Greetings, everyone!
Welcome to a new semester! I hope you were all able to take some time over the summer months to find some rest and relaxation, and maybe catch up a bit on your “to do” list. I also want to take the opportunity to thank all our CEAS faculty and staff for their hard work and preparation in gearing up for the Fall 2021 semester.
If you haven’t done it recently, please visit the UW COVID-19 webpage, your one-stop shop for information regarding the university’s goal of keeping the health and safety of our campus community priority number one, while still fulfilling our educational mission.
In addition, please visit www.uwyo.edu/acadaffairs/program-review/current/index.html in order to stay up-to-date and/or review comprehensive information about UW’s academic restructuring plan and program reviews under UW Regulation 2-13. And I encourage you to take advantage of the link “Submit Feedback for UW Reg 2-13” which I’ve been assured is anonymous.
Looking ahead, we have many things to look forward to in the upcoming months, so please keep your eyes peeled for more information as these events come to fruition.
As we begin the semester, I know we may have grown tired of the extra efforts, but please continue to practice safe COVID-19 behaviors. It is because of your flexibility, adaptability and grit that we have the foundation laid for us to have a successful start to the Fall 2021 semester. Thank you all for getting us to this point, and please continue to take care of yourselves and each other.
Warm regards,
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UW Moves Forward With Fall Semester Plan, Indoor Mask Requirement |
The University of Wyoming is proceeding with a traditional fall 2021 semester while taking steps to manage COVID-19 amid an increase in cases locally and nationally.
UW’s Board of Trustees approved a fall semester plan that strongly encourages and incentivizes COVID vaccinations; will require masks indoors through at least Sept. 20 under circumstances to be communicated to the campus early next week; requires students and employees to be tested upon entry to the university; includes a mandatory education seminar on the virus; expands the current weekly sample testing program to both vaccinated and unvaccinated employees and students, with 3 percent of the population tested weekly; and provides for adjustments as circumstances change.
As approved by the trustees, the indoor mask requirement extends until at least Sept. 20. It doesn’t apply to people alone in their offices and private spaces, and there are medical exceptions. President Ed Seidel also has some discretion to consider lifting the requirement in certain circumstances. At its Sept. 15 meeting, the board will revisit the mask requirement by considering data including case numbers, testing prevalence and vaccine uptake.
“Our hope is that the indoor mask requirement will only be necessary for the start of the fall semester,” Seidel says. “We will monitor the data closely between now and when the board revisits the issue at its September meeting.”
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Dept. Head Carl Frick's Last Day Will Be Oct. 15
Department of Mechanical Engineering Department Head Carl Frick will be leaving UW after 13 wonderful years. Frick and his family will be heading down to Golden, CO, where he has accepted a Mechanical Engineering Department Head position at the Colorado School of Mines. We wish Carl all the best on this next adventure!
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CEAS Alumnus Dr. Thor Martin Seidman Hallingbye Has Passed Away
Dr. Thor Hallingbye passed away August 14 surrounded by the majesty of the Wyoming wilderness that he loved so dearly. A CEAS graduate for both his B.S. and M.S. degrees, Hallingbye was also accepted into the Wyoming WWAMI program for medical school. To learn more about his extraordinary life, please keep reading here.
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CEAS Machine Shop Welcomes New Staff Members
The CEAS Machine Shop is now fully re-staffed in L65 of the EN Sawtooth area and excited to help with as many student, staff and research projects as possible. Please welcome new staff members Gary Puls, Jason Haney, and Brad Orr!
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CEAS Implements Competency Based Program SOAR
SOAR is made up of experiences that will shape, engage and prepare students by participating in high impact learning experiences in research, cross-cultural and international perspectives, internships, entrepreneurship, leadership and community service. Contact Tyler Grabner about how you can implement SOAR in your course.
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Fourth Annual Wyoming Blockchain Stampede Sept. 21-26 at UW
A global community of developers, entrepreneurs, legal experts, legislators, researchers, educators and students will attend the fourth annual Wyoming Blockchain Stampede, featuring the Wyohackathon, Sept. 21-26 at the University of Wyoming. Learn more here.
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Applications Open for Fisher Innovation Launchpad
University of Wyoming students have another opportunity to take their ideas from the dorm room to the boardroom through the Fisher Innovation Launchpad (FIL). Find out more here.
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UW Students, Employees Eligible for Community Vaccination Incentive Program
University of Wyoming students and employees have more opportunities to receive cash and prizes for receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Keep reading here.
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UW Faculty Members Can Be Added to Experts List
University of Wyoming Institutional Communications is looking to expand its UW faculty expert list. Find out more here.
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UW Faculty Members Encouraged to Submit Papers for Release in Advance
University of Wyoming faculty members who have upcoming research papers that will be published in the following journals -- Nature, Science or the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences -- are encouraged to let UW Institutional Communications know well in advance. Discover more here.
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Federal Grant to Assist Wyoming Entrepreneurs With Research and Development
The Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network, based at the University of Wyoming, has received a $125,000 grant to provide specialized training, mentoring and technical assistance for research and development-focused small businesses. Learn more here.
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CEAS Marketing Services at Your Fingertips
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New Information on Reserving CEAS Meeting Rooms
Now that we have received a new directive about social distancing, meetings can again be scheduled face-to-face. If you have scheduling needs for the Engineering building contact Elyse Johnson and for the EERB contact Jeanne Moede.
