Summer 2007

Civil Engineering & Math Teams Capture State Titles

Teams of civil engineering and mathematics students once again reaped top honors against peers from state colleges and universities in this year’s American Society of Civil Engineers’ Indiana Senior Design Presentation and Indiana College Mathematics competitions. This marks the 12th time out of the past 14 years that a Rose-Hulman team has topped the ASCE competition.

Rose-Hulman’s award-winning team completed the 10th Street Extension and Modernization Study for the Metropolitan Planning Organization of Bloomington, Ind. The project examined ways to improve the safety and efficiency of multi-modal transportation along the north perimeter of the Indiana University campus with the modernization of key east/west corridors around the city.

Members of the design team included Rob Adolph, Drew Lopshire, David Massey, Ryan Robinson and Todd Stout. Rose-Hulman’s mathematics team earned 58 of a possible 60 points to place first in the ICMC competition, which included 40 teams from throughout the state. Team members were Robert Lemke-Oliver, Hari Ravindran and Amanda Rohde. Rose-Hulman’s second team was eighth, while two other teams placed 13th and 14th.

An environmentally friendly snow-and-ice removal system designed for the Indianapolis Airport Authority earned thirdplace honors in the Federal Aviation Administration’s first Airport Design Competition for Universities. Splitting the $1,000 prize were 2007 civil engineering graduates Christopher Armstrong, Mark Johanning, William Kenny, Roy McIlwaine and Robert Wilson.