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Alumni & Friends

Welcome to our family

As an alumni of the College of Engineering, you are joining more than 6,000 other accomplished graduates and professionals who have learned in our classrooms and worked in our labs over the last 35+ years.

Your interest and support provides the resources, expertise and experiences that will help our current and future students succeed.

Meet Some of Our Alumni

Visit the News Center page for all of the College’s latest news

Get Involved

There are many ways you can get involved with fellow alumni, the college, and today’s students!

Become a Mentor

Our students need you! UNLV’s Rebels Forward is a mentorship program designed to provide a longer-term relationship between UNLV students and industry professionals. View details on the Rebels Forward Mentoring Program website.

Join the College of Engineering Alumni Board

You can put your time, skills and resources to good use by giving back to the College and the University by joining the College of Engineering Alumni Board. To find out about open positions, roles and responsibilities, email Bradford Colton at bradfordcolton@cox.net.

Bring Your Knowledge to Campus

Is your company hiring? Do you have internship opportunities or information that could be valuable to our student body? Request to hold an information session. Contact Marian Mason at marian.mason@unlv.edu.

Hire a Student or Graduate

UNLV’s online employment portal Handshake serves employers seeking to hire UNLV talent. Sign up and post your open positions with Engineering Career Services.

Volunteer Your Time

There are several opportunities throughout the year where we could definitely use your help: such as helping at events like Senior Design or the Academy of Engineering, serving as a competition judge, or in our homecoming booth; we’ll reach out to you with options throughout the year.

Support the College of Engineering

Whether it is an annual donation for scholarships, the naming of a space in our new Advanced Engineering Building, or a planned gift, we appreciate your support. Check out how you can support the College and our future alumni.

Academy of Engineering

Another great way of getting involved is by nominating a fellow alumni for the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award. Nominations are accepted year-round.

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College of Engineering Alumni Chapter Board of Directors

  • President - Bradford Colton (’94 BS Mechanical Engineering)
  • Vice President - Justin Veilleux (’04 BS Computer Engineering, ‘21 MBA)
  • Treasurer - Steven Pay (’94 BS & ’00 MS Electrical Engineering)
  • Secretary - Pete Elton (’96 BS Computer Science)
  • Immediate Past-President - Mike Plinski (’95 BS & ’98 MS Mechanical Engineering)
  • Past-President, Board Member - Carrie Porterfield (’90 BS Computer Science, ’13 MBA)
  • Board Member - Gerry Martinez (’94 BS Electrical Engineering)

Class Notes

Jon Becker

Jon Becker, '00 MS Civil Engineering, is nearly finished assembling a book from research on the limiting magnitude of nuclear energy (number, size, and type of nuclear reactors) that can replace the current magnitude of fossil energy (oil and coal) currently being consumed. The size of the recoverable oil reserves (taken from the BP Statistical Review of Energy) are used to determine the lifetimes of oil energy for the nine industrialized states and seven oil states. These comparisons and derivations define the necessity for world governmental support of the development and design of breeder reactors, and not dependency on financing by venture capital and index funds. It also examines why fusion energy will not save the world from economic collapse, for the simple reason that the available world oil reserves will be 95% depleted at least 10 years before the first commercial fusion reactor is available, and which may never be built for centuries to come. He hopes to have this book published in a couple more months.    Besides writing, Becker's other hobbies include online research into current news events, historical events, paleontology, astronomy, evolution, and geology (oil and coal formation).

Michael Dosenbach

Michael Dosenbach, '94 BS Computer Science, is director of cloud & connectivity with Mercedes-Benz Research & Development. He hired and runs a 100-developer office in Seattle focused on building a cloud-based infrastructure for connected car functionality, autonomous driving, and big data use cases, along with customer-facing features that run on that platform. He has been married 17 years and has three children, ages 13, 12, and 10. Reading, playing ice hockey, and shuttling kids between practices and games are his hobbies. The family lives in Renton.  

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