Updates from MATE Alumni
- MATE 1974
Chuck Raggio works at Stryker Orthopedics in Linden, CA. Raggio sells and supports sales of revision implants for hip and knee replacements. He provides feed-back to and from orthopedic surgeons and the product teams.
- MATE 1974
Tom is Dean of Applied Technology at San Bernadino Valley College (http://www.valleycollege.edu/), in Alta Loma, CA. He oversees a division of 6 departments, 14 programs serving over 2200 students in a 60,000 square foot facility with over 50 faculty and support staff.
- MATE 1976
Frank works as a Division Metallurgist / M&P for Arrowhead Products. He supervises the Materials and Process laboratory for Arrowhead, which manufactures metals bellows and cryogenic or high temperature/pressure ducting for military, commercial and space applications.
- MATE 1981
Neil is a Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Manager in in Ashburn, VA. He manages submarine overhauls at Pearl harbor Naval Shipyard.
- MATE 1984
Mitch works as a Senior Quality Engineer at Boston Scientific in Santa Clarita, CA.
- MATE 1985
Bill is a Vice President of Corporate Strategy for IBM (http://www.ibm.com) in Carmel, NY. He is currently working with IBM General Managers on their business strategies and growth initiatives. Particular focus on Global Services and Engineering & Technology Services businesses. Formally VP of WW Technology Group Sales, IBM Systems & Technology Group.
- MATE 1985
As Director of Systems Integration, Dave built and lead a team of engineers in designing large scale integrated photovoltaic power systems for least cost installation and operation
- MATE 1986
Gwen lives in San Jose, CA.
- MATE 1990
Eric works in electronics for Brocade Communications, with a focus in Quality and Process.
- MATE 1993
Jim is an Engineer at Cymer (http://cymer.com) in Rio Rancho, NM.
- MATE 1993
Dennis works as a Contract engineer for oversite on the design, procure, and construction of the Missile Defense program facilities in Alaska. Facilitate associated agency and contractors to meet the scope, schedule and budget. Engineering SME emphasis is structural, mechanics and materials.
- MATE 1993
Tim is a M&P Engineer-Metallics at The Boeing Company (http://boeing.com), in Huntington Beach, CA. He is involved with anything and everything metallic. He currently splits time between Metallurgy/Welding and Std Parts/Mech Test groups.
The Huntington Beach site is part of the IDS business unit responsible for defense and aerospace. We support NASA (Space Shuttle, ISS) as well as the gov't (Delta rocket, lots of 'black' programs) in product development, maintainence, and general problem solving.
Tons of hands on stuff like:
- mech testing
- weld schedule development
- new process review/study
- FSW R&D work
- failure analysis
The coolest part has been a couple of trips to Cape Canaveral--got to climb all over the Space Shuttle taking measurements and such. Also visited a loaded launch pad just before Discovery mission.
- MATE 1994
Carl works for National Semiconductor, Santa Clara (http://www.national.com), in San Jose, CA. His work involves failure analysis of electronic components.
- MATE 1994
Tim is a licensed Metallurgical Engineer and a state certified Permanent Amusement Ride Qualified Safety Inspector. He is responsible for performing safety inspections of the attractions at Disney's California Adventure, and for conducting audits with state inspectors. Annually, he certifies to the state (sign under penalty of perjury) that the attractions are in compliance with state regulations.
- MATE 1994
Mike works as a New Product Introduction Engineer at KLA-Tencor ( http://kla-tencor.com) in San Jose, CA. He works with the Development Engineers on new multi-million dollar Automated Bright Field Microscopes. These are used in the inspection of semi-conductor wafers. He works with the service groups making sure they have the proper procedures, spare parts and training available to keep the systems running.
- MATE 1994
Kristian is a Key Account Manager - Microelectronics for Enthone, Inc. (http://www.enthone.com) in San Jose, CA. Kristian says "My duties include working in Marketing to develop new business for Key Microelectronics accounts, in the Americas, who have needs in wafer bumping. I also train Sales Engineers in the Americas to help keep them apprised of the latest technology in wafer scale packaging."
- MATE 1995
Dan works as a Traffic Officer for the City of Vallejo Police Department.
- MATE 1995
Chris is a Quality Engineer at Watlow Electronics Mfg. Co. in St. Louis, MO. He is responsible for product line quality improvement as a member of six sigma green belt process improvement team. He participates in root cause analysis of critical product failure modes.
- MATE 1996
Carlos is a Reliability Engineer at BD Biosciences, ImmunoCytometry Systems in San Jose, CA. He tests components, sub-systems & instruments to ensure product life meets or exceeds business and customer needs
- MATE 1996
Jeff is teaching MSE 370 (Physical Processing) at MSU. He says he saved all
those Cal Poly notes all those years and lugged them around thinking he might
teach materials science someday!
- MATE 1997
Joshua is employed as an Associate Attorney at Jones Day (http://www.jonesday.com/) in Santa Monica, CA. His work involves intellectual property litigation and patent prosecution.
