Jaggers, Hartman and Therriault Recognized as Outstanding Alumni

Terry J. Jaggers, BS 87, is the 2010 winner of the Aerospace Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award. Carrie Hartman, BS 97, MS 99, and Daniel Therriault, PhD 03, are the winners of the 2010 Outstanding Recent Alumni Awards.

All were recognized at the Department’s Awards Banquet held April 29 at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center.

Terry J. Jaggers

Jaggers is a member of the Senior Executive Service, and is the Principal Deputy Director of Systems Engineering for the Director, Defense Research and Engineering, in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense. He acts on behalf of the Director and is responsible for establishing both systems engineering and acquisition technical workforce policy across the entire Department of Defense (DoD). This includes early systems engineering and pre-acquisition development planning programs, systems design, development and manufacturing policy, and independent program review and analysis for over $60 billion per year in major weapon system acquisition programs across the Department.

As acquisition technical workforce executive, Jaggers is the Department’s systems planning, research, development and engineering (SPRDE) functional, as well as the production, quality and manufacturing (PQM) functional for over 40,000 DoD acquisition professionals.

In addition to his AE degree, Jaggers holds a mathematics degree from Western Illinois University, a master’s degree in business administration from the Florida Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree in national security strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

Jaggers has more than 27 years experience in public service that includes military service in the Air Force and Air National Guard, Air Force civil service, and Senior Executive Service in both the Air Force and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD).

 

 Carrie Hartman
Hartman’s first assignment was on the Boeing Orbital Operations team for the first 702 satellite, Galaxy XI. Since then she has participated in the planning and execution of over 18 launch and transfer orbit missions covering all Boeing satellite bus types. In September 2005, she took on the role of Astrodynamics Function Manager at Boeing.

Today Hartman leads a group of 19 engineers responsible for mission planning and orbital operations. She is also part of a team of Boeing engineers designing and planning for the next Boeing satellite product line, the Boeing 702B.

 

Daniel Therriault

 Therriault has worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal since January 2004, and was recently awarded a Canada Research Chair in Fabrication of Advanced Microsystems and Materials.

Therriault performed his doctoral work as a member of the renowned Autonomic Materials research group under the guidance of his advisor, Prof. Scott White. Now as the co-director of the Multiscale Mechanics Laboratory at École Polytechnique, Therriault’s research interests are the fabrication of micro/nano systems and advanced materials such as microfluidics, nanocomposites, fuel cells and laboratory-on-chips.

He has received several awards and distinctions for research and academic excellence, including the Roger Strehlow Memorial and the Carver Foundation awards from the University of Illinois. Therriault has contributed 27 peer reviewed publications to journals such as Nature Materials and Advanced Materials and has filed two US patents.