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HONORS CONVOCATION The annual Honors Convocation celebrating student achievement and faculty guidance was held on April 30, 2019. The 2019 awards and awardees for the Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering were as follows:

Civil Engineering Student of the Year: Sarah Howsden Outstanding Civil Engineering Capstone Design: Tyler Sloan, Carthney Laukon, John Pham, Sarah Howsden, Qi Qin (Qi will receive actual award at 2020 event.) Mechanical Engineering Student of the Year: Brianna Huhmann Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design: Josh Goodwin, John Banister, Daniel Cofield, Jacob Eaton, Marcelino Figueroa, Trevor Frisby, Alessandra Portaro-Garcia, Evan Tran Computer Science Student of the Year: Trevor Hammond Outstanding Computer Science Capstone Design: Trevor Hammond, Gabriel Alvarado (Gabriel will receive actual award at the 2020 event.) School of Engineering International Student of the Year: Ibrahim Aljadani Hal and Inge Marcus Award for Service and Community: Marcelino Figueroa

CORNERSTONE

The Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering Bulletin Summer 2019 - July

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MAY 2019 EVENTS! There are always so many exciting events in May! Here are the ones that the Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering can boast about! MSSA Graduation On May 10, 2019 our Microsoft Software & Systems Academy (MSSA) program graduated 40 individuals from Cohorts 22 (Server & Cloud Administration) and 23 (Cloud Application Development), all of whom received certificates for completing their respective 16-week programs. The keynote speaker for this ceremony was Ms. Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President of the Cybersecurity Solutions Group at Microsoft. Ms. Johnson specializes in cyber resilience, online fraud, cyberattacks,

compliance, and mobile security. READ MORE

MSSA Cohorts 22 and 23 graduates, faculty, and staff at the May 10, 2019 pose for a group photo after the ceremony

The Pledge of the Computing Professional Directly following the MSSA graduation, we offered something completely new to our Computer Science and Information Technology graduates – The Pledge of the Computing Professional. In 2007, inspired by the example of the Order of the Engineer, individuals at Ohio Northern University and the University of South Florida created similar organizations for graduates of their respective computing programs. After interest in such an organization grew at other institutions, The Pledge of the Computing Professional was developed by an international team of 17 computing professionals. The Saint Martin’s University Chapter of The Pledge of the Computing Professional was established this year, 2019, as the 50th Node in the Organization’s Linked List of Nodes and the 2nd Node in the state of Washington. We are proud to be able to offer this to our students graduating with bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science or Information Technology, as well as those receiving a Master of Science in Computer Science.

With this inaugural ceremony, 49 graduates, faculty members, and computing professionals from the field were initiated by taking an oath, and pledging to act both morally and ethically as a member of the profession. Each received a certificate and a lapel pin as a visible symbol and reminder of their pledge. The pin (at left) shows a matrix with the word “honor” encoded in ASCII, the character encoding standard for electronic

communications. READ MORE

Annual Engineering BBQ Another popular event, is our annual BBQ for all of our school’s seniors. This event was also held on Friday, May 10th, in between The Pledge of the Computing Professional and the Order of the Ring Ceremony. Great food and great fellowship for everyone!

A few of the many Engineering BBQ guests enjoyed the super weather and great view!

One of the 49 new initiates, Mr. Thomas Dawkins (left), a director in Microsoft’s Office of Military Affairs and one of the architects of the MSSA program, is congratulated on taking the pledge himself by HIMSE Dean, Dr. David Olwell (right).

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The Order of the Engineer Ceremony The 38th annual Order of the Engineer ceremony, was held May 10th at 1:00 p.m. in Cebula Hall. Twenty-three (23) BSME seniors and twelve (12) BSCE seniors participated in the ceremony. We also initiated one of our faculty members, Dr. Corrie Walton-Macaulay, P.E., shown in the photo below (far left). Dean Olwell presided over the ceremony and provided the address, with Fr. Bede Classick providing the invocation, blessing of the rings, and benediction. Dr. Jim Harmon, Professor Emeritus, presented the history of the order, and Mr. Brian Ziegler, President of our Engineering Advisory Board, presented

each initiate with their ring and led the group in taking the oath of the order. READ MORE

2019 initiates to the Order of the Engineer show off their new rings, which are visual symbols of the Order and their oaths to the profession.

