spring 2008 • vol. 20 • no. 1
in this issue:
Design:
From Classroom to Practice
Engineers Without Borders
Alumni Advocates:
Recruiting the Best
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Dear Fellow Alumni/ae:
In past messages I outlined the CAA objectives for the year including those aligned with the
requests of Dean Norman Tien. Here are some highlights of a six-month progress report sent to
the Dean:
• At year end, the Case Fund® Annual Fund for the Case School of Engineering was at $602,701
toward our goal of $1,275,000 with 1,749 donors – we’re behind last year! Please respond to
our urgent need to meet our goal by sending in your Case Fund gift by June 30. A new class
agent Call-A-Thon will be organized, but don’t wait for a call!
• The newly organized CASE G.O.L.D. Society is up and operating. This includes CSE alumni
who graduated within the past ten years. It comes at an exciting time as a new positive
momentum is building on campus. All it takes is contributing as little as $25 annually to the
Case Fund. Up to $25,000 of gifts between $25 and $250 will be matched this year.
• Our new five-year strategic plan is underway and a final draft is expected by May 1. A
meeting was held with CSE faculty regarding their plans for CSE and the alignment of both
strategic plans.
• The CAA program to revitalize regional Case Clubs is proceeding with events held in Los
Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, Cleveland, Columbus, and Washington D.C. More
meetings are being scheduled for 2008.
• To help recruit highly-qualified students to CSE, the Admissions Department has participated
in Case Club meetings in Boston, Columbus and Washington D.C. Contact CWRU Admissions
to volunteer your time to help in this important program.
• To increase CAA visibility and service to students, a new Student-Alumni Relations Committee
has been formed. A faculty-student retreat was held to identify key focus areas, such as interdepartmental competitions, programs to assist students in choosing majors and alumni links
to each department. This issue highlights our increased funding to student organizations!
• Improvements in CAA administrative functions have been addressed such as upgrades to
our databases, improved fund-processing procedures and other functions. We hope you are
enjoying the newly-designed Case Alumnus as well as the first joint Annual Report with CSE.
• Reunion plans for 2008 are well underway. A special CASE G.O.L.D. event will be held, the
CSE class of 2008 will attend and CWRU President Barbara Snyder will be the featured
speaker along with Dean Norman Tien. Plan on being there!!
• New committees were formed to review relationships and communications with our international alumni as well as how to help increase the research programs at CSE.
Recently John Deaver Drinko, a prominent Cleveland attorney passed away. He had endowed
15 faculty chairs at various schools including CWRU Schools of Law and Nursing. Among his
many sayings, my favorite was, “I was a poor boy and someone had to build those dang places
before I got there, so I always wanted to pay that back.”
Sincerely,
Phil Gutmann ’54
President
Case Alumnus
The Case Alumni Association serves the
interests of more than 20,000 alumni of
the Case School of Applied Science, Case
Institute of Technology, and the Case School
of Engineering. Its mission is to serve and
advance the interests of the Case School of
Engineering, the math and applied sciences
of Case Western Reserve University, its
alumni, and its students through a strategic
focus on fund raising, institutional leadership, responsive services, public relations,
and student programs.
Established in 1885, by the first five graduates of the Case School of Applied Science,
the Case Alumni Association is the oldest
independent alumni association of engineering and applied science graduates in the
nation.
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APPLIED SCIENCES OF CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY AND ITS ALUMNI AND STUDENTS.
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Engineers Without Borders
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From Classroom to Practice
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A Course for Action
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CREATE
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Designing from the Top
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Recruiting the Best
Web: www.casealum.org
E-mail: casealum@casealum.org
Departments:
Officers
President’s Message
Phillip W. Gutmann ’54, President
Bruce W. Eckstein ’60, 1st Vice President
Thomas C. Litzler ’53, 2nd Vice President
Jeffrey A. Tanchon ’74, 3rd Vice President
William A. Buerkel ’52, Secretary
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Correspondence Corner
3
Notes From Nord 500
4
Case Clips
6
Your Dollars at Work
16
Around the Case Clubs
20
My Favorite Faculty
21
Class Notes
Tom Conlon, Executive Director
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CaseSpace
Angela V. Poltis, Executive Assistant
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In Memoriam
David C. Marsh ’49, Treasurer
Richard B. Smith ’51, Assistant Treasurer
Staff
Delia Mannen, Director of Student and
Alumni Affairs
Casey J. Matuszewski ’73,
Director of Development
VISIT US ONLINE FOR THE LATEST NEWS AND EVENTS!
www.casealum.org
Paul Stephan ’64, Director of Development
Diane M. Zaffuto, Database Manager,
Class Notes Editor
Pam Burtonshaw, Database Assistant
Jillian DeLong, Coordinator of Student and
Alumni Relations
Case Alumnus
Terri Mrosko, Editor
On the Cover: The Denk family owns and operates Denk Associates, Inc., a
mechanical and electrical consulting engineering firm in Cleveland. All three
are Case alumni. From left to right: Joseph F., Jr. ’84; Michael T. ’87; and
Joseph, Sr. ’59. Cover photo by Linda Ford, Linda’s Lenses, Inc.
McKinney Advertising & Public Relations
Design and layout; Leslie King, Art Director
St Ives, Printing and Mailing
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CORRESPONDENCE CORNER
FAVORITE FACULTY
FEEDBACK
SCHOLARSHIP
APPRECIATION
Dear Editor:
The feature on Lynn Ebert, who
was my faculty advisor, was very
interesting and nostalgic. It was
Dr. Ebert who threw the Browns
films/beer mixer that made up
my mind to pick metallurgy
over mechanical engineering.
Dear CAA:
I am writing to you to express
my sincerest appreciation and
gratitude at having been awarded
a scholarship from the L. David
Baldwin Scholarship Fund. I
am currently a junior physics
major, with a concentration
in mathematical physics, who
is interested in the theoretical
aspect of the field, particularly
in astrophysics and cosmology.
– Donald Baxter ’65 CIT
Let’s Hear from You!
Please Write! We welcome your letters
and comments about the contents of
the magazine, as well as all aspects of
the Case alumni experience. Give us
your feedback – send your comments
to the editor at Mrosko@cox.net. We
appreciate your interest and look
forward to hearing from you.
This past summer I worked
for Prof. Corbin Covault in
his High-Energy Astrophysics
Laboratory, conducting research
on the origin of cosmic rays.
Our work was part of a collaboration with scientists and
universities from all over the
world, collectively working on
the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray
Observatory located in Argentina.
Recently our results have been
published in the journal Nature
and were chosen as one of the
top 10 findings of 2007 by the
American Institute of Physics.
We found there to be a strong
correlation between Active
Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the
universe and the highest-energy
cosmic rays, suggesting AGNs to
be a possible source of cosmic
rays.
It excites me to know that I am
fortunate to have these experiences and makes me proud of
my decision to come to Case
Western Reserve University.
However, a great deal of thanks
is deserved for alumni who
so generously provide these
scholarships for students, lessen
the financial burden, and make
it possible for us to have these
wonderful experiences.
– Jeremy Harchelroad,
Class of 2009
STUDENT THANK YOU’S
Dear CAA:
Thank you for your generosity
in bestowing me with the Lytton
and Heidenreich family scholarships. I am a junior at Case
Western Reserve University and
these scholarships enable me to
continue pursuing my Bachelor’s
degree in Biomedical Engineering. I come from a small town in
Western Michigan, and when I
graduate, I will be the first in my
family to complete a Bachelor’s
degree. This scholarship really
means a lot to me, as I am paying
for my education myself.
– Caroline Hamman,
Class of 2009
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NOTES FROM NORD 500
Dear Alumnus/a:
My first year as the dean of the Case School of Engineering officially came to a close on February 3.
In just 12 months, I’ve logged more than 100,000 miles crisscrossing the world to meet loyal
alumni and old friends while forging new relationships. Closer to home, I’ve instituted several
changes at the School to build on our existing strengths and to encourage innovative growth.
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I am now joined by three new department chairs including the
first two women to hold these esteemed positions in our school’s history. I hope to round out
my leadership team with an announcement about a new chair of biomedical engineering soon
after the release of this publication. Since late summer, I have also served with a dynamic new
president, Barbara Snyder. Her enthusiasm for the engineering school was evident when she
spoke during DEXTER’s induction ceremony at the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum last
month after its top 20 finish at the DARPA Grand Challenge.
One of my many charges over the past year is to establish large, multi-disciplinary research
initiatives that impact issues of consequence to our world. There is no greater engineering
challenge for our faculty or students than the generation, transportation, utilization and storage
of energy. Our world’s increasing energy demands require revolutionary solutions that not only
strengthen our energy resources but also protect our environment. The Case School has been
a recognized leader in fuel cell technology and can transfer that expertise to other parts of the
energy equation.
As part of this initiative, the Cleveland Foundation generously awarded a $3.6 million transformational grant last December for us to launch the Great Lakes Institute for Energy Innovation,
led by Faculty Director Iwan Alexander, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. The
grant provides start-up funds to hire two emerging world-class faculty members poised to lead
in their specialty of energy research. With these funds we will also hire an executive director
with global influence in the energy industry to create national and international corporate
partnerships for research and development.
