Alumni Awards Banquet

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1 College of ENGINEERING Alumni Awards Banquet May 5, 2018 College of Engineering

2 MENU Hors d oeuvres Maryland Crab Cakes with Pommery Mustard Aïoli Pad Thai Spring Rolls Plum Tomato Bruschetta Salad Gathered field greens with goat cheese and candied pecans Dressings: raspberry vinaigrette and balsamic vinaigrette Main Filet mignon with rosemary accented demi-glacé and Atlantic salmon with maple glaze with confetti couscous and squash medley Dessert Chocolate mousse Beverages Freshly Brewed Coffee, Decaffeinated Coffee, Tea, Iced Tea, and Milk

3 Michigan State University College of Engineering Saturday, May 5, 2018 Alumni Awards Dinner Program 5 p.m...cocktail Reception 6 p.m....dinner 7 p.m...presentation of Awards Welcome & Introductions...Leo C. Kempel Dean, College of Engineering Presentation of Awards Applied Engineering Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award Mitzi M. Montoya Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award Brad Borgman Red Cedar Circle Award in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Prabhat N. Shukla Civil and Environmental Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award James A. Susan Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award Tracy Camp John D. Ryder Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Award Darius Adamczyk Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award Lisa Sparrow Green Apple Teaching Award Steven P. Kosmas Claud R. Erickson Distinguished Alumni Award Jianchang ( JC) Mao The Kellogg Center, Lincoln Room East Lansing, Michigan

4 Applied Engineering Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award Mitzi M. Montoya, PhD BS 90, Applied Engineering Sciences; PhD 95, Marketing & Statistics Mitzi M. Montoya became the Sara Hart Kimball Dean of the College of Business at Oregon State University in August In this role, she is responsible for providing leadership of the college, which is focused on innovation and entrepreneurship and serves more than 5,800 students. She received a B.S. in Applied Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Marketing and Statistics, both from Michigan State University. She is a former American Council on Education Fellow. Before joining Oregon State, Dr. Montoya served as vice president and University Dean of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Arizona State University, was a professor in the Management Department of the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU, and served on the board of the W.P. Carey Center for Entrepreneurship. Previously, she served as dean of the College of Technology & Innovation and vice provost of the ASU Polytechnic campus. At ASU, Dr. Montoya positioned the university as a national leader in the growing maker movement and developed publicprivate partnerships to advance a regional innovation system, including development of a public, open prototyping facility that united the community, local companies and the university; she also established the Aerospace & Defense Research Collaboratory, a statewide platform for collaboration across the aerospace and defense supply chain and research institutions, and she led ASU s USAID-sponsored global training program for clean energy. Dr. Montoya spent 15 years at North Carolina State University, where she held the Zelnak Chair in Marketing & Innovation in the Poole College of Management. At NC State, she founded and led the Innovation Lab, a collaborative research and education initiative involving the management, design, engineering and textiles colleges in partnership with corporate sponsors. Throughout her career, her research has focused on innovation processes and strategies and the role of technology as an enabler of distributed team decision-making. Her research has appeared in numerous top research journals. She has been the recipient of competitive research grants from the National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, US Department of Education, USAID, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Society of Information Management, the Product Development and Management Association and corporate foundations. She has taught undergraduate, graduate and executive education courses on innovation and marketing strategy in the US, England, Brazil, Italy, Egypt, Kuwait, Russia, Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Panama and Argentina. Dr. Montoya serves on the board of several startup ventures and has advised many organizations on topics related to innovation and marketing strategy. Recipients of this award, established in 2004, must have a distinguished career, evidenced by significant accomplishments; possess high standards of integrity that positively reflect on the college and the university; be recognized for leadership in the community; and demonstrate support of the applied engineering sciences program (formerly engineering arts), the College of Engineering, and/or MSU. The winner is selected by the applied engineering sciences alumni advisory board.

