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Cover Story
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Three engineering graduates have received the college's highest honor for young alumni. Paul Augustine, Daniel C. Coy, and Indumini W. Ranmuthu were awarded the Professional Progress in Engineering Award at the 2004 Marston Club banquet. Established in 1989, the PPEA recognizes outstanding professional progress and personal development in a field of engineering specialization and distinguished community service by alums under the age of 46. Paul Augustine (MSECpE'92) joined Micro Devices in  Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1995 as a design engineer and currently serves as general manager for the Nokia Product Line, the company's largest business unit. His responsibilities range from product design and engineering to marketing and customer service for all RFMD products purchased by Nokia. He has applied his technical expertise and business insight to lead his unit to record revenues, growing profitability, and constantly decreasing product development windows. He has published three technical articles and holds three U.S. patents for power sensors on amplifiers. Recognized for his leadership abilities, Augustine focuses on the development of his 100 staff members, as well as building teamwork both within his area and across the entire company. He worked with Guilford Technical Community College to establish an associate's degree curriculum for RF technicians.As director of engineering at Nanophase Technologies  Corporation in Romeoville, Illinois, Daniel C. Coy (BSChE'86, PhDChE'93) manages the engineering and technical aspects of producing novel nanomaterials. Since joining Nanophase in 1999, Coy has developed a patent-pending separator for clarification of nanocrystalline materials, directed the design and construction of a new advanced manufacturing facility for nanocrystalline materials, and developed a highly automated process for aqueous dispersions of nanomaterials. As a graduate student at ISU, Coy created visual geometric models that today serve as the basis for Gibbsian thermodynamics. He spent six years with the Nalco Company, where he championed a computational fluid dynamics initiative that led to applications benefiting Nalco and had a tremendous impact on industrial mixing problems. He is a past recipient of an R & D 100 Award and was recently elected vice-chair of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers programming group.Indumini W. Ranmuthu (PhDECpE'93) is design  manager for the Preamp Design Group at Texas Instruments (TI) in Dallas, Texas. Possessing a rare combination of inventiveness and sound technical and economic judgment, Ranmuthu, with his group of seven engineers, has brought in more than $100 million in revenue to TI. His technical innovations, including a voltage bias circuit with fast switching time and low-noise and high-speed input stages, have been strategic to TI's success. Ranmuthu has filed for 25 patents (8 have been issued) and has published 11 papers. In recognition of his accomplishments, he has been designated a Distinguished Member of the TI Technical Staff, an award given only to the top two percent of the firm's employees. During a two-year tenure as an assistant professor at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka, Ranmuthu developed a curriculum for a master's program in EE and secured funding for a new building and $1 million in lab equipment. | |
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