Letter from the Dean: May 2023

Welcome to an early edition of my May 2023 newsletter - I’ll be traveling internationally next week and may have limited email access.

As we end spring classes, I am pleased to share with you some of our most recent stories:

• Check out the feature on civil engineering associate professor Dr. John Ramirez-Avila and his work in the Amazon River Basin.
• A member of the Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, assistant professor Dr. Amin Amirlatifi of our petroleum engineering degree program was named associate director of the PATENT Lab.
• Check out the feature series titled Lessons Learned from civil engineering alumnus Stephen R. Gelman.
• Graduating this May? Please complete the Career Center First Destination Survey.
• Congratulation to this year’s BCoE award winners:
  • BCoE Career Award Winner—Dr. Lesley Strawderman, Professor, International Paper Chair, Industrial and Systems Engineering
  • BCoE Faculty Service Award Winner—Rob Wolz, Instructor, Aerospace Engineering
  • BCoE Faculty Research Winner—Dr. Reuben Burch, Associate Professor, Jack Hatcher Entrepreneurship Chair, Industrial and Systems Engineering
  • BCoE Academy of Distinguished Teachers—Ms. Morgan Green, Instructor, Mechanical Engineering & Dr. Junfeng Ma, Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
  • BCoE Professional Staff Winner—Josh Weaver, Building Services Coordinator, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • BCoE Graduate Student Research Winner—David Korba, Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering
  • BCoE Undergraduate Student Research Winner—Dongmin (Ethan) Kang, Industrial and Systems Engineering