Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Clausing Serves up Another Annual Awards Luncheon for Top IME Scholars

The IME Annual Student Recognition Luncheon paid tribute to IME’s top graduate and undergraduate students, seven professional societies, and three honor societies. Clausing Industrial Inc., which has been supporting IME programs for 54 years, provided the lunch.

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Some of IME’s top students: (from left ): Murray Swoish (EGR), Shannon Bowerson (IEN), Meike Pamplone (GEM), J. D. Steinmetz (MFT), Lawrence Pitcher (IEN), Dr. Tim Greene (CEAS dean), Ashley Ford (UEM), Anil Kumar (Ph.D.), Brian Sather (MFEG), and Dr. Paul Engelmann (IME chair).

Several students received multiple honors. UEM senior Melissa Saltzman was IME’s Presidential Scholar and the CEAS dean’s UEM scholar and won two scholarships. Lawrence Pitcher (IEN), Murray Swoish (EGR), and John (J. D.) Steinmetz (MFT) were selected as both the IME and CEAS dean’s outstanding students in their respective programs. Pitcher also shared honors for a first-place IIE Region IV Conference paper.

Shannon Bowerson (IEN) earned an outstanding service award and won two scholarships. Jason Klein (MFT) and Ella Lambrix (IEN) each won two awards. A complete list of award winners follows.

IME Departmental Outstanding Students

Undergraduates    Murray Swoish EGR

                                      Lawrence Pitcher IEN

                                      John (J.D.) Steinmetz MFT

                                      Ashley Ford UEM

Graduates                 Meike Pamplone GEM

                                      Brian Sather MFEG

                                      Nikki Crocker IEG

                                      Anil Kumar IE Ph. D.

Outstanding Service Award       Shannon Bowerson

Dr. Paul Engelmann, the IME chair, called the students “the future,” and told them, “All people have gifts. You are people with a series of gifts that will lead to better products, better services, and hopefully better lives for all the people you will serve.”

Some of the scholarship winners….

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Ù Jim Lester, Clausing Industrial’s inside marketing manager, presents the Clausing Scholarship to freshman Cory Barber.

 

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Jaymi Gonzalez (left), Kellogg Foundation representative, with scholarship winners Ben Smith, Alisha Hankins, Shannon Bowerson, Ashley Bazzana, Bryan Dopkins, and Ella Lambrix. Ú