2011 Spring - WVU College of Engineering and Mineral Resources ...

News of noteStudentsSean Adams, a senior computer science major, recently received theDepartment of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program yearlyscholarship, which provides full tuition, a monthly stipend, books, a guaranteedsummer internship, and a guaranteed job upon completion of his degree. Adamswill work for the Department of Defense after graduation.Nicco Campriani, an industrial engineering senior, had a perfect 600 score ina recent NCAA rifle match against Alaska. This has occurred only once before inNCAA history. At this match, his combined score was the best in the nation, andhe broke three WVU records.Computer science majors James Mantheiy and Ying-Wooi Wan were recentlyawarded scholarships from the computer science honorary Upsilon Pi Epsilon.Rob Murphy, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Beckley, W.Va.,has earned the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Fellowship fromthe Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown.Murphy has been active with the student chapter of Engineers Without Borders,as well as recruiting for the College.Byron Patterson, a mechanical and aerospace engineering major from UpperBlack Eddy, Penn., has been awarded a U.S. Department of Homeland SecurityUndergraduate Scholarship. Eleven scholarships were awarded nationwide.WVU’s student chapter of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy, andExploration was named first runner-up in the 2010 student chapter contest andthe first-place winner of the SME GEM student chapter contest. The students willbe recognized at this year’s annual meeting in Denver.For the second year in a row, the West Virginia University student chapterof the Institute of Industrial Engineers took Best Chapter and Best Paperhonors at their regional conference held in Knoxville, Tenn. The chapter is led byDan Norris; top paper honors went to Victoria Phillips. Forty-one students fromWVU attended the conference, accompanied by Dr. Majid Jaraiedi.AlumniMichelle and Stan Cardwell, BSME ’84, recently adopted Lazarus OjooCardwell, age 15. Lazarus lost both his parents in the civil war in northernUganda. He joins older sisters, Rachel, 18, and Rebecca, 16, and brother, Daniel,15, in the Cardwell family.Dr. Cheng Lok Hing, BSCE ’00, MSCE ’02, PhD CEE ’06, has been namedthe recipient of the Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for ProfessionalAchievement by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Hing currently works forMichael Baker, Jr., Inc.John Klim, BSME ’95, was named as the new chief facility engineer at theVA Medical Center in Huntington, W.Va. He is in charge of all facility operationsincluding the physical plant, capital construction projects, and biomedicalengineering.Edward Lewis, BSChE ’88, was promoted to the position of principal engineerwith Canon Virginia, Inc., Canon’s major North American manufacturing facility inNewport News, Va. He has worked for Canon for more than 16 years and spentthe past several years working with engineers in Japan starting up a $750 millionfacility on the Virginia campus. Since joining Canon, he completed his master’sdegree in materials science and engineering from the University of Virginia anda professional degree in engineering management from George WashingtonUniversity. This past summer, Lewis served as one of the trap range instructorsat the 100th anniversary National Boyscout Jamboree.WVU COllEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MINERAl RESOURCESSteven R. Marcus, MSChE ’80, is celebrating 30 years of employment with theWest Virginia operations of the Dow Chemical Company. He currently works inthe ethylene oxide technical center’s licensing department.John R. Pinion, II, BSME ’88, has transitioned to a new leadership positionas a result of the integration of Genentech and Roche. He is the senior vicepresident of quality and compliance for all pharmaceutical and biotechnologytechnical operations. His wife, Penny, and their two sons, Johnny, 11, andMichael, 7, recently moved from San Francisco to Basel, Switzerland.Steven R. Sawyer, MSSM, ’05, has completed the requirements forcertification as a Certified Safety Professional. Sawyer, who has worked in thesafety industry for 10 years, is employed as a safety consultant for KFSA inHutchinson, Kan.Sarah (Lovell) Soliman, BSCpE ’07, was married on October 10, 2010, inGreenbrier County, W.Va.Dr. David Statler, PhD ChE ’08, was presented with the Mid-AtlanticTechnology, Research, and Innovation Center’s (MATRIC) Star Employee award inthe area of chemical and environmental technologies.F. David Wilkin, BSAE ’67, MSAE ’69 (and EdD Harvard University, ‘80)retired July 2010. Working as an aerospace engineer early in his career, Wilkintransitioned to higher education, serving community colleges for 37 years, 27as president/chief officer. He is a member of the Irvin Stewart Society and wasadmitted to the Academy of Distinguished Alumni of Aerospace Engineering in2003. Wilkin and his wife, Erna, reside in Abingdon, Va.Faculty and StaffMark Adkins, mining extension, won first place in mixed media public in theNational Mine Academy’s Training Resources Applied to Mining Conference. Hecreated a PowerPoint program used to train operators of diesel equipment usedin the state’s underground mines. His presentation meets all of the regulations ofstate’s Office of Miners’ Health Safety and Training.Chris Bise, chair of mining engineering, was selected to receive the AIMEMineral Industry Education Award at the Society for Mining, Metallurgy andExploration 2011 Annual Meeting and Exhibit in Denver, Col.Parviz Famouri, professor in the Lane Department of Computer Science andElectrical Engineering, has been elected to serve as the Institute of Electricaland Electronics Engineers Nanotechnology Council’s vice president for technicalactivities.Dr. Keith Heasley has been named The Syd S. Peng Ground Control in MiningAward winner by the Society of Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. The award ispresented annually to outstanding professionals who have demonstrated insightand understanding of ground control issues by developing concepts, theories, ortechnologies that have been adopted by the mining community or the successfulimplementation of ground control designs or practices.Jim Smith, director of the Center for Industrial Research Applications, andmechanical and aerospace engineering professor, was the keynote speakerat the AEROQPRO-2010 conference, sanctioned by the Society of AutomotiveEngineers-International. The theme of the conference, held in Mexico, was“strengthening ties between academia and industry in the aerospace area.”Volume 7 Issue 129