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Dean Karl N. Reid tours the Web HandlingResearch Center, an industry/university coop-erative research center founded by the Collegeof Engineering, Architecture and Technology in1986, an effort Reid spearheaded. The WebHandling Research Center, which advances theengineering science underlying the transportand control of thin, flexible continuous-stripmaterials through processes such as printing,drying, coating and laminating, is the only cen-ter of excellence of its kind in the world.

“A one of the most influential engineersof our time, H. Edward Roberts, theinventor of the world’s first personalcomputer. Read the wonderful storyabout Ed Roberts and his influenceon the launch of Microsoft.

With new grants and contractstotaling more than $17.7 million,the CEAT achieved a record year infunding in 2002. CEAT bolsteredsupport to industry with the incep-tion of its new Center forEngineering Logistics and Distribu-tion (CELDI) and the creation of anew Product Development Center(NPDC). CEAT received an addi-tional $5.3 million from a specialallocation from the Oklahoma leg-islature to support the efforts oftwo research teams working onthe early detection and mitigationof bioterrorism agents.

Construction is nearing completionon a new 10,000-square-foot labora-tory for the Department of FireProtection and Safety Technology(FPST). When the FPST laboratory isfully furnished, the outmoded labora-tories in the old campus fire stationwill be “retired.” Because of an

lmost every week we celebrateanother significant accomplish-ment in the College of Eng-ineering, Architecture and Technol-ogy. And, many of those accom-plishments are “breaking newground.” This issue of Impact cel-ebrates these accomplishments.

Several members of the CEAT fac-ulty received national andinternational honors this past year,including the prestigiousAlexander von Humboldt ResearchAward for internationally recog-nized scholars, and the U.S.Department of Agriculture’s high-est award. Our architecturestudents continued to earn firstplace awards in national competi-tion, and CEAT student chaptersand their advisors continued to beranked among the best in thenation. The CEAT Student Councilreceived the “Most Improved Chap-ter Award” at the national studentcouncil convention.

CEAT counts among its graduatesmany distinguished alumni whosegroundbreaking contributions haveimproved our lives. The list includes

unusual gesture of support fromfriends and alumni of the School ofCivil and Environmental Engineer-ing, ground will be broken inMarch 2003 for a new StructuresResearch Laboratory.

The newly completed Design andManufacturing Laboratory isincreasing the instructional andenrichment opportunities forundergraduate students in threedisciplines, while the expansion ofthe Master of Science in Engineer-ing and Technology Managementprogram and the addition ofcourses in legal studies in the engi-neering curriculum are creatingnew opportunities for both gradu-ate and undergraduate students.

In May 2002, we celebrated thefirst mechanical engineering gradu-ates who took all their courseworkat OSU-Tulsa. This landmark eventoccurred 100 years after OSU pro-duced its first three engineeringgraduates and the first engineeringbuilding was opened. We’ve cer-tainly broken many acres ofground since 1902, but the CEATtradition of flexibility, forethoughtand commitment to preparing ourgraduates to be competitive withthe best demands that we continueto break new ground everyday.”

Karl Reid, DeanCollege of Engineering, Architectureand Technology

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Volume 9, 2002

I M P A C TEileen Mustain, editor

Paul V. Fleming, art directorJanet Varnum, associate editor

Adam Huffer, CEAT communication specialistNatalea Watkins, assistant v. p./Communications Services

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ON THE COVER: In designing and building our infrastructures,graduates of the College of Engineering, Architecture & Technologyprofoundly influence our lives. None among the many, talentedCEAT alumni has affected our communication and information sys-tems more so than Dr. H. Edward Roberts featured here with hisinvention, the Altair 8800 — the world’s first personal computer.The related story is on page 10.

IMPACT is a publication of theOklahoma State University Collegeof Engineering, Architecture andTechnology and is designed to pro-vide information on college activi-ties and accomplishments whilefostering communication amongthe CEAT family and friends.

VIP INVITATION

The CEAT wants you to have access toup-to-date information on everything fromthe continuing development of the AdvancedTechnology Research Center to the estab-lishment of new academic programs on theStillwater campus and in Tulsa.

We invite you to be our guest for a VIP visitto campus and the CEAT. Contact Dean KarlReid by phone at (405) 744-5140, by FAX at(405) 744-7545, or by e -mai l atkreid@okstate.edu. If a trip to campus is notpossible, visit the CEAT homepage throughthe OSU website at www.okstate.edu.

The OSU College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology

broke new ground in every respect in 2002.

From faculty, student and alumni achievement to the creation of innovative programs

to the construction of state-of-the-art facilities, the CEAT continued

building an academic infrastructure that attracts and nurtures intellectual leaders.

By supporting the development of new knowledge and its application to real world problems,

the CEAT consistently prepares architects, engineers and technologists to IMPACT the world.

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‘Preeminence,’Becoming the Norm

Talented, energetic and high-achieving studentsand faculty distinguish the College of Engineering,Architecture and Technology. Engineering andarchitecture professional organizations consis-tently recognize OSU student chapters and theiradvisers among the nation’s best.

The national organization selected the OSU chapterof Alpha Pi Mu, the industrial engineering honorsociety, as the outstanding chapter in the nation for2000-2001 and Allen Schuermann as outstandingadviser. The OSU chapter placed second in thenation for the 2001-2002 academic year.

OSU architecturestudents took tophonors in theCollage 2002:An OklahomaCentennial Project.(Front row; left toright) are Hwa-SookYou, Shawn Brown,Mathieu Jourquinand Jean-PhillipeDe Visscher; and(back row) FlynnTesterman, CharlesBrant, MatthewRadcliffe, WesRutledge and BobWright, professorof architecture andfaculty adviser forthe competitionstudio.

The grand cham-pion 3-by-5-footcollage by CharlesBrant and WesRutledge presentsthe evolution ofOklahoma’s variedmusical forms fromjazz and gospel toclassical and coun-try-western.

The theme of Rutledge and Brant’s grand champion collage is therelationship between Oklahoman’s fascination with the state’s ever-changing, sometimes violent weather and the radical evolution of itsmany forms of music. Their composition strives to convey the energyand movement of dance with a frenetic arrangement of pictures ofartists such as Chet Baker, Vince Gill and Patti Page in the image ofa tornado on the horizon.

The prize-winning entries are currently part of a touring exhibitionappearing at various Oklahoma sites. When the contest/CentennialCollage Project culminates in 2007, the best of all entries will beincluded in Oklahoma’s centennial exhibition on the National Mall inWashington, D.C.

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OSU namedprofessor ofindustrialengineering andmanagementAllen Schuermann,shown here withindustrialengineeringstudentsKristin Hinrichsand Mukul Patki,the CEAT’s topfaculty adviser forthe 2001-2002academic year.

Architecture StudentsDocument Oklahoma Arts

For the second consecutive year, OSU architecture students won thecontest initiated to assemble a unique collection of historic art rec-ognizing and celebrating Oklahoma’s centennial year of statehood.

Team projects completed by OSU students accounted for four prize-winning entries, including overall grand champion, in Collage 2002:An Oklahoma Centennial Project. Fifth-year seniors Charles Brant andWes Rutledge won grand champion and $2,000. Flynn Testermanand Hwa-Sook You took a second-place award, and entries by ShawnBrown and Matthew Radcliffe and Jean-Phillipe De Visscher andMathieu Jourquin received honorable mentions.

Participants address the theme, different each year, in the form of a3-by-5-foot collage and explanatory essay. This year’s theme, “Artsand Entertainment: Celebrating Our Creative Talent,” covered thebreadth of arts in the state from prehistoric days to the present.

Schuermann, professor of industrial engineeringand management, also received the OSU desig-nation as CEAT’s top faculty adviser for the2001-2002 academic year.

The OSU American Institute of Architectural Stu-dents (AIAS) chapter, selected from a pool of 120accredited architecture schools, received aNational Chapter Honor Award at the 2002 annualAIAS Grassroots Conference recognizing it asco-national chapter of the year. This recognitionfollows another national merit award the chapterreceived in 2001 for its innovative program, Archi-tecture Students Teaching Elementary Kids(ASTEK). Mohammed Bilbeisi, associate professorof architecture, advises OSU’s AIAS chapter.

For four of the past five years, the OSU studentchapter of the American Institute of ChemicalEngineers (AIChE) has received the “OutstandingChapter” award from the AIChE national organi-zation, placing the chapter in the top ninenationally. Randy S. Lewis, associate professorof chemical engineering and OSU’s AIChEadviser, received the AIChE student chapterAdviser of the Year award in 2000.

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Brian Winterscheidt and CullenMcCann’s prize-winning entryin the 2002 Leading EdgeStudent Design Competitionfeatures four glass towers,doubling as stairs, used forventilation, light and heat,strategically located windowsand innovative climate controlsuch as adjustable vents,louvered skylights and reactiveelectric lights.

Cowboys Paint the Urban FabricArchitecture students BrianWinterscheidt, left, and CullenMcCann with faculty criticsJohn Womack and Jeff Will-iams, earned themselves$3,000 and the school$1,500 with their first-placewin in the competition,“Painting the Urban Fabric —A Sustainable UrbanElementary Art School.”

Marshall Scholar Just Another E-Kid

Last November, just one year afterOSU senior Bryan McLaughlin wonthe prestigious national GoldwaterScholarship, the British Foundationnamed the electrical and computerengineering major from OklahomaCity a Marshall Scholar.

McLaughlin plans to use the MarshallScholarship, valued between $35,000and $37,000 per year, to earn master’sdegrees in both optical-electronics andhigh-speed circuit design during histwo years of study at the University ofCambridge in Britain.

He believes electrical engineering witha specialization in optics will producesome of society’s biggest improve-ments in the next few decades. “Weare just beginning to break ground inthe use of laser-driven circuitry ineverything from defense and medicalinstruments to communications sys-tems and image processing,” he says.

After Cambridge, McLaughlin plans towork in industry, obtain a Ph.D. andthen teach at the college level.

“Bryan has proven repeatedly that heis fully capable of competing with thetop students in the nation,” says KarlReid, dean of the College of Engineer-ing, Architecture and Technology.

“His Goldwater Scholarship was animportant achievement, but he didnot rest on his laurels. He decided hewanted to build a solid technicalbase by studying in the UK, so hepursued the Marshall Scholarship.He’s the kind of highly motivated,goal-oriented young man whose abili-ties convince you there is no doubthe’ll achieve his goals.”

McLaughlin describes engineering asa “service” field. “I enjoy engineeringbecause engineers translate develop-ments in science and math into

electronic devices, engaging himno less than 10 hours a week fortutoring in the college’s Fundamen-tals of Circuits course. He hasalso found time to mentorother students in compe-tition for scholarshipssuch as the Goldwaterand Marshall.

“Bryan has beentireless and deter-mined, broadeninghimself academi-cally and performingpublic service,” saysRobert Graalman,OSU’s director of ScholarDevelopment. “It’s really hardto imagine anybody gettingdone what he gets done.”

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The design of a passivelylighted, cooled and heatedelementary school in LosAngeles, California — wherestate schools spendapproximately $450 millionon energy — was the basisfor another national prizecaptured by students in theOSU School of Architecture.

Now fifth-year seniors,Brian Winterscheidt andCullen McCann won firstplace in the 2002 LeadingEdge Student Design Com-petition, “Painting theUrban Fabric — A Sustain-able Urban Elementary Art

products and devices that are used tohelp people every day,” he says.

