At its annual Clausing Student Recognition Luncheon, the IME Department honored 27 students for their efforts in earning 31 awards and scholarships.
Six seniors were honored as Outstanding Undergraduate Students in IME’s four programs. Top awards went to Alana Dumasius and Maria Candela, IEN; Justin Vreizema and Eric Locker, EGR; Ryan Schwark, MFT; and Michael Gaddes, UEM.
Outstanding Undergraduate Students: (L-R) Alana Dumasius, Maria Candela, Justin Vreizema, Clausing VP Joe Felicijan, Eric Locker, Ryan Schwark, and Michael Gaddes
Dumasius was also honored as this year’s Presidential Scholar and the Dean’s Outstanding IEN Student.
Schwark also received kudos as the Dean’s Outstanding MFT Student and he was acknowledged for winning two scholarships: Foundry Educational Foundation (FEF) Outstanding Student Scholarship and the AFS Toledo Chapter Scholarship.
Six students were also honored as Outstanding Graduate Students in four postgraduate programs: Tod Grams; Sundaresan Narayanan; and Vincent Dutter, Capt., USAF, all garnered awards in the GEM program. Aijaz Jafri and Mike Lukianoff won in IEG and MNE respectively. Yaser Al-Alawi was the outstanding Ph.D.
Three seniors also won IME Outstanding Service Awards: Kevin King, for his work with the American Foundry Society and his outreach activities in developing an engineering class for at-risk middle school students;
Renae Hoglen, for her leadership in organizing a regional IIE Conference and bringing WMU national recognition, and Ken Lothschutz, for his contribution to several WMU societies and events including the Society of Plastics Engineers, Engineers’ Week, soap box derby, and others.
Other students honored were Brian Sather, Dean’s Outstanding EGR Student; Okwuchukwu Atueyi, winner of the 2004 Clausing Industrial Scholarship; Nina Simanca, winner of the Ford Scholarship; and Scott Seckel, winner of the Detroit-Windsor Chapter of the American Foundry Society (AFS) Scholarship.
Outstanding Graduate Students: (L-R) Yaser Al-Alawi, Aijaz Jafri, Sundaresan Narayanan, Clausing VP Joe Felicijan, Tod Grams, Mike Lukianoff, and Vincent Dutter, Capt., USAF
Recognition was also given to William Vasich for the IME 142 TA Award, Fall 2004; to Jim Vlieg, Trent Kenworthy, and Andrew Hyde for winning the IME 142 CAD/Key Contest for Fall 2004, and to Daniel Grupp, Libby Evans, Ben Hormann, and Josh Schilling for writing awards in the IEEE Paper Contest.
A Special Service Award was presented to Laura Decker for her dedicated efforts in the IME office.
Outstanding Service Awards: (L-R) Kevin King, , Clausing VP Joe Felicijan,. Renae Hoglen, and Ken Lothschutz
Clausing Industrial, Inc., provided the luncheon. The Kalamazoo-based company has been providing support to the IME department and offering scholarships to its students for 53 years. Clausing Vice President Joe Felicijan celebrated with the award winners.
IME Professor Tom Swartz emceed the recognition ceremony, and retiring CEAS Dean Michael Atkins and IME Chair Paul Engelmann presented the award plaques.
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