7/3/2012
Kent Schien, president of the MechSE Alumni Board, and vice president Rick Furkert have received the 2008 Constituent Leadership Award from the University of Illinois Alumni Association. They were honored for their exemplary leadership during the merger of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. According to the nomination, Schien and Furkert "worked together in a genuine spirit of commitment to the success of the new department and its new alumni board ...