MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SPRING 2000 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

A newsletter for alumni, students, and friends of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Inside this issue...

Message from the Chair ME Building Renovation Project Advances BS Degree through Rheology Research Center Professor DeVries is Head of Prestigious International Society New eMedia Center New Faculty: Professors Turng & Shkel ME Senior Wins Brainstorm Honors Alumni Highlight: Chris Egle Does Social Engineering Formula SAE Team Wins Second Place in Detroit Competition ME Senior Receives NSF fellowship ME Donors in 1999 Alumni News Student News Faculty & Staff News Did You Know?

Distance Education These distance education graduate engineering students were on campus recently for an intense, condensed three-week version of ME 577, the Automatic Controls lab taught by Professor Robert Lorenz and TA Michael Harke. Other classes in the MS and PhD Outreach program are taught through videotape and e-mail communication with professors. Harke, at left above, is explaining equipment to Eric Schlevensky, who works for MagneTek in Milwaukee; Janis Blazei of General Motors in Shreveport, LA; Abdul Sudam of Hutchinson Technology in Hutchinson, MN; James Buerosse of Hamilton-Sundstrand Aerospace in Rockford, IL; and Clarissa Thomas of Hewlett-Packard in Corvallis, OR. For more information on this and other outreach programs, contact Helene Demont, administrator, at 608/262-5516 or 888/661-9551, demont@engr.wisc.edu, or see the website oeo.engr.wisc.edu. (27K JPG)

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