Applied Engineering

Spring 2017 Awards

Dr. Philip L. Fioravante is the longstanding sponsor of the Applied Engineering Sciences Capstone Awards. Dr. Fioravante is an alumnus (BS ’84) of our program, winner of the 2004 AES Distinguished Alumni Award, winner of the 2013 College of Engineering Claud R. Erickson Distinguished Alumni Award and current Chair of the College of Engineering Alumni Board. Design Day award winners are selected based on both final written project reports and on oral presentations at Design Day. We thank Dr. Fioravante for his generous and continuing support of the Applied Engineering Sciences Design Day awards.

The Spring 2017 Most Sustainable Award:

The winners are Team Ingersoll Rand: Trane “Transportation Mode Optimization”

Design Day May 2017

Left to Right: Carl McConkle, Jen Maisner, Chris Talaga, Justice Schihl, Jordan Hughes, Shawnee Joyce, Austin Gross

The Spring 2017 Most Impactful Award:

The winners are Team Ranir LLC “Continuous Improvement/Lean Manufacturing Project for a Toothbrush Packaging Line”

Left to right: Joseph Haack, Beatriz Ibarra, Phuoc Ngo, Khai Van, Sean O’Malley, Matthew Lucero, Armando Quiroga

Left to right: Joseph Haack, Beatriz Ibarra, Phuoc Ngo, Khai Van, Sean O’Malley, Matthew Lucero, Armando Quiroga

The Spring 2017 Mike Sadler Competitive Edge Award:

The winners are Team Johnson Controls/MSU IPF “Design of a Decentralized, Decarbonized District Energy Strategy”

Left to right: Junyu Liu, Chang Joon Kim, Jasmine Lim, Edward Okuniewski, Rachel Gasparovich, Derek Stockman, Hanish Mehta, Daniel Feenstra

Left to right: Junyu Liu, Chang Joon Kim, Jasmine Lim, Edward Okuniewski, Rachel Gasparovich, Derek Stockman, Hanish Mehta, Daniel Feenstra

Presented by Mark Dantonio and Karen Sadler

Advised by Laura Genik, Director of Applied Engineering Sciences