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Columns::February 17, 2003
Digest
Faculty of Engineering hosts symposium
The Faculty of Engineering and Engineering Outreach Service will host the 2003 Georgia Biofuels Symposium at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Feb. 18 and 19.
Presentations delivered by professionals in industry, government and academia will focus on technologies suitable in Georgia for the conversion of biomass into usable fuels and energy. The symposium will begin with a tour of the university steam plant Feb. 18; the keynote address will be delivered Feb. 19 by Helena Chum of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a unit of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Biofuels and biofuel systems for steam, electrical generation and transportation will be discussed as workable solutions in Georgia. Discussions on technologies will cover feedstock considerations, equipment design, operation and economic viability. Government representatives will discuss economic incentives and funding opportunities.
The biofuel demonstration by UGA’s Engineering Outreach Service that heated campus last February and other tests found that chicken fat, restaurant grease and other biofuels hold promise as alternatives to traditional fossil fuels.
“It is time for Georgians to learn new ways to use our wood and other biomass resources for economic development,” says Tom Adams, director of UGA’s Engineering Outreach Service. “The biofuels symposium comes at an urgent time in the quest for renewable energy sources in the United States. With the issues of environmental and economic security so closely tied to the need to decrease the country’s dependence on imported oil, sustainable economic development and renewable energy will drive policy debates for years to come.”
For registration information, call 542-2134.
Career Center holds South Campus expo
UGA’s Career Center will hold its first-ever “Career Expo: A South Campus Event” Feb. 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the concourse of Stegeman Coliseum. The expo was developed through a partnership with the Career Center, the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the Warnell School of Forest Resources and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.
“The Career Expo is designed to highlight careers and internships in such science-related industries as engineering, food, nutrition, natural resources, forest resources, agriculture, environmental and poultry,” says Christie Sanders, career consultant for agricultural, environmental and forest resources at the Career Center. “Despite the poor economy, we have more than 50 companies registered to attend and are rapidly approaching capacity.”
Among the companies participating in the expo are Merial, Hormel, John Deere Landscapes, International Paper, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Wayne Farms, Weyerhaeuser, the Kroger Company, USDA and Buckhead Beef Company.
M.B.A. students clean up at business bowl
For the second year in a row, two teams of Terry College M.B.A. students finished first and second in the annual Georgia Bowl Business Plan Competition, held Feb. 1 at Kennesaw State University.
International Cash Connections and Carepoint Professional Employees topped teams from other business schools, including Georgia Tech, Kennesaw State University, the University of Louisville and Rice University. The competition pits business plans formulated by the students and their advisers against other new venture ideas.
The first-place International Cash Connections team of Frank Marley and Luis Imery developed a business plan to serve the international cash remittance needs of the Georgia and Northern Florida Hispanic immigrant population. Ken Kaufman and Alan Johnson of the second-place Carepoint Professional Employees team are developing a human resources, compliance and business process outsourcing venture for small- to medium-sized medical clinics and physicians’ offices. |
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