As a junior, McLaughlin began deliver-ing the “engineering” message tofifth-grade students with EngineeringKids (E-Kids), a program he developedto raise student interest in science andengineering through simple hands-onengineering projects in the classroom.

While serving as president of theOSU chapter of the Institute of Elec-trical and Electronics Engineers andas vice president of OSU’s AmericanIndian Science and Engineering Soci-ety (AISES), McLaughlin carried thatmessage to high school students andto his peers. During his one-year termas president, membership in OSU’sIEEE student chapter increased from35 to 112 members.

Many current CEAT students have ben-efited from McLaughlin’s aptitude for

School,” under the directionof faculty critics JohnWomack and Jeff Williams.

The competition, whichfocused upon sustainableand energy-efficient buildingmethods, requiredcompetitiors to explore theuse of new materials anddesign strategies while inte-grating the aesthetic andtechnological aspects of aK-3 grade school. The stu-dents designed a two-story,21,000-square-foot facilitywith a 25,000-square-footexterior playground on a39,000-square-foot site. The

site also had to contain park-ing for 30 vehicles.

“Not only was the site lim-ited in available squarefootage, there were alsoissues of perimeter vehicu-lar traffic volume, noise,odors, etc. Cullen and Brianalso had to fit the buildinginto a rather diversifiedvisual context — and thatwas a difficult task initself,” says Womack, asso-ciate professor ofarchitecture. “Their designfronted its two majorstreets in a very provoca-tive yet humane way.”

Using recyclable materialssuch as fly ash concrete,steel and glass, McCannand Winterscheidt usedcomputer graphics toillustrate their uncompli-cated, elegant layout.Their project elicitedpraise from the judgeswho called their entry a“mature, clean plan” and“refreshingly simple.”

“In addition to the currentprogrammatic and func-tional elements of an artschool for young children,the design had to consideradaptability to other uses if

and when the curriculum ortheories on educationchanged,” Womack says.“Part of their design’s sus-tainable considerations washow it took into accountthe embodied energy that abuilding retains during itslifetime.

“They had to ask, ‘Whatmight this facility be 50years from now, and will itsfunctional and aestheticpresence continue to beappreciated and valued bythe community to such adegree that it won’t simplybe leveled one day?’”

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Engineering student Travis Tidwellportrays mad scientist “Dr. Snookers”in an engineering mentorship programpresented to Stillwater-area fifth-graders by OSU’s student chapter ofthe Institute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers.

11-year-old scouts from across the state.Junior Girl Scout Day gives participantsthe opportunity to explore basic scienceand math principles in a series of hands-on educational modules to interact withfemale engineering students and tolearn about career options for women inscience, engineering and technology.

REACH

CEAT has held Reaching Engineeringand Architecture Career Heights(REACH) summer academies every yearsince 1996. The two-week academy’smulti-disciplinary curriculum introducesa select group of high school seniorwomen from across the state to thecareer opportunities available in engi-neering fields. Since the academy’sinception, nearly 200 Oklahomans haveparticipated in REACH, and at the begin-ning of their collegiate studies, morethan 60 percent majored in engineering,architecture or technology.

CREW

Women in Engineering, Architectureand Technology introduced a new com-munity service program in the fall of2002 for fourth- and fifth-grade stu-dents in the Stillwater Public SchoolSystem. Women CEAT students fromthe Collegiate Role Models for Educat-ing Women (CREW) peer-mentoringprogram assist science teachers usingthe inquiry method to ask questionsthat pertain to the technology, earthscience or physical science modulesthat students are studying. The modulesfocus on design and motion, electricityand land and water. Each of the 36 stu-dents who have agreed to serve asvolunteers during the 2002-2003school year will spend one hour perweek in a classroom for four weeks.

CHEMKIDZ

Three years ago, OSU School of Chemi-cal Engineering students Greg Beckham,Darren DeNardis and Robert Jacksonfounded ChemKidz to make learningabout chemistry fun for fifth-graders.Chemical engineering students visitarea elementary schools using hands-ondemonstrations of basic chemistryexperiments and principles and to talkabout the jobs of engineers.

Combating a National Crisis at Home

“Our national shortage of engineersis quickly becoming a crisis,” saysKarl Reid, dean of the College of Engi-neering, Architecture and Technology.“The number of bachelor’s degrees inengineering awarded in the U.S. hasdropped 20 percent in the past 15years while the demand for engineerscontinued to rise. At the rate we’regoing, the demand will outstrip thesupply almost 50 percent by 2008.”

“The Third International Mathematicsand Science Study” finds U.S. fourth-graders score well above theinternational average in mathematicsand science performance and wellbelow the international average bythe final year of high school, Reidnotes. “Something happens to makestudents lose interest in math andscience during those years.”

Solutions to stem the shortfall in engi-neering talent must addresswide-ranging problems from the K-12curriculum and teacher education toengineering stereotypes, he says. “Inour society the James Bond image ismuch more likely to stir a youngster’simagination than the engineers whocreate his high-tech tools.”

While CEAT, under Reid’s leadership,is pursuing several initiatives to K-12math and science education andenhancing awareness of the f ields ofengineering and architecture, CEATstudents are tackling the problem atthe community level with programsthat nurture student interest in thestudy of engineering.

During the 2001-2002 schedule, stu-dents volunteering in the ChemKidzprogram visited every StillwaterElementary School and participated inOSU’s I-Wonder Fair, an annual eventthat brings 2,500 elementary studentsto campus from around the state.

ASTEK

Architecture students initiated Archi-tecture Students TeachingElementary Kids (ASTEK) three yearsago. The 10-week program, which iswholly supported by members of theOSU chapter of the Amer ican Insti-tute of Architecture Students,teaches fifth-graders about the impor-tance of architecture to society andhelps prepare them for the ar t portionof their standardized tests. ASTEKmeets with students weekly for one-hour lessons from the 60-pageworkbooks developed by OSU archi-tecture students.

The course, which covers such topics asbasic geometry, building structures andshading devices, culminates with a two-week project in which each childdesigns and constructs a model build-ing. In 2002, approximately 400Stillwater fifth-graders received instruc-tion through ASTEK.

EKIDS

OSU engineering students BryanMcLughlin and Patrick Clark devel-oped Engineering Kids (EKIDS), anengineering mentorship program, inresponse to the declining numbers ofgraduates in engineering and thenatural sciences. Presented toStillwater-area fifth-graders by OSU’sstudent chapter of the Institute ofElectrical and Electronics Engineers,the EKIDS program uses hands-onexperiments and the presence of col-lege students to spark interest amongchildren in engineering, math and thesciences. Classroom projects includea do-it-yourself electric motor, a fruit-powered watch and computerdisassembly.

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JUNIOR GIRL SCOUT DAY

Several CEAT programs and servicesprovide engineering career informationto pre-college students. The OSU chap-ter of the Society of Women Engineerssponsors the Junior Girl Scout Day, heldannually for the last 11 years andattended by more than 1,000 nine- to

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Keeping the Fleet Airborne

CATT Bolsters MilitaryReadiness, State’s Economy

OSU’s Computer-Assisted TechnologyTransfer (CATT) program originated in1994 to facilitate parts procurementfor the country’s aging military equip-ment and has since developed intoone of OSU’s most successful busi-ness-military-academic partnerships.

“On the average, our airplanes are inthe air three times longer than origi-nally expected. The extended lifemakes it increasingly more difficult forthe Department of Defense to pur-chase replacement parts when a partbreaks on an aircraft such as the B-52or the KC-135, which Boeing no longermanufactures,” says Camille DeYong,industrial engineering and manage-ment associate professor and facultycoordinator for OSU projects for CATT.

“Many of the original manufacturerscan no longer afford to make parts insmall quantities; some are no longerin business, and many small compa-nies feel overwhelmed by doingbusiness with the federal govern-ment,” she says. Difficulty accessingor replicating manufacturing data,obsolete processes and materials andcorrosion problems associated withextending the equipment’s life expect-ancy, all add to the supply problem.

The Defense Logistics Agency, DOD’spurchasing agent for all branches of theU.S. military, funds the CATT programand designated it as a National Reinven-tion Laboratory in 1994. The CATTprogram provides basic research anddevelopment; re-engineers problemparts; develops, tests and transferslogistics support technologies; andfacilitates participation for small- andmedium-sized manufacturers.

In order to form a supply chain thatcan react quickly and cost-ef fectivelyto meet DOD needs for small-quantityreplacement parts, CATT created the’‘virtual enterprise.” The virtual enter-prise is a network of small tomedium-sized manufacturers thatwork together to respond appropri-ately to a bid request and to providea broad range of capabilities for thedifferent steps in a manufacturingprocess. This manufacturing network,linked by the Internet, has access tosoftware that streamlines the biddingprocess and to CATT personnel whoserve as mentors in doing businesswith the federal government.

“OSU’s major role is research anddevelopment, which is applied hereand elsewhere in re-engineering partsand knowledge transfer,” DeYongsays. “We’ve contributed the develop-ment and insertion of leading-edgetechnology into existing weapon sys-tems — such as new processes forreducing corrosion and new materialstechnologies for ceramic bearings.

“But we also work to create manufac-turing capabilities, particularly withsmaller business enterprises, and toenhance the DLA’s flexibility. Our goalis to help assure our country’s mili-tary readiness.”

While expansion of the DOD supplierbase remains the CATT program’smost important achievement, theprogram’s success is also readily mea-surable by its duplication in otherstates, Alaska, Idaho, Mississippi,Ohio, Georgia and Utah, and by itsstimulation of the Oklahoma economy.Since the program began, the state’smanufacturers and vendors havegained $9 million in contracts, gener-ated nearly 100 local jobs and made$1.5 million in capital investments.

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The Center for Aircraf t and Systems/Support Infrastructure (CASI), a con-sortium of Oklahoma’s institutions ofhigher education, developed from theneed to expand technologies andmaintenance methods to extend theoperational lives of the nation’s mili-tary and civilian air fleets.

“Aircraft are becoming increasinglymore expensive to develop anddeploy,” says John W. Nazemetz,associate professor of industrial engi-neering and management and theOSU director of CASI. “Fewer arebeing built, and existing aircraft areoften kept for service periods thatexceed the original design lifetime.

“While it remains important for mili-tary aircraft logistics facilities, such asthe Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center,to rely on original manufacturers andsecondary industrial support for fleetmaintenance, it’s essential to havealternative approaches to augment theaircraft and support infrastructure,”Nazemetz says.

OSU, the University of Oklahoma andthe University of Tulsa initiated theprogram in 2000 to leverage thestate’s resources in the developmentof improved systems and logisticalsupport for Department of Defense air-craft fleets. These institutions sharethe primary operational responsibilitiesfor CASI, which is funded by the Stateof Oklahoma and the DOD.

CASI is a statewide academic centerthat uses a multidisciplinary approachfor conducting applied research, model-ing, technology insertion andengineering support activities for air-craft maintenance.

“By working in close collaboration, theCASI institutions are able to provideintegrated solutions to the most chal-lenging technical and operationalproblems facing the industrial/militaryaerospace complex,” Nazemetz says.

Although CASI is primarily supportingOklahoma’s Tinker Air Force Base, thecommercial sector will also benefitthrough dual-use technology transfer, hesays. “CASI will also reduce systemoperation and maintenance expenses;extend aircraft service lifetimes; improveoverall system readiness; enhancesafety and environmental complianceand reduce hazardous waste.”

