Engineering students share plans for summer, careers

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UNL College of Engineering students note their activities for summer and beyond. Best wishes to all from Nebraska Engineering!

Name	Major	Grad Year	Plans
Sydney Schaaf	MME	2012	Rotational Program within Ford Motor Company's Body Engineering Department
Haley Hatter	BSE	2012	I will be moving to Madison, Wis. in June to work at Epic Systems Corporation. At Epic I will be in Technical Services. I am excited about this experience, but I am also hoping to go to graduate school once I decide what area of study to pursue.
Maria Lopez	MME	2012	I have accepted a full-time engineering position with the world's largest food manufacturer, Nestle in their Purina PetCare division. I will be participating in a engineering management trainee program at their Crete, Nebraska location starting in June after graduation. I will be at this location for 18-24 months during my training and then I will be relocated to another Nestle Purina location, depending on my preference and the needs of the Company. In the future I may get into the machine design department of the company, but I'm waiting to see what I really love the most in the workforce. I'm super excited for this opportunity and determined to learn as much as I can for as long as I can with a company that I see myself being loyal to for years to come.
Gabriel Ayala	ELEC	2012	I will attend Texas A&M University in the Fall of 2012 and pursue a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Communication and Controls. I will then look forward to continue working at Texas Instruments as an Applications Engineer.
Mitchell Marotz	CIVE	2012	Civil Engineer in the Design Engineering Department at Cooper Nuclear Station
Elliot Shanahan	CHME	2012	I will be working for ExxonMobil Chemical in Beaumont, Texas as a process engineer.
Ammar A. Ashour	CHME	2012	Working with Aramco plus getting my masters
Derek Shafer	BSE	2012	I plan on going to medical school in the near future, at a yet undetermined location
Cesar Gonzalo Davila Novoa	IMSE	2012	I will be working at Baldwin Filters Headquarters in Kearney, Nebraska.
Sarah McClure	BSEN	2012	Assistant Civil Engineer at Burns and McDonnell in Chicago, IL.
Catheryn Amenta	BSEN	2012	I will be a Project Manager for Epic Systems in Madison, Wisconsin starting in June.
Long Nguyen	MME	2012	Our team is preparing the UNL Formula SAE entry for racing in Lincoln this June.
Jessica Duff	CHME	2012	Working at Archer Daniels Midland as a production engineer in Cedar Rapids, Ia.
Brock Weeldreyer	CHME	2012	Return to Sioux Falls to work as a process engineer for POET
David McClintock	CIVE	2012	Work as an Engineering Intern with Iteris, Inc. at its Troy, Mich. office
Zach Connell	MME	2012	Attending the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign to pursue a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering
Mahdi Alhajji	CHME	2012	Grad school at Louisiana State University, obtain a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering, then return home and serve my country
Lindsay Stoll	IMSE	2012	Starting with BNSF Railway as an Operations Management Trainee in Kansas City, Mo.
Eli Kaldahl	CM	2012	Working full time for J.E. Dunn Construction on a project in Fort Walton Beach, Florida
Kenneth Parkison	CHME	2012	Pursuing employment and a graduate degree
Erica Ahlschwede	CHME	2012	Working for Gyrodata in Houston, Tex. as a Field Engineer
Aaron Galley	CM	2012	Accepted Operations Specialist position with Gavilon in Omaha
Elizabeth Hungerford	BSE	2012	Attending UNMC College of Dentistry in Lincoln, starting this fall
Paul Franco	ELEC	2012	Working at Texas Instruments
Dustin Feller	ELEC	2012	Beginning grad school at UNL, where I received a fellowship and a teaching assistant position studying under Dr. Khalid Sayood
Danielle Smith	BSE	2012	Attending graduate school at Michigan State University to major in Food Engineering
Dongpu Jin	CSE	2012	Continuing my master's in computer science education at UNL
Shaun Jones	CM	2012	I will continue to work full-time with Kiewit Building Group based in their Lincoln office. My duties will include, but are not limited to, project estimating and project management.
Noel Velazquez	ELEC	2012	I have accepted a position with Progress Rail Services in their Signal Engineering division at Omaha.
Abby Kelly	BSE	2012	With a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship, I will begin my master’s degree in August with Dr. Angela Pannier in UNL Biological Systems Engineering, to research inter-cellular trafficking of non-viral gene delivery vectors via coherent antistokes Raman spectroscopy.
Anna Horst	MME	2012	Moving to St. Joseph, Mo. where I will work as an Associate Engineer at Altec Industries, Inc.
Jaime Michelsen	IMSE	2012	I will start in June 2012 at Becton Dickinson in Columbus, Neb. as a Lean Leader within the Manufacturing Development Program.
Nate Otten	MME	2012	Pursuing my Ph.D. in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
James Kraus	CM	2012	Going to work for Quest Civil Construction in Phoenix, Ariz.
Matthew Bowar	CHME	2012	My future plans are to work in the Process and Industrial division at Burns & McDonnell, an engineering consulting company in Kansas City, Mo.
Nicholas Briganti	ELEC	2012	Working as Assistant Electrical Engineer at Burns & McDonnell in Kansas City, Mo.
Brandon Riehl	MME	2012	Pursuing a master's degree in mechanical engineering at UNL
Bill Poppe	MME	2012	After getting married at the end of May, I'll be with Gyrodata Inc. in Cypress, Tex., as a field engineer working towards my P.E.
Matthew Melcher	MME	2012	I am going to be a FOCUS missionary for the next two years. I'm not sure what comes after that!
Daniel Jones	CIVE	2012	I plan on attending graduate school at the University of Nebraska Lincoln pursuing a Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering.
Michael Gotrik	CHME	2012	I will be attending the University of California - Santa Barbara in fall to obtain a PhD. in Materials Science. There, I will be working in the labs of Drs. Tom Soh and Craig Hawker on the topics of directed evolution of functional molecules, microfluidics, and polymer chemistry.
Michael Olsen	CIVE	2012	I have a job as a Geotechnical Engineer at M.C. Schaff and Associates.
Kurtis Charling	AGEN	2012	Working for Valmont Industries in Omaha, NE as an Engineering Technician
Christopher Chikos	CIVE	2012	Working with HGM Associates, Inc.
Matthew Goecke	CM	2012	Working with Kiewit Engineering Co.
Luke Ritz	ARCH	2012	U.S. Army
Andric Hofrichter	CIVE	2012	Attending Auburn University for a M.S. in Civil Engineering
Adam Sevenker	CIVE	2012	I will attend graduate school through UNL in Omaha for Civil Engineering with a specialization in Structures.
Jordan Bartels	CONE	2012	Working for Kiewit Engineering Co.
Andrew Hricovec	CM	2012	I will be working for Kiewit Infrastructure Southeast.
Jacob Benes	CONE	2012	I will be working for the Waldinger Corp. as a project engineer.
John Matson	CEEN	2012	Working for Apple, Inc.
Andrew Fanciullo	CIVE	2012	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Omaha District

For more information about professional development for Nebraska Engineering students, contact the college's Professional Services Coordinator at (402) 472-7073 or lbear1@unl.edu.

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