Richard and Moonyeen Anderson Engineering Building

Richard and Moonyeen Anderson Engineering Building
The Richard W. and Moonyeen R. Anderson Auditorium
Room 101

Richard Anderson was born and raised in Brigham City, Utah, while Moonyeen Rigby grew up on a family ranch located at the base of the Teton Mountains in Wyoming. The two met and married while attending Utah State University. Moonyeen graduated from USU in 1958 with a degree in social work. Richard graduated a year later with a degree in electrical engineering. He received a master’s in engineering from Stanford University in 1963 and completed the Stanford Executive Program in 1982. Richard began a long career at Hewlett-Packard in 1959 as an engineer. During this time, he was promoted to engineering manager and division general manager of the microwave and communications group.

Both actively involved with the university, Richard served USU and the College of Engineering in several roles, including trustee for the Utah State University Foundation, member of the College of Engineering Industry Advisory Board and member of Utah’s Technology Initiative Advisory Board. He received an honorary doctorate degree in engineering from USU in 1999. Richard and Moonyeen Anderson received the USU Distinguished Service Award in 2005.

George (1900-1982) and Dolores Doré Eccles (1902-1994) Foundation Display Center
Room 102

George Stoddard Eccles was chairman and CEO of the First Security Corporation (now Wells Fargo) for more than four decades. He not only led the nation’s first operating bank holding company and multi-state banking empire, but also played an active part in national and international business and banking. A son of pioneering Utah industrialist David Eccles and his wife, Ellen Stoddard Eccles, he was raised in Logan, Utah. After attending Utah State University and the University of California at Berkeley, he earned a business degree in 1922 from Columbia University in New York City. It was there that he met fellow student Dolores Doré, a native of Houston, Texas, affectionately known as “Lolie.”

After graduation, George began his career at New York City’s Irving Bank & Trust, one of the city’s major financial institutions at the time. Later that year he returned to Utah to accept a leadership role with his family’s banks and helped to establish the First Security Corporation. He and Dolores were married three years later in 1925. They lived for many years in Ogden, Utah, the location of First Security’s headquarters. They moved to Salt Lake City in 1953, when First Security’s headquarters also moved from Ogden to Utah’s capital city. George and Dolores were strong and spirited individuals whose interests ranged from the arts and community causes to personal activities such as traveling, tennis, golf and skiing. During their 57 years together, they were among Utah’s most generous civic leaders and benefactors. They joined countless others in statewide causes for the betterment of all Utahns.

Peter Thomas and Jacqueline Stewart Auditorium
Room 103

Peter Thomas was a co-founder and managing director of ATA Ventures. In 1985, he joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) as a general partner in its IVP III fund and continued as a general partner of IVP through the IVP III-VIII funds. Prior to serving at IVP, Peter spent two years at Technology Venture Investors (TVI) as an associate. The IVP and TVI companies, in which Peter successfully led investments, include an outstanding list of recognized industry leaders. Among Peter’s investments, over 20 were made in semiconductor-related companies. He is widely recognized as an expert in the field. The combined market capitalization of the companies in which Peter led investments totals in the billions of dollars. Prior to his venture capital activities, he worked at Intel Corporation for seven years. Initially, he was the Memory Systems Division OEM engineering manager, became Strategic Business Segment (SBS) manager for two divisions of the company and then served as marketing manager for the Memory Systems Division. Prior to working at Intel, Peter held engineering positions in the Fairchild Communications Division and at Sylvania EDL. He graduated magna cum laude in 1968 with a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Utah State University. Peter was a recipient of the Utah State University College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award and served on the Board of Trustees of the Utah State University Foundation. He received his master’s in computer science from the University of Santa Clara in 1975.

Dr. K. Philip and Gemma Hwang Classroom
Room 104

K. Philip Hwang was born in North Korea and escaped to South Korea as a teenager. He earned his bachelor’s from Utah State University in 1968 and his master’s in electrical engineering in 1971 from Wayne State University. After working at a number of electronics companies, Philip decided to start his own company, which eventually became a billion-dollar terminal manufacturing business. TeleVideo continues to innovate by developing and manufacturing Windows-based thin client hardware and software solutions. Designed for corporate and vertical IT professionals and end users, TeleVideo’s family of TeleCLIENT products makes possible secured, manageable and cost-effective network computing in business, healthcare, government and other sectors.

