John A. Vise Graduate Student Excellence Award
The John A. Vise Graduate Student Excellence Award was established in the fall of 1999 by Mrs. Mildred Vise. It honors the memory of her son, John A. Vise, a graduate of the University of Colorado. The award, which consists of a certificate and a $3,000 fellowship, is presented annually to two Ph.D. students who have demonstrated excellence in academics and research, and who have contributed community service. Nominations from the faculty are reviewed by the Graduate Committee of the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and awarded each spring.
John A. Vise was born January 11, 1961 in Denver, Colorado. He was part of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program on the Boulder campus and graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado in 1983. He joined the Air Force in 1984, and earned an M.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1990. From 1990-1994 John Vise was a Resident Engineer at Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida. In 1994 he became Chief of the Facilities and Support Division, Rome Laboratory, Hanscom AFB in Massachusetts. At the time of his untimely death in 1997, John Vise was attending classes at the University of Massachusetts and active in their ROTC program where he assisted younger students to fulfill their dreams.
John Vise's military decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, and the National Defense Service Medal.
2012 Recipients: Bradley Cheetham and Erik Hogan
2011 Recipients: Nicholas Pedatella and Jill Tombasco
2010 Recipients: Jonathan Metts and David Wiese
2009 Recipients: Bruce Davis and Ryan Kobrick
2008 Recipients: Jonathan Fentzke and Bryant Loomis
2007 Recipients: Kathryn E. Hamera and Jan-Peter Weiss
2006 Recipients: Keric Hill and Nicholas Bernstein
2005 Recipients: Jeffrey S. Parker and Michael R. Ross
2004 Recipients: Rodney Anderson and Michael Benoit
2003 Recipients: Dallas Masters and Eric Mehiel
2002 Recipients: Jeanette Domber and Eric Rhoden
2001 Recipients: Ulrich Hetmaniuk and Sandra Castro
2000 Recipients: Monica Angelats i Coll and David Goldstein
Local, National and International Awards and Fellowships
2011/2012:
Bradley Cheetham, PhD student, has been named the DOT / FAA COE Student of the Year (COE for Commercial Space Transportation)
Matthew Cannella, aerospace MS student, was awarded the 2010-2011 SEDS-USA Todd B. Hawley Leadership Award at the SpaceVision conference held in Boulder, CO this past weekend. This award is annually given to the SEDS member who has demonstrated superior leadership ability, and provided a large impact on other SEDS students across the country by providing guidance on student development and projects.
Dylan Boone, aerospace PhD student in astrodynamics working with Dan Scheeres, was just awarded an NESSF Fellowship from NASA to study the design and control of a Europa orbiter mission.
Sarah Over, aerospace MS student, received an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Selected Professions Fellowship.
Heather Hava, aerospace MS student, received an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Selected Professions Fellowship.
Jill Tombasco, PhD student, won an AIAA Foundation Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Award.
Matthew Cannella, MS student won an AIAA Foundation graduate award for his research topic “Rocket Propulsion/Propellants and Fluids.”
PhD candidate Bruce Davis (advisor: Mahmoud Hussein) has won the AIAA Foundation Numerical Analysis of Nanoscale Materials Graduate Award of $5,000. Bruce's PhD topic focuses on the modelling and design of nanostructured silicon- and graphene-based materials for efficient thermoelectric energy conversion.
Bruce Davis, PhD student, (advisor: Mahmoud Hussein) won 1st Place, Phononics 2011 NSF Best Oral Presentation Award. Paper title: Reduction of Thermal Conductivity in Bulk Silicon by Unit Cell Nanostructuring
Andrew Tomchek, MS student, (graduated spring 2011, advisor: Mahmoud Hussein) (with contributions fromfellow AES students Bruce Davis, Edgar Flores and former AES student Liao Liu) 2nd Place, Phononics 2011 NSF Best Poster Presentation Award Paper title: Characterization of Band Gap Resonances in Finite Periodic Structures
Felipe Nievinski , aerospace PhD student (advisor: Prof. Kristine Larson), has been selected to receive a NASA Earth and Space Science graduate student fellowship for his dissertation project: GPS Interferometric Reflectometry: Developing A Ground-Based Method To Measure Snow Water Equivalent.
