{"id":12937,"date":"2012-09-04T16:28:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T16:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=12937"},"modified":"2012-09-04T16:28:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T16:28:55","slug":"alumni-notes-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/09\/alumni-notes-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stay in touch with fellow UConn engineering alumni. Visit our Engineering alumni <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engr.uconn.edu\/alumni\/\">website<\/a> \u00a0or our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=153271&amp;trk=hb_side_g\">LinkedIn alumni page<\/a> and fill us in on your latest activities or learn what your college friends are doing nowadays!\u00a0 Some recent alumni news follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Somnath Deb<\/strong> (M.S., Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, \u201890, \u201894) and <strong>Roshan Shrestha<\/strong>\u00a0 (M.S. Electrical Engineering, \u201894) of East Hartford-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamqsi.com\/\">Qualtech Systems<\/a>, were profiled in an August 15 <em>Hartford Courant<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.courant.com\/2012-08-15\/business\/hc-qualtech-immigrant-business-20120810_1_tech-transfer-tech-firm-sbir-program\">news story<\/a>.\u00a0 Qualtech was founded by UConn professors Krishna\u00a0Pattipati, who is the UTC Professor of Systems Engineering in the Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, and David Kleinman, an emeritus professor of ECE.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Wadsworth1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-12907 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"William Wadsworth1\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Wadsworth1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"194\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 126px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 126\/194;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cthousegop.com\/bill-wadsworth\/\">William Wadsworth<\/a><\/strong> (B.S. Mechanical Engineering, \u201877), a state representative serving the 21<sup>st<\/sup> District in the Connecticut General Assembly, is seeking reelection.\u00a0 He was first elected to the position in 2010.\u00a0 He also serves on the Farmington Town Council.\u00a0 Earlier in his career, Bill was Vice President of the CASLE Corporation, Avon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn what your college friends are doing nowadays, including Somnath Deb, Roshan Shrestha and William Wadsworth. Visit our Engineering alumni website or our LinkedIn alumni page and fill us in on your latest activities or learn what your college friends are doing nowadays!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[63],"class_list":["post-12937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 00:37:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12937"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=12937"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}