Phill Hicks

(phicks@nd.edu)

Phillip Hicks will commission as a Second Lieutenant in the US Army this May and will begin his service as a Medical Platoon Leader, hoping eventually to get into hospital planning and construction.  He lives in Dillon as a Resident Assistant and will compete in the Bengal Bouts boxing tournament for the third time this spring.  His interests are in dynamics and thermodynamics and after his time in the Army he plans to attend graduate school for further studies in Mechanical Engineering.

Kevin Kastenholz

(kkastenh@nd.edu)

Kevin is a senior mechanical engineering student from Chicago, where he'll be living and working after graduation.  He loves the Cubs (he insists "any team can have a bad century"), football and fried chicken and would surprise no one by one day becoming an English professor.  Although most fond of the sun when it's setting, he has, as a result of this project, acknowledged that it may be useful for something during the day other than making his skin peel off.

Derek Lipp

(dlipp@nd.edu)

Derek hails from the (not so) sunny paradise of Elkhart, IN.  A senior with no concrete plans for post-graduation life, he focuses on his studies, being a member of the band, and his duties as First Aid Services Team president.  He generally likes the sun and approves of
solar energy as a source of renewable energy.

Quote:  There are no stupid questions...but that was close.  ~E.J. Jumper

Paul Nistler

(pnistler@nd.edu)

Paul is a senior mechanical engineer most interested in the subjects of Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, and CFD. Having been transplanted from a slightly more mountainous state (Montana) to the "flatlands of Indiana", he is severely disappointed with the lack of mountain biking, but plays as much racquetball as possible to compensate. Upon graduation he will be working for GE Transportation in Erie, PA (Erie Seawolves stadium in the background of picture).

Rachel Paietta

(rpaietta@nd.edu)

Hi.  I’m a senior at the University of Notre Dame in mechanical engineering.  My true engineering passion is biomechanics, but expanding into compact solar power technologies has opened a new way of helping people and a new dimension of the ME experience.  Go solar power!!!!