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Catch Up On Past CEAS Dean's Newsletters
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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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Wyoming International Air Guard
Open House, Air Show and STEM Day
September 10, 11, 12
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BIG Job Fair
September 29
Wyoming Union, Yellowstone Ballroom
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Engineering & Technology Job Fair
September 28
Wyoming Union, Yellowstone Ballroom
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Virtual Job Fair
October 7
Handshake
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Professional Development Corner |
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What to Do in the First 90 Days of Your New Job |
The first 90 days of a new job are crucial. Your boss will decide if you're the right fit for the job and whether you can deliver results. It's a fun time, but it's also really scary.
Aimee Bateman, career expert and founder of Careercake.com, has placed over 4,000 people in their dream jobs. In this course, learn how to absorb all the new information, impress your boss and get along with your coworkers, and deliver the performance you promised in your interview. Plus, find out what to do if the jobs not everything you expected it would be.
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CEAS Faculty & Staff Welcome Students to Campus |
Welcome, Pokes and many thanks to our wonderful UW College of Engineering and Applied Science faculty and staff that helped make our fall 2021 CEAS New Student Convocation and Cowboy Connect activities such a success!
For those that may have never heard about it, Cowboy Connect, is a welcome and transition program for first-year residential, first-year non-residential, first-time veteran, and transfer students, that is designed to help students learn about campus life and leave them feeling prepared for the start of the academic year.
As part of the Cowboy Connect activities, the CEAS New Student Convocation has been a tradition in the college for many years and we were excited to be hosting it again after our COVID-19 year. It was wonderful to see our UW students back on campus!
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UW Nordic Ski Team to Host ‘Trash 2 Treasures’ Fundraiser Aug. 28 |
The University of Wyoming Nordic ski team’s annual “Trash 2 Treasures” fundraiser is Saturday, Aug. 28, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Summit View Parking Lot east of War Memorial Stadium. Discover more here.
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Joseph Holles and Tawfik Elshehabi Among Honors College Clay Fellows |
The University of Wyoming Honors College relies upon the expertise of distinguished teachers and scholars across the UW campus; the John and Esther Clay Honors College Excellence Fund supports fellowships for faculty from other UW colleges to teach stimulating and diverse courses for Honors students, enhancing the curriculum offered and broadening students’ educational horizons.
Congratulations to Professor of Chemical Engineering Joseph Holles and Department of Petroleum Engineering Associate Lecturer Tawfik Elshehabi on being named among the 2021-2022 Honors College Clay Fellows! Discover more here.
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Kanishk Rawat’s Big Step Forward |
Congratulations to Kanishk Rawat, a Department of Mechanical Engineering Master's student on successfully defending his thesis in July 2021. As a graduate research assistant, he performed computational research with the Materials Computation and Data Science (MCDC) group, working on defects in functional oxides.
His research focused on using biaxial compressive and tensile strains to control the ordering of oxygen vacancies in lanthanum nickelate, delta – bismuth oxide and gadolinium titanate. His research has resulted in three publications during his time as a member of the MCDC group. He has now accepted a new position as a mechanical design engineer at Schneider Electric and will be starting a new chapter of his life in Columbia, South Carolina. Discover more about Rawat here.
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A Big Achievement for Anus Manzoor |
We at Materials Computation & Data Science lab are happy to announce that Anus Manzoor has successfully defended his PhD in Mechanical Engineering on 20th of July, 2021. Anus joined the lab during the Fall of 2016 and since then the direction of his graph of progress has been constantly upwards. During this time, he did not just excel in research but also cleared all the PhD milestones in a breeze.
He produced 7 publications; 4 first authored, 2 co-authored and 1 under preparation. Some of his research work was done in or with collaboration of US National Labs. This resulted in him landing with several great Postdoc offers. We wish him good luck for his Postdoc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and beyond.
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Nathan Linton Receives Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) from DOE |
Congratulations to Nathan Linton, a Department of Mechanical Engineering BS graduate (2020) and current master's student, on receiving a Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
This internship is very competitive, where the success rate of getting an internship at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in the past two-three years ranged from an 8% to 33% chance of being chosen. Linton feels he was lucky to be chosen to do his 10-week internship at INL under Dr. Donna P. Guillen in the Materials Science and Engineering Department. Read more about Linton's journey here.
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CEAS Graduate Students Serve as Mentors for NOAA GPU Hackathon for Machine Learning |
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor and Graduate Coordinator Suresh Muknahallipatna has three graduate students; James W. Mock, Zephaniah G. Connell and Joshua Blaney; serving as mentors for NOAA GPU Hackathon for Machine Learning sponsored by NVidia. Click here to see more about the projects they are mentoring.
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Wyoming High School Students in Transition: One Success Story |
“What am I going to do after graduation?” “How can I help my family?” “I don’t know if I want to go to college!” Questions such as these are a daily chorus for students, teachers, counselors, and employers.
In the words of the man who learned about dirty jobs, “we – in America – have made ‘work’ a dirty word. We have heard that success is in the corner office, but we have unintentionally belittled the ones who have the skills needed to build that very office" (Mike Rowe). Keep reading here.
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A current University of Wyoming student and two recent UW graduates had the opportunity to work in a professional laboratory setting this summer, with each contributing to a unique research experience. And another UW graduate recently began his internship.
Jacy Busboom, Nathan Linton and Rene Mendez all worked at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) this summer as part of the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program. Reid Olson, who graduated from UW in May with a dual bachelor’s degree in computer science and zoology, began his internship Aug. 23 at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo.
The program encourages undergraduate students and recent graduates to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers by providing research experiences at Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories. Selected students participate as interns appointed at one of 17 participating DOE laboratories/facilities. The students perform research with the guidance of laboratory staff scientists or engineers on projects supporting the DOE mission. Learn more here.
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August Inspirational Phone Background |
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Click the button below to download and save this inspirational image to your phone!
"It Always Seems Impossible Until It's Done."
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