerra G’00, G’02
Carolina Schaefer & Thomas V. Schaefer
Francis R. Smith ’82
Ronald L. Temple ’67, G’75
Anne T. Vinette ’02, G’04
Gary C. Schafran ’80, G’85, Ph.D.’88
Willard J. Smith ’70
John A. Viscosi , ’74
Christopher W. Scharff ’81
Vincent J. Smoral ’67
Christine A. Tenney & Paul T. Tenney
James R. Schatz G’76, G’79, Ph.D.’79
Barry S. Solondz ’84
Matthew A. Thelen G’91
Gary R. Vittorio G’99
Janet L. Scheerer ’59 & William G. Scheerer ’59
Martin B. Soss G’72
Robert L. Tifft ’59 & Sally A. Tifft
Barry L. Volain ’74
Michael R. Tobin ’87 & Danna N. Greenberg
Lewis Volgenau ’61
Michelle N. Tomlinson ’97, G’98 & Troy A. Tomlinson ’97
Roger J. Voorhis Jr. ’75, G’77
Arthur K. Sachs ’60 & Ann Sachs
George H. Sander ’77
Deborah S. Schepis G’90 & Randy S. Schepis G’92
Frank L. Sowers Jr. ’89 & Kimberly A. Sowers G’90 Carol Speaker & Todd Speaker
Stuart S. Schlitt ’73
Ronald A. Spinek ’65
Alan Schneiderman G’81
James L. Spoelstra
Douglas A. Schrank ’74, G’91 & Carol Schrank
John A. Springer ’99
Donald A. Schreiner G’66
Prasit Sricharoenchaikit Ph.D.’84 & Jolynn Sricharoenchaikit
Teeradet Tong-Ngork G’76 Albert Travostino ’39* Frank E. Trendell ’51 Abhishek Tripathi G’15
Zerksis D. Umrigar Ph.D.’86 David B. Vail ’72 & Daphine Vail David V. Valauri & Jill A. Valauri Kimberlee M. Valdes ’88 Craig M. Valente ’03 Angelo F. Valentino & Shirley W. Valentino Anita Varshney ’82, G’85 & Madhav Bhide G’86
Thomas J. Vitale G’12
Robert T. Vosteen ’77 William E. Vosteen ’76 Joseph A. Vrablic G’70 Al-Hassan Wahab ’18
Patrick A. Tucci ’72
Richard B. Wakeman ’78, G’79 & Susan L. Wakeman
Kris V. Srikrishman G’72, Ph.D.’75
Carolyn R. Tucker
Stephen A. Walata III ’81, G’85
Gina M. Scott & Paul W. Scott
Jaya G. Srikrishman
Nathan R. Tucker ’17
Daniel F. Walczyk ’86
Matthew W. Scott ’12, G’14
Seshadri Srinivasan G’66, Ph.D.’69 & Geetha Srinivasan
Marc Tulgan ’83
Raymond A. Waldbusser ’85
Arthur R. Tuppen ’51
Kristin A. Waller ’11
Michele M. Stephenson
Lynn A. Turner ’89, G’96 & Gregory A. Turner
Hao Wang G’13
Pamela J. Stepien ’74
Jeffrey G. Twombly & Laurie S. Twombly
Huaning Wang G’98, G’99
Harvey K. Schuman ’65, G’68, Ph.D.’75 & Dona M. Schuman ’95, ’00
Lauren A. Seelbach ’10 Naresh K. Sehgal G’88, Ph.D.’94 & Sunita S. Sehgal
John T. Sterling G’62
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CONTRIBUTORS (UP TO $499)
Ray Y. Yan G’94 & Sunny Yun
Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
CONTINUED
Jessica L. Yarmarkovich ’12
DowDuPont
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Edward A. Wardner ’59
Thomas A. Yezza Jr. ’95
Dulude Family Foundation Inc.
