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| Transcript | Office of University Relations SDSM& T News 501 E. St. Joseph Street • Rapid City, SD 57701- 3995 Phone: ( 605) 394- 6082/ 2554 • Fax: ( 605) 394- 6177 BOARD OF REGENTS SUMMARY: ( September 15, 1998) SDSM& T TO PARTICIPATE IN 1998 SOUTH DAKOTA EPSCOR CONFERENCE Thirty faculty, graduate students and administrators from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology ( SDSM& T) will participate in the 1998 South Dakota EPSCoR ( Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Conference being held Friday, September 11, at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Officials from the National Science Foundation ( NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA) will meet with research faculty from SDSM& T, South Dakota State University, and the University of South Dakota during the conference to describe their agency's programs and research funding opportunities. The EPSCoR program in South Dakota is a three- way partnership among the National Science Foundation, the Governor's Office of Economic Development, and South Dakota's three research universities ( SDSM& T, SDSU, and USD) designed to enhance the state's scientific research competitiveness. South Dakota is one of 18 states that currently participates in the national EPSCoR program. Funded by the National Science Foundation, EPSCoR promotes scientific research and development by utilizing a state's academic science and technology resources. Dr. Royce C. Engstrom, Professor of Chemistry at USD, serves as Project Director of the South Dakota EPSCoR program. SDSM& T 1998 CAREER FAIR TO BE HELD SEPTEMBER 17: LARGEST RECRUITING EVENT IN CAMPUS HISTORY TO FEATURE 58 COMPANIES AND AGENCIES SDSM& T's 1998 Career Fair scheduled for Thursday, September 17, is shaping up to be the largest recruiting event in campus history. Fifty- eight companies and government agencies are scheduled to recruit SDSM& T students for placement, summer internships and cooperative education during the event. The career fair for SDSM& T students will run from 9: 00 a. m. - noon and 1: 30 - 4: 30 p. m. in the Surbeck Center Ballroom. Within six months of receiving their degrees, 90- 92% of SDSM& T's graduates are placed, with 70- 72% working in their career fields and 20% continuing on to graduate or professional schools. The starting salaries for new SDSM& T graduates average $ 39,600 for engineering majors and $ 33,600 for science majors. A sample of the companies scheduled to participate in this year's Career Fair includes Amoco, Archer Daniels Midland, ASI, Baker Hughes, Barrick Goldstrike, Cargill, Daktronics, FBI, Gateway, Green Tree, Kiewit Mining Group, Michelin North America, Microsoft, North Star Steel, Raytheon Systems, Rockwell Collins, Sencore, Shell Services, 3M, Toshiba, and US Steel. Last year over 1200 individuals attended SDSM& T's Career Fair. SDSM& T PROFESSOR PRESENTS WORKSHOP IN AUSTRALIA ON ADVANCED FIBRE REINFORCED PLASTIC COMPOSITES Dr. Srinivasa Iyer, SDSM& T Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, recently presented a workshop on " Advanced Fibre Reinforced Plastic ( FRP) Composites for Infrastructure Applications" at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. FRP is a new development designed to overcome the problem of steel reinforcement corrosion in concrete structures. The course provided up- to- date information on the use of FRP reinforcement for the construction of new concrete structures and the rehabilitation of existing structures. Approximately thirty engineers from companies, faculty members and students enrolled in the two- day course. Dr. Iyer taught the course in collaboration with Dr. Hota Ganga Rao, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University. The University of New South Wales officials invited Dr. Iyer to Australia to present the FRP workshop because of his expertise in the field of Fiber Reinforced Polymers and the international reputation of SDSM& T's graduate education faculty. Dr. Iyer has forty- two years of experience in the civil engineering profession and for the past twenty years has played an active role in FRP development. He is a leading authority in the application of FRP cables for prestressing and was responsible for the construction of the first Prestressed Concrete Bridge and Navy Pier with FRP cables in the United States. He has received two patents and owns several proprietary inventions in FRP including three special anchorages for FRP cables. Dr. Iyer has published nearly 100 technical papers on civil engineering and FRP subjects. He is responsible for building the Advanced Composites Laboratory on the SDSM& T campus and currently serves as director of that laboratory. SDSM& T SOLAR CAR TO BE DISPLAYED AT POWDER RIVER ENERGY CORPORATION ANNUAL MEETING IN GILLETTE The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology ( SDSM& T) Solar Motion Team members will bring their solar- powered car to Gillette on Saturday, September 19, for the Powder River Energy Corporation Annual Meeting. The solar car designed and raced by SDSM& T students will be displayed from 10: 00 a. m. until 4: 00 p. m. at the Gillette Cam- Plex. In addition to having their solar car on display, the students will describe their experiences