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p10 Tasha and Mario Camps Mario is currently the president of the largest anesthesiology group in Brevard County Florida, Brevard Anesthesia Services. He is certain that his interest in quality control, patient safety and continuing academic endeavors have been key factors in his success there. Featured Alumni: Mario and Tasha Camps While Mario was at USF, he was in the Honors program (at its early stage when it was just a few rooms), working on his Chemical Engineering degree, Biomedical Engineering certificate. He became interested in medicine while doing research with Dr. Bill Lee. At that time, the certificate in Biomedical Engineering was just being developed. They worked on texture and taste studies, as well as blood flow studies. Some of their work was published prior to Mario’s graduation. Tasha and Mario met while he was simultaneously taking plant design and his pre-med classes. Tasha was also a pre-med major at that time and had not been exposed to much engineering. As they grew closer Tasha became interested in engineering and changed her major. Mario graduated from USF Chemical Engineering in 1991 under the honors program. He worked at Badger Engineering in Tampa, now a division of Raytheon from 1991-1992. While he was there Mario worked on polymers, oil and wax plants, and flares. He applied to medical school and was accepted to the USF College of Medicine and attended medical school from 1992-1996. Mario won honorable mention for his solution of the National AIChE Student Design Contest Problem in his senior year at USF. While at the USF COM, Mario continued to pursue his research interest and published and presented a few papers. Many of them involved some aspects of engineering with topics including flow through portal caval shunts (blood flow in the veins of the liver), protocols for treating stab wounds in trauma patients and the loss of staple line integrity after obesity surgery. Tasha and Mario married just after Tasha graduated with her Chemical Engineering degree in 1994. While Mario was still in school in Tampa, Tasha worked for Brown and Root Engineering in Clearwater. While there, she designed soil and ground water clean up solutions. In 1996, they moved to North Carolina where Tasha worked for Law Engineering and continued to advance her career in the Environmental Engineering field. Mario believes his engineering background provided a great advantage for himself in pursuing his career in Anesthesiology. An anesthesiologist must be very comfortable with complicated medical equipment, the flow of gases and fluids, pharmacology and physiology. Additionally, he feels his engineering and research background was strongly considered when Mario was accepted into one of the top anesthesia residency programs in the country. Mario did residency at Wake Forest University where he was chief resident. While there he continued to work on clinical research and presented the results of his studies in pain control in children at a national meeting in Hawaii. Mario is currently the president of the largest anesthesiology group in Brevard County Florida, Brevard Anesthesia Services. He is certain that his interest in quality control, patient safety and continuing academic endeavors have been key factors in his success there. Tasha and Mario are the proud parents of three active boys Garrett 12, Austin 10, and Christian 9. All three profess to love math and science and at this stage look like they’re engineers of the future. If one goes on to be a chemical engineer that would make 3 generations, as Mario’s father is a chemical engineer still practicing as a consultant.
News From Dr. Carlos Smith– Special Request Dear All, Since about 1990, I’ve been communicating with you in these newsletters giving you news about the University, College and Department. The news has been good– showing our progress from a local teaching university to a recognized teaching/research university. However, I don’t think any previous communication was as important as this brief request. The issue is related to our graduating seniors. As we know, the economy is not doing well and jobs are very scarce. Our seniors, as well as other seniors around the country, are having a very difficult time obtaining job offers. It breaks my heart to see these very well educated individuals graduate– reaching their life’s goal as you did a few years earlier– and not being able to find a job that makes use of their skills and knowledge. We try to help them by telling them that they should try to co-op, or look for any other kind of internship, as companies are first hiring from those ranks. The fact is that there are not enough of these positions available, and we don’t have contact with enough companies to increase these possibilities. Here is what you can do to help us– a few of you have already done it. Please let us know of any possibilities in your company for co-op, internship, and permanent positions. This is something the USF Bulls can do to help one another. You can contact me at csmith@eng.usf.edu, or Scott Campbell at Campbell@eng.usf.edu, and we will get the word out. Thank you for your help, and have a great healthy and blessed 2010! ~ Carlos Dr. Campbell Receives NSF STEP Grant Scott Campbell is one of a group of mathematics, engineering and science faculty that received a $2million grant over five years through the National Science Foundation’s STEP (STEM Talent Expansion) program. The group, which also consists of Kandethody Ramachandran, Arcadii Grinshpan, Catherine Beneteau (Mathematics), Jennifer Lewis (Chemistry) and Gordon Fox (Life Sciences) received this funding to reform the Engineering and Life Sciences Calculus sequences at USF. The failure rates in these courses are quite high and the group believes that, in many cases, it is because students do not see the relevance of the course work to their intended major. One of the three major thrusts of this project (the use of bridge projects) addresses this issue directly. Students taking Engineering Calculus II and III and Life Science Calculus II are given the option of replacing their final examination with a project. The only requirements are that it be a problem related to their major and that it requires the use of calculus in its solution. Although some students come up with their own idea for the project, most have not taken a course in their major and must receive a problem from someone. Some of these students are given ideas by their co-op or internship supervisors. For the others, Campbell serves as the coordinator for the Engineering Calculus sections and either assigns problems to the student, locates an engineering faculty member that can assign a project, or helps the students develop their own ideas. He’s having great fun coming up with projects but can always use more ideas. If you are a practicing engineer and have an idea for a small project that uses some calculus, please feel free to email him at Campbell@eng.usf.edu or give him a call at 813-974-3907. You would also be asked to consult with the student as he/she works through the project. Previous experience suggest a time commitment of about three hours. If you do this, we will include your name and idea on our program website and, who knows, you might enjoy working with a student. NNRC and the Clean Energy Research Center Dr. John Wolan is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. He is a faculty research member of NNRC and the Clean Energy Research Center. Dr. Wolan’s research group focuses on advancing the fundamental understanding of atomic scale processes occurring during the synthesis of catalysis, thin films, and Superlattice material systems. These include studies of surface and bulk chemical/enzymatic reactions & kinetics, thermodynamic driving forces and quantum phenomena. Special emphasis is given toward sustainable/renewable applications. One research front includes the conversion of biomass to liquid fuel utilizing Fischer Tropsch Synthesis (FTS). Understanding of catalyst morphology and performance can lead to significant improvements in FTS efficiency. Global Venture Challenge, a competition organized by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, recognized the potential of this research and selected our team as a national Semi-Finalist. The team will compete in March in the Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future track, sponsored by the US Department of Energy. p11
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