Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, July 23, 1994 TAG: 9407250008
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-6 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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The National Science Foundation has recognized JOSEPH G. TRONT as an outstanding innovator in science, mathematics and engineering education. Tront, the assistant dean for engineering computing, is responsible for coordinating multimedia use in the engineering classroom.
WALTER F. O'BRIEN, professor of mechanical engineering, has been named vice president of the International Gas Turbine Institute of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The organization is a worldwide engineering society that focuses on technical, educational and research issues.
KENNETH H. MARTIN, personnel officer for the Virginia Cooperative Extension, received the state distinguished service award from Epsilon Sigma Phi, the national honorary extension fraternity. The award was in recognition of outstanding service as an extension service worker in Virginia.
AUDREY G. ZINK, an assistant professor in the department of wood science and forest products, has been chosen to receive a $5,000 grant from Oak Ridge Associated Universities. The award will help support Zink's research in field evaluation techniques of wood connections.
GORDON MILLER, director of Virginia Tech's Multimedia Lab, has won a 1994 New Media Invasion multimedia award. Miller's entry was a videotape to help visitors understand the lab's work and technology.
The Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants has appointed KONRAD KUBIN and WAYNE LEININGER committee chairmen for the 1994-95 fiscal year. Kubin, a professor of accounting, is chairman of the international committee. Leininger, director of the accounting program, is chairman of the scholarship committee.
E. GEORGE STERN, a professor of wood construction, was named an honorary council member by the Vyatka State Technical University in Kirov, Russia. Stern organized an international conference at the university in 1992, led a Virginia Tech delegation there in 1993 and is planning student and faculty exchanges for this school year.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has named engineering professor DEAN T. MOOK a fellow for his work in dynamics of combined fluid and solid systems and nonlinear mechanical vibrations.
D. SCOTT SINK, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, received a distinguished alumni award May13 from the college of engineering at Ohio State University in Columbus.
MIKE AUST and BOB SCHAFFER are the 1993 first-place winners for technical writing in the American Pulpwood Association's Southeastern technical division. Aust and Schaffer, professors in the forestry department, co-authored the winning release on the best management practices for forestry in Virginia.
LEE R. SKABELUND, a professor of landscape architecture, was appointed director of the Community Design Assistance Center. The center, established in 1987 by the landscape architecture department, provides students with an opportunity to work with community groups on design and planning projects.
PAUL E. TORGERSON, president of Virginia Tech, received the Benjamin Garver Lamme medal, the highest honor given by the American Society of Engineering Educators. During his tenure as dean of the College of Engineering from 1970-1990, the college was ranked nationally for its quality of education.
by CNB