Bradley Scholars
Class of 2001
Sarah S. Airey, CpE '01
Roanoke, VA.
Marshall Scholarship for graduate study in the U.K.; College
of Engineering Outstanding Senior Award 2001; Daughtrey Scholar
for educational travel to Ghana; Marshall Hahn Scholarship; Henry
J. Dekker scholarship; Alumni Association scholarship; finalist
for Rhodes scholarship; ODK; undergraduate student member of
Tech Board of Visitors; president of University Honors Associates;
autonomous vehicle team; Society for Women Engineers; moderator,
National Collegiate Honors Council; regional coordinator, Kettering
Foundation National Issues Forum's Social Security Challenge.
Internships: computer education in Ghana; Naval Research Laboratories
designing software for Navy ships.
Ryan Fong, CpE '01
Timonium, MD
IEEE president; HKN president; TBP; Dean's Team; Chinese American
Society; Tennis Club.
Research Activities: Undergraduate research assistant in the Configurable Computing Laboratory. He is currently involved in the development of a secure software radio on a configurable computing platform.
Career Aspirations: Continue in MS/BS program; do graduate work
in embedded systems. Earn an MBA and "start my own company."
Most Memorable Experience: helping with First Lego League Competition.
"It was refreshing to see children at the middle school
age and younger having fun with their hands-on experience with
modern technology."
Brian Gold, EE '01
Newport News, VA, Double major in applied mathematics.
Hatcher Scholarship (Mathematics); IEEE student paper award (1999).
Industrial Experience: Worked part time at Wireless Valley Communications.
Led new project development, including patents, design, development,
and support of new product line on Palm PDA's.
Career Aspirations: "To build a high tech startup company
(or two) in the New River Valley."
Matt C. Helton, EE '01
Bristol, VA
HKN; Phi Eta Sigma; Golden Key; Train Collectors Association;
East Tennessee Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.
Industrial Experience: Three summers at Federal Pacific Transformer
Co., Bristol, VA. "I learned how to deal with people while
practicing my profession in a production environment."
Most Memorable Experience: Learning basic electrical systems
(transistors, op-amps, diodes).
Janie Hodges, CpE '01
Woodbridge, VA
Minor: Computer Science
President, Golden Key National Honor Society; Cofounder, president, 13th Hour Theatre Company; Phi Kappa Phi; HKN.
Internship: Quality assurance/software development internship
at Group Logic, Inc., a software company. "This triggered
my decision to go into software with a focus on design."
Career Aspirations: Work in corporate software development and
design focusing on program design and project management.
Most Memorable Experience: Moderating a freshman honors reading
group. The experience and discussions were "what I expected
back in high school that college would be: a Mecca of minds meeting."
Chris Twaddle, CpE '01
Glen Dale, WV
Gilbert and Lucille Seay Scholarship; Virginia Tech Faculty Scholarship;
Marshall Hahn Scholarship; National Merit; University Honors
Program; Golden Key; captain, Roller Hockey Club; intramural
flag football and tennis.
Co-op Assignments: IBM, three sessions. He is currently working
with engineers to validate microcontroller cores. "In my
digital design class, we discussed large scale logic design and
testing. In this position, I am able to learn and help with the
design process."
Career Aspirations: Logic design of microcontrollers or ASICs
Most Exciting Experience: Traveling to New Orleans for the Sugar
Bowl.
Class of 2002
Kevin Cooley, EE '02
Mechanicsville, VA. Co-op: Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Technology Division. "With these co-ops, I have furthered
my understanding of electronic components and circuits through
humanitarian demining efforts and other similar projects. In
less than 6 months, I was managing a team for a market investigation."
Jonathan Graf, CpE '02
Vienna, VA
Golden Key; national Society of Collegiate Scholars Honor Society;
Honors Program; Habitat for Humanity.
Internships: Intel-3D graphics hardware design engineer; Sprint
-Telecommunications network design engineer; TREEV, Inc.-web
programmer.
Career Aspirations: Microprocessor design.
Christopher Griger, CpE '02
Pittsburgh, PA, Double major, Mathematics. Golden Key; Math Club.
Internships: Adtranz. Simulated I/O signals and systems, modified
wiring layout schematics, worked with real-time system code from
propulsion control of the vehicle. Power Systems Laboratory assistant.
Christopher Maxey, CpE '02
Greenville, SC
TBP, HKN; Golden Key; tutor; Faculty Honors Scholarship; trip leader for Venture Out; Nortel Networks Pride Award.
Projects: Member of high voltage group for first place winning
hybrid electric car team.
Co-op: Nortel. Led a team designing a new application.
Career Aspirations: MS, Ph.D.; start consulting firm; professor.
Vinodh Menon, CpE '02
McLean, VA
Chair, Student Engineers' Council; Delta Sigma Phi; TBP.
Internships: Raytheon Systems Co. (3 summers). "I gained
a greater feel for life in the commercial world, more specifically
for a government contractor."
Career Aspirations: Management consulting or teaching.
Kashan A. Shaikh, CpE '02
Kingston, RI
NSCS; Phi Eta Sigma; classical guitar.
Internship: University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography. Redesigned web page for the Distributed Oceanographic Data System and develop a web interface that dynamically displays data based on information discovered about remote datasets.
Raymond A. Sharp, EE '02
McLean, VA
President, HKN; Fundraising Chair, National Society of Black
Engineers; GM Scholarship; Pratt Engineering Scholarship/ Virginia
Tech Engineering Scholarship; National Collegiate Scholar; varsity
soccer.
