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Vaughan elected interim president of national education organization

Michael L. Vaughan, senior assistant dean in the College of Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been elected interim board president of the National GEM Consortium. He also serves as treasurer of the Alexandria, Va.-based organization.

Chemical engineering student modifies car to run on cooking oil

Colin Sweeney, a junior chemical engineering major, shows off his 1986 Mercedes SDL, which he has converted to run on cooking oil. Sweeney commutes to campus from Townsend, Del., every day, a 60-mile round-trip. The price of gas motivated him to initiate the project, but it was his passion for working on engines and his knowledge of fluid mechanics and heat transfer that enabled him to carry it out.