B.S. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Anyka graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. She conducted research on solar thermochemical water splitting through the Advanced Energy Materials Laboratory throughout her undergraduate and will continue conducting similar research while she pursued her masters in the same department here at Mines. In addition to her research, she was an outreach chair for CSMMAC, president of the CSM running club, and member of Keramos, and honors society for ceramists.

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Michelle graduated in May 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. She graduated with magna cum laude and undergraduate research scholar honors. She received a Mines Undergraduate Research Fellowship (MURF) with the Colorado Fuel Cell Center her junior year and senior year. She worked with a team on their pressurized fuel cell test stand for renewable energy storage via ammonia synthesis. In her career, Michelle hopes to continue to work on projects that will incorporate sustainable efforts and positively affect the surrounding community.

B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biological Engineering Track

B.S. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Jacquelene is a graduating senior with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines. She has greatly enjoyed working on this project in the electrical engineering department with her research team and has learned so much from everyone. After graduation, she is going to work at an engineering firm for electrical distribution design and plans to take all she’s learned to apply it in the workforce.

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

B.S. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, minor in Biomedical Engineering

Nomin is a graduating senior majoring in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and minoring in Biomedical Engineering. She researched in Dr. Ning Wu’s lab on a project involving micro-motors and self propulsion in the Chemical and Biological Engineering department. She won first place in 2020 Spring GRADS and third place in 2020 Spring MURF for her research contributions.

B.S. in Chemical Engineering

Elise majored in Chemical and Biological Engineering and did research with Dr. Amadeu Sum for the CBEN department. Her research focused on using molecular dynamics simulations to explore the conditions under which gas hydrates form. Elise hopes to pursue more research while working in the water industry.

B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering – Process Engineering Track

B.S. in Computer Science

Josh Rands is a senior studying Computer Science in the Research Honors track. He has been doing research for the Pervasive Computing Systems Group under Dr. Qi Han for 2 years. His research has been in ad-hoc networks for swarm robotic systems with particular interest in UAV swarms. During his first year in the PeCS Group he developed a novel network monitoring algorithm that is now being coupled with a well known distributed routing protocol (AODV) to enable a distributed spacecraft swarm to communicate dynamically.

B.S. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Chad Matthews graduated May 2020 with his BS in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. He performed undergraduate research in the Metallurgy Department since the Summer of 2018 as well as undergraduate research with Idaho National Lab Summer of 2019. He has worked on projects involving structural cables, pipelines, earth moving equipment (current project), and advanced lightweight armor for the US military (INL internship project). He has been the recipient of the BRIDGE Fellowship, Mines Undergraduate Research Fellowship, American Bureau of Shipping Scholarship, the De Laat, Bart & Helen Scholarship, and the MME department’s Clark B Carpenter Award for outstanding graduating senior. Chad is working for Texas Instruments as a Process Engineer where he develops and improves manufacturing processes for silicon microchips.

B.S. in Engineering Physics, Minor in ASI Economics and Business

Julianna Desiato is a now graduated senior from the CSM Physics Department. She graduated in May 2020 with a BS in Engineering Physics and an Area of Special Interest in Economics and Business. She worked as a research assistant on the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon project from May 2019-2020. Her primary contributions to the project were custom pieces for a telescope test system manufactured on the HURCO Hawk Mill in the Physics Machine Shop. Julianna will not be continuing her research but is now working as a Validation Engineer for Mikron Corporation Denver.

B.S. in Physics

Sarah graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in May 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics, Magna Cum Laude. She spent two years as an experimental researcher in the Eley Quantum Materials Lab working on condensed matter physics projects that focused on vortex dynamics in superconductors. In the spring of 2019, Sarah traveled to the National High Magnetic Field Lab in Florida with her advisor, Dr. Serena Eley, to perform experiments in the strongest stable magnetic fields in the world. During her time at Mines, Sarah has received several awards, including poster awards at the 2020 Mines Physics Department Senior Design Symposium, the 2020 Open Quantum Frontier Institute Workshop, and the 2019 Mines Undergraduate Research Symposium. She has also received awards from the Physics Department, including the 2020 Engineering E-Days Award, the 2020 Outstanding Service to the Community Award and the 2019 Outstanding Peer Mentor Award. Having graduated from Mines, Sarah is now pursuing a PhD in Physics at grad school and is looking forward to contributing to physics as a researcher and scientist.

B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering

B.S. in Geophysics

John Rekoske is a graduating senior majoring in Geophysical Engineering and minoring in Data Science. His research with the Department of Geophysics focuses on using high-performance computing to perform numerical simulations of seismic wave propagation from earthquakes to illuminate information about the elastic parameters of the Earth’s interior, especially the outer core. His other research interests involve earthquake hazard modelling, deep learning, and computational seismology.

B.S. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Minor in Biomedical Engineering

Kathryn graduated in the Spring of 2020 from the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Mines with a degree in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and a minor in Biomedical Engineering. She maintained excellent status throughout her academic career, graduating Magna Cum Laude (with high honors) after being on the Dean’s list 7 times. Dr. Melissa Krebs was Kathryn’s undergraduate principal investigator, and continues to be her advisor today in the Masters Thesis Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering Program. Her work remains focused on glaucoma and the inner eye structural meshwork, and she hopes to continue into the medical research field upon graduating.