Felipe Nievinski, aerospace PhD student, has been selected to receive a NASA Earth and Space Science graduate student fellowship for his dissertation project, "GPS Interferometric Reflectometry: Developing A Ground-Based Method To Measure Snow Water Equivalent."
AIAA has just announced that the winner of the “Best Paper” of the August 2010 Astrodynamics Specialist Meeting held in Toronto is AES PhD student Kohei Fujimoto (advisor: Dan Scheeres). The paper was entitled: “Correlation of Optical Observations of Earth-Orbiting Objects by Means of Probability Distributions” with authors Kohei Fujimoto and Dan Scheeres.
PhD candidate Carl Seubert (advisor: Hanspeter Schaub) was selected for the AAS John Breakwell travel award to attend the Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Girdwood, Alaska early August.
Carl Seubert, aerospace PhD student, was accepted to the NASA Planetary Summer School at JPL.
Ben Bradley, aerospace PhD student, was accepted to the NASA Planetary Summer School at JPL.
Aaron Rosengren, aerospace PhD student, was awarded a National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship award.
Antonella Albuja, incoming aerospace PhD student, was awarded a National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship award.
Michael Frazier, aerospace PhD student, was awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
Matt Cannella, aerospace MS student, was awarded a National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship award.
2010/2011:
Nicholas Pedatella, aerospace PhD student, is the winner of the College of Engineering and Applied Science's Outstanding Dissertation Award for the May 2011 Engineering Recognition Ceremony.
Felipe Nievinski, aerospace PhD student, has been awarded a Geodesy Section Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation at the 2010 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California.
Luis Zea , aerospace PhD student, received the aerospace engineering sciences Graduate Student Service Award.
Scott Waggy, aerospace PhD student, won a competitive NSF travel award to attend the international workshop on "Scientific computing in the Americas: the challenge of massive parallelism," in Santiago Chile, January 2-15, 2011, sponsored by the American Astronautical Society.
Erik Hogan, aerospace PhD student, won the competitive “John V. Breakwell Travel Award”, for the Winter 2011 Space Flight Mechanics Conference sponsored by the American Astronautical Society.
David Gerhardt, aerospace PhD student, won place 2nd for his paper entitled “Passive Magnetic Attitude Control for CubeSat Spacecraft.”
Quintin Schiller, aerospace PhD student, won 3rd place for his paper titled “REPTile: A Miniaturized Detector for a CubeSat Mission to Measure Relativistic Particles in Near-Earth Space.”
Jonathan Metts, aerospace PhD student, received a first place award in the student poster competition held during the 40th Annual International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), an AIAA forum held from July 11-15, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. His poster was titled ‘Electrochromic Radiator Impact on Apollo Sublimator Water Consumption.’ This was the 3 year in a row that he placed in the poster competition. Additionally, Jonathan co-chaired a session and gave an oral presentation at the meeting that accompanied a paper on a related topic.
Carl Seubert, aerospace PhD student, received the AIAA Foundation Graduate Award.
David Wiese, aerospace PhD student, was awarded the AIAA Foundation John Leland Atwood Graduate Award
Brandon Jones, aerospace PhD student, has been selected to receive the AIAA Foundation Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Award.
Erik Hogan, Scott Waggy, Katrina Bossert, Elliot Barlow, Michael Frazier and Eduardo Villalba, aerospace PhD students, received Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowships. The GAANN fellowship is based on demonstrated financial need and awarded to those with strong academic records who demonstrate exceptional promise.
2009/2010:
Scott Washburn , aerospace MS student, was awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
Ben Bradley, aerospace PhD student, was awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
Bradley Cheetham, aerospace PhD student,was awarded a National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship award. Brad was also awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
Jill Tombasco, Aurore Sibois, Laura Stiles, Christine Hartzell and Jennifer Mindock, aerospace PhD students, were selected to receive a Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowships for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Steven Mitchell, aerospace PhD student, received the aerospace engineering sciences Graduate Student Service Award.
