Walter H. Flood II, a senior from Chicago, was among 35 students profiled in the magazine, distributed to engineering professionals and civil engineering industry representatives across the country.

Flood, son of alumnus Walter H. Flood (Civil Eng. ’75), has integrated his classroom lessons with extensive field and laboratory experience in testing and inspecting construction materials for Flood Testing Labs, Inc. He has helped develop patent-pending products in the area of concrete mix. Flood's current project is concrete mix that will conduct electricity in order to provide heat to a pavement system, providing a low-cost alternative to removing ice and snow from roads. He also designed high-strength mortar mixes for a bridge in Venezuela.

At Rose-Hulman, Flood has been a resident assistant for two years, and an officer in the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Flood was nominated for the award by Civil Engineering Department faculty. Robert Guratzsch, last year's Rose-Hulman CE News Star Student honoree, is now a graduate student at Vanderbilt University.