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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shayla Stimpson]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>USU launched a new hands-on engineering technology program for students in Fall 2024. This degree is a part of the…</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="p1">USU launched a new hands-on engineering technology program for students in Fall 2024. This degree is a part of the College of Agriculture and Applied Science College.</p>
<p class="p1">“This program is a very practical hands-on type of program for teaching engineering technologists, who apply engineering concepts in a practical approach to solving technical problems,” Andrew Deceuster, Associate Department Head and Professional Practice Professor, wrote in an email, “This practical approach means that students will find themselves having labs associated with most of their classes that will take them into labs such as machining, welding, composites, electronics, automation, 3-D printing, CAD, and materials.”</p>
<p class="p1">This degree is unique in the fact that students will often be working with their hands. This practical approach is good for students who prefer a tactical learning style and enjoy the process of creation.</p>
<p class="p1">“Students will work on a variety of projects depending on the class,” wrote Deceuster, “They will be building electronic circuits, machining aluminum match stick holders, designing sheet metal parts in CAD, 3-D Printing fixtures to CNC machine custom logos, laying up composites, programming 6 axis robot arms, and they will have a yearlong capstone project where they will design, build, and documents a product or solution to a problem with a company.”</p>
<p class="p1">According to the USU engineering technology webpage, this degree will be offered at 13 different statewide campuses along with the Logan campus. This means that students from all over Utah can participate in this proactive program.</p>
<p class="p1">Engineering technology is not entirely new to USU, however. This program was simply reintroduced in 2024 due to high industry demand.</p>
<p class="p1">“Engineering technology was originally a part of USU but was cut back in 2003, so it is not a new idea but the push from industry has brought it back,” wrote Deceuster.</p>
<p class="p1">According to the USU engineering technology site, career prospects for this degree include configuration technologist, controls engineer technologist, customer engineering technologist, product technologist, etc.</p>
<p class="p1">This website estimates a yearly salary of $68,861 with a 3.8% projected employment growth for the years 2024-2028.</p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">“This is the first semester that the program has been live so we are still evaluating everything, but it is going well so far, and have had lots of students change their major over to this program,” Deceuster wrote.“I have students who love the hands-on in the labs and it was what they thought Engineering was but have found a better fit with Engineering Technology.”</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span><span data-contrast="auto">This program has just begun but is expected to see growth in the future.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span><span data-contrast="auto">“In respect to programs that we’ve seen launched in the past, I definitely believe it will grow,” said Dantzel Miner, CAAS senator. “I think these applicable career-securing programs are going to grow far above these ADBS programs that are awesome, but these have a real-world demand.”</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span><span data-contrast="auto">The degree has many prospects that will likely be seen in upcoming years. Although new, USU has lots in store for the engineering technology program.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span><span data-contrast="auto">“The program will continue to grow, and we have been working with our industry partners to secure internship opportunities for students, scholarships, and potential senior capstone projects,” Deceuster wrote. “We will be offering several certificates that can be earned as concentrations in the program and should have them approved for next year. A few of those are Advanced and Additive Manufacturing Processes, Quality and Reliability, Product Development, and Manufacturing and Design Technology. We hope to keep expanding these in the future as we are able to expand.”</span></p>
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<title>Woodworking away: Lee Welch alumnus feature</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>When Lee Welch, a 76 year-old Utah State University alumnus, built a new house with his wife, Welch did all…</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Lee Welch, a 76 year-old Utah State University alumnus, built a new house with his wife, Welch did all of the woodwork, including coffered ceilings and the garage doors.</p>
<p>The new house also includes a large work space for Welch’s woodwork.</p>
<p>Ron Clark, a friend of Welch and fellow USU alumnus, described the work as “phenomenal” and “intricate.” Welch’s work ranges from chests and cabinets to toys and grandfather clocks crafted entirely from wood.</p>
<p>“The amount of work and attention to detail just to make a single gear in one of his clocks is outstanding,” Clark said.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-22021528" class="wp-caption-text">One of many wooden clocks that Lee Welsh made.</p></div>
