1. The Oklahoma State University College of Engineering, Architecture,
and Technology Student Council has had a very successful semester,
and we owe our loyal sponsors much appreciation. It is because of
your generous support that we have been able to achieve all of the
accomplishments highlighted in this semester’s newsletter.
Thank you for your contributions.
Student Council Spring Retreat
After battling through icy roads by staying at home
and attacking their homework while bundled up in
blankets and sipping on hot cocoa, Student Council
members needed something, anything, to get away
from the monotony of the continuous schoolwork. To
confront this peril, the Student Council rescheduled
their previous date with the Pole Position Raceway,
an indoor go-kart in Oklahoma City, to race past one
another in electric-powered karts.
Upon orientation, a few student council members
were apparently let down by the lack of turtle shells
and banana peels. Nevertheless, they perked up upon
hearing that they got to operate 18-HP go-karts going
up to 45 mph (66 feet per second), all without adult
supervision. Upon hearing this, every man, woman,
and child knew in their heart that they were ready
compete against each other in the ultimate American
showdown of skill and grace—in a racecar. With
the go-karts growling and tired screeching, Student
Council members raced past one another, bumping
for the first place. Upon mercilessly beating everyone
else Austin Mitchell commented, “I would like to
thank the makers of Mario Kart and Gran Turismo 3
for making me the gokart driver I am today. Couldn’t
have done it without them.”
Nonetheless, the losers of the race bonded together
in ways they never thought possible. President Cole
Griffin (pictured right as Luigi with VP of Committees
Matt “Mario” Klein) remarked that this was “one of
the best ways to get to see student council members
in an environment many of them had never been
in before.” Austin Mitchell added, “We raced; it
was fun.” Upon returning to Stillwater without any
speeding tickets, members felt refreshed but could
still hear echoes of the racetrack calling.
— Peter Storm, Biosystems Engineering Senior

2. The annual celebration of the College of Engineering,
Architecture, and Technology, or CEAT Week, was held
this year from March 30th to April 3rd. This week is
planned and coordinated by the Student Council CEAT
Week Committee, led this year by junior Paige Cloud.
The celebration includes daily giveaways of CEAT
branded freebies, including tshirts, water bottles,
and office supply kits. To receive these giveaways,
students would follow and mention @OSU_CEATStuco
on Twitter, in an effort to promote our social media.
The 2nd Annual CEAT Week “Thunder Up” Dinner
was hosted this year on Wednesday in the newly
renovated Student Excellent Center in the Advanced
Technology Research Center. For only $10, attendees
enjoyed a buffet-style steak dinner from Freddie
Pauls while watching the Oklahoma City Thunder
take on the Dallas Mavericks. Raffle tickets were sold
for $1, offering the chance to win items like jewelry
and tshirts donated by local Stillwater businesses.
Signed memorabilia from OSU baseball, basketball,
and wrestling legends were part of a silent auction,
and funds from the auction, raffle, and ticket sales all
went to benefit Wings of Hope, which serves victims
of domestic violence.
Other events included a can crusher design
competition, a lecture by guest speaker Ed Robben of
FOSSIL, and the week concluded with dodgeball and
basketball tournaments on Friday evening.
Student Council would like to extend a special thanks
to sponsors Williams, Zeeco, Exxon Mobil, ONE Gas,
and US NRC for making CEAT Week 2015 possible.
2nd Annual Pie Your Professor
CEAT Week 2015
— Emily Henning, Architecture Junior
As part of CEAT Week this year, the annual Pie in the
Face event took place on Thursday, April 2nd. This
fundraiser is planned and coordinated by the CEAT
Freshman Council, coordinated by juniors Courtney
Wolfe and John Hiett, which acts as a junior council
and focuses on the same principles of outreach,
sustainability, and service.
On Thursday of CEAT Week, students lined up on the
lawn just north of Engineering South to throw pies at
their favorite (or perhaps least favorite) professors.
Students could purchase these pies, with the choice
of either chocolate or vanilla pie, at $3 for one pie
or $5 for two pies. Many professors even offer extra
credit for students’ participation. With the help of
professors Dr. Robert Emerson, Dr. Camille DeYong,
Dr. Ronald Delahousseaye, Carisa Ramming, Dr.
Raman Singh, and Dr. Glenn Brown, who volunteered
their time and allowed many pies to be thrown at
them, as well as the support all of the students who
participated and donated money, an overall total
of around $300 was raised. This money has been
donated to the Wings of Hope Foundation, benefiting
victims of domestic violence in an attempt to create
“peace and hope for all mankind”.
— Katy Ewing, Chemical Engineering Freshman

