Greetings, everyone!
<<cue Chariots of Fire soundtrack>> I am hoping this will help inspire everyone as we are finally at the end of the semester! I hope you were all able to finish grading and that you got everything uploaded for the Registrar by the deadline (yesterday at noon, right?).
As we move into the summer months, please stay in touch (with me, Caitlyn, Jeanne, Mégan, whomever you like). We just like to keep up with what you're doing (research/teaching/summer events/programs/fun activities), so we can share what our students, faculty, and staff do during the summer. It helps keep us all connected.
Congratulations again to everyone on another successful year, enjoy your summer, and stay safe!
Warm regards,
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Welcome to the May "Fast Facts Feature" a quick, fun and funny way for the college to learn a little bit more about each other. |
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STAFF SPOTLIGHT | Nikki Stotler |
Department: Atmospheric Science
Title: Executive Business Manager
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
When I was a child I wanted to be an astronaut.
What is part of your daily routine that you look forward to every day?
I look forward to having dinner with my kids, playing with my two rescue dogs and hedgehog.
What movie can you watch over and over again?
I could watch The Greatest Showman over and over
What’s the best book you’ve read so far this year?
Best book I have read this year: Where the Crawdad Sing by Delia Owens
What is something — a food or activity — that you tried reluctantly, and it turns out you like it?
I reluctantly tried disc golf and actually had a lot of fun.
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FACULTY SPOTLIGHT | Xiang Zhang
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Department: Mechanical Engineering
Title: Assistant Professor
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I wanted to be a scientist since I was four, if not younger. It is funny that I made this “decision” even I do not know what a scientist is, and not to mention that there are scientists working on very different things. I just know it is a big deal from what I heard.
What is part of your daily routine that you look forward to every day?
Taking a walk with my families after dinner.
What movie can you watch over and over again?
It has to be The Shawshank Redemption. I first watched it in my English class when I was an undergraduate in China, and I watch it every once in a while since then.
What’s the best book you’ve read so far this year?
To be honest, I have not really read a book for a while, except books for my work or for my kids’ bed time.
What is something — a food or activity — that you tried reluctantly, and it turns out you like it?
Durian! It is not long after I first met my wife, she was encouraging me to try it. I am very reluctant, and had to pinch my nose while trying it but liked it immediately. My wife was later kidding that she should have not done so if she knew we are going to get married.
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AY 21/22 Recipients of Harry Hill Student Excellence Awards Announced
The Department of Petroleum Engineering is proud to announce the recipients of the Harry Hill Student Excellence awards for AY 21/22. Congratulations to Gideon Dordzie and Omar Elmasry (Harry Hill Graduate Excellence Award) and Elaina Soellner (Harry Hill Undergraduate Student of the Year)!
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Elyse Johnson Receives Master's in Library Science with 4.0 GPA
Congratulations to Elyse Johnson in our UW College of Engineering and Applied Science Susan McCormack Center for Student Success office on her recent graduation with a Master’s in Library Science with a 4.0 GPA! Way to go, Elyse!
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UW "I Am A Cowboy" Video Series is Now Open For Submissions
UW Institutional Marketing is looking for submissions for anyone interested in or looking to nominate someone to be potentially featured in the new "I Am A Cowboy" video series. Visit here to submit your name and/or someone you feel would be a great feature.
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End of Year Thank You Luncheon Celebrates CEAS Faculty & Staff's Hard Work
Many thanks to Jeanne Moede, Shonna Ahrenholtz, Shannon Stevens, and Charlotte While for organizing the end of the academic year luncheon for all CEAS faculty and staff. The event is just a small way to say “thank you” for all the great work the CEAS has been doing!
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Michael Urynowicz Wins Award for Instructor's Week
Congratulations to Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering Professor Michael Urynowicz on his award for Instructor's Week! Urynowicz was nominated by one of his students through Wal-Mart! Awesome job!
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SER Student Presents at Air Sensors International Conference
Austin Moon, a UW School of Energy Resources (SER) student, presented a paper co-written with Robert Field, UW atmospheric science associate research professor, at the recent Air Sensors International Conference (ASIC) in Pasadena, Calif. Learn more about their paper here.
