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VOLUME 35 NUMBER 1SPRING 2012
INSIDE THIS EDITION
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 Athletic vs. Academic
Balancing football andaerospace engineering
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Lake Lander Launch
TEX II prepares forextreme duty
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Design Day 2012
Ten years old andstill growing
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 Alumni Echoes
Where are they andwhat are they doing?
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Water Over the Bridge
—SHPE team members, from left, Lucio Cota, Jose Valdez, Dana Cordova(top) and Karen Rivas prepare for the E-Week parachute drop challenge, which required teams to dropa cup of water from the AME bridge with minimal spillage. Less spillage earned more points.
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Student Spirit Shines at E-Week 
E-Week 2012, a week of competitiveevents run by various clubs, organizationsand societies under the auspices of theEngineering Student Council,took place Feb. 16–25. The goalwas to promote engineering careers amongUA students and the wider communitywhile having some fun and taking part incommunity fundraising and outreach.Engineering club members volunteered morethan 60 hours at the Raytheon-sponsoredMath-Science-Technology Funfest, anddonated about 2,500 pounds of food to CasaMaria, a charity that helps feed Tucson’shungry. The Society of Hispanic Professional
Engineers led the way, coming rst in points
scored from the various events, and by beingvoted outstanding organization of the year.Tau Beta Pi came second, Theta Tau third.The Engineers Without Borders Bolivia waterproject won community project of the year,and the UA Rube Goldberg Club won bestclub project of the year for its machine, WilmaWildcat and the Restless Restroom.
Engineering students hit the UA campus and the Tucson community duringEngineers Week with competitive events to raise food, mood and awareness.
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By the time you read this we will haveselected an architect for the newEngineering Innovation Building, and DesignDay 2012 will have been a great success.The Engineering Innovation Building willanchor a complex of engineering buildingsnorth of Speedway Boulevard and will createa new sense of identity for the College. Weare designing research and development
Swelling intellectual capital plus bricks and mortar investment equal exciting times ahead
labs that will enable the College to moveforward on key engineering challenges,including biomedical systems and devices,computational and experimental materialsengineering, and defense systems. We arealso planning a workshop for student clubsand design projects, and the University isconsidering adding classrooms. It will bea tremendous project for the College overthe next few years, so please stay tunedfor updates!New facilities are exciting, but strong facultyand students are essential. Paul Blowers ofthe chemical and environmental engineeringdepartment was named a UniversityDistinguished Professor, and Jesse Littleand Ricardo Sanfelice, assistant professorsin aerospace and mechanical engineering,both received research awards under theYoung Investigator Program of the Air Force
Ofce of Scientic Research.
Guzin Bayraksan of the systems andindustrial engineering department wonthe UA’s 2012 Five Star Teaching Award
 and 
an NSF Faculty Early Career Award,and Achintya Haldar of civil engineeringand engineering mechanics was made adistinguished member of the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers.Jennifer Ramin, a sophomore in thechemical and environmental engineeringdepartment, was awarded a GoldwaterScholarship, and civil engineering seniorDylan Moriarty won the UA UndergraduateCentennial Achievement Award. This yearwas outstanding for our team.I want to close with our strongest measure– student retention. Gone are the days of 25percent engineering graduation rates and
65 percent rst-year retention. Due largely
to the hard work of our students, faculty,staff and alumni, close to 50 percent ofour freshmen graduate in engineering, withan additional 15–20 percent graduatingelsewhere at the UA. Last year we retainedmore than 87 percent of our freshmanstudents. We provide the talent that isneeded to build successful companies thatwill drive our national economy. I couldnot be more proud of our efforts in thisarea and we will continue improving byrecruiting outstanding students and bringingproven strategies in teaching, learning andmentoring to our engineering experience.Thank you for your continued support and Ihope you have a great summer!
DEAN’S VIEWPOINT 
Building a Better College
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Civil engineering students, staff and faculty recentlycompleted construction of a large shade structure for the
nonprot organization World Care, based in Tucson, Ariz..
The seven-person civil engineering and engineeringmechanics departmental team was taking part in Cats in theCommunity, the UA’s annual volunteer event
that each year helps refurbish a local nonprot
organization. About 400 volunteers from across the UA helpedpaint, build, recycle and much more in what has become
known as the “UA extreme nonprot makeover.”
The recipient organization, World Care Civilian EmergencyRelief Center, provides humanitarian aid in the areas ofeducation, health, emergency relief, and environment toSouthern Arizona and international communities that lack theresources necessary for daily life.The engineering team built the shade to provide a cool areafor loading and unloading donated materials. World Care’sphilosophy of recycling and reuse means that a vast variety ofreusable items are brought to their facilities. These items are
then xed, cleaned and redistributed into the community.
With aesthetic input from the UA visual communicationsdepartment, the shade was designed and built entirely bycivil engineering students Curtis Miles, Luis Madrid, CaseyQuackenbush, Chris Leon and Kelsey Palmer, aided bydepartment staff member Therese Lane and faculty memberRobert Fleischman. Funding for the project was provided bythe College and Dean Jeff Goldberg.
Civil engineering studentsCurtis Miles (right) and CaseyQuackenbush work on a sunshade at World Care duringCats in the Community.
Civil Engineering VolunteersInvolved in Shady Business
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STUDENT NEWS
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UA Engineering seniorDylan Moriarty washonored at the 2011 wintercommencement with theUndergraduate Centennial Achievement Award.This award is given annually by Student Affairs at theDecember commencement to one male and one femalegraduating senior, and recognizes studentswho have shown integrity, overcome greatchallenges to acquire a university education, and who havemade contributions to their family and community.Moriarty grew up on the Navajo Nation with his mother, towhom he attributes most of his success. He attended St.Michael’s Indian School and was later awarded the GatesMillennium Scholarship, which allowed him to attend theUniversity of Arizona.Moriarty said the award means a great deal to him,his family, and his community. “I didn’t grow up in aprivileged household,” he said. “But my mother, who isa teacher on the Navajo Nation, taught me from a youngage that I shouldn’t let anything stand in my way whenpursuing an education.”Since his freshman year, Moriarty has worked for the
Ofce of Early Academic Outreach, whose mission is to
increase the number of ethnic minority, low-income and
rst-generation college-bound students. As part of the
outreach program, he was exposed to the challengesfaced by Native American and underrepresented studentsand wanted to make a difference.“Native Americans have the lowest retention rates in highereducation and it is always celebrated when studentsreceive such academic awards,” Moriarty said. “I hopereceiving this award can show other underrepresentedstudents that it is possible to succeed even if they are fromunderprivileged backgrounds.”During Moriarty’s junior year at the UA he was acceptedinto the Ronald E. McNair Achievement program, whichstrives to prepare underrepresented students for doctoralprograms through undergraduate research.
CommencementHonor for UAEngineeringUndergraduate
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