Nicolas Pedatella, aerospace PhD student, won the student poster competition at the 4th COSMIC Data Users Workshop, held in Boulder, CO in October 2009.
Bruce Davis, aerospace PhD student, won the second prize of the Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise Student Paper Competition, held earlier this year in San Diego at the ASME IDETC conference. His paper is titled "A three-dimensional lumped parameter model of nanoscale phononic crystals."
Erik Hogan, Dustin Wood, Bradley Greybeck, Scott Waggy and Bradley Cheetham, aerospace PhD students, received Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowships for spring and summer 2010. The GAANN fellowship is based on demonstrated financial need and awarded to those with strong academic records who demonstrate exceptional promise.
Dustin Wood, aerospace PhD student, received one of four national awards from AIAA for outstanding scholarship in fields covered by AIAA’s 65 technical committees for his research topic “Advanced Combined Cycle Propulsion.”
Jennifer Mindock, aerospace PhD student, received an Achievement Reward for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship.
Marcin Pilinski, aerospace PhD student, won first place in the AIAA's 17th Annual Frank J. Redd Student Scholarship Competition for his paper titled, " An Innovative Method for Measuring Drag on Small Satellites."
Bruce Davis, aerospace PhD student, won second place in the AIAA's 17th Annual Frank J. Redd Student Scholarship Competition for his paper titled, "The Design and Development of a Separation System for a Low-Cost Spherical Nanosatellite."
Carl Seubert, aerospace PhD student, won the AIAA Foundation Willy Z. Sadeh Graduate Student Award in Space Engineering and Space Sciences.
Jonathan Metts, aerospace PhD student, received a second place award in the student poster competition held during the 39th Annual International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), an AIAA co-sponsored event, in Savannah, GA from 12-16 July 2009. His poster was titled ‘ Electrochromic Radiators for Space Suits: Preliminary Testing Results .’ Additionally, Jonathan gave an oral presentation at the meeting that accompanied a paper on a related topic.
2008/2009:
Christine Hartzell, aerospace PhD student, has received a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) for her proposal entitled, “Dynamics of dust grains on asteroid and comet surfaces."
Jason Roadman, aerospace PhD student,
received an Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Award. The AIAA Foundation Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Awards were established in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of powered flight.
David Wiese, aerospace PhD student,
received an Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Award. The AIAA Foundation Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Awards were established in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of powered flight.
David Wiese, aerospace PhD student, was awarded a National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship award.
Jonathan Fentzke, aerospace PhD student, successfully defended his PhD dissertation in May 2009 and was awarded the CEDAR postdoctoral fellowship by NSF this summer.
Chihoko Yamashita , aerospace PhD student, won the second place award in the CEDAR student poster competition (mesosphere and lower thermosphere region) at the 24th Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics in Atmospheric Region (CEDAR) workshop hosted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Santa Fe, NM on July 1, 2009. Her poster was titled, "gravity wave impacts on the atmospheric coupling during stratospheric sudden warming."
John Smith, aerospace PhD student, was awarded NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship.
Jennifer Mindock, aerospace PhD student, was awarded a NASA Graduate Student Research Program fellowship for her proposal titled, "Defining a Failure Mode-based, Multivariate Risk Index to Assess Human Spacecraft Safety and Reliability."
Ian Crocker, aerospace PhD student, was awarded a NASA Graduate Student Research Program fellowship.
Nathan Calvert, aerospace MS student, was awarded a National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship award.
Nicholas Pedatella, aerospace PhDstudent, was awarded a National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship award.
Laura Stiles, aerospace PhD student, was awarded a National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship award.
Amal Chandran, aerospace PhD student, was selected to receive an Outstanding Student Paper Award by the American Geophysical Union for his paper titled,
Longitudinal variability in PMC structures observed from the CIPS experiment on the AIM spacecraft: Impact on PMC occurrence frequency and brightness."
