Engineering FYI: Chapter-Related

The University of Kansas has announced that it has received a federal grant to help build the Measurement, Materials and Sustainable Environment Center (M2SEC).

The new M2SEC will incorporate “efforts to produce and evaluate biofuels, improve commercial avionics, and sense the movements of glaciers and ice sheets.”

Plans are for the building to to showcase “green technologies” and host the engineering school.
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Last week in Mumbai, India, the Penn Engineering Dean’s Medal was awarded to Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd.

Dr. Eduardo D. Glandt, PA D ’68, dean of Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was the keynote speaker at the event, and spoke highly of this year’s winner:

“Mukesh Ambani embodies what the engineering profession can contribute to a country, as someone who seeks to apply technology for the betterment of society,” said Dr. Glandt. Read full news release

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The University of Maine and Dr. Dana Humphrey (NH A ’78), dean of the University’s College of Engineering, have announced the start of an aerospace engineering program.

The hope is that the new “three-course concentration” will attract nonengineering majors and help produce more aerospace engineers in a “state that ranks 49th and 51st, respectively, per capita nationally in awarding of undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees.”

Dr. Humphrey had this to say about the potential impact of the new program on Maine’s work force, “For Maine to be able to propel its economy forward, we really have to advance our ability to graduate more engineers.”
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