Highlights
Front: Brian Jacoby (left) and Josh Halvorsen. Back, left to right: Matt Olsen, Chris Reininger, Alex Schmude and Joe Lodde.
MSOE wins Preconstruction National Championship For the second straight year, a team of architectural engineering and construction management students won the Preconstruction National Championship at the 24th annual Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) Student Competition. Congratulations to all team members (pictured left). Another team of students took second place in the Building Information Modeling (BIM) competition. Team members are: Jake Bolda, Jake Lathers, Mark Peterson, Ben Turk, Josh Wilsmann and Jake Wurtz. The teams were coached by Dr. Jeong Woo and Blake Wentz, assistant professors in MSOE’s Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management Department. Since entering the competition in 1999, MSOE has had 16 national top three places and seven national championship teams. No other university in the country has experienced the consistent level of success demonstrated by MSOE.
Students win IEEE competition Joseph Edmisson and Mackenzie Zastrow took first place in the IEEEXtreme Programming Competition for IEEE Region 4. Along with four other teams of MSOE students, they competed in the annual 24-hour worldwide computer programming contest in October. A total of 13 computer engineering, electrical engineering and software engineering students competed. They were proctored by Dr. Eric Durant ’98, Dr. Mark Hornick, Dr. Sheila Ross and Dr. Ben Uphoff, all faculty members in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.
SAE student chapter wins big MSOE’s Society of Automotive Engineers student chapter took home the top prize of $2,000 at the SAE annual Student Night Competition. Six universities participated in the challenge, including UW-Milwaukee, UW-Madison, Marquette University, Michigan Tech University and Northern Michigan University. Students exhibited their projects, all of which aspire to further vehicle technology in a variety of ways, and gave a short presentation about their SAE chapter. Participants were judged on chapter development, competition results and student programs. The cash award was split among MSOE’s four SAE teams. Faculty advisors for these phenomenal teams include: Dr. Robert Kern (Aero); Dr. Mathew Schaefer (Baja); Dr. Christopher Damm (SuperMileage); Dr. Stephen Williams/Professor Matthew Loew (Formula Hybrid). Pictured are MSOE’s Formula Hybrid (front) and SuperMileage vehicles.
Dimensions Spring 2011
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