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Extra Credit Alumnus University Nevvs Extra Credit Alumnus "Hoot" Gibson Named to Astronaut Hall of Fame Cal Poly alum Robert "Hoot" in Sacramento. He was selected to CAL POLY Gibson (AERO '69) was recently speak in recognition of his distin­ • According to U.S. Department of named to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of guished career, national service and Education data, Cal Poly is among Fame at the Kennedy Space Center commitment to higher education. the 'Top 100' colleges and in Florida. His aerospace engineeri ng universities cited in Black Issues in The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame education at Cal Poly enabled him to Higher Education that conferred the and U.S. Space Camp Training later design and build a new airplane most bachelor's degrees on Center is operated by the Mercury which set a world altitude record. minority students in 2001-2002. In Seven Foundation and the U.S. During the Vietnam conflict he flew rankings for awarding bachelor's Space Camp Foundation. It opened Navy fighter jets and provided air degrees in specific disciplines, Cal in 1990, and features personal cover for the evacuation of Saigon. Poly was sixth in engineer'ing. mementos and equipment donated His first NASA flight was in • The Christopher Reeve Paralysis by the Mercury and Gemini astro­ 1984 on the 10th space shuttle Foundation awarded the Cal Poly nauts. The Astronaut Hall of Fame launch. His final mission came in Foundation and Kinesiology showcases each of the seven Mercury 1995, when he served as com­ Professor Kevin Taylor a $10,780 astronauts and 13 Gemini astro­ mander at the first docking with the Quality of Life Grant to develop a nauts, features an honor roll of Russian space station Mir. 'solo quad-conversion' project. As all astronauts who have flown "There 1was, a former American part of Cal Poly's Adapted Paddling missions, and devotes a section to fighter pilot, opening the hatch and Program, Taylor and Mechanical flights that followed the Mercury offering my hand to a former Russian Engineering Professor Frank Owen and Gemini missions. MiG pilot," said Gibson. "It has and their students will modify a Gibson was named to the Hall been suggested that this gesture of canoe and kayak for individuals of Fame in a June 21 ceremony cooperation between the United with quadraplegia to use 'sip and along with Daniel Brandenstein, States and the Soviet Union marked puff controls. Story Musgrave and Sally Ride (the the end of the Cold War. first American woman in space). "So," he smiled, "I tell people • At the inaugural Cal Poly Earlier this year, Gibson deliv­ that it was my Cal Poly education Entrepreneurial Leadership Awards ered the keynote address at the that prepared me to go out and help ceremony, Congresswoman Lois annual CSU Alumni Legislative Day end the Cold War." Capps presented a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition to the orfalea College of Business for its 'outstanding and invaluable service to the community' in creating the awards. Students in a 'Profiles in Entrepreneurship' course taught by Business Professor William Pendergast researched local companies and organized the awards for 12 Central Coast entrepreneurs. • A Cal Poly elementary schools art education outreach program has received national recognition and will become a partner in a three-year program to assess the influence of the arts on the academic achievement of 818 students from third through fifth grade. Gibson (far lefl) and crew Photo courtesy NASA 22 • www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/magazine/magazine_archive.html University Nevvs Extra Credit • Horticulture and Crop Science Department Head Jennifer Ryder Fox and three colleagues received The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the Environmental Protection Agency for developing Serenade, a biofungicide that combats crop mildew but is harmless to benefi­ cial insects and can be used in organic and traditional farming. • Associate Engineering Dean Paul E. Rainey was named a Fellow Member of the American Society for Engineering Education and recognized for outstanding contributions to the society. "Because the ASEE allows engineer­ ing educators from allover the country to share ideas on current teaching methods and learn about new eqUipment: said Rainey, "the work of the society fits in perfectly with what we do here at Cal Poly: • The California State Grange Keynote speaker Robert Reich (center) with International Career Conference participants Association named a schol'arship Photo courtesy Ortalea College of Business in honor of recently retired Cal Poly Agricultural Education and Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich Communication Professor Joe Gives Keynote Talk at 2003 Career Conference Sabol. Sabol served as director of outreach for the College of