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Alumni Awards & Life Updates

» Alumni Awards

Celebrate the outstanding achievements of LTU alumni through a variety of prestigious awards. Learn about the Alumni Achievement Awards, recognizing professional excellence, the Donley Award for leadership and service, the Ray Award for community impact, and the Luminary Awards honoring exceptional innovation and accomplishments. These awards highlight the remarkable contributions of our alumni to their professions and communities.

Alumni Achievement Awards

The Alumni Achievement Award is Lawrence Technological University’s highest alumni recognition. The award was first presented in 1952 and recognizes the recipient’s commitment to their profession and their alma mater.

2023

 Dr. Daniel Johnson, BSPh’76, BSMa’76

Daniel W. Johnson has over 46 years of experience researching and developing control and signal processing systems for complex sensors, machines, vehicles, manipulators, aircraft, and spacecraft. He has worked at Northrop Grumman for 25 years, where he is a consulting engineer tasked with solving their most complex mathematical problems.

 

 

 

Steve Gamache, BSME’92

Steve Gamache began his career at Lear Corporation, where he recently celebrated 30 years of service. He has worked with major automotive manufacturers around the world, leading technical teams and covering all aspects of automotive seating. He recently spent three years as VP of Seating Engineering for Asia and is now the VP of Engineering for Lear Forward.

 

 

 

2022

Shannon D. Wayne, BSIM’98, MSIO’03

Michael Darga, BSCE’85

 

2021

Cheryl Eagan, BSAr’78

Ketan Patel, BSME’85

 

2020

Susan Collet, BSME’80

Donley Distinguished Graduate Awards

The Ed Donley Distinguished Graduate Award is named in honor of 1943 graduate Ed Donley, former chair, LTU Board of Trustees, and former president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. LTU’s National Alumni Association Board of Directors honors one graduate each semester for excellence in academic, community, and campus leadership.

2024

Juliana Azzi

Juliana Azzi wanted to be a force for good on campus – and there’s no doubt she succeeded. “Juliana is an amazing individual who sees service as the cornerstone for everything she does,” said Caryn Reed-Hendon, LTU DEI director. For more on Juliana’s campus leadership – and why she won the Donley Award:

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Jajuan Jones

JaJuan Jones has been described as caring, driven, truthful, hard-working, loyal, committed and professional – and his on-campus leadership is beyond noteworthy. For more about JaJuan’s LTU journey – and why he was named a Donley Award winner:

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2023

Samantha Baxter BSPsy

 

2022

Alysha Vipushan, BSME

Andrea Houck, BSMaS, BSPh

Juan Jaramillo, BSBmE

 

2021

Evan Holdwik, BSAr

Axey Vang, BSN

 

2020

Alexander Schlueter, BSMCB

Brooke Timlin, BSPsy

The Ray Awards

The Ray Award is awarded to an individual who has distinguished himself or herself through extraordinary volunteer service to Lawrence Technological University. Like a ray of sunshine cast on the University community, volunteerism is vital to Lawrence Tech’s growth and development.

The Ray Award is named for its first recipient, Ray Moy, who earned his chemical engineering degree in 1943. Ray set a high standard, serving as Alumni Association president in the late 1940s. He helped to create the Jubilee Society in the 1990’s, founded the Southeast United States Alumni Chapter, and motivated dozens of his fellow graduates to begin over a decade of active student recruitment visitations and alumni programs in Georgia and the surrounding states.

 

2024

Peter Barclae, BSEE’85

Peter Barclae understands the joy of giving and encourages others to join him. In fact, he led a Giving Day challenge that nearly tripled the value of an endowed scholarship created by Phi Kappa Upsilon – the fraternity he joined as an engineering student in the 1980s. For more on why he won the Ray Award:

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John Sammut, BSBA’88, BSEE’88

John Sammut sponsors Blue Devil Motorsports activities, gives his time as a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Board and alongside Peter Barclae, inspired his fraternity brothers to donate to the Phi Kappa Upsilon endowed scholarship on Giving Day. For more on why he won the Ray Award:

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2022

Don Reimer, BSIM’62

2018

Mark Farlow, BSAr’81, Bar’82, Mar’09

2016

Fred Butters, BSAr’83, Bar’84, Mar’15

2015

John Petty, BSME’65

Luminary Award

The Luminary Award was created to honor an LTU professor, staff member, coach, or friend who has made a significant impact on the LTU community, particularly our alumni. The inaugural award was presented to a retired engineering professor at LTU’s first Scholarship Gala in 2024.ociety in the 1990’s, founded the Southeast United States Alumni Chapter, and motivated dozens of his fellow graduates to begin over a decade of active student recruitment visitations and alumni programs in Georgia and the surrounding states.

2024

Dr. Richard Lundstrom

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» Document Viewer

Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.