Dean Smith is a former winner of the Walter Byers Award as the

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's annual winner of its highest academic honor in recognition of being the nation's top scholar-athlete. He is an

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...

specializing in chemical warfare agent detection. The

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has renamed its top scholar-athlete award the M Club Dean Smith Award.

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