in designing and using solar- powered vehicles. Individuals will have an opportunity to visit one- on- one with the solar team members. Senior mechanical major Ken Harding of Newell, who competed in Sunrayce ‘ 97, will lead the student team members visiting Gillette. Three members of the SDSM& T solar team are from Gillette— Philip Jauch, senior computer engineering major; Matt Mitzel, freshman electrical engineering major; and Carl Wham, junior mechanical engineering major. Dakota Heat is the name of the solar car that SDSM& T will be racing in Sunrayce ' 99. Sunrayce is a biennial intercollegiate competition among student teams that design, build and race solar- powered cars in a challenging long- distance event. Sponsors include General Motors, the U. S. Department of Energy, and EDS. The competition fosters student proficiency in business and product development, creativity, resourcefulness, technical innovation, engineering excellence, teamwork and good sportsmanship. The solar car is being brought to Gillette as part of the SDSM& T Solar Motion Team's educational and public outreach activities to area communities. For information on arranging a visit by the SDSM& T Solar Motion Team to area schools or community events, individuals should contact Ken Harding, Team Leader, at ( 605) 394- 2213. DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY AWARDS SDSM& T $ 5,000 GRANT FOR SDSM& T ALUMNUS' TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE Dow Chemical Company recently awarded the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology ( SDSM& T) a $ 5,000 Dow Chemical College Grant based on the technical excellence of an SDSM& T alumnus who works for the company. Al Clark ( ChemE ' 71), a senior control specialist in Dow's Michigan Process Control Applications Group, recently received the 1998 Michigan Consultants' Award for Technical Excellence. The award, which is the highest peer recognition achievable in Dow's Michigan Operations, includes a monetary grant by Dow Chemical Company to a university of the recipient's choice. Clark selected SDSM& T's Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Department to receive the $ 5,000 Dow Chemical Company College Grant. Clark, who is a native of Aberdeen, has worked for Dow Chemical Company the past 26 years. Clark received the award in recognition of his contributions to the development and standardization of safe and effective burner management control systems for waste stream combustion. The small boiler technology developed by Clark has been adopted by Dow Chemical for use in all its small boilers around the world. He also has developed a hot oil heater process control technology and is currently working on developing a new process control technology for thermal oxidizers. Clark also was recognized for his leadership in internal technology reports, burner management and small boiler workshops, and many consulting and advisory assignments. NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS COMPLETE SDSM& T ENGINEERING BRIDGE PROGRAM Twelve Native American students from six west river communities recently completed the Engineering Bridge Program at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology ( SDSM& T). The Engineering Bridge Program was a full week, residential academic program designed to provide entering Native American students with opportunities to learn more about engineering as a career choice. The program also focused on developing skill- building strategies that will help them succeed in college and complete an engineering degree. Dr. Robb Winter, R. L. Sandvig Professor of Chemical Engineering, organized and ran the Engineering Bridge Program held on the SDSM& T campus the week of August 17- 21. Students who participated in the Engineering Bridge Program were from Eagle Butte, Midland, Pine Ridge, Porcupine, and Wall. DR. KENNETH HAN NAMED FIRST RECIPIENT OF DOUGLAS W. FUERSTENAU PROFESSORSHIP AT SDSM& T Dr. Kenneth Han, SDSM& T Dean of the College of Materials Science and Engineering, has been named the first recipient of the Douglas W. Fuerstenau Professorship at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Established to honor Dr. Fuerstenau's many professional accomplishments, the endowed professorship will enhance the mineral industries programs at SDSM& T with special emphasis on metallurgical engineering through support of a faculty member. Eminent scholars will be supported by the professorship, which will in turn help to attract outstanding undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Han has been a member of the SDSM& T faculty for seventeen years and has received many distinguished awards. In 1996 he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional engineering honors. Dr. Han has authored over 120 technical papers and has made over 100 technical presentations at national conferences. He holds four U. S. and several foreign patents. Initiated in 1995, the Douglas W. Fuerstenau Professorship Fund recently reached its Phase I funding goal of $ 100,000 through contributions by alumni, friends and corporations. Homestake Mining Company honored Dr. Fuerstenau, who has been a member of Homestake's Board of Directors since 1977, by contributing $ 77,000 to the fund. When the Phase II funding goal of $ 1 million is reached, an endowed chair will be established at SDSM& T that will support a prestigious faculty position at the full professor rank. Fundraising to meet this goal is ongoing. SDSM& T MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY TO DIG FOR MARINE TURTLES, MOSASAURS AND PLESIOSAURS ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER IN AUGUST During the month of August the SDSM& T Museum of Geology will be excavating for marine turtles, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs and other Late Cretaceous fossils at an important paleontological site along the Missouri River near Chamberlain. Scientists James Martin, David Parris and Gorden Bell will lead the two SDSM& T field paleontology sessions from August 3- 14 and August 17- 28. Discoveries during the first week of the session include a bison skull estimated to be 20,000 years old and Xiphactinus, a bulldog face fish from the Niobrara Formation 80- 85 million years ago. The excavations will be conducted in an area where the SDSM& T Museum of Geology previously made the important scientific discovery of Archelon, a giant marine turtle that lived toward the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. The shell of this largest known sea turtle measures 12 feet across. Numerous sea reptiles, especially mosasaurs, have been found in the area along the Missouri River where SDSM& T paleontologists will be excavating. Sea life at the end of the dinosaur age was dominated by mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. Mosasaurs were giant, large- toothed marine reptiles that are distant relatives of modern- day lizards. They inhabited the shallow seas that covered the Great Plains from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic during the Late Cretaceous period between 90 to 65 million years ago. A previous dig at this Missouri River site yielded an especially significant discovery of baby mosasaur remains found among the pelvic area of the mother specimen. This is the first definite evidence that these lizard- like creatures gave live birth to their young. SDSM& T's field paleontology program attracts students, teachers and others from across the nation each summer. SDSM& T PROFESSOR ADDRESSES CONCRETE CONFERENCE IN AUSTRALIA Dr. M. R. Hansen, SDSM& T Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, recently presented two papers at the International Conference on High Performance High Strength Concrete ( HPHSC) held at the Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. Approximately 100 engineers and scientists from around the world attended the conference. The papers presented by Dr. Hansen summarized the results of recent research at SDSM& T. The first paper, " Field Performance of Concrete Admixtures" was based on research work sponsored by the South Dakota Department of Transportation. The proper use of chemical and mineral admixtures makes high performance concrete ( HPC) possible. " The use of high performance concrete in South Dakota has enormous potential to provide stronger and more durable concrete, thus saving the taxpayers many millions of dollars, " stated Dr. Hansen. The second paper, " Using Recycled Glass as Aggregate in Concrete" was based on research work sponsored by the Material Recovery Facility ( MRF) in Rapid City. The MRF can sell most of its recovered material but previously had no market for the recycled glass. " This project has shown that the glass can be used in concrete as an aggregate replacement" said Dr. Hansen. " This could have far- reaching significance and world- wide benefit from an environmental and energy conservation point of view." Co- authors for both papers were Brenda Flottmeyer ( MS CE ‘ 98) and Michelle Nielsen ( MS CE ‘ 98). SOUTH DAKOTA MINING ASSOCIATION AND SDSM& T HOST SOUTH DAKOTA TEACHERS AT 12TH ANNUAL " MINING EXPERIENCE ON GREAT PLAINS" WORKSHOP The South Dakota Mining Association and the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology ( SDSM& T) hosted twenty- four teachers from twelve South Dakota communities at the 12th Annual " Mining Experience on the Great Plains" Workshop held June 14- 20, 1998, on the SDSM& T campus. The workshop provided information and resource materials for teaching units related to the minerals industry in the Great Plains region. The workshop presented a variety of topics that acquainted the teachers with the evolution of the mining industry, the history of mining in the region, and the region's present relationship to the mining industry. Other topics surveyed the process of providing the minerals required by society from exploration through to recovery of the final product. Environmental and legal considerations also were covered in detail. The workshop was based on the SDSM& T campus with supporting field trips to the South Dakota Cement Plant and Butler Machinery, Rapid City; Black Hills Mining Museum and Wharf Resources Mine, Lead; Wyodak Mine and Cyprus Amax Belle Ayre Mine, Powder River Basin, WY; Bentonite Corporation, Colony, WY; Homestake Open Cut and Mill, Lead; Rockerville Placer Gold and Big Thunder Gold Mine, Keystone; and Wade's Gold Mill and Gold Panning, Hill City. Workshop presenters included Dr. Paul Gries, Professor Duff Erickson, Dr. Bill Roggenthen, and Dr. Zbigniew Hladysz, SDSM& T; Marv