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InnovationSpace in the News
"InnovationSpace in the News—The Business Journal/Phoenix article:Student Program Igniting Startups"
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories
/2004/12/20/story5.html
“InnovationSpace students Luise Lambe, Industrial Design and Michael Meyers, Mechanical Engineering, explain their group project to guests at the semester exhibit and presentation, December 13.”
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Harvey Bryan was elected Fellow in the American Solar Energy Society. At their awards ceremony on July in Portland, ASES stated that Bryan has "made a notable contribution to the advancement of the knowledge and understanding of solar energy and how it can be integrated into building design." Harvey also has been a Fulbright Fellow, as well as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. For more information on ASES, go to www.ases.org, and find more information about Harvey at www.design.asu.edu/faculty/bryanharvey.shtml. View slides of Harvey's work on thermal imaging at http://www.asu.edu/caed/news/events/brownbag
/harvey/uhi_files/v3_document.htm.
Congratulations Harvey!
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The Graduate and Professsional Student Association (GPSA) has recognized School of Design students with a 2004–2005 GPSA Research Grant for Matthew Zabel and an honorable mention for Vidhyut Jani. The Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs provided a total of $55,000 for the 33 ASU graduate student recipients. Over 150 grant applications were submitted and the maximum award per recipient is $2,000 with the money used to support graduate research leading to a degree or publication.
The program provides funds for high-quality research projects with the goal of becoming the largest peer-reviewed graduate research award program in the nation. Go to www.asu.edu/gpsa to learn more about the Graduate and Professional Student Association. Congratulations to Matthew and Vidhyut!
Click here for Matthew Zabel's project
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Araceli Frausto, Hemalata Dandekar, Palmoa Giottonini Badilla, Caludio Muñoz Whiting |
Master's in environmental urban planning students Paloma Giottonini Badilla and Claudio Muñoz Whiting, School of Planning Faculty Associate Araceli Frausto, and School of Planning Director Hemalata Dandekar were presented with the Communications Award from the Arizona American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) during their 2004 annual meeting in October. The award is for a publication that integrates and summarizes the results of a 4th-year landscape architecture studio's study of two urban eco-parks in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico. The publication, in English and Spanish, is designed for distribution to Tecate city council, city staff, and public officials as well as other stakeholders and citizens so that the unique design solution suggested by the studio can be contemplated for implementation. The work represents a cross-border, international effort to assist in the development of public infrastructure in a rapidly growing city south of the U.S./Mexico border by providing technical assistance. The ASU publication was supported by a grant from the Fundación La Puerta, Tecate.
Work by the ASU School of Planning and the city of Tecate will be expanded and continued with plans and technical assistance for the development of sustainable, affordable housing around one of the Urban Eco-Parks. The work on sustainable housing is funded by the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP).
Click here for a pdf of the poster, which describes the winning publication.
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BSLA Students Win National ASLA Recognition
BSLA students Karen Lyding and Emily Roddy won a Special Team Recognition and national recognition for the 2004 Student Awards presented by the American Society of Landscape Architects for their project titled: Urbanization in Binational Watersheds in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Open Space Design Proposal for a Regenerative Future. Their submission grew out of work produced for their Barrett Honors College Thesis. School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture professors Joseph Ewan and Rebecca Fish Ewan are the team's advisors.
For a full description of the project and pictures of the winners, go to the national ASLA website at http://www.asla.org/awards/2004/student_winners/
winner06.html.
Congratulations!
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The 4th Doctoral Education in Design conference (4 DED) will be hosted by the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona from June 25 to 28, 2005. For more information, go to http://4ded.caed.asu.edu.
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This year, InnovationSpace will partner with ASU researchers and members of the local business community to develop new products that aim to significantly improve the lives of two user groups: people who are blind and the aging baby boomer population.
