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Speaker Bios
Dr. Claribel Bonilla is an Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of San Diego. Prior to joining USD, She worked at Manufacturing Systems as an Application Consultant providing on-site customer support for complete Intuitive ERP implementations, including training, project management, business and manufacturing application consulting. Additional at industry experience include positions at John Deere and Amkor Technology, and ASARCO. She has a proven track record of implementing lean manufacturing strategies to achieve improved product quality, reduced costs and increased productivity. She is an ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Dr. Bonilla's teaching and research focuses in areas of Manufacturing, Production Systems, Supply Chain and Engineering Education. Dr. Bonilla holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering for the University of Texas El Paso, an MBA in Supply Chain Management from Arizona State University and a PhD in Industrial Engineering Texas A & M University. Marcos Esterman, Ph.D., earned his BSME in 1984 and MSME in 1990 form the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1990 to 1994, he was a development engineer at General Electric Medical Systems in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1995 he attended Stanford University to work on a PhD under the direction of Dr. Kosuke Ishii. In 1997, he returned to industry to work for Hewlett-Packard’s Imaging and Printing Division in Boise, Idaho. At HP, he held a variety of positions in manufacturing and R&D while concurrently conducting his PhD research. His analysis work at HP enhanced design and product architecture decision-making. In 2002, he was awarded a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He currently holds an appointment as an affiliate assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Idaho – Boise. In 2004 he joined the Industrial and Systems Engineering Faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York, where he teaches product and process development, and systems engineering. His current research focuses on structured product development methods, with an emphasis of design for reliability and warranty and design robustness.
Kimberly Fowler, is a native of Jacksonville, FL and received her Bachelor of Science with honors in 1998 from Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN. Dr. Fowler majored in biology with a minor in chemistry and was a MARC (Minority Access to Research Careers) scholar who placed 2nd at the TSU Research Day for her senior dissertation oral presentation. She then went on to receive her MPhil and PhD in cell biology from Yale University in 2005. Her thesis research discovered the novel involvement of a molecule, Synaptotagmin VII, in cytotoxic lymphocyte secretion. She has presented both her undergraduate and graduate research at several national conferences and holds a membership in a number of professional organizations (American Society of Cell Biology, Association of Women In Science, Golden Key National Honor Society, Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science). Dr. Fowler currently is a post-doctoral fellow at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, CO. Her research focuses on developing novel reagents to reduce diabetic autoantigens in type 1 diabetes. Along with several journal publications Dr. Fowler has also been the recipient of several academic awards, such as the GEM fellowship, 2005-6 Blum-Kovler postdoctoral fellow, and JDRF minority mentor-based grant. Dr. Fowler aspires to one day run her own laboratory where she can give back to students the same opportunities that were given to her to excel in scientific research.
Jorge Padilla Guardiola is originally from El Paso, TX. He is a second year graduate student in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and will be completing my Master’s in June 2007. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT in June 2005 specializing in heat transfer and thermodynamics. His research is in boiling heat transfer as it applies to microelectronics cooling and inkjet printing. After graduation he plans to travel through Latin America and hopes to return to work in a government or industry research facility.
Zaida Morales-Martinez (better known as MS Quant or Mama Z) retired in June, 2003 after teaching, advising and mentoring for 47 years - the last 31 at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. Upon retirement, FIU awarded her the title of Professor Emeritus. She received an ACS approved BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Campus and an MS in Analytical Chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to FIU, she taught at her alma mater in Puerto Rico, Florida State University, and University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. Since 1999 Ms. Morales-Martinez has been the Mentoring Consultant for the ACS Scholars Program - the American Chemical Society supported scholarship for minority students in the chemical sciences.
Jason Mendoza was born and raised in El Paso, TX. After high school Jason moved to Boston to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and majored in biology. During his time at MIT, Jason was active in many student organizations, was a member of the varsity wrestling team, and worked with the admissions office to increase diversity, minority recruitment and enrollment at MIT.
Jocelyn Morales began working in higher education at Pace University in 2000 while a full-time undergraduate student. She enjoyed working with students and within the education environment in general. Upon graduating, Jocelyn decided to stay in higher education. In 2003, she accepted a position at Columbia University where she continues to be employed at the present time. Her responsibilities include managing the admission process to the graduate school of engineering, recruiting, conducting information sessions as well as participating in student events, and as the financial aid liaison. One of Jocelyn’s many goals, to earn an MS in Higher Education Administration or related program from Teachers College, an affiliate of Columbia University, in the near future and continue on the same career path.
Marianne Moto was born and raised in Puerto Rico. In 2001, she was awarded the Gates Millennium Scholarship and moved to Gainesville to study chemistry at the University of Florida. In May 2006, she graduated cum laude with a BS in Chemical Engineering, a BS in Chemistry and a Minor in French. As an undergraduate, she was president of UEPA (Unión de Estudiantes Puertorriqueños Activos) and did research for two years. She also completed two summer internships with Mosaic Phosphate Company and Procter and Gamble. Marianne is currently completing her MS in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University where she will study in-vitro releases of PEGylated proteins.
