Elements Magazine, Issue 4, 2022

College of Science, Engineering and Technology

Dean’s Welcome

While we continue to experience the impacts of COVID and other challenges, there has been a distinct energy associated with the beginning of the 2022-2023 academic year. Faculty and staff are visibly excited to be back in a more “normal” mode. Campus hallways, sidewalks, classrooms and every space across our beautiful campus have a wonderful buzz of enthusiasm throughout the day and into the evening. It feels great to have that campus community feeling again!

It is that sense of community that we are proud of and are excited to bring you in this edition of Elements. Continually, we see our students, faculty, staff and alumni bringing the spirit of innovation and generosity into everything they do. Whether you are interested in autonomous vehicle solutions, the nation’s first project-based Computer Science Program, ground-breaking research in soil science, alums who are providing a pathway for our students to succeed, a booming student organization or faculty who bring their real-world experience into the classroom, we hope you will enjoy this publication!

So many outstanding things are happening in our immediate and extended College of Science, Engineering and Technology family. We invite you to come back to campus soon to see for yourself the positive impact our community is making on the world.

Aaron Budge Acting Dean College of Science, Engineering and Technology

Dr. Aaron Budge Acting Dean

Departments

Dr. Laura Yin Associate Dean

Automotive & Manufacturing Engineering Technology Biological Sciences Biochemistry, Chemistry & Geology Computer Information Science Construction Management Electrical & Computer Engineering & Technology Integrated Engineering Mathematics & Statistics Mechanical & Civil Engineering Physics & Astronomy

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Table of Contents Elements

How integrated engineering alumna Kendall Diveley is making a big difference in the lives of students.

ALUMNA GIVES BACK AN UNLIKELY PAIR

A look at how a partnership between biology and electrical engineering is finding solutions to improve soil health.

SPOTLIGHT:

MITTELSTADT

Minnesota State Mankato alumnus shares his journey in becoming a successful physician.

CLOSER LOOK

Read a Q&A focused on astronomy professor Dr. Michael Rutkowski's research using the James Webb Space Telescope.

HANDS FREE DRIVING

Mechanical Engineering alumni reflect upon their valuable experience of building an autonomous snowplow.

PROGRAM FOR SUCCESS

How the nation's first project-based computer science program is giving students real-world experience.

FROM DREAM TO REALITY

A look at how one student organization provides job preparedness and networking opportunities in the data science field and beyond.

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GIVES BACK Alumna

When Kendall Diveley decided to enroll in the engineering program at Minnesota State University, Mankato’s satellite campus at Normandale Community College, she recognized that she was a “nontraditional” student.

She was 30 years old and working a full-time job in the airline industry, with a college experience that had petered out a decade earlier as she struggled to find her niche.

By Grace Brandt '13

"I wanted to learn how to think more logically, and engineering sounded interesting, challenging, and full of opportunities"

“I am not traditionally a technical person, but I wanted to learn how to think more logically, and engineering sounded interesting, challenging and full of opportunities,” she explained, enrolling in 2016.

By this time, Diveley had already earned two associates degrees in broad field engineering and physics, which had eaten into any federal grants she could obtain. While she was able to appeal and qualify for more aid her junior year, the same thing did not happen her senior year. Instead, a week after she started her second-to-last semester, she learned that her financial aid appeal had been denied. Diveley had received a partial scholarship through Minnesota State University, Mankato and the clients that worked with her department, but she still couldn’t pay for her tuition and rent.

“I thought, ‘Oh my god, what am I going to do? I’ve spent so many years fulfilling my dream and I’m so close and I’m going to fall short,’” she recalled.

She was desperate enough that she created a GoFundMe page, asking for financial assistance so that she wouldn’t have to drop her courses. She admitted she was embarrassed to do it, because she didn’t like asking people for help, but the response was unbelievable. Within 25 hours, she had received all the funds she needed, about $4,500—and a large portion of them came from fellow engineering students.