5 Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award Brad Borgman BS 79, Agricultural Engineering Brad Borgman is the vice president of Engineering for the TWT Group, where he leads the design and development of numerous rides and attractions for the theme park industry. He holds a bachelor s degree in Agricultural Engineering from Michigan State University. Prior to working in the theme park industry, Mr. Borgman was chief engineer of R&D for Sunkist, receiving four patents for his work developing a robotic packing machine as well as optically inspecting fruit by color, size and defects. After graduating from MSU in 1979, he became a project engineer for Ford s Tractor division in Troy, Michigan where he focused on testing and instrumenting their Tractor development. His interest in electrical engineering brought him back to MSU where he was soon recruited to join Sunkist in California. He was instrumental in expanding their business internationally and travelled to Israel, Sicily, Spain, England and Morocco. Mr. Borgman received special merit recognition from the Chairman of the Board of Sunkist for his patents and the resulting growth of their market. After seven years at Sunkist, he joined Walt Disney Imagineering in 1988, and began his journey developing thrill rides and attractions for theme parks around the world. At Disney, first as a Ride Engineer, Mr. Borgman was responsible for directing the analysis, design, full-scale prototype and final production of a new generation ride vehicle for the Indiana Jones attraction. Later, as Principal Ride Systems Engineer, he led teams of engineers designing and fabricating rides for Disney attractions around the world. Mr. Borgman started his own international consulting business in 1995, and has expanded his work on rides for multiple clients, including Universal Studios, Disney Imagineering, DreamWorks, Sony, and Warner Bros. In addition, he has diversified into special engineering projects for Apple Retail flagship stores, attractions on cruise ships, and specialty museum projects, including the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, (MSI), and the NASA Kennedy Space Center. Mr. Borgman lives in Seattle and enjoys unicycling, hiking, biking and international adventures with his wife, Sue. They have two happy dogs that enjoy their agility training and swimming in Lake Washington. Established in 2004, the BAE Distinguished Alumni Award is given to an alumnus or alumna who has distinguished himself/herself as a leader in the biological/agricultural engineering profession through professional contributions, public service, and personal accomplishments. Alumni who have graduated at least ten years ago with an undergraduate and/or graduate degree are considered.

6 Red Cedar Circle Award in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Prabhat N. Shukla, PhD MS 75, Chemical Engineering; PhD 80, Chemical Engineering Prabhat Shukla is the founder of Fluorotherm Polymers, Inc., and has served as the company s president and CEO for more than 23 years. He began his engineering journey at IIT, Kharagpur, India, where he received a B.Tech (with honors) in chemical engineering in He spent a year working as a chemical engineer in the distillery/perfumery plant of DCM, a large chemical company in India. He left India in 1974 to begin a master s degree program in chemical engineering at Michigan State University. He was accepted into a PhD program with a specialization in nuclear engineering, but changed his direction in 1997 to focus on environmental engineering and research into air pollution control from coal powered plants. He completed his PhD in After graduation, he began working for DuPont in its Teflon (fluoropolymers) R&D division as a research engineer. There he started new operations in Japan and Holland, helped write a chapter in the Kirk & Othmer encyclopedia, and was part of a team formed to launch a highly successful new Teflon micro-powder product. While at DuPont, he was recognized with the Top Performer Peer Group Award ( ) and received the Marketing Excellence Award in Dr. Shukla left DuPont in 1990 to start a new fluoropolymers R&D department at Norton Performance Plastics (now Saint- Gobain). There he directed joint marketing projects with ICI, DuPont and Amoco, and rose to become business manager responsible for $45 million in business. In 1992, he founded Fluorotherm as a joint venture with his then employer, Saint-Gobain. The company was taken private in Dr. Shukla has built the company with an emphasis on technology and engineering. Today, Fluorotherm is a coveted trademark in its market segments, and recognized internationally for expertise in the fluoropolymers and heat exchanger fields. He continues to cochair the Polymer Technology Network at Saint-Gobain. Dr. Shukla has mentored minority engineering students at Stevens Institute Of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. In 2007, he was recognized for his fluoropolymers training by the Medwest International Technical Institute, Manila, Philippines. Initiated in 2000, the Red Cedar Circle Award recognizes MSU chemical engineering and materials science alumni for their distinguished service to the profession and outstanding commitment to the community. The Red Cedar River, which passes through the center of the MSU campus, is a favorite gathering place. This award is named in recognition of the importance of this landmark to MSU alumni.

7 Civil and Environmental Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award James A. Susan, PE BS 75, Civil Engineering; MS 77, Sanitary Engineering James Susan is president of Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber, Inc. (FTCH), one of one of the premier professional consulting firms in the nation. After graduating from MSU in 1977, he moved to Maryland, where he spent 13 years working in the consulting engineering field. In 1990, he moved back to Michigan, settling in Grand Rapids and joined FTCH in 1992 as a professional engineer. He has been instrumental to the growth and development of FTCH as one of the Top 500 Engineering and Design Firms in the nation according to the Engineering News-Record. He became a principal in 2003, and was named president of FTCH in He serves on the firm s Executive, Management, and Business Development committees, and heads the firm s Project Management Department. He has also served as the FTCH Corporate Health and Safety Officer since Mr. Susan has a wide variety of experience related to management and planning of environmental projects, engineering for water and wastewater facilities, hazardous waste site investigations, and remediation projects. He has experience with the planning and design of new and upgraded water and wastewater facilities including treatment processes and sludge handling facilities, pump stations, and pipelines. He has prepared facility plans, O&M manuals, conducted pilot and laboratory studies, performed hydraulic analyses, and participated in value engineering studies. His work has included projects in seven states. As an alumnus of the College of Engineering, Mr. Susan has served as a jury member for CE271 student projects, served two 3-year terms on the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professional Advisory Board, and is currently a member of the college s Alumni Board. Mr. Susan has also hosted gatherings of College alumni in the Grand Rapids area at FTCH s office. Mr. Susan is a registered engineer in nine states and a member of AWWA, WEF, and ASCE. He is also a member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. Professional associations have included serving as a board member for the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Michigan for two 3-year terms, a member of ACEC/MI Rural Development Committee and Risk Management Committee, and as a member of the Heart of West Michigan United Way Campaign Cabinet for three years representing architects and engineers. Mr. Susan grew up in Royal Oak, Michigan. He and his wife, Lawren, have two grown children, Amanda and Jennifer. Lawren received her elementary education teaching certificate from MSU in 2003 and obtained a master s in Special Education from MSU in Recipients of the CEE Distinguished Alumni Award, first presented in 2003, must be: graduates of the department; national leaders in their profession; contributors to the department, the college, or the university in some meaningful way; and community leaders whose actions reflect favorably on Michigan State University. Nominations are made by faculty, alumni, and other supporters of the department. The department s professional advisory board selects the winner.

