Making News, March 2010

A recent story in the Los Angeles Times profiled Mark Fuller, UT A ’76, “feature creator” of fountains and CEO of WET (Design).

One of Fuller’s most recent creations is a “32-acre artificial lake at the foot of the world’s tallest building — the Burj Khalifa in Dubai — with 1,500 water jets that can blast streams 500 feet in the air…”

WET is well known for the 9-acre “Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino.
Read the full article about Fuller and his design firm, WET

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In a recent blog post from Chris Matyszczyk at Technically Incorrect, he reports on survey results from Focus.com that determined that system engineers have the “best job in America.”

Read the full post or visit Focus.com for more

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This pas Saturday, students at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) celebrated the St. Patrick’s Texas College of Mines Day.

The celebration is part of a 90-year-old tradition that dates back to when the college was originally named the Texas College of Mines.

The article from the El Paso Times, discusses how UTEP was originally an engineering school and a rivalry grew between students of liberal arts and engineering in 1927 when the school first expanded the curriculum.

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