UB alumnus Benjamin Pawlik has the job many space enthusiasts dream about - working in NASA’s Mission Control. In his over 30 year career at the Johnson Space Center, Pawlik has kept both feet firmly planted on the ground while supporting 50 shuttle missions and is currently a mission manager in the NASA Commercial Crew Office in Houston, Texas.
While teaching a course on energy systems at UB, David Blekhman (PhD ’02, mechanical engineering) discovered his love for clean energy technology, in particular fuel cell technology.
Over the past five years, Alvaro Giron has been serving as a project engineer and cost analyst for Turner Construction, where he has helped ensure that projects like the Wilshire Grand Center in Los Angeles stayed within budget.
Kerem Gulec, who earned both his MS and PhD from the University at Buffalo was named one of Engineering News Record California’s Top Young Professionals in 2019.
Faculty and students from UB’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering received four awards at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting and Analytics Conference.