<p>Welch began woodworking in high school. He described his high school shop teacher as a “perfectionist” but “that was okay” because it helped him learn exactness in woodwork. Welch has had a couple of mentors in his woodworking, but for the most part has learned through experimentation and spur of the moment inspiration.</p>
<p>“Sometimes I’ll be sleeping at 2 a.m. and something will come to me,” Welch said, “then I can’t sleep till I do something about it.”</p>
<p>Lee Welch was born in Morgan County, Utah in 1941. This 76 year old Utah State University alumnus has hiked the Appalachian trail, builds original woodworks and continues to live an active and productive life.</p>
<p>Welch began Utah State in 1959, and eventually graduated in 1965 with a degree in Marketing and a minor in Economics and Accounting. The people he met and experiences he gained while at USU have deeply influenced his life.</p>
<p>Welch originally came to Utah State with the intent of becoming an engineer.</p>
<p>“Sputnik was up, we had the space race and I wanted to be an engineer,” Welch said, “but then I hit math, and I had come from Morgan, where the most math I had had was geometry.”</p>
<p>Welch then decided to become an accountant, but realized one day during his junior year that he couldn’t sit behind a desk all day. So he changed his major to marketing.</p>
<p>While at USU, Welch was also involved in Pi Kappa Alpha.The fraternity helped him connect to multiple people and friends in his life including Lyle Hillyard, a senator for the Utah Senate, and Quentin L. Cook, an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Welch has tried staying close to his fraternity brother throughout his life, and was the president of the Pi Kappa Alpha house corporation for 30 years.</p>
<p>In 1963, Welch went to serve in the Vietnam war, taking a two-year leave of absence.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-22021527" class="wp-caption-text">Lee and Carol Welsh in their kitchen, where Welsh made all of the wood cabnetry.</p></div>
<p>Upon returning from Vietnam, Welch returned to Utah where a friend set him up on a blind date with a girl named Carol. Their first date was Thanksgiving weekend, they were engaged on Christmas and married in January, only six weeks after they initially met. Carol and Lee have been together 53 years now.</p>
<p>“He’s a good husband and father,” Carol said, “and he’s fun. Really fun, that’s part of the reason that I married him.”</p>
<p>Lee and Carol have four kids, 13 grandkids, and several great-grandchildren.</p>
<p>“It’s worked out so far,” Lee said, “we’re a good team.”</p>
<p>Upon graduating from USU, Lee was invited by a friend to come work as a used car salesman. He eventually worked his way to opening a couple of car lots, and ended his career as the owner of a Ford store in Brigham City.</p>
<p>Lee’s first experience in owning a business was at Utah State, where in his sophomore year he bought a drive-in frost top, similar to an A&W, for $3000, and owned and operated the establishment until his senior year. Because of the drive in, “I was the darling of the business professors,” Lee said “… it was fun and it allowed me to buy new cars during school.”</p>
<p>Lee was very active in the community during his working career. He served as President of the Ogden chapter of Kiwanis International in 1977 and Rotary club in 1991. He also kept basketball statistics for Weber State for 27 years, after Gordon “Dutch” Belnap, another USU alumnus, asked him to.</p>
<p>Upon retiring and selling his dealership, Lee was inducted into the Utah Dealer Hall of Fame. He and his wife then decided to spend some time traveling, taking a cruise to Australia and New Zealand, and eventually serving an 18-month mission for the LDS Church in Micronesia.</p>
<p>Before their LDS mission, Lee decided to fulfill a goal of his: hiking the Appalachian Trail. The trail stretches from Maine down to Georgia, a total of 2200 miles. Lee, 59 at this point, started on the trail and hiked an average of 18 miles a day, and finished the trail in five months.</p>
<p>“I’m kind of an outdoorsy guy,” Lee said.</p>
<p>Lee goes and talks to youth groups about the experience when asked, he draws parallels between the trail and life.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-22021529" class="wp-caption-text">Lee Welsh displaying his odd-shaped gears.</p></div>
<p>The Appalachian trail uses marker to signal to hikers they are one the right path. A trail marker is a two inches wide and six inches long white line generally painted on a tree. Lee said that as you hike you have to keep your eyes on the markers or you will divert onto one of the main trails that intercept the path, and get lost.</p>
<p>“The point really is, where are we looking?” Lee said. “Are we looking at the rocks and the roots? Or are we looking at the Markers?… Are we looking towards what’s important in our lives? Are we looking towards graduation in college, or a mission? What are we focusing on? If it’s only on our iPhones or what’s on Facebook, we’re probably going to get confused.”</p>
<p>He always challenges the youth groups he talks to set goals and avoid negativity in their lives.</p>
<p>Though Lee isn’t planning on hiking the Appalachian trail in the future, he still stays active by hiking over the Snowbasin each week, camping during the summer and fishing in Alaska each year.</p>
