{"id":19129,"date":"2024-05-08T13:57:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T18:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/engineering\/?p=19129"},"modified":"2024-05-08T13:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T18:57:53","slug":"happy-50th-anniversary-to-mr-kahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/engineering\/happy-50th-anniversary-to-mr-kahn\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 50th anniversary to Mr. Kahn!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About 60 people attended a surprise party May 2 for Iftekharuddin Khan in honor of his 50<sup>th<\/sup>  anniversary of teaching as an adjunct at the College. He has continuously taught part-time at UWM after earning his master\u2019s degree in industrial engineering from UWM in 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan was greeting by faculty, staff, students, family and friends, who spoke fondly about him and his influence on the College, including the following from the industrial engineering department: Chair Jaejin Jang; Rina Ghose, professor; Hamid Sefoddini, associate professor; Wilkistar Otieno, associate professor; and Matthew Petering, associate professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others speaking were Professors Pradeep Rohatgi and Kishna Pillai, both materials engineering, and teaching faculty Dan Beller, who years ago had been a student of Khan\u2019s. Associate deans Andy Graettinger and Prasenjit Guptasarma also paid tribute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No plans to retire are in the works, Khan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-p-slider uwm-p-slider--dots-outside\"><div class=\"uwm-p-slider--base\"><figure class=\"uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/537\/2024\/05\/Khan.50.1A.jpg\" alt=\"two men standing with a panther mascot\" title=\"two men standing with a panther mascot\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption>Was it really a surprise? Khan said he suspected something when someone in the hallway wished him a happy 50th birthday! Close enough. He is pictured here with Jaejin Jang, chair of industrial engineering (left). <\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class=\"uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/537\/2024\/05\/Khan.50.2.jpg\" alt=\"group of people\" title=\"group of people\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption>Hamid Seifoddini (center), associate professor, industrial engineering, shares a memory of meeting Khan for the first time.<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class=\"uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/537\/2024\/05\/Khan.50.3.jpg\" alt=\"A woman and a man holding a poster\" title=\"A woman and a man holding a poster\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption>Madiha Ahmed (left), teaching faculty, industrial engineering, planned the party, which included a poster board with messages from well-wishers. <\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class=\"uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/537\/2024\/05\/Khan.50.group_.M.jpg\" alt=\"group of people\" title=\"group of people\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption>A portion of the group who attended the event surround Khan and Pounce (second row from top).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 60 people attended a surprise party May 2 for Iftekharuddin Khan in honor of his 50th anniversary of teaching as an adjunct at the College. 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