June 2021 Alumni Newsletter
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Greetings Engineering Alumni!
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Robert Harder, PhD
Dean, College of Engineering
Executive Dean, Industrial Enterprise
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Love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.
- Henry Nouwen, Bread for the Journey
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My name is Jake Ferrier and I graduated from the mechanical engineering program in 2018. Shortly after graduation, I started my career at Intel as a mechanical facilities engineer. My team owns and operates all of the air handling equipment on Intel’s largest manufacturing site in Hillsboro; we are also major stakeholders in the design, building and commissioning of manufacturing and support spaces on our site. I really enjoy what I do, am lucky to have a great manager and team, and am fortunate to be in a place where my insistent sarcasm is appreciated.
Yessenia (Christian ministries and international studies, 2018) and I were married about a year after graduation. Yessenia works at our church, Village Beaverton, which we’ve attended together for nearly three years. We are very involved with our church and are passionate about participating in the work of multicultural ministry (and about advocating for young adults in a large multiethnic body).
In the future, especially as the pandemic wanes, we’re looking forward to building community in the area. And outside of developing our careers and ministry, we’d love to be able to afford a home on a little bit of land where we can grow a nice garden and one day start a family.
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New Engineering Promo Video
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Youngbok (Abraham) Kang and Chris Sharp were named Engineering Unleashed Fellows for 2020. They are two of 29 faculty members across the U.S. to earn the honor, which recognizes their contributions to engineering education, and specifically, entrepreneurial engineering.
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Youngbok (Abraham) Kang, PhD, will develop entrepreneurial engineering modules and publish KEEN cards as resources for other professors to use in bringing hands-on biomedical device development into their classes and integrating curriculum with an entrepreneurial mindset which emphasizes curiosity, connections, and creating value.
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In addition to being an Engineering Unleashed 2020 Fellow, Chris Sharp, PhD, is also community catalyst for the Engineering Unleashed Network. For his fellowship, Sharp is working, developing and building a trajectory of research that looks at the intersection of art and engineering, specifically, how we can use art to better the engineering education experience and to create better engineers. His research is focused on the use and implementation of art in engineering education as a means of both creating more innovation and divergent thought in current students as well as cultivating a space that is more inviting for future students who may fall outside traditional engineer personality stereotypes.
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Nonogram Puzzle Challenge
What you see above is part of a nonogram puzzle. The goal of the puzzle is to fill in the cells of the grid to match the clues for each row and column.
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Ed Godshalk (PhD, IEEE Fellow and “Engineer in Residence” at George Fox University) uses a reproduction of physicist Heinrich Hertz's first radio transmitter (built in 1887) to help his students "see" radio waves in his History of Communications class. This invention proved the existence of electromagnetic “radio” waves, and validated the theories of James Clerk Maxwell (published in 1873) that predicted and explained the nature of such phenomenon. The work of Maxwell and Hertz laid the foundation of all wireless communications systems used in our modern world. Dr. Godshalk constructed the transmitter and receiver from scratch in his home basement workshop. Here is an interesting article on Hertz's discovery.
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We asked three profs what they're watching and here's what they said...
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"I've been loving the Netflix series Abstract: The Art of Design."
- Chris Sharp, PhD, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
"If you haven't watched Colin Furze, you have missed the internet."
- Gary Spivey, PhD, Director of Engineering Projects, Professor of Electrical Engineering
"I recommend Life on our Planet as a great documentary on Netflix about the impending issues with human destruction of forests and the impact on climate change and biodiversity. Plus, who doesn't love David Attenborough?!"
- Jeffrey Walters, PhD, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
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Want to Recruit New Grads or Interns?
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We would love to add you to this list of companies who have recruited George Fox students for internships. Please reach out to us here to do a virtual info session to recruit new grads or current students for internships. You can also post your jobs by emailing us or online with our IDEA Center (click the link below).
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We would love to feature you in an alumni highlight! Click the link below to update your information and let us know what's new.
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