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Message from the CEE Department Head
Dr. Molly Gribb
We had a great Halloween party in the CEE office - many thanks to the wonderful women of CEE - (left to right above): Ellen Haffner, Lois Poehls and Professor Lois Arneson-Meyer, for outdoing themselves cooking and baking to bring the celebration back again this year!
PS - yes, the witch with the broomstick in the photo above is me!
Visit us on the web: http://cee.sdsmt.edu
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| The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and the School of Mines honor our oldest living alumnus, Ralph O'Neill (CE36), who will be 104 on November 18, 2011. Mr. O'Neill (pictured above with Dr. MR Hansen (l) and Dr. Molly Gribb at spring 2011 graduation) will share his civil engineering and life experiences with current students, Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 3:00 pm in EP252 (EE/Phys building). Everyone is invited to attend. The ASCE student chapter and CEE Department will provide refreshments. |
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Announcements
Last CEE graduate student seminar of the semester: The campus and Rapid City communities are welcome to attend. For more information, contact Dr. Scott Kenner at scott.kenner@sdsmt.edu.
11/09/11: MSCE student Paul Kraft will present his FHWA funded thesis work entitled, "Development of full-depth reclamation laboratory tests: dynamic modulus and repeated load triaxial testing." Note: this seminar will be held at 3:00 pm in EP 254. |
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Department news
Senior civil engineering student Tony Kulesa (pictured above) was the winner of the CEE Halloween party "How Many Bats in the Jar" contest. Tony guessed 1,313, which was the closest of all entries to the actual count of 1,659. Tony won a Skullcandy headphone set for his expert estimating skills. This newsletter's quiz question: If water is flowing uniformly through an opening having an area of 144 square inches at a velocity of one ft/sec, what is the flow rate in gpm? First right answer e-mailed to mr.hansen@sdsmt.edu wins $10!
Drs. Henry Mott, Scott Kenner, Soonkie Nam, Marc Robinson, Damon Fick and Molly Gribb, along with adjunct professor Dan Britton and civil engineering students Christopher Lupo, Ben Wolf, Cole Bedford and Karen Schaefers greeted potential students and their families during the Oct. 29 Go to Mines Event. CEE department fabrication technician, Forest Cooper, was a great contributor to the preparations. The tours and laboratory demonstrations for our guests were a great success. Thanks, everyone!
Kody Heller, senior civil engineering student, won the last newsletter quiz prize of $10. Can you find the quiz question embedded in this newsletter?
Dr. V Ramakrishanan is part of the organizing committee for the International Conference on Sustainability Challenges and Advances in Concrete Technology. The conference will be held May 2-4, 2012 at the PSG College of Technology, Comimbatore, India.
Dr. Jennifer Benning (pictured above) visited Missouri University of Science and Technology in early October to discuss research collaborations in indoor air with Dr. Glenn Morrison and Cong Liu, a visiting PhD student from Tsignhua University in Beijing, China. The research discussions were aimed at the development of experiments that would provide an improved understanding of the role of airborne particulates in the transport of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in the indoor environment, which is essential for understanding human exposure. Many SVOCs, such as phthalate plasticizers, bis-phenol A, and brominated flame-retardants, are commonly found in many building materials and household products and become distributed throughout the indoor environment. Biomonitoring studies have shown that nearly 100% of people in developed countries are exposed to these compounds. Many of these SVOCs have been associated with negative health impacts, including endocrine disruption, asthma, and allergies, and though it is well recognized that exposure occurs primarily in the indoor environment, there is significant lack of understanding of the sources, transport, and routes to human exposure.
Also during her visit to Missouri S&T, Dr. Benning gave a seminar on "Life Cycle Assessment Modeling Research at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology," co-authored by Dr. James Stone, MSCE student Christopher Lupo, and environmental engineering senior Robert Prann. She also visited with current Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors President and Professor at MS&T, Dr. Joel Burken, who recently developed a new sustainability minor degree program for MS&T; this discussion provided excellent information for her goal of developing a minor degree program in sustainable engineering at SDSM&T. She also spent some time with Joe Miner, the Missouri S&T mascot, who bears an interesting resemblance to our own Grubby.
