The Alumni Magazine for Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (WPI)
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classnotes Mihran Aroian '80 writes, "I spent the summer teaching Martin Rowe '80 writes, "In September 2012 I took a new vice president of engineering and engineering manager at Business Strategy in Yerevan, Armenia, at the American Uni- job within my company, leaving Test & Measurement World AGR, which specializes in automated assembly and packag- versity of Armenia and hope to return again this summer." after 20 years. Now I'm editor-in-chief of The Connecting Edge ing systems for the medical device and consumer products (theconnectingedge.com), an online community for engineers industries. Before joining AGR in 1998, Mark held engineering After more than 30 years in industry, Steve Kmiotek '80 who design electrical and optical connectivity into circuits and positions at General Motors, Black & Decker, and Becton joined WPI's Chemical Engineering Department as a full-time systems. Our bloggers cover connectors, cables, circuit pro- Dickinson. He lives in Southbury, Conn. teaching professor. He's initially teaching the sophomore tection, switches, relays, and other forms of connectivity. We sequence and advising students, but will be concentrating on feature daily blogs (yes, I blog every day), and we're always Tom Clark '81 says, "I recently got back from an eight-week increasing the department's work in process safety. looking for new bloggers. Come give us a look and join the trip around the world, using frequent flyer miles for business conversation. Running a website like The Connecting Edge is class the whole way. I was in southern South America, really a 24/7 job. I work at home and my computer is on all day Europe, and Asia. Had great experiences and met some and most of the night. With readers all over the world, time wonderful people. Check out my blog at blog.live4music.net." Joe LeBlanc '80 and his wife, Penny, live in Allen, Texas; their daughter, Paula, has begun med school at Texas A&M.; Allison Powers '80 writes, "I just moved out of Ohio after 17 years. I'm now in the southeast Charlotte, N.C., area, in a small town called Waxhaw. My husband is retired from First Energy and consulting in the nuclear business with Powers Engineering Solutions. . He also plays bass guitar with various bands. Anyone who wants to know where to go in Charlotte for blues/rock, let me know! As for me, I'm not sure yet, what I am going to do with empty nest!" zones are meaningless and comments come in all day that need follow-up. There are no holidays, either. One of our best conversations took place on Thanksgiving between engineers in Canada and Europe. Thus, I post blogs every day except weekends. On the other hand, working at home sure beats commuting every day." Mark Burzynski '81 was recently promoted to president of Arthur G. Russell Co., Bristol, Conn. He previously served as Mark FitzMaurice '81 serves as manager of cloud hardware engineering at Intel Corp. in Columbia, S.C. He lives in Lexington with his wife, Ann. Charles Mendes '81 writes, "I am employed at GE Aviation as a manufacturing program engineer. The position takes advantage of my chemistry and engineering background to bring new processes and materials to production, increasing aircraft engine performance and profitability. I celebrated my Winter 2013 81