Farewell
Forrest Anderson (B.S.’53 CE) died in August at the age of 92. After serving in the Army Corps of Engineers, he founded the engineering construction company Anderson Pacific.
Charles Brazie (B.S.’67 ME) died in August at the age of 81. He had a long career at Booz Allen, Arthur D. Little and Arthur Young & Company, and was president at a St. Louis-based telecom company.
Robert Broze (B.S.’62 EECS) died in March at the age of 88. He held leadership positions at Fairchild Research, Applied Materials, Actel Corporation and Infineon Technologies. He also helped further advance flash memory technology.
Thomas Chan (M.S.’73 EECS) died in June at the age of 76. He had a long career as an electrical engineer in Silicon Valley and was a leader in the semiconductor industry.
Frank Collins (Ph.D.’68 ME) died in September at the age of 86. He worked as an assistant professor at the University of Texas, Austin, then at the University of Tennessee Space Institute, where he served on the faculty for over 30 years as professor of aerospace engineering.
Peter Crosby (B.S.’67 IEOR) died in April at the age of 78. He worked for nearly 40 years as a supply chain management consultant at Kearney, Coopers & Lybrand and CGR Management Consultants LLC, which he founded in 1984.
Steven Greenberg (B.S.’82 ME) died in February at the age of 65. He worked at Berkeley Lab for nearly 40 years, becoming an expert in energy efficiency in laboratories, data centers and clean rooms.
William Halnan (B.S.’60 MSE) died in August at the age of 86. He had a long career as a metallurgical engineer, first at Hexcel, and then at Temescal Metallurgical Corp., where he worked for 26 years.
Dale Harden (B.S.’63 ME) died in May at the age of 83. He joined General Electric’s Power Generation division as a field engineer, advancing to senior management during his 32-year career.
James Hoffman (M.S.’67 ME) died in February at the age of 79. He had a long career as a marketing systems manager at computer leasing company Comdisco.
Milton Kodmur (B.S.’48 ME) died in July at the age of 100. A U.S. Air Force veteran, he was a second lieutenant during World War II, and he later embarked on a career in air conditioning equipment.
William Lattin (B.S.’68, M.S.’69 EECS) died in June at the age of 83. A U.S. Navy veteran, he held leadership positions at Motorola, Intel, Logic Modeling and Synopsys.
Ingham Mack (B.S.’67 EECS) died in April at the age of 79. He worked as an engineer at Westinghouse, the Naval Research Lab and the Office of Naval Research, and he was an adjunct engineering professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.
James Masson Jr. (B.S.’42 ME) died in March at the age of 102. A U.S. Navy veteran, he served during World War II, earning a Bronze Star Medal for valor. He went on to have a long career at Chevron.
Alfred Mendoza (B.S.’57 EECS) died in June at the age of 94. A veteran of the U.S. Army, he had a 35-year career at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company.
Ian Mitroff (B.S.’61 Eng. Physics, M.S.’63 CE, Ph.D.’67 IEOR) died in June at the age of 86. Considered the founder of the discipline of crisis management, he served on the faculty at USC and was an adjunct professor in UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
Daniel Mohn (B.S.’58 CE) died in July at the age of 92. After serving in the U.S. Army, he began a 37-year career in bridge engineering and construction.
Fred Offenbach (B.S.’50 EECS) died in July at the age of 97. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he had a long career as an electrical engineer in the telecommunications industry.
Robert Pettitt Sr. (B.S.’58 EECS) died in July at the age of 88. He began his career at Hughes Aircraft Company, working on Surveyor I and Telstar 1. He later worked at the National Institutes of Health before becoming an ophthalmologist.
Michael Pickering (B.S.’64 CE) died in April at the age of 83. He had a successful career as a traffic engineer for the State of California and the City of Oakland.
Richard Propp (Ph.D.’98 ME) died in December at the age of 54. He completed postdoc work at Berkeley Lab before joining Real Time Solutions. He later worked for PeopleSoft and Workday, writing foundational code.
William Rhoades (M.S.’65 ME) died in March at the age of 86. A U.S. Navy veteran, he had a long career at Northrop Grumman, playing a pivotal role in developing the Northrop B-2 Spirit.
Sigmund Roh (M.S.’72 EECS) died in April at the age of 85. A veteran of the Korean Air Force, he worked as an engineer for Bechtel, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Department of State.
William Slivkoff (B.S.’58 EECS) died in June at the age of 92. A U.S. Navy veteran, he pioneered the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and held patents for equipment he designed at Ford Aerospace and Stanford Telecommunications.
William Smith (B.S.’53 CE) died in May at the age of 93. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he served for 21 years as a pilot and engineer. Later, he worked at Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
Sehat Sutardja (M.S.’85, Ph.D.’88 EECS) died in September at the age of 63. He was known for co-founding Marvell Technology, which became one of the world’s largest chipmakers. A longtime supporter of the college, he served on the Berkeley Engineering Advisory Board and, through his donations, made possible the construction of Sutardja Dai Hall and the new Engineering Center.
Kenneth Takeda (B.S.’51 CE) died in April at the age of 94. He spent more than a decade testing aircraft structures at Boeing and Douglas Aircraft Company. Later, he worked for 45 years as an orthodontist.
Tuan Tran (B.S.’91 EECS) died in April at the age of 58. After working as a design engineer at Rockwell International, he spent most of his career as an outpatient internist at Kaiser Permanente Medical Group.
Chung-Yiu Wong (M.S.’62 CE) died in March at the age of 90. He began his career at Bechtel, working on East Bay BART stations. Later, he worked as a civil engineer at Koppers Inc. and R.T. Patterson Company.
Peter Woods (B.S.’56 ME) died in July at the age of 89. His career spanned Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and several small companies, including RPC Technologies.
James Yuengert (MEng ’86 CE) died in May at the age of 67. He served as an engineer in the U.S. Army, earning the rank of major. After retiring, he worked at the U.S. Department of State and the Smithsonian Institution.
