The Accomplished Alumni program is designed to attract alumni of note to campus to share their success stories. Alumni who are honored through this program spend time on campus teaching students, sharing dialogue with faculty and engaging with other alumni and friends of the university. A variety of outstanding alumni have been featured in this program including CEOs of major corporations, Olympians, authors, artists, musicians, U.S. Ambassadors and civic leaders.
You can read more about recent honorees in the Torchbearer.
2012 Honorees
Jorge Sotolongo
Jorge Sotolongo currently serves as the manager of the Engineering Research and Development Lab at Gulfstream Aerospace. A 1988 graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville College of Engineering, Sotolongo has more than twenty-three years of varied industrial, manufacturing, and
production engineering experience as well as research & development,
production support, operations & engineering management experience
in the automotive, high speed electronics, and aerospace industries.On his visit to campus on March 2, 2012, Sotolongo spoke to Industrial Engineering PhD and Master's students.
CLICK HERE to view a photo slideshow from the presentation.