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James Taylor and Stephen Kirchner, UALR ECET student winners of the IEEE Region 5 design competition in April 2012

(Article originally written by Joan Duffy, UALR)

Stephen Kirchner and James Taylor, students in the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology, won first place in the design contest at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Region 5 Annual Conference April 20 and 21, 2012, in Tulsa, Okla.

The UALR team beat out teams from Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana to win the $500 first place prize. The team was among 16 others given a blind engineering problem. Each team had to design, build, and demonstrate a working model as well as make a presentation to the judges.

In addition to the UALR team win, Dr. Hirak Patangia, professor of engineering technology and counselor of UALR’s team, was presented the Region 5 Outstanding Counselor Award.

“It was a day-long contest, from 8:10 a.m. to 5 p.m., requiring integration of knowledge from various subject areas,” said Patangia.

“Our ECET students had also won the first place in the design contest last year. The consistency speaks well of our students, faculty, and the curriculum. In Region 5, our students have the highest record of winning in design contests,” he said.

UALR ECET students and faculty at the IEEE Region 5 Competition

The 11 UALR students represented the ECET Department and Systems Engineering against teams from universities in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Illinois. The students fielded teams in circuit design and professional ethics, as well as two teams in the robotics competition.

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Low magnification scanning electron microscope images of metal foams.

The Arkansas Space Grant Consortium has funded James Playford and Dr. S. Midturi of Mechanical Engineering Technology Program to study the thermo-mechanical properties of aluminum and stainless steel ceramic cellular materials for energy absorption, particulate filtration, sound absorption, vibration damping, and thermal insulation applications.

The results from this research presented by James Playford, an undergraduate student from the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Program, has earned him First Prize at the ASME Student Professional Leadership Conference held at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Campus in March 2011, and also a First Prize for the Undergraduate Research under the Physical Sciences category at the 95th Arkansas Academy of Sciences Conference held at the University of Arkansas at Monticello campus in April 2011. This continued research at UALR offers high potential for developing new industrial products for thermal shielding, energy, and acoustic absorption applications.

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