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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 control, hay |
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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.
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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 Department News Faculty News Alumni News |
Copyright 2005. University of Notre Dame.