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A Testimony to CEAT Programs

OSU aerospace engineering graduate Tony Buratti is profiled in U.S. News andWorld Report’s 2003 edition of “Best Graduate Schools.” The publication fea-tures a picture of Buratti, who is employed with Lockheed Mar tin, working onan F-22 fighter plane in a section titled, “Picking a Dr eam Job.” The edition hitnewsstands in December 2002.

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New Center BoostsIndustry Support

“CELDi is helping industries remain‘real world’ relevant,” says RickiIngalls, associate professor of indus-trial engineering and co-director ofthe new OSU Center for EngineeringLogistics and Distribution (CELDi).

Launched in June 2002, the newcenter is a multi-university, multi-dis-ciplinary National Science Foundationsponsored Industry/University Coop-erative Research Center to study andimprove logistical supply chain per-formance in member industries, heexplains. “We bring basic and appliedresearch together to help solve theirproblems.”

CELDi’s academic partners, the Uni-versity of Arkansas, the University ofLouisville, the University of Oklahomaand OSU, each focuses unique andcomplementary expertise on basicresearch needs of CELDi’s industrypartners, who help fund and driveresearch efforts. “Projects are verycompany specific,” Ingalls says, “butthe center’s research must also bebroadly applicable to all members.The intellectual property rightsbelong, royalty free, to all members.”

Full membership in CELDi entitlescompanies to determine researchareas, but associate memberships forcompanies with fewer than 50

employees and affiliate membershipsare also available. OSU’s full memberindustries are the Oklahoma Depart-ment of Transportation,ConocoPhillips and Smith Tool.

“We’ve just completed phase one ofan ODOT project for freight move-ment modeling,” Ingalls says. “Wedeveloped a modeling structure todetermine how freight moves in thestate and how best to plan for thatmovement.”

Other current research includes thesuccess factors in e-procurement ande-trading in the petroleum industryfor ConocoPhillips and manufacturingand distribution strategies in thepetroleum industry’s shrinking boom/bust cycle for Smith Tool. “No basicresearch has addressed how to run abusiness and manage personnel andequipment during the transitions in ashortened six- to nine-month boom/bust cycle,” Ingalls notes.

Aside from the prestige of having aNational Science Foundation Centeron the OSU campus, CELDi is alsoinstrumental in building OSU’s gradu-ate program, Ingalls says. “The centercurrently funds six graduate students,and we expect it to support evenmore talented students in the future.”

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MSETMProgram Expands

The OSU master of science in engineering andtechnology management (MSETM) program, oneof the unique master’s degree programs createdby the College of Engineering, Architecture andTechnology, has expanded its ongoing effort toprovide accessible, career-enhancing educationalopportunities to practicing professionals.

MSETM now offers a certificate program devel-oped by program directors Paul Rossler andBrenda Johnson. The program, funded by agrant from Halliburton, includes courses on top-ics ranging from managing virtual projectteams to leadership and legal issues.

“There are a lot of working professionals whodesire high quality continuing education butdon’t want or need a master’s degree,” Rosslersays. “This course series also appeals to regis-tered engineers who are now being required totake continuing education courses.”

The MSETM program, the first of its kind in thenation when inaugurated in 1998, is designedfor working engineers, scientists and technicalprofessionals whose careers involve the manage-ment of people, projects, technology andstrategy. It is delivered to corporate and publicsites and individuals throughout the country viadistance learning technologies includingvideoconferencing and CD-ROM.

In 1999, at the start of its second year, the pro-gram boasted 100 students, more than doubleinitial projections. Today, more than 250 stu-dents from over 100 companies make up thestudent body, which is comprised of profession-als employed full-time in technical fields.

Although an increasing number of universitiesare now attempting to emulate the MSETM pro-gram, it remains a work in progress, Rosslersays. “The challenge now and in the future is tocontinue to evolve the program as industrychanges, innovate in the ways that our programis delivered and enhance the national reputationof the program.”

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SuccessBreeds Success

Although a small manufacturer’s viabilitydepends on innovation and bringing newproducts to market, the research anddevelopment needed to evolve and intro-duce new products is too costly for mostsmall- and medium-sized firms.

In response to that need, OSU’s College ofEngineering, Architecture and Technologyand the College of Agricultural Sciencesand Natural Resources have launched theNew Product Development Center.

Years in the making, the center recentlyreceived seed-funding, including$300,000 from the Oklahoma Departmentof Commerce and $100,000 from theOklahoma Water Resources Board, for apilot study of the concept. In time, fundingin the amount of $5 million per year willbe needed to make the impact needed inOklahoma’s manufacturing sector.

The new center provides collaborativeresearch teams composed of universityfaculty, students and staff to lead proto-type development, perform compre-hensive evaluation, including feasibilityand market studies, and expedite turn-arounds on prototypes.

The New Product Development Centerwill augment the Oklahoma Alliance forManufacturing Excellence ApplicationsEngineers program, an endeavor inwhich OSU engineers, contracted by theAlliance, provide technical assistance tothe state’s small- and medium-sizedmanufacturers.

In 2001, the return on the OklahomaCenter for the Advancement of Sci-ence and Technology investmentin the Applications Engineersprogram was 23 to 1, for atotal economic impact of justover $20 million. Organizers ofthe New Products Develop-ment Center believe it couldproduce an investment return of50 to 1.

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Building on 40 years ofeducational excellence inassociate degree and cer-tificate programs, OSU-Oklahoma City haspartnered with OSU-Stillwater to bring thebachelor of science in engi-neering technology to theOklahoma City campus.

For many years, OSU-Okla-homa City has offeredtwo-year technology pro-grams in both FireProtection and Safety andElectrical Engineering Tech-nology. Now students canalso earn a four-year degreein either of these areaswithout leaving their homecampus in the heart ofOklahoma City.

Jason Cruse, the first stu-dent to take the majority ofhis upper division EETcourses on the OSU-Okla-homa City campus,graduated last May andaccepted a field engineerposition with GE Medical

Law CoursesComplement Curriculum

Systems, a General Elec-tric Company subsidiary.

“Two more students arescheduled to complete theirdegree requirements inMay of 2003, and callscome in each week askingabout the bachelor’s degreeopportunity at OSU-Okla-homa City,” says Willison.

OSU has the only ABET(Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technol-ogy) accredited engin-eering technology programin Oklahoma. This guaran-tees acceptance of thecourses at other institu-tions and certifiesqualifications and compe-tencies to employers.

“Bringing these outstand-ing bachelor’s degreeprograms to our campusfor students whose jobsand family responsibilitiesdon’t leave room for travelto the main campus is amajor incentive for them,”

Degrees Engineered for Success!

In response to the inundation of con-tract, patent and product liabilityissues on engineering practice, theCollege of Engineering, Architectureand Technology initiated a pilot courseon intellectual property and patent lawlast fall. Eyeing an eventual legal stud-ies minor in engineering, admin-istrators in the college have adoptedthe philosophy, “If you can’t beat ’em,join ’em.”

The intertwining of engineering andlaw has made it necessary to givestudents the opportunity to supple-ment their engineering educationwith knowledge of general legal prin-ciples, says Marty High, associateprofessor of chemical engineering.High conceived the course after arecent contract negotiation required50 percent more time for legal wran-gling than the stated duration of theresearch project.

“In my 20-year career as an engineer,I have noticed that I encounter legalissues more and more frequently,”High says. “The course is a way offurther rounding-out our students’educational background while sup-porting our mission to provide aneducation that opens the door tomany career options.”

Plans are being formulated to offer aseries of legal studies classes as elec-tives to avoid diluting engineeringcurriculums already packed withcourses, High says.

“Fundamental engineering principleswill remain the foundation of the educa-tion our college provides, but this willhelp students communicate fluentlywith attorneys,” he says. “Students whowant to practice law can use the pro-gram to get a head start.”

Like the pilot course, classes in theplanned minor program will not carryan engineering science designationand, therefore, will be open to stu-dents university-wide. However, inmodeling it on the existing pre-medoption available in a number of itsdepartments, the college hopes toattract additional students into engi-neering disciplines, according to KarlReid, CEAT dean.

“Engineers are often viewed asdetached from social and humanissues, an incorrect assumption we areworking to change,” Reid says. “Wehope to capture the attention ofsocially conscious students with legalaspirations who have traditionallyopted for majors in the social sciences.

“We have been very successful inoffering the pre-med option, enablingmany students with aspirations inhealth care to obtain a professionaldegree on the way to medical schoolor to work in areas such as biomedi-cine and pharmaceuticals, and wewould like to duplicate that successwith this endeavor.”

High hopes to complement the intel-lectual property course with otherclasses in environmental law andproduct liability and an introductorycourse on general legal principles. Heis consulting attorneys and a numberof CEAT graduates in designing them.

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says OSU-Oklahoma CityPresident Jerry D. Carroll.“We look forward to work-ing with faculty members inStillwater to expand this toother bachelor’s programsas well.”

OneNet, the state’s interac-tive telecommunicationssystem, combines withOSU-Oklahoma City’s state-of-the-art computerlaboratories and distancelearning facilities to allowstudents the discussions,presentations and lecturesof a traditional classroom.

Distance education oppor-tunities, offering coursesand degree programs atsites other than the origi-nating campus, bringmuch-needed programs tostudents in ways neverbefore geographically pos-sible. Instruction for theseparticular programsincludes classes also trans-mitted to OSU-Tulsa and theUniversity of Nebraska.

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Ricki Ingalls, co-director ofthe new OSU Center forEngineering Logistics andDistribution, expects thecenter to attract talentedgraduate students like LoaySehwail and RajeshVeliyanallore, who arecurrently working with CELDi.

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Construction of the new 10,000-square-foot laboratory facility for Fire Protectionand Safety Technology is nearingcompletion. Donations are being soughtfrom alumni and friends of the programto equip the new facility, replacing fullyoutmoded equipment in the current firestation laboratories and adding equip-ment for new laboratories in firemechanics and dynamics. Plans are forthe first laboratory classes to begin infall 2003. The new facility is the firstmajor infrastructure development for the fireprotection program since the 1939 con-struction of Stillwater Fire Station No. 2.

Collaboration Benefits Students, College

In creating the lab, MAE, theSchool of Industrial Engi-neering and Managementand the Mechanical Engi-neering TechnologyDepartment consolidatedresources by pooling equip-ment and sharing theoperational costs.

As a result, organized courselaboratories, special projectsand extracurricular enrich-ment projects related to thedesign and manufacture ofmechanical or electrome-chanical items are allhoused in one location, saysHoberock, noting that previ-ously these activities werescattered in multiple loca-tions all over campus.

A single location is onlyone of many benefits tostudents, he says. TheDML offers computernumerically controlledmachining operations(CNC), an open machineshop, welding, wood andstructure machine shops, acomposites lab, two aero-space design labs and anaerospace vehicle assem-bly lab. It’s also home to ametrology and rapidprototyping lab, an elec-tronics shop, two designshops, large assemblyareas with bays, class-rooms, conference room,

office space, storage lock-ers, tool and supply roomsand a special computerand duplicating area stu-dents can use at any time.

“As part of our renovation,we added keyless access—so students can get in atany hour — as well ashandicap access and exte-rior lighting. We alsodedicate resources to keepthe shops open until 11p.m. and on weekends tomeet student needs,”Hoberock says.

