Let me begin by thanking so many of you for your wonderful response to my past message. In the April newsletter, I asked for our alumni to form a network in several ways and your response has been gratifying.

One of my requests in April was that you make us aware of internships and jobs for which our great BYU students could apply. Soon after we mailed the newsletter, the e-mail messages began to come in announcing job openings and opportunities. Thank you for responding. Because of your help, along with the strong encouragement we gave to our students to aggressively explore job opportunities, our placement of our 1996-97 seniors was at least 92% (there are still a few graduates we don't know about). By the way, we are constructing a site on our department web page to post job openings so that our students and our alumni can see them.

In April, I also asked whether you were interested in an alumni directory on our department web site where you could find your former classmates or anyone else who graduated from chemical engineering at BYU. We haven't received a large number of responses, but all who responded were very positive about the prospect. As a result, our department site now has that directory. We will soon be entering data from the biographical information that some of you have sent for the Homecoming activity, and you may also enter your information directly unto that directory via the web. This site will be password protected to ensure your privacy. The Alumni Directory is for alumni and faculty use only. To obtain a password, please email cheme@byu.edu or call the department at (801) 378-2586.

A moment ago, I referred to the Homecoming activity, meaning the Second Annual Chemical Engineering Friends & Alumni Dinner on October 17. I hope you are planning to be there! As I write this, there are still some openings in the golf tournament we are holding earlier in the day and some football tickets available (we pay half) for the next day. But don't wait any longer to sign up. Meanwhile, we are looking forward to an outstanding dinner and activity.

If you come for Homecoming, you will also be able to see the progress being made on the campus construction. For example, some of the Wilkinson Center is functional (the Cougar Eat and new atrium look very nice), and the Eyring Science Center is nearly done. The big hole in the ground where the library addition is being built is still an obstacle, but the rest of campus is beautiful as always. You might already know that a new Health Center is being built on the Northeast corner of campus - come check it out.

Along with all other chemical engineering departments in the country, we are in the process of thoroughly examining our program. We went through our accreditation review last fall and were pleased to be successful once again, with full accreditation until the 2002-2003 academic year. However, when we are reviewed again in 2002, the new ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) criteria will be in place, and those criteria Ð called the ABET 2000 criteria Ð are quite different from those of the past.

The ABET 2000 criteria are outcome based. This means that engineering and technology departments will be required to identify the attributes they wish their graduates to have and then to demonstrate that their graduates are indeed developing those attributes as a result of the department program. ABET requires that certain attributes be among those developed by the graduates, but departments may add others to match department and institutional goals and missions. Nevertheless, whatever attributes are chosen, the departments must document that they are taking concrete steps to teach/instill them and to measure their success.

At this point, I'd like to ask your help with our ABET 2000 project. As you can guess, the most significant challenge to achieving the ABET 2000 goals is the part dealing with measuring the outcome. One method of doing this is to survey alumni concerning their impressions of what are the most important skills and attributes for a successful career and how our program helped them to develop those skills and attributes. We have put a brief questionnaire on the web (http://www.et.byu.edu/~terryr/AlumniSurvey.html) and would very much appreciate your filling it out. It is also enclosed in this newsletter if you would prefer filling it out on paper and returning it to Ron Terry. Your feedback is extremely important to us, and we are grateful to you for your time and insights.

As always, we love to hear from you. Our students are the reason we are here, and nothing is more gratifying than hearing from former students who are making contributions to society and to the Kingdom. We just discovered that some of you were not on our alumni list and have not been receiving our newsletter and other communications. If you received this newsletter for the first time, please forgive our past error. For all our alumni, we hope to see you or hear from you soon.

