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Computer Science

Anonymous — Tue, 07 May 2024 19:30:15 +0000

Computer Science Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 05/07/2024 - 13:30

Grace Wilson

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Anonymous — Tue, 07 May 2024 14:02:15 +0000

Electrical and Computer Engineering Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 05/07/2024 - 08:02

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Mechanical Engineering

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2024 22:30:12 +0000

Mechanical Engineering Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 05/06/2024 - 16:30

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Biomedical Engineering

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2024 22:24:46 +0000

Biomedical Engineering Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 05/06/2024 - 16:24

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Creative Technology & Design

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2024 22:23:32 +0000

Creative Technology & Design Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 05/06/2024 - 16:23

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Civil and Architectural Engineering

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:01:21 +0000

Civil and Architectural Engineering Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 04/18/2024 - 09:01

Susan Glairon

Three graduating seniors from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering share their thoughts about their experiences at CU Boulder.

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Thad Sauvain (ChemEngr'91)

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:41:54 +0000

Thad Sauvain (ChemEngr'91) Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 02/15/2024 - 15:41

Thad Sauvain, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient

Engineering Alumni Awards

2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient

Current job and employer: Chief Operations Officer, Chevron Lummus Global

Current city: San Rafael, California

Professional background

Upon receiving a BS in chemical engineering from CU in 1991, Thad Sauvain embarked on a 33-year career with Chevron / Chevron Lummus Global. Starting as a process engineer, Sauvain branched into research & development and business development. He soon worked his way into design and process engineering multi-level management and served as the director of global licensing and sales for Chevron for nine years. Sauvain is now the chief operations officer for Chevron Lummus Global, overseeing all engineering design work, field services and supply of catalyst and equipment for CLG’s customers.

Contributions to the Chemical and Biological Engineering department over the past year

Over the past year, Sauvain has served as the president of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering’s External Advisory Board. In this capacity, Sauvain organized four board meetings in 2023, two in-person and two via Zoom, in addition to organizing meetings with department leadership. He spearheaded efforts to conduct the first-ever undergraduate senior exit interviews in the spring, and graduate student interviews in the fall. During those interviews, board members met individually with nearly 100 students. He was instrumental in bringing in three new board members this year, arranging for board members to meet with ABET evaluators, and calling prospective students to encourage them to enroll at CU.

Sauvain has championed the College of Engineering and Applied Science, the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and CU students during his 33-year tenure at Chevron. He has participated in just about every activity possible for alumni, including department and BOLD Center panel talks, guest lectures, career fairs, mock interviews and resume critiques, mentor programs, senior design project support and student group talks. On top of giving class lectures on professionalism and other industry-facing topics, he arranged to fly in Chevron speakers to give technical talks in other courses such as process control and separations. Sauvain has been a champion of funding support from Chevron for numerous areas of the college, including the chemical and biological engineering department, BOLD Center and student groups such as AlChE and OXE. On a fun note, he was instrumental in getting murals put up in the department’s undergraduate lab. In general, Sauvain has embodied Sko Buffs with his unwavering support of CU!

Thad Sauvain has served as the president of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering’s External Advisory Board. He has participated in various alumni activities, including panel talks, guest lectures, career fairs, mock interviews, mentoring and supporting senior design project support. Sauvain has also facilitated Chevron's funding for several college initiatives and arranged for Chevron speakers to give technical talks.

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Mike McCue (MechEngr'90)

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:32:53 +0000

Mike McCue (MechEngr'90) Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 02/15/2024 - 15:32

Mike McCue, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient

Engineering Alumni Awards

2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient

Current Employer: Accu-Precision

Current city: Boulder, CO

Professional background

Michael ("Mike") McCue is president of Accu-Precision, a contract manufacturing company that he owns and operates. Early in his career, he worked at Chevron as an oil refinery project engineer, completing capital projects for refinery upgrades. He returned to school to get an MBA from Harvard Business School, which led to a job in mergers and acquisitions for Alcoa. In this role, McCue purchased and integrated smaller entrepreneurial companies to expand Alcoa’s capabilities. He was later asked to run some of these companies and take full responsibility for their success or failure. These experiences provided him with the confidence and expertise to buy and run his own company. Currently, his desire is to develop his company into one of the strongest, most forward-thinking organizations in the aerospace and industrial part manufacturing market.