Debbie Murray assumed the position of Program Coordinator for the NASA Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars (LARSS) Program and the Langley Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) as of May, 2006. She worked with NASA Langley Research Center's NASA Faculty Fellowship Program (NFFP), previously known as the NASA American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, as the Program Manager for seventeen years through September of 2006. Over the years, she has worked diligently to help increase the number of participants in all higher education programs, as well as underrepresented minority groups. In addition, Mrs. Murray is one of the core planning committee members for several of Langley's other higher education programs and conferences . Mrs. Murray is very active in community service. For the Hampton Roads Chapter of the American Red Cross, she serves on the Disaster Management Team as the Co-Chair for Shelter Operations. She is a member of the Disaster Action Team and has gone on several national disaster assignments. Mrs. Murray obtained her Associate's Degree in Business Administration (Summa Cum Laude) from Thomas Nelson Community College. She is currently working toward her Bachelor's Degree. She is a member of the Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Society, the National Technical Association. She and her husband, John, are the parents of five children and two grand-children.
Mike Nazareth received his BA from Boise State University in Mathematics Education in 1992. He has also completed graduate level course work from the University of Idaho in Educational Administration and School Counseling. His background entails teaching experience in secondary schools from 1992-1994, recruiting and admissions at the College of Southern Idaho from 1994-1998, and recruiting and admissions at the University of Michigan from 1998 to present. At the University of Michigan, Mike has experience working in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, the College of Engineering Undergraduate Recruiting and Transfer Admissions Office, and the College of Engineering Office of the Associate Dean for Graduate Education. Mike currently directs graduate student recruitment activities for the College of Engineering both on and off campus.
Ricardo J. Sánchez was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. He received the B.S. degree with honors in Electronic Engineering from the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela in 1989. Then, he was awarded a LASPAU full scholarship from Venezuelan-based SIVENSA foundation to pursue graduate studies and received the M.S.E.E. from The University of Kansas in 1993. Ricardo has over 10 years diversified experience in computer networking and systems developing simulations and implementing prototypes for actual and projected products. His projects span the areas of wireless security, IP-based router architectures, wireless mesh architectures, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switching architectures, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisitions (SCADA) systems. As part of Intel’s network security platform roadmap, he conducted research on link security technologies based on network access control techniques. While at Ericsson, he contributed to the architectural specification of a next-generation High-Performance IP Router product. At The University of Kansas, he was the software architect of a novel Rapidly Deployable Radio Network; a broadband ATM-based wireless networking system. While at Digital Equipment Corporation, he contributed to the experimental prototype of Digital’s first GigaSwitch/ATM product. At Infotrol, he collaborated to the implementation of an SCADA product which was utilized during SuperBowl’s XXV edition to monitor and control video transmissions over a nation-wide fiber optics. He was the engineering manager for one of the first Internet Service Provider in Venezuela and briefly visited the Universidad Simón Bolívar as a professor where he taught a pioneering course on high speed networking technology. He has also published several networking-related papers in journals and international conferences and has been author of public domain software released to the Linux community. Ricardo is presently a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at The University of Kansas, and is conducting research on resilient wireless communications techniques for highly dynamic Mobile Ad Hoc Networks as part of his dissertation work. His main technical interests lie in the broad area of networking and communication protocols. He is particularly interested in novel wireless data networks systems (such as Ad Hoc Networks, Sensor Networks, Bluetooth, Mesh Networks, and Wireless LANs) with a focus on system-oriented aspects related to topology management QoS-based routing, mobility and location management, cross-layering techniques, energy-constrained operation, and security. He also has a passion for practical research to advance the state-of-the-art of networking technologies. Ricardo is a senior member of the IEEE and a student member of the ACM, SHPE, and Eta Kappa Nu honor society.
Ms. Sandra H. Thomas is currently the Executive Director of the Institute for Broadening Participation and Senior Administrator for the IGERT National Recruitment Program. Previously Sandy was the Vice President for Programs at the Island Institute, a small non-profit educational organization on the coast of Maine. Prior to that she developed and directed two fellowship programs based at the University of Michigan. One was sponsored by USAID for graduate students who served overseas on two year assignments and the other was a short term interdisciplinary fellowship program supported by the MacArthur Foundation. She has over twenty years of experience in the administration of interdisciplinary science and education projects. Her experience includes all aspects of project management and student recruitment and retention. She played a central role in developing a successful multi-institutional IGERT proposal at the University of Michigan in 1999 which was recently renewed.
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Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers GEM is holding a full-day Getting Ready for Advanced Degrees Lab (GRAD Lab) at SHPE’s National Technical and Career Conference in Denver, Colorado. Top speakers from across the country, including Clarice Bonilla, Ph.D., Marcos Esterman, Ph.D., and Lance Perez, Ph.D., will provide insight on the graduate application process. Also, funders from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and of course GEM will provide details on their application processes. To register or for more information on the SHPE Conference, 
Dr. Claribel Bonilla
Kimberly Fowler, Ph.D.
Jorge Padilla Guardiola
Zaida Morales-Martinez
Jason P. Mendoza
Jocelyn Morales
Debbie Murray
Mike Nazareth
Ricardo J. Sánchez
Sandra H. Thomas
