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During your time with Mechanical, Aerospace, and Materials Engineering, you saw first-hand the program’s benefits.  Relationships are instrumental to our success, and you now have the opportunity to pass onto current students your guidance, suggestion and insights.

Also be sure to keep in touch through the SIU Alumni Association and “Keep in Touch”  for the MAME. This is where you can catch up on reunions and various other alumni events.

In addition to numerous internships that are available to students in our school, you can help students gain valuable professional experience through the Alumni Association’s Extern Program, which allows students to apply skills they learn in the classroom to a work environment over Spring Break.  The program’s success relies upon SIU alumni and friends.

Please stay in touch with us and feel free to offer suggestions on how we can to continue to provide the best experiential learning opportunities for our students.

Distinguished Alumni

Suneel Kodambaka

1997, M.S. Mechanical Engineering

Suneel Kodambaka is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to joining UCLA, he worked as post-doctoral researcher at the IBM - T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology -Madras, with a Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering and also has a Doctor of Philosophy from UIUC in Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Kodambaka's research is in the fabrication and in situ characterization of nanoscale structures. Dr. Kodambaka's research has been recognized by the AVS Paul Holloway Young Investigator award, the Best Paper award from the IBM Materials Research Community, the UIUC Ross J. Martin award for outstanding doctoral thesis in Engineering, the MRS Graduate Gold award, and the UIUC Ivan Racheff award for outstanding graduate research. Dr. Kodambaka resides in Los Angeles, California.