In less than three months since the Institute’s creation, we have also received a $2 million commitment to create the University’s first professorship dedicated to energy: the Milton and Tamar
Maltz Professorship in Energy Innovation. These two gifts will enable the School to recruit
and retain rising stars in this field: an essential element to the Institute’s and the Case School’s
success. I am enormously grateful to the Cleveland Foundation and the Maltz family for their
support.
In the coming year, I hope that we can make similar progress in another new major research
thrusts: the engineering of bio-systems and human health, which enhances our already nationally
recognized biomedical engineering program. I look forward to reporting more on the success of
this initiative at my second anniversary. Until then, thank you all for a wonderful first year!
Sincerely,
Norman C. Tien
Nord Professor of Engineering and Dean
Ohio Eminent Scholar in Physics
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CASE CLIPS – News from Around Campus
ENERGY INNOVATION
GRANT
Case Western Reserve University’s
new Great Lakes Institute for
Energy Innovation received a $3.6
million grant from The Cleveland
Foundation this past December.
The new institute is based at the
Case School of Engineering and
will build on the university’s
strengths in fuel cell research and
materials science to help generate
and implement achievable solutions
for tomorrow’s industries through
development of innovative energy
technology platforms, energy
research and energy-use strategies.
Case Reserve Athletic Club
2008 Hall of Fame Inductees
Congratulations to the following alumni on their selection
to this year’s Hall of Fame. Induction ceremonies will be
held on April 25, 2008.
Robert Bauman - Football
BS 1962 (Mechanical Engineering)
MBA 1968 (Western Reserve College)
President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director
Hickok Incorporated – Cleveland, OH
Susan Beatty Sawayda - Swimming and Diving
BS 1997 (Chemical Engineering)
Product Development Engineer
Washington Penn Plastic Company – Washington, PA
Jay R. Gindin - Swimming and Diving
BS 1993 (Computer Engineering)
MS 1993 (Computer Engineering/Computer Science)
Senior Product Developer
Wall Data Incorporated – Bellevue, WA
Alan Peterson - Wrestling
BS 1954 (Management Science)
Retired - Fort Myers Beach, FL
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DEAN NORMAN C. TIEN
RECEIVES LEADERSHIP
AWARD
Norman C. Tien, dean and Nord
Professor of Engineering at Case
Western Reserve University, was
one of two Asian American educators in the
United States selected to receive the second annual
Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award
presented by the Asian Pacific fund. An unrestricted
grant award of $10,000 is given in recognition of
the recipients’ professional accomplishments and
leadership qualities.
The award is named for Dean Tien’s late
father, who was chancellor of the University of
California-Berkeley from 1990 to 1997 and the
first Asian American to lead a major American
research university. He was a founding member
of the Asian Pacific Fund’s board of directors. The
program was created by and is supported by the
many people who admired Chancellor Tien to
promote the accomplishments of Asian Americans
who are underrepresented in leadership positions
in higher education.
Case Alumnus
MAGAZINE RECOGNIZED
The magazine of the Case
Alumni Association received a
silver award in the “Nonprofit
Magazines” category at the PRSA
Cleveland Rocks Award held in
December. The organization
is the Cleveland chapter of the
national Public Relations Society of America.
Congratulations to Terri Mrosko,
editor of the magazine and principal of Enhanced
Communication, and Leslie King, senior art
director at McKinney Advertising.
Alumni Volunteers Needed
RESEARCH SHOWCASE 2008
APRIL 16 & 17
Join the hundreds of Case faculty, staff and
students as well as researchers at its affiliated
institutions at this year’s event. In addition to
provocative panels, Research ShowCASE 2008
will explore today’s changing urban profile with
participation from the Baker Nord Center’s
CityScapes project, exploring the city as a crucible
of creative change. The Functional Electrical
Stimulation Center will demonstrate the miracle
of movement with the application of electrical
currents to either generate or suppress activity to
the nervous system, enabling the movement of
paralyzed limbs. Also attending is SIM man, an
interactive medical training robot that breathes
and has a pulse.
For more information, visit
http://showcase.case.edu.
Become a volunteer of the Alumni Career Network and you
can provide students with the information needed to navigate
their future successfully. This can be through a single, brief
conversation or a long-term mentoring experience. Some
of the ways you can assist students as an Alumni Career
Network volunteer include:
Providing information on general economic, operational and
employment trends. Discuss your knowledge and expertise in
a particular industry or field. Share information about your
own career and suggest ways in which students can start their
careers.
Providing regional information on cost of living, area points
of interest and community organizations to students who are
relocating to your area.
Developing a Shadowing Experience, Internship or Externship
at your company for Case Western Reserve students. This type
of on-site learning experience allows students to gain an insiders’
view of the day-to-day activities taking place in various fields.
Contact the Career Center about recruiting current students for
positions in your company. Post full-time positions or summer
internships currently available in your company. These positions
will be posted on a Web site that is password protected and
available exclusively for students and alumni.
Sponsored by the Case Career Center and Office of
University Alumni Relations, under the direction of Amy
Goldman, Assistant Director of Alumni Career Services, the
Alumni Career Network works to connect Alumni volunteers to
students and other alumni for the career advice and guidance.
Contact Information:
Amy Goldman, Email: amy.goldman@case.edu
CODY WOOD
The sophomore career connection was a positive and worthwhile experience from start to finish.
The career center was extremely communicative and helpful throughout the process which ended
with them finding an alumnus in my hometown who shared my major and is a senior scientist for
a major corporation. Though he was only available for a few hours, he dedicated the entire time
to answering questions and showing me the actual instruments and devices he and his team used
to develop new technologies in the medical field. Additionally, several of his staff members took
me on a private tour of the state of the art labs and explained to me each manufacturing process in
detail well beyond my years in school.
Overall, the shadowing experience allowed me to greatly further my understanding of the professional potential for myself as a biomedical engineer. The insight my host provided on biotech and
medical technology businesses today not only helped me to picture my long term goals following
college, but also spurred an immediate feeling of satisfaction with my major and a fresh outlook
for the rest of the semester.
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YOUR DOLLARS AT WORK
CASE FUND BOARD COMPLETES
FUNDING FOR STUDENT
ORGANIZATIONS
The Case Fund Board, at its December 6, 2007
meeting, completed its funding to student
organizations who presented their requests to the
Board. Some of these were highlighted in the last
edition of the Case Alumnus. Here is the complete
funding for 2007-08.
• Polymer Innovation Northeast Ohio
July 27, 2008 Conference at CWRU that
enables students to meet and network with
professionals in the academic and industrial
polymer community
$3,000
• 2008 Steel Bridge Competition
American Society of Civil Engineers national
competition to design, fabricate and construct
a twenty-foot steel bridge
$7,300
• 2008 Case Baja SAE Competition
To design, build and compete in this annual
Society of Automotive Engineers racecar
competition
$10,000
• Case Engineers Council
Toward 2008 Engineers Week activities including
CAA co-sponsorship of E-Week banquet
$10,000
• Engineers Without Borders
To support Engineers Without Borders water
needs project in Cruce de Blanco, Dominican
Republic including travel and construction
materials
$20,000
• Society of Plastics Engineering
To host a chemical science career fair, “In
Reaction”
$1,500
• Case Undergraduate Materials Society
To host a “Foundry Day” event to showcase the
department’s foundry, mentoring of students
and the annual meeting attendance
$4,000
• Formula SAE Hybrid Competition
To design, build and compete a hybrid
technology racecar
$19,000
• Project MedWish
To aid in the recycling and recovery of medical
instrumentation
$2,300
• Case’s Rising Engineers And Technological
Entrepreneurs—CREATE
Funds to provide 9 – $3,250 summer design
scholarships ($29,250) and funds for design
projects and supervision
$43,750
• Biomedical Engineering Society
Funding toward National Biomedical
Engineering Conference, Midwest Conference,
campus events and industry tours
$15,000
• AIAA’s Design/Build/Fly Airplane
Competition
Funds for tools, materials and competition
$7,500
• Physics and Astronomy Club
Funds for annual trip to Conference in Chicago
and tour of Fermi Lab
$1,500
• Math Club
Funds to host Annual Math Gala
$1,000
• Support of Undergraduate Research and
Creative Endeavors—SOURCE
Funds to support 20 undergraduate summer
research internships, $3,500 each
$70,000
• SOURCE Energy Internships
Funds to support 5 undergraduate summer
research internships in campus energy
initiatives, $3,500 each
$17,500
• Society of Women Engineers
Funds to support SWE activities on campus
$3,000
THE PROUDEST INVESTMENTS YOU CAN MAKE!
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• Graduate Chemistry Association
To host events to bolster interest in graduate
studies in chemistry
$1,000
• Army intelligence Ground Vehicle
Competition
Funds to support “DEXTER”
$25,000
The total granted of $271,350 compares to
$193,000 last year, a significant increase in
funding to these wonderful student organizations
and the value they bring to the “Case” experience.
Congratulations students!
