STUDENT NEWS
A team of six student members of the UW-Madison Engineers
Without Borders chapter received the Exceptional Judges Award and
$2,000 in the G.
Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition for their business
plan, “Sustainable Energy for a Sustainable Future.” The
students, Megan Bender, Claire
Flanagan, Kevin Kamer, Adrienne
Kuehl, Timothy Miller and Jeff
Schneider, proposed to use fuel briquetting technology as a practical
approach to increasing Rwanda’s energy supply. Competition judges
instituted the award and donated the monetary prize themselves. In addition,
the UW-Madison Student Organization Office awarded EWB its Outstanding
Contribution to Community award at its recent Student Leadership Award
Ceremony.
The U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) selected geoengineering
graduate student Daniel Cope to receive a
2006 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, a
Department of Defense-funded fellowship designed to help provide the
United States with talented, doctorally trained people who will lead
state-of-the-art research projects in disciplines related to national
defense. The ARO selected Cope, whose research advisor is Civil and
Environmental Engineering Professor Craig Benson, from a field of nearly
3,600 applicants.
Master’s student Jamon Van
Den Hoek received the 2006 Paul Wolf Memorial Scholarship from
the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. The scholarship
recognizes college students who display exceptional interest, desire,
ability and aptitude to enter the profession of teaching surveying,
mapping or photogrammetry. When he earns his master’s degree,
Van Den Hoek will begin PhD work in geography under Assistant Professor
Mark Harrower.
A team of UW-Madison geological engineering students
tied for second place with Auburn University in the 2006 GeoCongress
Conference student competition, “Information Mining and Geotechnical
Site Characterization Design.” The contest challenged 19 student
teams from Europe, Asia and the United States (including three UW-Madison
teams) to research Hurricane Katrina’s timeline and propose engineering
solutions for the collapsed New Orleans Levee system. An international
panel of experts reviewed each team paper. Assistant Professor Dante
Fratta advised the second-place UW-Madison team, which received a prize
of $500. It included students Craig Schuettpelz,
a geological engineering senior, and Ake Sawangsuriya,
Emre Biringen and Victor
Damasceno.