8 Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award Tracy Camp, PhD MS 89, Computer Science Tracy Camp is a full professor and head of the Department of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines. She is also the founder and director of the Toilers, an active ad hoc networks research group. She is noted for her research on wireless networking, and for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. Dr. Camp received a BA in mathematics from Kalamazoo College in 1987, an MS in computer science from Michigan State University in 1989, and a PhD in computer science from the College of William & Mary in She joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama as an assistant professor in She moved to the Colorado School of Mines in 1998, and served as interim head of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, and then interim head of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science prior to her current position. Her research interests include the credibility of ad hoc network simulation studies; the use of wireless sensor networks in geosystems; and collision resolution protocols for wireless communications. She has received more than 20 grants from the National Science Foundation, including a CAREER award. In total, her projects have received more than $20 million dollars in external funding. This funding has produced 12 software packages that have been shared with thousands of researchers around the world. In December 2007, Dr. Camp received the Board of Trustees Outstanding Faculty Award at the Colorado School of Mines, an award which was only given five times between She has also received the Computer Science Outstanding Faculty Award (2010), the Senior Excellence in Research Award (2015) and the MLK Recognition Award (2016). She served as a Distinguished Visitor to the University of Bonn, Germany (2010), and as a Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand (2016). She became an ACM Fellow in 2012 and a Fellow of IEEE in She remains an active member of both ACM and IEEE. In 2010, she served as general chair of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. She cochaired the Computing Research Association s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research ( ) and ACM s Committee on Women in Computing ( ). Her research into the plight of women in the sciences has appeared in more than 15 newspaper and magazine articles, including the N.Y. Times, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and Scientific American. The STEM outreach program Dr. Camp started for girls (DECTech) has received numerous awards, including Golden s Goldmine Award for Excellence and Million Women Mentors Stand Up for STEM award. Established in 2004, the CSE Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes an alumnus or alumna who has distinguished himself/herself as a leader in the computer science and engineering profession through professional contributions, public service, and personal accomplishments. Nominations are made by faculty, alumni, and other supporters of the department. The winner is selected by the department chairperson and advisory committee.

9 John D. Ryder Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Award Darius Adamczyk BS 88, Electrical and Computer Engineering Darius Adamczyk was elected chairman of Honeywell International Inc. in April 2018, and has served as president and chief executive officer since March He has been a member of Honeywell s board of directors since Previously, he served as Honeywell s president and chief operating officer. Mr. Adamczyk was born in Poland on February 8, 1966 and emigrated with his family to the United States at age 11. An only child who didn t speak English, he picked up the language in about six months after his family settled in Grand Rapids, Mich. He went on to study electrical and computer engineering at Michigan State University, earning a bachelor s degree in He joined General Electric as an electrical engineer after graduation. While at GE, he earned a master s degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University. He went on to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School, and spent four years as a senior associate at global strategy and technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. He joined industrial manufacturer Ingersoll Rand PLC in 1999, holding various leadership positions, including president of Air Solutions Group, president of the Heavy Industrial Business Segment, and vice president of Business Development. He next joined scanning- and data-software firm Metrologic. Honeywell bought Metrologic in 2008, and Mr. Adamczyk, its CEO, joined Honeywell s executive team as president of Honeywell Scanning & Mobility. He then served as president of Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS), one of the world s leading suppliers of automation and control systems designing advanced software solutions that control and optimize refineries, oil and gas installations, pulp and paper mills, chemical, pharmaceutical, and power plants around the globe. HPS was incorporated into the company s Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT) under Adamczyk s leadership. He became president and CEO of Honeywell PMT, a $9.3 billion leader in designing and creating high-purity, high-quality performance chemicals and materials, and software-based systems for operating complex industrial facilities. Mr. Adamczyk next served as Honeywell s president and COO, where he was responsible for driving continued profitable growth of the company s operating businesses through Honeywell s HOS Gold breakthrough growth strategies, including advanced software offerings that complement a diverse technology portfolio. As CEO, he succeeds his mentor, Dave Cote, who pulled off a turnaround at Honeywell, increasing its market value fivefold during his 14-year tenure and expanding the company through acquisitions so that it now makes everything from jet engines to thermostats. Today, Mr. Adamczyk stands at the helm of a Fortune 100 company that had $40.5 billion in sales in 2017, with a portfolio that spans industries, including homes and building, aviation, defense and space, oil and gas, industrial, chemicals and vehicles. Established in 2004, this award commemorates the outstanding professional contributions of John D. Ryder, former dean of the College of Engineering and professor in the department. Nominations are made by alumni, faculty, and students. The department s advisory committee selects the award winner in consultation with the chairperson. The award is given on the basis of contributions in furthering the mission of the department.

