On Friday, May 19, UB’s School of Engineering and Applied
Science (SEAS) welcomed a Department of Civil, Structural and
Environmental Engineering (CSEE) alumna as the keynote speaker for
its graduate commencement ceremony.
“Know that if you do good work, you will be helping
someone somewhere in the world,” were some of the words of
wisdom Ashish Shah (PhD ’93, MS ’89, Electrical
Engineering) shared with students and fellow alumni during the
annual Engineering Celebrations event.
It will take 220 million pounds of steel, 300,000 cubic yards of
concrete and more than 5,800 workers to build the New NY
Bridge—and seven UB alumni are helping to bring it all
together.
Angiograft, co-founded by recent chemcial engineering graduate
Sindhu Row, PhD, develops a way to make artificial blood vessels
for people with heart disease and could help reduce the costs
associated with coronary bypass surgery.