The Dow Chemical Company is the fifth largest chemical company in the world. They manufacture and supply chemicals, plastics, energy, agricultural products, consumer goods and environmental services. Their annual sales total more than $20 billion as they serve customers in 157 countries. They also employ approximately 40,300 people worldwide, and we are pleased that a significant number of those employees are BYU graduates. 
Scott Anderson and Roger McCarty, recruiters from Dow Chemical, are largely responsible for many of these BYU graduate placements. Roger is a BYU chemical engineering graduate himself, and he and Scott visit the BYU campus each year to recruit chemical engineering students. In addition, they both have participated in the Chemical Engineering Career Fair and Interviewing Workshop sponsored by our AIChE Student Chapter. The Career Fair introduces the company to our students and our students to the company and also provides a setting for experienced recruiters to teach our students the fine art of interviewing for jobs. Not only do Roger and Scott help with that teaching, but Roger has provided a detailed instruction booklet containing information about how to prepare a resume. That booklet is now available on our department web site and provides invaluable help to our students.
Dow Chemical is a friend to our department. The company has sponsored a number of our AIChE Chapter golf tournaments 
and is a much appreciated donor to our Department Key Industries scholarship fund. We appreciate our friends at Dow and look forward to a long and mutually-beneficial relationship.
The following are chemical engineering graduates from BYU who work for Dow Chemical:

(For more information on these graduates, please see the Postgrad Postscripts.)

Dr. Merrill W. Beckstead (working with Dr. Fletcher and the University of Utah) has just received a new contract from the Department of Energy to develop computer codes to simulate experimental testing. In a nation-wide competition between 48 universities, the University of Utah received one of five grants. The BYU portion of the grant (under Professors Beckstead and Fletcher) will total approximately one and a half million dollars over six years. The overall objective of the contract is to develop computer codes to perform virtual testing (i.e. using computer simulations only). The simulations will focus on accidental fires and resulting explosions from containers filled with propellant, simulating accidents with missiles. Rather than focusing on engineering results, this program will focus on developing the computational technology for massively parallel super computers, which will be used to aid in the simulations. Dr. Beckstead's participation will focus on expanding his model for the combustion of propellant ingredients based on fundamental chemical kinetics, using parallel computational techniques. As part of his other current research contract, this summer he visited Italy and Germany in a coordinating effort with his Russian colleagues. His research on developing a model for the combustion of propellant ingredients based on fundamental chemical kinetics is going well, and he is always looking for promising new graduate students. Even with all of this research activity, he was still able to get in his usual backpacking/fishing trips into the primitive areas of the Uinta mountains with his family. He always comes back with some really good Fish stories.

Dr. Calvin H. Bartholomew is teaching Materials Science and Creativity this Fall. He was program chair for the 
International Symposium on Catalyst Deactivation held October 5-8 in Cancun, Mexico. His new textbook Fundamentals of Industrial Catalytic Processes with Dr. Robert Farrauto of Engelhard is available this fall from Chapman and Hall. Dr. Bartholomew continues to direct research on catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and catalytic methane formation in coal formations (the latter with Professor Milton Lee of Chemistry). He is also preparing a large, multi-laboratory proposal to study fundamental properties of supported iron clusters.

Dr. Thomas H. Fletcher is currently team-teaching the Coal Combustion course (ChE 733). Dr. Fletcher is the Varsity Scout Coach in his ward, and has had a busy summer of campouts, etc., leading to five Eagle Scout awards. He traveled to both Australia and Japan this spring to visit with major coal research centers there. He was promoted to full professor this year, and was appointed as the new Director of Advanced Research Center (ACERC). (Dr. Smoot was released from this responsibility after 12 years of excellent service.) Dr. Fletcher has received several new research grants this summer and fall, including several grants in collaboration with professors at the University of Utah. He is currently looking for graduate students to help perform research on multi-burner optimization for NOx control and on accidental fires and explosions.

Dr. Hugh B. Hales is a Research Professor of Chemical Engineering. He is starting his second year as a faculty member. He heads the International Reservoir Simulation Research Institute, a consortia supported by thirteen petroleum companies.

Dr. John H. Harb recently returned from a very enjoyable leave at Bipolar Technologies Corporation, a small battery research company located in Orem, Utah. The company is owned by Dr. Rodney M. LaFollette, another BYU alumnus. While on leave, Dr. Harb had the opportunity to work on a hybrid-electric vehicle project funded by General Motors. Their task was to develop a sophisticated transient nonisothermal mathematical model of an advanced lead-acid battery cell. The project was a great success as they were able to help with battery design and provide insights and information regarding the thermal and electrochemical behavior of the battery cell which otherwise would not have been available. He has also initiated a new project to develop microbatteries in collaboration with Linton Salmon of Electrical and Computer Engineering at BYU and Rod LaFollette of Bipolar Technologies. They have already fabricated batteries as small as 0.1 mm on a side for use with MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems.) This work looks like it has great potential (pun intended) to be the enabling technology for several MEMS applications. Dr. Harb is glad to be back in the classroom. He missed the interaction with students over the past year. In Process Control, they are doing quite a bit of collaborative group work this year in order to help enhance learning. Dr. Harb's goal is to require students to think critically during every class period. Dr. Harb would love to hear from any of you who know him (e-mail: jharb@caedm.byu.edu).

