UNH ECE degree?
There are over two thousand of our ECE alumni working in such diverse fields as ocean exploration, medical instrumentation, integrated circuit fabrication, development of high speed networking equipment, music synthesis, patent law, and wireless communication systems. A number of our alumni own their own engineering firms, teach at universities and technical institutes, are presidents of corporations, or work as private consultants. The University Advising and Career Center posts job openings on the UNH Alumni Jobline on a daily basis for graduating students and alumni. Alumni may also post full, part-time and internship positions using the Jobline Posting From on the UNH Alumni Jobline. Internships may also be posted using the University Advising and Career Center's (UACC) on-line posting form.
Teresa Gschwind
Right after graduation, Teresa Gschwind joined Datacube, a company that produces high-performance image-processing boards. She has worked in a number of different divisions of the company, including Quality Control, Customer Support, International Field Applications (lots of interesting travel outside North America), and Software Development (both as a developer and product manager). Now the manager of Applications Engineering, she supervises eight people. Since daughter Anna was born in June, Teri has been working at home two days a week. She has enjoyed working at Datacube because "whenever I have felt that I stopped learning, I was able to find a new job within the company." She has worked with UNH alums both as customers and co-workers. At one point there were seven alums in the company, including founder Stan Karandanis EE '57. Teri considers her UNH EE degree "perfect training" for her various jobs at Datacube: "Our products are hardware-intensive, and my jobs here have all been in software. You write software all day, but you can't be afraid of using an oscilloscope or logic analyzer to debug a problem."
Andrew Kun
After receiving his Ph.D., Andrew Kun started working as a development engineer at Falmouth Scientific, a small oceanographic instrumentation company on Cape Cod. The job included hardware and firmware design and helped him learn how to transform an idea into a product that would sell. The job also gave him a firsthand view of how small businesses operate. After almost two years in industry, Andrew decided to return to the academic world. As an assitant professor at UNH, he is involved in teaching as well as research in robotics, learning systems, and computer engineering. The photo shows Andrew with Toddler, the UNH Biped Robot that was the experimental platform used in Andrew's dissertation.
John Nelson
I earned my MSEE in May, 1994. At UNH, I worked with Dr. Gordon Kraft on applying CMAC to help improve standard linear controllers. After graduation, I began work at MKS Instruments in Andover, MA, as an embedded software engineer. Most of my work involved developing nonlinear and adaptive control algorithms for gas pressure and flow controllers for the semiconductor industry.
In December, 1999, I joined Tecnomatix-Unicam in Portsmouth, NH, as a Software Development Manager. TUI develops software for automating and optimizing PCB manufacturing. I run a division of twenty software engineers who develop optimization algorithms, CAD/CAM software, and web-based machine monitoring tools.
Farad Sunavala
I earned a MSEE in November of 1993. While at UNH I conducted image-processing research under Dr. Richard Messner. Doing a thesis teaches you the importance of self-work and the self-satisfaction one derives from its successful completion is immense. It gives you confidence in your later years when working on far more complex projects. I was hired by Cisco before graduation, initially doing SW development. I am currently managing Cisco's software development effort for the next generation OC192 products that run at the Internet core.
Erich Whitney
After he graduated from UNH, Erich went to work for Datacube in Peabody, Mass. Since he had worked with Datacube equipment in graduate school at UNH, the job made a good transition from school to work. He worked in applications for a few months before transferring into hardware design. In 1997 Erich took a job with Synopsys in Burlington, Mass., where he was a consultant before moving into the corporate applications group, based in Mountain View, Calif. Rather than moving out to "the valley," he set up a home office and worked via phone, fax, and computer. He spent about one week a month in Calif. In November of 2000, he took a job with Axiowave Networks of Marlborough, Mass. He works in the hardware design group applying his skills to a wide variety of design tasks.
The photo shows Erich with his daughter, Brenna Elizabeth, at age 9 months. He reports, "I haven't done anything in my life more rewarding than becoming a father."
