On the weekend of Oct. 8th and 9th, my husband Hal and I had the honor of presenting ASME Auxiliary Undergraduate Scholarships to two worthy young recipients, Shannon McIntyre and Wade Luhman.

The $2,000 scholarships are given to ASME Student Members for use in their final year of undergraduate study.

Shannon McIntyre, originally from Omaha, Neb., was the recipient of the 2005 Berna Lou Cartwright Scholarship. McIntyre is a member of the ASME Student Section at the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minn., where she also serves as president of the Society of Women Engineers student chapter and vice president of the Math and Actuarial Science Club. Her majors are mechanical engineering and mathematics, and her senior design project involves designing a water filtration system for a small village in Mali in West Africa.

McIntyre's other interests include researching fluid dynamics and the mathematics behind severe storms. In addition, she currently is doing research on electromagnetic applications at Lockheed Martin, and in the past has worked on reverse osmosis water filtration research in Dow Chemical Co.'s R&D department.

Wade Luhman of Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minn., was presented with the Allen James Baldwin Scholarship. Luhman, originally from Goodhue, Minn., is a member of his university's ASME Student Section and has participated in Old Guard Oral and Poster Competitions at the Regional Student Conference.

He has worked at Hutchinson Technology, as an engineering co-op, and participated in the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Undergraduate Research Program at Stanford University in California.

— Ella Baldwin-Viereck
Auxiliary publicity chair

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