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Alumni Awards

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May 5, 2018

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Michigan State UniversityCollege 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 EngineeringPresentation of Awards

Applied Engineering Sciences Distinguished Alumni AwardMitzi M. Montoya

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Distinguished Alumni AwardBrad Borgman

Red Cedar Circle Award in Chemical Engineering and Materials SciencePrabhat N. Shukla

Civil and Environmental Engineering Distinguished Alumni AwardJames A. Susan

Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumni AwardTracy Camp

John D. Ryder Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni AwardDarius Adamczyk

Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumni AwardLisa Sparrow

Green Apple Teaching AwardSteven P. Kosmas

Claud R. Erickson Distinguished Alumni AwardJianchang ( JC) Mao

The Kellogg Center, Lincoln RoomEast Lansing, Michigan

Applied Engineering Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award

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.

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 2015. 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 public-private 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.

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award

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.

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.

Red Cedar Circle Award in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

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.

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 1973. 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 1980.

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 (1985-1988) and received the Marketing Excellence Award in 1986.

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 1997. 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.

Civil and Environmental Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award

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.

James A. Susan, PE

BS ’75, Civil Engineering; MS ’77, Sanitary Engineering

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 2009.

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 2010. 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 1995. 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

Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumni 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.

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 1993. She joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama as an assistant professor in 1993. 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 1998-2007. 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 2016. 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 (2011-2014) and ACM’s Committee on Women in Computing (1998-2002). 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.

John D. Ryder Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Award

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.

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 2017. He has been a member of Honeywell’s board of directors since 2016. 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 1988. 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 five-fold 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.

Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award

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.

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 2006. She was named president and chief executive officer in 2009. 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 best-in-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.

Green Apple Teaching Award

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.

Steven Kosmas

BA ’94, Chemistry, Albion College;

MAT ‘00, Education andMA ‘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 2015-16 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.

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 2011. 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 year-over-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.

Dean Lawrence Wayne Von Tersch established the Claud R. Erickson Distinguished Alumni Award in 1982. 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 1993. 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 1922. 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 1941. 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.”

Claud R. Erickson

Claud R. Erickson Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

1982 Claud R. Erickson BS ’22, MS ’33 Electrical Engineering; MS ’27 Mechanical Engineering; MS ’34 Civil Engineering1983 R. William Caldwell BS ’38 Chemical Engineering1984 Harold C. MacDonald BS ’40 Mechanical Engineering1985 William J. Mottel BS ’51 Chemical Engineering1986 John H. Busch BS ’51 Civil Engineering1987 John D. Withrow BS ’54 Mechanical Engineering; MBA ’711988 Melville R. Barlow BS ’51 Mechanical Engineering1989 Robert J. Schultz BS ’53 Mechanical Engineering; MBA ’691990 Harold F. Wochholz BS ’58, MS ’59 Electrical Engineering1991 William B. Larson BS ’53 Metallurgical Engineering1992 Gerald W. Pearson BS ’55 Chemical Engineering1993 Paul H. Woodruff BS ’59, MS ’61 Civil Engineering1994 Bernard A. Paulson BS ’49 Chemical Engineering1995 Robert M. Fredericks BS ’67, MS ’68, PhD ’71 Electrical Engineering1995 John C. O’Malia MS ’72 Sanitary Engineering1996 Richard M. Hong MS ’67, PhD ’70 Electrical Engineering1997 Charles R. Weir BS ’42 Chemical Engineering1998 Raymond S. Colladay BS ’65, MS ’66, PhD ’69 Mechanical Engineering1999 Leroy R. Dell BS ’66 Civil Engineering2000 Michael H. Dennos BS ’43 Chemical Engineering2001 Richard H. Brown BS ’71 Mechanical Engineering2002 Roger L. Koenig BS ’76 Electrical Engineering2003 Joseph M. Colucci BS ’58 Mechanical Engineering2004 George E. “Ted” Willis BS ’42 Chemical Engineering2005 John Ogren BS ’65 Chemical Engineering2006 James R. Von Ehr II BS ’72 Computer Science & Engineering2007 Joon S. Moon BS ’60 Chemical Engineering2008 Charles J. Brady BS ’48 Mechanical Engineering2009 Richard V. Pisarczyk BS ’68 Chemical Engineering2010 Betty Shanahan BS ’78 Electrical Engineering2011 William A. Demmer BS ’70 Mechanical Engineering2012 Dr. Sami R. Al-Araji BS ’67, PhD ’73 Mechanical Engineering2013 Philip L. Fioravante BS ’84 Applied Engineering Sciences2014 Brian M. Kent BS ’80 Electrical Engineering2015 Alton L. Granger, PE BS ’54 Civil Engineering2016 Martin C. Hawley, PhD BS ’61, PhD ’64 Chemical Engineering2017 Steven H. Noll, JD BS ’74 Electrical Engineering, Honors College