- MATE 1997
Dan is an Engineering Manager at TaylorMade Adidas Golf in Encinitas, CA.
- MATE 1997
Marcus serves as a Patent Attorney for Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP in Seattle, WA.
- MATE 1999
James is a Research Engineer for the Naval Research Laboratory (http://www.nrl.navy.mil) in Key West, FL. James is the head of the US Navy's Marine Coatings Test Facility in Key West Florida. He is responsible for all testing and evaluations being performed at the facility including sponsors and fleet support abroad.
- MATE 1999
David is a Sr. Manufacturing Engineer at Aerojet. (http://www.aerojet.com) in Sacramento, CA. His work involves support of manufacturing processes in the composite structures shop, making rocket motor cases and other advanced composite structures. He also writes work instructions, makes process improvements, and acts as a liason between design and production.
He says, "Aerojet is hiring in many fields as of 1/05. Contact me so I can steer you in the right direction here."
- MATE 1999
Zvi is a Sr. Process Engineer at LTD Ceramics in Fremont, CA.
- MATE 1999
Carlos is a R&D Engineer/Scientist for Hewlett-Packard (http://www.hp.com) in Albany, OR. He works on Materials selection, package design, and reliability testing/modeling for materials systems in existing and new products.
- MATE 1999
Works as a Metallurgical/Welding Engineer at Spectra Energy in Alabama.
- MATE 2000
John is a Materials Engineer with the following organizations:
McDanel Advanced Ceramic Technologies (www.techceramics.com)
NCA Technologies (www.ncatechnologies.com)
- MATE 2000
Jason is a Process Engineer for Intel Corporation (http://www.intel.com) in Chandler, AZ. He is currently working as a PECVD engineer at Intel's Fab 24 300mm wafer factory near Dublin, Ireland.
- MATE 2000
Jeff is a Materials Engineer for Inovati (http://www.inovati.com) in Goleta, CA. His company does work with metallic-based coatings to be applied to various metal and non-metal substrates. Among the many mechanical properties and corrosion prevention benefits the coatings are applied in a very environmentally friendly process. Our main product lines include alternatives for hard-chrome and cadmium coatings.
His job duties include:
- evaluation and benefits studies of patented KM equipment
- development of KM technology for new application areas including
- publications and patent applications
- materials and mechanical testing
- MATE 2000
Since 2005, Cynthia has been an Intellectual Property consultant with Ocean Tomo, a small IP consulting firm based out of Chicago.
- MATE 2001
Garrett acts as a researcher in the Meso, Micro, and Nanotechnology Center in the Electronics Engineering Technology Division at LLNL. His research focuses on optical MEMS devices for various sensor technologies.
- MATE 2001
Lenora Bennett is a Manufacturing Engineer in Austin, TX. She says, "I completed two years as a manufacturing engineer with Tech-Etch, Inc. in Plymouth, MA. Tech-Etch specializes in manufacturing precision parts from thin sheet metal using photo-etch processes. I was responsible for several hundred parts which were used in applications such as communications, electronics and human implants. I was also responsible to develop and maintain control plans for a chemical etch process used to etch 'Elgiloy' and electropolish processes. Currently, I have relocated to Austin, TX with my husband and am seeking employment in a related field."
- MATE 2001
Brendan is a Inventioneer. (http://www.ScuffAwayPainter.com) in Shell Beach, CA. Brendan is currently surviving. Brendan is in the process of launching his own business. He has created a product and brought it to market. Until that actually takes off and allows him to work entirely on it, he is doing construction on the side, teaching Shakespeare for Kids classes, teaching Inventions for kids classes, and being a stay at home dad.
- MATE 2001
Vincent is a Applications Engineer at Gardco Lighting. (http://www.sitelighting.com) in San Jose, CA.
- MATE 2002
Masao works for Confirmd, LLC as a Medical Device Test Engineer. Confirmd provides medical device testing and characterization services. Corrosion testing, FEA, fatigue, mechanical properties, custom device-specific test development, and testing of Nitinol-based devices.
- MATE 2002
Greg is a Design Engineer for the Product Solutions Group at Watson Furniture Group (http://www.watsonfurniture.com/) in Silverdale, WA.
Watson is a small manufacturer of European style office furniture just outside of Seattle. The company is highly focused on sustainable manufacturing practice (no VOC emission, or hazardous materials and the use recycled(downcycled) materials. We are much closer than many large firms in achieving products that will nourish. Some of my duties involve:
- Project management
- Stage Gate design process
- Design engineering
- Refining the mechanical specifications for new products
- Establishing testing standards and pass criteria for new products
- Design new productsfrom concept through refinement with constant evaluation against the Product Specification
- Assist Product Designers with concept refinement including FEA, tolerance review, FAIs and Manufacturability review
- Establish costs for new products, by which sell price will be determined
- Complete Engineering drawing packages for new products
- Create or verify BOMs for new products.
- Prototype new products
- Acquire Design Verification and Manufacturing Approval.
