Board Members
Scott is currently the President and CEO for Northstar Aerospace. Northstar is a leading manufacturer of gears, transmission, and components for the global aerospace industry. Northstar has operating facilities in Bedford Park, IL, Phoenix, AZ and Windsor, ON Canada.
Scott graduated with his degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and has spent his entire career in the Aerospace industry. He started at Goodrich in their Manufacturing Leadership Program and spent time at sites in Pueblo, CO, Vergennes, VT, and Phoenix, AZ before setting into the Landing Gear business. There he progressed through operational leadership roles including as the Plant Manager for sites in Tullahoma, TN and Oakville, ON, Canada. The rest of his tenure at Goodrich/United Technologies Aerospace system encompassed P&L leadership roles over a variety of design & build-tospecification mission-critical systems businesses including rescue hoists, de-icing systems, anti-icing, digital data, potable water, heated composites and specialty heaters. Scott’s next role was President for TECT Aerospace, a built-to-print aerostructures business with four manufacturing sites in the Wichita, KS and Seattle, WA areas. Scott then moved to Precision Castparts Corporation (PCC), with his final role being General Manager for the Wyman Gordon sites in Pennsylvania.
David is President and CEO of ECO Oxygen Technologies, LLC, (ECO2) a cleantech company specializing in water and wastewater treatment technology. David’s experience stems from a broad range of water and wastewater treatment systems, construction management and business development.
David holds a Bachelor Degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Purdue University (Purdue, BSCE 2000) and is a licensed PE in Indiana. He is an active member in a number of professional and civic activities including Water Environment Federation, North American Lake Management Society and Boy Scouts of America.
David holds a number of U.S. and International Patents, has authored several published articles, and regularly speaks at technical conferences and educational forums. He has a long history of involvement with Purdue University including being a past board member of Purdue Engineering Alumni Association (serving from 2017-2020). He has partnered with the Lyles School of Civil Engineering and worked with eighty-two students in their senior design course CE 498 which focused on ECO2's Savannah River Expansion Project. Most recently David and ECO2 were featured in Purdue Alumnus Spring 2023 edition.
David is married to Anne Clidence (Purdue, HTM 2000), has four children and resides in Carmel, IN.
Originally from St. Louis, MO, Darius graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 2016. During his time at Purdue, he interned three times for Eaton Corporation, actively participated in University Residence Global Organizations, was a member of the Purdue University Jazz Bands, and became a lifelong member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Darius Elliott has a wealth of experience in assisting small, medium, corporate, and enterprise businesses in growing and scaling their cloud infrastructure to meet their business objectives. He holds eight Azure Cloud Certifications and currently works as a Sr. Advanced Analytics & AI Solutions Specialist at Microsoft, where he helps customers explore the possibilities of Microsoft Azure Data Services. Prior to this role, he served as an Applications & Infrastructure Cloud Solution Architect for five years. In 2022, he received the Platinum Club award at Microsoft, the highest distinction within the company. Darius currently resides in Dallas, TX, where he continues to pursue his passion for technology and music by mentoring college students heading for corporate careers and honing his jazz skills on the trumpet and saxophones.
Hank Hoelscher graduated from Purdue with a degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1979. Later in his career, he earned an MBA from the University of St Thomas. He retired from Xcel Energy after 40 years in the nuclear power business including designing, constructing, and operating nuclear facilities in the upper Midwest. Hank managed Xcel's nuclear fuels engineering program, leading efforts in nuclear core design and safety analysis for multiple nuclear power units.
Three generations of the Hoelscher family have attended Purdue since 1951 - Hank's father, sister, wife, daughter, and son-in-law are also Purdue graduates. Since retirement, Hank has focused on his family, served his community as a Lake Elmo Parks Commissioner, and served six years on the University of St Thomas (Minnesota) Graduate School of Business Alumni Board.
Brendan is currently the VP of Technology for Lithios, a product design and development collective focused on building beautiful web, mobile, and IoT platforms for household enterprise brands like Intel, Bayer, and DraftKings. Lithios is headquartered in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.
In his spare time, Brendan is co-founder and CTO of the Raleigh-based nonprofit Our Wave, which focuses on building technology to empower survivors of sexual assault. Our Wave works with industry leaders and large organizations like me too. International, It's On Us, USA Gymnastics, and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center to create products that support survivor healing.. Brendan graduated from Purdue in 2016 with his degree in Mechanical Engineering. While in school, he helped create a series of parody engineering music videos and founded a software startup with fellow engineering students on the fifth floor of Shreve Hall. After graduating, Brendan moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, and works as an entrepreneur and founder, focusing on bringing innovative SaaS startups to market. Brendan has been an advisor to more than a dozen organizations and acted in a consulting capacity with dozens of startups and technology companies across the healthcare, human insights, productivity, and education markets. He is currently working on a new AI-based venture in the travel space. Outside of work, Brendan loves rock climbing, swimming, and traveling with his family.
