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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology civil engineering majors Jason Goble, Ryan Pattenaude and Elizabeth Ridgway earned $2,000 scholarships from the Asphalt Pavement Association of Indiana for their interest in asphalt paving technology.
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Asphalt Scholars: Earning Asphalt Pavement Association scholarships were Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology civil engineering students (from left) Ryan Pattenaude, Elizabeth Ridgway and Jason Goble. Jim McKinney (right), interim department chair, also attended the awards dinner.
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Goble, a senior from Martinsville, Ill., received the Wabash Valley Asphalt/Walsh & Kelly Scholarship; Pattenaude, a senior from Toledo, Ill., earned the Mohr/Rogers Scholarship; and Ridgway, a junior from Grosse Point, Mich., received the John Spangler Memorial Scholarship.
Each student has had multiple internships and work experiences in the transportation field, learning about asphalt mixture techniques, road repair and bridge inspection.
Goble has learned aspects of transportation engineering through internships with SemMaterials in Tulsa, Okla. (2007), Francis Associates of Paris, Ill. (2005-06) and Clark County Highway Department in Marshall, Ill. (2005). He has helped implement various comparison tests to evaluate the effectiveness of different soil modifiers, generated a rock and mineral identification kit for every day laboratory use and assisted in the design of new detection equipment that will identify problems causing sub grade roadway deterioration.
"I am interested in transportation because of the various disciplines of civil engineering that are covered," Goble stated. "Transportation allows diversity and I plan to obtain a position in either roadway design, field engineering or water resources engineering pertaining to transportation."
Pattenaude has spent the past two summers working for the Cumberland County Highway Department in Illinois. He has assisted in road resurfacing and widening, the design and construction of several at-grade railroad crossings, and performed bridge and road inspection. He is currently looking for a job in either transportation design or transportation construction.
Ridgway also has completed an internship with SemMaterials, serving as a laboratory technician and testing many different types of asphalt mixtures. She created a lab standard of her own stone-matrix asphalt mixture.
"I would like to do something more structurally when I graduate, but hopefully involve the things I learned from SemMaterials, perhaps building bridges. I would like to incorporate asphalt and structural engineering," she said. |
