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Volume 3, Article 2
October, 2003


Kellie Receives the Earle J. Fennell Award

The American Congress on Surveying and Mapping has presented the Earle J. Fennell Award for Surveying Education to Professor Andrew C. Kellie of the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology at Murray State. The Fennell Award recognizes at the national level distinguished educational contributions to the surveying and mapping profession. The award was presented at the organization's annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.
     Nominating Kellie for the award were David Dummer, of Dummer Surveying and Engineering of Paducah; John Harrison, Harrison Land Surveying, Inc. of LaGrange; David Atwell, of Vaughn and Melton of Middlesboro; and Charles Felts, of Kentucky Surveys Inc., London. The persons making the nomination are all past presidents of the Kentucky Association of Surveyors. Mr. Jeffrey Clark, owner of SCI, Inc. of Paducah and a Murray State graduate, accepted the award for Professor Kellie at the Phoenix meeting.
     Professor Kellie has taught surveying at Murray State since 1982. Surveying graduates from the Civil Engineering Technology program work as surveyors throughout the southeast. "I am very pleased to have received the award," Kellie commented, "but an even greater honor has been the support that my students and I have received from the Kentucky Association of Professional Surveyors. The scholarships, equipment, and financial support have made a real difference in the education of our students." Kellie also praised the Kentucky Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors for the interest shown by that body in surveying education. "The Board of Licensure has been very supportive of surveying education," Kellie noted. "With their support, Murray State students who complete the surveying concentration in our Civil Engineering Technology program can sit for the Land Surveyor in Training Examination immediately upon graduation."
     Prior to coming to Murray State, Kellie taught surveying at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He has been employed as a surveyor in private practice and is currently licensed in three states. Professor Kellie has authored some 70 technical papers (including three written in German) and for five years served as the United States delegate to Commission III of the International Society of Mine Surveyors.

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