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A Newsletter for

Alumni and Friends

Spring 2004

FEATURES Environmental Engineering The Test of TEAMS A Sticky Lesson in Engineering SAUVIM: A Big Fish in the Sea 2004 Student Expo Fall 2003 Graduates

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The QUADRANGLE is published three times

per year by the College of Engineering. It is named after

the College's first four one-story concrete

structures built in 1928.

DeanWai-Fah Chen

Interim Associate DeanVassilis Syrmos

interim Assistant DeanTep Dobry

Department ChairsH. Ronald Riggs (CEE)

Todd Reed (EE)Bruce Liebert (ME)

EditorMarvin Nitta

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Dr. Roger Babcock working with Ph.D. student Sumon Kanpirom in the EnvironmentalEngineering Laboratory.

A Clean Lookat Environmental Engineering

O N THE FIRST DAY OF INSTRUCTION DURING THE FALL 2002 SEMESTER,

the Civil E ng ineering D epartm en t officially changed its nam e to the Civil and

Environmental Engineering Department (CEE).

“T h e reason for the nam e change was to b e tte r publicize o u r d ep artm en t and our environm ental eng ineering p rog ram ,” says Dr. Ronald Riggs, Civil and Environm ental Engineering D epartm ent Chair. “Over the past two years, a couple o f m ajor events have h ap p en ed with o u r environm ental eng ineer­ing program . Recently, the dep artm en t added environm ental eng ineering as one o f its undergraduate tracks and last year the Environ­m ental Engineering Laboratory was renovated.”

W ork on the m uch-needed renovations to the 4,500 square-foot Environm ental E ng ineering Laboratory began in July 2002.It was funded by an $840,000 special alloca­tion from the state legislature for repa ir and m ain tenance th ro u g h the Capital Im prove­m ents Program Eund.

T he Environm ental E ng ineering Laboratory is designed for bo th instruction and research in physical, chem ical and biological treatm en t o f water, wastewater, an d soil. T he laboratory includes wet chem istry facilities, m icrobiology facilities, and space fo r w ater and wastewater operations research an d fa te /tra n sp o rt . processes in soil.

T he renovation project, w hich was com pleted in Jan u ary 2003, involved rep lacing all work­benches, cabinetry, sinks, safety fum e hoods, and lighting.

“I t’s very nice. W e’re very happy with it,” says Civil and Environm ental E ng ineering Associate Professor Dr. Roger Babcock.“I t ’s a huge difference, in term s o f the feel o f the room , it’s m uch m ore usable now.”

VTiile the renovations were going on.Dr. Babcock and the o th e r researchers conducted th e ir work in o th e r labs, like the W ater Resources Research C en ter (WRRC) laboratory on the first floor o f H olm es Hall.

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O ne o f the un ique aspects abotit the environm ental engineering program is its relationship with the W ater Resources Research C en ter (WRRC), which is an in d ep en d en t research u n it th a t involves faculty and researchers from various departm en ts a ro u n d cam pus collaborating with each other. T h ree o f the CEE D epart­m en t’s faculty (Dr. Babcock, Dr. Clark C.K. Liu, an d Dr. C hittran jan Ray) have jo in t appo in tm ents with the WRRC.

“O ne o f the great things tha t has com e ou t o f this re la tionsh ip is that I’ve g raduated m ore than 30 graduate students as a thesis advisor and all of them were cm l engineering students, who received all th e ir su p p o rt and fund ing from WRRC projects,”Dr. Babcock said.

Environm ental eng ineering research a t the College focuses on four areas: im ter and wastewater engineering, hydrology and hydraulics, environmental flu id mechanics, and coastal engineering and marine environment.

Many o f the research endeavors are supported by national agencies, such as the N ational Science Eoundation, N ational O ceanic an d A tm ospheric A dm inistration, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army Corps o f Engineers, U.S. Environ­m ental P ro tection Agency, U.S. Geological Surv'ey, an d the U.S. D epartm en t o f A griculture.

However, m any research projects also receive fun d in g from state agencies like the Hawaii D epartm ent o f H ealth, D epartm en t o f T ransporta tion and D epartm en t o f A griculture. “Almost all the projects have a local im pact, there are very few projects tha t

d o n ’t,” says Dr. Babcock. “However, m ost o f them also have a national an d in ternational im pact, as well.”

