Note to Editors and Producers: For more information about attending and covering this event, contact Suzanne Lawless, CES Director, at 205/348-2452

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The Greater Birmingham Chapter of the Capstone Engineering Society of The University of Alabama College of Engineering will hold the second annual CES Golf Tournament on Friday, April 19, at the Tannehill National Golf Course in Birmingham, beginning at 11 a.m.

UA Athletic Director Mal Moore and Dr. Timothy J. Greene, dean of the UA College of Engineering, will be participating in the event. The tournament is open to College of Engineering alumni and their spouses and family members, and also to friends of the College. The format will be a two-person team scramble.

Along with other awards and prizes for the event, the prize for a hole-in-one will be a two-year lease of a Cadillac Escalade, thanks to Crest Cadillac of Birmingham.

The cost for participation is $100 per player, and registration includes green fees, cart, range balls, beverages, lunch and a souvenir shirt. Individuals or companies can sponsor a hole for $250, receiving signage on the tee, scoreboard recognition, and recognition in the Capstone Engineer, the College of Engineering alumni magazine. Proceeds of the golf tournament will benefit the initiatives of CES, which is the UA College of Engineering’s alumni society.

This year’s sponsors include ACIPCO, Air Tech, Alabama Power, Almon and Associates, American Pipe and Supply, Bradley Arant Rose and White LLP, Brasfield and Gorrie, Burr and Forman LLP, C. S. Beatty Construction Inc., Caldwell-MacKay Co., Chesapeake Consulting Inc., Continental Global Group Inc., Corus Tuscaloosa, Grady’s American Grill, Hardy Corp., Malcolm-Pirnie, Rast Construction, Roland Pugh Construction, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, SAIIA Construction LLC, Star Insulation, Trane Co., Volkert and Associates Inc., Vulcan Materials Co., Vulcan Painters, Wade Sand and Gravel Co. Inc., and Whitaker and Rawson.

For more information, contact Suzanne Lawless, CES director, at 205/348-2452 or 1-800-333-8156, or by e-mail to slawless@coe.eng.ua.edu.