Five Rising Professionals will return to campus March 3-4 to celebrate their professional success and inspire current students. While on campus, Rising Professionals will participate in classroom talks, student organization receptions and a community-wide panel discussion to create relationships with students.
The program's largest event, "Rising Professionals at Fowler #PackThePanel," is set for 4 p.m. March 3 in Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. The Rising Professionals will share how their Purdue journey affected postgraduate success and answer questions from the audience at the event, which is free and open to the public.
The two participating Purdue IE alumni are:
Christian Angarita, BSIE (Purdue 2012). Halliburton Business Leadership Development - Level 1. Manager of supply chain and operations, EY Advisory Services. Angarita graduated from Purdue in 2012 with a Bachelors of Science in Industrial Engineering and a minor in Business Management. During his time at Purdue, Angarita was an IE student ambassador, an Old Masters Host, and Promotional Officer, and a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He is currently a Manager at Ernst & Young (EY) in the advisory services practice, specializing in Supply Chain and Operations management consulting. In 2018, he was selected to participate in the EY Southwest Region Advisory Leadership Academy. Prior to working at EY, he worked for Halliburton for 5 years in a variety of Supply Chain Management roles in the US, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Angarita is a graduate of the Halliburton Supply Chain Management Program (SCMP) class of 2012-2014. While at Halliburton, he received his Lean certification and completed the Halliburton Business Leadership Development program at Texas A&M Mays Business School.
Jocelyn Dunn, PhD in Industrial Engineering (Purdue, 2016); MSBME (Purdue, 2011); BSAAE (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2009). Human performance engineer at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Dunn graduated from Purdue in 2011 with her master's in BME and again in 2016 as a Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering. Prior to Purdue, she earned her Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2009. During Dunn's time at Purdue, she was a part of Purdue Energy Club, BME Graduate Student Association, Purdue Graduate Student Government Chair of Academic and Development Committee, Graduate Mentoring Program in Industrial Engineering, and Purdue Catholic Graduate Students. Taking a break in her studies, Jocelyn took a position as Chief Scientist for the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), an eight-month simulated Mars mission put on by NASA with five other crew members. Following the completion of her degree, she earned a job with NASA CVL before reaching her current position of Human Performance Engineer at NASA Johnson Space Center.
Intended to work alongside the Purdue Old Masters program, the Purdue Rising Professionals program exists to unite distinguished young Purdue alumni with underclassmen to inspire the pursuit of the full Boilermaker experience. A Rising Professional is a distinguished alumnus who not only has shown success in their early career but was involved on campus during their time as a student, taking full advantage of the opportunities Purdue has to offer. Each year, a group of six students known as the Central Committee evaluates hundreds of nominations in order to choose five deserving candidates.
Source: Purdue Today, "Rising Professionals announces returning alumni" (January 18, 2019)