O n e pro ject th a t is having an in ter­national im pact is the work of Associate Professor Dr. Chitaranjan Ray, who received a prestigious Eulbright Senior Research Fellowship Award to study the po ten tia l of riverbank filtration to p roduce d rink ing w ater for selected large cities in the Ganges Plains o f Nepal, India, and Bangladesh.

A no ther achievem ent for the GEE D epartm en t was establishm ent o f an environm ental engineering track for underg raduate students. W ithin the upcom ing year, the d ep artm en t hopes to get it up and ru n n in g by offering the classes necessary for the track and to p rom ote it as an op tion for undergraduates.

W ith all tha t has been accom plished over the past two years, the fu tu re o f the environm ental eng ineering program at the College o f E ngineer­ing looks bright.

“We hope to expand the d ep artm en t’s stature an d be recognized, no t only locally, bu t also nationally as a place to com e an d study an d do toj>notch research in environm ental eng ineer­ing ,” Dr. Babcock said.

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING FACULTY• Roger Babcock Jr., Ph.D. (UCLA

1991), RE.; Associate Professor;Joint Appointment - Water Resources Research Center - Biological waste­water treatment, membrane bioreactors, bioaugmentation, wastewater reuse, fate of contami­nants in irrigation leachate, activated carbon regeneration.

• Edmond D.H. Cheng, Ph.D. (Utah State 1970); Professor - Flood hydrology, unsteady subsurface flow, stream- flow and extreme wind modeling and simulation, extreme winds regionalization.

• Robert A. Grace, Ph.D. (M IT 1966); Professor - Offshore and underwater engineering design and construc­tion, ocean outfalls, marine environment.

• Albert Kim, Ph.D. (UCIA 2000); Assistant Professor - Membrane separation processes, hydro-dynam­ics of porous fractal aggregates, computational environmental molecular science using distributed parallel processing.

• Clark C.K. Liu, Ph.D. (Cornell 1976), P.E.; Professor; Joint Appointmmt - Water Resources Research Center - Fate and transport of agriculture residues in upper soils, watershed hydrology and modeling, river water quality modeling, ground water manage­ment modeling, artificial upwelling and deep ocean water application, wind-powered reverse osmosis.

• Chittaranjan Ray, Ph.D. (Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1994), P.E.; Associate Professor Joint Appointment - Water Resources Research Center- Water quality engineering with emphasis on groundwater, pesticides, flow and transport processes in variably-saturated media, surface and ground-water interaction.

• Michelle H. Teng, Ph.D. (Caltech 1990), P.E.; Associate Professor - Hydrodynamics, coastal and hydraulic engineering, water wave generation and propagation, coastal flooding due to storm surge and tsunamis, sediment transport in tidal inlets, bridge scour, numerical simulation.

Photo at Left - Seabury Hall places first overall.

Photo Below Left - Students from Waipahu High School having fun at TEAMS.

Photo Below - A student looks over her team ’s exam.

The Test ofCOMBINING THE KNOWLEDGE

OF MATHEMATICS, CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, BIOLOGY, AND COM­PUTER APPLICATIONS, the Tests o f

Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics and Science (TEAMS) com petition is a un ique and challenging academ ic program th a t allows h igh school students to apply the know ledge gained in th e ir schoolwork to solve real-world engineering problem s.

T he 2004 TEAMS com petition , held in the University o f Hawai'i Cam pus C en ter Ballroom in February, b ro u g h t to g e th er n ine schools from O ah u and two schools from M aui to participate in the half-day com petition .

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academic program that

allows high school students

to apply the knowledge gained in their schoolwork

to solve real-world

engineering problems.

T he TEAMS exam is given in two 90-m inute parts. P art O ne consists o f a series o f objective m ultiple-choice questions related to various eng ineer­

ing situations. P art Two requires students to describe an d defend the ir solutions to open-ended subjective questions re la ted to problem s from p art one.

This year’s com petition exam consisted o f ten problem s on various topics, which included hydrostatic bearing, design o f flying m achines, fire p ro tec­tion engineering , auditory feedback techniques in stu ttering, wireless com m unications, d istribu ted renew ­able energy system analysis, g reen design o f a h igh school, nuclear engineering,rfast food, and welding products.

