STUDENT HONORS
An illustration created by AE 4th-year student, Christy
Russell, was chosen by the School of Theatre for use in a musical
play that was performed during the Fall 2001 season. Her work (above)
is a watercolor rendition of a ship portraying the "S.S. American"
crossing the Atlantic Ocean in Cole Porter's 1934 musical "Anything
Goes."
The art piece was the result of an assignment from Richard Alden,
Assistant Professor of Architecture, to the AE students enrolled in his
Architecture 297A - Advanced Visual Communications course during the spring
2001 semester. It was the fourth exercise in a series of five assigned under
the general title “Play's the Thing.” This was the third year
Alden has done this interdisciplinary collaboration with the School of
Theatre. Christy is the first AE student whose work was selected by the School
of Theatre for use in an annual production.
NAHB STUDENT CHAPTER
The student chapter of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) held
its awards dinner on November 13 in the Nittany Lion Inn. Membership of NAHB
is drawn from both the Architectural Engineering and Civil and Environmental
Engineering Departments. Speakers for the evening were Richard Hankin of the
Hankin Group, Roger Glunt, past president of the NAHB, and Jenny Holden of AE.
A number of AE students were honored at the banquet. Kelly Doyle, Megan
Hawk, Joshua Nicholson, and Eric Sobel received scholarships, while Keith
Beidel, Jenny Holden, Joshua Nicholson, and Joshua Vallimont received travel
awards to attend the NAHB Convention to be in held in Atlanta in February.
Also, the following AE students were elected as officers: Jenny Holden
(president); Josh Vallimont (vice president); Kelly Doyle (secretary); Josh
Nicholson (publicity and Habitat for Humanity coordinator); and Keith Beidel
(treasurer).
ANNUAL S:PACE TRIP TO BALTIMORE
by Bonnie Lee
The student chapter of the Partnership for Achieving Construction Excellence (S:PACE)
went on their annual trip to Baltimore, Maryland on November 9-10. Twenty-five
students, along with Dr. John Messner, Assistant Professor of AE,
participated in the trip. Our first tour was on Friday afternoon with Turner
Construction at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Broadway
Research Building Project. A nine-story research, laboratory, and office
building, containing about 350,000 square feet, will be the newest addition to
the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus. Ralph Colarusso, ’82, Billy
Thompson, and Mark Petrowicz of Turner gave a presentation with a project
overview informing us of the pre-construction and planning activities used on
this particular project. Though only in the early structural phase, the AE
students were able to get a birds eye view of the entire site from an
observation deck.
The next location we visited on November 10th was the National
Aquarium in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Although we did not get a typical
construction site tour, it was very educational to explore the animal
life-support and mechanical systems in this behind-the-scenes tour. The tour
was arranged through Barton Malow, Inc., and members of the aquarium staff
accompanied us along with Bob Grottenthaler,’80, and Dave Pavlick of
Barton Malow. We saw the model for the new Australian exhibit set to start
construction September 2002 and were informed of the site logistics
surrounding this congested construction site. The project presents numerous
challenges, since the aquarium will be open to the public throughout
construction. One of the most exciting parts of the tour was our visit to the
shark tank, where we were able to walk on the catwalks about one foot above
the surface of the shark-infested water. Afterwards, many of us stayed for the
dolphin show and got soaked by sitting in the “splash zone.”
With special thanks to Turner Construction and Barton Malow, this year’s
S:PACE trip to Baltimore was and enjoyable and educational experience.
AE 5th-year students enjoyed some of the great
weather in Happy Valley this fall as Professor Parfitt held class on the steps
of Old Main in December 2001. |
