The School of Engineering & Applied Science held its annual Alumni Achievement Awards dinner Feb. 18. Five alumni received Alumni Achievement Awards, one was given the Young Alumni Award, and one was honored with the Dean’s Award. The honorees:
Alumni Achievement Awards
Christopher Chivetta (BSME ’84, MBA ’86)
Chivetta
Chivetta is president of Hastings & Chivetta Architects Inc. and managing partner of 8760 Engineering LLC, a firm specializing in energy conservation and sustainable design.
As president of Hastings & Chivetta, he is credited with expanding the firm’s national reputation and design studios to meet the needs of educational clients. Projects have focused on sustainable design, and the firm has completed 13 projects that are LEED registered and certificated.
Chivetta and his wife, Anne (BSME ’84, MSME ’84), fund an engineering undergraduate student scholarship.
Janet Holloway (MSAMCS ’83)
Holloway
Holloway is senior vice president and chief of staff for Monsanto Co., managing the office of the chairman and CEO. She also provides executive oversight for Monsanto’s community relations activities, corporate facilities and business services.
Holloway is a 26-year veteran of the company and has held a variety of positions across the organization. She serves on the boards of the United Way of Greater St. Louis, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association and the St. Louis Community College Foundation.
In addition to her services as a member of the School of Engineering & Applied Science’s National Council, Holloway also supports the James M. McKelvey Undergraduate Research Scholars Program.
Marija Ilic (DScSSM ’79, MSSM ’79)
Ilic
Ilic is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University with a joint appointment in the electrical and computer engineering and engineering & public policy departments. She also is the Honorary Chaired Professor for Control of Future Electricity Network Operations at Delft University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands.
From 1987-2002, Ilic was a senior research scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Her main interest is in the systems aspects of operations, planning and economics of the electric power industry. She has co-authored several books in her field of interest and is an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow.
Panganamala Ramana Kumar (DScSSM ’78, MSSSM ’77)
Kumar
Kumar is the Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Information Trust Institute, and affiliate professor of computer science.
His current research interests are in wireless networks, sensor networks and networked embedded control systems.
Kumar is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow and the recipient of the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, the IEEE Field Award and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the IEEE Communications Society. Kumar also holds a guest chair professorship at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Zachary J. Lemnios (MSEE ’79)
Lemnios
Lemnios is the director of defense research and engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense. He serves as the chief technology officer for the defense department and is charged with the development and oversight of technology strategy. The goal of his position is to extend the capabilities of current war-fighting systems, develop breakthrough capabilities and hedge against an uncertain future through a set of scientific and engineering options and counter strategic surprise.
Previously, Lemnios was the chief technology officer of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory. Within industry, Lemnios has held various positions at Hughes Aircraft Co., Westinghouse Electric Corp. and Ford Microelectronics Inc. Lemnios holds four patents in advanced GaAs device and MMIC technology, and he is a senior member of the IEEE.
Young Alumni Award
William Eatherton (MSEE ’99)
Eatherton
Eatherton is a distinguished engineer and director of engineering at Cisco Systems Inc. He leads engineering for the ASR 1000 router at Cisco Systems, a project that bridges seven sites worldwide and involves hundreds of engineers. His technical innovations have earned him more than 25 patents, many before the age of 30.
He was a member of the program committee for hot chips in 2008 and is co-program chair in 2010. Eatherton has served on the program committee for the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications (ANCS) in 2007 and ’08. He served as program co-chair for ANCS in 2006.
Dean’s Award
Jack Bodine (BSIE ’49, MBA ’55)
Bodine
Bodine retired in 1990 as executive vice president and co-owner of Bodine Aluminum Inc., a manufacturer of sand and permanent mold aluminum castings headquartered in St. Louis.
Bodine has played leadership roles in the St. Louis chapters of the Non-Ferrous Founder’s Society, the American Foundrymen’s Society and the American Association of Industrial Management. He also is past president of the national Non-Ferrous Founder’s Society, the Cast Metals Institute and the American Foundrymen’s Society Research Board. He is a past national trustee of the Foundry Educational Foundation.
A devoted member of the School of Engineering & Applied Science Alumni Advisory Council, Bodine served as president in 1996. A life member of the William Greenleaf Eliot Society and sponsor of a term-endowed scholarship, he also is an active member of engineering’s National Council, the Eliot Society and scholarship committees.