Dayton Engineer

Engineers Week brings the entire UD community together to celebrate engineering.

My mother met Mother Teresa and often spoke of her. My brothers and I were reminded to never forget the less fortunate. During my time at UD, I became unsettled and started to question if I was being called to serve as Mother Teresa did but with an engineering degree.

"It could be worse," University of Dayton senior Josh Biris said during the first week of December, near the anniversaries of his parents' deaths. "I could have given up after their passing, but that's not what my parents wanted for me. They wanted me to finish college. They wanted me to succeed and become something. I did it for them."

Five University of Dayton students — including three engineering majors — were recently awarded the Helix Innovation Scholarship from Emerson for demonstrating excellence in creative thinking, innovation and problem-solving.

Children from Kiser Elementary, a local Dayton public school, had a great day recently — filled with coloring, playing games and new bikes — thanks to a University of Dayton student organization.

Two School of Engineering faculty members were appointed to endowed chair positions by Provost Paul Benson and President Eric Spina at a formal installation ceremony held on Oct. 24, 2019.

The University of Dayton School of Engineering donated more than 50 pieces of lab equipment for students attending Marianist schools in Togo, Africa, this summer.

Annually, the National Academy of Construction (NAC) inducts industry leaders into its organization. Over 300 nominations were received this year, and 39 professionals were selected to join the class of 2019, including the University of Dayton School of Engineering’s Dean Eddy Rojas.

The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative has greenlighted the University of Dayton Heyne Energy and Appropriate Technology Lab and the University of Dayton Research Institute to be the first in the nation to prescreen alternative aviation fuels for viability to enter the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) testing program.