SAVE THE DATE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
The 13th annual CEE Golf Outing
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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
 reetings! Spring passed us by quickly and summer is well on its way. Despite the departure of many of our students for the summer, we remain busy and productive.
We are looking forward to welcoming Assistant Professor Carol Menassa to the department in August. Her expertise is in the area of construction engineering and management. In addition, we are pleased to tell you about several faculty who have received honors and achieved important milestones, and you’ll read more about many of their accomplishments later in this newsletter.
• We granted Dante Fratta tenure and promoted him to associate professor. We are very honored and fortunate to have Dante on our faculty.
• Professor Ken Potter was appointed the Gaylord Nelson Distinguished Professor.
• Associate Professor Trina McMahon received the college Benjamin Smith Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching
• Associate Professor Chin Wu earned a College of Engineering Polygon Engineering Council teaching award.
• The American Society of Civil Engineers Technical Council on Computing and Information Technology selected Professor Teresa Adams to receive the 2009 Computing in Civil Engineering Award.
• Professor Emeritus Charles Salmon received the American Institute of Steel Construction Educator Award April 1 in Phoenix, Arizona.
We finished the academic year with 335 undergraduate students. In May, 54 students earned bachelor’s degrees. Our graduate student enrollment in spring was 125 students (63 master’s students and 62 PhD students). In May, nine students earned master’s degrees, while five received PhDs.
We are grateful for all the help our alumni and key industry partners are providing the department (see our stories about local mentors and about our Industrial Advisory Board). In particular, we would like to thank Strand Associates Inc. and Mead & Hunt Inc. for their faithful, annual support. Not only do they provide financial support, but they also supply engineering professionals who contribute their expertise to the department in many ways.
Please mark your calendar for Tuesday, September 15, 2009, for the 13th annual CEE Golf Outing. With the strong support and work of the CEE Golf Committee, the golf event will exceed your expectations. We expect to fill two 18-hole golf courses with students, alumni, and industry partners totaling close to 300 people. There will be an exciting live auction including university and state sporting-event tickets and many other items of high value and interest. We’d love to have you attend so that we can reconnect with you and engage you in the department. If you cannot make it, consider donating something of value for the auction or becoming an event sponsor. We need your help for this event to be among our department’s premier events! You can register for the event at golf.cee.wisc.edu.
As always, please stop in and see us if you are in the Madison area. We are glad to see our graduates and friends of the department.
Go Badgers and On Wisconsin!
Respectfully Yours,
Jeffrey
S. Russell, PhD, P.E., F., ASCE
2205 Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
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