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Design Portfolio Contest Winners

This design competition is open to all sophomores and juniors in the College of Engineering. The intention is to encourage all engineering students to begin to develop their design portfolios early in their college career. The contest was started in the spring of 2005, and has been held annually since then.  Judging procedures were established that stated that every year a Portfolio Review Jury is to be designated consisting minimally of the Chair of the Ebner Fund Committee, a member of the design faculty, a senior engineering student, an engineering alumna or alumnus and the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair or his or her designee.  The jury decides on the three contest winners.  Cash awards of $1000 for first prize, $500 for second prize, and $250 for third prize are awarded at the Department’s end-of-year social.

The 2008 winners:

• First:  Pat Crawford (MFG '09)
• Second:  Mike Green (MFG '09)
• Third:  Amine Sefrioui (ME '09)

The 2007 winners:

• First: Chase Edmunds (MFG '08)
• Second: Calvin Ng (MFG '08)
• Third, tied: Raymond Taylor (MFG '08) and Jacob Miller (MFG '08)

The 2006 winners:

• First: Oliver Ousterhout (MFG '07)
• Second: Chase Edmunds (MFG '08)
• Third: Howard Simpson (BME '07)

The 2005 winners:

• First: Diane Thurlow (MFG '06)
• Second: Mark Andersen (MFG '06)
• Third: Zach Fieldman (MFG '06)