“Our seniors told me in exitinterviews that they neededmore hands-on experience toprepare them for the industrialworld,” he says. “Now, they’reappreciative of the hands-onfacility, but they want moreand better equipment,” a needthat he acknowledges must beaddressed.

CEAT has created an over-sight committee chargedwith raising funds toreplace equipment. “Ourfive-year goal,” Hoberocksays, “is to make OSU’sDesign and ManufacturingLab a state-of-the-artinstructional facility thatapproaches or equals high-quality design andmanufacturing facilities inpractice.”

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The College of Engineering,Architecture andTechnology’s facility northof campus has served thecollege well over the years,first as the Fluid PowerResearch Laboratory andlater as the Mechanical andAerospace Engineering(MAE) Research Laboratory.

But today, as CEAT’s newDesign and ManufacturingLaboratory, “The facilityhas the most outstandingpotential for student ser-vice of any on campus,”says Larry Hoberock, pro-fessor and head of MAE.Launched in the fall of2001 as a hands-on,instructional facility, theDesign and ManufacturingLaboratory houses studenteducational and enrich-ment opportunities.

Mechanical and aerospaceengineering senior Catie Royapplies her skills in designclass held at the new OSUDesign and ManufacturingLaboratory.

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Working to Secure the Homeland

Daniel Grischkowsky, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his colleagues inthe Ultrafast Terahertz Research Group are working to produce a device, similar to a smokedetector, to detect airborne poisons, including nerve gases.

A portion of Oklahoma’s $19 millioninvestment in OSU’s homeland securityresearch will fund research equipment andlaboratory renovations for two researchteams in the Advanced TechnologyResearch Center.

The projects include upgrading a labora-tory for work with prescription biologicaland poison sensors and developing a labo-ratory model of a multi-story air handlingsystem for the study of how contaminantsmove through structures, such as schoolsand office spaces. Both facilities will sup-port research on the early detection andmitigation of deadly bioterrorism agents.

The work in the prescription sensor unitmerges OSU expertise in bioengineeringand materials science. The focus will beon identifying substances with “pre-scribed” properties that could rapidly alertpotential victims to the presence of eventiny amounts of dangerous elements suchas anthrax spores or cyanide powder.

College of Engineering, Architecture andTechnology scientists on the prescriptionsensor team are Khaled Gasem, Jim Smayand Sundar Madihally from chemical engi-

neering. Their research grants total $1.26million. They plan to add a gas chromato-graph, an electro-acoustical spectrometer,a mass spectrometer and a Y-Spectrumanalyzer to advance to the next phase oftheir research.

The continuous air quality monitoring projectmerges the work of professors DanielGrischkowsky, Alan Cheville and Weili Zhangof the Ultrafast TeraHertz Research Group inelectrical and computer engineering and JeffSpitler and Daniel Fisher of the Building andEnvironmental Thermal Systems ResearchGroup in mechanical and aerospace engineer-ing, collectively representing $4.6 million insponsored research.

Their work, originally motivated by therelease of Sarin gas in a Tokyo subway in1995, became of significant interest afteranthrax detection forced the closure of theU.S. Senate Office Building last year. Themodel HVAC test bed to be constructed aspart of the project will be the first of its kindin the world. Coupled with the terahertz spec-troscopy equipment and expertise, it will putOSU at the forefront of building contamina-tion prevention and mitigation.

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Photographs, clockwise fromthe top, show a few of themany students who benefit fromclass and enrichment actvitiesat the CEAT’s new Design andManufacturing Laboratory:OSU Mini Baja Team mem-bers, clockwise from left, areBeelie Biehler, MistyDaugherty, Kristen Tucker,Brian Coles and Kiel Johnson;Tech Mini Baja Team membersare, from left, Eric Grotts, JustinShaner, Mackey Louthan, JustinWeichel and Justin Corff; MAEsenior capstone team designproject members are, from left,Jeff Schmacher, JasonRobertson, Todd Lester, MeganMcConnell and Ryan Baker.

OSU-TulsaPlans NewEngineeringResearchCenter

OSU-Tulsa is moving forward onpreliminary plans for a proposed$24 million EngineeringResearch Center.

The research and laboratory facil-ity is necessary to meet the needsof a growing student populationand research-oriented faculty inOSU’s nationally recognized engi-neering programs, says OSU-TulsaPresident Gary Trennepohl.

“Our student population has beengrowing consistently for the lastseveral years,” Trennepohl says.“We now have an urgent need forlaboratory facilities on campus toenhance student learning andfacilitate faculty research.”

The 100,000-square-foot facilitywill be the first new building con-structed on the campus since itbecame OSU-Tulsa in 1999.

The research center, with state-of-the-art technology in the fields ofcivil, mechanical, electrical andcomputer engineering, will be animpressive step toward the “2020Vision” plan for the OSU-Tulsacampus, Trennepohl says, and willhelp create a synergy among allfaculty at OSU-Tulsa and at thenearby Center for Health Sciences.

The architecture for the proposedstructure will be consistent withthe prairie style evident in theexisting buildings.

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“Ed’s MITS Altair personal computer, launched back in 1975 …was the first time you could have real computing power in your home, and hasinspired a quarter century of innovation that shows no signs of stopping ….

“He made the decision to license Paul Allen’s and my Basic software, even thoughwe were very young and had no track record. So he helped Microsoft get off theground. And he incorporated an open bus into his design so third party softwaredevelopers could write software for his machine. Ed made an incredibly valuablecontribution — one that helped shape the modern computer industry.”

– Bill Gates, Microsoft founder

Without question, Dr. H. EdwardRoberts, “father of the personal com-puter,” transformed our lives. Morethan any other invention, the per-sonal computer opened the door tothe Information Age, placing thepower to communicate in the handsof ordinary people and altering for-ever the way we work and learnabout the world.

Although we take it for grantedtoday, scarcely three decades ago,in 1968, the PC existed only as aconcept in the mind of OSU electricalengineering graduate Ed Roberts,who credits his OSU experiences forsparking the idea.

“OSU’s open policy was a bold ideafor the times,” Roberts says. “OSUwas one of the few universities thatgave undergraduates direct accessto the school’s mainframe computerinstead of making them submit pro-grams to white-coated operatorswho were the only ones authorizedto touch the precious machines.”

As an OSU student, Roberts hadaccess to the IBM 1620 located onthe first floor of Engineering South.“We just signed up and used it as

much as we wanted,” he says.“There was never any problem as faras I know with the computer beingdamaged or abused. Everyone tookcare of it like it was their own.”

He says the power of computingopened up a whole new world, “andI began thinking, ‘What if you gaveeveryone a computer?’”

The College of Engineering, Architec-ture and Technology named EdRoberts recipient of the 2002 MelvinR. Lohmann Medal, the highesthonor CEAT bestows for alumni con-tributions to the profession.

“Almost every aspect of themultibillion-dollar personal computerindustry began with Ed’s inventionsand company,” says Karl Reid, CEATdean. “These contributions includethe first computer to be offered in kitform, the first personal computer,the first personal computer publica-tion, the first personal computerconvention and the first softwarepublisher micros.

“In addition to his groundbreakinginventions, he exemplifies the verybest qualities of the outstanding

engineer,” Reid says. “Ed possessesan inquisitive and inventive mindand a pioneering and generous spiritwho uses his talents to improve thequality of life for others.

“He is just the caliber of person whowould ask, ‘What if everyone had apersonal computer?’ and then pro-ceed to find out.”

By the time the Miami, Fla., nativearrived on the OSU campus in 1965,he’d already accomplished a greatdeal. He held a Heart AssociationFellowship at the University ofMiami School of Medicine for fouryears — during which time heworked with heart surgeons whoperformed over 200 open-heart sur-geries on dogs. He had also studiedzoology at Stetson University andelectrical engineering at the Univer-sity of Miami, joined the Air Forceand taught electronics.

Roberts attended OSU as part of theAir Force’s Airman Education Commis-sion Program. He chose OSU becausehis brother-in-law had completed an

electrical engineering degree severalyears earlier and recommended it.Roberts originally planned to studymedicine but got “sidetracked” withthe Air Force and raising a family, andby the time the Air Force sent him toOSU, he was past the age limit formedical school.

After graduating from OSU, Robertswas assigned to the Weapons Lab atKirtland AFB in Albuquerque, N.M., asa research officer working on “specialweapons,” which at the time were top-secret laser weapons. He recalls, “I wasthe only electrical engineer in my solidstate laser weapons group. Most of thegroup consisted of Ph.D. physicistsinvolved in making the lasers operate.”

Roberts, who discovered that no oneknew how to point these systemswith accuracy, spent the next fouryears becoming an expert on highaccuracy pointing systems anddesigning the first laser fire controlsystem in the U.S. military. “For fouryears, a new OSU electrical engineer-ing graduate was the Department ofDefense expert on laser fire controlsystems,” he says.

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NAEPresident,MembersVisit OSU

William A.Wulf, AT&T Professorof engineering at the Universityof Virginia, gave the 2002Lohmann Lecture, “The Urgencyof Engineering EducationReform,” which coincided withthe spring meeting of the Col-lege of Engineering,Architecture and TechnologyAssociates.

Wulf is president of the NationalAcademy of Engineering (NAE),one of the nation’s most influen-tial professional groups whosemembers volunteer their timeand counsel to Congress, theWhite House and high-level gov-ernment agencies. Election tothe National Academy of Engi-neering is the highest honor paidto an engineer or engineeringeducator in this country.

Thirteen Oklahomans have beenelected to the academy, and fourof those are OSU faculty mem-bers: Regents Professor KenCase, adjunct faculty memberMarvin Johnson and professorsemeritus Joe Mize and CharlesHaan. OSU is the only universityin the state to produce morethan two NAE members.

In addition to Wulf, eight of the13 Oklahomans who are mem-bers of NAE attended a receptionand dinner that concluded theassociates meeting.

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CEAT Dean Karl Reid, left, and National Academyof Engineering (NAE) president William A. Wulf,are shown here with eight of Oklahoma’s 13 NAEmembers: Kenneth Richards, Marvin Johnson, Ken-neth Case, Joe Mize, Wulf, Kenneth Blenkarm,James Brill, Charles Haan and John Campbell Sr.

While serving as a commissionedofficer in the Air Force, Robertsstarted his own company calledMicro Instrumentation TelemetrySystems. MITS designed and pro-duced one of the first hand-heldelectronic calculators. WhenHewlett Packard and Texas Instru-ments entered the calculatorbusiness, MITS introduced theAltair 8800, the first inexpensivegeneral-purpose microcomputer. Itused Intel’s new 8080 microproces-sor, which, unlike the logic chipsthat animated calculators or elec-tronic watches, could be pro-grammed to do a significantnumber of tasks.

When Popular Electronics featuredthe Altair on its January 1975 cover,phone calls poured in from peoplewanting to sell him software. “Wedecided that the first person to showup with operating software would bethe one we hired,” says Roberts, whosubsequently hired Bill Gates andPaul Allen to write a basic program-ming language that could run on thesmall machine.

“People laughed at us when we saidwe were building desktop comput-ers,” Roberts says. Yet beforeRoberts sold the company to Pertecin 1977, MITS sold approximately50,000 Altairs.

Following the sale of MITS, Robertsserved as vice president of Pertecand invented what could be consid-ered today as the first laptopcomputer. Pertec didn’t foresee anypotential for the product, Robertssays, “so I figured it was time for meto go somewhere else.”

