Congratulations to the Smead Aerospace Class of 2021! We are celebrating our outstanding degree candidates with a special virtual commencement ceremony, and are recognizing numerous students and teams for special achievements. All individual awards and senior design team honorees were announced during the virtual ceremony.
Most Outstanding Senior
Graduate Student Awards
Excellence in Research
- Yang Wang (Adv: Jade Morton)
Excellence in Service
- Katya Arquilla (Adv: Allie Anderson)
Excellence in Teaching
- Dawson Beedy (Adv: Nisar Ahmed)
Vise Award (Two Winners)
- Alexa Putnam (Adv: Steve Nerem)
- Shayla Mutschler (Adv: Penina Axelrad)
The John A. Vise awards are presented annually to two Aerospace PhD students for demonstrated excellence in academics, research, and community service.
Senior Design Team Awards
Best Systems Engineering Process
- Section 1 Awardee: VORTEX (Mohamed Aichiouene, Stephen Albert, Joseph Buescher, Bill Chabot, Colton Cline, Brandon Cummings, Roland Ilyes, Delaney Jones, Cameron Kratt, Michael Patterson, Joseph Rooney, Justin Troche)
- Section 1 Honorable Mention: SHADE (Quinton Dombrowski, John Hugo, Marlin Jacobson, Katie Nyland, Davis Peirce, Robert Redfern, Vinay Simlot, Elliott Tung, Benjamin Vidaurre, Jacob Weiner)
- Section 2 Awardee: CAST (Roland Bailey, Jason Balke, Isaac Goldner, Sam Hartman, Angel Hoffman, Adam Holdridge, Conner Martin, Hugo Stetz, Cameron Turman, Trace Valade, Griffin Van Anne, Reade Warner)
Best Verification and Validation
- Section 1 Awardee: VORTEX (Mohamed Aichiouene, Stephen Albert, Joseph Buescher, Bill Chabot, Colton Cline, Brandon Cummings, Roland Ilyes, Delaney Jones, Cameron Kratt, Michael Patterson, Joseph Rooney, Justin Troche)
- Section 1 Honorable Mention: CHAIR (Cody Bahan, Rhys Bass, Sarah Foley, Laney Franklin, Cole Gray, Carter Jackson, Michelle Lin, Jason Magno, Baily Rice, Andrew Ringer, Dean Widhalm, Aiden Wilson)
- Section 2 Awardee: P4LO (Sam D'Souza, Ruben Hinojosa Torres, Nathan Jager, Alex Lowry, Ventura Morales, Fernando Palafox, Brendan Palmer, Ponder Stine, Ian Thomas, Dawson Weis)
Best Technical Communication
- Section 1 Awardee: NanoSAM II (Daniel Barth, Matthew Bridges, Jashan Chopra, Axel Haugland, Abby Hause, Jackson Kistler, David Perkins, Donavon Schroeder, Ryan Smithers, Emma Tomlinson, Daniel Wagner)
- Section 2 Awardee: FLASH (Ricky Carlson, Shray Chauhan, Andrew Fu, Jake Fuhrman, Courtney Kelsey, Ishaan Kochhar, Julian Lambert, Fiona Mcgann, Kunal Sinha, Erik Stolz)
Best Engineering Understanding
- Section 1 Awardee: WASP (Maddie Dube, Adam Elsayed, Samuel Felice, Foster Greer, Ansh Jerath, Aidan Kirby, Emma Markovich, Bailey Roker, Parker Simmons, Matthew Zola)
- Section 2 Awardees: CAST & RESCUE
- CAST (Roland Bailey, Jason Balke, Isaac Goldner, Sam Hartman, Angel Hoffman, Adam Holdridge, Conner Martin, Hugo Stetz, Cameron Turman, Trace Valade, Griffin Van Anne, Reade Warner)
- RESCUE (Abdulla Alameri, Ryan Hughes, Seth Krein, Alex Kryuchkov, Michael Martinson, Riley Swift, Johnathan Tucker, Frederick Vurst, Evan Welch, Jack Zeildik)
- Section 2 Honorable Mention: DOTCOM (Doug Brough, Sebastian Damm, Jennifer Gurtler, Buck Guthrie, Forrest Jordan, Conner Lewis, Tristan Liu, Caelan Maitland, Hunter Rohlman, Sam Taylor)
