UI Engineering Students Win Prizes At Design Expo

Thu., May 27, 1999

Area University of Idaho College of Engineering students received awards at the Design Expo held on campus earlier this month. More than 250 UI students participated in the event, which featured student classroom and extracurricular projects.

Gold award winners received $200 in prize money, and silver awards earned $100.

Recipients and their awards are listed.

Outstanding Technical Session Gold Award

Danielle Mangan, a chemical engineering major from Coeur d’Alene.

The team’s project, In-Situ Remediation of High Explosives Contaminated Soil, proposed a process for decontamination that incorporated chemical and biological treatment technologies.

Outstanding Exhibit Silver Award

Nathan Woolsey, a mechanical engineering major from Coeur d’Alene, and Chuck Krings, a mechanical engineering major from Moscow.

The team redesigned and improved an apparatus used to inject resins into five endoscopes, allowing them to cure while inside a vacuum chamber.

Outstanding Poster Silver Award

Joel Marlow, a computer science major from Moscow.

This team project, Hummer Authentication, dealt with distribution and detection of security relevant information between computers in a network.

Outstanding Technical Session Silver Award

Steve Beukelman and Lucas Falco, both chemical engineering majors from Moscow.

The team’s project, Air Pollution Control Alternatives, was to design a cost-efficient solution for a wood-fired boiler to meet current and future regulations for emission rates and particulate size when operating at maximum steam loading.

Christina R. Kirkland, Moscow, recently received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Idaho College of Letters and Science.

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