OTHER CASE FUND® BOARD
ACTIONS:
The Case Fund Board allocates annually funds
from named endowment and restricted funds
held by the Case Alumni Foundation to the Case
School of Engineering, the College of Arts & Sciences
and other CWRU activities and programs. Here
are some of the allocations recently approved:
• Peterjohn Endowment Fund for chemical
engineering
$34,947
• Baldwin ’49 Endowment for EECS faculty
development and equipment
$59,967
• Ward ’41/Johnson ’41 Endowment for
mechanical engineering lab
$14,547
• Newpher ’37 Endowment for equipment and
Newpher lab
$18,525
• Ray Witt ’51 Foundry Fund for foundry
professor and special purchase of chemical
analysis spectrometer
$131,604
• Baldwin ’49 Endowment for Baldwin labs in
physics
$40,524
• Fellowship Support
º Art Mendolia ’41 Fund
$ 39,123
º Donald & Elaine Horsburgh ’40 Fund
44,144
º W.R. Persons ’31 Fund
34,925
TOTAL Fellowships
$118,192
• Charles Koch ’41 Fund for faculty development
$6,859
• W.R. Persons ’31 Sensor Technology Fund for
Persons Professor
$53,621
• Frank Neff Professorship in civil engineering
$72,345
These are a few of the many funds administered
by the Case Alumni Foundation that provide
support to faculty, department and equipment
needs at the Case School of Engineering and
Science Departments at the College of Arts &
Sciences. For more information on establishing
a named endowment fund at the Case Alumni
Foundation, contact Tom Conlon at
(216) 231-4567. For opportunities to contribute
to the Case School of Engineering, contact Jeremy
Weaver at (216) 368-0339.
The CASE G.O.L.D. SOCIETY has been established to recognize and encourage annual giving to the Case Fund, the annual fund for
the Case School of Engineering, from CSE graduates of the last ten years. The primary goal will be to increase participation rates.
The CASE G.O.L.D. Society levels of giving will be defined to encourage all gifts of $25 or more. Over time, special recognition
vehicles will be determined to provide additional incentives.
To inaugurate the CASE G.O.L.D. Society for 2007-08, the president of the CAA Phillip W. Gutmann ’54, has pledged a matching
gift challenge of $25,000 for new or increased gifts of $25 to $250. A special brochure with details has been sent to all classes of
1998 through 2007.
A CASE G.O.L.D. Advisory Group is being formed to include one (or more) representative(s) from each of the ten CASE G.O.L.D.
classes (1998-2007). These class representatives will serve as advisors to the program and become their class liaisons. Please
contact Delia Mannen at the CAA Office if you are interested in being a CASE G.O.L.D. class representative.
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Engineers Without Borders
By Kathleen Puttmann, Freshman
The Case Western Reserve University chapter of Engineers Without Borders spent
nine days in Cruce de Blanco, a village of about 600 in the rural mountains of the
Dominican Republic, where the students worked on a project to construct a new water
system. Participating in Engineers Without Borders helps students gain practical and
worldly experiences as they work with professional engineers, allowing them to apply
what they learn in the classroom to the outside world. The group received funding from
the Case Alumni Association for the trip. Here is a recap from one of the participating
students, freshman Kathleen Puttmann, pictured in the top photo (above).
In January 2008, I had one of the most eyeopening experiences of my life as I traveled
south of the United States for the first time and
visited the Dominican Republic. After five hours
and two wrong turns through foggy mountains
over precarious roads, we arrived in the small
mountain town. The gorgeous scenery that
surrounded us everyday sharply contrasted the
extreme poverty of the majority of the homes.
Families of 10 or 12 people were living in houses
of 400 square feet. Due to government relocation
and a scarcity of jobs, people struggled to support
themselves.
Interacting with the people of the town was
both frustrating and rewarding. With my limited
grasp of Spanish, I struggled to make myself
understood or to respond to their questions.
However, I was still able to hear stories about the
mountains and the Three Kings, learn how to
play dominoes, and laugh and make jokes with
the people living there. Many of the people told
me fascinating stories about themselves and their
lives but sometimes the language barrier was
too high, and I lost the meaning. The experience
impressed upon me the importance of improving my language skills, especially in our steadily
shrinking world.
As an undergraduate engineering student, I do not
have the schooling to design the system myself,
but the research before the trip allowed me to
contribute to the technical planning. Working
with the other engineers, I expanded my knowledge of the difficulties involved in constructing
a water system and the calculations required.
After seeing the town for myself, I realized the
breadth of the project and the major impact that
we could have. The town of Cruce de Blanco
legitimately needs a new water system. I have met
the people; they are smart, funny, generous and
wonderful people who live with conditions we
would not tolerate for a week.
A Career in Design Engineering:
FROM CLASSROOM TO PRACTICE
Some design and create medical devices. Others design
alternative energy systems. Some build products, design
bridges and avionics or fabricate a new medicine or even
design a computer game. What design engineers all have in
common is applying the principles of science, mathematics
and engineering they learned in school to developing marketable
products and services.
Alumni Designers
Case Alumnus takes a look at the process of creating a career
in design engineering starting with the classroom all the way
to the finished product – a career as a design engineer. We
highlight various design courses at the Case School of
Engineering, we look at some of the design experiences
students are enjoying while still in school, and we profile
some Case alumni who have succeeded in their respective
design-related careers.
Andrew Schifle ’04, G’07
Case School of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
On this page: Two recent Case graduates, one in mechanical
engineering and the other in civil engineering, share a little
bit about their careers as design engineers and how well their
college design courses helped prepare them for it.
How did Case prepare you for your career?
On the following pages:
Engineering Design – A Course for Action
Senior Design Experience
CREATE: Case’s Rising Engineers &
Technological Entrepreneurs
Designing from the Top
Page 10
Page 12
Page 13
Page 14
Current Employer: NuVasive Inc.
Location: San Diego, CA
Job Title: Design Engineer
What I do: Design and bring to market
implants and implant systems for the cervical spine
Material from my thesis work on vertebrae and courses
in biomechanics directly translated to my current daily
work. More generally, the demanding workload at
Case Western Reserve University is excellent preparation
for a fast-paced work environment.
Recommendations to better prepare students for
real-world jobs as designers.
Offering more exposure to fabrication and industry
regulations would be helpful at the early stages.
David Gilmore ‘01
Case School of Engineering
Civil Engineering
Current Employer: Parsons Corp.
Location: Chicago, IL
Job Title: Bridge Engineer II
What I do: Responsible for design
of bridge superstructures and
substructures
How did Case prepare you for your career?
My education at Case provided me with a thorough
knowledge of structural behavior and the ability to
anticipate structural demands.
Recommendations to better prepare students for
real-world jobs as designers.
Case should offer a class dedicated to understanding
the governing loads for, behavior of, and concerns for
complex bridge types.
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ENGINEERING DESIGN –
A COURSE FOR ACTION
By Terri Mrosko
The senior design courses at the Case School of
Engineering give upperclassmen the opportunity
to finally put the previous years’ classroom theory
to the test. The courses are designed to provide
practical hands-on experience in engineering
– most notably, through a design project resulting
in a solution to a real-world problem.
Each of the major engineering disciplines –
Biomedical, Chemical, Mechanical & Aerospace,
Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Materials
Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering &
Computer Science and Civil Engineering – have a
senior design course.
“Students practice team skills working the entire
semester together on the project. The courses
and assignments introduce them to managerial
economics, regulatory agencies, patents and patent
law, ethics and integrate these features into a
solution,” says David A. Schiraldi, an associate
professor in the Department of Macromolecular
Science & Engineering.
His course teaches the students how to design a
product with a focus in plastics. The students
are divided into groups of three, with a difficult,
semester-long project to work on. “Coming from
the industry, I try to keep the project process as
close to that of the real world as possible,” Schiraldi
says. “Some of the past projects have been really
outstanding.”
Past projects in this course entailed students
working on all-plastic heart catheters, a plastic
fire hydrant, a plastic gas cylinder, automobile
bumpers, auto fenders from recycled plastics, and
many more items. This year’s team is redesigning
the propeller for a commercial turboprop aircraft
– out of plastic.
This particular course, “Polymer Engineering
Design Project,” has an underlying theme of
ambiguity – there may or may not be a satisfactory solution to the design project (“Welcome to
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the real world,” Schiraldi makes sure to tell the
students). But as in the real world, all participants
are expected to make their best effort.
Professor Joseph Prahl of the Mechanical &
Aerospace Engineering Department is the faculty
coordinator for the senior design classes. “There
are some 40 students working on design problems
that resulted from their past COOP experience or
their BS/MS thesis, as well as CAA-funded special
design projects like Mini Baja, Formula SAE,
Dexter, and Design Build and Fly,” he says.
This spring, Prahl is teaching a design course
focused on the aspects of alternative energy
schemes. Some of the projects the students in this
field are working on are designing a hydraulic
transmission system to transfer the energy generated by a wind turbine to an electric generator,
designing a natural gas-powered heat pump with
waste heat recovery that utilizes ground thermal
storage, designing a heat exchanger that recovers
heat from the exhaust air from the Glennan
Building chemical hood system, and a feasibility
analysis of electric power generation from solar
energy stored in the surface waters.
Tim Tocci is a senior taking Prahl’s design class,
“Design of Thermal and Fluid Systems,” this
semester. He says the project offers a presentworld design problem, providing students with an
incentive to find solutions to alternative energy
and instills them with a sense of purpose.
“After three years of mulling over the theory, a
practical application is finally connected to the
theory. Figuratively speaking, design projects such
as this allow the rubber to finally meet the road,”
says Tocci of his senior design experience.
In the Chemical Engineering Department,
Dr. Robert Harris, an adjunct professor, has his
students working on class projects taken directly
from his consulting practice or industrial career
experience. Past projects included designing a
biorefinery plant to produce bioethanol using a
genetically modified “bug” for fermentation and
scrap cardboard as the feedstock. The resulting
ethanol was used to make “gasohol” for motor fuel.