Michigan State University Alumni Association Award Recipients

Distinguished Alumni Award1947 Charles Edward Ferris BS 1890 Engineering1947 Chauncey E. Webb BS ’12 Engineering 1950 Jay Samuel Hartt BS ’15 Electrical Engineering1951 Grover Cleveland Dillman BS ’13 Civil Engineering1953 Charles D. Curtiss BS ’11 Civil Engineering1953 Verne L. Ketchum BS ’12 Civil Engineering1955 William Frank Uhl BS ’02 Engineering1957 Maurice J. Day BS ’34, MS ’35, PhD ’37 Chemical Engineering1957 P. Edward Geldhof BS ’14 Engineering1957 Stanley B. Hunt BS ’29 Civil Engineering1959 Louis A. Carapella BS ’37 Engineering1959 Bernard F. Coggan, Jr. BS ’39 Engineering1959 Arthur F. Vinson BS ’29 Engineering1960 Christian F. Beukema BS ’40 Engineering1961 James H. Foote BS ’14 Engineering1961 Frederick H. Mueller BS ’14 Engineering1962 Grayton F. Dressel BS ’24 Engineering1962 Stanley V. Gunn BS ’47 Mechanical Engineering1963 Richard W. Cook BS ’33 Engineering1963 Walter F. Patenge BS ’23 Engineering1965 John C. Mackie BS ’42 Engineering1970 Elizabeth B. Unger BS ’61 Mechanical Engineering; MS Mathematics; PhD Computer Science & Engineering1971 George B. Peters BS ’36 Engineering1972 Rr. Adm. Don Arden Jones BS ’33 Engineering1973 Donald J. Morfee BS ’48 Civil Engineering1973 Ralph D. Wyckoff BS ’20 Engineering1976 Clare F. Jarecki BS ’33 Civil Engineering1978 William R. Barrett BS ’39 Engineering1979 John R. Hamann BS ’37 Engineering1984 John D. Withrow BS ’54 Mechanical Engineering; MBA ’711987 Robert J. Schultz BS ’53 Mechanical Engineering; MBA ’691991 Verghese Kurien MS ’48, PhD ’65 Mechanical Engineering1998 Lloyd D. Ward BS ’70 Mechanical Engineering1999 Richard L. M. Lord BS ’53 Chemical Engineering2000 Gary C. Valade BS ’66 Electrical Engineering; MBA ’682002 Roger L. Koenig BS ’76 Electrical Engineering2003 Joseph M. Colucci BS ’58 Mechanical Engineering2003 Paul H. Woodruff BS ’59, MS ’61 Civil Engineering2004 Alton L. Granger BS ’54 Civil Engineering2004 James R. Von Ehr II BS ’72 Computer Science & Engineering2005 Gerald Elson BS ’64, MS ’65 Mechanical Engineering2005 Ben Maibach III BS ’68 Civil Engineering2006 Joon S. Moon BS ’60 Chemical Engineering2007 Ghassem Asrar MS ’81 Civil Engineering2007 Surinder Kapur BS ’64, MS ’65, PhD ’72 Mechanical Engineering2012 William A. Demmer BS ’70 Mechanical Engineering2016 Kim Kay de Groh BS ’85, MS ’87 Materials Science