InnovationSpace is a transdisciplinary product development laboratory involving students and faculty from business, engineering, and design. The program forms partnerships with inventors, university researchers, and businesses to create consumer-driven product concepts that improve society and the environment. Students work in multi-disciplinary teams to identify and develop new product concepts supported by engineering prototypes and business communication strategies.
During the 2004/2005 academic year, student teams will explore product possibilities for the aging population in the home environment. This project is being supported by Arizona Business Accelerator (azba.biz) and Journey Intellectual Property Development ( www.journeyipd.com ). Based on research into user needs, wants and desires, teams will envision ways to help an aging population maintain an independent, healthy and productive lifestyle.
Also in line for further development by InnovationSpace this year, is an invention from the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering's Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (cubic.asu.edu). The device, called the iReader, enables people who are blind or visually impaired to access text-based materials. The device scans text and translates it into a synthesized voice. The InnovationSpace teams will refine the existing product concept and develop business plans and supporting materials that will facilitate successful transfer of the iReader to commercial markets.
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2003–2004 Leading Edge Student Design Competition
A Premiere Architectural Student Design Competition for Sustainability and Energy
A combined team of undergraduate and graduate architecture students—Jaime Henderson, Jens Kolb, Aalok Deshmukh, and Vaibhav Potnis—were awarded a Merit Citation for their participation in Design Challenge 1 of the 2003–2004 Leading Edge Student Design Competition.
The Leading Edge Student Design Competition seeks to support and enhance the study of sustainable and energy-efficient building practices in architectural education. The two competition categories focused on designing educational buildings in the desert environments of California. Challenge 1 designed a new classroom and administrative building for a small college in Palm Desert, California, and Challenge 2 designed a small day care center on the same campus. Technical and design judges came from Southern California Gas, the California Energy Commission, Southern California Edison, the State of California Architects, and the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture.
The Merit Citation was for Exceptional Integration of Engineering Passive Features. Comments from the technical and design judges were very positive. The technical judges remarked that the team had, “exceptionally detailed and good technical documentation.” The design judges commented that the project displayed good use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis, and the judges were also impressed by the calculations of the cooling tower flow, the exploration of the cooling skin, and their reinterpretation of a loggia.
For more information on the competition, go to www.leadingedgecompetition.org/html/index.html.
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A team of three graduate students— M.Arch students Rachana Ambekar and Sakina Dahodwala and M.S. Building Science student Thulasi Narayan—were awarded an honorary mention for the Best Analysis in the 2004 Design Competition for an Eco-House. The competition was organized by Architectural Press and Teachers in Architecture in conjunction with Circle 33 Housing Group and sponsored by Oxford-Brooks University, UK. This was the second year for the competition with over 100 entries from 30 different countries.
The team’s challenge was to design an Eco-house for a family of two adults and two children. The site was to be located in one’s own hometown so that there was an instinctive understanding of the climate and local architecture. The submission had to explain the “Eco-design” ideas on which the design of the house was based, and the house had to be demonstrably comfortable in summer and winter.
For more information, go to http://www.thearchitectureroom.com/
ecohouse_competition.html
Congratulations to these students for both their achievement and their extra effort!
View the writeup and images
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School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Assistant Professor Joseph Ewan won a prestigious international Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Award of Recognition for Teaching and Research at the 2004 CELA annual meeting held at Lincoln University in New Zealand in June.
Ewan has been extensively recognized as an educator and applied scholar whose academic endeavors have stayed closely connected to professional practice. In 1999, he was the recipient of the national ASLA President’s Award of Excellence for the Sonoran Preserve Master Plan, and last year, the Arizona state ASLA honored him with the Outstanding Educator of the Year award.
An excerpt from the introduction of Ewan's recognition at the conference stated:
"Professor Ewan is well known as an educator and applied scholar. Besides consistently receiving excellent evaluations from his students, he also received the Arizona ASLA award for outstanding educator in 2003. Professor Ewan weaves together teaching and research, particularly in the area of landscape ecological planning. His students have won seven national ASLA awards, and he himself was recipient of the national ASLA President's Award of Excellence for the Sonoran Preserve Desert Master Plan. CELA takes great pleasure in acknowledging Professor Ewan's exceptional contributions to both teaching and research in landscape architecture."
