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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1985
Grad student wins design competition
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
For the sixth year in a row, a KU engineering student has won a national aircraft design competition.
John Young, Lawrence graduate student, learned he won the 1985 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Individual Student Aircraft Design Competition on Sept. 17.
David Dwyer, a 1985 KU graduate, now in Los Angeles, took second place, and Kyle Sperry, also a 1985 KU graduate, now in Colorado Springs. Colo., took fifth place.
"We're just damn good," Jan Roskam, professor of aerospace engineering, said yesterday "We've taken all of the first five places."
Roskam said the KU aerospace engineering program was one of the most demanding in the country. The department of aerospace engineering has a strong curriculum and there aren't any easy courses, he said.
"The industry shows this by hiring our students like crazy," Roskam said. "They hire them with lower GPAs than from other schools because they know they are better."
Young said he worked about 30-40 hours a week from September last year to June on designing the agricultural aircraft. The prize of $1,000 would equal an hourly pay of less than 50 cents, he said.
"I sold my car to buy a computer for the design project," Young said. "I went out with my girlfriend only twice while I was working on it, and that was during spring break."
Designers in the industry and the military judged the competition. Young's design of an agricultural airplane can spray chemicals on crops faster with greater safety and at lower cost than existing planes. Young said he interviewed five agricultural pilots to make his design "a pilot's plane."
"It would be nice to see it fly some day." Young said, "but it will never be used. The agricultural market is a depressed market."
The project was an assignment in Roskum's fall and spring design courses. Roskum said he might as well use the same project specifications as the contest and give his students a head start.
Young said the effort was worth the skipped meals and long hours. The award and knowledge will be with him for the rest of his life, he said.
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Richard Varney, assistant professor of design, said he could almost immediately recognize her distinctive style of illustrations because of the fantasy-realism combinations.
Artist's flair unique
Add some magic realism to a little fantasy and surrealism and mix in a twist of femininity and the result is invariably a Teresa Fasolo illustration, an assistant professor of design said yesterday.
"It's almost like doing a doubletake when looking at her pictures," he said. "It's interesting because it's a woman's perspective, and it has a lot of flair."
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Fasolino showed slides of her most recent types of illustrations with these qualities as well as earlier illustrations as she spoke to about 150 students last night in the third Hallmark Symposium Series lecture at the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.
"I fell in love with a painting by Giorgione," she said. "The pieces of collage were getting less obvious and had more of the Renaissance space like the illustration, 'Double Deaths of Popes.'"
She said that a trip to Italy early
Thomas Allen, professor of design, said Fasolino was one of the best illustrators in New York because her ideas were conceptually and technically strong.
in her career altered her prints from a boxlike quality to that of the Renaiscence style.
"her work is realistic in kind of an early American primitive way, but actually it's rather sophisticated." Allen said.
Fasolino has painted illustrations for a variety of magazines, including Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Redbook and Playboy. She also has worked on projects for TV Guide, Avon and textbook companies.
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