The Alumni Magazine for Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (WPI)
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64 Spring 2014 class notes 2011 Nina Bass has a new role at ExxonMobil as the Intermedi- ates and Aromatics Improve Planner at the Baton Rouge Chemical Plant. She says she enjoyed her many adventures of 2013, including trips to Israel, Kansas, Puerto Rico, Austin, and San Antonio. Nina is looking forward to celebrating the marriages of several close friends in 2014. Jennifer Kamara came to campus in November to give a presentation sponsored by the Global Humanitarian Alliance (which she founded at WPI). After graduation she worked for Novartis, a biomedical research company, and also started her own NGO, World Health Equity (worldhealthequity.org). Her presentation focused on her organization's role in addressing the inequity of health care globally, particularly in her home country of Sierra Leone. 2012 Kaitlyn Kelley writes, "After working at Pratt & Whitney as a test engineer for a year, I relocated to Seattle to pursue a career in the space industry. Now I'm working as a mission manager at Spacefight Inc., a space start-up in Tukwila, Wash. The company helps provide access to space for small satellites, like CubeSats. My job is to ensure that small satellites are properly integrated to launch vehicles." 2013 Macauley Kenney competed in the 2013 Global Finals of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Present Around the World (PATW) competition in London. She represented the Americas region at the fnal. Alex Segala writes, "I work at Phoenix Inc. in Seekonk Mass., which is owned by Bob Fuller '81. Our head of electrical engineering is Michael Euell '00. Brian Aguiar (who spent his freshman and sophomore year at WPI before transferring to UMass Dartmouth) and I make up part of the mechanical engineering team, and we have been the main mechanical engineers on an interesting project. We are completing the installation of an 8m VTMC (dubbed "The 1 Million Pound Machine," which is the largest of its kind built anywhere in North America in the past 50 years. I thought the Institute may be happy to see what is has obviously had some hand in creating." (Below, from left, Alex, Bob, Michael, and Brian.) '12 WPI_classnotes_final.indd 64 3/9/14 2:42 PM