Alumni News

11-Day power play team photo
CSEE Alumni and UB staff member break record for world’s longest hockey game and raise $1.2 million to fight cancer
7/26/17
UB CSEE alumni Michael Lesakowski (MS ’08) and Peter Merlo (BS ’93, MS ‘98); UB staff member Steven Roder; and their team of 40 hockey players helped raise $1.2 million for cancer research at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI).
Sissy Nikolaou (PhD 1998), PE and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Lisel Folks
CSEE Alumna delivers Distinguished Alumna Speech at graduate student commencement
6/19/17
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.
Students celebrate graduation.
Congratulations to the Class of 2017!
6/14/17

The 2016-2017 academic year holds the record for the largest number of graduating students at UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in history, a testament to the school’s increasingly renowned international reputation.

UB’s Engineering Alumni Association named Ashish Shah (center) its Engineer of the Year. Shown with Shah are Jordan Walbesser and Courtney Bentley. Photo credit: The Onion Studio
Shah named 2017 Engineer of the Year
3/20/17

“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.

The New NY bridge.
Engineering History
3/7/17
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. 
portrait of Erich Bloch
SEAS remembers Erich Bloch, UB alumnus, IBM pioneer and former director of the National Science Foundation
1/30/17
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences mourns the passing of Erich Bloch (BS ’52), who pioneered the development of IBM’s mainframe computer and later served as director of the National Science Foundation. Bloch died November 26, 2016 at age 91.