{"id":19194,"date":"2014-09-23T18:17:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T18:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=19194"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T02:53:43","slug":"alumni-news-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/09\/alumni-news-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni News"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"John<\/a>
John W. Braccio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John W. Braccio (M.S. Civil Engineering, \u201982) has been named chief executive officer of the water and infrastructure engineering firm Wright-Pierce<\/a>. Braccio has been with the company for 30 years, most recently as senior vice president in charge of wastewater engineering in southern New England.\u00a0 In his new role, he will oversee the firm’s seven offices in New England.\u00a0 Braccio succeeds William E. Brown, who will remain as chairman of the firm.<\/p>\n

\"Jacob<\/a>
Jacob \u201cJake\u201d Friedman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jacob \u201cJake\u201d Friedman (B.S. Chemical Engineering, \u201802) joined Schneider Electric<\/a> as a senior combined heat and power engineer. In this position, Friedman will develop and prepare financial models for combined heat and power (CHP), energy efficiency and microgrid projects for federal, state, municipal, commercial and industrial customers.\u00a0 Licensed by the Association of Energy Engineers<\/a> as a Certified Energy Manager and Certified Management & Verification Professional, Friedman earned his MBA in finance from the UConn School of Business.<\/p>\n

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\"Udayarka<\/a>
Udayarka Karra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Udayarka Karra (Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, \u201814) joined Wright-Pierce<\/a> as a wastewater process engineer. In this position, he will focus on biological treatment process modeling and design for wastewater treatment plants. Karra recently completed his doctoral program at UConn with research focused on bio-energy production and Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) technology.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2012, he received the Environmental Leadership Award<\/a> from the UConn Office of Environmental Policy.<\/p>\n

\"Matthew<\/a>
Matthew F. Tellier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Matthew F. Tellier (B.S. Electrical Engineering, \u201893) was the featured presenter in an educational webinar<\/a> describing the basics of PLC-based stepper motion control sponsored by Advanced Micro Controls Inc. (AMCI<\/a>). Hosted by The JOURNAL from Rockwell Automation<\/a>, the webinar explained the basic parts of a stepper system, how they integrate with PLCs and how they compare with servos. Other stepper related topics included EtherNet\/IP™, applications and case studies. Tellier, a motion control product manager at AMCI, has been selling and supporting PLC-based automation controls for over 15 years.<\/p>\n

Stay in touch with the School of Engineering.\u00a0 Join our <\/em>LinkedIn alumni group<\/em><\/a> to share your latest activities and learn what your fellow graduates are doing.\u00a0 You may also send your news directly to <\/em>Heidi Douglas<\/em><\/a>, Director of Engineering Alumni Relations.\u00a0 We love hearing from you!<\/em><\/p>\n

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John W. Braccio ’82, Jacob \u201cJake\u201d Friedman ’02, Udayarka Karra ’14, Matthew F. Tellier ’93 are all featured in this issue of Alumni News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[55],"class_list":["post-19194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 14:57:20","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\/19194","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=19194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224165,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19194\/revisions\/224165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19194"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=19194"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}