B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering

Allison is a senior graduating in May with a degree in Chemical Engineering and a minor in Biomedical Engineering. She has conducted research for the chemistry department two years in a row, first with Professor Stephen Boyes on the Release of Nile Red via pH Responsive Nanoparticles, and second with Professor Shubham Vyas on the Influence of Ion Pairing on Sulfate Radical Mediated PFAS Oxidation. During her time at Mines, Allison has enjoyed conducting undergraduate research, and she hopes to continue to pursue research in her career path.

 B.S. in Environmental Engineering. Minor in Biology

Julia graduated in May 2020 with a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and a minor in Biology. She worked as an undergraduate research fellow in the Geo-Environmental Microbiology Lab in Dr. Josh Sharp’s group for 2.5 years, working closely with PhD candidates Michael Vega and Laura Leonard. She worked on projects investigating the feasibility of using open water wetlands to treat impaired waters and understanding nitrogen removal processes in wetlands, as well as understanding the impact of bark beetle infestations and climate change on soil microbial communities in Rocky Mountain forests. Julia is now working in water resources engineering, and hopes to pursue graduate research in hydrology and/or ecology in the future.

B.S. Computational and Applied Mathematics Emphasis. Minors in Computer Science and Public Affairs (McBride Honors Program)

Leah Reeder graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Applied Mathematics & Statistics (Computational and Applied Mathematics emphasis) and minors in Computer Science and Public Affairs (McBride Honors Program). During her time at Mines, she conducted research with Sandia National Labs for several years specializing in algorithm development for neuromorphic computing. She has authored seven publications for her work studying the integration of scientific computing applications on neuromorphic systems. At Mines, she received several awards including the Martin Luther King Jr Recognition award, the Mines Outstanding Graduating Senior Award for Computational and Applied Mathematics, and the William D. Waltman award. After graduating from Mines, she began a PhD program at Stanford University in Computational & Mathematical Engineering as a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient and Stanford EDGE fellow.

B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering

B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering

B.S. in Environmental Engineering

B.S. in Chemical Engineering Major – Biology track. Biomedical Engineering Minor

Bomsaerah Seong was a senior majoring in chemical engineering – biology track with minor in biomedical engineering. She worked on the computational study of ammonia synthesis under Professor Diego Gómez-Gualdrón in the department of chemical and biological engineering. In addition, she worked on other projects with Dr. Gómez-Gualdrón such as MOF-encapsulated catalysts and MOF micro tanks for methane storage. Bomsaerah participated in Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at University of Ilinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and earned the Outstanding Young Researchers Award in addition to research fellowship. She implemented a machine learning approach to automate data collection from nano fabrication tools for the chemical vapor deposition synthesis of graphene.

B.S. in Geology and Geological Engineering, Mineral and Petroleum Exploration

Jared received his Bachelors of Science in Geological Engineering with an emphasis on petroleum and mineral exploration. Jared also competed on Mines’ NCAA Division II Track and Field Team and had a 3rd place podium finish with his 4x100m relay team at the 2019 RMAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Switching from his original major of Petroleum Engineering, he thrived in Geology, citing an interest in rockhounding and experiences as an Eagle Scout from his youth. Building upon previous geochemistry experience with DCM Science Laboratory, Jared worked on research with the Chevron Center of Research Excellence (CoRE). The bulk of the research consisted of collection, digitization, compilation, and organization of well & core data from the Lewis Shale in south-western Wyoming; building a world-class dataset for use in machine learning and facies prediction. Jared has recently started a mine geologist position at the Bates Hunter Gold Mine in Central City, Colorado.

B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering

Emily Bournia is a senior studying Chemical Engineering on the Biological Track with a Biomedical Engineering minor. She has been conducting research with the Boyle Group for a year and a half now focusing on obtaining biomass compositions and creating the protocols to do so. Having the opportunity to explore the world of research has helped her gain new insight into a new and exciting field.

B.S. in Computer Science

Teresa Nguyen is a senior, majoring in Computer Science with a specialty in Robotics and Intelligent Systems and minoring in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on Informations Systems and Science. Working in the MIRRORLab under Mines’s Computer Science department, this research focuses on human-robot interaction. Specifically, the focus is in language-capable wheelchairs, and how the timing of robot-generated explanations affect trust.

B.S. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Minor in Public Affairs

Juno Padilla graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Public Affairs via the McBride Honors Program. He was a Daniels Fund, Gates Millennium, and Greenhouse Scholar and the previous president of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). Juno performed undergraduate research with Dr. Paulo Tabares of the Mechanical Engineering Department, and he graduated with Magna Cum Laude Honors and the Emeritus Faculty Undergraduate Award for Department of Mechanical Engineering.

B.S. in Geological Engineering, Minor in Engineering for Community Development

Cassidy graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Geological Engineering from the Geology and Geological Engineering Department. She also minored in Engineering for Community Development with the Humanitarian Engineering Program. During her undergraduate career, Cassidy conducted research on three different projects with guidance from multiple professors in the Engineering, Design, and Society (ED&S) Division. Under direction from Dr. Jessica Smith, Cassidy organized and analyzed survey data that compiled student responses from different engineering programs at Mines and other schools on the topic of corporate social responsibility (CSR). She organized and interpreted news articles and technical reports regarding the USGS ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system as part of Dr. Elizabeth Reddy’s research. Additionally, Cassidy worked on the PIRE Gold Supply-Chain research project in Colombia and was able to travel to Andes and engage with artisanal and small-scale miners. Cassidy hopes to work with vulnerable communities in the future to collaboratively identify problems and co-create sustainable solutions.