UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 37, Page 5
July 23, 1992
Student invention receives top honors at ASEE contest

     A University mechanical engineering team won top honors at the
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Student Design
Contest for its invention of residential, double-hung windows that
permit a person with disabilities to open or close the windows with a
power switch or voice command.
     The team members, who graduated in May, are Ernest Jones, now a
design engineer with ICI America in Fayetteville, N.C.; Arthur
Valentine, a design engineer with the Du Pont Co. in Wilmington; and
Bob Andrews, an engineer working with the Peace Corps in Africa.
     Robert H. Allen, assistant professor, and Michael Keefe,
associate professor, both of mechanical engineering, taught the
year-long senior design course and acted as advisers to the team.
     Design projects were submitted from 16 other universities,
including the U.S. Air Force Academy, which took second place, Cornell
University and the U.S. Naval Academy.
     The awards, engraved plaques and Apple Macintosh computers, were
presented in a June ceremony at the ASEE national conference, held at
the University of Toledo in Ohio.