The Annual Judicial Awards honored a team of BYU’s Information Technology capstone students with the “2013 Service to the Courts” award for their creation of LearningLink, a job training software. Utah State Courts was so pleased with the product that it is becoming the new state standard and potentially the new national standard.
From left to right: Shawn Larson, Seishi Yamagata, Trevor Briggs.
Only one ITE student chapter has won the regional championship more than once. BYU's team of civil engineers competed in the Western District Collegiate Traffic Bowl in Phoenix and took home their second regional title.
Student Innovator of the Year (SIOY) Competition deadline.
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Michael Jensen, electrical and computer engineering
William Pitt, chemical engineering
Daniel Maynes, mechanical engineering
Chris Mattson, mechanical engineering
Thomas Knotts, chemical engineering
President Cecil O. Samuelson welcomed BYU faculty and staff members back to campus and presented the annual awards during his Annual University Conference address Tuesday, Aug. 27. Five faculty members from the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology were honored.
An MRI scanner is now in operation at BYU to support research from a variety of disciplines, including research in the Ira A. Fulton College. Located on the first floor of the McDonald Building, the MRI Research Facility houses a Siemens scanner with a 3 Tesla magnetic field.
Mechanical engineering student Jeff Perry headed up the winning team in his capstone class. He and his teammates built a fully autonomous, ping pong-launching robot in just three weeks -- just in time for graduation.
Two students from the BYU School of Technology won second place in a simulation competition this week. The ProModel Student Competition encourages students to submit simulation projects they completed for a class or worked on as part of a college course. The BYU team was comprised of Tony Liu and Chris Smith, whose simulation earned them second place and a prize of $250. Liu and Smith are both graduate students in the Manufacturing Systems program.
