Student Teams Land Top Prizes in Biological and Agricultural Engineering Design Competition – University of Arkansas Newswire

Pictured left to right: Julianna Newman, Nathan Bowman, Harrison Davis and Noah Olson deliver their winning presentation at the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Gunlogson Environmental Design Student Competition.
Two team projects from the U of A Biological and Agricultural Engineering program took first and second place in the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Gunlogson Environmental Design Student Competition.
The biological engineering Senior Capstone project coordinator is G. Scott Osborn. 
The purpose of the society's open Gunlogson competition is to encourage undergraduate students to participate in the design of a relevant engineering project and to provide an arena of professional competition for environmentally and biologically related design projects.
The national society competition consists of two parts:
The first place team received $1,250, and the second place team received $1,000 at the society's Annual International Meeting in Houston on July 20.
The winning teams were:
First place
Nathan Bowman, Harrison Davis, Juliana Newman and Noah Olson
Faculty adviser: Benjamin Runkle
Project: Alternative Stormwater Design for a Residential Development in Rogers, Arkansas
Local consulting firm Crafton Tull tasked the group with designing a site-appropriate low-impact development stormwater solution for a housing development in a clay-rich region. 
Second place
Alexis Barber, Andrew Daniels, Ellie Kuhn and Aubin Payne
Faculty adviser: Benjamin Runkle
Project: Clinton Drive Lot Restoration
This team assessed low-impact development solutions for a U of A campus slope that will host a section of a mountain bike trail.

Pictured from left: Ellie Kuhn, Aubin Payne, Andrew Daniels and Alexis Barber, who took second place in the design competition.
 
Lalit Verma, professor and department head
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
479-575-2351, lverma@uark.edu
Jennifer P. Cook, director of communications
College of Engineering
479-575-5697, jpc022@uark.edu
Kathryn Sloan has served as the vice provost for faculty affairs in the past and recently was named the interim vice provost for academic affairs. She has spent 18 years at the U of A.
Greneda Johnson returns to the U of A School of Law as part of its leadership team and director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Lunch Buddy mentors are matched with an elementary school student identified as having difficulties with peers. Mentors visit twice/week and sit with their mentee at the school lunch table. Earn 3 hours of credit.
Jason Rose, who received his diploma July 1, described taking what he learned in the online master's degree in engineering management and applying it immediately to his job. 
The Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering is excited to welcome alumnus Will Richardson, B.S.B.E.'07, to its faculty as an associate professor.

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