UA ENGINEERING STUDENTS WIN AGCO STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. — The American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) recently awarded University of Arkansas students first place in the AGCO Student Design Competition at their 2003 ASAE Annual International Meeting in Las Vegas.
The winning project, designed, built and tested by UA biological and agricultural engineering seniors Willie Dillahunty of Gentry, Clay McDaniel of Stuttgart and James Geurtz of Fort Smith, was titled "Growth Chamber for Bio-Regenerative Life Support," a low-pressure growth chamber.
The AGCO Student Design Competition encourages undergraduate students to participate in the basic design of an engineering project useful to agriculture and related areas and to provide an arena of professionalism in which the student can experience peer recognition of a well conceived and executed design project.
The team, advised by Dr. Tom Costello, associate professor of biological and agricultural engineering, and Dr. Scott Osborn, assistant professor of biological engineering, competed against teams from Kansas State University and Oklahoma State University. The UA team’s win earned it $1,250 and a certificate of recognition. Additionally, Dillahunty, McDaniel and Geurtz each received desk plaques.
The department received an award plaque inscribed with the names of the design team and their faculty advisors and a $300 scholarship from ASAE.
Contacts
Marie Wichser, hometown news coordinator mwichser@uark.edu, (479) 575-7346Headlines
PetSmart CEO J.K. Symancyk to Speak at Walton College Commencement
J.K. Symancyk is an alumnus of the Sam M. Walton College of Business and serves on the Dean’s Executive Advisory Board.
Faulkner Center, Arkansas PBS Partner to Screen Documentary 'Gospel'
The Faulkner Performing Arts Center will host a screening of Gospel, a documentary exploring the origin of Black spirituality through sermon and song, in partnership with Arkansas PBS at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2.
UAPD Officers Mills and Edwards Honored With New Roles
Veterans of the U of A Police Department, Matt Mills has been promoted to assistant chief, and Crandall Edwards has been promoted to administrative captain.
Community Design Center's Greenway Urbanism Project Wins LIV Hospitality Design Award
"Greenway Urbanism" is one of six urban strategies proposed under the Framework Plan for Cherokee Village, a project that received funding through an Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Spring Bike Drive Refurbishes Old Bikes for New Students
All donated bikes will be given to Pedal It Forward, a local nonprofit that will refurbish your bike and return it to the U of A campus to be gifted to a student in need. Hundreds of students have already benefited.