National Scholarships and Awards
Goldwater Scholarship Astronaut Scholarship
2007 Recipient: Farheen Rizvi 2006 Recipient: Erin Reed
2006 Recipient: Ashley Moore 2005 Recipient: Ashley Moore
2009 Collegiate Member Award: Kristina Wang
AIAA Student Paper Conference - Orlando, Florida
January 2009
International Student Conference Team Award, First Place: Geoffrey Lake, Steven Wilson, Peter Klein, and Christina Wolfskill, KRAKEN (Senior Projects Team AY2007-2008 won two additional awards, see below)
AIAA Region V Student Paper Conference
April 2010
First Place: Senior Design Project, Colorado Underwater Buoyant Oceanic Acoustic network ( CUBOAT)
Second Place: Senior Design Project, Testbed for Responsive Experiments in Space Tracking (TREST)
Third Place: Senior Design Project, Demonstration of an Afterburner and Nozzle on a mini-Turbojet Engine (DANTE)
April 2008
First Place: S. Lawrence-Simon, S. Wilson, and Christina Wolfskill - team category for their paper, “KRAKEN: Kinematically Roving Autonomously Kontrolled Electro-Nautic.” They will next compete in the national competition in Orlando in January 2009 (won First Place in first international competition--see above)
Second Place: D. Berman, C. Hatcher, and Lindsay Marek - team category for their paper on “The Micro Air Reconnaissance, Launch and Imaging System (MARVLIS).”
April 2007
First Place: G. Dvorkina, J. Shelton, A. Dolgov, N. Driver, K. Eberhart, M. Edwards, J. Jannetto, and E. Kohut - team category for their paper, “Self Organizing Aerial Reconnaissance System.”
AIAA Region I-NE Student Paper Conference
April 2010
First Place: Daniel Webster College seniors Alexandra Sobin, Gregory West, Andrew Deschenes, Kayleigh Brown for their paper, "HELIOS", a senior design project with seven team members also at UCB's Aerospace Engineering Sciences.
Other National Competitions
2010
BS/MS Students Farheen Rizvi and Nathan Calvert each won a National Science Foundation Fellowship.
Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force Liquid Propulsion Subcommittee
May 2007
First Place: L. Kanner, Brent Lewis, Rich Rieber, Hwapyong Ko, and David Owen - Best student paper, “MaCH-SR1: Development and Characterization of Hybrid Rocket Technologies through Undergraduate R&D.”
August 2008
Best new entry: Torin Clark, Peter Klein, Geoffrey Lake, and Joshua Moore, KRAKEN senior design project (also 8th in static judging and 18th overall) at the AUVSI underwater autonomous vehicle competition at Point Loma Naval Base.
CU Awards and Scholarships
CU Silver Medal Award Spring 2009: Farheen Rizvi
CU Norlin Scholarship Spring 2009: Kristina Wang
Provost Student Achievement and Convocation Award Spring 2009: Farheen Rizvi
Provost Student Achievement and Convocation Award Dec 2009: Nathan Calvert
College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate
December 2009 Recipient: Nathan Calvert
December 2008 Recipient: Laura Fisher
College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate for Research
May 2010 Recipient: Jonathan Sparks
December 2007 Recipient: Matthew Osborn
May 2007 Recipient: Arseny Dolgov
May 2006 Reipient: Ashley Moore
College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate for Service
May 2010 Recipient: Kristina Wang
May 2008 Recipient: Matthew W.M. Edwards
May 2006 Recipient: Erin L. Reed
December 2005 Recipient: Jordan Spatz