Upon graduation he joined Chevron, where his extensive career has been dominated by negotiating oil, gas, and NGL gathering and transportation agreements, as well as business development work for the acquisition and divestment of upstream fields.
With any available time he enjoys running, playing golf, and cheering on Purdue sports teams with his wife and three children.
Words of Encouragement to New Engineering Alumni: Recognize the value of the opportunity in front of you with a Purdue engineering degree, but continue to develop your soft skills by learning how to better communicate, lead, and seek counsel. As always, be sure to embrace diversity to learn about people different than yourself. Boiler up!
Erin Murphy is a 1994 Purdue Mechanical Engineering graduate. While at Purdue, Erin was a co-op with McDonnell
Douglas (Boeing), active with Pi Tau Sigma and Phi Sigma Rho and played various intramural sports. Erin began her
3M career as a Machine Design Engineer and became the first female to be awarded 3M’s Corporate Engineering
Outstanding Designer Award. Erin has held multiple positions in engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and
communications during her 27 years at 3M. Erin is currently a Value Stream Strategy Leader for the Transportation
and Electronics Business Group. Erin also leads 3M’s Purdue University Relations Team. Outside of work, Erin has
enjoyed marathon running, Alpine skiing, home improvement projects and loves traveling and hiking. The joy of
Erin’s life are her two sons and her daughters-in-law. Both of her sons are 3M engineers!
Words of encouragement to my fellow Boilermaker Engineers: Be confident in the skills and education you obtained
at Purdue – you truly are the best of the best, and you can successfully take on any challenge you face. Your Purdue
degree is an incredible foundation for any endeavor, tackle things boldly. Having a plan for your life/career can be a
good thing, but stay open and flexible and don’t dwell on discouragement if things deviate from what you thought
you wanted, just keep learning and growing. I like to say: life might pitch you some curve balls, go ahead and swing,
just swing hard! And always, always, be Ever Grateful and Ever True!
Jordan graduated from Purdue in 2011 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. While at Purdue, Jordan was active in various student organizations including the National Society of Black Engineers, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Jordan was fortunate enough to intern at Purdue University in the Physical Facilities department, as well as with Marathon Oil company as an instrumentation engineer, and studied Machine pattern recognition algorithms abroad in Istanbul, Turkey.
Jordan is currently a principal engineer for Elbit System’s land division, where he currently represents the Company as a principal systems engineer in Israel for the purpose of training on the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle turret program. Jordan is the technical subject matter expert for turret programs across the engineering teams in the United States. Following his time at Purdue, Jordan joined General Electric Company as an Edison Engineer in the Avionics Systems Division. While at GE, Jordan earned his master’s degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University. Jordan worked at GE Aviation for 5 years before moving to Chicago and joining United Airlines as a senior engineer in the avionics engineering department.
Originally from Indianapolis, Jordan currently resides in Dallas. Outside of work Jordan enjoys spending time with friends and family, mentoring underrepresented youth and inspiring them to seek careers in the STEM field via NSBE and other professional organizations. When not involved in community service or mentoring, Jordan is an avid traveler and fitness enthusiast.
MacKenzie is a 2016 (BS) and 2017 (MS) graduate of Purdue's Biomedical engineering program. While at Purdue, MacKenzie was a member of the Varsity Diving team where she was an All-American, team captain, USA National team member, and 2016 Olympic trials finalist. She was also the 2015 recipient of the B1G Medal of Honor.
Upon hanging up her suit and graduating with her Master's degree, she started her career in the pharmaceutical industry as a data scientist, but quickly realized that she was more interested in the wearable devices the clinical trials were using than the drug the trials were testing. Since that realization, she's been working in the med-tech startup space, focusing her efforts on developing new algorithms and software to deploy on wearables to both diagnose disease and monitor progression, specializing in the integration of signal processing with machine learning. With several patents and publications in the field, she is driven to help push the industry forward through machine learning and AI. She currently works as a Senior Data Scientist on the Science team at SPARKNeuro, working to create an algorithm with EEG to help diagnose dementia.
Outside of work, she continues to stay involved in the diving community through coaching high school diving in Chicago and collaborating with the USOPC (U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee) and USA Diving to bring new technology to the sport. She also enjoys swimming, cycling, and golfing in her spare time.