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Awards Add Up at 2022 UW-Led Mathcounts Competition
Ashley Olson, of Carey Junior High School in Cheyenne, took home first-place individual honors at the Wyoming State Mathcounts competition hosted by UW. Learn more about the competition that Cindy Jones, state Mathcounts coordinator facilitates here.
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Want to Honor Someone?
The CEAS Awards and Recognition Committee is looking for nominations for our Hall of Fame, Distinguished Engineer/Scientist and Distinguished Service Award. Complete details about award descriptions and nomination forms are available online here.
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Catch Up On Past CEAS Dean's Newsletters
Missed any of the previous CEAS Dean's Newsletters? Discover all of the CEAS Dean's Newsletters here.
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Who Do You Contact For Building Issues?
If you encounter or hear of any building issues please contact CEAS Facilities Manager Steve Salmans at (307) 766-6170 or by email.
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Gear Up Wyoming
Summer Academic College Connect Session
June 16
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) is a federally-funded, statewide grant in Wyoming that provides services to 2,000 7th-12th grade, income-eligible students annually. The goal of GEAR UP is to increase the number of eligible students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education.
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Independent Educational Consultants (IEC) Visit CEAS
June 17
The IEC event is a visit from the Independent Educational Consultants Association. It is a non-profit in which affiliates work with prospective students to help them with their college exploration.
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Professional Development Corner |
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If you've ever felt like you're being too hard on yourself, you might be familiar with the concept of perfectionism.
In this course taught by neuropsychologist and author Nicole Tetreault, learn how to embrace your perfectionist tendencies and release the need to feel perfect. Discover how to identify any perfectionist inclinations you may have, and some key mindset shifts to adjust perspective and use mistakes to your advantage. Find out the various types of perfectionism, and the point at which perfectionism can become unhealthy and learn how you can recognize when your perfectionist tendencies may be taking over. And learn proven strategies to help overcome perfectionism in the long term.
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Morteza Dejam Received the Inaugural Presidential Scholarly Achievement Award |
This award consists of a commemorative plaque and $5,000 and is established by the University of Wyoming President Edward Seidel to recognize the high-achieving and outstanding untenured faculty at the assistant or associate professor ranks who show significant promise for scholarship.
The award can be used as a discretionary fund to support the advancement of the professor’s scholarship, spent as determined by the faculty member.
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UW CEAS Wyoming Motorsports Club Team Places 2nd in Hybrid Division at Formula Hybrid + Electric Competition |
Congratulations to the UW College of Engineering and Applied Science Wyoming Motorsports club team on their recent 2nd place finish in the hybrid division at the Formula Hybrid + Electric Competion, that is held each spring at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Formula Hybrid is an international competition that challenges student teams to design and build a hybrid racecar, and is widely considered the most difficult of the SAE design series. A few years ago, the electric category was added to the competition to attract more teams.
The Wyoming Motorsports club was founded a few years ago to provide students the opportunity to work on a project all the way from the design phase through the fabrication and implementation phases. In 2019, the team was poised to travel to New Hampshire, but the car simply was not ready in time and the team had to back out. Again in 2020, the team was ready to travel, but the pandemic cancelled the competition. The competition was only held virtually in 2021, but was fully back on for the 2022 season. The team went above and beyond for this year and took on the challenge of integrating a gas engine with the existing electric powertrain to make the car a full hybrid vehicle.
Even though the team placed second, they were the only team out of the four hybrid teams that fully passed technical inspection and were allowed to race on the track. Unfortunately, the team had some mechanical issues just after starting the race and were unable to finish the first lap. The team was only 6 points from the first place team, and only needed four laps in the endurance event to win.
The team certainly learned a lot from the experience and is looking forward to coming back stronger next year. The team’s goal is to pass the technical inspections early, so the car can compete in all of the dynamic events and hopefully win the competition.
