Engineering Studies
The Business Side of Engineering: Students Explore a Possible Career and Tour Ground Zero
“This experience opened my eyes to the different aspects within engineering. It isn’t just designing different structures. There is the management side that deals with the organization of everything,” says civil engineering major Tomas Concepcion IV ’11 (Effort, Pa.). Over winter break, Concepcion and six other engineering students got a closer look at the business [...]
Acopian Engineering Center Provides Collaborative Student-Faculty Experiences
Lafayette’s 90,000-square-foot Acopian Engineering Center includes laboratories designed specifically for student-faculty research, high-tech classrooms equipped with instructional technology, and student learning centers designed and equipped specially for use by the students in each major. The center houses the engineering studies program and the departments of chemical and biomolecular engineering, civil and environmental engineering, computer science, [...]
Pioneering Research Brings Kudos for John Sullivan ‘04
The innovative research of John Sullivan ’04, who recently received his master’s in real estate development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Real Estate, has been recognized with two awards. Sullivan and his coauthor, Benjamin Bulloch, principal of Credit Tenant Capital of Boston, Mass., received the 2008-09 ING Clairon Most Outstanding Student Article [...]
Students Use $10,000 Projects for Peace Grant to Run Summer Youth Program in Colombia
Four students used a $10,000 Davis Foundation “Projects for Peace” grant this summer to spend five weeks in Bogotá, Colombia, and run a youth program for 80 school children ages 5 to 16. They worked with Fundación Ayuda por Colombia (FAC), a nonprofit organization that operates an afterschool program for these children during the school [...]
Getting Their Hands Dirty: Students Work to Build a Sustainable Future in Honduras
Before he traveled to Honduras and began the grueling work of digging into the earth and lugging wood and rocks to build latrines, even before he had learned much about sustainable development, Michael Trejo ’12 blithely told friends and family that he’d be spending his summer “making sure rural communities are getting clean water.” By [...]
Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders Receives National Grant
Award will support sustainable water project in El Convento, Honduras The Lafayette student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) has been awarded a Boeing grant through Engineers Without Borders-USA to help fund its ongoing work to bring clean water to rural Honduras. EWB is working to build a new water system for El Convento, a [...]
Students Work Toward a College-Wide Sustainable Food Loop
Their goal is to compost and reuse all food waste generated by Lafayette dining services A team of students in Lafayette Environmental Awareness and Protection and the Society of Environmental Engineers and Scientists have been working toward the goal of a large-scale, campus-wide sustainable food loop. Through composting, community gardens, and solar panel projects, the [...]
Environmental Engineers Will Discuss the Galapagos Islands Wind Project and the Future of Alternative Energy Nov. 4
Talk is this year’s Judith A. Resnik Memorial Lecture By Meghan Cloonan ’10 Paul Loeffelman, director of environmental public policy at American Electric Power, and Jim Tolan, president of U.S. operations for SgurrEnergy Corp., will discuss their role in the e8 Galapagos Islands Wind Project and the future of alternative energy and environmental sustainability 8 [...]
Stephen D. Pryor ’71, President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Will Address Sophomore Engineering Majors
Stephen D. Pryor ’71, president of ExxonMobil Chemical Company, will speak with sophomore engineering majors about “What Employers are Looking for in the 21st Century Engineer” 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, in the auditorium of Lafayette’s Kirby Hall of Civil Rights. Pryor, a member of the College’s Board of Trustees, became president of ExxonMobil Chemical [...]
Jackie Gowdy ’11 Explores Economics and Tax Incentives for Renewable Energies
She writes about her research under the guidance of David Veshosky, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering Jackie Gowdy ’11 (Newington, Conn.), a double major in engineering studies and international affairs, is working with David Veshosky, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, on an EXCEL research project looking at the tax incentives for [...]
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