Norfolk Southern Foundation
Richard Wasiewicz G’72 & Ann V. Wasiewicz
Michael Yonko ’55 & Nancy Yonko
El-Hindi Foundation Inc.
Northrop Grumman Foundation
Stephen J. Weaver ’71
Peter H. Youngwith G’72
Eli Lilly and Company
Oath
Scott E. Webster ’72
Hongli Yu
Exelon Corporation
PACCAR Foundation
Stanton D. Weinstein G’87 & Maxine B. Weinstein
Lijie Yu G’00, Ph.D.’02
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
PJM Interconnection LLC
Philip T. Yuan Ph.D.’72 & Beatrice Yuan G’71
FM Global Foundation
Laura H. Zarrugh & Mohamed Y. Zarrugh
GE Foundation
Pointwise Inc.
David M. Zasada G’83, Ph.D.’95
General Electric Company
PPG Industries Inc.
Howard M. Zendle G’87
Goldman Sachs Gives
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Frederick C. Wendt ’73, G’74
Francis R. Zumpano ’65
Google Inc.
Qualcomm Inc.
Fredric T. Wenthen ’57, G’69 & Carole M. Wenthen ’88
ORGANIZATIONS
Heller Family Foundation
Raytheon Company
I & B Neuman Foundation Inc.
Red Hat Inc.
IBM Corporation Matching Grants Division
Rockwell Collins
Indira Foundation
Schwab Charitable Fund, In memory of Shirley E. Schneider
Carl Weis Brian I. Wellington Ph.D.’02 Karin G. Welsh G’78, In memory of Robert F. Steigerwald
Richard Wessel ’83 & Chris Cammarene-Wessel Roberta J. Wetherbee & Roger E. Wetherbee Edward W. Whelan Jr. ’78 Barbara C. Wheler
Adobe Systems Inc. AECOM Technology Corporation Agilent Technologies Inc. American Institute of Steel Construction
Brenda L. Wilbur & Richard C. Wilbur
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
Charles F. Willard Jr. ’61
Apple Inc.
Jeffrey G. Willets G’86
ASCE Syracuse Section
Jack B. Williams Ph.D.’75 John D. Williams ’66
The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
Marjorie V. Wilson
Intel Intel Foundation ITW Foundation Jewish Community Foundation of Central New York Inc.
Plastic Technical Solutions Corporation
Sekas Homes Ltd. Society of Women Engineers State Farm Companies Foundation State Street Foundation Inc.
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies
Thales Air Traffic+A60 Management U.S.
Johnson Controls Foundation
Truist
Autoliv North America
The JPB Foundation
Turner Construction Company Foundation
Thaung Win G’53
AXA Foundation
KPMG Foundation
Tyco International Ltd.
Reynolds B. Winslow ’61
Ayco Charitable Foundation
Lam Research Corporation
U.S. Charitable Gift Trust
Ashley L. Wisse ’08
BAE Systems North America
LMEPAC Charity Program Custodial Account
Union Pacific Charity Custodial Account
Jody S. Wisse & Robert J. Wisse
Benevity
Lockheed Martin Corporation
United Technologies Corporation
Barbara E. Witek & David J. Witek
Boeing Company
Longwell Family Foundation
Lynne M. Witkowski ’92
Bright Funds Foundation
Lubrizol Foundation
United Way of Central & Northeastern Connecticut
Daryl M. Wolke ’84 & George E. Wolke ’84
CA Technologies
Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics
Robert C. Wong G’66, Ph.D.’71 & Rose W. Wong
Casey Family Foundation
Lyons Family Foundation
Brian M. Woods ’14
Chevron Corporation
McDonald’s Corporation
Richard N. Wright III ’53, G’55
Cisco Systems Inc.
Microsoft Corporation
Jerry C. Wu
Community Foundation of Collier County
Millennium Engineering & Integration Company
Xin Xie G’13
Digital Realty Trust Inc.
Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company
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