Peter Buechi Elected President Of UB Engineering Alumni

By Mary Beth Spina

Release Date: October 27, 1999 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Peter J. Buechi, a regional environmental remediation engineer with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), has been elected president of the UB Engineering Alumni Association.

Buechi, who has earned the designation "professional engineer" (P.E.), received a bachelor's degree in 1968 and a master's degree in civil engineering in 1970.

He lives in Cheektowaga.

Other officers elected were Theodore A. Myers of Buffalo, an engineer with the DEC and a 1981 graduate in civil engineering, vice president; Louis A. Picciano, Depew, a retired electrical engineer at Calspan and 1965 graduate, secretary, and Stephen Buechi, West Seneca, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who received an undergraduate degree in 1967 and a master's degree in civil engineering in 1970, treasurer.

Past president is Fred Meli of Tonawanda, a retired New York State Thruway Authority regional director and 1976 civil engineering graduate.

The UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, founded in 1948, has more than 15,000 alumni.