Board of Governors
President
Charles Meyer, P.E., F.ACEC
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President-Elect
Clarence E. Waters, Ph.D., P.E.
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Past President
Paul Rielly, P.E.
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Mohammed Ettouney,
Ph.D., P.E., F.AEI
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Thomas Babacz, P.E.
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Ray Yunk, P.E., LEED AP
The Charles Pankow Foundation Funds the Annual Architectural Engineering Student Competition
The Charles Pankow Foundation recently approved AEI’s proposal to establish and support the Charles Pankow Foundation ASCE Annual Architectural Engineering Student Competition.
The theme of the competition is the design and construction management of the engineered aspects of a building project. The building’s particular circumstances will be selected among a range of extremely challenging, inhospitable conditions and/or extreme natural hazards. These unusual circumstances are picked to elicit the kinds of ingenuity, innovativeness, and originality of work approach that have characterized the Charles Pankow legacy. Each year, the specifications for the competition will change by changing the site location, the programmatic requirements, and the extreme or inhospitable conditions the building project is subject to.
The competition will be open to both graduate and undergraduate students in the architectural engineering programs accredited (or that are actively seeking accreditation) by EAC/ABET. Submissions may be entered in one or more of the following five categories: structural system design; mechanical systems design; electrical systems design; building integration; and innovative construction management and construction methods. The evaluation of each submission will be based on the following criteria:
- Meeting the stated owner/user’s needs;
- Originality or innovative character of the design;
- Safety;
- Sustainability and energy efficiency;
- Economics of the design;
- Optimal use of construction materials and equipment;
- Project management;
- Reporting.
Details of the competition will be published annually in September and the entries will be due by mid-March. A Jury will review the entries received and select the finalists who will then present their work at the AEI conference in mid-April. The Jury will select the winners and runners-up in each category. The event will be broadcast by video to all the architectural engineering programs and the winning entries will be published on the web.
Positive outcomes from the competition are expected for the architectural engineering students, the architectural engineering programs, the architectural engineering profession and the Architectural Engineering Institute.
The Charles Pankow Foundation has agreed to fund the competition for three years, starting in September 2009. The AEI Board of Governors has appointed Rhonda Wilkinson, P.E., Assistant Professor at Kansas State University, to lead the Task Force that will be set up to run the competition.
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