Hooding Ceremony The Hooding Ceremony, held in conjunction with Baccalaureate Mass, completed a very busy Friday’s events on May 10th! The following individuals were granted these respective master’s degrees in May 2019: John Cole Master of Civil Engineering Brandon Mowrey Master of Civil Engineering Gail Rodriguez Master of Civil Engineering Viktor Stantsiyer Master of Engineering Management Daryl Salhus Master of Mechanical Engineering

Commencement!

This year’s HIMSE Marshal in the procession was Dr. Xuguang Chen with senior Jarad Roschi acting as our Gonfalonier (standard-bearer). HIMSE graduated a total of 60 students in May 2019, not counting those students who also walked from December 2018 graduates and those expected to graduate in August 2019. The 59 students are represented in degrees as follows: Bachelor’s Civil Engineering: 14 Bachelor’s Mechanical Engineering: 26 Bachelor’s Computer Science: 14 Master’s Civil Engineering: 3 Master’s Engineering Management: 1

Master’s Mechanical Engineering: 1

Brandon Mowrey, a new Master of Civil Engineering, is hooded by MCE Program Director, Dr. Jae Chung

One of our HIMSE graduates, Colton 'Joe' Clark (left), graduated with his usual flair. To Joe’s right is Dr. George Parker ’71, SMU Board Trustee, and strong supporter and mentor to our engineering students.

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GAME DEVELOPMENT CAMP Once again, the School of Engineering is offering our popular summer game development camps for youth ages 11 to 18 on our Lacey campus. These week-long half-day camps (8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) introduce and familiarize students with the processes and applications of game development. Our game camps are a great way for students to gain exposure to higher learning academic settings with hands-on experience with industry technology. We are offering three camp sessions of Level 1 Beginner, with students introduced to object-based programming, graphic and sound files, as well as basic animation; and two camp sessions of Level 2 Intermediate, where students learn how to create programs in GameMaker and receive an introduction to Unity--a 3D game engine and the number one tool in the industry. Level 1 camp weeks: June 24, July 8, and July 22. Level 2 camp weeks: July 15 and July 29. The camp is led overall by Dr. Mario Guimaraes, and taught by instructor Kristi Lee (MSCS graduate student) and assistant Ethan Worden (CS

undergraduate student). There’s still room to enroll in the July camps! READ MORE

DEAN’S LIST – SPRING 2019 Students with a GPA of at least 3.5, who took a full-time load and did not drop any classes, are placed on the Dean’s

List. Only 3% of our engineering and computer science students earned a perfect 4.0 GPA for the Spring 2019

semester and are highlighted in red below. On behalf of the faculty and staff of the Hal and Inge Marcus School of

Engineering, we salute your academic accomplishment and wish you continued success in your studies and future

endeavors. We are all very proud of your scholarly achievements!

Abdulrahman Aljadani Ibtisam Sami Alkhawfi Robert Allen Alwaleed Alqufaydi Gabriel Alvarado Rakan Alzahrani Braden Baker Robert Bone Joseph Brascher Annika Briggs Hannah Briley Zachariah Brincken Rachel Burk Luis Camacho Plascencia Christopher Carlisle Gary Choi Eric Coday Daniel Cofield Frances Constantino Adam Crain Violet Cunningham Sonia Diaz Guzman Alec Dryden Lee Duan Jacob Eaton Zachary Eaton Parker Elliott Marcelino Figueroa Trevor Frisby Alex Garaté

