2017 Issue

21 UEC-Awards-14: From left to right: Robert Kesler, UEC Awards Committee Chair; Dr. Andy George (BYU Assistant Professor), Utah’s Educator of the Year Nominee from SAMPE – Utah Chapter. UEC-Awards-13: From left to right: Robert Kesler, UEC Awards Committee Chair; Tad T. Truscott, Ph.D. (USU Assistant Professor), Utah’s Educator of the Year Nominee from SAME. ENGINEERING EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR NOMINEE Tadd T. Truscott The Society of American Military Engineers has nominated Dr. Tadd T. Truscott, a Utah State Assistant Professor for Utah’s Engineering Educator of the Year. You may have seen Dr. Truscott on your TV in over 80 popular media appearances or presentations: KSL, Discovery Channel, NPR Science Friday, Popular Science, NYT, BBC, The Verge, SNL, Gizmodo, & etc. He supports, helps, and mentors kids from Nephi to North Ogden. His focus in the areas of fluid dynamics and engineering include natural swarms and crowds, water surface skipping, and slender body water entry. He is active in SeaPerch. ENGINEERING EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR NOMINEE Andy George The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) has nominated Dr. Andy George, an assistant professor at BYU, as Utah’s Engineering Educator of the Year. Dr. George has also been active in International Committee on Composite Materials, the European Soci- ety for Composite Materials and the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. Dr. George is known for his math models that predict composites manufacturing processes and his course, "History of Creativity." UEC-Awards-15: From left to right: Dr. Andy George (BYU Assistant Professor), Utah’s Educator of the Year Nominee from SAMPE – Utah Chapter; Tad T. Truscott, Ph.D. (USU Assistant Professor), Utah’s Educator of the Year Nominee from SAMPE – Utah Chapter; Forest Brown (Park University Teacher), Utah’s Educator of the Year Nominee from IEEE; Dr. Douglas F. Hunsaker (USU Assistant Professor), Utah’s Educator of the Year Nominee from AIAA Utah Section; Trent Hunt (BYU Adjunct Professor), Utah’s Educator of the Year Nominee from ASHRAE – Utah Chapter; Dr. Paul J. Barr (USU Professor), Utah’s Educator of the Year Nominee from ASCE.