The College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology at Oklahoma State University has announced the 2026 Hall of Fame and Hall of Fame with Lohmann Medal recipients.

Since 1954, CEAT’s Hall of Fame has recognized distinguished engineers, architects and technologists who have made prominent contributions in the fields of business, government and community, and have made major contributions to CEAT and OSU.

The Melvin R. Lohmann Medal was established in 1991 to recognize individuals for their prominent contributions in academic fields including research, scholarship development, innovation and education in the fields of engineering, architecture and technology and have made major contributions to CEAT and OSU.

The college will hold a Hall of Fame and Lohmann Medal Ceremony on Nov. 7, 2026, to honor the inductees.

Honorees who will be inducted are Shay Braun, Tricia Hatley, Ronald T. Noyes and Stacie Wrobbel.

Shay Braun

Shay Braun’s more than 35-year career in the food and beverage industry reflects practical application of engineering principles to complex business challenges. An industrial engineer, executive and mentor, Braun has built a career around strategic growth, operational excellence, developing people and creating opportunities for others.

Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Braun earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and management from OSU in 1990. While in college, he worked as a student supervisor at the Kerr-Drummond cafeteria. This was a foundational experience that let him apply learnings from the classroom to real-world situations, shaping his long-term interest in the food industry.

Braun began his career as a project engineer with Frito-Lay before advancing through leadership roles with Interstate Brands, Sara Lee and Dean Foods. At Dean Foods, he led a supply chain of more than 70 facilities and 8,000 employees and helped commercialize the national launch of the billion-dollar DairyPure brand. He later joined TreeHouse Foods, where he served as chief supply chain officer and chief operations officer. He held responsibility for a $2.7 billion division and led a restructuring program that delivered approximately $450 million a year in operating margin improvement.

Since 2021, Braun has served as president of Select Milk Producers, a more than $3 billion agricultural cooperative best known for its role in creating Core Power and co-founding Fairlife. Braun helped shepherd the final terms, payment and distribution of billions of dollars to the cooperative’s owners when The Coca-Cola Co. acquired Select’s interest in Fairlife in a transaction valued at nearly $14 billion.

Following the transaction, Braun helped transform Select into a diversified portfolio of operating companies, joint ventures and investments. Under his leadership, the organization and its owners have deployed approximately $445 million in capital to companies generating roughly $550 million in revenue and $100 million in annual EBITDA.

In 2024, Braun helped establish Premiere Source Co-op, the first and only colostrum cooperative in the United States, where he serves as CEO. Within 18 months, the organization reached approximately 40% of the U.S. colostrum market, generated $25 million in revenue and returned its startup capital plus $8 million in incremental profits to its owners.

Braun has remained deeply committed to his alma mater. He serves on the OSU Foundation Board of Governors, previously served as a President’s Fellow and chaired the CEAT Strategic Advisory Board for many years. He is an inaugural member of The Cowboy Academy of Industrial Engineering and Management and has supported OSU through philanthropy and professional connections.

His commitment to service extends beyond OSU. Braun has supported organizations including Promise House, City Kids Adventures, Ignite MindShift, Junior Achievement of Oklahoma and the American Heart Association.

Braun views his greatest accomplishments not simply as businesses built or financial results achieved, but as the people and institutions strengthened along the way. He believes engineering’s systems-based approach, combined with practical judgment, a great work ethic, determination, fairness and respect, can create lasting opportunities. Through his professional leadership, mentorship and service to OSU, Braun hopes to help ensure future CEAT graduates receive the foundation, encouragement and opportunities to make their own impact.

Tricia H. Hatley

Tricia H. Hatley is an accomplished civil engineer, executive and national leader whose career reflects a commitment to strengthening communities, advancing the engineering profession and developing the next generation of engineers.

A native Oklahoman raised in Edmond, Hatley earned her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from OSU in 1993. While at OSU, she worked with the ODOT On-Campus Design Squad, gaining valuable experience in roadway design. Following graduation, she joined Freese and Nichols, where she has built a more than three-decade career, advancing from an entry-level engineer to chief strategy officer and executive vice president of operations. In her current roles, she leads the firm’s strategic planning, oversees operations across the Gulf Coast and Southeast United States, and serves on the board of directors.

Hatley’s engineering career has helped improve numerous communities through infrastructure planning and design. Among her signature projects is Atlanta’s Rodney Cook Sr. Park, where she served as project manager. The park reduces chronic flooding for a historic neighborhood while providing a vibrant gathering place. Her team’s innovative design proved its value during Hurricane Helene in 2024, absorbing millions of gallons of stormwater while protecting surrounding streets and homes. The project has earned state, national and international recognition for its sustainable design.

Beyond her technical and business accomplishments, Hatley has made a lasting impact on the engineering profession through decades of service to the National Society of Professional Engineers. A member since 1993, she served as NSPE president in 2020-21, becoming the fourth woman to hold the position since the organization’s founding. During her presidency, she led the implementation of the Emerging Leaders Program, helped guide the organization through the COVID-19 pandemic and championed programs to develop future engineering leaders. She later helped establish NSPE’s first Women’s Leadership Program for mid-career women engineers.

Hatley’s commitment to mentorship and professional development extends beyond NSPE. She has volunteered with MATHCOUNTS throughout her career and currently serves as chair of its board of directors. She also serves on the board of directors of Engineering Change Lab-USA and helped establish WTS Oklahoma.

