Credit: Photo courtesy of Damon Fick
Undergraduates Lester Richard, left, and Shane Herrod, right, work with meteorological instruments, under the guidance of Damon Fick, center, then an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, as part of a wind energy project in May 2011. Both Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative students began their education at Oglala Lakota College and then transferred to the South Dakota School of Mines. Herrod is now a structural engineer in Texas.