“The response absolutely blew me away,” she said. “After [the GoFundMe] was funded in a day, my classmates said, ‘You would’ve done the same for me.’ At that point, I decided if given the chance, I would put in whatever effort I could to give back to students and to the Twin Cities Engineering program.”

Diveley graduated in May 2018 with a degree in Integrated Engineering a project-based program that includes both Twin Cities Engineering and Iron Range Engineering. She now works as an electrical engineer at Trusted Semiconductor Solutions in Brooklyn Park. She remained committed to helping students, starting with acting as a mentor to a different student engineering team ever since she graduated. Then, when some of her fellow

alumni brought up the idea of giving back to future students, she volunteered to spearhead the effort. The Twin Cities Engineering Alumni Scholarship has been offered for three years now, funded entirely by Twin Cities Engineering graduates.

“The Twin Cities Engineering Alumni Scholarship came about as a way for graduates to support the success of those who are still in the program,” Diveley explained.

Alumni who are interested commit to three years of funding, with a $1,500 minimum. The group has hit the minimum every year, splitting it into two $750 scholarships for two students. Now that the first three-year cycle has been completed, Diveley said she is planning to restart it. However, she is handing the scholarship to a new graduate who will facilitate it for the next three years, because of how busy she is as the chair of the Alumni Board of Directors for the university.

“I want this to continue after this year,” Diveley said. “I want it to be a known thing, a legacy. It’s not a lot of money but it’s something, and I’m hoping it’ll turn into something more substantial eventually. You’ve got to start with something.”

Diveley was recently named the Twin Cities Engineering Alumni of the Year for the student mentoring she has offered since 2018 but for her, the work isn’t about the recognition. It’s about the students. And her hope going forward is that even more students will benefit from the Twin Cities Engineering Alumni Scholarship.

“I’m not 100 percent sure where I want this to go, but amazing things have been happening as a result of just trying to do good things for the sake of helping others keep going when times are hardest,” she said.

HANDS-FREE Driving MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, MANKATO ENGINEERING STUDENTS CREATE AUTOMATED SNOWPLOW

By Grace Brandt '13

While it’s not unusual for engineering majors to work on a capstone project during their senior year, students in Minnesota State University, Mankato’s engineering program took things a bit farther: They built an entire snowplow from scratch. And if that wasn’t enough of a challenge, they made it automated, too.

According to Dr. Min Li, project advisor and assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, the project started in 2020. He had heard about an automated snowplow contest hosted at Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis, and he gathered a group of five incoming seniors who were interested. This group participated in the virtual event in January 2021, and, while they didn’t take home first place, they did begin a new senior project tradition.

“The tools and the knowledge we utilize for this project, we learned it from class,” Lin said. “Sometimes students don’t get a lot of chances to actually utilize that knowledge and apply it. This project was a good vehicle and a good example for our students.”

Jacob Dougall '22 was one of the five students who worked on this year’s snowplow project. Most of the team began working in May 2021, spending 20-30 hours on it nearly every week. The project had two parts: creating the physical snowplow body and creating the programming to run it. Dougall worked on the snowplow’s body.

“It was really nice to get to build something that’s more like what I’ll be doing in the industry,” he said. “I get to work with a lot more advanced concepts than some of the other senior projects. Some of the stuff that we were looking at doing, a lot of people wouldn’t do unless they had at least a master’s degree in industry. So, we got to gain a lot of valuable experience in a really short amount of time.”

Dougall’s teammate, Jackson Smith '22, worked on the software side of things, collaborating with teammates to write a control program that utilizes GPS and other tools entirely from scratch.

“As for direct mechanical engineering experience, there wasn’t that much of it involved with coding,” he said. “But I definitely used principles of how to approach a problem and solve a problem in that. And those skills were developed over the course of being in the engineering program.”

In January of this year, the Minnesota State Mankato team participated in the 12th Annual Autonomous Snowplow Competition at Dunwoody. Although the team didn’t win, Dougall wasn’t discouraged, explaining that they had gone up against teams that had been refining the same snowplow for years and had larger budgets.

