Engineering Students, Faculty Recognized at ASEE Regional Conference
College of Engineering faculty members were awarded the Faculty Milage Award for the most person-miles traveled to attend the conference (not all attending faculty are pictured).
The U of A College of Engineering received significant recognition for its faculty and student participation at the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Regional Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska, Sept. 10-12.
- U of A received the Faculty Mileage Award, presented to the school that had the most person-miles traveled. U of A had seven faculty and seven students attend the conference.
- Mechanical engineering students Chinmaya Joshi, Jackson Minnick, Stephen Pierson, Corbin Russ, and assistant professor Han Hu, won first place for student papers with “Integration of Metal Additive Manufacturing Using Fused Deposition Modeling in Mechanical Engineering Education.”
- Mechanical engineering students Lucas Efird, Landon Lemmons, Larry Marshall and Stephen Pierson, along with assistant professor Han Hu and assistant professor Wan Shou won third place in the Student Poster Competition for their poster, "Work-in-Progress: Open-Source Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) Test Bed."
- Chemical engineering student Ian Popp and teaching assistant professor Heather Walker won second place in the Student Poster Competition for their poster, "A Teaching Plan for Introducing Engineering in 1st-2nd Grade Classrooms in Northwest Arkansas."
- Chemical engineering doctoral student Aubrey Schultz and engineering librarian Jay McAllister won third place in the student presentations for "A Comparison of Coverage and Subject Areas in Compendex, Inspec, and the Web of Science Core Collection for Use as an Engineering Database."
- Chemical engineering University Professor Ed Clausen and teaching assistant professor Heather Walker, along with alumni Bob Dean (B.S.Ch.E. '83), Kent McAllister (B.S.Ch.E. '87), Mike Mourot (B.S.Ch.E. '76, M.S.Ch.E. '77) and Greg Nesmith (B.S.Ch.E. '90), won second place in faculty presentations for "Adding Ph.D. Students to the Chemical Engineering Alumni Student Mentoring Program."
- First-year engineering associate professor Aysa Galbraith was elected chair in the Midwest Section.
The 2024 meeting will be held at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, on Sept. 8-10, 2024. U of A will host the 2025 meeting in Fayetteville.
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