Northrop Grumman Student Classroom
Room 106

Since its founding in 1982, the Northrop Grumman Foundation has addressed needs large and small alike, always seeking to make a difference in the daily lives of Utahns and ensuring a strong economic base for their future. Northrop Grumman is a leader in a wide range of capabilities around the world, delivering products and services to customers in 25 nations. With a well-established international presence, Northrop Grumman maintains a network of offices and local business operations serving Europe, the Asia Pacific region and the Middle East. Northrop Grumman in recognized around the world as a leader in space, air, cyber solutions and land and sea innovation, from missile systems to spacecraft to launch and command and control systems. Northrop Grumman works with autonomous systems, composite structures, electronic warfare systems, global platform modernization, navigation and radar systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.

Bhupesh Parikh Classroom
Room 108

The Parikh’s have a long history of philanthropy in higher education and community colleges in the United States. Bhupesh Parikh immigrated to the United States in 1960 from Kadi, India. After earning a master’s in structural engineering from the University of Southern California in 1964, he started a successful commercial real estate development practice, Pari Enterprises, in Glendale, California. He is a founding trustee of the Shreeji Temple, located in southern California, and two local banks. In 1988, the Jain Center of Southern California recognized Bhupesh for his outstanding contribution to the construction of the Jain Bhavan. Kumud Parikh is a well-known Gujarati literary author who has published three short story collections.

Blaine P. (1916-1987) and Louise Christiansen (1918-2013) Clyde Classroom
Room 201

Blaine Clyde attended the University of Utah for two years and then served a mission in Czechoslovakia from 1936 to 1938. Upon his return to United State, he attended Utah State University (then the Agricultural College of Utah) to major in civil engineering. Blaine met Louise Christiansen, a fellow ACU student and they were married in 1940 in St. George, Utah. After graduation in 1941, the couple moved to Springville, Utah, where Blaine worked in his family’s construction company, W.W. Clyde and Company, a company he had worked for part-time since he was twelve years old. In the early years, Blaine supervised road work in Utah, Idaho, Arizona and Nevada. In the community, Louise served as a 4H leader and member of the Foundation Board at USU. A member of two clubs, the We Readers and the Cultural Arts Club, Louise continued to attend club meetings into her nineties. She served as president of the Federated Women’s Clubs and helped compile a scrapbook that won first place in a state contest.

Lin Family Foundation Classroom
Room 202

The Lin Family Foundation was created by Juei-son (James) Lin and Su-Lan C. Lin to provide opportunities for educational and religious pursuits. James learned English as his fifth language, after Mandarin, Hakka, Taiwanese and Japanese. He and his wife came to the United State in the late 1960s. He worked at various jobs in Silicon Valley during the 1970s, including at the game company Atari. Su-Lan held many seamstress jobs while caring for the couple’s three children. In 1979, James and some friends founded a company to provide manufacturing services to other companies who sold their own products to consumers. This radical idea was the basis for Solectron Corporation that became one of the world’s leading electronics manufacturing services company. James and other Solectron founders helped to bring Japanese manufacturing techniques from Toyota to the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. Solectron went on to win the national Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award twice. In 1993, James became a Solectron Fellow. He retired in 1996.

Rajendra Prasad and Yasoda Mani Grandi Classroom
Room 203

Made possible by a donation from Nagendra P. Grandhi, this room is named in honor of his parents. Nagendra Grandhi earned a bachelor’s from Osmania University in 1999 and a master’s in electrical engineering from Utah State University in 2004.

Wescor Classroom
Room 204

ELITechGroup Biomedical Systems, formerly Wescor, is a privately held group of worldwide manufacturers and distributors of in vitro diagnostic equipment and reagents. ELITechGroup manufactures and distributes diagnostic products for clinical chemistry, microbiology, immunology and molecular biology though direct sales and a distribution network in more than 100 countries. ELITechGroup acquired Wescor in 2007. ELITechGroup Microbiology, a major component of ELITechGroup, has a strong credo. It is committed to providing reliable and simple diagnostic tools for proximity labs in the biology sector. ELITechGroup Biomedical Systems has vast experience and proven expertise in creating and producing practical and dependable slide stainers and cytocentrifuges that are used around the globe.