Truhe and Linden Evans, Truhe Law Office; Mary Flanderka, Black Hills Multiple Use Coalition; Mike Cepak and Tom Durkin, South Dakota Department of Environmental and Natural Resources; and Diana Miller, South Dakota Mining Association. MAGIC SCHOOL BUS ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AT SDSM& T MUSEUM IN MOTION SDSM& T's hands- on Museum in Motion is featuring special Magic School Bus activities on Tuesday and Thursday mornings through Labor Day. The sessions run from 10: 00 - 11: 00 a. m. and cost $ 5 each. The various Magic School Bus activities are being offered on the following dates: Aug. 4 and 6: Create Puzzles and Games Aug. 11 and 13: Try Making Magnetic Pictures Aug. 18 and 20: Shadow Puppet Theater Aug. 25 and 27: Old Fashioned Toys Sept. 1 and 3: Optical Illusions From a Vandergraph generator to a giant xylophone, SDSM& T's Museum in Motion provides many hands- on science and engineering exhibits for children of all ages. Both children and adults enjoy the exhibits that provide real- world examples to better understand the laws of physics. Museum visitors can learn while they play. Exhibits include optical illusions, giant bubble machines, the spin table and spinning chair, a giant xylophone, a Bernouli's Law cone, a large sand pendulum, and a big kaleidoscope. Other exhibits allow visitors to take apart old computers, telephones, toasters, answering machines and other devices to explore what is inside them. ORIENTATION FOR NEW SDSM& T STUDENTS INCLUDES MANY ACTIVITIES THIS WEEKEND The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology ( SDSM& T) has a wide range of orientation activities scheduled this weekend for new students— including a scavenger hunt, a dance, the President's Picnic, movie at the Elks Theater, and a mentalist. In addition to orientation sessions about academic and campus life geared toward freshmen, SDSM& T also offered orientation programs for the parents of freshmen, as well as special sessions focused on non- traditional and transfer students. Thirty- five returning SDSM& T students volunteered to serve as Orientation Leaders to help new students with their orientation to the SDSM& T campus. Senior mathematics major Carrie Torkelson is chair of the 1998 Orientation Program. Coupled with various social, friendship- building and leadership development activities, the orientation program for SDSM& T's entering students includes an opening campus convocation, dedication of the freshman plaque, mentor/ advisor meetings, math review sessions preceding the math placement exam, department open houses, chemistry and physics placement exams, and student life skits. Orientation continues this weekend with class registration, Emerging Leader's Conference, SDSM& T President's Picnic, financial aid, Internet training, and finding jobs off- campus. Classes begin Tuesday, September 1. SDSM& T AND BHSU COLLABORATE WITH SOUTH DAKOTA SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM ON WEATHER STATION TRAINING FOR WEST RIVER TEACHERS The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology ( SDSM& T) and Black Hills State University ( BHSU) are collaborating with the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium on a weather station pilot project for west river middle schools. Co- directors of the South Dakota Weather Station Network pilot project are Dr. Douglas MacTaggart, SDSM& T Research Scientist, and Dr. Larry Hines, BHSU Math/ Science Educator and interim co- director of BHSU's Center of Excellence for Mathematics and Science Education. Funded by a National Space and Aeronautics Administration ( NASA) grant from the National Space Grant and Fellowship Program Office, the South Dakota Weather Station Network is sponsored by the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium, in which SDSM& T is the lead institution. Five teachers from western South Dakota recently received weather station training on the SDSM& T campus. Teachers from Buffalo, Kadoka, Porcupine, Ridgeview and Sturgis were trained to use weather stations that collect temperature, humidity, pressure, wind and rain data. Ron Johnson, SDSM& T Research Associate Professor of Meteorology, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, presented the teachers with information on national weather data collection and regional forecasting. Upon completion of the training session, the middle school teachers science were each provided with a weather station system and associated software that records and processes the meteorological data. Each teacher will decide how to incorporate the weather stations into their curriculum. SDSM& T will be the central receiving point for the weather data. The schools will collect the data and then e- mail the reports to the Consortium's headquarters at SDSM& T on a weekly basis. These data will eventually be put on a web site for access by a wide range of researchers, teachers, students and the general public. The goals of the South Dakota Weather Station Network include student involvement in the collection of real observational data; student teamwork in the computer- based analysis of their data; student awareness of weather phenomena; enhanced collaboration between SDSM& T and BHSU; cooperation between diverse cultural groups; establishment of an e- mail