Her connection to OSU remains strong. Hatley regularly speaks with civil engineering students about professional licensure, leads sustainability discussions in the senior design course and serves on the Civil Engineering Advisory Board. She also helped develop a sustainability workshop connecting Freese and Nichols professionals with senior design teams.

For Hatley, the most meaningful measure of a career is its impact on others. She hopes to be remembered not for a particular project or title, but for investing in people and helping future engineers lead with competence, integrity, humility and a commitment to serving others.

Dr. Ronald T. Noyes

Dr. Ronald T. Noyes was born Jan. 4, 1937, west of Leedey, Oklahoma. Growing up on a farm, he developed an early interest in tools and mechanics. A conversation with Bobby Day, an OSU agricultural engineer, helped shape the career he would pursue.

Influenced by Day and his older brother Charles’ experience at OSU, Noyes enrolled at OSU in 1955. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agricultural engineering in 1961 and 1964, respectively, and a doctorate in higher education from the University of Oklahoma in 1998. After completing Army ROTC training, he served as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

He began his academic career as an extension agricultural engineer at Purdue University in 1964, working with farmers and grain elevators on grain drying, handling and storage. While working with batch grain dryers, he conceived a design for energy-efficient continuous-flow grain dryers, resulting in a move to start a new grain dryer manufacturing company.

In 1968, Noyes joined Beard Industries Inc. in Frankfort, Indiana, as chief engineer and later, vice president of engineering. During his 17 years in industry, he developed energy-efficient grain dryers, including the Super-B series of automatic batch grain dryers and the Superb Energy Miser dryers.

Noyes returned to OSU in 1985 as a faculty member in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering. Through extension programs, he provided education and training to workers at more than 400 Oklahoma grain elevators, helping improve grain quality, safety, sanitation, insect management and dust control. His 1994 wheat dust emissions study contributed to EPA table regulatory changes, saving Oklahoma and U.S. grain elevators millions of dollars by reducing the need for costly dust-control systems.

One of his most significant contributions was developing a closed-loop fumigation system that connected all grain storage bins at a site, allowing simultaneous fumigation. The system improved effectiveness while reducing fumigant use, earning him the U.S. Department of Agriculture Distinguished Service Award in 1992. He also led in establishing OSU's Stored Product Research and Education Center, securing USDA grant funding and in-kind contributions.

 His contributions have earned national and international recognition, including election as a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (1993), the ASABE Young Designer Award (1975) and the ASABE Kishida International Award (2004). He was named OSU Sarkeys Distinguished Professor in 2001 and served as a Fulbright Specialist in grain storage from 2014-18. Since 1998, he has served on the permanent committee of the International Conference on Controlled Atmospheres and Fumigation in Stored Products.

After retiring in 2004, Noyes continued consulting, collaborating internationally and conducting research. His wife, Zona, has been a loyal supporter of him for 66 years, often traveling internationally with him to various conferences. They established the Ron and Zona Noyes Scholarship in 2004 and are active supporters of the OSU Foundation and the Cowboy Motorsports quarter-scale tractor competition team.

Noyes holds 12 U.S. patents and is working on a 13th. His current patent work on continuous-flow Dryeration will significantly increase drying capacity, improve shelled corn quality and reduce drying fuel costs.

From a Leedey farm boy to work that has influenced grain production and storage around the world, Noyes’ career reflects a commitment to innovation, education and service.

Stacie Inman Wrobbel

Stacie Inman Wrobbel has built a distinguished 35-year career in project management, leading complex projects and organizations across the global energy industry. An industrial engineer and project management executive, she held leadership positions spanning ExxonMobil's Upstream, Midstream and Downstream businesses before joining Pathfinder LLC, where she serves as vice president and advises organizations on project excellence.

Stacie earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from OSU in 1991. Raised in Alva, Oklahoma, where she graduated in a class of 65 students, she developed an early passion for mathematics and science. Encouraged by a high school counselor to explore engineering, she independently researched the field and was drawn to industrial engineering because of its unique focus on optimizing systems, improving productivity and integrating people and processes to achieve better outcomes.

She began her career with Exxon Corporation in Baytown, Texas, in 1992. During her 29-year tenure with ExxonMobil, Stacie held a broad range of management and project leadership roles, developing expertise across all facets of project management, including cost engineering, project controls, quality management, contracting and project execution. Her career spanned projects and teams across Africa, Europe, the Caspian region, Canada, Southeast Asia and the Americas, providing leadership for some of the company's most significant global projects and initiatives.

Throughout her career, Stacie has been deeply committed to developing talent, fostering inclusive workplaces and building high-performing teams. She chaired ExxonMobil's Upstream Executive Women's Leadership Team and was a charter member of the company's Inclusion and Diversity Council, helping to advance leadership development and diversity initiatives across the organization.

Since launching her "Career 2.0" with Pathfinder, Stacie has partnered with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 clients to strengthen their project planning and execution capabilities. Her work includes leading independent project reviews and readiness assessments, facilitating stakeholder alignment and training programs, and helping organizations improve project management processes and performance across global portfolios.

Stacie has maintained a strong connection to OSU throughout her career. For more than two decades, she actively recruited students from the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology for ExxonMobil and regularly returned to campus to speak with student organizations, mentor future engineers and support professional development initiatives.

Her service to the engineering and construction profession extends beyond industry leadership. She has contributed to research initiatives through the Construction Industry Institute and served in board-level leadership roles with the Rice Global Forum and the Engineering and Construction Contracting Association. At OSU, she currently serves on the CEAT’s Strategic Advisory Board and is a past president of The Cowboy Academy of IEM.

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