Dayton Engineer

After weeks of preparation and practice, UD’s Civil Engineering student estimating team won first place at the Ohio Contractors Association annual two-day estimating competition in Columbus, Ohio in late February 2020.

Through their senior design project, Liam Budnik ’20, Grace Culpepper ’21, Jonathan Schierl ’20, Zachary Schumm ’20 and Michael Zawlocki ’20 created a beta artificial intelligence plan for VyrtX, a medical logistics company.

The ETHOS Center with the support of the School of Engineering’s KEEN grant from the KERN Family Foundation has implemented the first-ever remote Dayton and domestic immersion program this summer.

William Strosnider, PhD, is an ecological engineer orientated towards applied biogeochemistry. His focus has been on characterizing water quality issues and advancing sustainable solutions to restore ecosystems and safeguard human health, often in international contexts. This has generally entailed creating settings for naturally occurring biogeochemical processes to proceed optimally (e.g., floating treatment wetlands, bioreactors, stormwater wetlands). As the director of the Baruch Marine Field Laboratory, he is particularly interested in improving coastal water management.

With the help of School of Engineering programs and students, Mission of Mary Cooperative (MMC), an urban farming initiative, has been verified as a net-zero energy campus through the New Buildings Institute.

Steve Osgood graduated from UD in May 2007 with a degree in chemical engineering and a minor in international business. While at UD he completed two international ETHOS immersions in Brazil and Bolivia. He currently lives in Chicago with his wife and dog and works for LanzaTech, which researches and licenses technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Engineering students Ahmad Alzemi, Travis Brosnan, Evan Salmon, Alex Studnicka and Jennifer Welch used their senior design capstone project to work with DriveOhio, RTA and the city of Dayton on a proposal for a driverless bus route between the Wright Dunbar and the Oregon entertainment districts, which they hope repeats the success of The Flyer route between UD and downtown.

Oscar Sanchez Lopez has been studying English and working in the ETHOS Center to strengthen the partnership between the University of Dayton and his organization, Grupo Fenix.

The National Science Foundation has funded more than 50,000 Graduate Research Fellowships since 1952 – many awardees going on to be Nobel Prize winners and members of the National Academy of Sciences. This year, two UD students joined the ranks as awardees of this prestigious fellowship.

Despite being away from campus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, senior engineering students Nathan Brown, Kyle Mulcrone, Joseph Vicario and Matthew Vild were able to complete their senior design project with Brixiliated via Zoom video call and overcome the challenges of remote learning to meet their client’s needs.