Congratulations go to several members of CSE who particiapted in the recent 2005 College of Engineering & College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Poetry Forum.
This forum, only in its second year, received over 240 poems from the students, faculty and staff of the two Colleges. Poems were divided into four winning categories: Student- Technical Subject; Student - Non-Technical Subject; Non-Student - Technical Subject; and Non-Student - Non-Technical Subject. Its mission is to obliterate the stereotype that engineers are not literate.
CSE's poets placed in the following categories (the titles are links to the poem if available):
| Student - Technical Subject | 1st Place: Daniel Davis, undergrad, for Ode to My Refrigerator |
| 3rd Place: Joel Lehman, undergrad, Ode to CSE560 | |
| Honorable Mention: Unmesh Kurup, grad student, for Poles and Ode to a Coffeepot | |
| Student - Non-Technical Subject | 4th Place: Matthew Lang, grad student, for Verbosity |
| Honorable Mention: Andy Vollup, undergrad, for CABS | |
| Non-Student - Technical Subject |
1st Place: Bettina Bair, Lecturer, for It's Just All About the Rules |
| 5th Place: Bettina Bair, Lecturer, for Rules Are Made to be Broken |