Abdullah Ghurab Anthony Guerrero Jacob Gustafson Trevor Hammond Matthew Hancock Sarah Howsden Brianna Huhmann Aiden Hunter Tanner Inouye Randall Johnson Zeph Kaneshiro Jordan Kitchen Richard Krueger Kazuma Lane Noah Larson Carthney Laukon Kyler Limata Alex Lupulyak Madison Lyon Dylon Maertens Jessica Martin Enriqueta Martinez Oscar Martin-Garcia John McCarthy Brooks McKinney Amanda McMahon Brandon Metra Samuel Nilsen Gandeev Niraula Emery Norwood

Jordan Parker Eric Parks John Pham Victoriya Polishchuk Parker Pontarolo Alessandra Portaro Garcia Sapana Poudel Garrett Rhodes Jarad Roschi Patrick Ross Levi Schilter David Schneider Joshua Schulz Joshua Schwartzlow Ranele Lyn Serrano Hans Shaffer Kaitlyn Slade Tyler Sloan Griffin Small Eric Smith Morgan Smith Conner Snow Megan Taylor Mathew Thomas Evan Tran Benjamin Wadowski Syed Wahidi Colton Walker Dane Webb Ian Yadao

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MSSA CLEARED TALENT COHORT GRADUATION The second Cleared Talent cohort for our MSSA certificate program graduated nine students in a ceremony held

Monday, July 1, 2019. Applicants for the Cleared Talent

program must have an active Top Secret security clearance

with an expiration date after the end of the cohort. The

keynote speaker for this ceremony was Christie Fisher, the

Director of Business Management at Microsoft. Christie has

been with Microsoft for over 13 years, where she has focused

her career on licensing programs for the cloud business. A

dedicated mentor and coach, Christie joined the MSSA

program this fall and has been both an interviewer and cohort mentor for the program. Congratulations to

our nine graduates from this specialized MSSA program! READ MORE

FACULTY NOTES – NOTED FACULTY

SUMMER TEACHING IN CHINA Saint Martin’s University faculty traveled to North China Institute of Aerospace Engineering (NCIAE) in Langfang City, Hebei Province from May 16-June 7 to teach engineering, mathematics, and physics courses. Participating faculty were the School of Engineering’s Dr. David Olwell (Dean of HIMSE), Dr. Corrie Walton-Macaulay (CE), Dr. Shawn Duan (Chair, ME), Dr. Rico Picone (ME/MME) and College of Arts & Science’s Dr. Cameron Sweet (Mathematics) and Dr. Stephen Parker (Physics).

CONGRATULATIONS TO TAPAS DAS Dr. Tapas Das, one of our adjunct faculty members, was recently awarded a certificate of achievement for his article “Tools and concepts for environmental sustainability in the food-energy-water nexus: Chemical engineering perspective”, published in Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, as one of the journal's top downloaded recent papers! Amongst articles published between January 2017 and December 2018, his paper received some of the most downloads in the 12 months following online publication. Per the publisher, “Your work generated immediate impact and visibility, contributing significantly to the advancement of your field.” Congratulations, Dr. Das!

Dr. Rico Picone, working with one of our alumni, Cameron Devine ’16 (BSME), and Dr.

Joseph Garbini (UW), had an article “StateMint: A Set of Tools for Determining Symbolic

Dynamic System Models Using Linear Graph Methods” published in the Journal of Open

Source Education (JOSE). READ MORE

CALENDAR AND EVENTS

Jul 8, Monday Summer 02 Session Begins

Aug 17, Saturday Summer 00/02 Sessions End

Aug 23, Friday Faculty & Student Convocation

Aug 23, Friday Res Hall Opens for 1st Years

Aug 24-26, Sat-Mon Res Halls Open for All Others

Aug 24, Saturday Summer 09 Session Ends

Aug 24, Saturday Summer Graduates Conferral

Aug 26, Monday Fall Semester Classes Begin

Sept. 2, Monday Labor Day (no classes)

Sept 6, Friday Add/Drop Deadline

Cleared Talent Cohort 24 and keynote speaker Christie Fisher (front row far right) ready to begin the ceremony.