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A Sticky Lesson in EngiIt’s usually rude to play with your food, except when it’s for the sake of engineering.

Photo Above - A girl building a base for her structure.

Photo Above Right - A group attempts to make their tower taller.

Photo at Far Right - Adding the finishing touches to their structure.

O N FEBRUARY 7TH, OVER 50

YOUNG WOMEN BEC'AME ENGINEERS for a day at the

2004 Sacred Hearts Academy Science Symposium for Girls w hen they designed and constructed a tower using only uncooked spaghetti noodles an d marshmallows.

It was the fou rth year in a row tha t the University o f Hawai'i E ngineering A him ni Association an d the College o f E ng ineering had heen invited to participate. This year, UH E ngineer­ing A lum ni Kelly Cruz from the City and C ountry o f H onolu lu T ranspor­tation Services, Jamie Hikiji from M & E Pacific, Lori Nishida from Austin, Tsutsum i and Associates, and Ryan Sugamoto from the College of Engineering volunteered for the event.

T he annual Science Symposium for Girls is open to young w om en from public and private schools. It in tro ­duces them to all the opportun ities available in the fields o f science, and technology through various workshops.

This year’s eng ineering w orkshop was called “Sticky Spaghetti Tower,” which tu rn ed ou t to be one of the m ost p o p u la r workshops.

T he students were p laced in to groups and each g roup was given 50 m ini m arshm allows an d 50 pieces o f uncooked spaghetti.

After a short p resen ta tion abou t eng ineering and the rules o f the com petition , the groups had 25 m inutes to construct th e ir tower. Towers were ju d g e d on h e igh t and stability, which was m easured by how long the structures could stand, with

a m axim um o f 30 seconds. If there was a tie, the m ost efficient tower (the tower th a t used the least am o u n t o f m aterials) was declared the winner.

In b o th 50-m inute sessions, girls learned the basic concepts o f design­ing, build ing, an d testing structures. They also used team w ork and time m anagem ent to accom plish the ir goal.

In the first session, the w inning tower stood 18 inches tall and held up for the m axim um 30 seconds.In the second session, two groups constructed a tower tha t m easured 20 inches and stood for the m axim um 30 seconds.

It was fun event for all who participated . T he girls got to m eet young, successful fem ale engineers.

neeringfound o u t w hat eng ineering is all about, an d got a first h and look at w hat engineers do.

And, o f course, they got to play with food.

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Each school spen t m onths p rep arin g for the event. However, m any teams had a m en to r from the engineering com m unity to help them along the way. Local eng ineering com panies and organizations d o n a ted th e ir time an d m oney to schools participating in TEAMS.

At the com petition , schools are separated into d ifferen t divisions based on en ro llm en t and w hether the school is an open o r selective en ro llm en t school.

Seabury Hall took first place overall for the th ird year in a row, beating ou t P unahou School by one point. T he top scoring team s in the o th e r divisions included P unahou School, Kailua H igh School, and Mililani High School. A no ther team from P unahou School placed first in the Ju n io r Varsity division.

Events like the TEAMS com petition in troduce hun d red s o f students to the types o f problem s engineers face and how they use m athem atics

Teamwork is essential to be successful a t TEAMS.

and science to solve them . They see first h an d how exciting eng ineering can be. Hopefully, it encourages them to be engineers in the future.

2004’s TEiAMS sponsors included:

A m erican Society o f M echanical Engineers, C. Ino Design, E ngineering A lum ni Association o f the University o f H aw aii, E ng ineering C oncepts, Hawaii W ater E nv ironm ent Association, Institutes for E lectrical & E lectronics Engineers, Inc., KAI Hawaii, Inc., Kokea E ngineering, Inc., T he Linitiaco C onsulting G roup, Inc., M&E Pacific, Inc., R.M. Towill C orporation , and the Society o f A m erican Military Engineers.

SAUVIM: A Big Fish in the Sea

“D EEP-SEA ENVIRON­MENT CONSISTS OF

THREE HAZARDS

FOR ELECTRONIC AND m ec h a n ic a lL c o m p o n e n t s ,”says M echanical E ngineering Assistant Professor and Associate D irector o f the A utonom ous Systems L abora­tory, Song K. Choi. “T he water itself, which is corrosive, the salt con ten t o f the water, and the pressures created by the water as you go d eep e r and deeper.”