Marriner S. Eccles (1890-1977) Foundation Hi-Tech Teaching Classroom
Room 205

Marriner Stoddard Eccles was born in Logan, Utah, on September 9, 1890. His father, David Eccles, who was born in Scotland, moved to the United States in the 1860s and settled in Utah. Marriner was the eldest son of his father’s second wife and one of 22 children. He was educated in Logan and later attended Brigham Young College. In 1909, Marriner went abroad as a missionary. He met May Campbell Young in Scotland, and they were married in 1913. The marriage ended in divorce in 1948 and Eccles married Sara Madision Glassie of Chevy Chase, Maryland in 1951. Marriner began to take over his father’s considerable business interests by the time of his first marriage. In 1916, he organized the Eccles Investment Co. and subsequently, in 1927, he organized First Security Corp., a bank holding company. He also organized the Utah Construction Co., one of six firms that built Boulder Dam, as well as several other businesses. It was with this background that he began to ponder what made the American economy work. In 1934, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Marriner as special assistant to Henry S. Morgenthan, the secretary of the treasury. A few months later, President Roosevelt named him to the Federal Reserve System. In 1939, Marriner became chairman. One of his first acts after joining the board was to call for more stringent supervision of the nation’s banks. One of the first pieces of legislation in which he played a major role was the Banking Act of 1935, which gave the board greater powers over money supply and credit in order to deal more effectively with economic crises. As the war gathered momentum, Marriner began urging President Roosevelt to take steps to ease upward pressure on the prices of war-scarce goods. He initiated limits on consumer credit. He also supported the War Bond program. One of the reasons for this was that the bonds, about $40 billion worth of which were sold during the war, soaked up consumer dollars, thereby easing pressure on prices.

Ned P. (1921-1998) and Shirlee (1923-2014) Clyde Classroom
Room 206

Ned Clyde graduated from the Agricultural College of Utah (now Utah state University) in 1942 with a bachelor’s in civil engineering. He left to serve in the United States Army Corps of Engineers in April 1942 and returned to college in November 1943. Ned subsequently graduated from the University of California with a master’s in 1945 and quickly became a member of the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley. After teaching at the University of California at Berkeley for six years, Ned started a soil engineering firm (Woodward-Clyde Consultants) in 1950, where he served as president until 1967. He then changed from soil engineering to construction and started a firm called Remmil Corporation. In 1981, he founded Ned Clyde Construction, Inc. Shirlee B. Clyde was born in Smithfield, Utah, on January 8, 1923. She was raised in Logan, Utah, and graduated from Logan High School.

Hansen, Allen and Luce Tiered Lecture Room
Room 238

Hansen, Allen and Luce (HAL) was founded in 1974 as Vaughn Hansen Associates by Vaughn E. Hansen, a prominent university educator, engineer, author and founder and director of the Utah State University’s Utah Water Research Laboratory. After leaving the academic environment, Vaughn’s goal was to create a highly ethical consulting team that could help meet the growing water engineering needs of the Intermountain West. Vaughn Hansen Associates completed many significant projects and the firm became recognized as a leader in water resources engineering. In 1987, the firm became Hansen, Allen and Luce to reflect a change in managing leadership to David E. Hansen, Marvin E. Allen and William A. Luce. Hansen, Allen and Luce headquarters are located in South Jordan, with a secondary office in Brigham City, Utah.

David G. (1937-2008) and Diann L. Sant Student Success Center
3rd Floor

David G. Sant, who was a major contributor to the construction of the center, funded many scholarships in Utah State University’s College of Engineering. He grew up in Franklin County, Idaho, and later served in the United States Air Force. He subsequently attended Utah State University, graduating with bachelor’s and master’s in electrical engineering in 1962 and 1964. Sant went to earn an MBA from Santa Clara University. He had a successful career for more than 35 years in the telecommunications and computer industry, working first at IBM as a diagnostic computer programmer. He founded several start-up companies, specializing in companies in the voice and data communications field and built over 12 national sales organizations.