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ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENTS Please send us short notes and/or a photo with a short description and let us know what you are doing now! We REALLY want to hear from you! It can be about where you’re working now,

projects you are involved with, personal or professional milestones or events, or anything you’d

like to share with your fellow alumni! Are you interested in being a speaker in our lecture series

or in volunteer opportunities? Our email box is getting a complex because no one is filling it!

Email your items to: SMUHIMSEAlumni@stmartin.edu

We look forward to recognizing you in a future Cornerstone issue!

DEAN’S CORNER It is hard to believe that I am starting my fifth year as Dean at the Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering! The first four years have seen a great deal of progress: the construction of the Panowicz Foundry for Innovation, a wildly successful ABET reaccreditation, the establishment and flourishing of a Computer Science Department, the addition of outstanding new faculty and staff who continue our strong support of the SMU mission, the expansion of the Microsoft Software and Systems Academy, the launch of a chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, the opening of the Lacey MakerSpace, and a host of other activities. Most importantly, we have graduated students who model our Benedictine values and who will serve our communities as ethically grounded professionals. It has been a joy!

This edition of the newsletter celebrates our students. The class of 2019 really left their mark, and we were pleased to recognize so many of them at the Honors Convocation. As well, our Dean’s list continues to grow, reflecting the excellent job our students are doing in the classroom. The classes of 2020 and beyond are poised to match or exceed the accomplishments of ’19. As of this summer, SMU has shattered all enrollment records for first-year and transfer students. I’ll have more to say about the new classes in the fall newsletter, but the strength of the engineering and computer science programs continues to be one of the strongest draws to SMU. As always, we could not make any of this happen without the committed and continuing support of our alumni and Engineering Advisory Board. The support of this alumni community means the world to our students, faculty, and staff. Dr. Shawn Duan, Dr. Rico Picone, Dr. Corrie Walton-Macaulay, and I taught for three weeks in China after graduation at our sister school, the North China Institute of Aerospace Engineering (NCIAE). It was a very good experience. I taught probability and statistics to 71 students. They reminded me that students are pretty much the same all around the world at that age: the engaged front two rows, the semi-engaged middle rows, and the rest of the class! The students had not seen a U.S. approach to classroom management, content presentation, many of the examples, and an

Our Alumni Email Box is VERY lonely!

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interactive teaching style. I had not tried to use Chinese statistical tables or their systems of instructional technology. We all got through it, and it was rewarding. We will host some students and faculty from NCIAE at SMU later this summer. I was pleased that we added The Pledge of the Computing Professional to our graduation events for computer science students. As earlier articles say, we have now conducted the ceremony twice. I would like to acknowledge Ms. Tam Léger, our school’s Executive Assistant, for the original bright idea to do this to initiate our computer science students professionally, as we have done for decades for our engineering students!

The Lacey MakerSpace has opened in portions of Zaverl Hall that used to house the manufacturing and welding labs. HIMSE has been a strong partner in this effort between SMU, the City of Lacey, the Thurston County Economic Development Council, and

other community stakeholders, such as the Port of Olympia. We have arranged for a number of student memberships, giving our engineering students access to additive manufacturing capabilities that we do not have in our lab suites, as well as providing them with work-study opportunities. READ MORE We have many events to look forward to this fall: the addition of new faculty, the coming 125th anniversary of the university, our decennial regional reaccreditation, and hopefully laying the foundations for a new industrial engineering program. Thank you for your support of engineering and computer science at Saint Martin’s University. You make all our successes possible! And if you have suggestions to improve this newsletter or story ideas, please send them along to: engineering@stmartin.edu. Thank you, and with best wishes,

David H. Olwell, Ph.D., Dean

Hal & Inge Marcus School of Engineering

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