T h ere are a variety o f vehicles used in the deep-sea environm ent. They are e ither m anned vehicles o r remotely operated vehicles. However, with these types o f vehicles there are a n u m b er o f safety and logistic issues. Also, accuracy an d efficiency is tm certain due to a variety o f factors, like hum an opera to r fatigue and response tim e from the rem ote control.

Since 1997, researchers from the M echanical E ng ineering D ep artm en t’s A utonom ous Systems Laboratory (ASL) have been developing a Semi-Autonomous Underwater

Vehicle for Intervention Missions (SAUVIM) to overcom e these issues.

Currently, m ost au tonom ous vehicles are used ju s t for m apping. MTiat makes SAUVIM stand ou t is its robotic arm , w hich will

allow it to p erfo rm tasks o th e r vehicles can ’t.

SAUVIM is abou t the sam e size as a sport utility vehicle and weighs a ro u n d 6 tons. Over a ton o f tha t weight can be con tribu ted to the twelve large batteries, which provides enough pow er to ru n SAUVIM for 24 to 72 hours.

Choi says SAUVIM will see an increase in battery pow er w here you can go from days to m onths at a tim e as battery technologies evolves, especially with fuel cells.

T he on-board com p u ter system is fairly extensive, consisting o f several com puters used to ex tract and process in form ation from sensors and two m ain com puters, w hich use the data ex tracted to autonom ously control the vehicle.

T he fram e, which holds the batteries and com p u ter system, consists o f alum inum I-beams, w hich allow the vehicle to work at dep ths up to 6,000 m eters (about 20,000 feet). T he en tire u n it will be w rapped in an o u te r shell m ade o u t o f fiberglass.

Over the past seven years, over $8 m illion o f fund ing has been provided by the Office o f Naval Research fo r the SAUVIM project.In the nex t few years, the pro ject will receive several m illion m ore.

A no ther underw ater ro b o t the AST works with is the Omni- Directional Intelligent Navigator (ODIN), which was created with a N ational Science F oundation P residen­tial Young Investigator gran t p resen ted to M echanical Engineer­ing Professor, Dr. Junku Yuh, the Principal Investigator o f the SAUVIM project. D esigned and fabricated by Dr. Choi in 1992, ODIN is used as a vehicle to test control, navigation, and localization algo­rithm s. These tests are d one in the University o f H aw aii Duke K ahanam okti Pool.

T he ultim ate goal o f this research is to develop a production-based vehicle that will be capable o f au tonom ous underw ater navigation and in tervention tasks for the military, academ ic, and industrial sectors.

Choi says SAU^VIM technologies could be used for wreckage recovery, m ine detection , o r hom eland security by the military. In the academ ic sector, it could be used to au to n o ­mously retrieve water and soil sam ples o r do underw ater m ain tenance work. Commercially, SAUVIM could be used for m ineral location and extraction , rescue missions, o r even tracking fish m igrations.

Along with the research, a spin-off com pany called M arine Autonomous Systems Engineering (MASE)wa.s established. “It’s one o f the first d irect spin-off com panies from the College o f E ng ineering an d it allows us to do collabo­rative work betw een the A utonom ous Systems

L aboratory and the company, as well as outside agencies, like the Naval U ndersea W arfare C en ter in Newport, R hode Island,” says Choi, who also serves as d irec to r o f the new company.

MASE will prim arily concen tra te on the technological developm ent o f the vehicle, novel sensor research, vehicle m onito ring research , vehicle testing, and its ongoing m ain tenance and upkeep.

In te rest in SAUVIM has also peaked thein terest o f the National A eronautics and Space Administration (NASA). “T he w ater environ­m en t is the closest you can get to the space env ironm ent in term s o f zero gravity, except the w ater env ironm ent is m uch m ore com ­plex ,” Choi says. “However, all the

m otion controls and everything you do in term s o f m oving things an d locating things is very sim ilar to space because everything is free suspended. NASA gets a lo t o f p e rtin en t data from us th a t they can use with the ir space technology.”

T he work on SAUVIM has b een a total g roup project. T he con tribu tions from the two Seniors R esearchers, Dr. Tae Won Kim and Dr. Giacomo Marani, have advanced the p ro ject to w here it is today. A n u m b er of g raduate and u n d erg rad u a te students have also help ed move the endeavor forward.Even several h igh school in terns have m ade contributions.

