March/April 2019

PEople

• Robert Grubic, P.E., has been named CEO and chairman of Herbert, Rowland & Grubic Inc., based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He served as the firm’s president from 1989 to 2018 and as vice president and executive vice president from 1981 to 1988. Grubic has held leadership positions on the Pennsylvania State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists and the Harrisburg Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers. He received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Villanova University and a master’s degree in business administration from Pennsylvania State University.
• Sean Robinson, P.E., a project engineer for the City of Las Vegas, has been selected as an Engineer News-Record Southwest 2019 Top Young Professional. Robinson has worked on more than 70 private land-development projects in the gaming industry during his professional career. His responsibilities include developing standard policies and designs for LED lighting for the City of Las Vegas and developing procedures to maintain the city’s transportation asset management plan over the next 10 years. He is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
• The science and engineering accreditation organization ABET has named David Whitman, P.E., treasurer. Whitman received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in mineral engineering from the University of Wyoming. He worked in the synthetic fuels arena prior to becoming a faculty member in petroleum engineering at UW in 1981. He received UW’s College of Engineering Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1990 and 2004. He is the past president of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveyors, chairman of the IEEE-USA Licensure and Registration Committee, and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education.
• The International Society of Automation has announced Paul Gruhn, P.E., as its 2019 president. Gruhn is a global functional safety consultant with aeSolutions, a process safety, cybersecurity, and automation consulting firm headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. He serves as a cochair of the ISA 84 standard committee on safety instrumented systems, and he develops and teaches ISA courses on safety systems. Gruhn earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.
• Kootenai Electric Co-operative in Hayden, Idaho, has named Scott Davis, P.E., vice president of engineering and technical services. Davis is responsible for directing system planning and developing designs and improvement recommendations for the engineering department’s construction, operation, maintenance, service, safety, and training activities. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with an emphasis in power systems analysis from Texas A&M University.
• Jay Goldberg, P.E., a clinical professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Healthcare Technologies Management program at Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin, was elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Before spearheading the master’s program in Healthcare Technologies Management in Marquette’s Opus College of Engineering, Goldberg worked in a variety of medical device research and development roles. He holds six patents for urological devices.

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