The following year, the focus was to design a
process to produce a new type of penicillin using
novel fermentation technology that resulted in a
very pure product. This year’s project is to design
a process to produce “green solvents” for use in the
electronics industry and also an easily biodegradable plastic to minimize disposal problems from
current petroleum-based plastics.
“For most of an engineering student’s academic
career, the emphasis is on developing critical
skills and knowledge in engineering and scientific
fundamentals. A real-world design experience
will be directly applicable to their future careers,”
Harris explains.
Over in the Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science Department, Marc Buchner teaches a
junior/senior design course in conjunction with
Professor Knut Hybinette of The Cleveland
Institute of Art. Students collaborate and use their
talents and expertise to develop a computer game
having an interactive immersive experience.
Students take on roles of game producers, developers, programmers, and/or graphic artists as they
learn to brainstorm, define, assemble resources,
implement the game design, and manage their
projects. It’s important for the game to succeed,
says Buchner, but it’s just as important to have fun
and enjoy the process.
“The course is rather unique in many respects
including that it is a true multi-disciplinary design
course, not simply involving only engineering
students. Students form large teams, thereby
giving them an excellent design experience that
nicely parallels one in industry. Their projects are
even evaluated by professional game designers,”
Buchner says.
Perhaps the ultimate design experience this past
year was for students involved in the creation of
DEXTER, the self-driving car that competed in
the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. In all, over 50
Case team members contributed over the course
of several semesters beginning in the fall of 2006.
Fourteen undergraduates worked on DEXTER in
the context of the senior-project capstone design
course (EECS 398 and EECS 399).
Example design sub-projects included navigation
in parking lots, integration of kinematics, GPS
and vision to estimate physical state, outfitting
an instrumental minivan for data acquisition and
software testing, and methods of sensor calibration.
“Our team brought together students from various
disciplines. Students learned how to apply their
technical knowledge to a leading-edge, highlycompetitive, complex team design project,” said
Wyatt Newman, EECS professor and coordinator
of the project. “This experience was recognized by
employers, and our graduating students received
many attractive job offers.”
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Senior Design Experience
Jesse Fish
Computer Engineering & Biomedical Engineering /
Graduating 2009
Design Project: In EECS 390, two teams of artists and
programmers made two different computer games using
the XNA development suite.
My design experience: I feel like I have gotten enough
design project experience while I have been at Case.
During this experience, I learned to program in a large
group using subversion. These are essential skills I can
use later in the professional world when programming in groups.
The thing I liked best about this project was the thrill of adding a new
aspect to the game and seeing it immediately implemented and then discussing with my project partners how we would like to see it changed.
Tim Tocci
Mechanical Engineering / Graduating May 2008
Design Project: Design a hydraulic transmission system
for 2-megawatt wind turbines. Ideally, such a system
would eliminate the need to perform maintenance on
turbine parts located at the top of the tower: current wind
turbines have gearboxes and generators weighing a
total of 25 tons sitting at the top of a 200+ foot. pole.
This becomes a more complex problem when the turbine
is on Lake Erie because a barge must be outfitted with
a crane to remove the parts from the top of this pole before they can be
serviced.
My design experience: Unfortunately we found that our design goals
were unrealizable. The project would have benefited from presentations
or lectures by professionals within the wind energy business. Such expertise
would allow us to ground our expectations with a greater understanding
of wind turbines. Considering the limited scope and duration of this
project (about three weeks), this alteration may be impractical.
I plan on using this design experience in the field of product design and
development. My goal is to blend my technical background in mechanical
engineering with my aspirations in industrial design to produce novel
solutions to modern design dilemmas.
Andrew Pozzuto
Mechanical Engineering / Graduating 2009
Design Project: EMAE 355 Thermodynamic and Fluid
System Design (see above description)
My design experience: I enjoy the ability to design
something from the ground up. It is a pleasant change
to use the skills we have learned toward a real-world
application instead of theoretical problems. Design is
invaluable in industry and a lack of that hurts you in your
first few years in industry.
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CREATE:
Case’s Rising Engineers &
Technological Entrepreneurs
The Case Alumni Association recently agreed to help fund CREATE’s “Summer Design
Experience,” a program targeted to all undergraduates in the engineering, math and
physical science programs, regardless of level or discipline, who are interested in
experiencing a real-world design process.
Dr. Dustin J. Tyler, Nord Distinguished Assistant
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
worked in the industry for several years before
returning as a Case faculty member in 2004. He
had a vision to enhance the design experience for
undergraduate students younger than seniors so
they could gain earlier and more frequent realworld design experience.
“A single semester is fairly short to really get into
quality design and senior year is almost too late.
It doesn’t give students a sense of what they are
going to be doing,” said Tyler. Also, it was rare for
engineering students from different disciplines
to interact with each other, as they would in the
workplace.
That was the impetus behind CREATE, a yearold collaborative effort between the Biomedical
Engineering Department and The Institute for
Management and Engineering (TiME). This year,
CREATE announced its inaugural Summer Design
Experience program, which will run from May 19
to August 1.
design-oriented organizations such as NottinghamSpirk. In addition, 11 student applicants
will be awarded stipends funded by the Case
Alumni Association in order to further encourage
involvement.
“Because design is an important aspect for any
engineering student who wants to work as an
engineer after he or she graduates, we wanted to
provide undergrads with design experience from
freshman year all the way to senior year,” said
Chris Borish, a TiME graduate student and co-vice
president of the CREATE executive board
Right now CREATE has four projects currently
running hosted by University Hospital (UH) and
United Cerebral Palsy (UCP). Projects include
designing an endoscopic surgery training tool and
a realistic adaptation to an anesthesiology training
mannequin for UH surgeons and developing a
novel page turning/dispensing device and adapting
an existing bike/toy for UCP clients.
Visit the CREATE website (www.case.edu/orgs/create)
for more details about these and future projects.
Students of various ages and engineering disciplines will be organized into cross-functional
teams. There they will experience the complete
design process, including formally documenting
progress in lab notebooks, scheduling project
deadlines, managing a budget, ordering materials,
using CAD to draw and model their solutions,
fabricating functional prototypes in CREATE’s
machining workshop, and eventually donating the
final products to the project hosts.
The Summer Design Experience will also include
weekly lectures on the design process delivered
by faculty members, workshops in SolidWorks,
Matlab, and PSpice, as well as field trips to local
Top photo (l-r): Alex Engel, Dr. Tyler, Chris Borish
Middle photo: sip and puff laser device for surgeon
Bottom photo: Alex, student
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Left to right:
Aaron, Nina, Alex,
Ryan, students
DESIGNING FROM THE TOP
By Terri Mrosko
Alumni entrepreneurs share their stories about business ownership in
the building systems design field.
The junior Denk received many job offers after he
graduated in 1984. “It seems to me that you can
do anything you want with an engineering degree
as you start . . . design, technical sales, business
management, etc.,” he said. He eventually chose to
work for GM because of his love for cars. After a
couple of years, he got restless.
Since it was the 1980s and “entrepreneurs” seemed
in vogue at the time, Denk decided to go work
for Denk Associates after all. Three years later,
younger brother Michael did so as well, after
graduating from – where else? – Case in 1987 with
a mechanical engineering degree.
Left to right: Michael ’87,
Joe, Jr ’84, Joe Sr. ’59
DENK ASSOCIATES, INC.
When Joseph F. Denk, Jr. went to college, he chose
to major in mechanical engineering at Case, just
as his father – Joseph F. Denk, Sr. ’59 – had done.
But if someone had told him back then he’d again
follow in his father’s footsteps and ultimately join
the mechanical and electrical consulting engineering firm his father started in 1967, he never would
have believed it.
“I didn’t have a passion for engineering while
I was in high school, but by the middle of my
freshman year of college, I could tell I had found a
significant area. We were all taking difficult classes
and having to work extremely hard,” Denk recalls
of his days at Case. Nonetheless, he still did not
intend to go into the family business.
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Now the three engineering consultants work
together on a daily basis, with a staff that includes
13 other employees. The focus of their work is
providing mechanical and electrical design services
to the architectural profession, with offices located
in Cleveland. The company has done “lots of
jobs at Case” including most recently the systems
for the Wood Building, part of the Case Medical
School.
“We typically work with a developer and put
together plans for heating and cooling, all the
plumbing systems, the electrical, fire protection
systems, telephone and any special power systems.
It’s the guts of the building—all the things you
don’t see but need to be there,” explains Denk.
Denk Associates, Inc. has hired summer interns
from Case, and Joe Denk says he is a big proponent
of obtaining an engineering degree. “An engineering degree prepares a person to analyze things and
process information. We design building systems;
they aren’t extremely high-tech. But with a good
engineering degree, we find our employees come
into it pretty quickly.”
Left to right:
Todd Yeung ’97 and
Ed McHenry ’67
MCHENRY & ASSOCIATES, INC.
Ed McHenry ’67 has two degrees from Case
Western Reserve University, a B.S. in mechanical
engineering and an MBA. Since 1972 he has
worked for a company started in 1960 by another
Case graduate, Paul C. Menster ’48. McHenry
became a principal of the firm in 1975 and sole
owner of McHenry & Associates, Inc., when
Menster retired in 1985.