10 Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award Lisa Sparrow BS 93, Mechanical Engineering Lisa Sparrow is a senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in infrastructure, energy and manufacturing companies ranging from the design and construction of operating assets to executive management, policy development and effectively growing businesses. She received her bachelor s degree in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University in 1993, and a master s degree in management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Ms. Sparrow is currently president and CEO of Utilities Inc., a privately-owned water and wastewater utility providing safe drinking water and environmentally responsible wastewater service to over a million people nationwide in 18 states. She joined the company in 2002 as director of operations. She quickly advanced to vice president of operations and was later appointed to the position of chief operating officer in She was named president and chief executive officer in She is responsible for all company operations and approximately $1 billion in water, wastewater and reclaimed water infrastructure assets. Prior to joining Utilities, Inc., Ms. Sparrow spent nine years with global energy company BP, and seven years with General Motors. Ms. Sparrow is known both inside and outside the company for providing innovative solutions in complex and changing business environments, negotiating new business development, and creating and maintaining teams of strong leadership professionals. Under her leadership, Utilities, Inc. has been developed into a turn-key business platform supported by industry-leading management, proven operating performance, and bestin-class customer systems and financial reporting tools. Apart from company management, Ms. Sparrow is a very active member of the water community. In 2009, she was appointed to a three-year term on the National Drinking Water Advisory Council, a 15-person council created by the Safe Drinking Water Act to advise the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on upcoming rule making and other important water issues. She is a frequent industry speaker, and a trustee for the Water Research Foundation board. She sits on several industry advisory boards, and meets regularly with state representatives and members of Congress on important water issues. Outside of the water industry, she provides governance as trustee or member on numerous profit and non-profit boards including the Mechanical Engineering Advisory Board at Michigan State University. She lives with her husband, Michael, and two sons, Eli and Henry, in the Chicago area. Established in 2004, the ME Distinguished Alumni Award honors a graduate of MSU s Department of Mechanical Engineering who has a minimum of 15 years of professional experience in an engineering or engineering-related field; provides leadership in engineering, engineering education, the related sciences, or technical management; contributes to the department, the college, or MSU; and is actively involved in the community. The winner is selected in consultation with the department s advisory committee and board of visitors.

11 Green Apple Teaching Award Steven Kosmas BA 94, Chemistry, Albion College; MAT 00, Education and MA 08, School Counseling, Wayne State University Steven Kosmas has been teaching science at Grosse Pointe North High School for nearly 22 years. He has taught all levels of chemistry (Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, AP Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry) over the past 16 years. After receiving a BA in chemistry from Albion College in 1994, he attended Wayne State University in Detroit for both an MA teaching degree in science education (in 2000), and an MA in school counseling (in 2008). Mr. Kosmas then worked in Wayne State s Upward Bound program and served as an educator for bilingual students and English language learners. He joined Grosse Pointe North in September 1996, where he has been a passionate advocate of STEM education throughout his tenure. As head of the school s Chemistry Outreach program, he enjoys taking students to academic competitions and encouraging their research aspirations. He coached both the Science Olympiad and Chemistry Olympiad teams, and has run a ChemClub for more than 15 years. His students are currently engaged in a research project inspired by the Flint water crisis, that has the potential of removing harmful substances from water. Their research was presented to the American Chemical Society (ACS) at the regional level, and has since been awarded an ACS Green Chemistry Institute Ciba travel award to attend the 226th ACS National Meeting and Exposition in Boston in August. This is the first time the award has ever been given to a high school student. Mr. Kosmas outreach beyond the classroom also includes coaching the junior varsity Boys Tennis team and mentoring the Rocketry Club. Under his tutelage, membership in the Rocketry Club has grown from about 10 members in to 40 this year. Mr. Kosmas recently published his first book chapter on green chemistry in Green Chemical Processes: Developments in Research and Education (Benvenuto, Mark Anthony (Ed.), Steven Kosmas, David Consiglio, et al. Green Chemical Processes. Developments in Research and Education. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2017). He and his wife, Betty, live in Rochester Hills, Michigan with their son, Costa. Mr. Kosmas was nominated for the Green Apple Teaching Award by Ted Supal, a senior majoring in chemical engineering. Established in 2006 at the suggestion of College of Engineering Alumni Association board member Joseph M. Colucci (BS 58 Mechanical Engineering), the Green Apple Teaching Award honors a K-12 teacher who has inspired students to study math, science, and engineering.

