Rice Unconventional Wisdom

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

2007 MS Ph.D. Post-Graduate Employment
Delina Lyon X Post-doctoral assistant, Rice University
Michal Rysz X GSI, Houston, TX
2007 MS Ph.D. Post-Graduate Employment
Ross Gordon X TCB - AECOM, Houston, TX
Rosa Dominguez-Fauxs X Continued in Ph.D. Program at Rice University
Diego Gomez X Continued in Ph.D. Program at Rice University
Heather Shipley X University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, Assistant Professor
Eliza Tsui X Washington Group International, Houston, TX
Ike Ikinwande
2006 MS Ph.D. Post-Graduate Employment
Ria Safiolea X Returned to homeland of Greece
Xuechen Cheng X Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Rice University
Prasad Dharap X Sea Engineering inc.,Structural Engineer
Birnur Buzcu X (05/06) Michigan State University, Assistant Professor
Zhiling Li X (05/06) J. Ray McDermottt , Structural Engineer
Matt Hotze X (12/06) Ph.D. progrm at Duke University
Natalie Capiro X (12/06) Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Georgia Tech
John Fortner X (12/06) Post-Doctoral Research Associate,  Georgia Tech
Rebecca Daprato X (12/06) Geosyntec Consultants, Titusville, FL
  2005 MS PhD Post-Graduate Employment
Karen Pickering

X

(01/05) NASA, Houston, TX
Jude Benavides

X

Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Brownsville, TX
Carlo Quinonez

X

Engeo Inc.
Annemarie Whitko

X

Ambiotec, Inc., Brownsville, TX
2004 MS Ph.D. Post-Graduate Employment
LiLi Cong

X

(12/04) Champion Chemical, Pearland, TX

Maria Fidalgo

X

(05/04) Post-doctoral research assistant at Rice University.

Eric Stewart

X

(12/03) HDR One Company, Austin, Texas

Volodymyr Tarabara

X

(05/04) Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Nadathur, Varadarajan

X Sea Engineering, Houston, TX

Jeffery Dyke

X

Haynes Whaley Associates Inc., Houston, TX

Erin Williford

X

(12/04) Thompson Engineering, Houston, TX

2003

MS Ph.D.

Post-Graduate Employment

Musaed Al-Thubaiti

X

(05/03) Seven Trent Labs, Houston, TX

Birnur Buzcu

X

(05/03) Aramco Services, Saudi Arabia

Natalie Capiro

X

(05/03) Continued in Ph.D. program

Xuekun Cheng

X

(05/03) Continued in Ph.D. program

Lili Cong

X

(05/03) Continued in Ph.D. program

Ashutosh Agrawal

X

Ph.D. Student, University of California, Berkeley
2002 MS Ph.D. Post-Graduate Employment

James McDade

X

 

(05/02) Groundwater Services Inc., Houston, TX

Travis McGuire

X

 

(05/02) Groundwater Services Inc., Houston, TX

Malene Watson

X

 

(05/02) CH2M Hill, Montgomery, AL

Sarah Dalton

 X

 

(05/02) Brown & Caldwell Environmental Consulting, Houston, TX

Stephanie Glenn

 

 X

(12/02) Post-doctoral research assistant at Rice through 12/02, Houston Advanced Research Center, Environmental Information Group (HARC)

Waltrous, Mary

X

 

(12/02) Brown & Caldwell Environmental Consulting, Houston, TX

Mao, Yuqing

X

 

J Ray McDermott Engineering, Houston, TX

Narasimhan, Sriram

X

Continued for Ph.D. at Rice, ABS Consulting, Houston, TX
Criste, Erin

X

J Ray McDermott Engineering, Houston, TX
Sahasrabudhe, Sanjay

X

J Ray McDermott Engineering, Houston, TX

2001

MS

Ph.D.

Post-Graduate Employment
 Jude Benavides  X    (12/00) Continued in the Ph.D. program at Rice

Nathan Cope

 

X

 (12/00) Accenture Consultants, California

Maria Marta Fidalgo

X

 

(11/00) Continued in the Ph.D. program at Rice

Cristina Moreno-Earle

X

 

(06/00) Exxon, Baytown, TX

Volodymyr Tarabara

X

 

(11/00) Continued in the Ph.D. program at Rice

Stehen Friedfeld

 

 X

(05/01) Cornell University, New York

Rebecca Daprato

 X

 

(11/00) Continued in the Ph.D. program at Rice

Farrukh Ahmad

 

X

(05/01) Groundwater Services, Inc., Houston, TX

2000

MS

Ph.D.

 Post-Graduate Employment

Julia Aziz

X

 

(6/99) Groundwater Services, Inc., Houston, TX

Denise Beckles

 

X

3/00) Environmental Management
Authority, Trinidad

Cynthia Schmidt Carr

 

X

(4/00) McKinsey & Company, Houston, TX

Wei Chen

 

X

(9/99) Brown and Caldwell, Houston, TX

Brian Hoblit

X

 

(12/99) NEXRAIN Corporation, Folsom, CA

Rik Hovinga

X

 

(7/99) Rice University (research assistant)

Kalyan Lakshmanan

X

 

(4/99) T3, Trinity Consultants, Houston, TX

Erin Devitt Mackey

 

X

(6/99) Carollo Engineers, Boise, ID

Ellen Moore

X

   

Charles Nelson Neale

 

X

(12/99) Manager, Enron Research/Enron North America; Enron Corp.

Mary Ann Okhuysen

X

 

(7/99) Groundwater Services, Inc., Houston, TX

Shawn Simmons

X

 

(6/99) Bonner, Booker & Moore (consulting), Ph.D. candidate, Texas Southern University

AnnMarie Spexet

X

 

(6/99) Groundwater Services, Inc., Houston, TX

Laine Vignova

 

X

(4/00) University of Wisconsin River Falls, WI

Jianjun (Alan) Xiao

 

X

(4/00) Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research, Inc., Buffalo, NY

1999

MS

Ph.D. Post-Graduate Employment

Greg Characklis

X

Azurix, subsidiary of Enron, Houston, TX

Manar El-Beshry

X

Returned to Egypt

1998 MS Ph.D. Post-Graduate Employment

Diane Bailey

X

Citizens for a Better Environment, Chicago, IL

Suzanne Brock

X

Anderson Consulting

Dawn Gladwell

X

Taggart Engineering & Assoc Inc., Denver, CO

Loren Hopkins

X

Independent consulting

Stephanie Piepho

X

Trinity Consultants, Houston, TX

Adam Richardson

X

University of Utah, advanced degree

Catherine Yewdall

X

Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc., Cranbury, NJ

1997

MS

Ph.D.

 Post-Graduate Employment

Mark Bastasch

X

 

CH2M Hill, Portland, OR

Denise Beckles

 X

 

Continued in the Ph.D. program at Rice

Wei Chen

X

 

Continued in the Ph.D. program at Rice

Jim Engler

 

 X

Self employed

Stephen Friedfeld

X

 

Continued in the Ph.D. program at Rice

Paul Nelson

 X

 

Blackburn & Carter, Houston, TX

Shawn Paquette

X

 

Groundwater Services, Inc., Houston, TX Ð Environmental Engineer

Sandeep Sethi

 

X

Carollo Engineers, Santa Ana, CA

Cynthia Schmidt (Carr)

X

Continued in the Ph.D. program at Rice

 Jianjun Xiao  X    Continued in the Ph.D. program at Rice