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Show SUSC Engineering Design Contest won by Cedar City - Moab Students A design to mortify shotgun shell wads for improved shot pattern density has won first place in an Engineering Design Contest at Southern Utah State College. The contest is sponsored yearly as part of a freshmen engineering course. First place honors went to a four-man team of freshman including "Project Engineer" Ray Meyers and Tony Stephenson, both Cedar City, and Moab studerits Kenny Roberts and Brad Chidester. "The contest assists beginning engineering students in the . cultivation of ingenuity, creativity and the ability to work through complex problems in developing products, ' methods and systems that will be useful to mankind," notes Richard N. Kimball, associate professor of engineering at SUSC. Second place honors were received by leader Mike Sullivan, Chula Vista, California and team members Scott Appleby, Ap-pleby, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Mike Schoenfeld, Kanab, for their design of modifications needed on the SUSC campus in regards to easier mobility for the handicapped person. Third place winners included "Project Engineer" Mike Staheli, Enterprise, Kim Ott, Tropic, Craig Brooksby, Cedar City and Weldon Wilson, I Escalante, for their design of a small generating system that will convert fireplace heat into electricity for home use. Another group designed a system of emergency medical communications, transportation and treatment for the Southern Utah area which is becoming a reality. Members for this group included in-cluded leader Gerald Ron-nebeck, Ron-nebeck, Adelanto, California, Jeff Baird, Cedar City and Glenn Griffin, Escalante. I A safety device to reduce . nighttime accidents due to' drowsiness was developed by leader Cliff Damron, Kearns, Mark Relph, Running Spring, California and Henrie Miller, Daville, Illinois. An analysis of modern mass transit system was developed by project leader Cory Belliston, Nephi and team members James Evans, Springville and Elton Bingham, Cedar City. Nearly all of the students participating in the competition were freshmen engineering majors. Professor Kimball notes that a two or three-year program in pre-engineering and a two-year two-year surveying course are available at SUSC. Engineering is, by definition, concerned with the development of new things Kimball noted.' "Man's progress, comfort, and, in some cases, his very survival depends on his ability to think creatively and come up with better ideas and new solutions to the many problems with which he is confronted," he said. |