February 18, 2004

Nominations for 2004 Engineering Alumni Awards
The Engineering Alumni Association will celebrate the annual Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards Dinner on Friday, June 4 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Downtown Houston. Help us honor our best people! This is the perfect time to nominate someone you feel is qualified for any one of the following awards: distinguished alumni, distinguished young alumni (under the age of 40), service to the college, and a distinguished faculty member. The nominations deadline has been extended to Feb. 27. Download the Nomination Form (pdf) or view previous recipients. For details, contact Janice Quiroz at 713-743-4215.

Volunteers Needed for Science Fair: March 26
Would you like to meet and encourage some of the engineers of the future? Volunteer to serve on the Engineering Alumni Association's judging teams for the 2004 Houston Science Engineering Fair. Commit one Friday, March 26 starting at 1pm to help judge projects developed by students in grades 7-12. Food service will be available and wearing comfortable shoes is strongly recommended. Contact EAA judging team coordinator Huy Phan at 713-240-3346.

15th Annual Engineering Golf Tournament: April 5
Play in the 15th Annual Golf Tournament on Monday, April 5 at Hearthstone Country Club and support UH Cullen College of Engineering activities programs.

Results from UH Neuroscience Workshop to be Published as Book by MIT Press
UH professors Haluk Ogmen and Bruno Breitmeyer recently gathered some of the brightest stars in the field to help define and discuss the central issues involved in understanding the time-sensitive and richly complex functioning of the human visual system and the phenomenology of perception. In early 2005, MIT Press will publish results from the workshop as a book, The First Half Second: The Microgenesis and Temporal Dynamics of Unconscious and Conscious Visual Processes.

Alum Rex Walheim To Describe Life in Space at Engineering Leadership Recognition Day
Traditionally, students invited to the UH Cullen College of Engineering’s Leadership Recognition Day are treated to a wealth of information about UH, such as housing, financial aid and costs. This year, the program has been enhanced further by scheduling NASA astronaut and UH engineering alumnus Rex Walheim to speak to attendees at the sixth annual event on Feb. 21. The event, which is by invitation only, is a recruitment tool for students who have exceptional SAT scores and class ranks.

UH Engineering Alumnus Launches New Software Product for Medical Industry
“Even when I was a kid, I always knew I was going to be an engineer,” says Houston entrepreneur Jeff Beauchamp, who received both his bachelors and masters degrees in mechanical engineering from UH. Beauchamp’s startup software company, Datalign®, has recently licensed its information management technology from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and is in the early stages of product rollout.

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