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Michelle Acosta, Chapter President of ASU’s American Institute of Architecture Students was awarded the Chapter President Honor Award at the 2004 annual Grassroots Leadership Conference in July. Under Acosta’s presidency, AIAS ASU was able to fundraise, restructure its bylaws, organize and host a conference, successfully bid to be one of six chapters to pilot the Freedom by Design service program, and build stronger ties with the local professional architecture community. Dean Reiter praised “Michelle’s effectiveness as a citizen and leader of this school.” Acosta was recognized by the jury as a student who “has the gift of leadership and has chosen to share it with the AIAS.” Congratulations Michelle.
Congratulations also to ASU's AIAS chapter for receiving an Honorable Mention in the Chapter Honor Award category. AIAS ASU was honored for offering a range of strong programming including the fall 2003 West Quandrant Conference. Visit the AIAS national website at http://www.aiasnatl.org and the local chapter website at http://www.caed.asu.edu/aias.
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The College would like to welcome Michael Pyatok, FAIA, who is joining the College as a tenured faculty in conjunction with his appointment as Director of the Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family. Pyatok will teach in both architecture and planning disciplines. Pyatok established Pyatok Architects Inc in 1985, which focuses on community planning, affordable housing, and higher density mixed-used developments. He is a well-respected advocate for issues related to multifamily housing design; the need for more compact, transit-related communities; and design methods that include citizen participation.
For more information on Pyatok’s background and appointment to the Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family, go to www.asu.edu/stardust/announce.htm. For more information on Pyatok Architects Inc. go to www.pyatok.com.
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Congratulate Janetta McCoy, assistant professor in the School of Design, for being named 2004 Centennial Professor by the Associated Students of ASU. Students chose McCoy for teaching excellence and outstanding commitment outside the classroom. She receives a $10,000 award for being a rising star in the university.
McCoy came to ASU in 1999 to teach interior design and is known for actively engaging her students with lively discussions, innovative learning environments, and speakers from the professional community. Each year she challenges students to design and build a chair to be auctioned off to benefit the Family Advocacy Center of Phoenix.
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New Top Rankings for CAED degree programs in 2004 Edition of America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools published by DesignIntelligence (go to www.di.net to order a copy).
- School of Architecture MArch ranked number 1 in the Western region and 14th overall in the Top 15 U.S. Architectural Programs. The MArch was also ranked 14th for Schools that Best Prepare Students for Professional Practice.
- Interior Design Program ranked 7th overall.
- The Architecture program was ranked 9th as the Editor’s Choice for Value Picks for Architectural Education.
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The ASU/College of Architecture and Environmental Design student team has just won the $50,000 national ULI competition. In the final public presentation just concluded in Pittsburgh on Friday, March 26, the CAED group was selected over three finalist teams from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford/Berkeley (the final four were winnowed down from over 50 entries from across the country earlier this month). The competition required a complex mix of architecture, urban design, financial analysis, economic forcasting, and compelling presentation skills. This is an extraordinary accomplishment. Congratulations to all.
A multidisciplinary student team is one of four top finalists in the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition—the other three finalists include Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a combined team from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. ASU’s team, sponsored by the College of Architecture and Environmental Design and ULI, Arizona Chapter, includes Prasoon Kumar, Parul Mittal, and Timothy Parke, environmental planning; Matthew Muller, architecture; and Mohan Sankrit, business. The teams were asked to submit designs for a 57-acre parcel of “underutilized” land adjacent to the Allegheny River, near Pittsburgh’s Strip District, which would revitalize the area and reconnect it to the greater community. The ASU team was flown to Pittsburgh to see the site and meet with city leaders and will now refine their design schemes for the March 26 final judging in Pittsburgh. The winning team receives $50,000, of which 10 percent will be paid to the team sponsors. The remaining teams will split a $30,000 prize. For more information on the competition visit www.udcompetition.uli.org.