Michigan State University Alumni Association Award Recipients

Distinguished Young Alumni Award2007 Jeff Schmitz BS ’97 Mechanical Engineering2009 Gerald Reuben DeJean, II BS ’00 Electrical Engineering2010 Monica Braman BS ’03 Engineering Arts2012 Henry Balanon BS ’06 Computer Science & Engineering2014 Kurt Rothhaar BS ’04 Computer Science & Engineering2016 Ke (Coco) Zhang-Miske BS ’07 Electrical Engineering

Alumni Service Award1998 Roger Bandeen BS ’72 Computer Science & Engineering1998 Leroy Dell BS ’66 Civil Engineering1999 William Larson BS ’53 Metallurgical Engineering2005 Molly Brennan BS ’82 Computer Science & Engineering2005 Michael McDonald BS ’87 Chemical Engineering2006 Anan Chaikittisilpa MS ’69 Civil Engineering2009 Lynn Bechtel BS ’91 Mechanical Engineering2010 George “Lee” Rock BS ’49 Electrical Engineering2015 Steven H Noll BS ’74 Electrical Engineering

Honorary Alumni Award2006 Mackenzie Davis Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering

Philanthropist Award2001 Alton L. Granger BS ’54 Civil Engineering and Janice M. Granger Nursing ’802009 The Demmer Family Bill Demmer BS ’70 Mechanical Engineering

Joon S. Moon DistinguishedInternational Alumni Award Recipients

1991 Joon S. Moon BS ’60 Chemical Engineering1994 Richard M. Hong MS ’67, PhD ’70 Electrical Engineering1995 Samuel K. Nnama MS ’77, PhD ’79 Civil Engineering1999 Khaled M. R. Abdulghani MS ’78, PhD ’82 Civil Engineering2002 Lawrence Wong PhD ’70 Mechanical Engineering2006 Surinder Kapur BS ’64, MS ’65, PhD ’72 Mechanical Engineering 2009 Kin Keung Lai PhD ’77 Civil Engineering2010 Surinder Kumar Choudhari BS ’64 Mechanical Engineering2017 Koji Kuroda PhD ’84 Civil Engineering

College of Engineering Alumni Award Recipients

Applied Engineering Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award

2004 Philip L. Fioravante BS ’842005 Jane E. Sydlowski BS ’862006 Daniel Brouse BS ’842007 Steven J. Trecha BS ’802008 Monte L. Falcoff BS ’862009 Les L. Leone BS ’68, MA ’70, PhD ’742010 Donnie D. Haye BS ’81

2011 Daniel McNulty BS ’822012 Michael W. Lamach, Sr. BS ’852013 Randy Shacka BS ’042014 Eric Seger BS ’942015 Maura Frances McDonald BS ’872016 Anthony A. Messina BS ’802017 Renee Jennings Collins BS ’81

Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award

2004 Bill A. Stout MS ’55, PhD ’592005 Benson J. Lamp PhD ’602006 Robert J. Gustafson, PE PhD ’742007 George H. Wedgworth BS ’502008 Gary W. Schluckbier BS ’722009 R. Paul Singh PhD ’742010 Daniel L. Poland BS ’87

2011 Eugene Ford BS ’83, MS ’842012 Stephen B. Richey BS ’80, MS ’872013 Kevin Evans BS ’872014 Cassaundra F. Edwards BS ’942015 Elaine P. Scott PhD ’87 BAE, ’89 ME2016 John W. Larkin PhD ’842017 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 ’502004 Herb Kirby BS ’56 George E. “Ted” Willis BS ’422005 John Ogren BS ’65 John W. Pridgeon BS ’582006 Joon S. Moon BS ’60

2007 William B. Larson BS ’53 Richard V. Pisarczyk BS ’682008 Terence K. Kett MS ’65, PhD ’682009 Alton “Rick” Berquist BS ’612010 Carl L. English BS ’682011 Joseph F. Gentile BS ’64, MS ’662012 Kim K. de Groh BS ’85, MS ’872013 Morris C. Place, Jr. BS ’602014 David Lamp BS ’802015 Craig A. Rogerson BS ’792016 Bruce E. Anderson BS & MS ’68 2017 Joe S. Lin MS ’77, PhD ’81