12 College of Engineering Claud R. Erickson Distinguished Alumni Award Jianchang JC Mao, PhD PhD 94, Computer Science and Engineering Dr. JC Mao is a corporate vice president, Artificial Intelligence and Research at Microsoft. He leads a global team of engineers, scientists, product managers, marketplace operators and analysts, responsible for building technologies and products, and running multi-billion-dollar advertising marketplace that powers Bing, Yahoo!, AOL, and other syndication partners. Dr. Mao is a 1994 graduate of Michigan State University, with a PhD in Computer Science. He also holds both a BS in physics (1983) and MS in Electronics (1986) from East China Normal University. After receiving his PhD, he began his career as a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center, before moving on in 2000 to become director of emerging technologies and principal architect at Verity Inc., a leader in Enterprise Search (acquired by Autonomy and then by HP). Dr. Mao became vice president and head of advertising sciences at Yahoo! Labs in 2004, overseeing the R&D of advertising technologies and products including search advertising, contextual advertising, display advertising, targeting, and categorization. He was also the science/engineering director responsible for the development of back-end technologies for several Yahoo! social search products, including Yahoo! Answers. At Yahoo!, Dr. Mao and his team received numerous corporate awards, including the Yahoo! Superstar Team Award. He was awarded the prestigious Yahoo! Leadership Superstar Award in 2010 and was given the title of Yahoo! Inaugural Master Inventor in He joined Microsoft in 2012, and is responsible today for defining Bing Advertising growth strategies, technical directions, product road maps, and operating cadence. Under Dr. Mao s leadership, Bing Advertising has achieved double-digit yearover-year growth in revenue per search as well as in total revenue in the past six years. He is instrumental to Bing s profitability. In 2014, he was awarded with the title of Distinguished Engineer, an honor conferred to less than 0.1 percent of Microsoft full-time employees. Dr. Mao is a Fellow of IEEE. His research interests include artificial intelligence machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, computational advertising, and image processing. He has published more than 50 papers in journals, book chapters, and conferences, and holds 29 U.S. patents. Citations of his publications exceed 15K, with an h-index of 34. Dr. Mao has been actively involved in MSU community activities, including hosting alumni receptions, giving lectures on campus, serving on the CSE Strategic Partners Council, hiring interns and full-time employees from MSU, and contributing to MSU scholarship funds. Dr. Mao credits the training he received in the CSE department for his career success. He notes that Dr. Anil Jain, his adviser while he was at MSU, has become his long-time mentor and friend. I deeply cherish my PhD experience at MSU, he says. Dr. Mao and his wife, Yao Chen, also a CSE graduate, are members of the MSU Jonathan L. Snyder Society in recognition of their generous support. They live in Bellevue, Washington, and have two children: son David, who was born while the couple was at MSU; and daughter, Julie. In his free time, Dr. Mao enjoys reading, jogging, and skiing.