<p>Lee also occupies his time by golfing 5-6 times a week, being the Friends of Scouting Chairman for Mt. Ogden Boy Scout Council, visiting patients at the McKay-Dee Hospital weekly and woodworking.</p>
<p>Woodworking is one of Lee’s favorite hobbies.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-22021532" class="wp-caption-text">Many of Lee Welsh’s wooden machines.</p></div>
<p>Welch will sometimes donate his woodwork to charitable auctions, where they generally sell at several thousands of dollars. However, he makes it a rule to never work on commission.</p>
<p>Welch’s life has been one of ups and downs, and to current students at USU he offers the advice to find a career in something they’re passionate about.</p>
<p>“If you do that you’ll be success,” Welch said, “We’re rarely good at things that we don’t have a passion for. They might be good hobbies.”</p>
<p>Welch has seen his fair share of setbacks in his life, but he offers this sentiment, “You’ve got to get up tomorrow and do something about it. You can’t let that be something that defines you … Get yourself up and dust yourself off.”</p>
<p><i>—dillan.passmore@aggiemail.usu.edu</i></p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was on active duty as a Sergeant in the United States Marines Corps, as a Combat Engineer, from May of 1999 to August 2006. While on active duty, my first duty stationed was with Marine Wing Support Squadron 373 out of Miramar, CA. After about a year I was then transferred to 9 Engineer Support Battalion at Camp Hansen in Okinawa, Japan. Finally, after a year there, I was then sent to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion (1st C.E.B.) out of Camp Pendleton, CA. While being stationed with 1st C.E.B., I was deployed to Iraq 3 times. My first deployment we initially crossed the line of departure to make our way to Baghdad, Iraq. My second and third deployment I was based out of Fallujah, Iraq.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am married with two loving children. My son who is the oldest, from my previous marriage is seven. He is in the second grade; he speaks two languages; as English and Spanish. My daughter is three, this year she started pre-school. She also speaks two languages; English and Mandarin. My wife is originally from Taipei Taiwan, so she has taught our three-year-old to speak fluent Mandarin. My son is learning Mandarin phrases. However, he is Hispanic with his mom’s house mainly speaking Spanish.<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-22010368" src="https://usustatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/john-reynolds-1.jpg" alt="john-reynolds-1" width="412" height="206" srcset="https://usustatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/john-reynolds-1.jpg 412w, https://usustatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/john-reynolds-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https://usustatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/john-reynolds-1-335x168.jpg 335w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a veteran and a student with USU, I attend the Tooele Campus. I like the broadcast classes I feel I get more interaction with my Professor. For me the smaller class sizes, at least at Tooele, I feel more comfortable with my peers. Most of my military career, I was attached as a small unit in support of larger company size elements. Usually, I was the Senior Engineer as a Sergeant, as an Engineer, we were always close together. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is my second semester after taking a five-year break in attendance. I stop going, mainly due to a divorce, I am very prideful. As a result, I did not make a proper withdrawal. I felt that with not completing my degree, I had made a mistake in life. I made an appointment with the campus advisor, Joyce Allen to discuss my option. The hardest thing for me was making the determination to finish. However, with the help of Joyce and Prof Mueller, I feel that I have made the best choice to re-attend USU. On a monthly basis, I meet with Joyce to discuss how classes are going. This semester I have Dr. Mueller for History 4251, his class is very challenging. However, Dr. Mueller course is helping me become a better writer. Most astonishing was at the beginning of this semester, I had Dr. Galano remember me as one of his students from over five years ago. When I had him last as a student, I was having difficult time in my life. I admire the staff at the Tooele Campus, I look forward to interacting with them every time I go to the Campus </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With re-enrolling, I have now achieved my AS in General Studies. For the most important thing is showing both my kids that I choose to complete my education. While I am sitting doing my homework, I am also helping them their homework. I am the first one in my family to attend college, which I have given my parents the pleasure of seeing graduate with my first degree. My wife Yu-Chi, my mother, and kids help me every day, so I can focus more attention to succeeding with my education.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">John W. Reynolds Sr. was born in Plano, TX. He currently works for Walmart Distribution Center out of Grantsville, UT, as a Facility Maintenance Technician. He transferred to USU in Fall 2007 to finish his B.S. in Business, with a minor in history.</span></i></p>
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