50^th Anniversary Celebration

College of Engineering Open House 2005

Open House Awards

Undergraduate Awards

1^st place--- Nick Lies, Nick Middleton and Rich Opara

Project----Bulk Material Transporter

2^nd place---Laura Hood, Mark Johnson, Barrett Morgan and Ha Tran

Project----Explosive Resistant Container and Airframe Installation

3^rd place---Kok Loong Cheong, Jeremy Dubois and Chee-Suen Lee

Project----Design of  an Experiment Injection Mold

Graduate Awards

1^st place ---Ben Wheeler, Christian Widener and Turk Al-Washmi

Project -----Remote Control of a Catheter Insertion Device

2^nd place---Nazia Tasneem

Project-----Investigation on Correlation of Explicit Simulation Results to Material Specification Tests of Unfilled Thermoplastic Polymer

3^rd place---Chintan Kothari and Nikunj Patel, Deepak Maru

Project-----Rope Climbing Robot

Pi Tau Sigma---Most Creative Project---Bijaya Malakar

Project----Biped Robot

Student Achievement Awards

Senior with Highest GPA Award---Marcus Johnson

Marcus has a cumulative university as well as engineering GPA of 4.0, the highest among all graduating seniors.

 Undergraduate Excellence Award---Holly Haynes

Holly was selected as one of the national recipients of the 2005 Goldwater Scholarship Awards.  The Goldwater Scholars are selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of over 1000 science and engineering student applicants nominated by universities nationwide.  Holly is the only Goldwater Scholar selected from Wichita State University this year. Holly’s career goal is to receive a PhD degree in alternative energy.

Outstanding Student Activity Award---Mini Baja Team

The team competed in two of the three national competitions held in the US (West and Midwest).  The team placed second in the 2004 West Competitions, in Portland Oregon, among over 99 teams. The team competed in the several dynamic events as well as presentation of a complete design report.