The firm provides mechanical and electrical
engineering services on a wide range of new and
renovation projects including commercial, office,
retail, recreational, institutional, residential apartment and industrial facilities. McHenry works
closely with other companies involved in each
project.
“We interface as a design team – with building and
landscape architects, civil/structural engineers and
MEP engineers. As far as design engineering, we
don’t design the actual product. Instead, we take
someone else’s piece of equipment they designed
and apply it to the requirements of a building,”
McHenry explains.
McHenry chose to pursue his engineering degree
at Case after a year at John Carroll University. He
originally planned to go out of town to attend
college, but his father passed away when McHenry
was a high school senior, and he needed to stay
close to home.
“I always had a desire for engineering. I’m the type
of person who’s hands-on; I enjoy putting things
together,” he says. Designing building systems
suits him, he says, and he enjoys the challenges of
the consulting engineering business, with no two
projects the same.
McHenry & Associates has done work for Case
Western Reserve University as well as designing
the systems for one of the first “green” grocery
stores – a Giant Eagle in Bedford, Ohio. The company has also worked on buildings for the Bank
of America/MBNA Corp. in Beachwood, Ohio,
and for Western Reserve Academy, John Carroll
University and MetroHealth in Cleveland.
The Warrensville Hts.-based company grew from
six employees in 1985 to 35 today. McHenry has
eight registered engineers on staff, including two
Case alumni – Todd Yeung ’97 and Matt Fuhry
’97. He says Case engineers he’s hired are “by far
and away” well prepared and a step ahead of most
other schools.
For those seeking a career in design engineering,
his advice is to stress the teamwork involved in
designing systems. Also, keeping up with the
latest technology is all-important. “You draw on
your basic core courses to understand different
technologies. Although those technologies were
in their infancy when I graduated, our education
at Case gave me the background to adapt to new
technologies and a good understanding of what
they are.”
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AROUND the CASE CLUBS
COLUMBUS – JANUARY 8
The rain didn’t stop our guests from joining us at
the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dublin, Ohio, for an
evening of exploration featuring the Case Western
Reserve University Virtual Gaming Lab. The event
took on an exciting edge by including prospective
students and their guests, who had the opportunity
to view a presentation by admissions representative Jeff Verespej and mix with the alumni for a
first-hand retelling of past Case experiences.
The room reached its capacity of 80 with 45
prospective students and their parents and 35
alumni and guests. Host Bob Olmstead welcomed
all of the guests and introduced the speaker,
Marc Buchner, Director of the Virtual Gaming
Lab. Everyone enjoyed Professor Buchner’s
presentation on the five rooms that make up
the lab within the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science Department. Our guests
also had the unique opportunity to view three
advanced gaming projects and to see Marc’s talent
first hand as he played one of the projects.
WASHINGTON DC – JANUARY 10
Among the more than 80 people in attendance
was a large concentration of young alumni/ae;
the energy in the room was high as attendees
networked with each other and renewed friendships. This event was a joint partnership between
the Case Alumni Association, CWRU Alumni
Relations, CWRU Office of Admissions and Case
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School of Engineering. Dan Clancy, Executive
Director of the Alumni Association of Case
Western Reserve University, applauded the effort
and collaboration of the four offices.
Washington, DC-based Alex Kummnat ’82,
current President and CEO of Amtrak, proved
a most gracious host for the evening. He kicked
things off by stating that his connection to Case
went beyond his education and graduation. He
grew up near the Nordson Train Depot in Lorain
County, which was named for the co-founder of
Nordson Corporation, Eric T. Nord. Nord holds a
bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from
Case Institute of Technology and received the
Case Alumni Association Gold Medal Award in
recognition of outstanding technical innovation,
successful business management and dedicated
public service.
The evening’s speaker, Dean Norman Tien, made
it to the event after flying in from Japan. He spoke
about the new energy initiative and the Cleveland
Foundation grant to CSE in the amount of $3.6
million.
Some Upcoming Case Club Events for 2008
Case Club of Los Angeles
What: Enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with fellow alumni
Where: The Island Hotel Newport Beach - 690 Newport Center Drive,
Newport Beach, CA
Cost:
$10 and Cash Bar
Host:
Brian Zrimsek ’90, Vice President, Program and
Application Delivery, The Irvine Company
Speaker: Norman C. Tien, Dean and Nord Professor of Engineering
Date:
March 18, 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Case Club of Silicon Valley
SAN DIEGO – JANUARY 17
What:
The Case Club of San Diego finally met in
January, after the initial meeting set for last fall
was cancelled by the fires that consumed large
amounts of forests in Southern California.
Approximately 25 alumni and friends were hosted
by Mehran Mehregany and his lovely wife, Donna.
Dean Tien and Professor Mehregany brought
their guests up to date on what is happening at
the Case School of Engineering and the initiatives
under way on the West Coast and the Pacific Rim
countries.
Case Club of Chicago
Dean Tien spoke about the wonderful grant
from The Cleveland Foundation to jumpstart the
formation of the energy initiative at Case. The
Energy Institute will be a synergy of all engineering disciplines except Biomedical Engineering. The
Case School of Engineering will be able to attract
world-class faculty and resources to conduct
multidisciplinary research for energy. In addition,
the current faculty will be encouraged to join in
this exciting project.
Enjoy dinner and cocktails with fellow alumni, also tour the
Googleplex before dinner
Where: Google - 1300 Crittenden Lane, Maxwell Tech Room, Bldg 3,
Mountainview, CA
Cost:
$10 and Cash Bar
Host:
Paul Franceus ’85, Member of Technical Staff and Software
at Google
Speaker: Norman C. Tien, Dean and Nord Professor of Engineering
and Mehran Mehregany, Goodrich Professor of Innovation and
Director of the Science and Technology Application Center
Date:
March 19, 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.
What:
Where:
Cost:
Host:
Speaker:
Date:
Enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with fellow alumni
The Gage - 24 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
$10 and Cash Bar
Mike Martens ’87, Scientist for the Fermi National Accelerator Lab
Cyrus C. Taylor, Dean and Albert A. Michelson Professor in
Physics College of Arts and Sciences
March 28, 2008 Time: 7:00 p.m.
To RSVP for any Case Club Event: Jillian DeLong (866) 385-2273 x2223,
jillian.delong@casealum.org. Check our website at www.casealum.org for
details about these and other planned events in a city near you.
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Recruiting the Best
Alumni volunteers are important to the University in so many ways. We asked alumni across
the country to share their experiences and views on why they give of their time to help “talk
up Case” to potential students. Many never learn if their efforts were successful in recruiting a
new student, but they all acknowledge that enhancing the reputation of Case Western Reserve
University is a valuable and necessary service in promoting the school’s national recognition.
John Haessly ’63, Retired Mechanical Engineer /
President, CWRU Houston Area Alumni Chapter
When our chapter was formed in the Houston
area 19 years ago, our main mission was to recruit
the best and the brightest for admission to Case
Western Reserve University. To this end, all active
board members are expected to attend at least
one college fair in the Houston and surrounding
areas. This does not stop at college fairs. Many
of the schools in our chapter’s locale have school
career programs that we also attend. This gives us
an opportunity to get to know the counselors and
students on a first name basis.
Since Case Western Reserve University is not a
household name in Houston, we must distinguish
ourselves from Rice, Texas A&M and others by
making the extra effort to get our name out before
the public. We do this by attending 15 or more
college fairs every year, by having a very active
events calendar for alumni, students, and their
parents. We always carry the Case Western Reserve
University flag to these events and display it
prominently. Our board members are available to
provide help and counseling for current students
and prospective students.
Our efforts have helped keep the Houston area
one of the top resources for incoming students
to Case Western Reserve in the Southwest and
put Texas in the top ten for new students to the
University.
Oliver L. Poppenberg ’59, Supply Chain
Management Group – Principal / Admissions
Recruiter since 1976 - Sewickley, PA
My feeling is that when most people reach my
age, they are not open to the point of view of the
younger generation. Meeting with today’s youth
is a challenge, but I learn from these young, astute
people and that makes me feel young at heart. I
can commiserate with the interviewee (and the
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parents, too) and understand his or her concerns
and questions. I find these students very courteous
and always on time for the meeting. As an
admissions recruiter for Case Western Reserve
University, I get a great feeling of accomplishment.
I encourage other Case graduates to sign on and
help make significant contributions to the guidance of potential students and to the future of our
country and the human race.
Dean Zimmerman, Ph.D. ’89 G’95, Senior
Scientist - Proctor & Gamble / West Chester, OH
I have really enjoyed being a part of the recruitment process. It has been a great opportunity to
meet prospective students and share about all
that CWRU has to offer. I have also enjoyed
meeting current students and hearing about
what is happening on campus. It is also a chance
to get to know other alumni in the area. I often
meet alumni and parents of prospective students
that also work at P&G. Several of the ways I have
participated include representing CWRU at college
fairs, conducting an alumni interview with the
student, being on a panel at a local prospective
student reception, and attending the summer
send-off for new students.
I have known the admissions representative (Rae
Ann Dibaggio) for this region for many years,
and through her and the admissions office, they
provide great support. There are a lot of ways to
get involved depending on what interests you,
from attending local events to contacting prospective students. The simplest way is just telling
others about the great opportunities that CWRU
offers. The admissions office would be glad to get
you connected with what is happening in your
area. With a little effort from a lot of alumni, we
can make sure that CWRU continues to attract the
best students.