R ight now SAUVIM is a big fish in the sea, b u t over the n ex t few years researchers plan to m ake the final p roduction vehicle a signifi­cantly sm aller an d m ore efficient vehicle.

To ka rn more about the Autonomous Systems Laboratory and SAUVIM, visit their luebsite at ivivw.eng.haxvaii.edu/~asl.

Photos at Far Left - (Top) SAUVIM being lowered into Snug Harbor for testing; (Bottom) SAUVIM without its shell.

Photo Above - ODIN being tested at the UH pool.

Photo at Right - A bottie rocket being iaunched.

Photo at Far Right - Fiundreds of students attended this year's Expo.

Photo Beiow - Engineering students test the popsicie stick bridges.

^xC ile/neptthe Expo!

T HERE WERE ROCKETS

ELYING INTO THE AIRdrag racing down the sidewalk, bridges being destroyed, an d m otors being rew ed.

Sounds like parts o f a good action movie?

It w asn’t an action movie, bu t it was ju s t as exciting. It was the 2004 Engineering Expo at the University o f Hawai‘i College o f Engineering.

T he event, p u t on by the various stu d en t organizations at the College o f E ngineering, is one o f the larg­est events the College hosts every year. This year’s Expo attracted abou t 500 students from over two- dozen m iddle an d h igh schools.

T he popularity o f the event has also a ttracted a n u m b er o f schools from the ne ighbor islands, like H ilo H igh School from the Big Island, Baldwin H igh School from M aui, and W aim ea H igh School from Kauai.

T he Expo serves as an excellen t opportun ity fo r students to learn w hat is h ap p en in g in the field o f eng ineering th ro u g h s tu d en t and faculty exhibits and creative eng ineering com petitions.

This year, the m iddle schools were able to partic ipate in one event, while the high schools partic ipated in five separate events.

T he Popsicie Stick Bridge Competition,sponsored by the A m erican Society o f Civil

E ngineers (ASCE), h ad ha lf a dozen m iddle

school team s construct popsicle stick bridges th a t h ad to span over a two foot gap. Bridges were ju d g e d on th e ir ability to carry the heaviest load. T h ree o f the bridges pu lled off the task o f supporting the m axim um weight o f 211 pounds.

T he Paper Column Competition, sponsored by Chi Epsilon (Civil E ngineering H o n o r Society), had several team s construct paper colum ns using two sheets o f paper and glue p rio r to the event. C olum ns were ju d g e d on th e ir efficiency, w orkm anship, and their re p o rt abo u t th e ir construction process.

T he Bottle Rocket Challenge, sponsored by the A m erican Society o f M echanical Engineers, h ad team s design and construct rockets using a plastic bottle, p rio r to the Expo. T he objective was to build a simple w ater rocket, designed to stay in the air as long as possible. Many o f the bo ttle rockets reached heights o f over 50 feet. This event drew the largest crowds o f the day, w hich included m any passersby.

1 he Motor Building Competition, sponsored by the Institu te o f Electrical and

I E lectronics Engineers (IEEE), had team s design and build an

electric m o to r w ithin 30 m inutes, using only the

m aterials provided. Each m o to r was ju d g e d

by m axim um RPM (rotations p e r m inu te),

innovation , construction quality, an d speed with w hich the m o to r was built.

T he Kamikaze Design Competition, sponsored by Eta Kappa N u (Electrical E ng ineering H o n o r Society), had each team create a p ap e r airp lane ou t o f only one sheet of paper. W ith th e ir p ap er airp lane, each team had one a ttem p t to h it a target 50 feet away. T he plane th a t landed closest to the target was declared the winner.

T he Rubber Band Racer, sponsored by Pi Tau Sigma (M echanical E ng ineering H o n o r Society), h ad team s construct racers th a t are in ternally pow ered by a ru b b er band, p rio r to the event. Each racer m ade th ree runs down the 15-foot track. T he racer with the quickest total o f those th ree runs was nam ed the victor.

