2001 Engineering Field Notes Award Winners Thanks for voting for your favorite Engineering Field Notes (EFN) articles from 2001. We appreciate your efforts to let our authors know that their articles are read and valued. Putting your thoughts and experiences on paper takes time, energy, and dedication, so we especially appreciate our authors’ willingness to submit articles. To remain a valuable resource to our field personnel, we rely on people willing to share their time, knowledge, experiences, successes, and even their failures. Your articles help save the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service time and resources. Here are the winning authors who will receive cash awards for EFN articles for 2001: • • • Bill Hamele for “Choices: Composting or Installing a Vault Toilet” Marina S. Connors for “Evaporator Vault System—An Innovative Alternative for Waste Disposal” John R. Kattell for “Transformers: From Student Vision to Engineering Marvel” Congratulations to our winners and to the authors who make this publication possible. We encourage you to keep those articles coming. For tips on how to submit your article to EFN, see the inside front cover. 5