A Houston Area Alumni Chapter event with
alumni and students
Oliver L. Poppenberg ‘59
Sally Waxman ’82, Systems Engineering /
Bethesda, MD
I started at Case in 1973. I came to Cleveland for
Freshman Orientation Weekend (held right before
school started), but I had never even seen the
state of Ohio before then. Unlike many students
today, the only college I was able to visit was one
in my town. That “what am I going to find when
I get there, will I like it?” feeling is what spurred
me to volunteer to talk to students in my area
about Case. Also, while Case is a top-notch school,
it doesn’t have the ‘buzz’ that some other good
schools do - another perfect reason to get the
word out personally.
I get the chance to meet some exceptionally talented
students and talking to them, try to understand
what they’re looking for in a school. It’s an opportunity to provide guidance and experience to them
for the process they’re going through.
If you’re at all interested in representing Case to
high school students in your area, contact the
Undergraduate Admissions Office. You don’t
have to make a big time commitment. There are a
number of different opportunities to participate
in each year. The primary activities available are
local college fairs, contacting admitted students,
and interviewing students who have expressed an
interest in the school. I’ve been doing this off and
on, depending on what’s going on in my life, for
probably 20 years or so.
J. Michael Wurts ’84, Director, Velogix /
Andover, MA
A couple of years ago a good friend was recruiting
alumni from another school, and I thought that
sounded interesting. About three years ago, I got
an e-mail from Case Western Reserve University
looking for alumni recruiters. The reason I wanted
to do it was I live in in the Northeast, and CWRU
is not all that well known here. I grew up in Ohio
Dean Zimmerman,
Ph.D. ‘89 G’95
and Case was well known in Ohio. There are an
awful lot of Case alumni in this area. I thought
by talking with perspective students, I could tell
them what I got from the school, what some of
the alumni have done, what I’m doing that would
interest them and that they might pursue looking
at Case. I view it to be a role of a cheerleader, more
of a marketing role.
I’ve probably hired 10-12 co-op students myself
over the years, and I’ve hired three or four Case
alumni as new hires to work directly for me. I was
in the first co-op program at Case; it’s a way to
give something back.
John Oblak ’62 G’96, Materials Science /
Wethersfield, CT
I help out with the high school college fairs and
prospective student interviews when someone
from the Admissions Office cannot be here. I do
about two or three fairs a year and several student
interviews. One of the reasons I volunteer this way
is that it is a meaningful way to stay connected to
the University. When you sit here in Connecticut,
Case Western Reserve University is far away. I
enjoyed my time there and this keeps me current
with the University and what’s going on. Another
reason is I’d like CWRU to be better known in this
area, so when I tell people about it, they recognize
the name. Even if you’re not highly successful in
recruiting students from a given area, it’s good for
brand recognition.
Also, I enjoy being able to interact with young
people; I’ve lost contact with the age group that’s
in high school. So it’s fun to have a reason to speak
with people of that age just to keep in touch. It’s
uplifting because these students are bright and
enthusiastic kids with their whole life in front of
them, and they’re making an important decision.
I think it is neat being inside that process and
helping one way or another. As a parent, I’ve been
through that with my sons.
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John Oblak ’62 G’96
MY FAVORITE FACULTY
By Carl Helrich, Ph.D. ’63
JERZY ROBERT MOSZYNSKI,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Case Institute of Technology
professors often exceed the
bounds of reality. There were
some of these about Moszynski,
I am sure. But many of the
Moszynski legends were
sufficiently cross-checked and
seemed valid. He was part
of the Polish underground
during World War II and had
a reputation for brilliance and
indulgence at the University
of London. We attributed
his disdain for triviality and
contempt for waste of national
resources to his European
background.
Professor Jerzy
Robert Moszynski
As an engineering science
major in the 1960s, I had a
deep love for the science of
thermodynamics; Professor
Moszynski embodied
thermodynamics. “Big Mo”
struck fear into the otherwise
stalwart hearts of most of us,
and I was no exception. But
along with the fear, there was
admiration.
The stories and legends
surrounding outstanding
Receiving a graded exam
(those famous blue books)
from Moszynski was a bit
of a harrowing experience
as he never explained his
grading scheme or where we
stood. I once received a blue
book with an “18” written
on the outside cover with no
indication of what that meant.
Probably not considered
acceptable today, his grading
system kept us focused on
learning as I’ve come to
Remember some of these Case Faculty? If you have an
nteresting “Favorite Faculty” story to share, contact the editor
at mrosko@cox.net.
Robert Adler • Jack Wallace • Harvey Buchanan • Bob Collin
Bill Gordon • Sheldon Gruber • Shelton Reid • Doug Mooney
You-Han Pao • John McGervey • Jerry Lind
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realize through my experience as a faculty member
throughout the years.
Later, after working as a
graduate instructor with
Moszynski, I finally understood his grading approach.
At the end of a semester,
instructors gathered around
him for the final calculation
of grades. Sometimes he’d
ask us about a student’s
inconsistent record – like one
EE student failing the course
who made an “A” on the
final. I explained the student came to me two weeks
before the exam looking for
help, and I worked with him
until he finally saw the light.
Moszynski laughed and said,
“Let’s give him an A.” I’ve
since done the same when a
student of mine sees the light
at the end of a course.
At the end of the summer
before my senior year, I
approached Moszynski to do
an undergraduate thesis
under him, which was not a
department requirement. He
took me on, which I considered
a great compliment. I even
think I earned his respect.
Eventually, my love for mathematics and theory surpassed
my desire to do experiments,
and I left Moszynski’s guidance
to study plasma physics and
ultimately became a physicist.
But I’ll never forget the long
shadow “Big Mo” cast on my
life and the sadness I felt at
his passing.
CLASS NOTES
1940s
Leslie A. Andersen (’40), Lake Wales, FL, will
celebrate his 90th birthday this summer.
Stephen J. Toth (’54), Alexandria, VA, serves on the
board of directors for ServiceSource Network, a
non-profit organization providing services and
employment for the disabled. He is also active with the
Case Club of Washington, DC.
1950s
John W. Webb (’50), Wausau, WI, continues to enjoy
life after retirement from North Central Technical
College through keyboard performances and volunteer
work. His Prentice Hall textbook on PLC’s is still selling a
few copies each year, mostly in Asia.
Gregory P. Chacos (’51), Raleigh, NC, keeps busy
with fly fishing, working as a consultant on structural
problems and keeping up with his business-professor
wife, Yvonne.
John P. Hollis (’55), Wickliffe, OH, will celebrate his
50th wedding anniversary with his wife, Faye, on
September 13, 2008. They have 26 grandchildren,
all living in the Cleveland area. In 2007, they built and
moved into a new home in Highland Hts.
Thomas P. Herbell (’56), Parma, OH, is a retired
NASA scientist. He is now an active musician and
directs and plays in the Swinging Bavarians German
Band. He organized and leads a Bavarian Trio that
performs at many area nursing homes. He is also the
manager of the Cleveland Letter Carriers Band.
Charles R. Rowan (’56), Las Vegas, NV, took a cruise
from London to St. Petersburg with wife, Carol, to
celebrate their 48th wedding anniversary.
Lester C. Frank (’57), Naples, FL, retired and moved to
Florida.
Gregory P. Chacos (’51) on the right
Leo L. Cifelli (’52), Cleveland, OH, sold his investment
business this past October to give retirement a try.
Stephen F. Kovacs (’57), Logansport, IN, recently
retired as an airport consulting engineer with Woolpert,
Inc. in Indianapolis. He also retired from the U.S. Air
Force as a pilot in 1978. He and his wife, Kay (nee
Markert) just celebrated 50 years together. The couple
has six children, 16 grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren.
Seymour Rothstein (’52), Highland Park, IL, is active
with his patent practice with Olson & Cepuritis in
Chicago.
Raymond M. Warner, Jr. (G’52), Edina, MN,
celebrated his 33rd wedding anniversary last August
with wife, Mae.
Charles Rowan ’56 and wife,
Carol, cruising the Baltic
Spring 2008 | 21
CLASS NOTES
1960s
R. Rodger Seeley (’60), Stratford, Ontario, retired on
December 14, after 47 years in the metallurgy industry.
He worked for three metals-producing companies
including Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Reactive
Metals Inc., and Haynes International and spent 25
years with Babcock & Wilcox Co. He retired from a
leading leaf spring manufacturer for the heavy truck
industry, Hendrickson International. He now resides in
Canada with his wife, Karen.
Steven F. Paul (’61), Boca Raton, FL, is retiring from
the building/development business. He’s been living
in South Florida for the last 35 years and plans to start
playing golf again.
Bruce J. Bretschneider (’63), Peoria, AZ, spends his
days with his family and flying radio-controlled model
airplanes. He will be the Team Manager for the U.S.
Scale Model Team for the 2008 World Scale Model
Championships in Poland this July.
Thomas D. Barakat (’64), Phoenix, AZ, and wife Joyce
got together with Mike Sweeney (’64) and his wife,
Brenda, in December when the latter two were in town.
Marc E. Goldfeder (’65), Tucson, AZ, and his wife,
Muriel, spent almost five months of 2007 traveling
around Australia – their 7th continent.
