CHEE Class Notes Travel Edition – August 2022

Paul Smith
Class of 1969, BS in Chemical Engineering
pfnfsmith@outlook.com

This July, we were in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and at the top of Piz Nair which is over 3,000 meters high.

Allison Bourke
Class of 2006, BS in Chemical Engineering
allibe@gmail.com

In this picture, I’m at the start of the hike to the Actun Tunichil Muknal cave, near the town of San Ignacio in Belize (April 2022).

Si Xu
Class of 2010, MS in Environmental Engineering
superadamhsu@gmail.com

This photo is from my trip surveying watershed areas and taking samples for ecological analysis, which is part of my job at the Research Institute of Environmental Protection in my hometown of Sichuan Province in southwest China. The rivers lie in the mountainous regions on the west side of the Province, where few people travel. With very little human interference, nature preserves itself. Natural, healthy environments are rare in China.

Wishing everyone nice summer travels.

Kyle Everly
Class of 2017, BS in Chemical Engineering
keverly@email.arizona.edu

I discovered a hidden recreation spot not very far from Tucson called the Parker Strip. It is just on the border of Arizona and California. I managed to spend four days outside in June without getting overheated. I even got up on a wakeboard, after a dozen or so tries!

Mak Smith
Class of 2020, BS in Chemical Engineering
maksmith.ocr@gmail.com

This summer, I am on a leave of absence from my job at HRL Laboratories in Malibu. I am living in my Prius full time while I travel and race. By the time this is published, I will have started hiking the Colorado Trail, which runs 500 miles from Denver to Durango. So far this summer, I have spent a couple of weeks in the Tetons and am currently getting myself to Denver to start the trail on July 15. I am also spending a month in Oahu after the trail! Cheers!

Dylan Koch
Class of 2021, BS in Chemical Engineering
dtkoch@ucdavis.edu

I recently finished my first year as a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at UC Davis. The focus of my research is on sensors, and more specifically differential ion mobility spectrometry for breath chemical sensing. This photo was taken when I was in Saint Lucia in the Caribbean.