PULLMAN, Wash. – Job hunting, career insights and networking will be among the topics of a workshop for early-career scientists and engineers 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, July 18, in Smith CUE 203 at Washington State University.
By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – Cecilia Richards has been named a 2014 fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for outstanding achievements in micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) power and small-scale engines.
Zhang PROSSER – Qin Zhang, a professor in the department of biological systems engineering and a senior scientist in agricultural automation, is the new director of WSU’s Center for Precision Agricultural Systems headquartered in Prosser. Zhang, who has served as assistant director of CPAS for the past year, assumed his new responsibilities on July 1. […]
Part electrical engineer and part neurophysiologist, Dave Rector often will be found tucked in a far corner of the College of Veterinary Medicine surrounded by a jumble of colored wire, black electrical tape and socket sets. A slight hint of rodent scents the air while a periodic table of the elements hangs above a bubbling […]
Today, engineering professor Sankar Jayaram laughs about that first presentation, but in 1994 he was just a new faculty member with a bold idea for using virtual reality to complete ergonomic studies in vehicle manufacturing. He discussed his idea with a representative of PACCAR, a multinational corporation known primarily as a manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks, […]
Richard W. (Dick) Colf, executive vice president of Peter Kiewit Sons’ Inc., will make a presentation titled “Construction: The Coming Boom” at the 2005 Cheatham Lecture at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, in Carpenter 102. A reception will follow. After graduating in 1966 from WSU with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Colf went to […]
Brian K. Lamb, Boeing Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering, has a new title to call his own: Regents Professor. A long line of awards paved his road towards Regents Professor, including the Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering and Architecture (2002); Outstanding Graduate Adviser Award, WSU Association of Graduate Students (1999-2000); and the Leon Luck […]