PSU Magazine Winter 1987

Record season for Viking football The Portland State football team capped its best season ever, a 11-1-1 record, with a shot at the national championship and an appearance on national television. On Saturday, Dec. 12 the Vikings lost the NCAA Div– ision II championship to Troy State University in Florence, Alabama. This was a season of many firsts for the Vikings under head coach Pokey Allen, including making it to the NCAA football playoffs. The Viks sur– passed previous school records in passing, receiving, rushing and quar– terback sacks. Record breaking crowds cheered the team on during the semi– finals in Portland's Civic Stadium. When the Western Football Confer– ence selected its all-conference team, the Viks took top honors, with quar– terback Chris Crawford, offensive player of the year; defensive back Tracey Eaton, defensive player of the year; and Pokey Allen, coach of the year. Volleyball coach . a winner Head PSU Volleyball Coach Jeff Mozzochi was named Northwest Region Coach of the Year by the American Volleyball Coaches Associa– tion. This year Mozzochi's team com– piled a 24-13 record bringing his four– year record at PSU to 89-26. Portland State Volleyball teams are consistently ranked in the top 10 nationally. In Mozzochi's first two years, 1985 and 1986, the Viks won back-to-back NCAA Division II cham– pionships. Tropical island study Would you like to study in the Virgin Islands this summer? Home base is a 68-foot motor yacht moored at Bolongo Bay on St. Thomas. Stu– dents may choose from four one-week sessions beginingjune 18 through July 9. Cost of the program, not including transportation to St. Thomas, is $995. For more information please call PSU Summer Session at (503) 464-4081. The hard hitting Viking defense, in dark uniforms, helped propel the team to a record season and into the NCAA DWision II playoffs. Student scholars recognized National awards recognizing excellence have been presented to two Portland State University students. Kimberle Schumock Lopez received a 1988 Phi Kappa Phi National Scholar– ship and Lonnie Wollmuth was given the Scholander Award by the Ameri– can Physiological Society. Lopez, a 1987 graduate and former foreign languages major, was one of 50 students nationally and the third student from PSU to receive a $6,000 scholarship from Phi Kappa Phi. She is attending graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. Phi Kappa Phi is a national scholastic honor society recognizing academic excellence in all disciplines. Wollmuth, a PSU graduate student in biology, received the prestigious Scholander Award for a paper he authored on his research of the brain's regulation of body tempera– ture. He used goldfish in his research, performing micro-surgical interven– tion on parts of their brain. PSU MAGAZINE PAGE3 New engineering program has director A new PSU graduate degree pro– gram in engineering management has its first director, Dundar F. Kocaoglu. Formerly of the University of Pitts– burgh, Kocaoglu joined the faculty this fall as a professor of civil engineering as well as engineering management. The new program at PSU, unique in Oregon, will prepare engineers who currently have technical responsibili– ties for future management duties. Kocaoglu developed a similar program at the University of Pittsburgh in 1976 and served as its director. Kocaoglu is co-author of the book Engineering Management and has two forthcoming books on the subject. He is also editor-in-chief of IEEE Trans– actions on Engineering Management. His industrial experience includes nine years of structural engineering and eleven years of part-time management consulting for such clients as the United Nations and Westinghouse.