Contributions to the Paul M. Rady Mechanical Engineering department over the past year

McCue has been a valuable contributor to the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) for many years, but went above and beyond over the past year. He served as chair of the ME Strategic Advisory Board (MESAB), helping to organize board meetings and recruit potential board members. He represented the board during the ABET accreditation process, meeting and having lunch with the department evaluator during his visit to campus. For the past several years, McCue and his company were clients for industry-sponsored senior design teams, and he participated in mock interviews and industry panels during the ME Alumni Connect and ME Partners days. McCue has given tours of his company to students in the ME as a Profession course, and his company has hired a number of graduates over the years. Finally, McCue created a new faculty fellowship (the Accu-Precision Faculty Fellowship) in 2023. One of MEs outstanding teaching professors, Janet Tsai, was the first recipient of the fellowship.

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Briana Santa Ana (CivEngr'20)

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:27:10 +0000

Briana Santa Ana (CivEngr'20) Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 02/15/2024 - 15:27

Briana Santa Ana, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient

Engineering Alumni Awards

2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient

Current job and employer: Graduate Engineer, Development Review for the City of Mesquite

Current city: Dallas, TX

Professional background

Briana Santa Ana earned her BS degree in civil engineering at CU Boulder, where she was also active in undergraduate research, a GoldShirt Scholar, a peer mentor in the BOLD Center, and a longstanding member of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. While an undergraduate student, Santa Ana had two internships at the Colorado Department of Transportation and a local construction firm. Upon graduation, she worked for a general contractor and a concrete contractor, before moving to Dallas, Texas, where she is a city project engineer.

Contributions to the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering department over the past year

In an effort to bring attention and awareness to issues around discrimination and diversity in the construction industry, Santa Ana helped organize the Construction Diversity Summit, which took place in April 2022 with nearly 200 attendees. Briana was fully engaged in the planning process, which included coordinating three breakout session speakers and a panel of industry leaders. She joined two of her peers who represented recent graduates and shared their stories with the audience. The summit enabled participants to learn new communication strategies and skills, recognize the importance of DEI work on the jobsite, and better understand the challenges underrepresented populations face in the construction industry.

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Jonathan Haines ( MElEngr'91)

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:20:44 +0000

Jonathan Haines ( MElEngr'91) Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 02/15/2024 - 15:20

Jonathan Haines, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient

Engineering Alumni Awards

2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient

Title and employer: Director, Embedded Software, Western Digital

Current city: Boulder, Colorado

Professional background

Jonathan Haines earned his BS in electrical and computer engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo and his master’s in electrical engineering, with an emphasis in communication theory, at CU Boulder. After working as a research assistant on digital signal processing and atmospheric radar, Haines worked at a military contracting company writing software before moving to the storage industry. Other than a few years writing firmware for telecommunications, Haines has been in storage for his entire career. His technical career has included writing software to make electrical controls and data transformations happen. He began as a firmware coder, and then revolved through firmware architecture, program management and now personnel management. The technology that Haines helped develop has helped hard disk drives continue the amazing storage density growth that so much of our world depends on. In the process, he has authored over 50 U.S. patents. Haines feels lucky to have experienced such a rich mix of science and engineering in industry, and he is enthusiastic about sharing his experience in embedded systems engineering as he continues to work in the storage industry and recruits the next generation of storage engineers.

Contributions to the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering over the past year

Haines has led HDD teardowns for the IEEE chapter and the Business and Engineering Women in Technology program at CU Boulder, providing technical and business correlations between university studies and some of the fascinating problems in engineering development. Haines teaches multiple courses at CU Boulder, participated in the Society of Women Engineers Mocktail event, and most recently joined the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering External Advisory Board in 2022.

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