3. Club Spotlight: AIAS
Guest Writer — Myriah Worthen, Architecture
Sophomore
The Oklahoma State University chapter of AIAS hosted
its annual design week on March 30th – April 5th.
Design Week is a week dedicated to the School of
Architecture’s students and faculty who participate
in various events and activities. This year the studios
also competed for points which were based on
participation and involvement, the studio with the
most points won a prize at the end of the week.
Students from all the studios gathered on the front
plaza every day at 1:00pm to participate in the
first ever Architecture Olympics. There were many
architecture related games ranging from synchronized
swivel chair dancing to a hot cup of coffee relay.
Each studio would send participants to compete and
first, second, and third place were awarded points.
The students also participated in dress up days,
some of which included Twinkie Tuesday, Dress Like
a Professor Day, and Redneck Friday. Students who
came to class Tuesday with a twin got a Hostess
Twinkie and students who got a picture with the
professor they were dressed as got double points.
The talent show, held on Thursday night, gave the
students the chance to show off their skills. There
were many different acts ranging from singing,
whistling, and even Nerf basketball dunking. It was
a lot of fun and was great entertainment for the
students and professors who came to watch that
night. The final Design Week event was the Pig
Roast. Many students and professors all met at Lake
McMurtry and for a cookout and bonfire celebrating
the end of Design Week. The closing ceremony for the
Architecture Olympics was also held during Pig Roast
and the winners were announced. Third place went to
the second year studio, second place was the fourth
year studio, and the winners with the most points
were the third year studio.
The National Society of Black Engineers is a student-
led organization that aids engineering students in
college and throughout their careers. We have junior
chapters, college chapters, and professional chapters
around the world. NSBE’s goal, as stated before every
meeting, is “to increase the number of culturally
responsible black engineers who excel academically,
succeed professionally, and positively impact the
community.”
To accomplish this goal, we hold a variety of events.
Many of our meetings each year introduce students
to OSU career services, resume building techniques,
tips for academic success, and a variety of other
things. We allow students to go to NSBE’s fall regional
conference and national conference free of charge.
At these conferences, students attend a variety of
workshops that provide tips and useful information
for being more academically successful, professional,
or culturally responsible. NSBE’s career fair held at
the national conference is nearly twice the size of the
OSU’s career fair held in the fall, and many students
obtain internships and permanent positions at these
career fairs. During the fall semester, we celebrate
NSBE Week in which we host a game night and our
traditional poetry night, which has always had a great
turnout.
At the end of the day, NSBE is there to serve the
people. All of our events are free of charge because
we want to students to enjoy themselves and be well
informed. At the end of our endeavors, we hope that
our actions increased the number of engineers in the
world.
Club Spotlight: NSBE
Guest Writer— Mykale-Jamal Holland, Mechanical/
Aerospace Engineering Senior

4. Club Spotlight: Cowboy Motorsports
Guest Writer — Taylor Cole, Biosystems Engineering
Junior
The 2014-2015 Cowboy Motorsports Team is actively
working on getting the tractor built for this summer’s
competition. This summer, the team will be traveling
to Peoria, Illinois for the annual competition from May
28-June 1. The team hopes their improvements will
make the difference needed to excel at competition.
CMS is currently purchasing parts needed to finish
the tractor, all design work is finished, and the reports
are submitted. This year the team is also taking last
year’s tractor as an X team tractor. The X team is
composed of younger members and allows them to
get a more hands on experience while learning about
designing and building a tractor. X teams are required
to modify a previous tractor at least 20%, and our X
team has gone above and beyond that requirement
to make much needed changes. To learn more about
this year’s Cowboy Motorsports team or provide
technical or financial assistance, please don’t hesitate
to contact the club director, Taylor Cole, at taylor.
cole@okstate.edu. Also, if you’d like to keep up with
team goings on, feel free to visit our updated website
at www.cms.okstate.edu.
Club Spotlight: AEI
Guest Writer — Jose Esparza, Architectural Engineering
Sophomore
Architectural Engineering Institute has had a
tremendous semester. We were able to send students
to the AEI National Conference in Milwaukee, which
also doubled as a competition in architectural
engineering. The AEI National Conference is a great
opportunity for our students to build connections to
fellow members that are already in the field and build
relationships with companies, not just for individual
gain, but also for the school.
We were able to host a ping pong tournament on
April 2nd. It is a fundraiser that we host annually.
This year we even opened it to the whole school of
engineering as a CEAT event. The ping pong table is
open all throughout the semester for anyone to use,
but a little competition as a tournament is always fun,
and funds help support our chapter of AEI.
AEI also hosted its annual truss competition on April
1st, in conjunction with the timbers design course,
where students are given a 150 popsicle sticks and are
allowed to only use tacky or wood glue to construct
a truss system. The truss has to meet certain
dimensions in height width and length, along with a
hole in the middle to allow access for a rod to fit to
allow testing in the Structural Stress Analyzer 1000.
The winning truss, constructed by junior Choua Vang,
broke the school record by holding over 800 pounds.