Dr. William C. Hecker attended the International Conference on Carbon this summer at Penn State and presented a paper on the reduction of NOx by coal char. Several of his graduate students have completed their work recently and he is in a rebuilding mode. He and MS student, James Hickenlooper, have developed an FTIR/mass spectroscopy technique to quantify adsorbed species on surfaces. He is also beginning to work with Dr. Ronald E. Terry on undergraduate education outcomes assessment. (Please complete the survey on the department website or on the insert in this newsletter.) He is enjoying teaching graduate kinetics and catalysis this semester. After fourteen years as AIChE advisor and twelve Outstanding Chapter Awards (with one more probable), he has stepped down from that assignment.

Dr. Paul O. Hedman is keeping busy with teaching classes and doing research. He is teaching UOLab and Global Technology Issues. His contract for research with the Department of Energy is doing laser diagnostic measurements in pre-mixed natural gas turbine combustor. This research is almost completed. However, he does have a proposal pending to do similar work for the Department of Energy at elevated pressure. With these responsibilities, Dr. Hedman does not find as much time as he would like to fly and to stay in his condo in St. George.

Dr. John L. Oscarson is still using calorimetry to investigate chemical reactions. Presently, he is investigating Òmicro-constants' using heat of mixing flow calorimetry, differential scanning calorimetry, and NMR. Micro-constants arise when reactant A can combine at two different sites on reactant B and when the equilibrium constants for the two different sites are nearly the same, so that what appears to be one reaction is actually two reactions. The thermodynamics of such reactions are very intriguing, especially when studied as a function of temperature. He is still tweaking one of his calorimeters so that it can operate at higher temperatures and pressures so that he can investigate reactions of interest in waste disposal using supercritical water. He still enjoys the outdoors and activities such as gardening, hiking, and fishing when he finds the time to do these things.

Dr. William G. Pitt's research in ultrasonically enhanced drug delivery has begun to spread out into other areas. He has recently published a paper concerning ultrasonically enhanced anti-cancer drug delivery to leukemia cells, and he has two papers under review on the same topic. His results have shown that ultrasound enhances the rate of uptake of drug into the cells, and future work will focus on the molecular mechanisms of this enhanced uptake. He has started animal studies in his research on ultrasonically enhanced antibiotic action against bacterial biofilms on infected implanted medical devices. Another student is looking at changes in the expression of RNA and proteins when the cells are subjected to ultrasound. It sounds like his research is moving along pretty well.

Dr. Richard L. Rowley is currently enjoying a modest teaching load and a heavy research load. He is keeping himself and five graduate students busy doing molecular simulations. Neste Oil (Finland) is supporting this work in search of better synthetic lubricants. Drs. Wilding and Oscarson and he are busily transferring the DIPPR Evaluated Database operation from Penn State University to BYU. This is an exciting project! He was honored to receive the Karl Maeser Research Award from the University this fall, thanks to a very kind nomination by the department faculty. He will be on a sabbatical leave to Finland during the Winter '98 semester. His wife and youngest two children will accompany him there. He is excited about it; his family is a little apprehensive! On a personal note, he now has two boys on missions, three boys in college, and oldest (and youngest) daughter got married this fall--each year brings new opportunities and challenges.

Dr. L. Douglas Smoot has returned to full-time teaching and research in Chemical Engineering after eleven years of service as founding director of BYU's Advanced Combustion Engineering Research Center (ACERC). He was also ordained to the Quorum of the Seventy in April and serves as an Area Authority Seventy in the Utah South Area. In his quiet minutes, he has led the effort to preserve the historic Academy Square which is moving ahead successfully to become Provo's new library.

Dr. Kenneth A. Solen has been busy with a multitude of projects. He and Dr. Harb revised the freshman book for a second edition, which is now in print. In his research, he and his students have been using several working models to experimentally assess blood-material interactions, and that work is going well. He also has been enjoying the increased interactions with our many graduates as he has worked to strengthen the network between our alumni and the department.