Roberts, who signed a five-year, non-compete clause when selling MITS,purchased a 1,000-acre farm insouthern Georgia and began produc-ing cattle, hogs, corn and soybeans.In 1978 he started, and served aspresident of Agridata Inc., a firm thatdesigned management software forfarmers and ranchers.

Because age limits no longeraffected eligibility for medical school,Roberts then turned hisattention to his lifelong dream of be-coming a physician and, at the age of

39, entered Mercer UniversitySchool of Medicine.

In 1988, after a two-year residencyat the Medical Center of CentralGeorgia, Roberts established a prac-tice as doctor of internal medicine inCochran, Ga., foregoing a moreprominent or prestigious medicalappointment to serve the small com-munity. During the first 10 years ofhis medical practice, he also servedas president of Data Blocks, a pro-cess control computer business, andas an adjunct professor in electricalengineering at Mercer Universityfrom 1988 to 1994.

Roberts, who invented a basic relaycomputer for the heart-lung machineand an electronic vital signs monitor,still tinkers with computers in hismachine shop. Most of his workrelates to medical applications andinvolves software rather than hard-ware, but he says, “I’ve always lovedcomputers. For me, working withthem has been an avocation ratherthan a vocation.”

With his home workshop full of newideas or inventions, the Georgia Hallof Fame and OSU Hall of Fame mem-ber admits, “I see myself as more ofan engineer than a doctor.”

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Alumni Move New LabCloser to Reality

In the School of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering’scurrent structures laboratory,undergraduate Donny Lester(kneeling) and graduate stu-dent Giapchuan Goh work onthe axial load test frame in aproject for Union Oil of Cali-fornia. The company, explor-ing methods for off-shoredrilling at depths up to 6,000feet, has contracted with theschool to determine the dura-bility of casing pipe connec-tors under the high axial load,tension and fatigue it willencounter at that depth.Emeritus Professor John Lloydcurrently heads the project.

Tulsa Pioneers Shape Program

Contributions by alumniand friends of the OSUSchool of Civil and Envi-ronmental Engineering arebringing the upgrade of theschool’s teaching andresearch facilities a giantstep closer to reality.

Bert Cooper, CEO and boardchairman of Oklahoma City-based W&W Steel, and hisson, Rick, the company’spresident and chief operat-ing officer, spearheadedthe endeavor by donating$200,000 in structural andmiscellaneous steel for theconstruction of a 15,000-square-foot steel andconcrete structuresresearch laboratory.

The Coopers have alsotaken a leadership role inenlisting pledges to fundthe $1.68-million project,an initial cost estimated bythe Tulsa-based volunteerconstruction managementcoordinator, FlintCo Inc.

Schematics and preliminaryarchitectural designs for thenew structures laboratory,contributed by Frankfurt-Short-Bruza of OklahomaCity, feature a massive reac-tion floor, 20-ton crane,fabrication and electronicsshop areas and offices forgraduate students.

“This laboratory is neededin the state because Okla-homa has no structuralresearch facility to conducttesting and support aca-demic endeavors we inindustry believe need to bepursued,” Bert Cooper says.“We recognize that any-thing we can do to furtherthe economic feasibility ofconcrete and steel andother construction indus-tries in the state benefitsall of Oklahoma.”

W&W Steel, a $125-mil-lion-a-year firm whoseproducts are used in majorlocal and nationwideprojects, including theMinnesota Wild’s hockeyarena and the San AntonioSpurs’ basketball arena,has had to send itsresearch projects and dol-lars out of state.

“We have one of the larg-est steel manufacturers inthe country here in Okla-homa, but it has had tosend many of its productsto the University of Texas tobe tested,” says GormanGilbert, professor and headof OSU’s School of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering.“We at OSU and our indus-try peers want to keepstructures research and itsfunding in the state.”

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Not many graduates from a major uni-versity can say they helped create theirdegree program, but OSU-Tulsa’s firstmechanical engineering graduates can.

When OSU-Tulsa was established in1999, the first MAE students, RandyAskey and Alan Wagner, essentiallytold the decision-makers, “If you buildit, we will come.”

Nicole Marsden, Cynthia Filbeck andDavid Chilcoat soon entered the programas well. Gradually, OSU added morecourses until nearly all those the studentsneeded could be taken in Tulsa.

OSU-Tulsa President Gary Trennepohlsays it was a proud moment whenthe first MAE class received diplo-mas. Askey, Wagner, Filbeck andMarsden graduated this past Mayand David Chilcoat in December.

“They are really pioneers,” Trennepohlsays. “They not only successfully wentthrough the program but helped build itas well. Their work and dedication havepaved the way for students of the future.”

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In the fall of 2001, OSU and Residential Life dedi-cated new residence halls in honor of individualswho have made numerous contributions to theOSU community.

Ann Halligan, Judith and Wayne Allen and formerOSU President James Halligan appear outside theresidence hall that now bears the names of distin-guished alumni Wayne Allen, an engineeringgraduate and former chairman and CEO of PhillipsPetroleum Company, and his wife, Judith Allen,who obtained a bachelor’s degree in humanities.

New halls were also dedicated earlier to engineer-ing graduate John Zink, well-known engineer, inven-tor, racing enthusiast, entrepreneur andphilanthropist, and to Eloise and Sherman Smith, dis-tinguished alumni known for their integrity and gen-erosity. Sherman Smith is chairman and president ofSerDrilco Inc., an independent oil and gas drillingcompany. Wayne Allen, John Zink and ShermanSmith are all members of the College of Engineering,Architecture and Technology Hall of Fame.

OSU HostsInternational Group

Last August, OSU’s School of Electrical andComputer Engineering hosted the 2002 Insti-tute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) International Midwest Symposium onCircuits and Systems at OSU-Tulsa. Next yearthe symposium will be held in Cairo, Egypt, andthe following year in Hiroshima, Japan.

The symposium, attended by some 500 regis-tered participants representing more than 180universities and 33 countries, serves as a forumfor top practitioners and researchers to interactwith their peers, technical staff from industryand engineering educators and as a platform forresearchers to present their work. Specialevents include a symposium for top graduatestudents to present their research and continu-ing-education short courses.

OSU opted to host the conference in Tulsa toshowcase its electrical and computer engineer-ing program at OSU-Tulsa, particularly theTelecommunications and Information Technol-ogy Teaching Research Laboratory, says RaoYarlagadda, conference co-chairman and pro-fessor of electrical and computer engineering.

The laboratory, brought online last spring, istied to facilities in Stillwater via a direct fiberlink to support collaboration between the cam-puses and distance education worldwide.“There’s no other telecommunications researchlaboratory facility in the world that has betterequipment and capabilities,” Yarlagadda says.

The conference site also allowed OSU to showcaseTulsa’s emergence as a burgeoning, internationalhub of telecommunications and information tech-nology industry, education and research.

More than 20 companies, organizations and indi-viduals, including the National ScienceFoundation, helped sponsor the conference: Will-iams Communications, Center of Excellence inInformation Technology and Telecommunica-tions, Phillips Petroleum Company, HalliburtonEnergy Services, Seagate Technology, FrontierElectronic Systems, Agilent Technologies, OpticalDatacom, Flight Safety International, Sciperio,Oklahoma Gas & Electric, AFN Communications,Stillwater Designs, Nomadics, AEP-Public ServiceCompany of Oklahoma, McCloud USA,WORLDCOM and Kay and Steve Wyatt.

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Alumnus ReturnsHome With Advice

Hosting the 2002 IEEEInternational Midwest Sym-posium on Circuits andSystems in Tulsa this pastAugust gave OSU’s Schoolof Electrical and ComputerEngineering an opportunityto hear from one of its ownoutstanding alumni, Mat-thew R. Perry, who earneda bachelor’s, master’s anddoctorate in electrical engi-neering at OSU.

In the symposium’s finalkeynote speech, the presi-dent and chief executiveofficer of computer chipmanufacturer, TransmetaCorporation, advised the500-strong, highly technicalaudience, “I know it’sdepressing and times aretough out there, but now’sthe time to look aheadbecause in two years it willbe a whole other world.

“The down cycles are whengreat companies are reallythinking and figuring out thenext thing that’s going todrive us to the next cycle.The launching point of anew growth cycle may bethe growing segment of per-sonal computing,” he says.

“Every decade, there hasbeen a big mover of technol-ogy, especially for chips —mainframes, integrated cir-cuits, personal computers,data networking, the dot-com era — and it’sabsolutely my belief thatmobile computing will beone of the big drivers of thenext updates.”

Perry made his initial markon the computer chip indus-try while employed at CirrusLogic in Austin, Texas. Underhis leadership, the companysuccessfully implementedMP3 decoding on an ARMmicroprocessor, becomingalmost instantly the world’sleader in audio chips.’Thechip spawned the Maver-ick® family of micro-processors found in virtuallyevery portable MP3 player.

CNET wrote that Perry, whosits on the Consumer Elec-tronics Association’s boardof directors and has advisedthe Recording Industry Asso-ciation of America, “justmight have as much influ-ence on the shape of digitalmusic as Napster’s fileswapping service or any ofthe music studios.”

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Rao Yarlagadda, professor of electrical and computerengineering, shown third from left, served as adviser forMatthew Perry, left, Legand Burge, dean of the College ofEngineering, Architecture and Physical Sciences atTuskegee University, and Meemong Lee, all who earneddoctor’s degrees in electrical engineering at OSU.Yarlagadda, who co-chaired the 2002 Institute of Electri-cal and Electronics Engineers International Midwest Sym-posium on Circuits and Systems, has advised 30successful doctoral candidates during his time at OSU.

Allen Funds New Scholars

The College of Engineering, Architecture and Technologyannounces the W. W. Allen Scholars Program and the initialrecipients of this prestigious award.

Wayne Allen, former CEO of Phillips Petroleum and sponsor of thenew scholars program, is intent on providing financial supportand enrichment opportunities to a special group of academically-talented students who exhibit leadership qualities and indicateinterest in the petroleum industry as a career. Allen has providedan endowment with the OSU Foundation to fund the W. W. AllenScholars Program.

CEAT has selected four outstanding individuals who haveproven themselves leaders in the classroom and in numerouscampus-affiliated organizations as W.W. Allen Scholars for2002-2003: Matt Engelman, a mechanical engineering sopho-more from Westcliffe, Colo.; Andrew Bass, a mechanicalengineering sophomore from Midwest City, Okla.; JohnSoderstrom, a chemical engineering sophomore from Tulsa,Okla.; and Ashleigh Hildebrand, a chemical engineering juniorfrom Wichita, Kan.

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Jackson’s Career Takes Flight

Prepared forEvery Challenge

Alyssa Schilling, a spring 2002 graduate of the Collegeof Engineering, Architecture and Technology, has takenher bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and hitthe ground running at ExxonMobil Production Companyin New Orleans, where she’ll no doubt become a com-pany leader — if her OSU record is any indication.

Schilling, a graduate of Shattuck (Okla.) High School,was named as a top ten freshman,accrued accomplishments at a record pace, was namedas the 2002 top female senior for both CEAT and OSUand graduated summa cum laude.

In addition to winning both American Institute ofChemical Engineers and Kappa Alpha Theta FoundationScholarships, Schilling was a President’s DistinguishedScholar, a Sir Alexander Fleming Scholar, a WentzScholar and a CEAT Scholar.