“We didn’t have a lot of time [or] money, so, considering all that, I think we did quite well,” he said. “I’m pretty proud of what we were able to accomplish.”

In fact, while Minnesota State Mankato’s team spent about $3,000 total, Lin explained that some other teams could afford to spend $12,000 on just one part of their snowplow.

“Money’s very, very important,” he said. “We’re trying to let everyone know about our project and our success, and get more money and support. Hopefully next year we can get a better place.”

The department has been able to raise about $4,000 for this year’s project so far. They’ve also started a new Registered Student Organization (RSO), the Robotics Club.

While Dougall said the snowplow won’t be ready to be used as a truly automated snowplow on campus for several more years, future teams will continue refining it.

“It’s a statement piece for our program that shows what we do here in the Mechanical Engineering Department,” he said. “We envision it as being used by the university and the department to showcase what students who come to school here leave with when they graduate.”

Left to right: Jackson Smith, Jacob Dougall, Ryan Torkelson, Jack Zimmerman, and Munaweera De Silva.

AN UNLIKELY

Pair Pair

By Emily Frederick

Minnesota State Mankato biology major from Ethiopia, Mohammed Abdurahman, and electrical engineering major Omar Elkenawy from Egypt might not have crossed paths had it not been for a unique research opportunity.

They were each asked by their professors, Dr. Mriganka De (Biology) and Dr. Bhushan Dharmadhikari (Electrical Engineering) to be part of a research project to study a common issue in agriculture: how to decrease the mobility of nitrogen and nitrates in soil. The study began then De and Dharmadhikari secured the William Flies Fellowship Grant in Winter 2022.

The 120 day project titled “Use of Biocompatible Polymer –Graphene Oxide (GO) Based Nanomaterial to Reduce Nitrate Nitrogen Loss from Agricultural Soils” paired biology with electrical engineering, making it a one-of-a-kind study.

“Present job trends are changing rapidly,” said Dharmadhikari. “As a result, employers are looking for students who have multiple skills and can adapt themselves to a nontraditional working environment. When a graduate starts working in the industry, he has to work in a multicultural, diverse and interdisciplinary team. So here, we created a similar atmosphere where two students, one from ECET and one from biology, work together towards the same goal.”

The experiment itself dives into an issue that farmers in the area have been desperately trying to find solutions to. “The project is timely, important and has a high probability of success to help address an issue associated with nitrogen (N) losses from agricultural fields, a major global concern, but also a local

How a unique partnership between biology and electrical engineering is making a big difference.

concern for the Midwestern Corn Belt, because of the economic loss to farmers and NO3–N impacts on water quality,” De said.

The team was able to work with GreenSeam to obtain soil samples from a plot of land just outside of Mankato. They then incubated the soils with polymer nanofiber scaffolds of various weight percentages and different graphene oxide concentrations.

“I have been using graphene oxide components in my departments lab a long time ago, which piqued my interest in the mechanism of the circuit's components and how it works,” said Elken. “The graphene oxide project adds so much to agriculture as it improves soil health by preventing the leaching of nitrogen which is one of the main soil components.”

Although there is no electrical apparatus per se to show for in this project, in the world of engineering, nanomaterials such as graphene oxide have a multitude of excellent properties applicable to agriculture.

“Developments in nanomaterials such as graphene oxides have received wide attention in a range of industries due to their excellent electrical properties, colloidal properties, and large specific surface area,” De said. He explained that the graphene

oxide of particular interest is made up of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen atoms, and its structure is relative to that of soil organics.

Due to these similarities and the large amount of carbon available it can be an important management strategy to reduce the mobility of nitrogen and nitrates in the soils. These measures taken with soil can also have very positive side effect: clean water.

The experiment is hopefully just the beginning of discovering how fields such as electrical engineering and biology can work together to spur change for a critical need. This important work brings up not only a need for new technologies and creative solutions, but provided the two students with experience that they will be able to carry with them beyond their time in the lab and classroom. Although the experiment has now been completed, the team will work together this fall to comb through their work.

