Aggie Ingeniero, February 2016

February 2016	Headlines
Events March 5: Engineering without Boundaries 6th Annual Banquet April 3: 2016 International Environmental Design Contest April 8: Verge Lecture Engineering Events Calendar Alumni News SAE International Honors Nadir Yilmaz (ME ’05) True North Capital Group (Gary Poling, BSCHE 1981) receives Best Businesses Award In Memoriam: Herrol James “Jim” Skidmore, Jr. (Ret. Lt. Col.) Eric Lance hired by Appareo In Memoriam: Donald Leroy Trone, EE ’70 Contact Us Aggie Ingeniero is produced by the New Mexico State University College of Engineering. Subscribe or send alumni news for possible inclusion.	New mechanical, aerospace engineering department head arrives at NMSU Writer: Tiffany Acosta As a young boy growing up in Taiwan, Reuy-Hung Chen watched his father, a mechanical engineer, design and build devices at home, and he was inspired to follow in those footsteps. This semester, Chen joined the New Mexico State University College of Engineering faculty as the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department head…. Continue Reading » Associate dean travels to help preserve landmarks Writer: Tiffany Acosta For many engineers building things is a draw to the profession, but for Sonya Cooper preserving structures is her passion. Cooper, associate dean of academics at New Mexico State University’s College of Engineering, spent the fall semester on sabbatical developing treatments to stabilize, preserve and restore landmarks for the United States National…Continue Reading » Engineering students receive $35K in research awards The New Mexico Space Grant Consortium awarded six New Mexico State University College of Engineering students with Research Scholarships/Fellowships for the spring 2016 and fall 2016 semesters totaling $35,000…Continue Reading » Foreman Excellence Awards presented Two College of Engineering employees were recognized this January with Foreman Awards of Excellence. the awards were presented during the College of Engineering Spring Convocation by Interim Dean Steven Stochaj…Continue Reading » Girls in tech: Dual events aim for inclusion Writer: Damien Willis, Las Cruces Sun-News 6:17 p.m. MST February 13, 2016 As students of all ages from across New Mexico competed Saturday in a statewide robotics competition on the campus of New Mexico State University, an organization devoted to encouraging girls to seek out careers in science and engineering had its monthly board meeting just three blocks away…Continue Reading » NMSU’s Arrowhead Center receives elite National Science Foundation award to create Aggie I-Corps Writer: Lauren Goldstein Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University was awarded a three-year, $300,000 grant last week for the Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Sites program. I-Corps is a National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative to leverage university research to create new innovative businesses and increase the economic impact of inventions created at research institutions around the…Continue Reading »

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