Graduate Announcements
The graduate committee is pleased to announce that the date for GEARS 2010 has been set. The Graduate Engineering Annual Recruitment and Research Symposium will take place on Thursday, March 11, 2010 in the DLC. Be sure to save the date! The graduate committee is pleased to announce that Ph.D. student Shanon Reckinger has been named the 2009/2010 Thomas & Brenda Geers Graduate Fellowship recipient.The Thomas & Brenda Geers Graduate Fellowship was established to honor junior graduate students in mechanics who exhibit extraordinary capabilities and potential. The committee recognized Shanon's contributions not only in academics but to the instructional mission of the department and graduate program as well. Shanon's research project is focused on the development of a novel approach for ocean general circulation modeling that will be capable of simulating oceanic flows more accurately, efficiently and reliably. This work should provide crucial insights into the role of ocean circulation in mediating the effects of anthropogenic climate change. Congratulations Shanon!
The graduate program announces new Design Track. A new educational track has been established in our graduate curriculum. It deals with the important, broad area of mechanical design.
Recent PhD graduate, Alexander Barker, receives Fulbright Award. Alex graduated in December 2008 with his PhD. Alex was advised by Dr. Robin Shandas. Alex has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student scholarship to Germany in medicine. Alex also recently received a Whitaker post-doc award. Congratulations Alex!
First year PhD student, Yiwei Yan, recieved the honorable mention for the Dorothy Martin Doctoral Student Award. Congratulations Yiwei!
Graduate Advisor, Sharon Anderson, receives Outstanding Staff Advisor Award from the graduate school. Sharon received nominations from the graduate commitee as well as from several graduate students. Congratulations Sharon!
First year PhD Student, Rachel Paietta receives NSF fellowship. Congratulations Rachel!
This year's Graduate Education And Research Symposium (GEARS), held on March 12th was a huge success. The following awards were handed out at the GEARS banquet at Center Plate.
Best Presentation Awards:
Air Quality Session: Teresa Coons
Biomedical Session: Sara Olesiak
Microscale Engineering Session: Ryan Lewis
Materials Science Session: Cory Rupp
Computational Fluid Dynamics Session: Scott Reckinger
Industrial Partnerships Session: Wendy Krauser
Best Overall Presentation Award: Greg Brinkman
Best Talk Without Results Award: Kim Jasch
Best Talk for 1st Year Student Award: Dave Makhija
Best Articulation of Complex Concepts Award: Scott Reckinger
Best Power Point Animation Award: Jason Woods
Best Poster Award: Joe Brown
Most Improved Award: Xinghui Liu
Best Effort Engaging Combative Questioner Award: Tim Stovall
Outstanding TA Awards: Mark Czjakowski, Jun Liu, Jeremy McCaslin