Dr. Ronald E. Terry is teaching two courses this fall as well as continuing his scholarship on undergraduate teaching and on engineering ethics. The two courses are a section of unit operations laboratory and a section of engineering ethics. He is also serving as the chair of the department's Undergraduate Committee. He served last year on an adhoc university committee given the charge to develop a new student rating form that would be used in every course at the university every semester. The new form has been piloted and will probably be implemented next year after review by some additional faculty committees. Dr. Terry is part of a group of engineering faculty that is writing a textbook for the engineering ethics courses. The group would like to include positive case studies from industry. If any of you are aware of a case study that could be included in the text, please e-mail Professor Terry at ron_terry@byu.edu.

Dr. W. Vincent Wilding is teaching graduate thermodynamics again this semester and working on several research projects. Three experimental thermodynamics projects, an environmental project, plus the new DIPPR 801 database project that involves Drs. Wilding, Rowley and Oscarson are keeping him and the students in his research group busy.

BS '96 
Karen Adams is a Commercial Development Representative for Epoxy Products and Intermediates at Dow Chemical. She is covering a sales position in Chicago and is seeking permanent placement as a field seller.

BS '83/PhD '89
Dr. Larry L. Baxter and his wife and four children (ages 13-15) live in Livermore, California. He works at Sandia National Laboratories. His position as Senior Member of Technical Staff has him working at the Combustion Research Facility with an ever expanding scope of projects. These include experimental combustion research on coal, biomass, aerosols, energetic materials (explosives and propellants), and black liquor (byproduct from papermaking - no need to worry about Word of Wisdom problems). He also does modeling of hypersonic particle combustion, aerosol formation, and pc boiler performance. His wife, Kris, works as a part-time librarian. They love their home but miss the snow and the mountains of Idaho and Wyoming.

BS '84
Kevin D. Bingham currently is Lead Engineer for the Chemical Engineering Department in the Phoenix office of IDC. Recently, he obtained his Professional Engineering license. He previously worked as a Process Engineer for Rogers Corporation in Mesa, Arizona. After that, he worked for GE Nuclear in Wilminton, North Carolina. He and his family then returned to Mesa where he worked for IDC again. He and his wife, Chattie, have three children. Kevin has held many Church callings and is now serving as Elders Quorum President.

BS '86
Gregory Bond is the Project Manager for Dow Chemical in their Texas Operations. This means he manages and implements small capital projects. He is married and has three boys and three girls ranging from ten years to five months. Greg is currently a High Counselor after having served five and a half years as Bishop.

MS '96
Aaron Bujnowski is an Engineer in the Michigan Operations Process Engineering Department of Dow Chemical. He is currently working on designing equipment for capital projects. Aaron is married and has an eight month old daughter. He is serving as First Counselor in the Young Men's Presidency.

BS '80
Russell T. Carr earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester in June 1984. He also received a University Honors Fellowship from UR. He joined the Chemical Engineering Faculty at the University of New Hampshire in September, 1984. There he has taught Applied Math and their freshman course. He received the Excellence in Teaching Award for College of Engineering and Physical Sciences in 1993. Russell's research in microvascular hemodynamics has been funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Currently, he is looking at spontaneous oscillations and chaos in blood flow in microvessel networks. He and his wife, Teresa, have seven living children and one deceased.

BS '96
Victor Chao is a Process Engineer who coordinates large capital projects from initial design to mechanical completion at Eastman Chemical Co. He is assigned a team of other engineers from all disciplines as well as a representative from the operating division to complete the projects. He thoroughly enjoys his work but misses the skiing and mountains of Utah.

BS '88 
Scott Christensen attended medical school at the University of Rochester after graduating from BYU. He then did an OB/GYN residency and is now a Staff Physician OB/GYN at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. He and Jennifer, his wife, live in O'Fallon, Illinois with their four children.

PhD '92
Dr. Richard Cope is a Dow Chemical Research Specialist of Fluid Mechanics and Mixing Group in Engineering Sciences in Michigan. He is married and has six children. Richard has served in Stake Mission Presidency and together with his wife, continue to be active in church, scouting, youth, sports, and 4-H activities.

