COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING NEWS
The Society of Women Engineers is selling bags of candy for $2 and single roses for $3 through Wednesday in celebration of Valentine’s Day. You can find them at the Campus Entrance of Bell Engineering from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All proceeds from the fundraiser will be used to defray expenses for our members attending the regional conference in March.
The College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas and the Springdale High School pre-engineering program have partnered to offer a summer engineering and math summer camp for Springdale middle school and junior high girls. The program will kick off this summer. Dean Ashok Saxena and Carol Gattis, director of recruitment, retention and diversity, along with several University of Arkansas colleagues presented information about the Engineering and Math Summer Day Camp for Girls to the Springdale School Board on Tuesday night. The program is an engineering recruitment and diversity initiative focused on creating an interest in science and engineering among females, a group that is severely underrepresented in engineering fields.
Next week is Engine Week – a week set aside to celebrate the engineers and engineering in our lives. Several engineering organizations have scheduled activities to be held in the atrium of Bell Engineering Center. Here is a list of activities and sponsors. Everyone is invited to attend.
Monday, Feb 19
Scavenger Hunt – Tau Beta Pi - 12:30p - 1:30p
Tuesday, Feb 20
Quiz Bowl/Jeopardy – SHPE - 12:30p – 1:30p
Egg Drop – ASCE - 1:30p – 2:00p
Co-ed Basketball – NSBE - evening - TBA
Wednesday, Feb 21
Outreach to Jr High Schools - 12:30p – 2:00p
Fayetteville 8th graders
Thursday, Feb 22
Remote Car Race – ASME - 12:30p – 1:30p
Paper Airplane – SWE - 1:30p – 2:00p
Bowling Tournament – AiCHE - evening - TBA
Friday, Feb 23
Stick’em Up – ACM - 12:30p – 1:30p
4 Leg Race – Alpha Pi Mu - 1:30p – 2:00p
For more information, contact Thomas Carter III at tic@uark.edu.
The University of Arkansas Chemical Engineering Alumni Reunion is scheduled for a full day of events on Saturday, March 10. An update on the department will be presented by Dr. Tom Spicer, department head. Alumni will take in a Razorbacks baseball game, and relax at dinner with fellow alumni and faculty. Alumni will have the opportunity to spend some free time strolling around campus, seeing how the University of Arkansas has changed and visit some of the old hangouts.
Chi Epsilon, the civil engineering honor society, is selling review manuals for the Fundamentals of Engineering exam. Place your order now to make sure you have the materials in time for all the review sessions. The FE exam will be held this semester on April 21. Review sessions for the exam will start in early March. Orders take about two weeks to arrive and will be placed in groups. Ordering now will allow us to compile a large enough order to get a shipment in by early March. There is a study manual for the general test in the morning and another for the discipline-specific test in the afternoon. The cost is $60 for the general manual and $40 for the discipline-specific manual. Please contact either David Clement dtcleme@uark.edu or Doug Fellenz dfellen@uark.edu to place an order. Cash or check will be accepted. If you cannot make one of these times, e-mail us and we will set up a time to meet.
Brian Mattingly was awarded the Mack-Blackwell Transportation Center Student of the Year Award. Brian worked on two biodiesel projects ( MBTC 2052, 2058) culminating in his M.S. Chemical Engineering degree in July 2006. Dr. R. E. Babcock, and Dr. Ed Clausen, professors of the Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering, directed Brian’s research. During his time as a student, in addition to his M.S. thesis, Brian contributed heavily to the MBTC project technical completion reports, made poster presentations at both the 2004 and the 2005 Mack-Blackwell Transportation Center Annual Projects Review Symposia, and delivered a technical paper at the 2005 International Petroleum Environmental Conference in Houston, Texas. Brian is a self-motivated individual. He planned and executed the laboratory experiments on the MBTC projects with minimum oversight and supervised hourly personnel on the projects as well. For the spring 2006 semester, Brian was accepted as one of nine U.S. graduate students to the Renewable Resources and Clean Technology International Graduate Exchange Program from January 2006 – June 2006. During this time, Brian studied under Dr. Roland Verhe, renowned biofuels professor, at the University of Gent in Belgium. Brian also served as an industrial coop student researcher with the international chemical company, DeSmet Ballestra, in Brussels, Belgium. These international appointments were very prestigious and highly acclaimed. Brian is currently serving as Assistant Plant Manager for Earth Biofuels, Inc. at their Durant, Oklahoma facility.
CONTACT:
Ritta M. Basu, Director of Communications, College of Engineering, (479) 575-5697, nhabib@uark.edu