5. Club Spotlight: EWB
Guest Writer —Blake Jordan, Mechanical Engineering
Senior
Engineers Without Border is a student led-
organization that strives to help communities foreign
and domestic. In the past, we have traveled to
Honduras for a water filtration project (below). Due to
the success of the Honduras project, we have decided
to “close” the project and start a brand new project
in Guatemala. A group of students will be traveling to
Los Chilitos and La 46 located near Guatemala City in
hopes to evaluate communities and come up with a
solution going forward.
Domestically, we are involved with Habitat for
Humanities (above left) and host an annual Coffee
Concert in the fall. Coffee Concert is great for seeing
the local artists and musicians around town and
continues to get better each and every year. This
spring we are working with Mission of Hope to build a
storage shed for them to store food in. To raise money
for this we are having the first ever EWB 5K fun run
which will be April 12th at 2pm at Boomer Lake.
As a club, we are trying to build a legacy for a better
university. The community outreach we are involved
in gives students the opportunity to truly make a
difference in the world. For further information or
questions please contact ewb.osu@gmail.com.
Club Spotlight: SPE
Guest Writer — Dakota Murdock, Chemical Engineering
Junior
In the fall of 2014, the Society of Petroleum Engineers
hosted its first annual golf scramble. The event
was hosted the day before the Career Fair giving
members an upper hand during recruiting season by
putting them face to face with recruiters they would
be talking with and interviewing with over the next
few weeks. The scramble was a relaxed atmosphere
to contrast with the professional atmosphere of
the career fair the following day. This allowed both
students and recruiters to see both sides of the other
party. The event served as a great fundraiser for
our chapter to provide more opportunities for the
members throughout the year.
In April of 2015, the Society of Petroleum Engineers
will host the SPE Regional Student Paper Contest.
In January, a schedule for the next 10 years was
published, and our chapter was lucky enough to
receive the first opportunity to host. This event is
huge for Oklahoma State’s young petroleum program.
Much of the upstream oil & gas industry does not
know that we have a petroleum engineering program,
or they do not know the strength of it, so hosting
this regional event will allow us to showcase our
strength for our entire Mid-Continent Region, which
consists of about 10 universities. On April 25th, 18 of
the top researchers in petroleum engineering from
the undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. levels will
converge on Stillwater to present in the contest. It will
truly be an extraordinary event and opportunity.
SPE is currently looking for speakers for the upcoming
school year. For more information about OSU Society
of Petroleum Engineers or to contact, please visit
www.spe.okstate.edu.

6. Club Spotlight: SHPE
Guest Writer —Edgar Viveros, Computer and Electrical
Engineering Sophomore
From March 7th to 8th, the Society of Hispanic
Professional Engineers chapter at OSU hosted the
Region 5 Service Regional Outing. We dedicated the
first day to holding social events including a cookout,
sports competitions, and a dance for our guests
from chapters across the region. On the second day,
we dedicated our time to service. Half of the SHPE
members went to help at the OSU Botanical Gardens
while the other half collected trash at Boomer
Lake. After that, we held a closing ceremony and
bid farewell to our SHPE family. It was an amazing
experience making new friends from different schools
and being able to team up with them to give back to
the community.
Club Spotlight: AOE
Guest Writer — Hannah Dudeck, Electrical Engineering
Freshman
Alpha Omega Epsilon, a sorority for women in
engineering and technical sciences, founded a colony
at Oklahoma State University in August, and after
only 8 months, we were chartered as a chapter on
Saturday, April 11th. With 21 members, we have
managed to overcome obstacles and become more
involved with campus life. We have had sisterhood
retreats, ritual week events, and even professional
events. We are looking forward to having two
recruitment sessions in April, and will be hosting our
first AOE Mom’s Day. For more information about
AOE, contact michelle.lopez@okstate.edu.
Special Announcement: CEAT Ambassadors
The CEAT Ambassador program is undergoing an overhaul for the fall, including the addition of 14 new student
ambassadors. These students, representing all of the majors within the college, will act as the spokespeople for
CEAT to prospective students, alumni, and donors for the upcoming school year. Congratulations to the newest
faces of the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology!
Alex Benavides
Price Buckley
Paige Cloud
Gracie Coen
Josh Cole
Makenzie Darby
Andrea Hann
Emily Henning
Mallory Hosey
Anthony Minor
Emma Orth
Adrian Saenz
Returning Ambassadors New Ambassadors
Chase Barrow - Broken Arrow, OK
Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering
Zachary Brundage - Southlake, TX
Electrical Engineering
Jordan Burns - Wichita, KS
Chemical Engineering
Seth Cleary - Lindsay, OK
Biosystems/Agricultural Engineering
Kamran Coulter - Elk City, OK
Electrical Engineering
Alexandra Lopez - Tulsa, OK
Biosystems/Agricultural Engineering
Briar Lostlen - Enid, OK
Electrical Engineering Technology
Justin Mott - San Luis Obispo, CA
Fire Protection/Safety Technology
Shawn Parsons - Idabel, OK
Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering
Clay Patterson - Georgetown, TX
Computer/Electrical Engineering
Jessica Robertson - Pauls Valley, OK
Industrial Engineering
Link Strickland - Tulsa, OK
Mechanical Engineering
Alexandra Thompson - Sugarland, TX
Fire Protection/Safety Technology
Christopher Waite - OKC, OK
Civil Engineering