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Four Alumni Being Recognized for Career Achievements During Honors and Awards Ceremony
May 4, 2012
Four members of Class of 1992 that have gone onto successful
careers in engineering and computer science with Ford Motor
Company, Microsoft, BorgWarner Morse, and transportation consulting
are being recognized by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology on
Saturday, May 5, during the annual Honors and Awards Ceremony.
Students are also being honored for academic achievements, and
three Indiana high school educators will receive honors for
inspiring past and future generations of engineers, scientists, and
mathematicians. The ceremony begins at 1:30 p.m. in the Hatfield
Hall Theater.
Alumni receiving Career Achievement Awards from the Rose-Hulman
Alumni Association are:
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Jason Karlen, a chemical
engineering graduate who is now electrical leader/senior process
engineer for Ford Motor Company. As a Six Sigma Master Black Belt
and a former Army officer, Karlen has utilized his leadership
skills and technical prowess to tackle many complex problems that
have had a direct positive impact on Ford's customers. His team's
efforts helped the Ford Explorer have an average 37-percent
improvement in year-over-year customer electrical concerns from
2006-10. Early in 2011, Karlen became the electrical leader at
Ford's Louisville Assembly Plant and senior process engineer for
the launch of the 2013 Ford Escape. Away from work, he serves as
the Ford liaison to the March of Dimes in Louisville, and is in a
variety of capacities for his church and Rose-Hulman. He and his
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Christopher Lanker, a mechanical engineering
graduate, is vice president of global supply management for
BorgWarner Morse TEC. Lanker has had a variety of leadership
positions since joining BorgWarner in 1998. Besides his present
position, he has been director of supplier development and
commodity management, director of product strategy in the emissions
systems division, and director of sales and plant startup in the
turbo systems division. Lanker holds a patent and earned the 2006
BorgWarner Innovation Award. Prior to joining BorgWarner, he held
engineering and product management positions at Federal Mogul and
Coltec Industries. He is a member of the Institute for Supply
Management and the Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society,
and is an executive champion of the BorgWarner Supplier Development
Council. He and his wife, Brenda, have five children ranging in
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Ken Koziol, a civil engineering graduate, is
senior project manager for transportation consulting and management
projects. Koziol's professional experience spans two careers: first
in the U.S. Navy as a commissioned officer of the Civil Engineer
Corps, and for the last 15 years being a senior program manager in
the aviation industry as an airport planner. He has been
responsible for the terminal design of two separate $1 billion
airport projects in Detroit and Indianapolis. Both projects have
won numerous awards and are now consistently recognized among the
best airports in the world. One of Koziol's current projects is
Delta Air Lines' hub expansion at New York City's LaGuardia
Airport. Ken lives in Greenwood, Ind., and has three
children.
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Jack Mayo, a computer science graduate, is
group program manager for Microsoft's Windows division. Mayo has
contributed to every major release of Microsoft's Windows operating
system, since Windows 2000 and including IE8. He has led teams
ranging in size ranging in size from two to 30 or more people. His
current responsibilities include device connectivity for
peripherals and coordinating the effort to port Windows to the ARM
processor architecture. Prior to Windows, Mayo helped deliver the
first three releases of Microsoft Exchange, and also drove the
deployment of Exchange within information technology operations
across the company. He started his career at Andersen Consulting
(now Accenture) as a systems and network consultant. In addition to
his career at Microsoft, Jack and his brother, Jeff, own several
newspapers in rural Oklahoma. They believe that it's important to
offer compelling local news through great community journalism.
Mayo and his wife, Jennifer, have four children.
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Receiving the Samuel F. Hulbert Outstanding Teaching Award will
be Bryan Passwater, a mathematics teacher at Lebanon (Ind.) High
School. William Downey, baseball/basketball coach at Martinsville
(Ill.) High School will receive the Outstanding Mentor Award, while
Terry Henry, college admissions coordinator at Ben Davis High
School, will receive the Charles Howard Outstanding Counselor
Award. Hulbert is emeriti president of Rose-Hulman, while Howard is
Rose-Hulman's former Dean of Admissions.