Nicholas Pedatella, aerospace PhD student, was selected to receive an Outstanding Student Paper Award by the American Geophysical Union for his paper titled, “Variability in the longitudinal structure of the low-latitude ionosphere.”
Daniel Dunn, aerospace MS student, was awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
Laura Brower, aerospace PhD student, was selected to receive a Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Christine Hartzell, aerospace PhD student, was selected to receive a Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Laura Stiles, aerospace PhD student, was selected to receive a Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year.
David Wiese, aerospace PhD student, was awarded a National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship award.
Eric Vinande, aerospace PhD student, received the aerospace engineering sciences Graduate Student Service Award.
Ryan Kobrick, aerospace PhD student, received an Achievement Reward for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship.
Jonathan Metts, aerospace PhD student, received an Achievement Reward for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship.
Steve Mitchell, aerospace PhD student, received a Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research.
Amal Ramachandran Nair, aerospace PhD student, has received the American Geophysical Union's outstanding student paper award for his paper titled, " Inter-hemispheric comparison of gravity waves observed in PMC's from the CIPS experiment on board the AIM spacecraft."
Kennda Lynch, MS aerospace 2008, received NASA 's Harriet Jenkins Predoctoral Fellowship.
Jonathan Metts, aerospace PhD student, received 4th place recognition in a student poster competition held at the 38th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES) in San Francisco in July for his poster titled Application of Electrochromic Materials for Active Space Suit Thermal Control.
Nicholas Pedatella, aerospace PhD student, won the first
place award in the student poster competition for his work "Longitude
structure of the low-latitude F-region ionosphere" at the annual CEDAR
(Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) Workshop
sponsored by NSF, which was held this year in Midway, Utah, 15-21 June,
2008.
Steven Mitchell, aerospace PhD student, was awarded a NASA Earth and Space Sciences fellowship. His research topic is "Monitoring Outlet Glacier Mass-Balance and Dynamics with Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Systems."
Jason Roadman, aerospace PhD student, is
this year’s recipient of the AIAA Foundation John Leland Atwood Graduate Award.
2007/2008:
Laurren Kanner, aerospace MS student, was selected as recipient of this year's Abe M. Zarem Award for Distinguished Achievement in Astronautics
Brandon Jones, aerospace Ph.D. student, was awarded the NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) Fellowship from Johnson Space Center.
Jonathan Metts, aerospace Ph.D. student, received a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.
Laurren Kanner, aerospace MS student, was awarded second place in the graduate division at the AIAA Region V Student Paper Conference in April 2008. Her paper is titled, "Characterization of Volatile Movement on Titan through High-Precision Gravitation.”
Jason Roadman , aerospace Ph.D. student, was awarded a National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship award.
Stephanie Golmon, aerospace Ph.D. student, was awarded a National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship award.
Matthew Edwards, aerospace BS/MS student, was selected as Outstanding Graduate for Service by the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The award is given in recognition of Matt's achievements in service as a concurrent undergraduate and graduate student in the College and on the CU Boulder campus.
Kathryn Hamera, aerospace Ph.D. student, was awarded the Amelia Earhart fellowship by Zonta International. Her research in the use of dynamical systems theory for optimal station keeping strategies and transfer of periodic orbits in the vicinity of the Earth-Moon system has the potential to become operational in NASA's quest to return to the Moon.
Jonathan Fentzke, aerospace Ph.D. student, was awarded the National Astronomy and Ionospheric Center (NAIC) Arecibo Observatory pre-doctoral fellowship as a graduate student in residence. He is conducting his dissertation work on site in Puerto Rico.
Laurren Kanner, aerospace MS student, won first place in the graduate division ofthe AIAA International Student Paper Competition, held in conjunction with the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit in Reno, Nevada, on January 11th, 2008. Her paper is titled "Impact of Solar Beta-Angle Seasonal Variations on the Mission Planning of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) All-Sky Survey."