13 Claud R. Erickson Dean Lawrence Wayne Von Tersch established the Claud R. Erickson Distinguished Alumni Award in Claud Erickson, for whom the award was named, was the first recipient. Since then, it has been given annually to a College of Engineering graduate with a minimum of 15 years professional experience who has attained the highest level of professional accomplishment; provided distinguished and meritorious service to the College of Engineering and the engineering profession; and engaged in voluntary service at the local, state, national, and/or international level. Claud Erickson, born in Manistee, Michigan, lived from 1900 to He had to help support his family during high school and took a full-time job immediately after graduation. At the urging of work associates who recognized his talents, Claud began college, but it was a constant financial struggle. At times, faculty members chipped in to keep him in school. Claud ultimately received four engineering degrees from MSU, beginning with a bachelor of science in He later earned degrees in mechanical (1927), electrical (1933), and civil engineering (1934) and held a consulting professional engineer s license. He also studied law and was qualified to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Claud was the first member of Lambda Chi Alpha, chartered in 1922 as the second fraternity at MSU; it now has well over 2,200 members. He became the director and general manager of the Lansing Board of Water and Light and spent more than 50 years making the utility a strong, progressive force in the Lansing area. He was a nationally respected figure in public works, and in 1971 the Board named a new power plant in Delta Township after him. Community activism was a way of life for Claud. He was the Ingham County chairman of the U.S. Treasury Savings Bond Drive for 50 years, beginning in He was honored in 1991 at the age of 91 by the U.S. Treasury Department for his 50 years of patriotic volunteer service. He was the only person in the United States known to have directed a local drive continuously since the program began during World War II. He was a delegate to the Michigan Constitutional Convention, chairman of the Ingham County American Red Cross, and a trustee of St. Lawrence Hospital. He served at various times as president of the Lansing Rotary Club, the City Club of Lansing, the American Public Power Association, the Michigan Engineering Society, and the Greater Lansing Area Safety Council. He and his wife, Thelma, were the parents of one son and four daughters. He was an avid stamp collector and was considered one of the nation s top authorities on electric-powered vehicles. He admired the simplicity of an electric car. He said, It has only eight moving parts, and four of those are wheels. Always maintaining close ties with MSU, Claud served on the MSU Foundation s first board of directors. He was asked by President John A. Hannah to oversee the construction of the Alumni Chapel. He also supervised the completion of 7,000 married-student housing units in just five months to accommodate U.S. servicemen returning to campus after World War II. Claud always attended the spring commencement exercises of MSU s College of Engineering and the initiation ceremonies of the Chi Epsilon civil engineering honor society, and he kept close tabs on each alumnus who won the Claud R. Erickson Award. When asked by President Hannah at one point, Why do MSU alumni come back to campus year after year? he responded, Because they love the University that offered them the hand of friendship and the open door of opportunity.

14 Claud R. Erickson Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients 1982 Claud R. Erickson BS 22, MS 33 Electrical Engineering; MS 27 Mechanical Engineering; MS 34 Civil Engineering 1983 R. William Caldwell BS 38 Chemical Engineering 1984 Harold C. MacDonald BS 40 Mechanical Engineering 1985 William J. Mottel BS 51 Chemical Engineering 1986 John H. Busch BS 51 Civil Engineering 1987 John D. Withrow BS 54 Mechanical Engineering; MBA Melville R. Barlow BS 51 Mechanical Engineering 1989 Robert J. Schultz BS 53 Mechanical Engineering; MBA Harold F. Wochholz BS 58, MS 59 Electrical Engineering 1991 William B. Larson BS 53 Metallurgical Engineering 1992 Gerald W. Pearson BS 55 Chemical Engineering 1993 Paul H. Woodruff BS 59, MS 61 Civil Engineering 1994 Bernard A. Paulson BS 49 Chemical Engineering 1995 Robert M. Fredericks BS 67, MS 68, PhD 71 Electrical Engineering 1995 John C. O Malia MS 72 Sanitary Engineering 1996 Richard M. Hong MS 67, PhD 70 Electrical Engineering 1997 Charles R. Weir BS 42 Chemical Engineering 1998 Raymond S. Colladay BS 65, MS 66, PhD 69 Mechanical Engineering 1999 Leroy R. Dell BS 66 Civil Engineering 2000 Michael H. Dennos BS 43 Chemical Engineering 2001 Richard H. Brown BS 71 Mechanical Engineering 2002 Roger L. Koenig BS 76 Electrical Engineering 2003 Joseph M. Colucci BS 58 Mechanical Engineering 2004 George E. Ted Willis BS 42 Chemical Engineering 2005 John Ogren BS 65 Chemical Engineering 2006 James R. Von Ehr II BS 72 Computer Science & Engineering 2007 Joon S. Moon BS 60 Chemical Engineering 2008 Charles J. Brady BS 48 Mechanical Engineering 2009 Richard V. Pisarczyk BS 68 Chemical Engineering 2010 Betty Shanahan BS 78 Electrical Engineering 2011 William A. Demmer BS 70 Mechanical Engineering 2012 Dr. Sami R. Al-Araji BS 67, PhD 73 Mechanical Engineering 2013 Philip L. Fioravante BS 84 Applied Engineering Sciences 2014 Brian M. Kent BS 80 Electrical Engineering 2015 Alton L. Granger, PE BS 54 Civil Engineering 2016 Martin C. Hawley, PhD BS 61, PhD 64 Chemical Engineering 2017 Steven H. Noll, JD BS 74 Electrical Engineering, Honors College