Richard F. Sigal (’65), Oklahoma City, OK, is the
Unocal Centennial Professor at the University of
Oklahoma, a joint appointment of the School of
Petroleum and Geological Engineering and Sarkeys
Energy Center.
James M. Reddy (’66), Mendon, VT, got married
this summer to second wife, Betsy. He will retire as
President and CEO of OMYA Industrial, Inc.
Rodney J. Jesseman (’67), West Chester, OH, retired
on January 30th from AK Steel.
David Elmore (’68), West Lafayette, IN, is now an
Emeritus Professor in Physics at Purdue University. He
is starting up a small internet business, REDIpix.com,
selling mounted prints of his customers’ photos.
Eugene Greenstein (’68), Farmington Hills, MI, is an
Adjunct Professor at the University of Detroit/Mercy,
where he teaches courses in Business Turnaround
Management.
Barry L. Berman (’64), Atlanta, GA, has accepted a
position as sales director with SMARTThinking, a live
web-based tutoring company.
Thomas Barakat (’64) and wife Joyce
Thomas Barakat (’64) and wife Joyce visit with
Mike Sweeney (’64) and his wife, Brenda
22 | Case Alumnus
Mike Sweeney (’64) (left) with
Thomas Barakat (’64) and Joyce
Cosimo G. Sciotto (’68), Colorado Springs, CO,
co-authored a paper on the incidence of Human
Papathoma Virus and oral cancer published in
Laryngoscope in December 2007.
Terrence J. Sejnowski (’68), San Diego, CA, will
deliver the annual Wolfgang Pauli Lectures in Zurich in
spring 2008.
Robert I. Nemhauser (’69), Marylhurst, OR, is CEO
of NCS Corporation in Longview, WA. The company
purchases charged-off and distressed consumer debt.
1970s
William F. Pfeiffer (G‘70), Clayville, NY, will retire this
May from Utica College, where he has been a professor since 1970.
Wesley A. Hansen III (’71) Berea, OH, has been
employed by The Albert M. Higley Company since his
graduation from Case in 1971. He is a project executive and just completed work on the new Case Western
Reserve University Mandel Center in 2007.
Clem J. Larson (’71), San Diego, CA, is now
semi-retired, working half the year as a high-end
management consultant in the defense industry. The rest
of the year he travels, plays soccer and recently ran a
half-marathon.
Donald N. Huff (’72), Portland, OR, a native
Clevelander, recently moved from Seattle to Portland.
He is still working, by telecommuting, for MCR, Inc. of
Mayfield Village, OH.
Philip A. King (’72), Saint Charles, MO, and
wife Kathy welcomed their second grandchild on
December 21, 2007.
Eugene A. Andres (’73), Cleveland, OH, joined
Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) in January 2007
as Academic IT Program Manager, College-Wide. He
also serves as Interim Associate Dean of Business, Math
and Technologies at the Metropolitan Campus.
Walley G. Francis (’73), Syracuse, NY, is Eastern
Regional Vice President and National Board Member of
Hostelling International – USA.
Walter H. Hoppe (’73), Shaker Heights, OH, is an
electrical engineer at Thermo Fisher Scientific in
Oakwood Village, OH.
John L. Wazney (’74), Willoughby, OH, has three
children. His oldest, Erica, is a 2005 graduate of
CWRU Dental School.
John B. Fisher (G’76), Tulsa, OK, is in business for
himself after forming a small consulting company
specializing in environmental litigation.
Alan A. Weiss (’76), Brookline, MA, retired in April
from Bell Labs after 25 years. In June, Alan started a
new job as a technical writer for The MathWorks,
makers of MATLAB.
Edward J. Haddad, Jr. (’77), Seven Hills, OH, the
Founder and Chief Engineer of Clean CEMP
(Construction Engineering Management Planning) is
in his 25th year of assisting Northeast Ohio industrial
firms with their environment and fire prevention issues.
Anthony T. Bonina (’78), Westerville, OH, teaches part
time at three schools: Columbus State, Ohio Dominican
University and Franklin University, where he teaches
accelerated adult programs (undergraduate and
graduate) and a variety of marketing classes.
Joseph A. Buccilli (’79), Cleveland Heights, OH, works
for Deloitte Consulting in Tokyo, Japan. He has been
married to Carolina G. Garcia (‘78) for 22 years.
Spring 2008 | 23
CLASS NOTES
Rudolph J. Mueller (’79), Lakewood, NY, was elected
to the Chautauqua County Legislature starting January,
2008.
Dean F. Slejko (’79), Mentor, OH, was named Director
of Business Development for SmartCase, Inc., a partner
company of Cleveland-based Litigation Management,
Inc. The company is a leading provider of medical
information management services to the legal field.
1980s
Ira G. Bibbero (’83), Los Angeles, CA, is engaged to
Glenda Lee. They will be married this month.
Denise Dannels (’87)
Kevin C. Halberg (’83), Cleveland, OH, has
accepted a position as Senior Software Engineer at
Avid Technologies in Twinsburg, OH. He will be
working with embedded systems for the Hart industry.
Joseph C. Krauskopf (’83), Portola Valley, CA, joined
GreenVolts, a San Francisco startup developing
utility-scale solar energy solutions. He became Chief of
Operations in June 2007.
Srinivasan Sivashankaran (G’83), Highland Hts.,
OH, is happily retired from regular service and is a
consultant to local industries/laboratories in his field of
material science and engineering.
Robert A. Oster (’84), Chelsea, AL, was recently
promoted to Associate Professor (from Assistant
Professor).
Kimberly Wiefling (’86), Redwood City, CA,
recently authored a book entitled “Scrappy Project
Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable
Pitfalls Every Project Faces.” She is the founder and
principal of Wiefling Consulting as well as keynote
speaker, business leadership consultant, event and
workshop facilitator and program and project manager.
Denise Dannels (’87)
Denise C. Dannels (’87), Mentor, OH, revived her
home-based business, Lazy River Greetings, a greeting
card company she started in 1996 and ran until she
took time out to raise her two young sons. The company
offers custom greeting card design and graphic design
services.
Erwin V. Grabisna (’88), Powell, OH, is now an equity
partner in Tracer Diagnostics, a new venture using
polymers to track breast cancer.
1990s
Theresa L. Carte (’90), Anchorage, AK, is working for
Avery Dennison (headquartered in Painesville, OH) and
living in Alaska.
Jennifer B. Glaubitz (’92), Dublin, OH, earned her
M.S. in Education from The Ohio State University. She
now teaches math at Columbus State.
Lawrence T. Dues (’93), Dublin, OH, and wife Laura
had twins, Carson Thomas and Sydney Christine, born
December 30th at 9:01 a.m. and 9:18 a.m., respectively.
Jay R. Gindin (’93), Seattle, WA, started a new job in
February as a Senior Software Engineer for Apptio, an
early stage software-as-a-service (SaaS) company.
Damon S. Hacker (’93), Medina, OH, and Gregory
W. Kelley (‘96), started a technology consulting
company in 1998. In 2004, they merged with a
Cleveland-area attorney to create Vestige Digital
Investigations, a company that clones electronic
information from a variety of sources and searches for
digital clues for use in civil and criminal cases.
J. Andrew Clark (’96), Sunnyvale, CA, works at
Zimbra, a San Mateo-based company that provides
open source email and calendar groupware software.
John J. Higgs (G’96), Cleveland, OH, was recently
promoted to Vice President of Crane Aerospace Fluid
Management.
24 | Case Alumnus
W. Christopher Thompson (’96), Pepper Pike, OH, is
married with two kids and still working at Progressive.
His wife, Cheryl Thompson (‘00), has her Ph.D. and is
doing research at Case.
Barry W. Kuehnle (’98), Ammon, ID, relocated in
2006 to work for the Department of Energy at the
Idaho National Laboratory, where his job is to analyze
and resolve vulnerabilities in the U.S. electrical power
infrastructure.
Charles Bear (’99), Ayer, MA, is now working at
Vertics Systems, Inc. where he spends time looking for
and implementing ways to make its product run faster.
2000s
Kevin C. Von Handorf (’01) , West Chester, PA, is
working as a Bridge Engineer for FIGG Engineering
Group in Exton, PA. Kevin and his wife, Raquel
Rodriguez (‘02 B.A. CWRU) welcomed a baby girl,
Elena Marin, in June 2007.
Christine M. Daniels (’02), Saint Louis, MO, was
married to Richard W. Daniels on June 22, 2007, in
Willowick, OH. The couple resides in Missouri.
Fulter M. Hong (’02), Ann Arbor, MI, currently works
as part of the management team for Google in Ann
Arbor. His wife, Rebecca (Steiner) Hong (’03), graduated from The Ohio State University College of Medicine
in 2007 and is currently in the anesthesiology residency
program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Emily E. Link (’03), Cleveland, OH, is starting her
residency in Internal Medicine in June 2008. She will
be working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
Kelley M. Pozza-Adams (’03), Columbus, OH, has
been married to Ryan for four years. She is now a
veterinary student at The Ohio State University.
Scott W. Schmucker (’04), Champaign, IL, is working
towards his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. He was
married in the summer of 2004, and he and his wife
now have a daughter who will be 2 years old in
March of 2008.
Christine L. Gosen (’05), Minnetonka, MN, is still
living in Cleveland and will be graduating from the
Case Medical School in 2009.
