2024 CSE Outstanding Service Award Winners

Congratulations to Sean Albiston, Education Program Specialist, from the School of Physics and Astronomy. 

Sean has repeatedly gone above and beyond to serve students who take physics and astronomy courses. He was instrumental in managing the increased number of first year students in their labs. This included lab layouts, throughput, and more. He has helped turn a concern about collegiate student growth into a success!

Other 2024 P&A nominees:

• Michelle Anderson, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
• Janet Brennhofer, CSE Dean's Office of Advancement
• Shannon Dahl, CSE Student Services
• Jay Delaney, CSE Financial Cluster
• Dan McDonald, CSE-IT
• Jillian Moldestad, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Tiffany Ralston, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
• Erica Ratner, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Heather Steen, Department of Chemistry

Congratulations to Erin Flathmann, Finance Team Lead, Department of Biomedical Engineering. 

Erin is the financial backbone of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She has worked closely with departmental leadership to understand current financial positions as well as do critical "what if" scenario planning for the future. Additionally, Erin has been critical for individual faculty handling of accounts with trust that the spend rates are appropriate. Erin's rapport with faculty has been extremely notable and is known as a a chief “obstacle remover” for enabling the faculty to submit some of their most complicated grant proposals.

Other 2024 Civil Service nominees include:

• Robert Amundson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Rocio Duarte, Technological Leadership Institute
• Mollie Dunlap, Department of Chemistry
• Ben Erickson, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
• Britt Kosack, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Nate Lynch, Characterization Facility
• Jeanine Maiden, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• James Nusbaum, CSE-IT
• Molly Schmitz, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
• Sara Specht, CSE Dean's Office of Communications and Marketing

Congratulations to Erik Noren, Research Technician, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory.

Erik has been resourceful and innovative in his role which is largely to keep research operations running smoothly at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory. When faced with an issue or work stoppage, he has been very resourceful to find excellent solutions (sometimes outside the box) that take far less time than a conventional solution. The fact that his solutions are also cost effective is particularly appreciated. Erik is also someone that just always goes the extra mile—whether that be coming in to the lab outside of business hours for a project or helping out staff within the facility.

Other Labor-Represented Employee nominees include:

• Taylor Lopez-Angel, Center for Neuroengineering
• Evan Bates, Minnesota Geological Survey

Congratulations to Peter Ness, Lindsey Fischer, Max Olson, Ethan Miller, Nathan Walkington, J Schmulewitz, CSE Shop Team

The CSE Shop Team is a great asset to the college and provides resources that touch nearly every CSE student and faculty member. They are called upon to solve every day problems as well as innovate when they have challenges that are completely new to them, and to us as a college. They keep equipment running well and even extend the life of our equipment to save both time and money. They are also leaders in understanding safety aspects of the work being done around the college in instruction and research and making things work well while being safe.

Also nominated was the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate TA Staffing Team Phil Croteau, Kelly Thomas, Elise Waters.