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2 0 0 5 John F. Silny and Robert J. Little ’06, along with Donald S.
Remer, Oliver C. Field Professor of Engineering Economics, had a
paper—“Economic Survey of the Monetary Value Placed on Hu- man Life by Government Agencies in the United States”—accept- ed for publication in the prestigious Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics, a joint publication of The Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis and the International Society of Parametric Analysts. One of the major issues raised in the paper is that life is valued at different amounts by different government agencies. The authors argue that all agencies should use the same value in cost benefit analysis to be able to make comparisons across different agen- cies. John is now at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems in El Segundo, Calif., working on advanced electro-optical sensors for Earth and space observation. Robert is at Lockheed Martin Cor- poration, Space Systems Company working on GPS-III, the next generation of GPS satellites. Their research began as a term proj- ect when the two alumni were students in Remer’s Economics of Technical Enterprise course nearly five years ago. The three con- tinued working on the project for the last few years including while Robert lived and worked overseas as a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama.
2 0 0 7 Amir Adibi is currently working as a patent prosecutor at Imperium Patent Works LLP, a small law firm in Pleasanton, Calif. He
is attending Santa Clara Law School in the evening.
Tracy Fox has moved back to her hometown, Northridge, Calif., and continues to work for Clarkston Consulting. She finished teaching a SQL (Structured Query Language)-based training course for newly hired technical SAP consultants. Last October, she was one of sever- al Mudders who visited the Noah’s Ark exhibit at the Skirball Cultural
Center. Also attending were Annie Tan ’06, Kawika Maunupau ’06 and Arran McNabb ’06.
As a wedding gift to her sister, Laurel Fullerton built a robot flower girl. “WeddingBot (or so I call it) was built for my sister, Allegra, since she didn’t know any young children to act as flower child or ring bearer. I had recently finished building a water-squirting remote-
controlled duck boat for a class (details at:
www.stan-
ford.edu/~laurelf/duck/ ) so she asked me to make her a remote-control robot that would spew flowers,” Laurel reported on
Gizmodo.com. She says she designed and built the robot during an in- ternship at Pocobor, a small mechatronics consulting company in San Francisco. Read the full story at http://
gizmodo.com/5447442/robot-flower-girl-looks-adorable-in-pink. Laurel (shown above, right) was one of several Tesla Motors employees to participate in driving Tesla’s all-electric roadster model 2,700 miles from Los Angeles to Detroit. She drove from Los Angeles to Tucson.The official website with the route, driver bios and photos can be found at www.tesla-
motors.com/roadtrip/
2 0 0 9 Autumn Petros-Good is pursuing a degree in energy and re- sources from UC Berkeley, an interdisciplinary program that brings together
engineering, science, policy, economics, and other disciplines to address large societal issues like energy, climate, water or food resources. She says, “It’s really awesome, and I’m pretty sure that it’s one of the ideal places for someone from Mudd. I’m taking classes on power systems en- gineering and the societal impacts of energy production, and I’m using my NSF grant to work on an investment model for incorporating renewable energy into the electric grid.”
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