She provided leadership to a number of organizationsincluding the CEAT Student Council, Big Event CommunityService Day, Omicron Delta Kappa National LeadershipHonor Society, Camp Cowboy and Mortar Board.

Since starting her job as facilities engineer for twocryogenic gas plants on July 1, 2002, Schilling has hadto prepare for a tropical storm arriving one Thursdayand a hurricane the next Thursday.

“ExxonMobil is not afraid to give you a full plate,”Schilling says. “They expect you to be prepared. I likethat. I’m expected to contribute a lot, and I have a lotof responsibility.”

She credits the quality education she received from theOSU School of Chemical Engineering for preparing herwell for the job. “I received good basic engineering andtechnical knowledge and the capacity to understandtechnical knowledge. Opportunity and variety are twowords that describe my OSU experience,” Schilling says.

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Cassie Jackson, the first College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology student to co-op with NASA,received a Johnson Co-op Special Achievement Award at the end of her third term with NASA.

Cassie John Jackson came to OSU in1997 with aspirations to earn anengineering degree and eventuallygo to work for NASA.

As a participant in the College ofEngineering, Architecture andTechnology’s Co-Operative Educationprogram, the aerospace engineeringsenior has already served threeterms at the Lyndon B. JohnsonSpace Center and has most likelysecured a full-time, career positionwith the agency well before shegraduates.

At the end of her third term, Jacksonreceived a NASA Johnson Co-op Spe-cial Achievement Award inrecognition of her outstanding workand technical insight and compe-tence, an award reserved for the top10 interns. She also received NASAJohnson Co-op Flag Awards follow-ing each of her previous assignmentsin 2000 and 2001, recognizing heramong the top 10 of 50 interns andthe top 15 of 90 interns.

“Just to be selected by NASA as anengineering intern is a distinct honorbecause these positions areextremely competitive at the interna-tional level,” says Larry Hoberock,professor and head of OSU’s School ofMechanical and Aerospace Engineer-ing. “She has earned high marks forherself and demonstrated that whenon the job at a preeminent researchand engineering facility, our studentscan rival those from Stanford, Purdue,Georgia Tech, Penn State and otherhigh-reputation institutions.”

At NASA, Jackson worked primarilyin the energy systems test division onassignments from fixture design toprogramming. She completed NASAtest director certification and wascharged with conducting eight differ-ent test programs in the pyrotechnicsarea with applications ranging fromthe separation of the space shuttlefrom its external tank and boosterrockets during launch to the stages ofparachute deployment and release onthe X-38, the International Space

Station emergency-return glidervehicle currently under development.

“Although I didn’t use that much text-book theory, what I have learned atOSU helped me to think through anyproblems we would encounter,” Jack-son says. “It was a great, hands-onexperience to take problem-solvingskills and actually apply them.”

Having completed the co-op program,Jackson returned to the JohnsonSpace Center last summer as a regu-lar intern and worked in the fluidsystems and propulsion area.

“They wanted me to stay in theEnergy Systems division but to workin a different area to ensure that ifthere isn’t an opening in the test areawhen I graduate in 2003, I could gethired somewhere else in the divi-sion,” Jackson says. “They have toldme that as long as an opening existsand there isn’t a government hiringfreeze, then I have it, so hopefully,there’s a chance.”

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True Grit

Maddoxes EstablishWest Endowment

Professor Emeritus R. N. Maddox, a member of the School ofChemical Engineering faculty for more than 30 years, including20 as department head, and his wife, Pauline, recently estab-lished the John B. West Endowed Fund to support the OSUstudent chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers(AIChE). The chapter recently was ranked among the nine best ofthe nation’s 150 chapters.

Named for the architect of OSU’s nuclear engineering program inthe 1950s, the endowment will give the chapter $1,000 annually,effectively doubling its operational budget. The fund will enablethe chapter to enhance programs, such as ChemKids for fifth-grad-ers; develop projects that have earned recognition from thenational AIChE organization for four of the past five years; andfund student travel to AIChE regional and national conferences.

ADAM HUFFERCassie Mitchell boasts a 4.0 grade-point-average, despite recurring medicalinterruptions, and is on her way tograduating from the School of ChemicalEngineering in just four years.

Cassie Mitchell, a top student in theSchool of Chemical Engineering, iswell on her way toward graduating infour years from one of the college’smost rigorous degree programs, a dis-cipline that typically requires fiveyears. Mitchell, an OSU ValedictorianScholar from Warner, Okla., has com-pleted the pre-med option in chemicalengineering and is now focused onthe school’s new biomedical option.

“When I came to OSU, I thought aboutstudying chemistry and going pre-med,but I visited the engineering studentservices office and learned about theengineering pre-med option,” Mitchellsays. “When I took my first engineeringscience class, I fell in love.”

“I like the whole approach toward engi-neering, the way engineers think anddo design work to solve problems,” shesays. “I plan to take the introduction tobiomedical engineering and may pursuesome medical component, but I’m stay-ing in engineering.”

Certainly, the college has boastedscholars as gifted as Mitchell butnone who have faced obstacles asmonumental. Once a high schoolstar fielding track scholarshipoffers, Mitchell was diagnosed withreflex sympathetic dystrophy syn-drome during her senior year. RSDSis a chronic nerve condition charac-terized by severe burning pain,pathological changes in bone andskin, tissue swelling and extremesensitivity to touch.

“The week before I got to OSU, Iended up in a wheelchair full time —a scary, major adjustment,” she says.Before classes convened, she under-went two surgeries to install a spinalcord stimulator and an intra-spinalpump. She soon developed an infec-tion from the pump port, and thebatteries for the stimulator failed.

“I knew I couldn’t miss class at thestart of the semester so I had surgeryon a Friday and was back to schoolthe following Tuesday,” she says. “Butthen two weeks later, the battery inthe stimulator died, and I had to haveanother surgery to replace it.”

The stimulator, which sends signalsalong Mitchell’s spine to simulatenerve impulses, requires new batter-ies every six- to eight-months. For itand other maladies, she has under-gone surgery eight times sincearriving at OSU.

“It always seems to fall in the middle ofa semester,” she says, “but I have to getback to school because with chemicalengineering, you don’t miss class.”

Mitchell says that the School ofChemical Engineering has also beenone of her biggest supporters. “I gotlucky. One door closed and anotheropened for me, and I ended up herein a school and program I love,” shesays. “People in the department havegotten to know me for me and notthe disability, and they recognize thatI’m a real person with real thoughts,real feelings and real aspirations.

“I may not be able to run, but, hope-fully, I can become an engineer andbe able to help others.”

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A FirstFirst-Place Finish

Katie Frye Lefler, a May 2002 graduate of theSchool of Industrial Engineering and Manage-ment, placed first in the Institute of IndustrialEngineers (IIE) Student Technical Paper Competi-tion for her senior design project report andpresentation on Ditch Witch’s RT 70/90/115Tractor Assembly Line. IIE held the national com-petition at the organization’s annual conferencein Orlando, Fla., in May. Although OSU alwayscompetes well, Lefler is the first OSU student totake first place honors in the competition.

Budiyanto Kartawijaya, who graduated inDecember 2001, was Lefler’s project teammate,and Bill Kolarik, IEM professor and head, andAllen Schuermann, IEM professor, were projectadvisors. Schuermann says Lefler faced stiffcompetition including students from the Univer-sity of Pittsburg, Purdue University and theUniversite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres.

Lefler, who is currently living in Tulsa, isemployed by SolArc, an energy software man-agement company. Kartawijaya is enrolled in themaster of science program in the School ofIndustrial Engineering and Management.

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Students, Start Your Reactors!Besides becoming a new, exciting tradition at OSU, the ChE Car Competitionintroduces students to the environmental, economic and feasibility questionsthat challenge chemical engineers in industry, says Randy Lewis, associate pro-fessor of chemical engineering.

The ChE Car Competition, a national American Institute of Chemical Engineers(AIChE) student contest inaugurated in 1999, requires designing and buildinga car powered by a chemical reaction. “It’s a natural fit with the reactorcourse,” says Lewis, who serves as AIChE student chapter adviser.

Each homemade car must have components that will fit within a shoebox, mustcarry up to 500 milliliters of water, travel a specified distance from 50 to 100feet and stop without a mechanical device. Since students learn the distanceand the weight only one hour before the competition, they must calibrate reac-tion time well in advance to ensure that the chemical reaction ends to stop thecar within the competition parameters.

Designs That ChallengeThe tradition of the “robotic face-off” continues in MAE 3033, the mechanicaland aerospace engineering curriculum’s first course in which students mustdesign, construct and test an original mechanism for a specific problem.

Ron Delahoussaye, lecturer and adjunct associate professor of mechanical andaerospace engineering, heads the course and the seven-year-old competition.

Students put their designs to the test atop a four- by eight-foot table. While thechallenge alters from academic term to term, the tabletop setting remains thesame. Students may design their robots for a combination of offensive and defen-sive strategy and ‘dirty’ tactics; however, disabling an opponent is prohibited.

For the spring competition, students, working in teams of three, designed robots toremove billiard balls from a barrier dividing the table in two parts. Whicheverteam had the fewest number of balls, from a total of seven, on its side of the table atthe end of a 90-second round was deemed the winner and advanced in the 24-team, double-elimination tournament.

In what may well become a new tradition, seven teams from OSU-Tulsa traveledto Stillwater for the competition, marking the second straight year School ofMechanical and Aerospace Engineering students from Tulsa have participated.

A Driving SuccessFrom a field of 150 entries, the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering’s2002 Formula SAE Racecar Team made the design semifinals and took secondplace in the Robert Bosch Corporation Engine Management System Competition.

The team, composed of members of the OSU student chapter of the Society ofAutomotive Engineers and representing several engineering disciplines, fieldedthe most technologically advanced car in its five-year history. It featured a pro-prietary engine management system with radio data logging andtroubleshooting capabilities.

Shown from left are robotic face-off judge, Noman Ahmad, who holds a bachelor’sand a master’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from OSU; JacobGeorge, MAE master’s student and class teaching assistant; Ron Delahoussaye, Engi-neering 3033 instructor; and student Marie Bice.

OSU Formula Racecar Team members who attended the competition are, front rowfrom left, Ben Alexander, Scott Thomason, Kevin Craig, Brian Welch and BrandonBlack; and, second row from left, Jason Edgar, Nick Swezey, Jason Bayless, DanFisher, associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineeringand formula team faculty adviser, Blake Mathews, Dustin Webb and Sam Preece.

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Excellence by DesignIn what has become the custom, OSU School ofArchitecture students compete well, nationally andinternationally. During 2002, architecture studentscollected honors, in addition to two first-placewins, in three other major competitions.

Sande Frisen placed second in the 2001-2002ACSA/Wood Products Council National StudentDesign Competition. Faculty critics were JohnWomack and Jeff Williams.

Wes Rutledge received honorable mention in the2002 ACSA DuPont Benedictus International StudentDesign Competition. Faculty critic was Bob Wright.

Wright also served as faculty critic for ShawnBrown and Jean-Phillippe De Visscher, who gar-nered an honorable mention in the 2001-02 ACSA/AISC National Student Design Competition.

Innovation TurnsBronze to Gold

Not only did School of Civil and Environmental Engi-neering students win third-place overall at the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE)/Master BuildersNational Concrete Canoe Competition, but they alsoreceived highest honors in “technical innovation” forthe process they pioneered to build their craft.

