Student Activities

ASHRAE Student Activities Update 4/26/2013

Submitted by Kenneth Shifflett, P.E. / Student Activities Chair 

We are winding down another fantastic year for student activities.  April 17th, the ASHRAE Houston chapter held our student night/YEA/refrigeration tour/membership night at St. Arnold's Brewery and was a great time by all.  Five scholarships for $1000 each were awarded to Texas A&M students: Sebastian Eluvathingal, Hala Nemer, Oleksandr Tanskyi, Vasiliy Khmelenko, and Sukjoon Oh.  There were 15 total in attendance from the TAMU student branch and they all were quite impressed with the refrigeration tour. 

It has been a great year for the TAMU chapter and membership levels continue to increase each year.  The monthly student branch meetings average over 40 students.  They had 20 + students attend both the ASHREA summer and winter conferences this past year.  I should note that the Houston ASHRAE chapter generously supported a portion of their travel costs for both of the conferences.  The TAMU student branch is extremely thankful for all that ASHRAE Houston does to support them and I want to make sure that everyone knows that.

As this year comes to a close, we will take a short break over summer, but it will be time to refocus the goals for next year as well.  Primarily those will be our ongoing efforts to grow student interest in ASHRAE within the local colleges (University of Houston, Rice, LoneStar college, ect..) and increase chapter participation of K-12 activities and involvement in Engineers Week.   If anyone has contact information for potential interest or involvement, please email me at kshifflett@distribaire.com.