Most Memorable Experience: Balancing varsity soccer with EE.
Jason Wienke, EE '02
Pulaski, VA
HKN; Phi Eta Sigma; Golden Key.
Co-op: Ericsson, Inc. "Complemented course work because
many of the projects required low-cost and quickly implemented
solutions - criteria that are often overlooked in academia."
Most Fun Experience: Getting into the more advanced undergraduate
EE courses.
Class of 2003
Francis Aphrem, CpE '03
Ashland, KY
Minor: Mathematics; Concentration in Philosophy.
Virginia Tech Honors Program; Multi-cultural Dance Program; Hilary
Mason Scholarship; Society of Indian Americans; Ultimate Frisbee.
Career Aspirations: Work for a national hardware design company.
Ricky T. Castles, CpE '03
Alexandria, VA
TBP; University Honors Program; Marshall Hahn Scholarship; National
Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Career Aspirations: Hardware design for interactive educational
children's toys allowing autonomous response to varying mechanical
and electrical stimuli.
Daniel Davis EE, '03
Leesburg, VA
Honors Community; student teaching assistant, Residential Leadership
Community.
Career Aspirations: Research with the Department of Defense
Most Memorable Experience: Getting to know faculty members.
Timothy Gredler, CpE '03
Charlottesville, VA. Honors Community; University Concert Choir; Habitat for Humanity; Semper Fideles award for musical excellence; Marshall Hahn Scholarship; Ruritan National Scholarship.
Internships: Credence Systems Corp., Hillsboro, OR. Co-designed
manufacturing test bench to reduce analog module testing from
one week to half a day. GE Fanuc. Tested and troubleshot analog
modules; lead technician for EMC and UL testing.
Alex Hanisch, CpE '03
Roanoke, VA
Student Engineering Council; HKN; Phi Eta Sigma.
Design Project: FIRST robotics class, helping high school students
build a robot for competition. In addition to being able to apply
classroom knowledge, "I had the chance to see other areas
of engineering in action."
Russell Holbrook, CpE '03
Blacksburg, VA
Career Aspirations: Graphic acceleration of devices beyond the
2D CRT, working towards creating an actual 3D computer-generated
environment.
Most Memorable Experience: Introduction to Computer Engineering.
"There's something extremely gratifying about building your
first processor, however simple, and programming in assembly
language for the first time."
Andrew Hollingsworth,
CpE '03
Woodbridge, VA
Career Aspirations: Design local and wide area networks.
Co-op: Logicon, a defense contractor specializing in warfare
modeling, simulation, and analysis.
Ryan Hurrell, EE '03
Knoxville, TN
National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Phi Eta Sigma; Gamma
Beta Phi; attended GE Leadership Conference 2000 & 20001;
Climbing Club.
Career Aspirations: Assist in accurate, dependable communications
systems; create robotic machinery for dangerous environments.
Most Fun Experience: Using a pencil box trainer kit for Intro
to CpE class. "Being able to sit down and wire circuits
to perform the desired results has given me the type of hands-on
learning that I enjoy."
Madiha Jafri, CpE '03
Norfolk, VA
University Honor's Program; PakSa; MSA; VT-MUGS; volunteer tutor.
Design Projects: "The in-major classes are very interesting
and the labs build more interest towards the hardware aspect
of computer engineering."
Patrick McDougle, EE '03
Kent, WA
Golden Key; National Society of Collegiate Scholars; Students
for the Exploration and Development of Space.
Co-op: Lockheed-Martin Global Telecommunications, formerly COMSAT
(3 terms).
Career Aspirations: Engineering consultant in the field of analog/RF
communications as it applies to satellite communications.
Michael Mera, EE '03
Hazlet, NJ
National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Internship: Black & Decker. "I learned about AC motor
windings and unit testing. It was interesting to learn the more
practical side of engineering, away from the theory. Still, I
found that the theory was also frequently applied in the planning
and development phases."
Career Aspirations: Working with digital logic.
Stephen Nash, CpE '03
Burke, VA
Rank Captain, Marching Virginians; University Honors Program.
Co-op: Lockheed -Martin Global Telecommunications, formerly COMSAT
(3 terms). "My work exposed me to many new programming technologies
utilized in the industry, which is not taught in undergraduate
course work."
Jamie Riggins, EE '03
Bluefield, VA
Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets; Air Force ROTC; Civil Air Patrol;
gymnastics club.
Design Projects: Autonomous vehicle team.
Career Aspirations: US Air Force, and hope to become involved
in the NASA space program.
Most Exciting Experience: First flight with Civil Air Patrol.
Samuel S. Stone, CpE '03
Lexington, VA
President's List for Notable Achievement; Executive secretary, Institute of Religion Student Council.
Research: Visualization tools, specifically a Visual Debugger
for Microsoft Visual C++. "Frustration with Microsoft's
debugger aroused my interest in this research project."
Kristin Weary, EE '03
Roanoke, VA
Pamplin Leader Award, Marshall Hahn Scholarship; Marching Virginians.
Internship: GE, Salem, VA.
Class of 2005
Stephanie Martin, EE '05
Hampton, VA
University Honors; Freshman Honors Seminar; Women in Engineering
Support Team; Habitat for Humanity; Circle K.
Internship: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
Class of 2006
Daniel Cho, EE '06
Blue Bell, PA
Tae Kwon Do, second-degree black belt.
Research: Nanotechnology
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