1973

Juan Jose Gonzalez (BSCE) started his career in the Peace Corps--first in Malaysia and then in Thailand. He has spent most of his professional career in Asia working for a two consultancy firms before joining the Louis Berger Group, Inc., where he has worked for 20 years. He has managed rural and urban infrastructure projects in Asia supervising international and local professionals as well as support staff. Recently, he participated in and managed several integrated urban and regional development programs in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and the Philippines. As the team leader for a World Bank project in Indonesia, he prepared strategic plans for infrastructure development in 18 towns that included solid waste management, cost recovery, revenue generation, and financial management plans. Gonzalez will leave in March 2006 to manage a three-year urban infrastructure project financed by the World Bank in Afghanistan

1980

Arturo Salazar (BSCE) was elected as the Los Angeles area representative to the Board of Directors of the Professional Engineers in California Government. Also, Salazar recently completed 25 years of employment with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).

1981

CAPT Donald S. Muehlbach Jr. (MSSM) assumed his 5th Navy Commanding Officer (CO) position. He is serving as CO of the NAVSEA Engineering Duty Qual Unit 102 in San Diego.

1989

Erik Haroutounian (MSCENG) married Garine and settled in UK. They have three children, Alexander 11, Anoushka 9, and Isabella 5. His career focuses on project and program management as well as consulting in telecoms, IT and government. Upcoming personal project write/photo children’s book in Armenia.

1995

Amy Stewart-Deaker (BSENVE) and James Deaker are happy to announce the birth of their son, Tobin, on November 12, 2005. The family lives in Berkeley, CA.

Apolonio (Polo) Ramirez (BSCE) married Norma Grimaldo-Ramirez in January 2002. They live in Granada Hills and we are currently in the process of adopting a child. Apolonio is currently working for Parsons Corporation managing construction projects in the transportation industry.

Joel Chacon (MSEE) just started a new career with Matrikon Europe Ltd in Aberdeen, Scotland.

1999

Emre Ekmekci ( BSISE) just started in the MBA program at Columbia Business School in NYC.

Yen-Shuo Peter Liao (PhD BME) has recently been promoted as Principal Scientist of DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. a Johnson & Johnson company. He is in charge of the research on the wear of artificial hip joint and particle analysis of various implant materials. In addition, he is the chairman of the Community of Asian Associates at Johnson & Johnson (CAAJJ), DePuy Chapter. He and fellow CAAJJ members received an Impact Award from Johnson & Johnson for Tsunami Relief Fundraising Campaign in 2005. He has numerous presentations at major international conferences, such as the Orthopedic Research Society Conference, Society for Biomaterials and Wear of Materials, and also several patents in progress.

2001

Amit Shah (MSMFE) is preparing to graduate with an MBA from The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) in May 2006.