A. Alvin (1913-1990) and Anna Beth (1915-2009) Bishop/A. Bruce and Sally Bishop Classroom
Room 302

A. Alvin Bishop joined the Utah State University (then the Agricultural College of Utah) faculty in 1946 as professor of civil and irrigation engineering, following years of service in U.S. government agencies engineering dams and canals in the western U.S. He served as a project engineer during World War II. Alvin’s career was defined by his global impact on irrigation and water management practices. He worked in fifty countries in all. On the USU campus, Alvin served as the first department head of agriculture and irrigation engineering. He also used his considerable engineering expertise for projects on the USU campus and within Cache Valley communities. His colleagues honored him with the Distinguished Service Award. He was also a faculty honor lecturer and president of the Old Main Society. Alvin earned bachelor’s and master’s in civil engineering from USU and a doctorate from Colorado State University. Anna Beth (Reeder) Bishop was active in campus service groups and spent countless hours as a hospital volunteer and in community organizations. She earned a bachelor’s from USU in family and consumer sciences with a minor in art.

A. Bruce Bishop served as professor and dean of the College of Engineering from 1992 to 2002. His priorities were to enhance the educational experience and provide career opportunities for engineering students. His vision led to the creation of new academic programs and areas of cutting-edge research. Bruce worked tirelessly to raise funds for faculty support, physical facilities, classrooms, laboratories, equipment and student scholarships. His 44-year USU career was spent as professor of civil and environmental engineering and as provost (1993-1995). Bruce holds a doctorate in civil engineering from USU. He is the son of A. Alvin and Anna Beth. Sally Bishop dedicated her life to education and the cultivation of equality and opportunity. Her 30-year career included teaching in California, Virginia and Cache School District. She spent hundreds of hours as a volunteer teaching English and U.S. citizenship. She earned a master’s in linguistics from Utah State University.

Iridium Satellite, LLC Seminar Room
Room 304

Iridium Satellite, that began as a project in a Motorola research lab in Arizona, was built on technology developed for U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars program. The constellation was originally thought to need 77 satellites to provide global coverage, making the name Iridium (the element with an atomic number of 77) the perfect fit, as the architecture of the network resembled that of electrons orbiting the nucleus of an atom. Engineers later discovered that only 66 satellites were necessary to cover the Earth, but the clever name stuck. Iridium was designed to use satellite technology as an alternative to cellular devices that, at the time, were bulky and expensive. Over the next decade, more than 90 satellites were built and launched to create the first global satellite network. On November 1, 1998, the network launched commercial service. The ceremonial first call was made by U.S. Vice President Al Gore to Gilbert Grosvenor, the great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell and chairman of the National Geographic Society. Companies around the world came together to develop, test and launch the original Iridium network.

The Micron Digital Imaging Laboratory
Room 328

Micron began in 1978 as a four-person semiconductor design company in the basement of a Boise, Idaho, dental office. In 1980, ground was broken for its first fabrication plant. Just a few years later, the company developed the world’s smallest 256K DRAM. In 1994, the company earned a spot on the Fortune 500. It grew into an industry leader through its technology innovations, key partnerships and strategic acquisitions around the world. At one time, Micron had 17 worldwide locations, 13 manufacturing sites and 14 customer labs.

Dr. Hari J. Krishna and Laxmi J. Krishna Classroom
Room 401

Hari J. Krishna received a doctorate in agriculture and irrigation engineering from Utah State University in 1980, graduating Phi Kappa Phi. He previously earned a bachelor’s from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, and a master’s from Kansas State University. Hari was a registered professional engineer and a certified professional hydrologist. He served as a faculty member at USU, Texas A&M University and the University of the Virgin Islands, where he was also director of the Water Resources Research Institute. He later worked for the Texas state government and was appointed as commissioner for the City of Austin in 2011. Hari founded the American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association (ARCSA) in 1994 and served as its president for over 10 years. He also served as vice president for both the International Rainwater Catchment Systems Association (IRCSA) and the International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA), based in Geneva, Switzerland. Hari worked briefly for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. During his academic career, he presented and/or published more than 100 papers. He was recognized in “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering,” “American Men and Women of Science,” and “Who’s Who in America.” He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the USU College of Engineering in 1997.