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Welcome to my personal home page.
Below, you will
find a brief bio and some links that I have found useful. For
less
personal, more professional information, try the buttons to your
left.
Bio:
I was raised in rural Indiana near the town of Goshen,
where I attended Fairfield
High
School. After graduation, I went to Rice
University in Houston, TX, where I spent four years studying chemical
engineering. While there, I was a member of Brown
College and the Marching Owl Band
(MOB). While at Rice, I spent two summers working as a summer
intern
at Exxon Chemical
Company
in Baytown, TX. In the fall of 1992 I began graduate school in
the
department of chemical engineering
and
materials science at the University
of
Minnesota. My thesis advisor was Bob Carr, and the topic was
gas phase chemical kinetics and the detailed modeling of chemical vapor
deposition processes.
In January of 1994, I married Wendy Good, whom I had
known for many
years, and we have been happily married ever since.
After finishing my PhD in July of 1997, I spent one year
doing post-doctoral
research in the mechanical engineering
department at the University of
Minnesota.
There, I worked with Steven
Girshick, Peter
McMurry, and Stephen
Campbell. We studied the nucleation of hydrogenated silicon
particles
during silicon CVD from silane, and radiofrequency thermal plasma CVD
of
textured diamond films.
In the fall of 1998, Wendy and I moved to the Buffalo,
NY area, and I joined the department
of chemical engineering (now Chemical and Biological Engineering)
at the University
at Buffalo (SUNY). If you came to this page from my more official university page, then you probably already know all about that. If not, try some of the other buttons at the upper left, or to to my departmental web page at http://www.cbe.buffalo.edu/swihart.
While we were in Minneapolis, Wendy and I were active
members of Faith
Mennonite Church. To find out more about Mennonites, take a
look
at the Mennonite Information Center. We are now active members of Amherst Community Church,
which is affiliated with the United
Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
On February 2, 2000, our daughter Sarah Katherine was
born. She
was 6 lbs., 13 oz., and 19 inches long. Click here
for a picture of her at age 18 hours. Click here for pictures of her at age 1 month, here
for pictures of her at age 3 months, here for her 6 month
pictures, here
for pictures of her at 1 year, here
for pictures at age 17 months, here
for pictures of her just before her second birthday, here for pictures at age
three, here for pictures at age four, and here for pictures at age 5.
On June 17, 2002, our son Jacob Carl was born. He
was 7 lbs.,
15 oz., and 20.25 inches long. The official picture taken by the
photographer at the hospital is here,
and additional pictures from his first couple of days of life are here.
Pictures of him at age 1 month are linked here,
ones from age 3 months are linked here,
ones from age 6 months are linked here,
ones from age 1 year are linked here,
ones from age 18 months are linked here,
ones from age 2 years are linked here, ones from age 3 years are linked here, and ones from age 4 years are linked here.
On May 29, 2004, our daughter Rachel June was
born. She was 8
lbs, 5. oz. and 21 inches long. The official picture taken by the
photographer at the hospital is here,
and additional pictures from her first few days of life are here.
Pictures of her at age 1 month are linked here,
ones from age 3 months are linked here, ones from age 6 months
are linked here, ones from age 1 year are linked here, ones from age 18 months are linked here, and ones from age 2 are linked here.
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