SJSU ME Students Sweep Regional ASME Design Competition
3/15/08
Mechanical engineering undergraduates from SJSU swept the top awards at the regional ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) SPDC (Student Professional Design Competition) this past weekend. Competitors include universities from California and Nevada . Tony Cacace won the oral presentation competition with his talk entitled, "The Functional Finger Learning Tool," and will be representing our region in the national competition this November. Second place went to Tyler Grushkowitz for his talk, "Concentrating Photovoltaic Thermal Solar Cogeneration". In addition, first
and second places in the technical poster competition were awarded to Marlon Hernandez and Johan Altamirano, respectively, and the technical web page competition was won by Hanaa Zeid. The faculty advisors for these projects are Drs. Ji Wang and Jinny Rhee, and the ASME faculty advisor is
Dr. Winncy Du.
Previous Winners
ASME Awards this Certificate to San Jose State University in recognition of the achievements of Patrick Landrum ( 1st Place Winner in ASME Old Guard Technical Poster Competition) and Ivan Cho ( 1st Place Winner in ASME Old Guard Technical Web Page Competition), at the ASME Pacific Northwest District D Student Professional Development Conference hosted by the ASME Student Section at the University of Nevada, Reno, NV March 30-April 1, 2007. |