15 Michigan State University Alumni Association Award Recipients Distinguished Alumni Award 1947 Charles Edward Ferris BS 1890 Engineering 1947 Chauncey E. Webb BS 12 Engineering 1950 Jay Samuel Hartt BS 15 Electrical Engineering 1951 Grover Cleveland Dillman BS 13 Civil Engineering 1953 Charles D. Curtiss BS 11 Civil Engineering 1953 Verne L. Ketchum BS 12 Civil Engineering 1955 William Frank Uhl BS 02 Engineering 1957 Maurice J. Day BS 34, MS 35, PhD 37 Chemical Engineering 1957 P. Edward Geldhof BS 14 Engineering 1957 Stanley B. Hunt BS 29 Civil Engineering 1959 Louis A. Carapella BS 37 Engineering 1959 Bernard F. Coggan, Jr. BS 39 Engineering 1959 Arthur F. Vinson BS 29 Engineering 1960 Christian F. Beukema BS 40 Engineering 1961 James H. Foote BS 14 Engineering 1961 Frederick H. Mueller BS 14 Engineering 1962 Grayton F. Dressel BS 24 Engineering 1962 Stanley V. Gunn BS 47 Mechanical Engineering 1963 Richard W. Cook BS 33 Engineering 1963 Walter F. Patenge BS 23 Engineering 1965 John C. Mackie BS 42 Engineering 1970 Elizabeth B. Unger BS 61 Mechanical Engineering; MS Mathematics; PhD Computer Science & Engineering 1971 George B. Peters BS 36 Engineering 1972 Rr. Adm. Don Arden Jones BS 33 Engineering 1973 Donald J. Morfee BS 48 Civil Engineering 1973 Ralph D. Wyckoff BS 20 Engineering 1976 Clare F. Jarecki BS 33 Civil Engineering 1978 William R. Barrett BS 39 Engineering 1979 John R. Hamann BS 37 Engineering 1984 John D. Withrow BS 54 Mechanical Engineering; MBA Robert J. Schultz BS 53 Mechanical Engineering; MBA Verghese Kurien MS 48, PhD 65 Mechanical Engineering 1998 Lloyd D. Ward BS 70 Mechanical Engineering 1999 Richard L. M. Lord BS 53 Chemical Engineering 2000 Gary C. Valade BS 66 Electrical Engineering; MBA Roger L. Koenig BS 76 Electrical Engineering 2003 Joseph M. Colucci BS 58 Mechanical Engineering 2003 Paul H. Woodruff BS 59, MS 61 Civil Engineering 2004 Alton L. Granger BS 54 Civil Engineering 2004 James R. Von Ehr II BS 72 Computer Science & Engineering 2005 Gerald Elson BS 64, MS 65 Mechanical Engineering 2005 Ben Maibach III BS 68 Civil Engineering 2006 Joon S. Moon BS 60 Chemical Engineering 2007 Ghassem Asrar MS 81 Civil Engineering 2007 Surinder Kapur BS 64, MS 65, PhD 72 Mechanical Engineering 2012 William A. Demmer BS 70 Mechanical Engineering 2016 Kim Kay de Groh BS 85, MS 87 Materials Science

16 Michigan State University Alumni Association Award Recipients Distinguished Young Alumni Award 2007 Jeff Schmitz BS 97 Mechanical Engineering 2009 Gerald Reuben DeJean, II BS 00 Electrical Engineering 2010 Monica Braman BS 03 Engineering Arts 2012 Henry Balanon BS 06 Computer Science & Engineering 2014 Kurt Rothhaar BS 04 Computer Science & Engineering 2016 Ke (Coco) Zhang-Miske BS 07 Electrical Engineering Alumni Service Award 1998 Roger Bandeen BS 72 Computer Science & Engineering 1998 Leroy Dell BS 66 Civil Engineering 1999 William Larson BS 53 Metallurgical Engineering 2005 Molly Brennan BS 82 Computer Science & Engineering 2005 Michael McDonald BS 87 Chemical Engineering 2006 Anan Chaikittisilpa MS 69 Civil Engineering 2009 Lynn Bechtel BS 91 Mechanical Engineering 2010 George Lee Rock BS 49 Electrical Engineering 2015 Steven H Noll BS 74 Electrical Engineering Honorary Alumni Award 2006 Mackenzie Davis Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering Philanthropist Award 2001 Alton L. Granger BS 54 Civil Engineering and Janice M. Granger Nursing The Demmer Family Bill Demmer BS 70 Mechanical Engineering Joon S. Moon Distinguished International Alumni Award Recipients 1991 Joon S. Moon BS 60 Chemical Engineering 1994 Richard M. Hong MS 67, PhD 70 Electrical Engineering 1995 Samuel K. Nnama MS 77, PhD 79 Civil Engineering 1999 Khaled M. R. Abdulghani MS 78, PhD 82 Civil Engineering 2002 Lawrence Wong PhD 70 Mechanical Engineering 2006 Surinder Kapur BS 64, MS 65, PhD 72 Mechanical Engineering 2009 Kin Keung Lai PhD 77 Civil Engineering 2010 Surinder Kumar Choudhari BS 64 Mechanical Engineering 2017 Koji Kuroda PhD 84 Civil Engineering