Robert Reich, U.S. secretary of Adaptation, and Building a Agriculture, developed the National labor during President Clinton's first Global Brand. Agricultural Ambassadors Confer­ term in offICe, was the keynote Approximately 35 companies ence to convene students from 45 speaker at Cal Poly's Orfalea College were represented during the universities in 20 states, and of Business 2003 International recruiting session that followed, helped build International Career Conference. including Dioptics, Lockheed agricultural programs in Mexico, After introductions by ICC Manin, Marques Brothers Interna­ Nigeria and Costa Rica. UC Davis Executive Director Whitney Market tional, NASA, Northrop Grumman recognized his efforts with its 2002 and Orfalea College of Business Corporation, E&G Gallo, Enterprise Award of Distinction. Associate Dean Doug Cerf, Reich Rent-A-Car, FBI, 7-Eleven, Smuckers, • Horticulture and Crop Science spoke about international business and Wallace. Professor Virginia Walter has been and how the ever-changing external A record number of participants ­ named a National Fellow by the environment affects people's lives 400 - attended this year's Interna­ national floriculture scholastic and careers. tional Career Conference. Many society, Pi Alpha Xi (PAX). Walter After Reich's speech, attendees of these were students from Cal Poly, coached student flower judging were given the opportunity to attend but the public and students from teams to national championships two of eight offered workshops, California and as far away as Arizona in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, including Women in International and Missouri also registered. 2002 and 2003. Business, Surviving the Corporate For more information about Jungle, Market-Driven Conservation, next year's International Career Technology as a Force in Interna­ Conference, contact Chris Carr at tional Business, Entrepreneurs Go 805/756-2657 or [email protected]. Global, Doing Business in Latin The International Career Conference America, Expatriation and Cultural Web site is www.icc.calpoly.edu. 24 • www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/magazine/magazine_archive.htmI University Nevvs Imagination Takes Wing in Aerospace Engineering Classes Extra Credit 'Ultimately what separated the Wrights from their more illustrious rillals was their • Dairy Science Professors Rafael Wyo. He was awarded a $6,500 particular aptitude for learning how to do a Jimenez-Flores and Ed Jaster were scholarship and a $35,000 diffiCUlt thing. ' honored at the American Dairy sponsorship for competition next - from To Conquer the Air: The Wright Science Association's 2003 Annual year on the Professional Rodeo Brothers and the Great Race for Flight Meeting. Jimenez-Flores won the Cowboy Association circuit. He 2003 Milk Industry Teaching was one of 12 Cal Poly Rodeo Award for his classroom teaching, Team members to make the One hundred years after the his coaching of university dairy final competition. Wright Brothers soared over the North products judging teams and his Carolina sand dunes in a powered flying • Graphic Communication mentoring of senior undergraduate machine, 13 Cal Poly aerospace engi­ students won six out of seven students and their research projects. neering students are sharing the same prizes in the 2003 Bookbuilders Jaster, nationally known for his spirit of discovery by building an aircraft West book design competition in research in dairy cattle nutrition, of their own. San Francisco. Awards were was elected National Advisor to the The students are enrolled in AERO given based on layout, typogra­ Student Affiliate Division of ADSA. 565 and 571, courses funded by phy and cover designs of a $15,000 from student academic fees. • The American Society of AgricUl­ classic book. Industry profession­ The courses focus on the construction tural Engineers presented Cal Poly als judged entries on creativity, of an RAY-7 single-engine airplane in a professor emeritus John l. Merriam success in meeting design shop near the San Luis Obispo airport. with the 2003 Kishida International objectives, and presentation. Unlike the Wrights, who flew their Award for his contributions to the • A Cal Poly team of four students wooden, cloth-covered aircraft up to irrigation industry, with special took third place in Walt Disney recognition for his work with 852 feet on December 17,1903, the Imagineerings 2003 Imagi­ students' plane, made of state-of-the-art developing nations, including Nations Design Competition. designing and supervising metals and plastic composites, will never The group was one of only four get off the ground. construction of flexible supply student teams from around the "To get the course started, we had pipeline demonstrations and world selected to make a final to state it was strictly 'not for flight,''' production projects
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