College Announces Spring 2017 Outstanding Seniors and Graduate Teaching Assistants

May 18, 2017

The UA College of Engineering honored outstanding seniors and graduate teaching assistants for the spring 2017 semester at a commencement luncheon May 3.

Outstanding Seniors

Alex Beresford Engineering Management 

Nominated by Bob Lepore, program director

Jorge Castro-Maldonado Aerospace Engineering 

Nominated by Jesse Little, associate professor

Nicole Chellman Industrial Engineering

Nominated by Sharon O’Neal, lecturer

Neil Jenkins Materials Science & Engineering

Nominated by Pierre Deymier, professor and department head

Bryce Kirkpatrick Biosystems Engineering

Nominated by Peter Waller, associate professor

Emma Landsiedel Optical Sciences & Engineering

Nominated by Michael Nofziger, professor and outreach coordinator

Jing Liu Mining Engineering

Nominated by John Kemeny, professor and department head

Joshua Mack Electrical & Computer Engineering

Nominated by Hal Tharp, associate professor and associate department head

Davis McGregor Mechanical Engineering

Nominated by Jennifer Barton, professor and interim director of the BIO5 Institute

Kyel Powell Systems Engineering

Nominated by Larry Head, professor 

Ivana Vasic Chemical Engineering

Nominated by Paul Blowers, University Distinguished Professor

Jaimeson K. Veldhuizen Biomedical Engineering

Nominated by Yitshak Zohar, professor

Chanlin Robert Wong Civil Engineering

Nominated by Yao-Jan Wu, assistant professor

Graduate Teaching Assistants

Ishan Arora Mechanical Engineering

Nominated by Cho Lik Chan, professor and associate department head

Ryan Biggie Materials Science & Engineering

Nominated by Elizabeth Cameron, adjunct faculty and senior laboratory coordinator

Siteng Chen Electrical & Computer Engineering

Nominated by Wolfgang Fink, associate professor

Jaewook Choi Chemical Engineering

Nominated by Kasi M. Kiehlbaugh, lecturer

Jude Larbi Coompson Electrical & Computer Engineering

Nominated by Janet Meiling Roveda, professor

Byron Hempel Environmental Engineering

Nominated by Shane Snyder, professor

Junhyeok Park Mining, Geological & Geophysical Engineering

Nominated by Kwangmin Kim, assistant professor

Silvana Ayala Pelaez Electrical & Computer Engineering

Nominated by Raymond Kostuk, professor

Mohammad Sadat Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

Nominated by Lianyang Zhang, associate professor

Vivek Venkoban Mechanical Engineering

Nominated by Cho Lik Chan, professor and associate department head

Haomiao Yang Systems & Industrial Engineering

Nominated by Jian Liu, associate professor