“I think the differences in our disciplines were really important to this project. We shared our knowledge about different things and learned about different things that we might have not explored otherwise,” Abdurahman said.

Left to right: Dr. Bhushan Dharmadhikari, Omar Elkenawy, Mohammed Aburahman and Dr. Mriganka De.

SUCCESS A PROGRAM FOR

Minnesota State Mankato offers first project-based computer science program in nation

By Grace Brandt '13

Computer Information Science in the last two years to offer a unique opportunity to computer science students: the first project-based computer science program in the nation. Spanning the last two years of students’ study, this program offers four semester-long projects with four different industry partners.

“It’s extremely hard to simulate the true scale of real-world software in a classroom setting,” she explained. “That’s why we’re so focused on having students work on real-world projects with real-world partners. You don’t necessarily sit in a classroom and listen to a lecturer and do homework. You learn computer science by doing computer science.”

Chase stressed that the program is still fully aligned to all necessary accreditation. While much of the learning comes from hands-on experience, there are occasional two-credit courses that are aligned behind the projects as needed.

Since everything is virtual for the computer science program, University students have the chance to work with companies across the country and even in Europe. Chase explained that industry partners typically come to her with a “backburner” project–something they need to do but haven’t had time to do themselves. She’s able to work with them to create a customized project that will last one semester.

The program’s first cohort began in fall 2021 with 11 students. This fall’s cohort has 17, with the plan to admit about 20-25 students in each cohort within the next few years.

Diversity and inclusion are core goals as the program continues to expand. Of the students currently participating, 70 percent are women, 80 percent are people of color and 60 percent are international students.

“Because it’s a two-year program, it’s so well organized around the transfer pathways [such as technical colleges],” Chase

Dr. Lin Chase Director of the Computer Science Program

explained. “We’re perfectly situated to go out and actively recruit the kinds of people who we know will succeed the best in this program, and those students may not look like those from ‘typical’ backgrounds.”

In addition to hands-on software experience, students also learn soft skills such as budget management, creating timelines and communication—skills that Chase said are often lacking for graduates when they arrive at their first job.

“Even the students coming out ‘top’ schools, [while] they know the technical material very well, they’re not project ready,” she said. “Our industry partners are so happy to be working with us, [because] they get these project-ready graduates who are not only technically trained but are also professionally ready. All the skills that an employer might normally have to teach someone in their first year or two of their employment, [our graduates] come in with those. They are project ready from Day 1.”

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Paul Mittelstadt

By Emily Frederick

Growing up on a farm, Paul Mittelstadt '73 had no clue that a trip he took in high school would lead him to become a physician.

In May 1969, when Mittelstadt was a senior at Blue Earth High School, he took a trip to the state mental hospital in Rochester as part of a class project. The group of students was accompanied by Judy Schotzko, the president of the Fairbault County Mental Health Association at the time.

On the two-hour ride to Rochester, Mittelstadt learned that Schotzko’s husband was actually the new physician in town. After listening and learning more about being a physician, Mittelstadt felt a new fire within him, one that would follow him through college and eventually direct him toward medical school.

“She talked about her husband and what it was like to be a top physician in a small town and I thought ‘wow.’ You know, it was just an inspiration.”

Mittelstadt said.

Mittelstadt graduated and set out to continue his education at Minnesota State University, Mankato pursuing majors in mathematics and chemistry. Although he was certain that being a physician was what he wanted to do, he kept his ambitions guarded.

“You are insecure enough at age 17 and think ‘I don’t know if I can do this or not,’ so I didn’t really tell anyone what my major motivation was,” he said.

But Mittelstadt adjusted quickly. He excelled academically and got connected with Hosanna Highland Church. “I was very much involved in the student church body and I lived in that building for two years in an apartment above the church,” he said. “We had a very liberal minister there so for me it was also a way for me to become more socially involved.” Mittelstadt felt comfortable as a gay man in the church, although he didn’t come out to anyone until much later in life.

