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Published in The Spectator, the student newspaper of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire;
Thursday, May 10, 2001
Management, marketing faculty honor five students
By Bill Olson
Five UW-Eau Claire students were honored at
a luncheon in the Heritage Room of Davies Center for their contributions
to business management.
The luncheon, held by the management and marketing faculty, honored
students with two types of awards.
The top honor given at the luncheon on April 27 was the Outstanding
Management Student award, said Scott Lester, assistant professor of
management and marketing. The recipients, seniors Hilary Bridger and
Sean Kirwan, each received a plaque and $100.
For the Distinguished Management Student award, Lester said, three
individuals received framed award certificates: seniors Jamie Lacke,
Colin Crimmins and Vanessa Gallagher.
To be eligible for the Outstanding Management Student award, management
students had to have an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher, a resident GPA of
3.5 or higher and had to have senior standing, Lester said.
“We wanted to honor students in our major who had excelled in the
field of management and honor them for their contributions,” Lester
said.
Those contributions could be in academic performance, internship
success, participation in a student organization or certification exams,
he said.
Kirwan, who will graduate in May, is interested in operations
management. which involves production planning and purchasing. He worked
at the 3M company in Eau Claire, full-time during the summer then part
time during the school year, where he has been implementing a bar coding
system to improve the company’s lot tracing ability.
“The biggest thing was learning about bar coding,” he said. “I
didn’t know much about it.”
Kirwan did research by reading both the Internet and shipping catalogs
at work.
“So I did a lot of asking questions and just learning a little bit
here and there,” he said.
The next phase was contacting 3M’s raw materials vendors and trying to
explain bar coding to them. He said this basically was because they had
the same knowledge he had.
Then Kirwan said he had to convince them to implement it.
“I had to do a lot of talking, a lot of demonstrating,” he said.
Fellow Outstanding Management Student award winner Bridger, also enjoyed
the honor.
Bridger said she wanted a business career from the moment she entered
college, but wasn’t certain of the exact field. After changing majors
a few times, she settled on human resources.
“I feel that that’s the best place for me,” she said, “I really
like dealing with people and issues within the business.”
After graduating, Bridger will become the manager of human resources at
Shopko in River Falls.
This is the first year for the management awards, Lester said, but the
department of management and marketing plans to make it an annual event.
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