BS '87/PhD '92
Dr. Richard Alan Davis has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He teaches the Units Ops labs and conducts research on advanced oxidation kinetics and CFD modeling for the taconite industry. He and his wife's fourth child was born in July of this year. Richard also has served as Bishop since 1995. 

BS '83
Antonio (Tony) M. Denton is working for NGC Corporation as their Operations Superintendent. Tony began his career for Warren Petroleum Company in Kilgore, Texas. He then was promoted to Plant Engineer and later transferred to Tulsa, Oklahoma to take on the responsibilities of Operations Engineer. He has also worked as Operations Supervisor.
Tony was ordained a High Priest in 1996 and is serving as assistant to the High Priest's Group Leader. He is married to Diana and they have six children.

PhD '89
Dr. Paul Gillis is a Senior Engineering Specialist in the Fluid Mechanics and Mixing Group for Dow Chemical. He performs Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations to design new reactors and to trouble-shoot and optimize existing designs. Additionally, he conducts experiment work and serves as a consultant on general mixing problems. His wife, Janet, also has a Chemical Engineering degree from BYU. They have six children. Paul has been active in Boy Scouting and has served as the District Roundtable Commissioner as well as a Scoutmaster for three years. He has also served in the Bishopric and for the last three years has taught Early Morning Seminary.

BES '61
W. Lynn Godfrey has retired. Along with retiring from employment, he retired as President of BEI in April, 1995. Even though he is retired, he is keeping busy. He has flown his 83 year old father to Europe in a private plane. He and his wife have also completed a mission and are serving a second. They are selling their home in South Carolina and plan to settle in a new location after returning from their second mission.

BS '67
Warren Griffin is a Dow Chemical Research Associate in Fabricated Products, working in new product and process development for STYROFOAM brand polystyrene foam. Warren recently returned to Midland, Michigan after spending nineteen years at a Dow research center in Ohio. He has spent the majority of his career in plastic foam research with six years in polystyrene film research. He and his wife have four children. Their oldest daughter is married to another BYU Chemical Engineering Graduate, Alex Martinez.

BES '70
Paul F. Haderlie is working at Sun Tech Services in San Clemente, California. He is a Senior Engineer and serves as a Project Construction Engineer doing plant modifications. 

BS '86
Arnold Haskell is the Dow Chemical Manager of Epoxy Products and Intermediates coordinating new business development and process research projects. He has two sons, ages four and two, and he and his wife are expecting their third child in March '98. His wife, Wendy, runs a mail-order catalog business offering modest special occasion clothing.

BS '87
Alicia (Hoggan) Hilton went to work for Exxon at their Benicia, California refinery after graduating. She worked there for two years. During that time, she married Glen Hilton. Upon the arrival of their first child, she quit work and has been a full-time mother ever since. They now have four children. Glen is currently an engineer for Exxon and is in the last year of an evening MBA program at U.C. Berkeley. 

BS '71
Paul V. Hinman entered the US Air Force and worked in their Advanced Oxygen Systems Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB, developing compact, on-board air separation systems. He received the rank of captain. In 1975, he left the USAF and spent two years at U.C. Berkeley for a MS-ChE. Paul has now been with Union Carbide Corporation R&D Department at South Charleston, West Virginia since 1977. He is presently serving as Bishop for the second time. Paul and Connie have six children and one grandchild on the way.

BS '89
Gary Hoffman is currently involved in capital improvement projects for the regional electric utility. He has specialized in high purity water treatment. For two years he worked as a Process Engineer at a batch chemical plant in South Carolina. He has served in many church callings, mostly with the youth in the Bishopric and Young Men's. Gary attributes the true success of his life to his wife and four children. He and his family live in Kaysville, Utah.

MS '78
George Jarvi has recently taken on the responsibilities of being the Senior Process Engineer at the Clark Refinery in Blue Island, Illinois. He has worked in the oil refinery business for twelve years at which time he forsook research. During those twelve years he worked for a catalyst manufacturer, a major E&C firm, a tiny E&C firm, as an independent contractor and finally at the Clark Refinery. He and his wife, Carla, have five children.