A week before graduation, Mittelstadt met with his advisor, who told him that in addition to having completed degree in chemistry and math, he was just two courses shy of a third degree in biology. Mittelstadt decided to graduate on time with two degrees.

He applied to medical school at the University of Minnesota and was waitlisted, so he decided to teach high school math and science in the meantime, filling roles in Gibbon, Minnesota and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Mittelstadt eventually got into the University of Minnesota and after just four years of being a medical student, ran the Emergency Room in Moose Lake, Minnesota on the weekends— all 48 hours at a time. Once his residency was complete in 1982 he went into family practice in Cresco, Iowa but it wasn’t the right fit for him. He then switched to ER full time, and didn’t look back.

After 43 years in the ER, Mittelstadt retired in May 2021.

“It’s been a surprising reward that I never ever would have guessed that I would enjoy ER medicine. Sometimes you are literally saving someone’s life. It’s been a hard occupation to leave, and it’s been hard to ween off it,” he said “It’s been a good career.”

As for his college career, it wasn’t over until this past May. He still thought about finishing up his biology degree and as he was only two courses away, asked around to find out what he would need to do. He eventually was connected with Dr. Timothy

Secott, the chair of the Biology department, and was pleasantly surprised. With all of his experience as a physician, he was able to apply it to receive credits, finally receiving that third degree.

Mittelstadt still thinks back to that day in high school and is grateful for meeting Judy Schotzko, who is in contact with to this day. He wants to inspire others and is now paying it forward by giving back to Minnesota State Mankato in the form of two scholarships and a planned endowment.

“I was a farm kid, I walked beans every summer…we bailed hay and had 30 cows, 1,200 chickens, 200 pigs–this was never in my realm to do anything like this. Now I think part of it is the American dream came true. You can be what you want to be in this country, provided you have the motivation.”

It’s been a surprising reward that I never ever would have guessed that I would enjoy ER Medicine. Sometimes you are literally saving someone’s life.

Reality FROM DREAM TO

By Emily Frederick

Students going off to college often hear the same advice; get involved. For many students, being in clubs and organizations can make or break their college experience. Joining a group might mean meeting new friends, participating in events, running fundraisers, etc. For many alums, like Shivani Gautam '21 and Alycia Holwerda '19, being part of the DREAM club (Data Resources for Eager and Analytical Minds) meant much more.

DREAM was founded by two students, Faical Rayani and Umanga Poudel, and Data Science professor, Dr. Rajeev Bukralia, in 2016. Since then, it has grown from four to over 300 student members and is one of largest student clubs focused in data science and artificial intelligence in the country.

“I was in a programming class, and the professor suggested I attend a meeting because it seemed like something that would interest me.” Holwerda said. “Turns out, he was right, and I became a very active member over the coming years.”

Holwerda served as president of the club in 2019 and graduated with a major in statistics that same year. Now working in the finance data science sector at IBM, she credits her involvement in the club with helping her find her profession. “My passion for data science stems from my love of solving problems and using data. Without DREAM, I’m not sure if I ever would have discovered this field,” she said.

Overall, the club has produced some impressive results for students in gaining real-word training and exposure. Throughout the academic year the club invites employers to speak as guest lecturers. Some memorable talks were given by leaders from Google, Microsoft, United Health Care and SAS.

“Students are getting jobs, we are getting scholarships from companies, companies are coming here doing free training,” said Bukralia.

In addition to trainings, the DREAM club hosts several data competitions throughout the year for students to showcase their knowledge. One such competition has been the Midwest Undergraduate Data Analytics Competition (MUDAC), which is a rigorous 24-hour, nonstop hackathon. In the past, the competition has drawn over 300 students from approximately 30 universities across the Midwest.

“My favorite memory while in DREAM was my final time participating in MUDAC, where my team won an award for our stellar data visualizations,” Holwerda said. “Staying up for over 24 hours to solve a problem and seeing what can be accomplished in that time definitely was a memorable experience each year.”

