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Marty Lipinski led the team that created the award-winning recruitment toolbox. LIPINSKI rECEIvES TrANSPOrTATION ENGINEErS’ AWArD Marty Lipinski, EnSafe professor and director of the university of Memphis Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute in the herff College of Engineering, received the 2007 Coordinating Council Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Lipinski was recognized for his education council project entitled, “recruitment Toolbox for Transportation Professionals.” The goal of the recruitment toolbox initiative is to expose K-12 students to the transportation profession by providing an easy-to-use electronic database with 92 activities searchable by age/grade levels or by specific topics. The database can be used by schools and companies during recruitment events to create interest in transportation-related careers, in areas such as environment and energy, planning and urban development, and traffic safety. Lipinski led the project team that included Stephanie Ivey, assistant professor in the civil engineering department at the u of M, and Jodi Carson, associate research engineer in the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M university. hErFF COLLEGE hOSTS ASEE CONFErENCE The herff College of Engineering hosted the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Southeast (SE) Section Annual Conference held April 6-8. Sarah rajala, president-elect of the ASEE was the guest speaker. rajala was recently appointed the dean of engineering at Mississippi State university, where she holds the James W. Bagley endowed chair. ASEE SE president Cecelia Wigal welcomed 175 conference attendees, which included engineering faculty, staff, and students from 60 universities across the Southeast. Business entrepreneur Jim Phillips, now managing director of Pinnacle Investments, was the keynote speaker, focusing on the theme “Building Bridges: Making the Connections that Facilitate Engineering Education.” More than 100 engineering education experts presented technical sessions, and 25 student teams participated in three poster competitions. Navid Jafari, a student in herff’s civil engineering department, won both the undergraduate research division and best overall category. “This is the first time that the herff College has hosted this event, and attendees focused on the communities with which engineering educators interact, including the K-12, student, professional, and academic communities,” said Dean richard Warder. he attributes the success of the conference to the many people who worked over many months to plan and organize the conference, including conference chair Paul Palazolo, assistant dean of the College and a faculty member in civil engineering. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR E N G I N E E R I N G E D U C AT I O N The ASEE is a non-profit organization of 12,000+ members and over 500 academic institutions, corporations, and professional associations committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR E N G I N E E R I N G E D U C AT I O N Stephanie Ivey, Paul Palazolo, and Charles Camp’s paper “GIS Integration in a Civil Engineering Curriculum” has been awarded the 2008 ASEE SE Section Conference Best Paper. The paper is the first stemming from a project underway in the Department of Civil Engineering to include practical GIS-based projects throughout all levels of the undergraduate curriculum in order to improve the student- learning experience. The project was supported through a TAF Innovation to Excellence in Learning (IEL) grant funded through the university of Memphis. This achievement will be recognized during the Awards Ceremony at the 2009 conference. FALL 2008 5
hErFF hEADLINES Preparing for hands-on experience, Tiara Steward (left) and Parish White proudly pose in their welding helmets, welding gloves, and leather-welding aprons. SuMMEr PrOGrAMS YIELD rETurN ON INvESTMENT A middle-school student checks out her solar-powered car before the team competition. The herff College of Engineering established its first summer program for pre-college women in 2004. Since then, it has continued to expand its offerings for females to cultivate their interest in science, math, engineering, and technology. Girls Experiencing Engineering (GEE) offered three sessions this summer, enrolling 130 middle- and high-school students from Memphis City and Shelby County Schools, as well as their math and science teachers. Through hands-on projects, participants discovered what engineers do and how skills such as creative thinking, problem solving, and communications can lead to a rewarding career. The highly successful GEE program is supported by the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis. Stephanie Ivey, assistant professor of civil engineering, and Paul Palazolo, assistant dean of recruiting and retention, are co-directors of GEE. Introduced last year and returning this summer with expanded sessions offered over three weeks is the Girls in Manufacturing (GiM) program for high-school students from Memphis City and Shelby County Schools. highlights included a robotics competition, a field trip to a manufacturing plant, daily guest speakers, and the popular design-and-take-home-your-own-manufactured-product. GiM is supported by Carrier, a united Technologies Company, and Cargill. Deborah hochstein, associate professor and chair of engineering technology, robert hewitt, assistant professor of engineering technology, and Tom Banning, assistant professor of engineering technology, are co-directors of GiM. 6 hErFF hIGhLIGhTS
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