BS '78/MS '88
Steven Robert Johnson was recently promoted to Lead Engineer 3 which assumes the responsibilities of Regulatory Compliance Coordination in addition to Supervision of Operations Engineering, Instrumentation and Controls, Computer/Communication Services and Drafting/Design. He co-authored a paper on ÒReal Time Quantative Lube Oil Debris Monitoring for LM Engines' presented at the October, 1996 International Joint Power Generation Conference in Denver and published in the Fall, 1996 edition of Western Energy. He is currently serving on the Board for Western Turbine Users Inc. He is also serving as 1st Counselor in Stake Young Men and Assistant District Commissioner for BSA. He completed his PhD in Commissioner Science in September, 1996.

MS '85
Valiant Jones is a Research Specialist in Ag Chemicals Process Research for Dow Chemical. His expertise is in scale-up of new production processes from research scale processes. He is married and has five children ages twelve to almost two years. Valiant has served as Ward Mission Leader, Stake Mission Presidency, High Council, High Priest Group Leader, and is currently eleven-year-old Scout Leader.

BS '84
Curtis H. Kempton works for Durel Corporation as a Senior Manufacturing Engineer. He has spent the last five years working there. It is a fast-growing start-up company that manufactures electroluminescent (EL) lamps. He develops and improves manufacturing processes. 

BS '91
James E. Lake just graduated from BYU with his law degree and started working for the patent firm of Schmeiser, Olsen, and Watts in Mesa, Arizona. The attorneys at the firm are largely BYU graduates and have a great deal of experience in computer, electrical, and software technologies. In keeping with his work experience during law school, he will be working with chemically-related technologies and expanding the client base in that area. Soon, he will take the Arizona bar exam and the patent bar exam thereafter. He and his wife, Jenna, just had their fourth child in December. Their three daughters finally got the brother they wanted.

BS '96
Shirley Lam is Commercial Development Representative working in Dow Chemical's Epoxy Business. Shirley is responsible for uncovering sales potential within North America. She carries a similar responsibility identifying markets in Derakane Vinyl Ester Resins. Shirley has worked for Dow for a little over one year and is currently working in the Chicago, Illinois area. She is single and enjoying it! Shirley is currently serving as Visiting Teaching Supervisor. She is also the unofficial Òactivity chairman' for the adult singles in her branch. Shirley volunteers with the Chemical Industry Council of Illinois in tutoring minority students in science.

BS '88
Von Landon is Senior Modeling Specialist working on reaction kinetics, reactor design, distillation design, process design and economics, and data analysis in Dow Chemical's Michigan operations. He and his wife have a boy and a girl. Von has served as High Counselor and remains active in athletic activities and music. He is author of a long list of publications and has made presentations at AIChE Symposia.

BS '96
Doug Law is working at Bayer. He is finding that the engineering aspects of his job are easy while the computer programming, information systems, and general business areas are more challenging.

PhD '87
Dr. Won-Ho Lee returned to Korea in December of 1989 after two and a half years of postdoctoral work at Cornell and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been involved in the catalyst development project at LG Chemical Research Park. He is recognized as the first one who succeeded in commercializing a major chemical catalyst in Korea. Won-Ho is married to Eunsid S. Lee and they have two children.

BS '82
Douglas K. Ludlow completed his Ph.D. at the Arizona State University in 1986 and began working for the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. He advanced through the academic ranks and became Chair of the department in 1994. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel during the 1992- 1993 academic year and a NATO professor at the University of Rome ÒLa Sapienza' in Rome, Italy during the summer of 1995. In 1996, he moved to Rolla, Missouri as Professor and Chair of their Chemical Engineering Department. He and his wife, Sherryl, were married while at BYU. He and his wife have five daughters and all enjoy living in the foothills of the Ozarks and have held many callings in the Church. Douglas is now serving as the Stake Mission President.

BS '95
Alex A. Martinez and his wife have a two-year-old daughter and are expecting their second child in November. They are also planning to buy a house in November. He and his wife are serving as Stake Missionaries. Alex's first year and a half with Shell included development and support of several Process Control software applications (model identification, controller design/simulation and plant loop monitoring.) He received his first promotion (third pay raise) in February. Since then, his responsibilities have expanded to include integration of other manufacturing systems at various U.S. plants.

BS '77
Roger McCarty is Business Development Manager for Specialty Chemicals--New Business Development at Dow Chemical. He manages the global business aspects of this business which include research, development, marketing, sales and manufacturing. He and his wife have eight children whose ages range from nineteen to three. Two of his daughters are attending BYU. He is currently serving as Second Counselor in the Stake Presidency. Roger is active in the Midland Music Society. He has published articles and made presentations at national AIChE meetings, National Petroleum Refiners Association, and Gas Processors Association. Roger has also been an active recruiter for Dow at BYU for many years.

