Women Engineers chapter gets national award

The Society of Women Engineers university chapter received five 2007 national awards for exemplary chapter work and individual research. The Cockrell School of Engineering’s chapter won first-place awards for outreach events, high membership retention, maintenance of the best Web site and an overall chapter outstanding certificate of merit. Mechanical engineering graduate student Anne Ranes created a first-place poster explaining how compensatory mechanisms in amputees’ walking adjust with different walking speeds. An award for the best regional newsletter went to the university’s region with credits to editor and member Nina Lu.