Alumni, donors and friends play a vital role in supporting the mission of the School of Engineering and its academic and research programs. We invite you to share your interests, ask questions, and help us reconnect with former students.
2-3-12 --The School of Engineering would like to welcome back our class of 1962 Golden Grads! The School of Engineering will host department tours and lunch for our Golden Grads on Friday, May 11, 2012. We also invite you to attend the School of Engineering Convocation ceremony held at 7pm in the Kiva Auditorium at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
The UNM Alumni Association will also host a tour and dinner on Friday, May 11, 2012. More details to come.
12-8-11 -- Sandra Begay-Campbell was recently nominated president of the board of directors of STC.UNM (STC), a nonprofit corporation formed and owned entirely by the University of New Mexico Board of Regents (UNM).
Begay-Campbell is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and former Regent (Trustee) for UNM. She leads Sandia’s technical efforts in the Renewable Energy Program to assist tribes with renewable energy development.
She received a B.S., Civil Engineering degree from UNM and a M.S., Structural Engineering degree from Stanford University.
Begay-Campbell is a recipient of the UNM 2007 Zia Alumnus Award, the 2005 UNM School of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the Stanford University 2000 Multicultural Alumni of the Year Award. She was also selected as a recipient of the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Women from the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women.
The New Mexico Chapter of the American Concrete Institute recently contributed to a scholarship for students in the UNM Civil Engineering Department. The Chapter originally created the endowed scholarship in 2009 for juniors or seniors in civil engineering with a minimum GPA of 3.0. The recent addition to the scholarship will ensure its perpetuity.
Established in 1984 as a nonprofit technical society, ACI is dedicated to improving the design, construction, maintenance and repair of concrete structures. UNM’s Civil Engineering department houses a state-of-the-art structural mechanics lab under the direction of Associate Professor and Regents’ Lecturer Mahmoud Reda Taha, who has been an ACI member for fifteen years. Taha received the ACI Faculty Award in 2010. With ACI-NM’s support, the student who receives this scholarship could gain first-hand access to this groundbreaking concrete technology. more
Reprinted with permission from Government Technology Magazine
February 17, 2011
By Jim McKay
The world is finally catching up to Paul Wormeli. Mobile terminals for law enforcement; computerized criminal history systems; transmission of fingerprints — Wormeli was working on these concepts in the 1960s and ’70s.
What took us so long? Maybe he was just ahead of his time. Ultimately Wormeli’s visionary leadership and his unique ability for building consensus helped facilitate the implementation of integrated justice information systems throughout the nation.
In 1968, Wormeli and some colleagues formed Public Systems Inc. and were granted a patent on the first mobile computer terminal in law enforcement. In 1969, Wormeli became the national project coordinator for Project Search, a consortium of states delving into advanced technology in criminal justice; it later become the Search Group, the online resource for justice and public safety professionals.
Project Search’s first major endeavor was to build a prototype computerized criminal history system. That was 1971 when, under Wormeli’s direction, 10 states successfully exchanged criminal history records in the prototype. That system is now provided by the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division.
Wormeli went on to lead Search in many areas, including demonstrating the use of satellite transmission of fingerprints and developing the Attribute Based Crime Reporting system, which became the National Incident-Based Reporting System. He helped create the concept of an offender-based transaction statistics system, now widely implemented as the Offender Based Tracking System.
If you fast-forward through accomplishment after accomplishment you get to 2001 and the 9/11 attacks after which the Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute was formed. Wormeli guided the institute during its formative years, and it now includes nearly 300 companies that work to help solve information-sharing issues and develop government standards in the areas of justice, public safety and homeland security.
Paul Wormeli received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico School of Engineering in 1959.