In 2001, OSU became the first school in the nationto construct its canoe using an injection systemrather than casting by hand, a process that cutsfabrication time from 13 hours to two and elimi-nates hundreds of hours of finishing work. Thenational organization awarded OSU’s team theinnovation award after the scholars duplicated andenhanced the process for the 2002 competition.

Representatives of the competition’s sponsor, Mas-ter Builders, called it the most dramatic improve-ment in canoe construction technology in thecontest’s history, says Robert Hughes, emeritusprofessor and the team’s faculty adviser.

Jennifer Prichard, graduate student and project manager for the 2002 squad, and Cristin Leimer of the OSU concretecanoe team get set to paddle in the women’s distance race at the ASCE/Master Builders National Concrete Canoecompetition on Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota.

Building LeadersThe ConocoPhillips Scholars program, which com-bines scholarship aid for four years and variousactivities to promote leadership excellence and pro-fessional development, celebrated the success of itssecond group of students in 2002. Initiated fiveyears ago and envisioned as a CEO training ground,the ConocoPhillips Scholars program producedthree top-20 seniors as recognized by the OSUAlumni Association, Megan Gosnell, Mark Snyderand Patrick Lissonnet.

Student SavingsEarn Dividends

During their summer internship, School ofMechanical and Aerospace Engineering seniorsJason Gooch and Eric Bruce generated calculableand remarkable savings for the Tulsa gauge andindustrial control systems manufacturer F.W.Murphy.

F.W. Murphy presented Gooch and Bruce the Goldaward, its incentive program’s highest honor, valuedat $1,000 and given for concepts that save the com-pany $10,000 or more. Working respectively in F.W.Murphy’s research and development and productengineering divisions, Bruce and Gooch conceivedan idea that will expectedly save the firm $27,000 ayear and solidified their status as full-time employ-ment prospects, according to Steve Kennedy, F.W.Murphy vice president of engineering.

Dean’s PicksContinue Success

The College of Engineering, Architecture and Tech-nology gives three Dean’s Awards annually to thetop students in each of the college divisions asdetermined by a committee of CEAT professors.The 2001-2002 Dean’s Award recipients were MinSeong Koo, architecture; Donald G. Goosman, engi-neering technology (fire protection & safety); andDevin Shaffer, civil and environmental engineering.

Koo, who graduated in December 2001 with abachelor’s degree in architectural engineering, startedhis architectural education at Ajou University in SouthKorea before transferring to OSU’s program in 1997.

While at OSU, Koo received many awards and schol-arships including second place in the Pella Prize(given to the outstanding architectural solution dur-ing the fifth year capstone design studio); DesignStudio Book Award; Golden Key National HonorSociety; Tau Beta Pi; and the Locke Scholarship.

He is currently working for Frankfurt-Short-Bruza,the Oklahoma City firm that designed the CEAT’sAdvanced Technology Research Center.

Don Goosman, Dean’s Award winner in the engineer-ing technology division, graduated in May 2002 with abachelor’s degree in fire protection and safety tech-nology. During his time at OSU, the Vernon Hills, Ill.,native was a Phillips Scholar and was twice named tothe Dean’s Honor Roll and four times to thePresident’s Honor Roll. He was the 2001-2002recipient of the National Fire Protection Association’sCharles Morgan Memorial Scholarship, the most dis-tinguished scholarship awarded by the Department ofFire Protection and Safety Technology.

Goosman currently works for Fire Protection Man-agement, a subsidiary of Rolf Jensen andAssociates, the most prominent fire protectionengineering consulting firm in the United States.

Devin Shaffer, the Dean’s Award winner from engi-neering, graduated in May 2002 with a bachelor’sdegree in civil engineering. The Enid, Okla., nativeattended OSU on a regents scholarship.

At OSU, Shaffer was active in the CEAT StudentCouncil, serving a term as president, the studentchapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers,Mortar Board and the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

Shaffer is currently working on a master’s degreein environmental and water quality engineering atthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a TauBeta Pi Fellow. He plans to graduate from MIT inJune 2003 and work for an environmental designfirm to gain the experience to obtain his profes-sional engineer license.

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NSF Award Provides ResearchOpportunities, New Lab

In addition to receiving the Halliburton Corporation Excellent Young TeacherAward, Charlene Yauch, assistant professor of industrial engineering and man-agement, also received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early CareerDevelopment award to initiate a five-year study of the effects of inter-groupcompetition, cooperation and conflict on manufacturing agility.

The grant, NSF’s most prestigious award for new faculty members, hasenabled Yauch to provide research opportunities to undergraduates and toestablish the Macroergonomics in Manufacturing Research Lab, which has anapplied focus aimed at assisting manufacturers with understanding organiza-tional systems and group dynamics in order to improve organizationalperformance and job satisfaction.

With Yauch, standing, are research assistants Bethany Bramlett, Shraddha Bhatand Mary Kusmanoff.

Camille DeYong, assistant professorin the School of Industrial Engineer-ing and Management, has receivedtop honors for exceptional instruc-tion in the Master of Science inEngineering and Technology Manage-ment program and the NationalTechnological University (NTU).

DeYong is one of only two recipientsof the 2002 Advancia Excellence inDistance Learning Award, issued bythe Lawton, Okla., company, AdvanciaCorporation, to acknowledge out-standing OSU faculty in the fields ofdistance learning and managementinformation systems.

She has also been named an NTU Out-standing Instructor. More than 300professors at approximately 50 of thenation’s top schools, such as M.I.T.,Georgia Tech, California-Berkeley,Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and Wis-consin, as well as Big XII institutions,Iowa State, Colorado, Kansas State andOSU, instruct courses via the NTU

NoteworthyIn Recognition of Success

Charlene Yauch, Prabhakar Pagilla, David Pratt and Eduardo Misawa are theCollege of Engineering, Architecture and Technology’s newest recipients of theannual Halliburton Foundation Outstanding Faculty Awards that recognizeextraordinary contributions to instruction and research.

Yauch, recipient of the Halliburton Excellent Young Teacher Award, is an assis-tant professor in the School of Industrial Engineering and Management. She hasredesigned two of the school’s core courses and has developed an undergraduateresearch course and a cellular manufacturing course for graduate students.

Pagilla, associate professor in the School of Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering, received the Halliburton Outstanding Young Faculty MemberAward. His research has garnered approximately $700,000 in externalfunding, and after he became its adviser, the student chapter of the Ameri-can Society of Mechanical Engineers was recognized in 1999 as the “mostimproved” in the region.

Pratt, associate professor and former graduate program director of theSchool of Industrial Engineering and Management, received the HalliburtonExcellent Teacher Award. He has twice received the school’s Pritsker Out-standing Faculty Award, the award given by students to the top instructor,and has also received the Merrick Foundation Teaching Award and the Mor-tar Board Golden Torch Award.

Misawa, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, received theHalliburton Outstanding Faculty Member Award. He has authored papersappearing in 60 technical publications, is responsible for more than $2million in research contracts and served as program chair for the 2002American Control Conference.

Camille DeYong accepts the AdvanciaExcellence in Distance Learning Awardduring OSU’s 2002 fall convocation.

‘Good’ News for Web HandlingResearch Center

J. Keith Good, the Noble Foundation chair of mechanical and aerospace engi-neering and researcher in the Web Handling Research Center, has received theinternational Thomas W. Busch Award from TAPPI, the leading technical asso-ciation for the worldwide pulp, paper and converting industry. The BuschAward recognizes outstanding contributions to the paper finishing and convert-ing industries. Good was also recently awarded the grade of Fellow in theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, largely due to his research andpublications in the field of web handling.

Among the Bestsatellite network. DeYong’s NTU Out-standing Instructor designation, basedon student evaluations, ranks heramong the top 10 percent of the vir-tual university’s faculty.

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Top AuthorGarold D. Oberlender, professor of civil engineeringand coordinator of the graduate program in construc-tion engineering and project management, is one oftwo authors with more than one book included in theMcGraw-Hill 15-book series in Construction Engi-neering and Project Management that is widelyadopted by national and international universities.

He authored Project Management for Engineer-ing and Construction, published by McGraw-Hillin 1992 and again in 2000, and collaborated withhis mentor, Robert L. Peurifoy, on EstimatingConstruction Costs, revised and released in fifthedition in 2002. Oberlender and Peurifoy alsoco-authored Formwork for Concrete Structures.Now in its third edition, this book is in theMcGraw-Hill Professional Series in Civil Engineer-ing and is used by practicing civil engineersthroughout the world.

BAE Teams ReceiveHighest Honors

In June 2002, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture AnnVeneman presented the U.S. Department ofAgriculture’s highest award to the Oklahoma Coopera-tive Extension Service Poultry Waste ManagementEducation Team and the Oklahoma Agricultural Experi-ment Station’s GreenSeeker Sprayer Research Team.

Doug Hamilton, biosystems and agricultural engineer-ing extension waste management specialist, leads thePoultry Waste Management Education Team, whichconsists of School of Biosystems and Agricultural En-gineering colleagues Mike Smolen, BAE professor andextension coordinator for statewide educational pro-grams in water quality; Mitch Fram, area extensionwater quality specialist; Erica Cook, project coordina-tor; and 17 additional extension specialists.

The team received the award for providing wastemanagement programs that are helping state poul-try producers improve their operations and theenvironment, despite the producers’ initial opposi-tion to the state-mandated education requirements.

John Solie, BAE professor, spearheads theGreenSeeker Sprayer Research Team, which alsoincludes Marvin Stone, a BAE professor specializing insensors and controls for biological systems, and threecolleagues in the Agricultural Experiment Station.

The GreenSeeker team won the award for develop-ing a revolutionary approach to fertilizing wheatcrops. GreenSeeker’s computerized sensor equip-ment reads the crop needs and dispenses fertilizeronly where it is needed. The GreenSeeker sensorscan be mounted on new or existing sprayers andwill soon be available for other cereal crops.

MorettiEarns Humboldt

Peter Moretti, professor of mechanical andaerospace engineering, was recipient of one of100 Alexander von Humboldt Research Awardsfor Scientists and Scholars in 2002. The honor,given by a German Foundation for outstandingachievements in research and education, carriedan award of approximately $50,000 and anopportunity to conduct research of his choicewith colleagues in Germany.

Moretti was recognized for his work in the inter-section of two fundamental engineering sciencefields, fluid mechanics and structural vibrations.Combining structural dynamics with fluidmechanics theory to remedy vibration becamenecessary as industrial machinery and processesbecame bigger and faster, he says. His interest inpredicting and preventing autonomous vibrationwas the basis of his collaboration with ProfessorPeter Hagedorn at the Technical University ofDarmstadt where he spent a semester on his firstsabbatical after 30 years at OSU.

Moretti is the second College of Engineering,Architecture and Technology faculty member in thelast four years to receive the international honor,which was established in 1972 to foster collabora-tion between German and foreign researchers. DonLucca, professor of mechanical and aerospaceengineering, received the award three years ago.Typically, just 10 U.S. engineers across all disci-plines receive the award each year.

A Powerful Tradition

DistinguishedTeacher

Gary Young, professor of mechanical and aero-space engineering, received the 2001 OSU RegentsDistinguished Teaching Award. His students say it’sbecause he doesn’t abandon them to the arduoustask of figuring everything out on their own.Instead, he focuses on central concepts and theprocess of problem-solving.

