Degrees and Programs Engineering Physics

Tad Finkler ’98 participated in the 3-2 program and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in engineering physics at Westmont and a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford University. He also completed a master’s degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford. He has worked for a number of engineering firms and started his own business, Finkler Design, in 2008.

Mary Elise Richter Klug ’97 majored in engineering physics at Westmont and has worked as an independent consulting as an aeronautical software engineer. Previously, she worked for a government contractor that tests and designs jet engines. She earned a master’s degree in civil engineering at UCLA.

Through the 3-2 program, Shawn Moore ’92 earned a Bachelor of Arts in engineering physics from Westmont and a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Washington State University, immersing himself in a Christian environment and the liberal arts before a purely technical education. He later completed an M.B.A at George Fox University. “Attending Westmont made a significant difference in how I learn and process information and in my creativity,” he says. “Those who focus just on the technical side don’t develop the other half of their brain.” He works for Hopper Dennis Jellison, a civil engineering firm in Vancouver, Wash. He oversees everything on a construction site except the building, master plans, roads, grading, and storm, water and sewer systems, for schools, churches, medical facilities and business parks.

Paul Schlatter ’99 majored in engineering physics at Westmont and earned a Master of Science in meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, where he studied severe weather analysis and forecasting, specializing in a new type of weather radar: dual-polarization (dual-pol). He then trained forecasters at the NWS Warning Decision Training Branch in Norman, Okla. He spent a year in NOAA’s Program Coordination Office in Washington, D.C., and served as deputy chief of staff and acting chief of staff for the National Weather Service (NWS) in Maryland for nearly three years. He now works as the science and operations officer for NWS in Colorado.

Bethany Sutherland ’12, a dancer and an artist, earned a Bachelor of Science in engineering physics at Westmont, embracing both science and the arts. She works as an associate project manager at Santa Barbara Imaging Systems.