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April 2024

Apr

Aviation Week Day One - Helicopter Day

Exhibition

USU Aviation Technology will be starting off its Aviation Week with a helicopter landing on the northwest corner of the quad at 10:20am. Come and watch the landing, stay for questions, and then watch it take off at 1:30. Free to the public!

10:20 am - 1:30 pm | Quad | More Info

Apr

Aviation Week Annual Banquet and Silent Auction

Fundraiser

Come celebrate the Flying Aggies at the annual Aviation Program Banquet at the Logan-Cache Airport. Join us for a big Flying Aggie Reunion Celebration where we will recognize our outstanding students and raise scholarship funds with any items you can donate for our silent auction. Three years ago we raised over $2,500 for our students with donated items such as airplane models, discovery flights, historical and aviation-themed items. Dinner is $15 for our students and faculty, $10 for youth under 16, and $25 for all others. All paid guests will receive the 2024 annual program coin! Dress is business casual (open-collar, nice pants, coat and tie are optional). We will have a guest speaker, celebrate our 85th Anniversary of Aviation degree at USU with a display, and have opportunities to fellowship with current students and alumni. We will be honoring our top students and present some financial student achievement awards.

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | More Info

Apr

Aviation Week Day 2: Career Day

Conference/Seminar

USU Aviation Technology Career Day and Conference is being held to help current aviation, students or students interested in aviation, network with airline representatives and other industry professionals and glean information on how to enter the exciting world of aviation.

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm | TSC, Sunburst Lounge | More Info

Apr

Aviation Week Day 3: Drone Day

Exhibition

USU Aviation Technology Aviation Week continues with UAS (Drone) demonstrations on the east side of the Quad. Come see large drones, small drones, fast drones, and the skills USU UAS Students possess flying them. In case of inclement weather, they will move to the Sunburst Lounge in the Taggart Student Center

10:30 am - 1:30 pm | Quad | More Info

Apr

Aviation Week Day 4: Maintenance and Sims

Information/Orientation

USU Aviation Technology Aviation Week will be highlighting the program that started it all at USU 85 years ago: AVIATION MAINTENANCE! Tours of our aviation maintenance facility in the USU TECH Building including the only jet engine test cell based at a university in Utah and in the region.

In the Industrial Science Building we will have tours of our aircraft simulators students use to advance their training, and we'll have a drone simulator you can try as well.

11:00 am - 1:00 pm | More Info

Apr

Aviation Week Day 5: Airport Open House

Information/Orientation

USU Aviation Technology Aviation Week will conclude at the Logan/Cache Airport with our Open House. You will tour USU Flight training facilities, hangars, and the fixed-wing and rotary aircraft we use for training. Students and staff will be available for any questions you may have. This event is open to the public.

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm | More Info

Apr

LAEP Speaker Series: Sarah Creachbaum, Distinguished Alumnus

Lecture/Readings

Welcome to Scenario B: Lessons in survival from our national parks About the Lecture: My presentation will highlight three projects spanning my 30-year career in the National Park Service. Each project involves aspects of indigenous knowledge, science, and rational planning (endangered species management in Hawaii, river restoration at Olympic National Park, and subsistence management national parks in the Arctic region). I'll highlight the resulting exigent questions of policy and federal land management that are driven by our rapidly changing climate. I'll close with personal observations and lessons learned. Speaker Bio: M. Sarah Creachbaum currently serves as the regional director for the National Park Service Alaska Region in Anchorage, Alaska. Creachbaum has served as a national park superintendent since 2006, first at War in the Pacific National Historical Park in Guam, then at Haleakala National Park, and at Olympic National Park, where she led the Elwha River Restoration Project, the largest dam removal and river restoration in the United States. She has also served in numerous temporary assignments including Superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, acting Deputy

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Fine Arts Visual | More Info

Apr

Hangar Hop

Fundraiser

The USU Flight Team and Aviation Technology will be hosting the annual Hangar Hop on April 13, 2024 from 7pm-11pm at the large USU Hangar FL9. The aircraft hangar will be transformed into a 1940's USO style hangar with live band music, a large 60' parachute overhead, and vintage aircraft for photos. Dress in period costume! Cost is $15 per person. All proceeds go to support the USU Flight Team's participation in regional competition. Light refreshments are provided. COME DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY!

7:00 pm - 10:30 pm | More Info

Apr

Food Security and Solutions Symposium

Special Event

Keynote address at 3 PM

Student project presentations at 4 PM

Community-engaged learning

Questions encouraged

Poster session

Student reflections

Light refreshments served

The World Food Prize is known as the Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture. It
is awarded for specific, exceptionally significant, individual achievements that
advance human development within the scope of the food system. Heidi Kühn
is a humanitarian and peace activist who has spent more than 25 years restoring agriculture in former conflict zones. She joins us to challenge USU students, faculty, and administrators to engage in the work of improving food security for all people. Her transformative "mines to vines" effort inspires and asks us to become personally engaged in feeding families to build peace.

3:00 pm - 5:45 pm | Life Sciences Building | More Info

Apr

LAEP Speaker Series: Chris Creasey, The Craig Johnson Speaker

Lecture/Readings

Intersections of Practice: A Candid Conversation on Career Paths About the Lecture: What inspires you and drives your future career path? How does that inspired career intersect with your personal life? In this dialog, we’ll look at the differences between public and private sector practice in Landscape Architecture through a project-focused lens. Creasey will focus on providing transparent information and a wide variety of example projects to help new graduates make informed decisions about their future careers. Speaker Bio: Chris Creasey is a Landscape Architect with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District focused on large-scale interdisciplinary civil works and military projects throughout the Midwest and Mountain West. His practice includes work on tribal partnership lands bordering USACE managed waterways, interagency projects for NPS, Fish & Wildlife, and the Department of Energy, and stormwater management and master planning for seven military installations spanning five states. Chris began his career at Sasaki Associates in Boston where his practice included all phases of design, from planning to construction administration at a variety of scales.

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Fine Arts Visual | More Info

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