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Dean’s Weekly, May 24

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Cadet Olind - American Chemical Society Undergraduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry:  Cadet Johannes Olind, an environmental engineering major in the class of 2013, was awarded the American Chemical Society Undergraduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry. This award recognizes outstanding students currently enrolled in chemistry, environmental engineering, environmental science, or other programs emphasizing environmental chemistry. Johannes was selected for his interdisciplinary work related to the speciation of lead on the surface of Polonite, a mineral based sorbent.

AbilityOne Design Challenge:  Cadets Justin Suh, Greg Fearnley, and Tom Devane with their Ergonomic Work Station for Stapler Assembly The capstone team of Cadets Tom Devane, Greg Fearnley, and Justin Suh, all mechanical engineering majors in the Class of 2013, was named the third place winner ($3,000) of the 2013 AbilityOne Design Challenge sponsored by the Institute for Economic Empowerment to develop a device to assist workers with disabilities. They designed, built, and tested a work station to improve worker productivity in a stapler assembly production process. The cadets' work station reduced average stapler assembly time by disabled workers by 28%. A video demonstration of their device was submitted as part of the competition and can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ayIH5uT9MIk

HI108 Guest Lecturer:  The plebe course in international history hosted Professor David Painter, a Georgetown University professor, who lectured on an article he wrote for the Journal of American history titled “A Global History of Oil”.   Painter discussed how “oil bolstered U.S. military and economic might, and enabled the U.S. and its allies to win both World Wars and the Cold War” in a lecture that explained the global significance of the emerging oil markets to the history of the twentieth century. 


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