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Laramie High School Visits UW CEAS |
It's great to have High School students back on campus visiting the University of Wyoming College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Featured along the lefthand side are photos from the Laramie High School visit to CEAS this past May.
Visiting the CEAS was Laramie High School's engineering class and about 18 students plus two teachers.
The CEAS provided four lab tours within the Departments of Mechanical, Petroleum and Electrical and Computer Engineering.
In addition, visitors also got to hear from one of our CEAS student ambassadors about her experience within the college.
For more information about the CEAS undergraduate recruitment activities, please contact Alex Farley.
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Ryan Webb Awarded NSF Grant to Understand Post-Wildfire Processes on Soil Sealing for Hydrologic Fluxes in Complex Terrain |
Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Ryan Webb (PI) and Mark Stone at University of New Mexico (Co-PI) on their recent NSF Grant award of $307,500 for "Laboratory Experiments to Understand Post-Wildfire Processes on Soil Sealing for Hydrologic Fluxes in Complex Terrain".
According to their work, it is well understood that the floods and erosion following a wildfire can be costly to local communities. However, the specific processes that alter soil characteristics to increase flooding and erosion are less understood. Soil sealing is one of the less studied post-wildfire processes because the peak impact of soil sealing occurs immediately after a wildfire when it can be difficult and dangerous to make field observations. However, this time period immediately after a wildfire also holds the highest risk for high damage flooding due to the lack of vegetation. To investigate the soil sealing processes that occur immediately after a wildfire, we will conduct laboratory investigations to simulate rainfall on burned soils and ash materials. The outcomes provide new information about post-wildfire soil sealing processes with implications for directing forest management and disaster mitigation resources. Additionally, this project will develop technical skills of 4 college students and develop a 4th and 5th grade science lesson on soil erosion.
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University of Wyoming students in Jianting “Julian” Zhu’s “Fluid Dynamics” class -- considered one of the toughest for engineering majors -- once gave him an unsolicited standing ovation on the last day of class. One student who flunked that same course still gave Zhu a high teaching evaluation rating, saying he was embarrassed because Zhu was an effective teacher, and his failure was all his own.
Zhu, a professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management, is one of three recipients of the 2022 John P. Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award.
The award was established in 1977 by businessman John P. “Jack” Ellbogen to “foster, encourage and reward excellence in classroom teaching at UW.”
“Most teachers spend all of their time and effort on competence and craft, so there is little time left for caring -- the most important ingredient in the recipe,” says Anthony Denzer, head of the UW Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management, who nominated Zhu for the honor. “Dr. Zhu is one of the few people I know who truly gets this and behaves this way. Of course, he excels in competence and craft, but caring is his real superpower as a teacher.
Keep reading to learn more about Zhu here.
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Maohong Fan Awarded Carell Family Energy and Petroleum Professorship |
The University of Wyoming has awarded the Carrell Family Energy and Petroleum Professorship in the College of Engineering and Applied Science to Maohong Fan, whose research has helped chemical, environmental and energy companies overcome technical challenges. Read more about Fan and the new professorship here.
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UW Engineering Student Winners Selected in 9H Foundation Senior Design Challenge |
Two teams of University of Wyoming students received awards recently through the 9H Research Foundation’s $5k Senior Design Challenge in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Discover more about the teams and their winning projects here.
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PhD Student Zitao Wu Presented Research at a Regional Student Research Conference |
Zitao Wu, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering and Construction Management, recently presented systems research on treatment of brackish water for thermoelectric generation cooling at the Annual Rocky Mountain Section-American Water Works Association Student Research Conference held at the University of New Mexico. His research examined tradeoffs in freshwater savings, cost, and generating capacity shortfall from deploying treated brackish water as makeup water for wet cooling towers at existing thermoelectric power plants. This study is part of a multi-year effort that provides technical support for the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s strategic planning of research and development on re-use of non-traditional water sources in the thermoelectric power sector. Zitao Wu conducts his PhD thesis research under direction of Prof. Haibo Zhai, the Roy & Caryl Cline Chair of Engineering, Environment and Natural Resources.
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