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Patricia Dubyoski has worked in the water and wastewater sector for the past five years. In July 2023, she joined GHD as a Project Engineer working on water and wastewater treatment projects all over the world. She actively mentors new graduates at her local office in Bowie, Maryland, and takes every opportunity to participate in STEM pathways events encouraging young people to pursue engineering.
Are you a CBEE Alumni? Stay connected via LinkedIn
Are you a CBEE Alumni? Stay connected via Linkedin
Neil Tran will start his internship at Albemarle this summer 2024, specializing in computational chemistry. Neil Tran is pursuing his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Andy currently works at TAI Engineering in Owings Mills as a Senior Process Engineer and Project Manager. He recently obtained his Professional Engineering License in Chemical Engineering for Maryland. He currently has two patents pending for hygienic manufacturing components.
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Mike graduated from Perry Hall High School (Baltimore County) in the Class of 2005, and joined UMBC that Fall on a Baltimore County Chamber of Commerce Full Scholarship. He majored in Chemical Engineering (GPA: 3.75) and graduated from the Honors College in 2009. During his time at UMBC he participated in a variety of activities, including: living on the Honors College Floor for two years, creating the "Biodiesel Project" (a club that made biodiesel at a local farm using waste vegetable oil and did some related research on campus), singing in the Gospel Choir, organizing a Bone Marrow Registration Drive (+475 sign ups, he later donated bone marrow in 2020), performing research/work on campus in the labs of several faculty (Dr. Daniele Fabris, Dr. Brian Reed, Dr. Upal Ghosh, and Dr. Mariajosé Castellanos), presenting at URCAD, volunteering at St. Agnes clinics, and having a fantastic experience overall.
After graduation from UMBC, Mike biked across the United States with two other UMBC alumni and a then current UMBC student, to raise money for safe water. During his gap year, he worked as a research associate at UMB Shared Services Facility.
In Fall 2010, he attended Lehigh University for graduate school, where he earned his master’s and doctorate in environmental engineering. He earned a Fulbright Scholarship while at Lehigh and lived/researched in India from 2012-2014. While in India, he co-founded Drinkwell in 2013 with two other co-founders. Drinkwell is a water solutions company based in India and Bangladesh to solve the arsenic and fluoride crisis that was related to his PhD research on innovative ion exchange nanomaterials. Today, they serve up to 300,000 users per month across the Indian subcontinent. Mike finished his PhD in 2017 from Lehigh University and continued working with Drinkwell - overall he lived in India, Bangladesh, and his suitcase for three years.
Since 2018, he has been primarily based in Brooklyn, NY doing consulting work. Today, he works for Revel and supports their rapid expansion after their recent $126M Series B investment round. Revel's mission is to accelerate EV adoption in cities by providing the infrastructure and services that make it easy to go electric.
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mikegerman
Drinkwell: https://drinkwell.com/
Google Scholar: Profile Link
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Headshot: Mike German
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After earning her PhD in summer 2021, Nuzhat began working as a Scientist I, Formulation, Vector Process Development with Bluebird Bio developing gene therapies for oncology applications.
Dr. Hopanna joined HDR, a leading Environmental Consulting firm, as a Water/Wastewater Designer in August 2021. In her short time with HDR, she has been engaged in various technical and design-related projects for several key clients (Howard, Anne Arundel, Prince William County, and Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC)).
Dr. Jiao will be starting her position at Merck as a Functional genomics postdoc in December 2021.
Mohsin is a Chemical Enigneer at Indian Head - Naval Sea Systems Command (NSWC IHD)
After completing her BS in Chemical Engineering (Biology track) in 2010, Hannah Wilson (now Hannah Song) earned a PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying pluripotent stem cells, and then a post-doc at Georgia Tech studying therapeutic cell manufacturing. She was recently promoted to Biologist (GS) at the National Institute of Health Center for Cellular Engineering. Her first project, manufacturing engineered T cells to fight liver cancer, is scheduled to start clinical trials this summer. She credits UMBC and the CBEE department for the many wonderful opportunities to become engaged in research, and Dr. Julia Ross in particular for helping discover her love for cells and the immune system.