UA Engineering Student Wins ASME National Award

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Jesse Huguet, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at The University of Alabama, was recently awarded the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Charles T. Main Student Section Silver Award, which recognizes student leadership and service.

Huguet has served as the president of UA’s chapter of ASME and helped pioneer UA’s Boy Scout Engineering Post, which is a program that introduces boy scouts to engineering. He was also instrumental in leading community service initiatives, such as work with the Boys and Girls Club building renovations.

In addition to this honor, Huguet was presented with the Department of Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Graduate Seminar Presentation, and he received second place in ASME Old Guard technical poster competition. He has worked as an engineering intern with NASA’s Impact Testing Facility in Huntsville and at American Cast Iron Pipe Co. in Birmingham.

Huguet also is a member of Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the National Association of Rocketry.

ASME’s Charles T. Main Student Section Award was established in 1919 to encourage student members to become active in public service. The award recognizes student members whose leadership and service qualities have contributed to the ASME program.

ASME is a technical organization with 125,000 members. The organization develops codes and standards that enhance public safety, and provides lifelong learning and technical exchange opportunities benefiting the engineering and technology community.

In 1837, The University of Alabama became one of the first five universities in the nation to offer engineering classes. Today, UA’s fully accredited College of Engineering has more than 2,300 students and more than 100 faculty. In the last seven years, students in the College have been named USA Today All-USA College Academic Team members, Goldwater scholars, Hollings scholars and Portz scholars.