and Internet communications network among area schools; and potential expansion to specific eastern South Dakota schools in the fall of 1999. KLAMATH FALLS TEACHERS DIG FOR DINOSAUR FOSSILS WITH SOUTH DAKOTA PALEONTOLOGISTS A group of Klamath Falls teachers spent part of their summer in the Black Hills of South Dakota digging for dinosaur fossils with paleontologists from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology ( SDSM& T), Rapid City, South Dakota. Led by Mazpma High School science teacher Pat Ward, the group traveled to South Dakota with financial assistance from an Eisenhower grant. The teachers received hands- on, fossil digging experiences in the Black Hills of South Dakota that they can use in developing curricular materials and teaching strategies for earth science and geology. Under the direction of Dr. James Martin, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology for the SDSM& T Museum of Geology, the field dig at an important paleontological site near Sundance, Wyoming, focused on excavating adult and juvenile Allosaurus fossils. Allosaurs were flesh- eating dinosaurs from the Jurassic age that were approximately 36 feet long and walked semi- upright on their hind legs. The teachers also participated in the excavation of vertebrate Miocene- era mammals at the Flint Hill site in western South Dakota. Each summer SDSM& T's field paleontology program attracts students, teachers and others from across the nation. The public can participate on a limited, space- available basis. $ 10,000 ANONYMOUS GIFT ADDED TO GIVOGRI SCHOLARSHIP FUND AT SDSM& T/ SCHOLARSHIP EARMARKED FOR LEAD HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE An anonymous gift recently added $ 10,000 to the Bernard Givogri Memorial Scholarship Fund, which was established at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in 1995. The Fund was set up to honor Bernard Givogri, a longtime resident of Lead. In 1876 Givogri's parents and grandparents immigrated from northern Italy and settled in Lead. Bernard attended Lead High School and was a member of the only football team from the Lead community to win the All- State title. After graduation from LHS, he enrolled at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology to study engineering. However, one and a half years into his education, Bernard's father passed away and he returned to Lead to care for his mother. After Homestake Mining Company hired him in 1916, Givogri began a long and fulfilling career with the company, working in Homestake's sheet metal shop and eventually becoming foreman. He retired in 1966 and passed away in 1982. The Bernard Givogri Scholarship will be awarded to a Lead High School graduate who is a sophomore, junior or senior engineering student at SDSM& T. The recipient must maintain an overall grade point average of 2.75 to qualify for the award. The SDSM& T Foundation will return a portion of the endowment earnings to the principal whenever possible to inflation- proof the fund and keep the award as significant in future dollars as it is in today's dollars. SDSM& T CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS WORKING ON NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROJECT THIS SUMMER Three SDSM& T chemical engineering professors and four students are working this summer on a project funded by the National Science Foundation ( NSF) to integrate chemical process design and state- of- the- art computer simulation throughout the chemical engineering curriculum. Drs. Larry Bauer, David Dixon and Jan Puszynski, SDSM& T Professors of Chemical Engineering, recently were awarded a $ 150,000 NSF educational grant over four years to develop a vertically integrated chemical engineering curriculum at SDSM& T that will serve as a model for chemical engineering departments in other universities when fully implemented. Providing outreach to regional high school students and underrepresented groups, particularly Native American students, also is an important element in the project. Structuring the engineering curriculum through vertical integration is a novel approach. The four- year project is expected to enhance the students' understanding of course material by providing the " big picture" early in their college education and demonstrating the integrated nature of the topics. Students will also benefit from the introduction of the AspenPlus commercial process simulation software early in the curriculum, which will greatly enhance their understanding of science and engineering topics. Through the early integration of AspenPlus, SDSM& T's chemical engineering students will gain an expertise with the current design tool used by many major industrial firms, such as Dow Chemical Company and Cargill. Students also will be able to use this powerful software tool to model process equipment from single pumps to complex installations, such as the complete ethanol production facility in Aberdeen. The achievements from this project will be shared with other engineering departments around the world through publications, national presentations, and an active web site. |
| Creator | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. University Relations; |
| Subject | South Dakota Board of Regents; |
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