17 College of Engineering Alumni Award Recipients Applied Engineering Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award 2004 Philip L. Fioravante BS Jane E. Sydlowski BS Daniel Brouse BS Steven J. Trecha BS Monte L. Falcoff BS Les L. Leone BS 68, MA 70, PhD Donnie D. Haye BS Daniel McNulty BS Michael W. Lamach, Sr. BS Randy Shacka BS Eric Seger BS Maura Frances McDonald BS Anthony A. Messina BS Renee Jennings Collins BS 81 Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award 2004 Bill A. Stout MS 55, PhD Benson J. Lamp PhD Robert J. Gustafson, PE PhD George H. Wedgworth BS Gary W. Schluckbier BS R. Paul Singh PhD Daniel L. Poland BS Eugene Ford BS 83, MS Stephen B. Richey BS 80, MS Kevin Evans BS Cassaundra F. Edwards BS Elaine P. Scott PhD 87 BAE, 89 ME 2016 John W. Larkin PhD Larry P. Walker MS 75, PhD 78 Red Cedar Circle Award in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science 2000 R. William Caldwell BS 38 Edwin J. Crosby BS 50 Michael H. Dennos BS 43 Bernard A. Paulson BS 49 William J. Hargreaves BS 46 John D. Hetchler BS 35 C. Robert Weir BS 42 Wilfred G. Shedd BS Herb Kirby BS 56 George E. Ted Willis BS John Ogren BS 65 John W. Pridgeon BS Joon S. Moon BS William B. Larson BS 53 Richard V. Pisarczyk BS Terence K. Kett MS 65, PhD Alton Rick Berquist BS Carl L. English BS Joseph F. Gentile BS 64, MS Kim K. de Groh BS 85, MS Morris C. Place, Jr. BS David Lamp BS Craig A. Rogerson BS Bruce E. Anderson BS & MS Joe S. Lin MS 77, PhD 81 Civil and Environmental Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award 2003 Leo Nothstine BS Leroy R. Dell BS Ben C. Maibach III BS Alton L. Granger, PE BS Paul H. Woodruff BS 59, MS Frank J. DeDecker, PE BS James K. Wight BS 69, MS W.F. Marcuson III MS Larry E. Tibbits, PE BS Sandra L. Woods BS HE Khaled M.R. Abdulghani MS 79, PhD Kin Keung Lai PhD Penny Wirsing BS Joseph A. Sopko, Jr. MS 83, BS 80, PhD Thomas Lewis Maleck, PE BS 66, MS 72

18 College of Engineering Alumni Award Recipients (continued) Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award 2004 Kevin J. Ohl BS Julie Louis-Benaglio BS James R. Von Ehr II BS Honda Shing MS 88, PhD Moti Kishin Jiandani MS Martha L. Gray BS Vandy Johnson BS Jianchang (JC) Mao PhD Deepak Mohan Advani BS Keith Landau BS Doug Zongker BS Louise Hemond-Wilson BS Qian Huang PhD Yunhao Liu MS 03, PhD 04 John D. Ryder Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Award 2004 David A. Pahl BS Brian M. Kent BS Gregg A. Motter BS 73, MS George H. Simmons BS 73, PhD Robert W. Leland BS Seyed Hossein Mousavinezhad MS 73, PhD Marvin W. Adams BS 81 Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award 2004 Kristin B. Zimmerman BS 87, MS 90, PhD Joseph C. Klewicki BS 83, PhD Patrick M. Miller MS 60, PhD Donald B. Paul BS Daniel J. Inman PhD David L. Joyce BS Pandeli Durbetaki PhD 64 Green Apple Teaching Award 2011 William M. Siefert BS 71, MS Asif Naseem MS 80, PhD Timothy A. Adcock BS 85, MS Fred Killeen BS Steven H. Noll BS Rachel S. Hutter, PE, CSP BS Raymond R. LaFrey BS 61, MS Thomas P. Gielda BS 80, MS Susan Pacheco BS Randall Stephens BS William F. Resh BS 81, PhD Dennis C. McLaughlin BS Dianna Dickie Cody BS Scott C. Morris BS 94, MS 97, PhD Eileen M. Slider Webberville Community Schools, Webberville, MI 2007 John W. Plough East Lansing High School, East Lansing, MI 2008 William Finch Denton High School, Denton, TX 2009 John West Bay City Central High School, Bay City, MI 2010 Franklin Stofflet Natrona County High School, Casper, WY 2011 Sharon Grandell Romulus Middle School, Romulus, MI 2012 Robert K. Weiss Port Huron High School, Port Huron, MI 2013 Louise Paquette Lansing Community College, mathematics faculty and coordinator of Engineering Program 2014 L. Martin Caves South Lyon High School, South Lyon, MI 2015 Janelle M. Orange MacDonald Middle School, East Lansing, MI 2016 Mary Anne Forgach Carpenter Street Elementary School, Midland, MI 2017 Fred Reusch Rockford Public Schools, Rockford, MI

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