Alumni Success

One very important method of evaluating a program is to examine what its alumni are doing. We are justifiably proud of our physics and engineering graduates. Many have been accepted into some of the finest graduate programs in the country, and in a wide variety of fields. The accompanying table illustrates this point. Virtually all of these students received full financial support in the form of fellowships, teaching assistantships, or research assistantships.

Bethel Physics and Engineering Graduate School Placements

Name	Year	Graduate School	Field
1. Erik Dahlman	05	U of Minnesota	Physics
2. Reed Weber [A]	05	U of New Mexico	Optics
3. David Rowley	05	U of Minnesota	Mechanical Eng.
4. Ken Meyer	05	Rose Hulman Inst. of Technology	Optical Eng.
5. Tom Kuehn	05	U of Minnesota	Mechanical Eng.
6. Robert Putman* [A]	04	U of Illinois	Physics
7. Tim Reynolds	04	U of Minnesota	Material Science
8. Ben Pulford[A]	04	U of New Mexico	Optics
9. Ben Montello*	04	The Ohio State University	Mechanical Engineering
10. Dawn Schafer	04	Colorado School of Mines	Physics
11. Steve Gardeen	04	U of Minnesota	Physics
12. Dave Parent	04	Arizona State	Physics Education
13. Steve Anderson*	04	U of Michigan	Nuclear Engineering
14. Luke Granlund [A]	03	Michigan State University	Physics
15. Matt Borg*	03	Purdue University	Aerospace Eng
16. Nate Lindquist*	03	U of Minnesota	Physics
17. Randy Kleinman*	03	U of Illinois	Mechanical Eng.
18. Rob Grodahl	03	U of Minnesota	Electrical Eng.
19. Aaron Rendahl*[A]	03	U of Minnesota	Statistics
20. Katie Toop	03	Loughborough University (England)	Environmental Management
21. Nathan Lindquist	02	U of Minnesota	Physics
22. Dan Krzmarzick [A]	02	U of Minnesota	Civil/Structural Eng.
23. Nathan Sunquist	02	U of Minnesota	Mechanical Eng.
24. Noah Bock	02	Rose Hulman Institue of Technology	Optics
25. Tom McElmurry, Ph.D. [A]	01	U of Illinois	Physics
26. Kathryn Zurek, Ph.D.	01	U of Washington	Physics
27. Sarah Boswell, Ph.D.	01	U of Wisconsin	Medical Physics
28. Jesse Geroy	01	U of Minnesota	Mechanical Eng.
29. Lance Lohstreter	01	U of Minnesota	Physics
30. Seth Hulst	01	U of Minnesota	Electrical Eng.
31. Amy Herman [A]	01	U of Minnesota	Epidemiology
32. Matt Lang*	00	U of Arizona	Optics
33. Andrew Bunger* [A]	00	U of Minnesota	Geological Engineering
34. Candice Bacon*	99	U of Rochester	Physics
35. Jim Belich, Ph.D.	99	U of Minnesota	Physics
36. Jodi Hansberger Hansen	99	U of Sioux Falls	Education
37. Chris Tebow, Ph.D.	98	U of Arizona	Optics
38. Pete Engblom	98	U of Minnesota	Mechanical Engineering
39. Matt Richter	98	G. Washington U / NASA	Aerospace Engineering
40. Dan Sykora, Ph.D.	98	U of Rochester	Optics
41. Colin Marsh	97	U of Minnesota	Physics
42. Adam Dickson	96	U of Minnesota	Electrical Engineering
43. Ryan Lahm	96	U of Minnesota	Biomedical Engineering
44. Alain Swanson	96	U of Minnesota	Computer Science
45. Bradley Johnson, Ph.D.	96	U of Minnesota	Physics
46. Jonathan Dinsmore	96	Mankato State U	Physics
47. Mark Roberts	95	Northern Illinois U	Physics
48. Chad Hoyt, Ph.D.	94	U of New Mexico	Optical Science
49. R. Jason Jones, Ph.D	94	U of New Mexico	Optical Science
50. Stephen Pankratz, Ph.D.	94	U of Minnesota	Physics
51. Tim Streed, Ph.D	94	U of Minnesota	Physics
52. Justin Sheard	94	U of Minnesota	Mechanical Engineering
53. Jason Sheard	94	U of Minnesota	Mechanical Engineering
54. Ken Hanks	93	Washington University	Civil Engineering
55. Daniel Knee, M.D.	93	U of Louisville/USAF	Medicine
56. Scott Welsenhutter	93	U of Minnesota	Forestry
57. Amy Larson, M.D.	92	U of South Dakota	Medicine
58. Dean Johnson, Ph.D	92	U of Rochester	Physics
59. Paul Fisher	92	U of Minnesota	Electrical Engineering
60. Karl Hokanson	92	U of Minnesota	Mechanical Engineering
61. David Decker	92	Arizona State	Mechanical Engineering
62. Deborah Becker, Ph.D. [B]	91	MIT	Physics
63. Gary Nelson	91	Michigan Tech	Physics
64. Melissa Nelson Terpstra, Ph.D	91	U of Minnesota	Biophysics
65. Jon Kolbrek	91	U of Minnesota	Industrial Engineering
66. Steve Stein	91	U of Minnesota	Mechanical Engineering
67. Barth Netterfield, Ph.D. [A, B]	90	Princeton	Physics
68. Eliot Briggs	90	Colorado State	Physics
69. Redgie Lancaster, Ph.D.	90	Boston University	Physics/Astronomy
[A] Full University Fellowship [B] National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow Honorable Mention * Officially a Ph.D. Candidate