Dr. Damon Fick recently presented the paper An Interactive Approach to Renewable Energy Research and Education at the Frontiers in Education Conference, held in Rapid City. The conference included presentations and workshops highlighting some of the most recent advances in curricula and engineering education. Co-authors of the paper are former CSci faculty Ziliang Zong, and computer CSci senior design students Jonathan Bush, Matthew Kane, and Kai Segrud. The paper highlighted the results of their senior design project, which was completed in May of 2011.
Dr. Fick recently presented two companion papers at the Materials Science and Technology 2011 Conference and Exhibition in Columbus, Ohio. The papers presented the results of the Advanced Materials Processing (AMP) center to fabricate, test, and perform finite element analyses of a friction stir welded titanium beam structure. Co-authors of the papers include Drs. Michael West (MET) and Bharat Jasthi (AMP), Rahul Sharma (MSCE 2011), and undergraduate students Jay Marshall and Adam Well (MET), and Landon Luick (ME). |
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Opportunities for Students
The 2012 Western South Dakota Hydrology Conferencewill be held April 19, 2012, at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City, and will include a special session on Missouri River issues, a poster session, and an evening social. This email serves as both an abstract call and vendor call for the 2012 conference. The 2012 conference will be sponsored by the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources, South Dakota Engineering Society, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, U.S. Geological Survey, and the West Dakota Water Development District. Registration information will be available March 1, 2012, at the conference Web site http://sd.water.usgs.gov/WSDconf/. Professional development hours (or continuing education credits) will be available to interested participants.
Information for potential speakers and poster presenters: Abstracts for the 2012 Western South Dakota Hydrology Conference will be accepted through February 6, 2012. Abstracts concerning any earth science topic are welcomed, as are student presentations. Abstracts concerning Missouri River issues are especially welcomed as a special session on this topic is planned. The 2012 conference will include a poster session, so please consider that venue as well. Please note that if too few abstracts for posters are submitted, the poster session may be cancelled and all proposed posters moved to oral presentations. Please also note that presentation slots are limited. Abstracts received after the February 6 deadline will only be considered for oral presentation if slots are available. If all oral presentation slots are filled, your abstract will only be accepted for the poster session. All speakers and poster presenters will be required to pay conference registration fees unless they have student status. For more information and instructions for abstract submittal for both oral and poster presentations, go to http://sd.water.usgs.gov/WSDconf/callforspeakers.pdf. When submitting an abstract to the 2012 conference, please indicate whether oral presentation or poster is preferred.
NSBRI's Summer Internship Program provides the opportunity for undergraduate, graduate or medical students from across the country to join ongoing project activities and gain hands-on experience in space biomedical research at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. http://www.nsbri.org/summerinternship/ Applications due Dec. 31.
Current undergraduate students: The on-line continuing student scholarship application is now available until midnight December 31, 2011. The URL for the application is https://sdmines.sdsmt.edu/cgi-bin/global/adprotected/fa_update_ss.cgi.
The SDSWMA Scholarship Program, an entity of the South Dakota Solid Waste Management Association (SDSWMA), provides one or more scholarships annually to students with directed studies relating to the protection and enhancement of our natural resources and environment, the solid waste industry and similar fields. Preference is given to South Dakota residents intending to study at South Dakota colleges, universities, vocational training or apprenticeships. An applicant should desire a career in a trade supportive to the protection and enhancement of our natural resources and environment, the solid waste industry and/or related fields. Applicants must intend to enroll for the fall semester. This announcement is also available from the SDSWMA website (www.sdswma.org).
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Program for the 2012-2013 academic year - This call for fellowship proposals solicits applications from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of individuals pursuing MS or PhD degrees in Earth and space sciences, or related disciplines. The maximum amount of a NESSF award is $30,000 per year. For the 2012/2013 academic year, NASA expects to award approximately 50 new graduate fellowships in Earth Science, 3-5 in Heliophysics, 10 in Planetary Science, and 6-10 in Astrophysics. |
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