BS '95
Kent Morris is living in Petaluma, California with his wife. His work has been extremely rewarding and sees himself pursuing some positions in product development in about a year. 

BS '90
Dale Schmidt's position is with Dow Chemical's Research Assignments Program which involves rotating assignments in different research departments over a couple of years, then joining a research group full-time at end of the rotating assignments. Dale obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington in October 1996. Dale and his wife are expecting their first child in January. He has served as institute teacher.

PhD '88
Dr. Subrata Sen is a Dow Chemical Technical Specialist in Fluid Mechanics and Mixing Group of Engineering Sciences Laboratory, Core R&D at Freeport, TX. In particular, he is working in the topic of reacting flow systems. His wife, Sreela, and he have two children. They are really enjoying the informal and casual lifestyle of the Texas Gulf Coast.

BS '97
Travis Session works for Dow Chemical and is Commercial Development Representative in Engineered Thermoplastics. Travis is currently located in Midland, Michigan. He and his wife have a one year old son and are expecting their second child (daughter) at the end of November. Travis is serving in the Elders Quorum Presidency. His wife, Julie, is serving as Young Women's Advisor.

BS '66
Pat Simiskey is Project Manager in Freeport, Texas. He has worked on building production facilities for Dow Chemical. Pat is married and has five boys and seven grandchildren. Pat is currently the BYU graduate with longest current longevity at Dow Chemical. Pat has served as Bishop and High Counselor. He is currently High Priest Group Leader and Assistant District Commissioner for BSA.

BS '94
Katherine M. Smith worked for about a year as a Process Engineer at Geneva Steel in Orem, Utah after graduation. She then retired from engineering, moved to Kansas (where her husband, Thaniel, is employed in the aviation industry), bought a house and had a daughter. She is now happily employed as a full-time mom. Katherine keeps busy with yard work (they have five and a half acres), her church callings (previously Primary Presidency, currently Homemaking Leader), and, of course, trying to keep up with her one-year-old.

BS '96
Matt Taylor worked for Valtek as an application engineer in international sales from graduation in June '96 until May '97. He and his wife, Suzi, then toured Europe for five weeks and moved to Virginia where he is currently a medical student at the University of Virginia

BS '97
Suzi Taylor took some time off after graduating in April before she and her husband, Matt, moved to Charlottesville, Virginia. She is now working for Merck and Co. as an engineer in technical operations and is loving it. 

BS '91
John Thorup is Senior Research Engineer working in a pilot plant which supplies new pharmaceuticals for clinical trials for Dow Chemical. He works on demonstration projects to scale up processes to production size. John attended U.C. Davis where he earned his Masters in Chemical Engineering. He and his wife have three children. The oldest is seven and the youngest is two. John has served as a Stake Missionary. He enjoys remodeling houses and entertaining his children.

BS '68
Phil Walker is Associate Manufacturing Consultant in the Ag Technology Center for Dow Chemical. Phil has held positions as Engineering Department Manager, Production Plant Superintendent and Site Reactive Chemicals Committee Chairman. Phil has spent his entire career with Dow in Pittsburg, California. He has five children and one grandchild. Phil has served as Bishop, member of Stake Presidency, High Counselor and various other callings.

BS '79
Keith Crookston Wilson helps ideas become plant improvements as a Technology Manager at PCS Nitrogen Inc. He also enjoys visiting the other PCS Nitrogen sites on various assignments. The company's products include anhydrous ammonia, urea, nitric acid, and ammonium nitrate. He keeps busy with quality (ISO 9000), reliability, expansions, safety, and environmental efforts. His wife, Susan, is a senior in Music Education at Augusta State University.

BS '76
Brian Witt is Dow Chemical's Research Leader responsible for process research, including a pilot plant scale-up of new production facilities. He is married with two sons. One of his sons is serving a mission and the the younger son is attending BYU. Brian is also the son of a retired Dow employee, Bob Witt, who has lived in the Provo area for several years after retirement.

BS '96
Xunhai Xu recently moved to Minneapolis to work with Infinite Graphics.