At the en d o f the day, the w inning schools were aw arded trophies fo r th e ir efforts. Also, all o f the m iddle school students received special “Popsicle B ridge” t-shirts. However, the m ost im p o rtan t th ing the students received was an in troduc tion in to w hat it’s like to be an eng ineer an d how exciting it can be. c?

Above Left Photo - An electrical engineering student explaining micromouse.

Above Photo - A student prepares his rubber band racer.

Photo at Left - A high school student works on a motor.

STUDENT NEWS >

Student News.Kurt Boehm.a senior in Mechanical Engineering, was recognized as the 2004 Student Engineer o f the Year by the Hawaii Society o f Professionai Engineers. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers Mini Baja team and has earned a 3.81 GPA. Kurt is also on the University of Hawaii swim team and has broken school records in two events. He won two events a t the2002-2003 conference champion­ships. He also earned honorable mention Academ ic All-American status during the 2002-2003 season.

Blaine Murakami,a junior in Electrical Engineering, received a Spring 2004 Undergraduate Feiiowship fromthe Hawaii Space Grant Consor­tium. He will continue to work with mentor Dr. Wayne Shiromaof the Department of Electrical Engineering on satellite-to-satellite communication techniques. Blaine's project, titled "Retrodirective Antenna Array Design for CubeSat Applications and CubeSat Program Management" will emphasize simulation and design of the exper­imental antenna arrays that serve as the satellite payload. In addition to his technical responsibilities, Blaine serves as Program Engineer leading the 30-t- students on the UH CubeSat/NonoSat Program,

Kristina Wong, a junior in Electrical Engineering, will embark on an interdisciplinary research project involving physics, engineering, and materials science. Kristina's project, titled “Study of Micro- and Nano­cracks in Fatigued Advanced Materials" is being conducted under mentor Dr. Murll Manghnani of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. She will use a variety of advanced microscopes in her study of the elastic properties of ceramic fiber-reinforced composite materials and ceramic sensors that are important In the building of space vehicles.

Lance Yoneshige, a junior in Mechanical Engineering, will continue his work on structural dynamics, vibration, and thermal stress analyses with mentor Dr. Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Lance's project, "Design, Analysis, Manufacture, and Test of the Structural Housing of the University of Hawaii NanoSat," is part of a larger research program involving Electrical, Civil, and Mechanical Engineering students and mentors. As leader of the Mechanical Structures and Analysis team, Lance will help design the NanoSat structure with space qualified materials.

Alumni NewsTed S. Kawahigashi (CE, 1957) received the 2004 Hawaii Council of Engineering Societies Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes the lifetime achieve ments of retired engineers, svanMr, Kawahigashi's career began with the US Navy in District Public Works Office (now called Naval Facilities Engineering Command) a t Pearl Harbor as a civil engineer prior to serving two years of active duty as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army.

In 1962, he relocated to Southern California and worked as a high­way engineer with the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans). While there he was instrumental in CalTrans' accep t­ance of the use of the "Pressure Momentum Theory" for open channel flow of on-site drainage designs tor California's freeways and highways. He also was selected to becom e the project engineer for California's experimental Traffic Surveillance and Control project, which pioneered today's com put­erized traffic surveillance and ' control project ("Intelligent Trans­portation System") for California.

In 1972, he joined Austin, Smith & Associates, Inc. (which is now Austin, Tsutsumi & Associates, Inc.) as the Principal Traffic Engineer.In 1975, he becam e a principal in the firm and served as its corporate secretary. In 1987, he was selected as the company's President and CEO until his retirement in Septem­ber 2001,

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ALUMNI NEWS >

The annual HCES Lifetime Achieve­ment Award is given to an individual who has contributed significantly to the development of engineering in the State of Hawaii and who has made a noteworthy im pact on the iocai engineering community.

Dennis K.W. Lee(CE, 1970) was recognized as the 2004 Engineer of the Year by the Hawaii Society of Professional Engineers, Mr. Lee began his career as a Civil Engineer I for the County of Hawaii and worked his way up to Chief of Operations for the Department of Water Supply and Director of Public Works, He also served as Supervisory Civil Engineer, Directorate of Facilities Engineering for the U.S, Department of the Army a t the Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island.

