Alumni News
CLASS NOTES
50s Walter R. McIndoo (EE, 1956) and Paul H. Lewis (EE, 1957) received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who. McIndoo spent nearly 40 years in the automobile electronics industry with General Motors, retiring in 1992 as director of the semiconductor business unit. Lewis is renowned as an emeriti professor at Michigan Technological University and an electrical engineer with more than 60 years of distinction in his technical field.
60s William (Bill) W. Myers (MA, 1969) is analyzing a variety of interesting math or technical topics for Medium, an internet platform for writers of all interests. He lives in retirement at The Villages in central Florida.
70s Ronald L. Loyd (CHE, 1972) was appointed to the Board of Works for the City of Winchester, Ind., where he has lived in retirement after being president with the Ohio Valley Gas Corporation. Denis J. Radecki (MA, 1973) was recognized for more than 35 years of volunteer service to the Indiana Society of Professional Engineers’ MATHCOUNTS competition. He also has served as treasurer of ISPE’s Francis Vigo chapter. Charles (Chick) E. Sweeney (CE, 1972) has retired after a 45-year career with Alden Research Laboratory in Seattle. As the senior technical fellow, he oversaw more than 400 hydraulic design and analysis
projects, mostly in the Pacific Northwest. Two of his projects were awarded the American Consulting Engineers’ Council Grand Conceptor Award. In 2015, Sweeney received the Northwest Hydroelectric Association’s Pamela E. Klatt Award for outstanding service to the hydropower industry. Art Nelson (ME, 1975) has retired after a lengthy career as director of marketing and sales with Toray Fluorofibers Inc. He has moved to North Myrtle Beach, S.C. Steven Sibrel (EE, 1975) has been named a fellow with the American Society of Quality, based upon career and professional achievements. He is a senior supplier quality engineer with Harman/Becker Automotive Systems. Steven K. Rowe (CE, 1978) has been promoted to vice president of sales with Arcosa Lightweight, the largest North American producer of rotary kiln expanded shale and clay lightweight aggregate. He has worked for the company since late 2018. Michael H. Peters (ME, 1979) is board chair and co-owner of Silk Road Gemological Laboratory and Lapidary in Kabul, Afghanistan. This adds to a long list of positions in industry and education. PETERS Since 2016, he has been an instructor and senior adviser for Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
Michael E. Leakey (ME, 1988) is vice president of LEAKEY sales and marketing with Link Manufacturing, a leader in specialty engineered suspensions. He brings more than 32 years of sales, engineering and marketing management experience. Mike formerly was managing director of truck and defense sales with IMMI. Matt E. White (ME, 1989) is the senior vice president with Drax Biomass Inc., based in Monroe, La. He had been director of manufacturing and engineering with Rockwater Energy/Select Energy Services.
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80s W. Darin Moody (CHE, 1987) is a new member of Conexus Indiana’s board of directors. The non-profit initiative is positioning the state for advanced manufacturing and logistics industries opportunities. Moody is a senior vice president with Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis.
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John A. Collett (CE, 1988) was the first recipient of the Greater Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce’s Advocate of the Year Award. He is chief executive officer of Wabash Valley Asphalt in Terre Haute.
Kevin R. Fesler (ME, 1990) has become vice president of business development with Top Aces Corp., a provider of contracted adversary air services. He had a distinguished 24-year FESLER Air Force career, including being executive director of the Aerojet Rocketdyne project and assisting with the National Defense Industrial Association’s precision strike weapons group. Todd A. DeVore (ME, 1993) is now the vice president of manufacturing with Ice House America, the world’s largest manufacturer of ice vending machines.
Ware Leading Government’s Cybersecurity Strategies As the Department of Homeland Security’s new senior cybersecurity official, Bryan S. Ware (AO, 1992) is being kept busy as America faces potential cyber attacks that originate from throughout the world. Ware was confirmed as assistant director for cybersecurity for the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency early in 2020, following nomination by President Trump. He had spent the previous year as assistant department secretary for cyber, infrastructure and resilience policy. In the new role, Ware is working to streamline the reams of data collected by government analysts to make it more useful for tracking hackers. Another top priority is modernizing the agency’s data systems, tools, artificial intelligence, and analytics.
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Ware’s background as an artificial intelligence entrepreneur should be useful to the CISA. His professional career started with leading defense contractors, working on advanced technology programs, including the Star Wars program, early unmanned aerial vehicle payloads and counterterrorism technologies. He has been issued multiple patents in artificial intelligence and mobile technology. In 1998, Ware founded an artificial intelligence company, which was acquired by Haystax in 2013. He continued to serve in leadership roles with the firm, as chief technology officer and chief executive officer until 2018, when he moved into government work.
