Student design team winners, left to right, Kristen Wright, Kathryn
Barrett, and Jennifer Connolly pose with Brad Bobich, the chairman of
the student design competition for the Indiana Section of the American
Society of Civil Engineers.
ASCE Awards Top,Honors to Notre Dame Team at Indiana State Meeting
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In March 2005, a team
of students from the Department of Civil Engineering and Geological
Sciences won the American Society of Civil Engineers Student Project
Presentation. Team members Kathryn Barrett, South
Bend, Ind.; Jennifer Connolly, Williamsville, N.Y.;
and Kristen Wright, Clinton Township, Mich., received
top honors for the “Proposed African Savannah Exhibit at Potowatomi
Zoo.”
Elements of their proposal included expansion of
the giraffe barn with radiant floor heating and automated temperature
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storage, as well as outdoor pens,
and construction of a
feeding station and ramp system. The team proposed that the zoo incorporate
more natural elements and African-style buildings into the Savannah
exhibit; they also suggested other site improvement.
The Notre Dame team competed against teams from
the University of Evansville, Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne,
Purdue University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the University
of Southern Indiana, Tri-State University, and Valparaiso University. Wilasa
Vichit-Vadakan, the Clare Booth Luce
Assistant Professor,
was the faculty adviser for the project.
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