Mr. Lee has volunteered his time for numerous professional and community causes. One very special moment was the success of the 1993 National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Annual Meeting, held In Kona, Hawaii, As Chair for Events and Tour Activities, he arranged various local events and activities for the 650 attendees, the second largest meet­ing in it's history. As the result of his success, funds were raised for a Special Scholarship Fund, In addition, for the first time ever, a local chapter made a $10,000 contribution to the NSPE Scholarship. Also, with Mr. Lee's leadership, the 2003 Mayor's Cup raised $80,000 for the Hawaii Island United Way,

He also participates in the Civil Engineering Exam Committee of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, partici­pating in the production of the annual exams for licensure.

In 1998, he was recognized as the County of Hawaii Supervisor of the Year, while serving as the DWS Water Quality Assurance and Control Section Head.

The annual HSPE Engineer of the Year award is given to an Individual who has made contributions to both the engineering profession and the community.

Westley K.C.Chun (CE, 1978) has been elected president for2003-2004 of the Hawaii Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is a principal of Engineering Solutions, Inc., a Hawaii- based civil/sanitary engineering company. He is a professional engineer in Hawai'l, Guam, and California. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Hawai'i, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California a t Davis, and is a diplomat of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He has worked on water and waste­water projects throughout the Western U.S., Alaska, Hawai'l, Guam, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.

Lorna K.F.L. Heller(CE, 1993) was the recipient of the 2004 Young Engineer of the Year award by the Hawaii Society of Professional Engineers. Ms, Heller is currently employed by the Honolulu Board of Water Supply as a Civil Engineer. She serves in a supervisory position with the Board's Water Resources Unit, Long-Range Planning Section.

Ms. Heller is an active member of ASCE, previously serving as Director of the Society's Younger Member Forum (YMF). During her term as YMF president, the membership grew substantially, and she estab­lished a number of projects that the YMF continues to participate In. Also during her term, she received several awards from the National Society: Outstanding Young Civil Engineer In Public Section at the1997 Western Regional Younger Member Council Conference, the1998 Hawaii Section YMF nominee for Outstanding Young Civil Engineer In a Community Activity, and the 2001 Young Government Civil Engineer Award for Zone IV (Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Hawaii).

At the community level, Ms, Heller is active in supporting the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Hawaii,USS Missouri Restoration Foundation, and the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation.

The annual HSPE Young Engineer of the Year award Is given to an indi­vidual who has made contributions to both the engineering profession and fhe community.

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Fall 2003 Graduates

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL

Master o f ScienceJe n n ife r A. A rinaga Jo h n F. Farm er Tieshi H uang Scott F.H. Kidani Mike H. O rim oto R ichard L. Pringle Kealohi G. Sandefur

Bachelor o f ScienceJeffery T. Arizumi Yong Yang J. C hang Jam es E. Fram e Jen n ife r R. Gallego Devin R. H iranaka Nicole L. Kikuchi Todd S. Kuniyoshi Sherrie M. Turn Ryan K. M atsuo Waylen H. Miyashiro Kason H. Pacheco Joseph R. Salvador M atthew T. Sekiya R euben Siatuu Franklin W. Sue Lisa Y. Takushi

Jason T. Tateishi L auren M. Tokura Brad J . U em oto R hen D. Yamamoto Jill M. Yam anouchi D erek Y. Y onem ura

ELECTRICAL

Doctor o f PhilosophyJ in g h u C hen

Master o f ScienceAshok B alasubram anian M artian Binonwanwangsn Ram esh K andula Wei SuX udong W ang Bolin Zhao

Bachelor o f ScienceKhristine A nn C. Agbayani D onald B. Braithwaite-Ahuna Kelly H. Cripps D elon J. Cuizon B eauregard A.D. D om ingo Jason S. Ebisu Keith T. Igawa

Franklin R. Jo h n sto n G ordon J J . Li D aniel P. Ling Kam Tou Man Laine T. M urakam i Sharilyn H. Nakayama B randon S. Ramo Patrick A. Reyes Jo h n D. R oeder D erek A.K. Rompasky D enise KY. Shankles David C.K. Tam M ichael A.M. Tam am oto M ichael V. Varela Byron L. Wolfe H erm an C.M. Yee

MECHANICAL___________

Bachelor o f ScienceA rnold R. Dawang Sage T. Kiyonaga Randy K.H. Sakagawa Karl J. Santa Miko A. Suzuki Stan I. Tom im oto Justin D. W ade

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