- MATE 2002
Bradley is a Graduate Student at the University of Washington (http://www.washington.edu) in Seattle, WA.
- MATE 2002
Dustin is a Graduate Student Researcher at U.C. Davis, Division of Materials Science (http://www.chms.ucdavis.edu). Dustin is researching advanced structural oxide ceramics including superplasticity and formability studies.
- MATE 2002
Lisa works as a Senior Design Engineer for Stryker. Her work involves product development for minimally invasive surgery equipment and implants.
- MATE 2002
Kate is a Senior Design Engineer at Stryker Endoscopy. She is designing medical devices in San Jose, CA.
- MATE 2002
Ben works as a Project Engineer at Corrpro Co. He manages sales, schedules of testing and repairs, reports
writing, and invoices all underground storage tank (UST) cathodic protection projects in northern California and northern Nevada. Coordinates and oversees western United States region operations for cathodic protection work of
gas station USTs for national client. In addition, performs designs, installations, repairs, and tests of UST cathodic protection systems. Manages and performs cathodic protection testing of various structures, including municipal
pipelines. Lead engineer for creation of anode manufacturing production line at local facility.
- MATE 2002
Justin has just finished his PhD at UC Davis and is currently looking for a job.
- MATE 2002
Alison is a Principal R&D Engineer for SpineWorks Medical in Santa Clara, CA.
- MATE 2003
Cheuk is a Reliability Engineer/Failure Analyst for St. Jude Medical (http://www.sjm.com) in Pasadena, CA.
- MATE 2003
Justin works as a Product Metallurgist for Wyman-Gordon in Worcester, MA.
- MATE 2003
Don is a Product Specialization Engineer at IS2BE Inc. (http://www.is2be.com) in San Francisco, CA. His work involves Software Testing, Product Customization, and Product Support
- MATE 2003
Katie is a Graduate Student/ Research Assistant at Case Western Reserve University (http://www.cwru.edu) in Cleveland Heights, OH. Her work involves using X-ray diffraction to help our understanding of carburization of stainless steels.
- MATE 2003
Andrew acts as a Failure Metallurgist, working on the analysis of metallurigical failures. He also handles the operation of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) & EDS, optical microsocpy, and develops comprehensive reports regarding failures. His work applies to a wide variety of fields and failure modes; fields include aerospace, fasteners, oil/gas, and more.
- MATE 2004
Dustin is a Associate Product Development Engineer at Acushnet Company (http://www.titleist.com/), in Carlsbad, CA.
- MATE 2004
Ryan is a Multi-Disciplined Engineer at Raytheon: Space and Airborne Systems in Los Angeles, CA. He is responsible for support multiple government programs in the area of Materials Science and Engineering. Support involves material consulting, fail analysis, metallography, corrosion control, and contamination control
- MATE 2004
Jennifer is a Process Engineer at Nitinol Devices and Components (http://www.nitinol.com) in Castro Valley, CA.
- MATE 2004
Amanda is currently a graduate student in the Materials Science
and Engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley. She is
working in Professor Rob Ritchie's group on mechanical loading/deformation and
fracture of nickel titanium shape memory alloys.
- MATE 2005
Orb is a PhD Candidate researching organicelectronic and photonic materials at the Materials Science and
Engineering Department at the University of Washington Seattle.
- MATE 2005
Robert is a Materials and Processes Engineer at The Boeing Company (http://www.boeing.com), in Auburn, WA. He assists in production engineering of titanium structural components. This includes implementing cost initiatives, evaluating new processes, and finding root causes of processing difficulties.
- MATE 2005
Morgan is a Graduate Student at Cornell Materials Science and Engineering Dept. (http://www.cornell.edu), in Ithaca, NY. Studies include: Exploration of novel mesoporous materials created for fuel cell electrodes and organic photovoltaic substrates.
- MATE 2006
Sarah works as a Coronary R&D Engineer at Abbott Vascular in Temecula, CA. She researches, designs and implements next generation balloon dilatation catheters and stent delivery systems for coronary products.
- MATE 2007
Orin is a Downstream Materials Engineer at Chevron ETC in Richmond, CA. His job responsibilities include corrosion prevention, failure analysis, and materials selection.
- MATE 2007
Katy works as a Materials/Structures Engineer for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.
- MATE 2007
Eric is a Process Metallurgist at Weartech International in San Gabriel. He melts, welds, casts, and travels to fix customer and internal production problems.
- MATE 2007
Shahram works in Oakland, CA as a Quality Engineer for Plastikon Industries.
- MATE 2007
Ruth works as a Materials Engineer for Lockheed Martin working in Failure Analysis.
- MATE 2008
Brian is currently enrolled at the U.C. Davis School of Law.
- MATE 2008
Yuchin works at Solar Turbines as an Associate Engineer in San Diego, CA.
- MATE 2008
Kyle is a Water Resource Engineering grad student at the University of Colorado at Boulder (http://www.colorado.edu).
- MATE 2008
Michelle works as a R&D Engineer at Abbott Vascular in Carlsbad, CA.
