Tuesday, May 10, 2011
The School of Engineering will honor three alumni during its annual Distinguished Engineering Service Award in a ceremony at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
The ceremony is invitation-only but will include a sort of “State of the Union” address on the school from its dean, Stuart Bell, as well as honoring the influential recipients — engineering graduates Frank Gordon, Allyn Risley and Scott Smith.
“It is an honor to recognize these three great Jayhawk engineers for their outstanding career achievements,” Bell wrote in a media release. “They have all shown wonderful support to the KU School of Engineering over the years.”
Gordon is a mechanical engineer who received his doctorate in 1971. He spent 38 years in the civilian ranks of the Navy, where he worked in the applied science department at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command on projects including work on cold fusion, according to the release. Allyn Risley earned a bachelor’s in petroleum engineering from in 1972 and has worked for ConocoPhillips since. Smith earned a master’s in civil engineering in 1981 and works for the Kansas City firm HNTB as well as serves on the School’s advisory board.
— Edited by Sarah Gregory
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