Amanda Ciskowski, 2001 outstanding engineeringgraduate in the college, says, “Dr. Young is themost student-oriented faculty member I’ve known.He never turned us away. He always found ways tochallenge us in class without discouraging us.”

The Frontiers of Power Conference marked its 35th

anniversary in 2002 exploring the ramifications ofasset diversification and emerging technologies forthe electric utility industry.

Held annually since 1968, the Frontiers of PowerConference is an open and frank discussion ofelectric utility issues for industry managers, engi-neers and technical personnel, universityresearchers and students, says Rama Ramakumar,PSO/Albrecht Naeter professor of electrical andcomputer engineering who has been involved inthe conference from its inception and, as directorof the Engineering Energy Laboratory, has orga-nized and conducted the event since 1987.

Keynote speakers at the 2002 conference includedLarry Dickerman, vice president of asset manage-ment at American Electric Power in Columbus,Ohio, who challenged participants to look at thesystem as a whole, rather than regionally, andBimal K. Bose, Condra Chair and professor of

power electronics at the University of Tennessee,Knoxville. Bose detailed the new range and scopeof power engineering opened by electronics.

In addition, authors from Kansas, Colorado, Iowa,New York, South Dakota and Oklahoma, among themWilliam Hughes, one-time professor and head ofOSU’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineeringand the conference founder, presented 12 technicalpapers on topics raging from transmission systemreliability planning to stranded renewable energy.

The Frontiers of Power Conference is a componentof the energy program in the School of Electricaland Computer Engineering and is organizedthrough its Engineering Energy Laboratory. Theenergy program has attracted to OSU more than$3 million in external funding from entities such asthe National Science Foundation, the Departmentof Energy, the United Nations and the U.S. AirForce. It has produced seven U.S. patents, 20 doc-toral dissertations, one textbook, an endowedprofessorship and more than 300 publications.

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BransonElected Fellow

Michael Branson, associate professor of industrialengineering and management and program direc-tor for OSU’s interdisciplinary master’s degreespecialization in Health Care Administration, hasbeen elected Fellow of Health Care Informationand Management Systems Society. HIMSS is theprofessional organization that provides leadershipfor the advancement and management of informa-tion technology in the health care industry.

The honor recognizes Branson’s service, profes-sional participation and experience, which includemore than 30 years of academic and professional

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RememberingCarl Estes

Carl B. Estes, 66, died Sept. 13, 2002, at his homein Stillwater.

His students and OSU peers will remember the formerprofessor and head of the School of Industrial Engi-neering and Management (IEM)for his sense ofhumor, his desire to help students both in and out ofthe classroom and his sense of community.

A native of Moore, Okla., Estes received his bachelor’sdegree from Oklahoma University in 1959, hismaster’s degree from OSU in 1959 and his doctoratefrom OSU in 1969, all in industrial engineering.

He worked for Southwestern Bell for eight yearsbefore returning to OSU for doctoral studies in1967. He served on the faculty at Auburn Univer-sity from 1968 until 1969 when he joined the OSUindustrial engineering faculty.

Estes became head of IEM in 1987, a position heheld until his retirement in 1991. During his ten-ure he was known for his unique approaches toinstruction in engineering economics and for hiswork with the Industrial Assessment Center.

After his retirement, Estes served as visiting profes-sor at Virginia Tech for several years beforereturning to the OSU College of Engineering, Archi-tecture and Technology, where he spearheaded theIEM accreditation preparation in the late 1990s andserved as an emeritus professor.

The Case for QualityThis past year, Kenneth Case, regents professor ofindustrial engineering and management, receivedthe Excellence in Teaching Award for Region Vfrom the University Continuing Education Associa-tion and the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth IndustrialEngineering Award.

The Gilbreth Award, the Institute of Industrial Engi-neers’ highest honor, recognizes individuals whohave distinguished themselves by contributing tomankind through the use of industrial engineering.

Case is OSU’s third recipient of the Gilbreth Awardbehind H.G. Theusen, who founded OSU’s indus-trial engineering program in 1926, and emeritusProfessor Joe Mize. No other higher educationinstitution can claim more than one recipient.

Case, a past president of the Institute of IndustrialEngineers (IIE), was also elected president of theAmerican Society for Quality (ASQ), where he willserve a three-year incumbency, including one-yearterms as president-elect, president and a final postas board chairman. He is the only person everelected president of both the ASQ and IIE.

A Distinct HonorRon Elliott, professor and head of the Departmentof Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, hasbeen elected Fellow by the Society for Engineeringin Agricultural, Food and Biological Systems(ASAE) for his “professional distinction andextraordinary qualifications.”

Elliott, a specialist in environment and naturalresources, has been active in interdisciplinaryresearch and teaching and a key contributor to theOklahoma Mesonet, a unique statewide network ofautomated weather stations. ASAE Fellow status is adistinction earned by only two percent of societymembership.

KomanduriRecognized forShaping a Technology

Ranga Komanduri, Albert H. Nelson Jr. professor ofengineering and regents chair of mechanical andaerospace engineering, received the American So-ciety of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) William T.Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award for 2002.

The award recognizes an individual or team ofindividuals for developing or contributing signifi-cantly to an innovative manufacturing technology,the implementation of which has resulted in sub-stantial economic and/or societal benefits. TheASME recognized Komanduri for “seminal contri-butions to the field of manufacturing technology.”Komanduri, who is internationally known for hisinnovations in ultraprecision machining, grindingand finishing of advanced ceramics for bearingapplications, received the award during the 2002ASME International Congress.

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near Blackburn between Pawnee andCleveland, Wilson has long called PoncaCity home, as do his identical twinbrother and his younger brother, bothof whom work at ConocoPhillips today.

Although his parents, Lester and EdnaWilson, did not directly influenceWilson’s career path, they instilled inhim the passion to set lofty goals andbe the best at achieving them. Heapplied the philosophy at Conoco andin service to the community — particu-larly, in support of education at theUniversity of Tulsa, OSU and the Okla-homa School of Science andMathematics.

In service to Conoco, he made immeasur-able contributions to one of the few, truebastions of Oklahoma business and to thestate’s overall economic outlook. Heremains committed today, loyally givingmore of himself to family, community andemployer than he could ever expect inreturn. As an embodiment of the fullycapable engineer thinking, moving andacting outside the box, Wilson has been atrue leader, a humble giant in the field.

During the 26 years that B.N. Muralihas been employed with Halliburton, hehas seen it evolve into one of the world’sleading providers of products and ser-vices to the petroleum and energyindustries. His status today as vice presi-dent of technology is testament to hisrole in that growth, though humility pre-cludes him from saying as much. He is aman whose actions speak for him, andthey speak volumes.

Upon joining Halliburton Services inDuncan, Okla., one of nine companiesthat now comprise Halliburton EnergyServices, Murali made an immediateimpact with his involvement in thedesign and development of the HT 3000intensifier pumps used in the stimulationof oil and gas wells that subsequentlybecame the “bread and butter” ofHalliburton Pumping Services.

Adaptability, which he attributes to hismechanical engineering education at

CEAT Honors Two Outstanding Industry LeadersIn November 2001 the College of Engineer-ing, Architecture and Technology honoredB.N. Murali and Duane Wilson for fidelityto their nation, state and profession byinducting these two professional giants intothe CEAT Hall of Fame.

Loyalty is an often-overlooked attribute intoday’s business world, but few wordsbetter describe Duane Wilson’s employ-ment with Conoco. For 39 years,following his graduation with a bachelor’sdegree in chemical engineering from theUniversity of Tulsa, Duane was with thecompany inherently linked to the historyand future of the petroleum industry inthe state of Oklahoma. When he retired inDecember 2002, Wilson had made anindelible imprint on Conoco and hadhelped make the merger of Conoco withPhillips a smooth transition.

First in Ponca City, then in destina-tions ranging from a refinery site onthe Humber River in England toMelaka, Malaysia, where the companyinitiated two groundbreaking andprofitable ventures, Wilson made sig-nificant contributions to the growth ofConoco’s downstream business.

Throughout his career, beginning as arefinery process design engineer and upthrough the ranks to his current positionof vice president of refining, marketingsupply and transportation-technology,Wilson’s supreme business acumen, tech-nical expertise and strong work ethicearned the respect and admiration of allfortunate enough to call him an associate.

And certainly, there are many who did.With responsibility for Conoco’s Corpo-rate Engineering Center during his lastmanagerial assignment, he oversaw itsstaff of approximately 400 engineeringand technical personnel. The company’sresearch operations employed more than800 scientific, engineering, technical andsupport people.

Travels and business relationshipsmade Duane an international citizen,yet he was always proud to be a nativeof Oklahoma. Born in Pawnee County

OSU, the Indian Institute of Science andthe University of Mysore, enabledMurali to move adeptly from researchinto managerial positions inHalliburton’s upstream business. Hequietly contributed to the company’soperations whenever the call arose —whether from the United Arab Emirates,Holland or Houston. He consolidatedexisting technology and services ororiginated them when necessary to suitthe growing needs of Halliburton andits customers.

As vice president of technology, Muralinow heads an arm of HalliburtonEnergy Services consisting of 1,700people in 10 technology centers aroundthe world dedicated to the developmentof new products and services.

A love of engineering and the desire towork with people who share his passionto improve the oil and gas industrydrives Murali, yet this eminent engineeralmost opted for a career in medicine.His mother, Anasuya Bai, encouragedhim to follow the family trade. Hisfather, B. Nagabhushana Rao, was anelectrical engineer in their native coun-try of India, and both Murali’s olderbrothers were engineers, as were twobrothers-in-law.

Murali cites his mother, who along withSwami Chinmayananda taught him reli-gious values and discipline, as one of thegreatest influences on his life. Profes-sionally, he acknowledges the influenceof Karl Reid, dean of OSU’s College ofEngineering, Architecture and Technol-ogy, and later, Vice President DickCheney, former head of Halliburton.

Murali, who received a Ph.D. in me-chanical engineering from OSU in 1974,a master’s degree from the India Insti-tute of Science in 1969 and a bachelor’sdegree from the University of Mysore in1967, recognizes the value of engineer-ing education and actively supports themission of a number of universities,including OSU, Texas A&M and theUniversity of Texas.

ADAM HUFFER

Duane Wilson

B.N. Murali

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TRADITION … TIME …

For more information about how you can helpthe College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology,call Jason Caniglia, senior director of development, at (405) 744-3747.

Two industry giants — Conoco and Phillips —firmly rooted in Oklahoma and at OSU!

WAYNE ALLEN

TED DAVIS

GENE BATCHELDER

LAURA SUGG

Phillips Educational Initiative: Phillips Scholars, Minorities in Engineering,Women in Engineering and REACH programs

Phillips Lecture Series Conoco: Concrete Canoe Competition Phillips: The Advanced Technology Research Center Conoco: Conoco Dupont Chair for Technology Management Conoco & Phillips: Extensive Research & Development

OSU — and CEAT — salute ConocoPhillips!

and now TOGETHER!

E.W. MARLAND

WAITE and FRANK PHILLIPS

Never forgetting their heritage in the heartland, these two companies leaveindelible marks wherever they choose to be, reflecting the philosophies oftheir founders: the Phillips Brothers and E.W. Marland.

For the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology (CEAT),ConocoPhillips’ generosity has extensively benefited students, faculty andresearch programs. And the relationship is reciprocal — OSU graduates arethe largest segment of the company’s employee population, some highlyplaced company leaders.