Photograph of Wallace Hall on the campus of Wichita State University courtesy of Kosuke Ishikawa, graduate student in aerospace engineering. Fall 2003: Contents (The summer issue is now available in the Transport Archive.) Text Only   Student Organizations Welcome from the Dean Features The Road to Success The WSU Mini-Baja Team The gears sheared off, mud nearly destroyed the body, but the WSU Mini-Baja car weathered the elements in Provo, Utah, to take third place in the Western Regional Competition, the WSU Mini-Baja Team’s best finish in  history. Soaring into Competition The Design, Build, Fly Team For four years, WSU students have created and flown miniature planes as part of the Design, Build, Fly program, sponsored by Cessna and the Office of Naval Research. The program prepares students for careers in the aviation industry. “If you can build a good plane in this competition,” advisor Dr. L. Scott Miller says, “a full-size plane is a more familiar challenge.”

Transfusion Confusion 2003 Kansas BEST Competition Twenty-seven teams will compete on November 1 in the fifth annual Kansas BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) high school competition, which is designed to inspire and motivate students toward careers in engineering, science and technology. The sports-like technology contest combines the excitement of a high school football game with the strategy of a chess match and the intellectual challenge of a science fair. (Reprinted from WSU Online News)

Faculty Profiles @ WSU Engineering Fostering Synergy Dr. Kurt Soschinske, new Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, brings to his work an artist’s impulse toward synthesis.

From The Air Force to the Air Capital Meet Dr. Fred “Jackie” Meyer, new Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Education Connections @ WSU Engineering “Making Contacts, Building Relationships” New WSU Engineering Co-op Coordinator Suzanne Henderson brings to her work a history of coalition-building and a passion for student advocacy.

Planting SEEDS of Engineering Education Lynn Elder, coordinator of Science and Engineering Education Development  for Students (SEEDS), is poised to launch several new programs aimed at inspiring K-12 students to pursue careers in science and technology.

Women in WSU Engineering Updated regularly, this page features profiles of WSU Engineering alumni, scholarship information, links, and more.

Alumni @ WSU Engineering Alumni News If you are a WSU Engineering alumnus, please take a moment to fill out our quick online form to let us know what you’re up to. Catch up with other alums on our ever-expanding alumni news page. Alumni Profiles Staging Ground Catching up with Stan Schaefer (BSAE 1987), deputy chief of NASA’s systems division For eighteen years and counting, aeronautical engineer Stan Schaefer has experienced the highs, and the lows, of working at NASA. (Reprinted from the spring 2003 issue of The Shocker, Wichita State University’s alumni magazine)

Events @ WSU Engineering Open House 2004 It’s not too early to start planning for the annual College of Engineering Open House, which will be held April 23, 2004, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. We will be showcasing student projects, engineering laboratories, and engineering research being conducted in the College. Engineering student organizations, such as the Kansas BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology) team and the Lego Mindstorms team are scheduled to give demonstrations during Open House. Between 9:30 a.m. and 10:25 a.m., we’ll be conducting engineering competitions in which K-12 students may participate (no advance preparation on their part is necessary). Last year the competitions included catapult building, foam rocket launches, and an egg drop.   The awards banquet will be the evening of Saturday, April 24, 2004. If you are a K-12 teacher who would like to schedule a guided tour, or a potential sponsor of a project or award, please contact the College of Engineering Dean's Office at 316-978-3400.

Faculty Achievements @ WSU Engineering

A reception honoring Dr. Mahesh Greywall, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was held on May 13, 2003, in the Rhatigan Student Center. Dr. Greywall retired after thirty-three years of distinguished service to WSU, the College of Engineering, and the department of mechanical engineering. Dr. Greywall received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 1957, his M.S. in mechanical engineering in 1959 and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1962, all from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught many courses at WSU, including ME 521, Fluid Mechanics; ME 701, Boundary Layer Theory ; ME 602, Engineering for the Environment; and ME 758, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer. "In nearly every phase of my academic career over the past twenty years, Dr. Greywall has been a positive influence and mentor. From my start as a graduate student to adjunct/lecturer to assistant professor, there was always something to learn from him. Students who have had him for class remarked to me that his teaching style is one that is a good example for other professors to follow. I think I will try to take their advice." --Dr. Kurt Soschinske

Student Achievements @ WSU Engineering Tejas Mazmudar, a May 2003 graduate in aerospace engineering at Wichita State University, was selected as the Sigma Gamma Tau Outstanding Aerospace Engineering Senior for the region. Six regions comprise the national aerospace engineering honor society. Mazmudar is the fourth Wichita State engineering graduate to receive this honor in the last six years. Previous winners were Brenda Yurko in 1998, Janna McKenna in 1999, and Andrea Vavra in 2001. Klaus Hoffmann, aerospace engineering professor, is the Sigma Gamma Tau adviser at WSU. Congratulations to Mr. Majid Feiz, Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering. He is the recipient of 2003 University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Gas Turbine Industrial Fellowship. The program is offered by the South Carolina Institute for Energy Studies (SCIES) and funded by the department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. The program offers students valuable work experience and the opportunity to practice the art of engineering in an industrial setting. Discipline areas, as applied to land-based gas turbine power generation systems, include mechanical design and manufacturing, heat transfer, aerodynamics, combustion, thermodynamic analyses, materials and coatings, and testing and evaluation.

Scholarships @ WSU Engineering It Pays to Be WISE Over $250,000 was awarded to incoming freshmen as a result of November’s Wallace Invitational for Scholarships in Engineering (WISE). Find out about this year’s WISE—which will be held on November 5, 2004—and how you can earn scholarship money to attend the College of Engineering.

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