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Tim Miller (BS ’06)
has accepted a nine-month position to teach physics at the College of
the Immaculate Conception, a rural girls’ college in Muramba,
Rwanda. A former member of UW-Madison Engineers
Without Borders, Miller plans to work with the community and engineering
students from Rwanda and UW-Madison on a number of community development
projects.
The American
Society of Civil Engineers has selected David
C. Goodrich (BS ’80, MS ’82) as the recipient of
its 2007 Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award. The award recognizes
his contributions to understanding precipitation and runoff processes
in the arid and semi-arid regions of the United States. Goodrich is
a research hydraulic engineer with the United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service in Tucson, Arizona, and an associate adjunct
professor in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the
University of Arizona.
Professional Surveyor Magazine has
named Knud Hermansen
(MS ’81), and Paul Wolf
(BS ’60, MS ’65, PhD ’67) to its list of the 25 most
influential people in the surveying community throughout the last quarter-century.
Hermansen is a professor of surveying engineering technology at the University
of Maine at Orono and Wolf, who died in 2002, retired as a professor of
civil and environmental engineering at UW-Madison.
For the fourth time in six years, the Associated
General Contractors (AGC) of Wisconsin named Staab Construction Corporation
its General Contractor of the Year. Specializing in general and mechanical
construction of wastewater treatment and pumping systems, water treatment
and supply systems, and water control structures, the Marshfield, Wisconsin,
company serves markets in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois and
Iowa. Aaron Staab (BS ’72) founded the
company in 1984.
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