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| Title | November RD Funding Nearly.5 Million at School of Mines |
| Transcript | School of Mines News 501 E. Saint Joseph Street • Rapid City, SD 57701-3995 Phone: (605) 394-6082/2554 • Fax: (605) 394-6177 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Breanna Bishop, Public Information Coordinator, (605) 394-6082 School of Mines Holds 152nd Commencement The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology will hold its 152nd Commencement at 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, in the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Theater. More than 90 graduates will receive associate's, bachelor's, master's or doctoral degrees. Cheryl Chapman will join the School of Mines as commencement speaker. Chapman earned bachelor's degrees in mathematics and civil engineering from the School of Mines in 1978. During the past 27 years, she has held environmentally-based positions with a number of organizations of progressively higher responsibility. Chapman has served as director of environmental engineering for a major architectural/engineering firm; principle deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environmental; and in 1999 became president and principle consultant of MATRIX Consulting Group, Inc. of Rapid City. Chapman has also been active in the community. She has served as a Pennington County Commissioner and Chair of the Commission, where she provided leadership on many local government policy and management initiatives, including the creation of the Pennington County Drainage Commission, of which she served as the first Chair. David Burnett, an Industrial Engineering major from Philip, S.D., will represent the graduating class. Burnett has been a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, serving as the organization's treasurer and president and was selected as Most Outstanding Underclassman his sophomore year. Burnett was also involved with Tau Beti Pi and Alpha Pi Mu honor societies, Residence Life, Peer Advising, Orientation, United Campus Ministries and Students Against Drunk Driving. His future plans include pursuing a master's degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Louisville. Also during the ceremony, the School of Mines will honor five alumni with "Distinguished Alumni" awards, given to graduates who have made outstanding contributions in their professions and to the School of Mines. This year���s Distinguished Alumni: Dr. Charles L. Braun A native of Rapid City, SD, Dr. Charles Braun received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1959 and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1963. After beginning his career with the Army Corps of Engineers, Dr. Braun spent 40 years teaching chemistry at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Dr. Braun retired from Dartmouth on June 30, 2005 as professor of chemistry, emeritus. His time as an educator was recognized with the Distinguished Teaching Award, 1987; the CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) New Hampshire University Professor of the Year Award, 1992; and the Robert A. Fish 1918 Memorial Prize for a lifetime of outstanding teaching and scholarship, and achievement and dedication to students, 2005. He has 57 publications in refereed journals and has had continuous funding from the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Energy since 1981 totaling well over $2 million. Currently, he is pursuing a patent for a spectroscopic approach to breath analysis for medical diagnosis. Dr. Robert I. Chen A native of Taiwan, Dr. Robert Chen received his master's degree in electrical engineering from the School of Mines and Technology in 1973 and his EngD from Syracuse University in 1977. From 1973 to 1981, Dr. Chen held various engineering and management positions in General Motors, General Electric, Tektronix, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Hewlett Packard. From 1981 to 1991, Beginning in 1981, Dr. Chen entered the entrepreneurial field, serving as founder, president, CEO and chairman of Applied Optoelectronic Technology Corporation. This business was sold to Hewlett Packard in 1990. In 1991, he served as co-founder, president, CEO and chairman of RAE Systems, a global developer and manufacturer of rapidly deployable, multi-sensor chemical detection monitors and networks for homeland security and industrial applications. Since 2000, Dr. Chen has also served as founder, president, CE and chairman of REnex Technology Ltd., a Hong Kong-based developer of industrial, government, and security applications. Dr. Chen holds a United States patent for a bilaterial phototransistor, has several patent disclosures, and has led RAE Systems to achieve 21 patents focused on chemical sensor technologies. Tony A. Jensen Tony Jensen received his bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1984. In the years since, Jensen has risen through the ranks, holding positions with a number of top corporations located around the globe. Currently, Jensen is with Royal Gold, Inc. of Denver, Colorado, as president and chief operating officer. Royal Gold has since been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States by both Forbes and Fortune magazines. He is also the past chairman and current member of the School of Mines Mining Engineering Industrial Advisory Board. He has been instrumental in raising $300, 000 for the Mining Engineering and Management Program. He was the recipient of the School of Mines Mining Engineering 1994 Outstanding Recent Graduate award. Cliff G. Mumm Cliff Mumm received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1973 and 1974, respectively. He soon found work with Bechtel, one of the largest engineering and construction management firms in the world. In the 31 years Mumm has spent with the company, he has risen to become one of Bechtel's top executives. Projects Mumm has headed for Bechtel include the Jubilee Line Extension in London for the British Government, a Bechtel team that was responsible for providing a safety program for Ground Zero cleanup operations, and project director of teams that were tasked with rebuilding roads, bridges, water and wastewater plants, airports, schools power plants, telecommunications systems, power lines, and dredging the Port of Um-Qasr in Iraq after the United States invasion. For his efforts, Mumm has been profiled in the Engineering News Record, appeared on National Public Radio, on the front page of the Rapid City Journal, and was named to World Generation's class of 2004. Additionally, Mr. Mumm was recently named the president of Bechtel North American Infrastructure. Dr. James R. Swartz Dr. Swartz received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1971 and worked for two years for Union Oil Co. of California as a petroleum engineer. He then earned his master's degree in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 1975 and a DSc in Biochemical Engineering from MIT in 1978. In 1978, Dr. Swartz served as a visiting scientist to the USSR before joining the pharmaceutical industry with Eli Lilly and Company as a senior scientist in antibiotic process development. In 1998, Dr. Swartz joined Stanford University as a professor of chemical engineering, where his research focus is on cell-free protein synthesis and is motivated by applications in pharmaceutical production, patient-specific medicine, hydrogen production, and water purification. Since receiving his first patent in 1985, Dr. Swartz has had 18 patents issued—3 of those as sole recipient and 15 co-authored. He has recently submitted 5 patents—2 of those with full application. Dr. Swartz has more than 50 articles that have been accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals, and he has made 96 presentations, many at national and international conferences. #30# |
| Creator | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. University Relations; |
| Subject | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; |
| Local Subject | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
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| Digital Publisher | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Devereaux Library
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| Date | 2005-12 |
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| Language | eng |
| Relation | Is part of Office of University Relations SDSM&T News Collection |
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| Submitting Institution | Devereaux Library. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. |
| Date Digital | 2009 |
| CONTENTdm number | 7194 |
| CONTENTdm file name | 8183.pdf |
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