{"id":22983,"date":"2016-10-27T14:09:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=22983"},"modified":"2024-11-27T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:52:09","slug":"alumni-news-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/10\/alumni-news-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Brinton, Jr., P.E. (B.S. Civil Engineering, \u201888) joined the Western Connecticut Council of Governments (<a href=\"https:\/\/westcog.org\/about\/\">WestCOG<\/a>) as a project manager.\u00a0 In that role, Brinton supports the management and administration of Local Transportation Capital Improvement Program (LOTCIP) projects and transportation planning studies. He has 15 years of experience as a town engineer for the towns of Hamden, Milford, and Bloomfield, and previously worked for several engineering consulting firms designing highway, railroad, and bridge projects.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Miles (B.S. Management &amp; Engineering for Manufacturing, \u201900), founder and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eureekabi.com\/\">Eureeka BI<\/a>, has earned a $10,000 Entrepreneur Innovation Award from CTNext, a Rocky Hill-based program aimed at advancing the state\u2019s community of entrepreneurs. A business intelligence and analytics company, Eureeka BI has been incubating at Central Connecticut State University\u2019s Institute of Technology &amp; Business Development since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Stern (B.S. Materials Science &amp; Engineering, \u201916) was awarded the 2016 Structural Materials Division (SMD) Scholarship from The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tms.org\/society\/society.aspx\">Minerals, Metals &amp; Materials Society<\/a> (TMS) to support her graduate studies at UC Berkeley.\u00a0 Stern is pursuing a Ph.D. in Materials Science &amp; Engineering and is particularly intrigued by how the microstructure, properties and processing of a material simultaneously influence its ability and potential to create new and extraordinary products.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay in touch with the School of Engineering.\u00a0 Join our <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=153271&amp;trk=hb_side_g\"><em>LinkedIn alumni group<\/em><\/a><em> to share your latest activities and learn what your fellow graduates are doing.\u00a0 You may also send your news directly to <\/em><a href=\"mailto:hdouglas@engineer.uconn.edu\"><em>Heidi Douglas<\/em><\/a><em>, Director of Engineering Alumni Relations.\u00a0 We love hearing from you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni updates from around the country for the month of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":221891,"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":[62],"class_list":["post-22983","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":"2026-05-07 18:09:52","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\/22983","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=22983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221894,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983\/revisions\/221894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/221891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22983"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=22983"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}