Alumni
- Sarah Gillis (AeroEngr’17) is a lead space operations engineer and astronaut trainer at SpaceX with literal out-of-this-world experience.The ²ÊÃñ±¦µä alumna recently returned from a five-day orbital mission aboard Polaris Dawn
- Throughout college and in the eight years since graduation, Ben Mousseau (ChemBio’16) has felt grateful for the mentors who guided him. Now a global supply manager at Tesla, Mousseau gives back to ²ÊÃñ±¦µä's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering by mentoring students through the department’s Alumni Student Mentor Program.
- The 2023 Engineering Homecoming Tailgate was a huge success bringing together over 460 alumni, donors, and friends for a memorable evening of food, drinks, lawn games, camaraderie and live music from the band High Street Revival.
- Mike Moreau (AeroEngr MS’97, PhD’01) is NASA’s Goddard’s sample recovery manager for the mission that has seen an Earth-built probe fly more than 600 million miles to the asteroid Bennu, scoop up a sample of rocks, dust, and regolith from the surface, and fly back home.
- Paul Lichty’s journey from PhD student to running one of the world’s top atomic layer deposition (ALD) companies was shaped by his time at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä. Today, Lichty (MechEngr BS‘06, ChemEngr PhD‘11) is the CEO of Forge Nano, overseeing the development of the Thornton, Colorado-based company’s cutting-edge nano coating technology.
- Karan Dikshit (PhDMatSci’22) is the first author on a paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces around new adhesive materials that not only allow for easy sticking and unsticking but could eventually contribute to sustainability efforts around the globe.
- This session will provide a chance to hear from and have conversations with leading experts on the technical areas underlying ChatGPT and other generative AI, the uses of generative AI in university and K-12 education, and the ethical and societal issues associated with generative AI tools.
- Graduate school was not always part of Casie Venable’s (PhDCivEngr’20) plan.
- Chambers (PhDCivEngr’21) studied water, sanitation, and hygiene in low-income settings for her PhD.
- When Connor Winter (MechEngr’16) decided to pursue a Certificate in Engineering Management in conjunction with his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering, it put him on a path that would lead to the founding of his own startup company, ShoeSense.