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The San Francisco State University won the third place in the annual Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) national conference, behind only to Stanford University, the first place winner and Carnegie Mellon, the second place winner. Other finalist teams are CSU LA, New Mexico State University, and UC Berkeley. The SFSU project is a fuel cell powered remote control car and its team members are Mathew Jaeger (team leader, mechanical engineering), Thu Ya Maw (mechanical engineering) and Tatiana Cantu (SHPE student chapter president, computer engineering). (Download/View Awards Paper [43 KB])

SFSU student, Tiffany Chin, won the Elizabeth McLean Memorial Scholarship for the 2007-2008 academic year in the amount of $1000. This scholarship is offered by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). More than 700 applicants are reviewed and Ms. Chin was selected because of her demonstrated outstanding academic achievement as well as strong engineering potential.

Our Steel bridge won the second place in the Mid-Pacific Region and is going to the National Steel Bridge Compeition on May 25-26, 2007.

Undergraduate students, 1) "Elastomer Energy Buffer To Replace A Friction Clutch" by Thomas P. Alldredege, Prisa Chanthavong, and Eric L. Bura 2) "Aim For Er (autonomous Immediate Monitoring For Emergency Resource)" by Atsede Ayalew, Terrence Gilfillian, Doan Ho, and Carolina Silva 2) "The Traction Elevator And Control Techniques" by Justin Hoffman and Mike F. Reinhard ,won the first and second place of the 2006 COSE project showcase [87 KB].

Tim Le, a graduate student, was awarded 2006 Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada Structural Engineering Scholarship. Mr. Le was also the only engineering recipient of Robert W. Maxwell Memorial Scholarship ($3000) for 2006-07.

2005 AEE (San Francisco Bay Area Chapter) award winners, Susan O'Grady and Prisa Chanthavong. The Chapter matched the National scholarship, making it a modestly nice award to these two excellent students. 2005 Awards Recipients Left to right - Andy Green, Energy Manager of the Year; Susan O'Grady and Prisa Chanthavomg, AEE National and Chapter Scholarship recipients; Evan Mills, PhD, Appropriate Technology Champion; Jim Tischer (for Peter Canessa), Water Pumping Efficiency Champion; Ann Hancock, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Champion; and Loek Vaneveld, Energy Engineer of the Year.

A senior project group won the lincoln contest (see link below), this project also placed 3rd in the student project showcase last spring.

We sent 3 groups to the digital signal processing applications contest in Taiwan (contest link is http://www.stut.edu.tw/dsp2005/)

• Hau-Wen Chen's entry, "The Algorithm of Direct Altitude Calculation using Digital Image Processing", advisor Michael Holden, won "Most Innovative" in the graduate division.
• Yee-Fei Tee's entry, "Object Tracking Security Camera", advisor Hamid Shahnasser, won "Most Innovative" in the undergraduate division.
• Ian Robertson's entry, "Detecting Epileptic Seizures via a Wearable Device Using Digital Signal Processing Hardware", won "Best Presentation" in the undergrad. division.

Another good news about our student's competition. Please see the article from SFSU News Service. Our undergraduate student won the GOLD award in Lincoln Engineering Student Design Competition 2005. The title of the project is &Walkomatic Therapy& Orthotic Knee-Assist Brace with Control Components by Tina Leong, Susan O'Grady, and Wutichai Chanhong, advisor is Dr. Michael Holden. (Download/View Awards Poster [2.08 MB])

Holy Chan, a graduate student in Structural/Earthquake Engineering, won $5000.00 scholarship for 2005-06 from Structural Engineer Association of North California.

Sonja El-Wakil, a graduate student, was awarded 2005 Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada Structural Engineering Scholarship.

Brooke Cole, a graduate student in Environmental Engineering, received the 2005 NASA Ames Research Center Honor Award in the student category.

San Francisco State University, School of Engineering is proud to announce that our 2005 Arched Wood Bridge Team won the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2005 National Timber Bridge Design Competition!

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