Date: 7-25-2005
Contact: Cheryl Cobb, 334-844-2220, cobbche@auburn.edu

E-Day 2005 a Big Success

BSEN senior Kate Roberts explains biofiltration principles to high school students attending E-Day.

Nearly two thousand potential engineering students visited the AU campus on February 25 ^th for the annual E-Day engineering recruiting event.  BSEN students and faculty worked hard to have a highly visible presence at the event.  Their displays inside the Foy Union included exciting hands-on exhibits for bio-energy, food engineering, GPS and other geospatial technologies, ecological engineering, and forest engineering.  Prospective students were really excited about the outdoor exhibit on aquacultural engineering that was assembled with the help of the Fisheries and Allied Aquaculture Department and BSEN students and staff.  Students observed first hand how engineering principles are critical in the production of fish through aeration and waste removal using biofiltration.  Also on the union lawn, students interested in off-highway vehicles enjoyed seeing a Caterpillar 525 wheeled skidder that was provided Thompson Tractor, of Montgomery.  We are grateful to our students and friends for helping us with the single most important recruiting event for BSEN.