While many students gain employment following their experience with DREAM, continuing to a doctoral program and pursuing further research is also a path many take. Information Technology Master’s alumna Shivani Gautam is grateful to the club for preparing her for such an experience. “If it wasn’t for DREAM, I don’t think I would be pursuing Ph.D. in databases and analytics. Dr. Bukralia taught me to work hard, grab opportunities and ‘believe in myself.’ These positions gave me a chance to look through the boundaries that I had set for myself and opened more opportunities that I could ever get,” Gautum said

Although the group began as a Data Science club, students from a variety of areas have gravitated toward it over the years due to the nature of the field itself. “Data science is an interdisciplinary field that has applications for almost any discipline. Although data science is grounded in computer science, IT, math, statistics, and the business domain, it has benefited from other disciplines, such as linguistics, ethics, management, biology, and sociology,” Bukralia said.

Along with growth in diversity of majors, female recruitment to the club has also seen an uptick, and in a male dominated industry that’s a big win. Female students have been the majority in leadership positions in the club including Holwerda and Gautam.

Gautam says that it was a very rewarding experience to recruit and inspire others. “As I shared my experiences, it was surprising for me to see students listening to me with so much interest…but the best part at that time was when I realized I was placing a step towards their betterment by showing them a path as my professor did for me.”

When NASA first released its breathtaking photos from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on July 12, 2022, it became clear immediately that we had entered a new era in space discovery. These spectacular images showed the vastness of deep space, nearby galaxies and our own home galaxy in ways we could only imagine seeing just a few years prior.

Dr. Michael Rutkowski, astronomy professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato, has seen first-hand the capabilities of JWST and has been heavily involved in this new research. Rutkowski serves as a researcher on the PEARLS (Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science) team, which was awarded 115 hours of observation by NASA during the first six months of telescope operations.

How did you first get involved in PEARLS?

From the early 2000s, my PhD advisor was a member of the NIRCAM instrument science team. Every two to three years, we had to “re-propose” to NASA to receive funding to support our science definition effort. So, since 2009 I’ve been involved in writing these proposals. On those proposals we have had a core of about 20 people a decade ago, but now the team is quite large with more than 75 members (including all of the graduate students, post docs and faculty around the world supporting this science).

What does this work mean for your field?

Have you found that being on this team helps your work as a professor?

Yes. Being on the bleeding edge of what’s going on across astrophysics I think helps the students. When my students comment that they saw a YouTube video, news article or something on social media, I can give them the context. There are plenty of science social media “influencers” that show the flashy, exotic side of physics and astronomy, but there’s usually no explanation behind it. I can educate them on the physics, the mathematics behind their findings and explain the full story that they aren’t going to find in a textbook or in the article itself. I can say with confidence to them, “This is what we know to be true and this is how we think we might answer these big questions on meaningful timescales for human beings.”

The pace of discovery is tremendous in astrophysics. The body of knowledge grows by leaps and bounds every year as we develop new techniques and instrumentation to study the universe. When I was born, the astronomy community had really heated debates as to whether the universe was 20 billion or 10 billion years old. But the scientific methodology has so improved that now we only debate the value of the age behind the decimal place— as an analogy, imagine not knowing whether your grandmother was born in the 19th or 21st century, and then improving that accuracy of their age through research so that now you’re unsure only whether they were born in July or August of 1941. This rapid evolution in our understanding applies throughout the astrophysical community: on the life and death of stars, planets around other stars, the growth and evolution of galaxies. JWST is going to help us to make the next big leaps forward in all of these to bring the answers to these big questions to light.

What aspect are you most interested in studying?

I’m most interested in the deep field science, particularly the North Ecliptic Pole region which is fairly clear of dust. In advance of JWST, we have observed this field at nearly every wavelength range we can. In total, I’d estimate that we’ve probably devoted a month of time on telescopes from X-ray to radio (some new, some archival) to observe this field. I’m most interested in seeing how very distant—more than 5-10 billion lightyears away— massive galaxies that are not actively forming stars (which we call

Dr. Michael Rutkowski

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