CHEE Class Notes – Fall 2025
Zhuoran Wang and his wife at their wedding in December 2024.
Here's what we've heard from our alumni over the last few months.
Zhuoran (Eddie) Wang
Class of 2013, BS in Chemical Engineering
Class of 2015, BS in Engineering Management
wangz@arizona.edu
I have been the technical project manager for TAE Technologies since 2022 and currently manage a project developing leading-edge technology for tumor treatment. I got married last December!
Greg Lorton
Class of 1971, BS in Chemical Engineering
Class of 1973, MS in Chemical Engineering
I created and sponsored the Practical Process Design Award for the College of Engineering Design Day in May 2025. There were eleven nominees, mostly chemical and environmental engineering teams, but also teams from biomedical engineering and mining engineering. The winning team of four chemical engineers designed a system to recover marketable salts from brine generated in oil production.
Chemical engineering design courses played a significant role in my career – starting with my first job as a process design engineering. Twelve years later I transitioned into the environmental field, retiring in 2015 as the air quality program manager for Navy facilities in California and Nevada. Now I live in northern San Diego County. I'm looking forward to participating in the 2026 Design Day program.
Rinly Gecosala
Class of 1979, MS in Chemical Engineering
Since my retirement in 2002 I have remained active as president of the Philippine Institute of Chemical Engineers and a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. I travel annually to the Philippines as visiting professor to Cebu Institute of Technology-University and maintain consulting with Environmental Managers and Auditors, Inc. This year I was invited to join the roster of Fulbright Alumni speaker’s program in honor of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States.
I have enjoyed a long and varied career at the interface of engineering and medicine, receiving my MS in chemical engineering, MD, and MPH degrees.
Andrew Steinmetz
Class of 2014, BS in Chemical Engineering
Class of 2014, BS in Physics
Class of 2023, PhD in Physics
ajsteinmetz@arizona.edu
I recently left my position as global professor at the Arizona College of Technology, University of Arizona working oversees in Tianjin, China to begin a faculty position at the Georgia Tech School of Physics in Atlanta. I'm marrying Sandy, my wonderful fiancé, in January.