EIGHT ENGINEERING STUDENTS AND ONE MICROELECTRONICS-PHOTONICS STUDENT received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
SAMUEL BECKFORD, graduate student in mechanical engineering, received the Al Sonntag Award for best paper from Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers.
HALEY CLEOUS, an honors chemical engineering major, placed first in a paper competition at the Mid America Regional conference of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
SHAWN COLEMAN, graduate student in mechanical engineering, was invited to present at the American Physical Society meeting.
RICHARD DESCHENES, a graduate civil engineering major, has received the 2014 Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
SYDNEY DICKSON, junior civil engineering major, has been awarded the ACI Baker Student Fellowship award from the American Concrete Institute.
KAITLIN DENNEY, senior industrial engineering major, was awarded the Harold and Inge Marcus Scholarship by the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
HAILEY DUNSWORTH, junior honors chemical engineering major, was selected as a 2014 Goldwater Scholar. Dunsworth also received an Elias Klein Travel grant to present at the annual meeting of the North American Membrane Society.
KEIRON DURANT, senior honors chemical engineering major, received the Lubrizol Company Undergraduate Award from the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers and the Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer National Scholarship Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
CAROLINE FRANCE, undergraduate student in mechanical engineering, received a Fulbright Fellowship to support her work in Korea. She was also awarded an American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) scholarship.
LUISA JANER and HANNAH KOEHN, undergraduate industrial engineering majors, received Dwight D. Garner Scholarships from the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
JACKSON SCHMANDT, senior computer engineering major, has been awarded a CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service from the National Science Foundation.
SETH SHUMATE, graduate microelectronicsphotonics student, is part of two companies that recently received awards: Silicon Solar Solutions LLC received the SunShot Incubator award from the U.S. Department of Energy, and Picasolar Inc. received a 2013 Energy & Clean Technology Award.
DIA ST. JOHN, doctoral student in industrial engineering, was awarded the Gilbreth Memorial Fellowship by the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
MICHAEL WEST, junior honors student in chemical engineering and physics, was a Goldwater Honorable Mention.
BIOBOTIC SOLUTIONS, an undergraduate business plan competition team, won the grand prize at the Richards Barrentine Values and Ventures Business Plan Competition, and second place in the Donald W. Reynolds Tri-State Governors Cup competition. Team members include biomedical engineering students Kelley Coakley and Aundria Eoff.
The senior design team of BRENT DANLEY, THOMAS JENKINS, JOHN MAZURKIEWICZ, KRISTIN PERRIN, and RYAN YARNALL won first place in the 2013 G.B. Gunlogson Student Environmental Design “Open” Competition at the 2013 annual international ASABE conference.