Elizabeth A. Archer (’07), New Orleans, LA, is
attending the University of New Orleans and helping
the head of the department validate his computer codes
for designing high speed propellers and outfitting the
department’s competition boat as her research
assignment for the next eight months.
Gregory C. Archer (’07), New Orleans, LA, started
a new job after Labor Day at Bayou Steel. He spent
several weeks learning the processes of steel making
and has been assigned a position in the company.
Bradley C. Gill (’07), Sharon, PA, is now a medical
student at the Cleveland Clinic.
Erin K. Salter (’07), Baltimore, MD, is now a graduate
student at Johns Hopkins University in the Medical
School.
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CASESPACE Alumni in the news
Harold Wade ’66
Diana M. Essock ’75
Harold Wade ’66 was named an ISA Fellow
in recognition for his advancements in the
automation industry. He is the developer of
PC-ControLAB, a control loop simulation and
training program that allows users to practice
controller tuning in a realistic setting without risk
to an actual process. He has also published
numerous technical papers and books, including
the best-selling ISA book, “Basic and Advanced
Regulatory Control: System Design and
Application.” ISA, established in 1945, is a
global nonprofit organization for automation
professionals.
Diana M. Essock ’75 was named as a Fellow
of the Society of ASM International. Among the
prestigious group of nearly 1,000 Fellows, only
30 are women. Essock was the lone female
among the 25 other 2007 nominees. She is a
recognized authority in the field of elevatedtemperature metal matrix composites and the
sole author of a chapter in the ASM Elevated
Temperature Composite Handbook. Essock is a
past president of the Northeast Ohio chapter of
the Society of Women Engineers and was the
first women to ever graduate from the materials
metallurgical engineering department of Case
Western Reserve University.
Dr. Scott R. Culler ’82 received the American
Chemical Society’s Team Innovation Award for
2008, along with fellow 3M division scientist
Dr. Stanley B. Collins. The award recognizes
their work with the 3M™ Trizact™ Structured
Abrasive development team, which virtually
reinvented sandpaper by incorporating 3M’s
proprietary microreplication technology, leading
to thousands of new applications for specialized
industrial abrasives and improved environmental
impact of the manufacturing process.
Dr. Scott R. Culler ’82
26 | Case Alumnus
IN MEMORIAM
IN MEMORIAM:
Arthur S. Holden, Jr. ’35
ARTHUR S. HOLDEN, JR. passed away on February 7,
2008, leaving a legacy of “good works” not only at Case
but throughout the city of Cleveland and Lake County.
I first met “Mr. Holden” in the spring of 1975 as he
chaired the Scholarship Committee of the Case Alumni
Association. It was apparent that his concern for providing scholarships to students at Case was more than
a passing interest. I learned more about him, finding
that he was a direct descendant of Liberty E. Holden,
founder of The Plain Dealer on whose land the Case
School of Applied Science was built. I learned he was
the executor of his aunt’s estate, Martha Holden
Jennings, and directed a gift from her estate in 1959 to
Case that created the Jennings Computer Center, one of
the earliest and finest computer centers in the nation.
And how he led the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation,
a major force in elementary and secondary education
initiatives. And about his work as a trustee of the
Cleveland Clinic helping to quietly raise many millions
for that institution.
Arthur was “Mr. Lake County.” A vice-president of COE
Manufacturing in Painesville since 1937, he was one
of its most renowned citizens. A founder of Lakeland
Community College, he helped raise monies for that
institution as well as Lake Erie College. A nephew of
Albert Fairchild Holden, the founder of the Holden
Arboretum in Kirkland, he maintained a lifelong
interest in its growth and welfare.
Mr. and Mrs. Holden at Arthur Holden Appreciation Day
He was always there for Case and was awarded the
Association’s Meritorious Service Award and the
Samuel Givelber ’23 Award for his humanitarian efforts.
A lifetime honorary member of the Association, he was
also an Emeritus member of the Case Advisory Board.
He endowed a scholarship fund at the Case Alumni
Association to further the work he started in 1974. He
would be pleased that the Committee now awards over
$1 million annually from the few thousand dollars in
those early years.
Art is survived by his wife of 17 years, Arlene, and
daughters Constance Holden Summers and Sarah
Holden McLaren.
I will miss our almost monthly “executive sessions” at
Saturday luncheons at Hellriegel’s in Painesville. A loyal
alumnus, outstanding citizen and gentleman, his “good
works” will live on.
Roger H. Cerne ’63
Executive Director Emeritus
CHARLES E. REED ’34 Charles E. Reed passed
away on November 16, 2007 in Bridgeport, CA. He was
born and raised in Findlay, OH and received a B.S. in
Chemical Engineering from the Case School of Applied
Science in 1934 and Sc.D. degree from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1937. Charles enjoyed a longstanding career with General Electric, where he began
in 1942. He was appointed Senior Vice President of
Corporate Technology and retired from the company in
1978. He was awarded the National Medal of Technology
in 1991 and received the Case Alumni Association Gold
Medal Award in 1978. Two research funds established in
his name are held at the CAA.
Spring 2008 | 27
IN MEMORIAM
Charles E. Reed ’34, Bridgeport, CT, November 16, 2007
Arthur S. Holden, Jr., ’35, Waite Hill, OH February 7, 2008
Casper Goffman ’35, West Lafayette, IN, Date Unknown, 2006
Frank R. Carvell ’36, Paducah, KY, September 10, 2007
Werner F. Gerlach ’39, San Angelo, TX, November 2, 2007
Howard J. Hendricksen ’40, Sandusky, OH, November 2, 2007
Roy A. Siskin ’40, Alexandria, VA, October 1, 2007
J. Robert Phelps ’41, Dearborn, MI, November 27, 2007
Charles W. Atwood ’42, Tekonsha, MI, November 22, 2007
Gust Cloumas ’42, Lansing, MI, September 2, 2007
Daniel R. Krall ’42, Venice, FL, December 31, 2007
John N. Carter ’43, Willoughby, OH, February 1, 2008
Paul F. Hartman ’43, Whiting, NJ, September 12, 2007
William H. Voelker ’44, Garfield Hts., OH, November 25, 2007
Owen A. Brady ’45, Hunt Valley, MD, October 20, 2007
Ralph P. Ruth ’46, Melbourne FL, January 10, 2008
Mr. and Mrs. John Carter
’43
Robert J. Furlong ’50, South Burlington, VT, November 22, 2007
JOHN N. CARTER ’43
John N. Carter passed away on Friday, February 1,
2008. He received a Mechanical Engineering
degree from the Case Institute of Technology in
1943 and was a member of the Case Men’s Glee
Club and the Zeta Psi Fraternity. He was active in
the Case Alumni Association as a Class Agent, 21st
Century member, Case Dean’s Society member
and worked many telethons on campus.
Vincent E. Hart ’50, Sun City, AZ, Date Unknown
Byron W. Griffin ’50, Venice, FL, December 11, 2007
Oliver C. Heighton ’50, Lynchburg, VA, April, 2007
Richard J. Cyganski ’51, Euclid, OH, February 1, 1983
David J. Belock ’51, Batavia, OH, May 18, 2006
William W. Erskine ’51, Lowellville, OH, October 23, 2007
Thomas A. Kerr ’51, North Royalton, OH, November 19, 2007
John W. Bernard ’52, Springfield, OH, November 24, 2007
Donald J. Vild ’52, Toledo, OH, November 27, 2007
Raleigh H. Barnes ’53, Allison Park, PA, November 19, 2007
F. JOSEPH GIESSLER ’57
F. Joseph Giessler died Monday, December 10 at
home with his family. He was an Aeronautical
Engineer specializing in structural integrity of airplanes. He graduated from Wittenberg University
and received a Mechanical Engineering degree in
1957 and a Master’s degree in Aeronautical
Engineering in 1960 from the Case Institute
of Technology. He was a Licensed Professional
Engineer of the State of Ohio and member of The
American Legion of Ohio and ASME, respected
authority on structural integrity in planes, and
President of Oakwood, Ohio Club. Joe was a
member of the Jazz Lovers Club and The Classical
Music Club. He was member of the Case Dean’s
Society and Tau Beta Pi Fraternity.
28 | Case Alumnus
Robert C. Biering ’53, Chagrin Falls, OH, January 11, 2008
William A. Gray ’53, Dublin, OH, January 21, 2008
Robert J. Shadle ’53, Greenville, SC, November 12, 2007
Paul P. Terrano ’54, Lincoln, MA, June 19, 2007
Donald A. Hollo ’56, Waxhaw, NC, September 22, 2007
Hans A. Bergersen ’57, Oslo, Norway, Date Unknown
F. Joseph Giessler ’57, Lady Lake, FL, December 10, 2007
William A. Howarth ’58, Silver Springs, MD, Date Unknown
John Deszo ’59, Seattle, WA, January 16, 2008
Andrew D. Babinsky G’62, Chagrin Falls, OH, January 22, 2008
Dennis D. Davis ’63, Las Cruces, NM, October 26, 2007
Charles A. Garber ’66, West Chester, PA, September 19, 2007
George L. Michaels, Jr. ’69, Lawrenceburg, IN, October 14, 2007
Kurt C. Summers ’71, Concord Township, OH, May 19, 2007
Barbara L. Oldack ’83, Cleveland, OH, Summer 2007
Duncan Lowne ’2004, Defiance, OH, June 8, 2007
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