UA Capstone Engineering Society to Sponsor Golf Tournament

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Greater Birmingham Chapter of the Capstone Engineering Society of The University of Alabama College of Engineering will hold the fourth annual CES Golf Tournament on Tuesday, April 13, at the Bent Brook Golf Course in Bessemer with registration beginning at 11 a.m.

The tournament is open to UA College of Engineering alumni and their friends. The format will be a four-person team scramble with a shotgun start at 1 p.m.

Along with other awards and prizes for the event, the prize for a hole-in-one will be a two-year lease of a Cadillac Escalade, thanks to Crest Cadillac of Birmingham.

The cost for participation is $125 per player, and registration includes green fees, cart, range balls, beverages, lunch and a souvenir shirt. Individuals or companies can sponsor a hole for $300, receiving signage on the tee, scoreboard recognition, and recognition in the Capstone Engineer, the College of Engineering alumni magazine. Proceeds of the golf tournament benefit the initiatives of CES, which includes scholarships for engineering and computer science students.

This year’s sponsors include:

• Alabama Power Co.
• Amgen Inc.
• Brasfield & Gorrie
• Chesapeake Consulting Inc.
• C.S. Beatty Construction Inc.
• EBSCO Promotional Products
• Forestry Environmental Services Inc.
• Pate Holdings Inc.
• Rast Construction Inc.
• Ready Mix USA
• Saiia Construction LLC
• Vulcan Painters Inc.

For more registration and scholarship information, contact Angela Jewell at 205/348-2452 or 1-800-333-8156, or by an e-mail to ajewell@coe.eng.ua.edu.

The Capstone Engineering Society, established in 1973, is the alumni society of the College of Engineering. CES is dedicated to maintaining relationships and sharing resources with UA engineering alumni to ensure that the College is able to provide UA engineering and computer science students with a superior educational experience.

In 1837, UA became the first university in the state to offer engineering classes and was one of the first five in the nation to do so. Today, the College of Engineering, with about 1,900 students and more than 95 faculty, is one of the three oldest continuously operating engineering programs in the country and has been fully accredited since accreditation standards were implemented in the 1930s.