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A $300,000 U.S. AID grant was received by CAED in partnership with Instituto Tecnolgico de Sonora-ITSON, Mexico. The grant will fund a study titled “The Bi-National Partnership Consortium for Desert Environmental Development.” The goal is to develop alternative, environmentally friendly energy systems, furthering ecotourism and enhancing environmental protections while promoting sustainable microenterprises for the Sonoran Desert region. School of Planning and Landscape Architecture (SPLA) professor David Pijawka is the Project Director and Co-PI along with School of Architecture (SoA) professor Harvey Bryan. PhD student Linda Oviedo is Project Manager and Liaison.
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Nineteen School of Planning and Landscape Architecture students under the direction of Faculty Associate George Hull took the top prize in their division at the San Francisco Garden Show. The students designed a courtyard landscape of plants native to AZ, NM, and TX. Their design and choice of plants earned the group a gold medal, beating seasoned competitors with hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend. Hull has a website about the competition at
www.mswn.com/ASU/
Welcome_to_ASU_and_the_SFGS.htm
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Several Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy grants on the border region have been received:
- Tecate Grant—Building a Sustainable Community in Tecate. Project Director SPLA Director and professor Hema Dandekar, Co-PI’s Harvey Bryan, David Pijawka, Jay Golden, and others. $100,000.
- Quality of Life Studies in Mexicali and Colexico with San Diego State University. Co-PI’s SPLA professors Subhro Guhathakurta and D. Pijawka, and Ed Sadalla, Psychology; Linda Oviedo, RA. Approx. $100,000.
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InnovationSpace, initiated by Paul Rothstein and Mookesh Patel, SoD, has received an endorsement of $300,000 over three years from the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and the W. P. Carey School of Business. The project is an entrepreneurial joint venture that includes students from business, engineering, and design focusing on a variety of real-world projects.
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Joe Ewan was recently spotlighted in ASU’s Research. His study of the North Phoenix Area led to the publication of the Sonoran Preserve Master Plan, its approval by the Phoenix City Council, and the American Society of Landscape Architects’ President’s Award of Excellence—the Pulitzer Prize of landscape architecture.
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Students nominated several School of Design (SoD) faculty for consideration in the ASASU Centennial Professorship Award. They are Prasad Boradkar, Donald Herring, Mookesh Patel, Diane Bender, and Janetta McCoy.
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Harvey Bryan has been notified that City of Phoenix/Sky Harbor Urban Heat Island proposal was accepted. $150K will be awarded. Additional funding is expected from other sources to total about $250K. ASU Research Park will allow land for an outdoor materials lab, and SRP will loan their helicopter to take thermal imaging photos of Sky Harbor and its surrounds this summer.
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The College would like to welcome Development Officer, Sr., Cynthia Haas, who comes to us from the Fulton School of Engineering. One of her first tasks will be to work on fundraising for a special purchase of design books for the Architecture and Environmental Design Library. Her phone number is 480.727.8998 if you would like to talk about funding for the library or other development opportunities.
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The Design Excellence Exhibit 2004 is in the CAED Gallery of Design from March 15 through April 2. There will be a reception in CAED Gallery of Design on Friday March 26 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. For more information, call 480.965.4135.
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Vicky Sirianni, chief facilities officer of MIT will give a talk on April 1 on the Bridge of the Architecture Building. Sirianni has spent 30 years directing building and landscape projects on the campus of MIT, including those designed by Frank Gehry, Fumihiko Maki, Steven Holl, Charles Correa, and Laurie Olin. The talk will be from 4:00–5:00 p.m.
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School of Architecture professors Matthew Innes and Carlos Martin (who is also affiliated with the D.E.W. School of Construction) have organized a colloquium called Future Plots: Conceptualizing Change in Architecture and Structure. Visit www.caed.asu.edu/futureplots/ for more details or just to see their great website!
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