Civil and Environmental Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award

2003 Leo Nothstine BS ’382004 Leroy R. Dell BS ’662005 Ben C. Maibach III BS ’692006 Alton L. Granger, PE BS ’542007 Paul H. Woodruff BS ’59, MS ’612008 Frank J. DeDecker, PE BS ’492009 James K. Wight BS ’69, MS ’702010 W.F. Marcuson III MS ’642011 Larry E. Tibbits, PE BS ’69

2012 Sandra L. Woods BS ’762013 HE Khaled M.R. Abdulghani MS ’79, PhD ’822014 Kin Keung Lai PhD ’772015 Penny Wirsing BS ’832016 Joseph A. Sopko, Jr. MS ’83, BS ’80, PhD ’902017 Thomas Lewis Maleck, PE BS ’66, MS ’72

College of Engineering Alumni Award Recipients (continued)

Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award

2004 Kevin J. Ohl BS ’782005 Julie Louis-Benaglio BS ’792006 James R. Von Ehr II BS ’722007 Honda Shing MS ’88, PhD ’922008 Moti Kishin Jiandani MS ’812009 Martha L. Gray BS ’782010 Vandy Johnson BS ’82

2011 Jianchang (JC) Mao PhD ’942012 Deepak Mohan Advani BS ’862013 Keith Landau BS ’822014 Doug Zongker BS ’962015 Louise Hemond-Wilson BS ’862016 Qian Huang PhD ’942017 Yunhao Liu MS ’03, PhD ’04

John D. Ryder Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Award

2004 David A. Pahl BS ’862005 Brian M. Kent BS ’802006 Gregg A. Motter BS ’73, MS ’802007 George H. Simmons BS ’73, PhD ’812008 Robert W. Leland BS ’852009 Seyed Hossein Mousavinezhad MS ’73, PhD ’772010 Marvin W. Adams BS ’81

2011 William M. Siefert BS ’71, MS ’752012 Asif Naseem MS ’80, PhD ’842013 Timothy A. Adcock BS ’85, MS ’842014 Fred Killeen BS ’822015 Steven H. Noll BS ’742016 Rachel S. Hutter, PE, CSP BS ’932017 Raymond R. LaFrey BS ’61, MS ’63

Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award

2004 Kristin B. Zimmerman BS ’87, MS ’90, PhD ’932005 Joseph C. Klewicki BS ’83, PhD ’892006 Patrick M. Miller MS ’60, PhD ’662007 Donald B. Paul BS ’682008 Daniel J. Inman PhD ’802009 David L. Joyce BS ’782010 Pandeli Durbetaki PhD ’64

2011 Thomas P. Gielda BS ’80, MS ’842012 Susan Pacheco BS ’842013 Randall Stephens BS ’852014 William F. Resh BS ’81, PhD ’842015 Dennis C. McLaughlin BS ’732016 Dianna Dickie Cody BS ’802017 Scott C. Morris BS ‘94, MS ‘97, PhD ’02

Green Apple Teaching Award

2006 Eileen M. Slider Webberville Community Schools, Webberville, MI2007 John W. Plough East Lansing High School, East Lansing, MI2008 William Finch Denton High School, Denton, TX2009 John West Bay City Central High School, Bay City, MI2010 Franklin Stofflet Natrona County High School, Casper, WY2011 Sharon Grandell Romulus Middle School, Romulus, MI2012 Robert K. Weiss Port Huron High School, Port Huron, MI2013 Louise Paquette Lansing Community College, mathematics faculty and coordinator of 2+2+2 Engineering Program2014 L. Martin Caves South Lyon High School, South Lyon, MI2015 Janelle M. Orange MacDonald Middle School, East Lansing, MI2016 Mary Anne Forgach Carpenter Street Elementary School, Midland, MI2017 Fred Reusch Rockford Public Schools, Rockford, MI

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