February 2012 Noteworthy

Student Accomplishment

  • Patrick McGrail, ARE, has been awarded the $10,000 ASHRAE Willis H. Carrier Scholarship for 2012-2013.

  • Cody Knuth, ARE, has been awarded the $3,000 ASHRAE Duane Hanson Scholarship for 2012-2013.

Faculty Recognition

  • Stacy Hutchinson, BAE, travelled to Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Waedenswil, Switzerland, to attend the International Ecological Engineering Society symposium Eco-Cities and Ecological Engineering and also present on "Restoring Prairie Ecosystem Functions for Storm Water Management."

  • Donghai Wang, BAE, took part in a National Science Foundation Panel Review in Washington, D.C.

  • Fred Hasler, ARE/CNS, has been named campus liaison for the Besal Fund designation recently awarded to the ARE/CNS department. This allows K-State students access to scholarships totaling nearly $600,000 since the inception of the fund.

  • Julia Keen, ARE/CNS, presented three days of intensive instruction at the HVAC Design Essentials Workshop in Atlanta for the ASHRAE Learning Institute.

  • Blythe Vogt, ARE/CNS, earned her Autodesk Professional-Level Certification on AutoCAD 2012 software while attending an Autodesk University conference in Las Vegas.

  • Dunja Peric, CE, authored the article "Study Seeds To Improve Roads," which was published in ASCE’s national magazine, Civil Engineering.

Programs, centers, and institutes

  • K-State UTC is one of 22 University Transportation Centers that will share in $77 million in grants from the U.S. Transportation Department to advance research and education programs that address critical transportation challenges facing the nation.

  • AMI's bioprocessing/chemical engineer, Sigifredo Castro Diaz, was named one of the top scientists in Kansas by the Ad Astra Kansas Initiative.

  • AMI offered design and marketing expertise to improve the efficiency of Bourbon Trucking, Jewell, and also to develop owners LeRoy and Eric Bourbon’s new business, Bourbon Trailers.